I sent today!  Yay, swap guilt receding!  I sent it priority, so hopefully it will get there fast.

I'm going to be late too.  I thought a month would be plenty, but my life had other ideas. :-/  I do feel better knowing I'm not the only one, though.

I was busy having a horrible day today when Kangys_Tangies ruined it by managing to get my swap package to me before my birthday!  Thanks!  It helped my mood considerably, and my late-sending guilt should be gone on Monday (i.e., I plan to send then).  Until then, I will at least be good and post pics right away!

The evil woman gave me stages.  She chose my theme of "Japanese-style Stuff" and combined it with some research into my Wists.

First this envelope on top of bubble wrap:


Then sub-packages in pretty paper:


The pink one was a lucky necklace:


The Yellow one was a chibified stuffie of Agatha from Girl Genius:


And the green one was a gorgeously elaborate accordion-fold recipe book for Japanese recipes:

Closed


Inside


Front Cover, unobstructed


Back Cover


And, in the takeout box, some absolutely yummy-smelling green tea and an origami frog:


Thank you so much!  You did a great job!  I am wearing the necklace right now, and deciding on a place of honor for Agatha to live. :-)

I love the "they did it" pic.  Such horror!

Highly cute.  I'm not a big fan of lolcats speak, but these are entertaining enough that I'll add them to my regular reading if you keep making them. :-)

Also sending late w/communication. :-(  As soon as my hands obey me properly again, there will be final crafting and sending.

Definite swap anxiety.  I have resorted to posting pics of my stuff to non-Craftster sites to confirm that it is good enough to send (I'm getting a lot of "don't be silly, I want one" responses, so no worries now).

Don't feel good today, so there will be some last-minute crafting tomorrow, unfortunately.  How do you people manage to put out such great stuff ahead of schedule?

I'm glad I'm not the only one this was a tough crafting experience for... :-)  Medium is done (and cool), Large is still at 95% because it got on my nerves.  Small is finally ready to be made (I had to change the idea because my Medium changed).  At least it's the small one- I still expect to send by Wednesday, but I doubt I'll manage tomorrow. :-/

Large craft 70% done and I'm really happy with it- three people have asked me for instructions on how to make it when I worked on it in public!  :-)

HA!  A breakthrough, and the Medium item is done!  It was brought to you by the letter S, my art supply store, and the color silver.  (Silver counts as a color, right?)