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Finish It Up Swap 11/ATCs/Open Theme/Due date: June 30th

Maxtastic said:
Mine are in the mail to you. Wanted to share this one. I received a stamped image of a toilet with flowers and this is what came of it:
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I found it amusing, I hope you guys do too!
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Maxtastic, you did a great job with it!! Several people in the swap got "interesting" images in their packet and it has been so fun seeing how different people change their images up. There is a story about this image; I will tell you about it shortly:love-struck:
 
Yay! Two more swaps in from: les342 and Maxtastic!! Maxtastic, thank you for the pretty host ATC!! Now to tell you my story about the toilet with flowers growing in it :playful: I went to a lady's house actually to learn how to rubber stamp and figure out what the heck rubber stamps were and I noticed she had a very lovely decorated yard. One of the items in it was a claw footed white bathtub that she had planted flowers in. I thought that was the most fantastic idea and I decided to do that in my yard, as well. At the time, my parents and I lived across the street from each other and they had a huge hobby farm with just about everything in it. Mom liked the idea so much of the bathtub that she did it in her yard, too. The next year I decided to try to find a cool looking sink for the yard and planted it with flowers, too. The year after that I toyed with the idea of a toilet but wasn't 100% sure people would think it was funny but I did it anyways and guess what? Mom had already beat me to it that year!! We had thought about doing a whole house in our yards but that year my dad got sick with cancer and it never happened as he had to go to hospice. But, anyways, my parents are both gone now and I found that toliet rubber stamp on Ebay and just had to get it for the scrapbooks I was making up for the rest of my family celebrating my parents' lives. So, that toilet stamp with the flowers growing in it is kind of a symbol to me involving my parents. Kind of a dumb story but it was a precious memory for me. We live fairly close to a junk yard and I saw that someone had dumped off a fiberglass boat there which they don't accept in their junk yard so that boat sat there for months and I told Greg (hubby) that we should snag it and plant it in our front yard and start a nautical yard theme but he wasn't too keen on the idea so we didn't do it. Went by there several weeks ago and it was gone:apologetic: Sorry for writing a book!!
 
Thanks for sharing those memories. Your Mom beating you to the floral commode is funny and fabulous! Great minds plant alike. Cherished memories for sure.
 
So, everyone is in and I'll get these started swapping out soon.... It has been fun seeing everyone's creative juices flowing..... Thank you to everyone that sent an extra and also extra postage. Much appreciated....
 
You've got your work cut out for you with this sizable swap. Thanks for all of the fab hosting!

P.S. Your new avatar is great.
 
ferretgirl said:
Yay! Two more swaps in from: les342 and Maxtastic!! Maxtastic, thank you for the pretty host ATC!! Now to tell you my story about the toilet with flowers growing in it :playful: I went to a lady's house actually to learn how to rubber stamp and figure out what the heck rubber stamps were and I noticed she had a very lovely decorated yard. One of the items in it was a claw footed white bathtub that she had planted flowers in. I thought that was the most fantastic idea and I decided to do that in my yard, as well. At the time, my parents and I lived across the street from each other and they had a huge hobby farm with just about everything in it. Mom liked the idea so much of the bathtub that she did it in her yard, too. The next year I decided to try to find a cool looking sink for the yard and planted it with flowers, too. The year after that I toyed with the idea of a toilet but wasn't 100% sure people would think it was funny but I did it anyways and guess what? Mom had already beat me to it that year!! We had thought about doing a whole house in our yards but that year my dad got sick with cancer and it never happened as he had to go to hospice. But, anyways, my parents are both gone now and I found that toliet rubber stamp on Ebay and just had to get it for the scrapbooks I was making up for the rest of my family celebrating my parents' lives. So, that toilet stamp with the flowers growing in it is kind of a symbol to me involving my parents. Kind of a dumb story but it was a precious memory for me. We live fairly close to a junk yard and I saw that someone had dumped off a fiberglass boat there which they don't accept in their junk yard so that boat sat there for months and I told Greg (hubby) that we should snag it and plant it in our front yard and start a nautical yard theme but he wasn't too keen on the idea so we didn't do it. Went by there several weeks ago and it was gone:apologetic: Sorry for writing a book!!
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What a great story!
 
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