Flying Geese Stamped Pouches

Voila - flying geese stamped pencil pouch and coin purse!
I've never made a pencil pouch or coin purse before and I love the way they turned out...hee hee.
This swap was so much fun because not only did I get to learn all about stamps but I got to create these two small zip pouch styles that I've been wanting to do for awhile.
This year for me is all about swaps that force me to try new things and I am loving it.
[pencil pouch tutorial here and coin purse tutorial here] 

You may remember this post about how I ended up with this stamp pattern...
here are a few glam shots...

{it is so tiny!}

I have decided after having more votes for the pencil case from many of the swap participants that I will be sending my partner the pencil case!


Which works for me because I was hoping to be able to keep the coin purse...heh heh...

Hmmm, so what else can I stamp with these flying geese...ideas?

- rebecca lynne

Cricket in the bed

In case you didn't know...I am a city girl living in the country.

So - a cricket in my daughter's bed is so not cool.

It is especially even less cool when it happens to be on the one night my husband is hanging with his friends.  

i.e. not here to rescue me from said cricket

Good thing my four year old has no such qualms and had a grand old time catching that cricket in a cup and carrying him outside.  Go me for allowing her think that this was a really awesome responsibility that I was letting her do.  "Mommy let me, let me catch him..." Exactly my dear, exactly... 

If you think this is silly don't even get me started on how I feel about spiders.

- rebecca lynne 

(who is totally checking under the covers tonight before turning off the lights...)

The Thought Process

After my last stamp post I knew I wouldn't be able to live with myself until I had *fixed* my feather.  Helen, one of the admins of the Stamp it Up Swap, asked if other people's opinions meant that much to me and I explained no - but my opinion sure does!  And I just couldn't stop seeing leaf after my first stamp.  So I had to try again...  Miss E still calls this improved stamp a leaf - hahaha - but this time I don't mind because I am much happier with the result!

I started messing around and wanted to pair the feather with flying geese, kind of a inside quilter's joke.

But once I paired the two together I was kind of leaning more towards the geese on their own!

There were so many options with the geese stamp that I spent all of my weekend playing around with that!  And to think, I've never even sewn a flying geese quilt in my life.

I hope my swap partner likes it!

- rebecca lynne