Wow wow! Everything is so amazing!! I'm glad that everything got to you hawkeyes_girl! I had a lot of fun crafting for you. And yes, the orchid is entirely polyclay, and then painted and sealed. I chose the orchid because they are known to be uplifting, to symbolize the appriciation of beauty (which I always think of when I think of Beltane ) They are also known for their protective abilities, and healing abilities (though I doubt you will get much of those thru a polyclay representation, one never knows hehe) The Aztecs also mixed them with vanilla and drank it for strength and power. And now that I know you got your package we can laugh that we both sent a Tree of Life pendant to eachother! hehehe. Great minds think alike. Now, I am off to argue with the uploader to try and get pics up of my bounty that I got today!!
EDIT: Here we go I got the pictures to work LOL:

First I got this GORGEOUS t-shirt! I love the picture on it! And it has an image on the back that says Beltane Walpurgis may Day 2010. I love it!!



Then there was a beautiful moonstone Tree of Life pendant which I ADORE!!


And I'm sorry the picture is dark, I couldn't get very good lighting today. This is a beautiful copper and Jasper necklace! I love the swirls of copper! What great movement and energy


Then she sent me a stand with two altar plaques. One of Brigid, one of Kwan Yin. On the back of the Brigid it says Each early and late
every dark, every  light.
Brigid is my protector
Brigid is my maker of song.
Brigid is my sword and shield
Brigid is my guide.
On the back of the Kwan Yin it says
Kwan Yin
compassionate one,
Who hears the cries of the world,
Grant us wisdom.
Kwan Yin
benevolent one,
Who hears the cries of the world,
Grant us peace.

Both are so beautiful and the poems are wonderful!!



Then a handmade  light and shadow washcloth and soap (it smells so good!!)



And then she included candy wands for the little man!! So he can be more active in rituals It was the neatest thing EVER! And she also put in candy bracelets. She also included a tshirt transfer to make him a shirt to match mine!! I can't wait to find a blank T in his size!! And I am surprised I got a picture of the stickers before he ran off with them lol




It is such a wonderful package! Thank you again so much you spoiled me rotten!!!

After arguing with resizement, i finally got pictures to upload!! Without further ado, here is the awesome package I got from DanniQuee!!


Here is the overall view of everything, you can see the awesome wall shadow box that she made for me. I asked for something to start me off on my family wall altar I want to create. You can also see all the homemade oragami boxes!!! TOO CUTE!! 


Here is the little found cuties she sent! They were NOT easy to take a pic of, so please excuse the blurriness!!


This is the GORGEOUS matchbox Kwan Yin shrine!! I adore this soooooooooooo much! I squeed very loudly when this came out of the box


Some fabulous leather leaf hair clips!!! These are so wonderful!


And a super lovely beaded oak leaf necklace!! The beads are all so beautiful!


A handmade vintage halloween cat ornament! I think this may stay out year round hehehe


And an uber cute painted witch! You pull her string and her arms and legs dance hehehe I love her so much!!

Thank you again Danni!! I love everything I just hope that you love what you got as much as I love what I got!

Ok, after many many arguments with my newly formatted laptop (jeeesh hubby leave it ALONE) I have the pics of the inchies I got yesterday Here they are!!

From melladh:

I think my fav is the tree, with the purple H coming in close (it reminds me of Harry Potter for some reason )

And From Melmakespretty:

I really like the girl doing the bridge, and the bird

Thanks ladies!! They are great inchies, I can't wait to get my last set and get them all framed!!!

Ok, it has been awhile but I have a few pages I have really enjoyed working on them, and the art teacher at my Mom's school is having me put together a paper to explain what an altered journal is, along with inchies and chunky houses and other paper crafts so she can teach her students. Hehehe. A bunch more teenagers addicted to papercrafting lol

Here is my finished orange page


And my finished yellow and green pages:


My blue and indigo pages still need some work, but this is what I have so far:


My purple page still needs some work, and a finished bubble page, the tab says Float:


Here is my odd Robot, with my tab that says automaton. And my anime version of me. I still want to find some cool things for the background of that one.


And here is my tribute to The Lorax, and my Bug page. I had a lot of fun with the bug page, I used the embroidery floss to make the spider web, and created a couple of buggie inchies


More to come YAY

Ok, camera cord found. Company is vamooose.... So here is the three awesometastic sets of inchies I have gotten!!!

