Friday, July 2, 2010

Send me a postcard, tell me a story

A few months ago I participated in my first ever package swap, The Package Project and I cannot wait to do more! For example the lovely Tillie is hosting a photo swap! I've joined have you?! So anyway, my package project partner was the lovely Nawal from Dubai! I have only ever been to Dubai airport for a stopover so it is really cool to discover all sorts of things about her country and see what kind of things we have in common.. which turns out was a fair bit:) I have never even met or spoken a person from Dubai so it was really interesting for me:) Thanks Nawal!





















Isn't it all adorable! I had never seen Middle Eastern stamps so I was pretty excited and the brown paper parcel was so pretty after I had pulled and tugged it out of my letter box. I really love the script they use for writing so Nawal sent me some postcards too for my collection. The first picture is of a cute little pouch from Apiary from America to put all the little nick nacks from my camp kit. In case you don't know, I much prefer camping and hiking over shopping and fashion so Nawal made me my own "camp kit" ..






















This is only a few of the items inside. Super cute wooden cutlery set "for when using your hands just doesn't do it anymore", a mixtape notebook "for when a song/lyric or thought comes into your head", a needle and tread kit "might come in handy" and mini candy burger "for when all you crave is a burger"! Awwwww! Also inside was some floral fabric, earring with leaves on them, a pocket mirror from Muji!, origami, cute Swedish matches, felt animal, bandaids, a button and a very sweet letter and all sorts of little notes all through and wow it was such an adorable idea and so thoughful

P.S I got a new camera yesterday.. still trying to figure it out but it's macro setting kinda bites the big one. I couldn't believe how many choices for bloody digital cameras there are!

8 comments:

  1. I love that mixtape notebook! It's so adorable!

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  2. I gave you a bloggy award for being so awesome! :D http://monstergirlwrites.blogspot.com/2010/07/versatile-blogger-award.html

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  3. Those are adorable! I got a new camera last week too :)

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  4. Aww what a lovely package. Your partner was very sweet!

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  5. Amazing! love that mixtape notebook1

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  6. oh my goodness this is TOO COOL!
    how adorable is that mixtape?? i love it!!
    and i'm doing tillie's swap too! who knows we may be partners!!

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  7. HOW ADORABLE!!! plain & simple. what a most thoughtful gift!!! swaps are just too much fun and this one just makes me happy! isn't it amazing the thought even perfect strangers make for one another? this i just love.

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