It has taken me a while to get caught up on thank you cards, I’m still not there yet, but I now have the oldest ones written and a good deal of the ones from the book shower. I need to address them tomorrow and get them out in Monday’s mail, well, 16 of them. Here are what mine look like:

Mom P also made me some, but I didn’t take a picture of those because I didn’t make them. They were cute little scalloped circles with baby booties and laces.

Here are pictures of the cards I made several days ago for the swap. I am not sure when I will receive the swap cards, but I’ll try to post them as a record of what I received before they are used.

Here is my new batch of baby thank you cards for Boo’s gifts. It’s a cross between what I did for the swap and the cute baby carriage. I like the carriage cards, but they use up a lot of card stock, either entire sheets of 8.5×11 or odd left chunks of 12×12. The odd bits are fine, but I’m not sure how or when I’ll use them and I’d rather not have a huge pile of tiny varying sized scraps. I’m all about efficiency, so I’ve started making the cards 4×8, so from a 12×12 I’ll only have one small square left. From that square I’ll make parts for the baby carriages so no extra waste from this process. I also think I’m going to reduce the number of layers. The card stock I just bought for the swap was on the thick side. Stay-tuned for updates. I have 30 cards to make so I can finish up the current batch of books and clothes. Boo will be richly blessed in just knowing all these people.

So I joined a card swap, at least for the fall. The cards are due Friday and I think I have a clue, but I don’t like any of the colors in my collection. I purchased a new pack of cardstock prints hoping to fall in love with something there, no such luck. I think I am going to make them with the new card stock anyway.

It’s a shame I can’t make thank you notes for a baby shower/gift. I have a wonderful design that I borrowed from my mil. I use my own paper, rubber stamps in my collection as well as some of the embossers.