may birthday swap gallery!

[alwaysinmyroom]

Cinderly rocks!!  What a generous gift!  I know it took a lot of care to make those!!

streifenhornchen, I love your afghan--but that pillow has caught my eye!!  Is it embrodiered?  It is a beautiful pattern!!  Your room is very sea-like and lovely!!

[rosali]

Streifenhornchen I love your bed!! And I love the nauties - I'm longing for a knitted friend to cuddle now

[Streifenhornchen]

Cinderly rocks!!  What a generous gift!  I know it took a lot of care to make those!!

streifenhornchen, I love your afghan--but that pillow has caught my eye!!  Is it embrodiered?  It is a beautiful pattern!!  Your room is very sea-like and lovely!!

The pillow is one of my favorite thrift store finds ever! It is just a cotton print, but something about it is just so great! It even has little moths on it:



It's one of my lifetime long-shot thrift goals to find a matching one.

[cinderly]

Wow!  I wish I'd known I had such great color-matching skills!  *grin*

I'm so glad you like them and you're very welcome.  Aside from my slow pace, they were tremendously fun to do.  (My youngest cat has commissioned his OWN Nautie -- he kept sneaking up and trying to steal *yours*.)

I'm also really glad they arrived safely!  I've been mail-paranoid, lately, for some reason.

Cinderly rocks!!  What a generous gift!  I know it took a lot of care to make those!!

I'm beet, beet red at the moment, Ms. Alwaysinmyroom.

Jodi, your afgan is stunning and the little guys look very at home there.  And it took every ounce of willpower I could summon NOT to open the book and peer inside.  (It comes shrink-wrapped.)

Again, Happy Birthday!! 

[alwaysinmyroom]

Psst--you should have peeked!  ha ha  I have a shrink-wrap machine at my office so I can always peek--hee hee!!

[Streifenhornchen]

Wow!  I wish I'd known I had such great color-matching skills!  *grin*

I'm so glad you like them and you're very welcome.  Aside from my slow pace, they were tremendously fun to do.  (My youngest cat has commissioned his OWN Nautie -- he kept sneaking up and trying to steal *yours*.)

I'm also really glad they arrived safely!  I've been mail-paranoid, lately, for some reason.

Cinderly rocks!!  What a generous gift!  I know it took a lot of care to make those!!

I'm beet, beet red at the moment, Ms. Alwaysinmyroom.

Jodi, your afgan is stunning and the little guys look very at home there.  And it took every ounce of willpower I could summon NOT to open the book and peer inside.  (It comes shrink-wrapped.)

Again, Happy Birthday!!  

Aw, your cats seem very fond of knitted things! Luckily for them they are in residence with a very talented knitter!

The book is beautiful inside; it's Jean Holabird's rendering of Nabokov's alphabet (Nabokov had synaesthesia). Since you resisted the urge to peek, here are some pictures:




The pages are different lengths, making a rainbow


One of the letters

I'm so excited about it!

[cinderly]

So cool!  Thank you for sharing that pick. 

[alwaysinmyroom]

Thanks for sharing!  the book cover alone is very intriguing!!