Here is the set from loves2experiment:

My favorite is the anime/manga looking one, followed closely by the black one with the flowery stuff on it, it's got great texture in real life

Here is the group from amaryllisroze that she already posted for me, but deserves to be posted again cause it's completely awesome. I'm not sure If I want to frame it by itself, or make it the center of my inchie collage



And last but not least is from munltstmpr

Sorry for the crappy crappy lighting, it has been very overcast here. And my favorite here is THE JARETH DAVID BOWIE INCHIE!!! I so did a fan girl squeee at the site of that one hehehehe And the copper metal one comes in close second, because if you can't see it it is Alice and Wonderland WOOOO!!!

Thanks ladies, I love them all!!!!

And mine are in the mail!!!

Ok ladies, without further ado (and no more beating on my scanner and using colorful language) I have pictures of all of my houses from this round! If you ladies have better pictures, please post. I think it's time for me to invest in some new electronics instead of pretty papers lol.

Here is my lovely vamp vintagey house from GoatGoddess. I love the coloring It is so awesome


And YAY! Sajona sent me a Doctor Who house!!! And it's from my all time favorite episode!! It's called The Blink House!!! I squeed when I opened this


Then I got this beauty from the always talented alteredmommy!! Its adorable! Everything works so well on it.



And last but certainly not least, here is my rockin house from Pupper. This one was REALLY REALLY hard to scan because she made it uber chunky! I love the flowers and the coins on the front, and that is one sly fox!



Thanks so much everyone, I love every last one of them! And thanks for being understanding of my holiday and my awful horrible *()*W&#R%(*$&@#$ scanner!!!

Ok, I am sorry that I haven't been on, and I am glad that my cards are finally trickling in. I am now posting the rest of the beauties I have gotten. (Craftster photo hosting has hated me of late, but the card moderator has been stalking me around the house threatening me!!!! LoL)

Without further ado!
 We have Toby's beautiful wood burning, And a beautiful sunflower from Olive!!


And we have Jenna's swapballs (which totally made me laugh!), Solitaire (Can't wait to try the wine!) Winds, and the cute pin and red sage from Phnx!


Thanks everybody! Another great round. I am going to be off to vacation and Wind and I are trying to paint a good chunk of the house, so I will be sitting some more rounds out. (Summer is such a busy time) I will try and stop in to say hi though!! (And I promise I will be back for the Samhain swap, I wouldn't miss that for the world!!) Brightest Blessings to all of you!!

Okydoky, here are the four lovely cards that I have gotten so far! They are all beautiful!!

Here's from Tero, with a beautiful spiral Goddess charm (MY FAV SYMBOL WOOT!! I'm so making a necklace)


From Ronda, with a GORGEOUS green adventurine pendulum!!


From Feywalker, And I can't wait to have tea with all of you!!


And DanniQuee sent me this lovely faerie!! The little charm that was in the envelope found a new home before it got here lol. I could see the little hole it escaped from!


I am hoping to get all of my cards out this upcoming week. Life has been a bit insane.

Ok, I have been working on the rainbow pages slowly but surely. Crappy lighting abound. It has been gray and overcast here for a week. I believe my red page is completely done, my orange has a start on it. My yellow and green are coming along but I won't post them till I have a bit more on them
Here's the red


And the orange (And you can see the little spider paperclip sticking out of the side of the book that I got from Phizzychick in the halloween altered altoid tin swap. I was so glad that he found a home hehe )


Morglanc I love the last two pages of yours! They remind me of Tim Burton type stuff, they have that creepy yet whimsical quality to them that I adore!

The tarpanda and the octopus are awesome!! And here are my whimsies in all their glory from viridis! I have no idea how she got all of that in the jar, I opened it and had a heck of a time trying to get the stuff back inside for pictures lol.

Here is the picture of the jar, I love how she decorated the top. The colors are great and it's so shiny! Is it poly clay? We've all been trying to guess how you did that hehe. You can also the the wooden pieces which I think are tanagrams? And A KIWI!! He's so cute! And yummy chocolates I'm being nice and sharing with everyone hehehe


Here's a parrot finger puppet, a big bug EEK, some amiguri stickers (I squeed when I saw these ) Some cool dino and hello kitty stickers, a pretty pen and a 4 minute egg timer from her local paper!


Here's some "hobbit feet" paper clips, a lotr card, assorted goodies and beads, a cool apple hair clip and a plastic candy I'm so turning into a necklace! Oh and a LEGO GUY!! WOOT!


Here's the homemade goodies A pretty tree patch that I'm going to put on my black bag, a pea pod pin, a david bowie pin, some tomatoe beads, some fimo beads, and an eggplant bead.  She even made my kitty a mouse to play with!!


Then there was this little jar wrapped in felt PACKED with beads! Lots of them are leaf type beads too so I LOVE them!! And an awesome Koi fish pendant, it's all jointed so it moves. It's one of my favs



Thank you so much This was a lot of fun, and I love all my goodies