SwapMeet
Sadly, the Parasols, Pink Lemonade and PolkaDots swap is over. I had a great swap partner in Joyce, and her package arrived today full of green goodies for kitchen and crafting. Behold!
We both dig on vintage papers and ended up trading several vintage greeting cards. That vintage kitty card on top was actually illustrated by a local woman. Her story is on the back; she was an artist who contracted polio, so she retrained herself to paint/draw with her mouth. A fabulous image, story, and local history lesson all rolled into one!
Joyce makes greeting cards herself and included some samples. They’ve got great images and clever lines. She sent me everything I need to make my own cards as well, but I’ve got a ways to go to catch up to her! In the back you can see the vintage candleholders she included; they pretty much rock. Very retro-modern!
The piece de resistance, however, was this AMAZING collage she built for me. I see my pyrex addiction is hard to miss, LOL! I adore the image she chose, it’s a little hard to see in the photo but she added great texture to it as well. The recipe sheet was a cute touch (how many vintage cookbooks do i have? TONS!) and i love, love that she incorporated GREEN STAMPS! I laughed my head off.
Thankfully, Joyce is a pink fan (the color, not the singer) so that made my job pretty easy. 
I also tried to play up the lemonade where i could, too:
I love how the pink and bright yellow play together. I had fun filling up this box with vintage scraps and embellishments:
and the process forced me to start unpacking all my craft boxes from the move, and now i’m finally in the process of getting my craft room together. So thanks for that, Joyce!
From what I’ve seen so far, most folks are going with miniature drink parasols to keep with the theme…nuh uh, I say! Bigger is better! I was lucky enough to stumble upon this real parasol – and it’s pink, too!
And to round out the theme, I sent Joyce a great big polka dot in the form of a 50’s Flamingo round Pyrex cake pan (with a Pink Lemonade Cake recipe!)
So that’s it…I had a bunch of fun and as I said, i had a GREAT partner. I’d encourage y’all to keep checking Sweet Goodness Swaps, but as they’re limiting the number of people (I saw another swap that had 300 people in it! Crazy!) i don’t want to miss a spot in the next one.