mine is only there once....

And I am SOOOOO excited!!!
I'm a swap virgin too so i am giddy and don't know what to expect!! 
I'm glad that this was such a fantastic topic though cause as my fiance says a wiz in the kitchen so it hopefully won't be too hard for me! 

mustering....umm..rounding up cattle or cattle drafting maybe in the states 
It shouldn't be too hard, if you get a design you like and them draw it on there with permenant marker and then you just have to stitch where you have drawn.
Otherwise you could just get some nice permenant markers and draw a design on it....Some silver spider webs with some spiders would be cool...guess you couldn't wear them to work though

 My wedding date was supposed to be 30th september 2005 but our bundle of joy arrived (due on September 30th lol ) and i am still enjoying being a mum too much to worry about being a bride, I am slowly slowly doing things, and i am hoping for april or september, but will see what happens!
I'm getting so many ideas, i LOVE this site!!!

I dont know about the states, but in Australia it has come into fashion for embroidery on leather, so maybe if you embroider a nice pattern on the bottom part and the side and then put the laces on the inner calf part? They are really cute, my mustering boots are like that.

I bought really cute shoes for my bridesmaids,
 they are very plain though and i have never done anything with shoes so i need HELP!!
They sort of look like this, well this was the closest pic i could find, but they are satin sheen and are the baby colour light purple(2pair) and light yellow (2pair). They only have 3 straps on the bottom and they are separated when you put them on by like 2cm between each strap.

http://images.google.com.au/images?q=tbn:FuAhvE8wW6sgxM:http://members.cox.net/lane925/NinaGold3.JPG

So my wedding theme is a shabby chic tea party, everything is pink, roses, lace and pearls.
 So something lacy would be lovely i just cant think of anything and any ideas would be fantastic.

Oh and i forgot to say, my bridesmaids dresses are a funny forest/pistachio green  are only to their knees with a pink chiffon underlay and a pink bow at 2 of their waists and underneat the bust of the other 2, (they will be fairly pregnant) so they really need to be pretty on their own, and don't need to exactly match the dress.
Even 4 slightly different ones would be nice......I just really need help !!!

Celiac's is terrible, my sister has IBS (irratable bowel syndrome) and can't have starch (pretty much anything a celiac can't eat) plus she is anaphylactic to iodine so it's really hard to find a recipe when your cooking for her, i can totally sympathise angil.
Oh and for the record, my hands up for person to person, I want to ba able to make one really personal nice book rather than a lot of recipes for a lot of books.
I am really looking forwar to this!!

That's what i was thinking like a little book that we send through snail mail.
 I'm in australia though so my poor partner might have to wait a little longer to recieve it if they are in the U.S
I'm so excited this will be my very first swap! 

Life's short eat dessert first i say! 

I like the idea of a personal swap, i have anaphylactics in my family (im just a little sensitive) so i am able to be paired with someone with an allergy and i can totally understand all about the food limitations.
My sister is anaphlyactic to Iodine, and my sister in law is lactose intolerant so i have access to a lot of different recipe's for food sensitive people

thanks shamelesslyahippie i looked on google but the instructions were  all so confusing  and different! I will have to give it a go!