Childhood Memories a la Queen Bees

Our first swap was organized by Carole and were tags about friendship. We had SUCH a great time exchanging art that we went around again. This time a 4 x 6 altered "postcard".

Carole loves fabric so hers is all plush loveliness. She gave us loops for hanging, but left the "hanger" to each of us to figure out ourselves. I came up with a very narrow test tube and filled it with tiny buttons, metallic beads, metal snaps and vintage pearls.

Patty couldn't do 4 x 6s for each of us (back trouble and a million other commitments), but surprised 3 of us with these cuty patooty ATCs. I also had to show you her envelope. Can you believe that chair stamp? Love it!

Linda's was waxed and layered and layered and layered. Like a fabulous paper pastry! YUM!

She loved reading books as a kid so the back of her card had a library book pocket with a personal note.

Margaret grew up in New Zealandand has lived in Switzerland for 20 years (?) now. I love her brother's milk bottle binoculars. Brothers are good for silly displays like that! Margaret looks quite vogue in her dad's fedora! She also created gorgeous posts, on her blog, about each of our cards which you MUST check out-- here.

And then there's me. I literally glued my collage onto vintage postcards for a base and everyone got writing and postage stamps from different countries on the back. I just need to make one clarification about my piece. I was actually born, Nathalie Bakunowicz. My dad later "Americanized" his last name to be slightly more pronounceable. As if! My Australian relatives still spell it the original way. And they pronounce it with the stress on a different syllable. We say tomato, they say tomahto!

Next Queen Bees swap? Because, of course there IS one! A sort of tag book RR made up of unbound pages (bound later when they reach home base).