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Post by Mewâ„¢ on Dec 15, 2022 23:00:47 GMT -5
Tomorrow I'll spread everything out and take a picture. THERE IS JUST SO MUCH STUFF.
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Post by SydneyPaige on Dec 15, 2022 23:03:32 GMT -5
Tomorrow I'll spread everything out and take a picture. THERE IS JUST SO MUCH STUFF. Ironically the stuff I made you was actually the easiest crafts out of everything. As soon as everyone receives their presents I’m gonna post the full story of how everything came to be and share pictures of everything.
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Post by MyCastleCrumbledOvernight on Dec 15, 2022 23:17:13 GMT -5
Oh my Godddd SydneyPaige, I might cry. Your card is so beautiful, did you make it yourself? And the cardigan 🥲 the stickers!! A daylight ornament!!! I can not!! Adding to this, cuz I had to go to my grandparents house soon after I got home today and opened it quickly, but I just looked through it again and!!! I love the handmade stuff of course, but I’m also crazy about stickers and I love the ones you sent so much!! I have some Harry Potter and Spider-Man ones I put on my laptop and I’ve thought about getting some Taylor ones but just hadn’t gotten to it yet, I’m so excited to lay them out when I get a chance and stick them!! Your card and gifts were so thoughtful and creative, I always wanna send stuff with my cards but never sure what. Last year I did the crochet ornaments and this year of course I wanted to do the friendship bracelets, and I think initially I had planned to do several for everyone but I spent all day just making a few and I was getting frustrated and overwhelmed so just sent everybody one, some better than others, some more personal and some botched attempts, I wish I had just calmed down and not worried so much and done better but I always blow things out of proportion ![](https://i.imgur.com/3M7kKFl.gif) anyway, I’m just thrilled to death about these stickers and I’ll post a picture when I use them! ![](https://i.imgur.com/TABGKFv.png)
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Post by Mewâ„¢ on Dec 15, 2022 23:25:13 GMT -5
Oh my Godddd SydneyPaige , I might cry. Your card is so beautiful, did you make it yourself? And the cardigan 🥲 the stickers!! A daylight ornament!!! I can not!! Adding to this, cuz I had to go to my grandparents house soon after I got home today and opened it quickly, but I just looked through it again and!!! I love the handmade stuff of course, but I’m also crazy about stickers and I love the ones you sent so much!! I have some Harry Potter and Spider-Man ones I put on my laptop and I’ve thought about getting some Taylor ones but just hadn’t gotten to it yet, I’m so excited to lay them out when I get a chance and stick them!! Your card and gifts were so thoughtful and creative, I always wanna send stuff with my cards but never sure what. Last year I did the crochet ornaments and this year of course I wanted to do the friendship bracelets, and I think initially I had planned to do several for everyone but I spent all day just making a few and I was getting frustrated and overwhelmed so just sent everybody one, some better than others, some more personal and some botched attempts, I wish I had just calmed down and not worried so much and done better but I always blow things out of proportion ![](https://i.imgur.com/3M7kKFl.gif) anyway, I’m just thrilled to death about these stickers and I’ll post a picture when I use them! ![](https://i.imgur.com/TABGKFv.png) YOU. GO GET IN THE TWITTER GROUP. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION FOR 3 DAYS.
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Post by SydneyPaige on Dec 15, 2022 23:28:28 GMT -5
Oh my Godddd SydneyPaige, I might cry. Your card is so beautiful, did you make it yourself? And the cardigan 🥲 the stickers!! A daylight ornament!!! I can not!! Adding to this, cuz I had to go to my grandparents house soon after I got home today and opened it quickly, but I just looked through it again and!!! I love the handmade stuff of course, but I’m also crazy about stickers and I love the ones you sent so much!! I have some Harry Potter and Spider-Man ones I put on my laptop and I’ve thought about getting some Taylor ones but just hadn’t gotten to it yet, I’m so excited to lay them out when I get a chance and stick them!! Your card and gifts were so thoughtful and creative, I always wanna send stuff with my cards but never sure what. Last year I did the crochet ornaments and this year of course I wanted to do the friendship bracelets, and I think initially I had planned to do several for everyone but I spent all day just making a few and I was getting frustrated and overwhelmed so just sent everybody one, some better than others, some more personal and some botched attempts, I wish I had just calmed down and not worried so much and done better but I always blow things out of proportion ![](https://i.imgur.com/3M7kKFl.gif) anyway, I’m just thrilled to death about these stickers and I’ll post a picture when I use them! ![](https://i.imgur.com/TABGKFv.png) I’m so glad you liked everything! The stickers I thought of getting just cause they were easy to sneak in a card. I got one pack of stickers from Amazon and one from Etsy (of course they ended up being the same pack anyways). I liked the designs on them but I realize in retrospect that those designs were probably stolen so I think in the future I’m going to make sure my stickers are ethically sourced and that the person selling them is the one designing them. That, or I’ll attempt to make them myself. As for sending things out, it was really nice to be able to send things out, but also kind of pricy. It cost me about $106 to send everything out to everyone so I might stick to sending presents out every 5 years or so. The thing with crafts like these too is that you have to take time to prepare for them. I started planning all this out in July. Had I not started so early I would have never finished everything in time. Also there were things I made that didn’t work out so had I not have been patient and given myself extra time, this wouldn’t have been possible.
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Post by MyCastleCrumbledOvernight on Dec 16, 2022 9:45:55 GMT -5
Adding to this, cuz I had to go to my grandparents house soon after I got home today and opened it quickly, but I just looked through it again and!!! I love the handmade stuff of course, but I’m also crazy about stickers and I love the ones you sent so much!! I have some Harry Potter and Spider-Man ones I put on my laptop and I’ve thought about getting some Taylor ones but just hadn’t gotten to it yet, I’m so excited to lay them out when I get a chance and stick them!! Your card and gifts were so thoughtful and creative, I always wanna send stuff with my cards but never sure what. Last year I did the crochet ornaments and this year of course I wanted to do the friendship bracelets, and I think initially I had planned to do several for everyone but I spent all day just making a few and I was getting frustrated and overwhelmed so just sent everybody one, some better than others, some more personal and some botched attempts, I wish I had just calmed down and not worried so much and done better but I always blow things out of proportion ![](https://i.imgur.com/3M7kKFl.gif) anyway, I’m just thrilled to death about these stickers and I’ll post a picture when I use them! ![](https://i.imgur.com/TABGKFv.png) YOU. GO GET IN THE TWITTER GROUP. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION FOR 3 DAYS. WHAT WHAT WHAT DID I DO
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Post by MyCastleCrumbledOvernight on Dec 16, 2022 9:51:05 GMT -5
Adding to this, cuz I had to go to my grandparents house soon after I got home today and opened it quickly, but I just looked through it again and!!! I love the handmade stuff of course, but I’m also crazy about stickers and I love the ones you sent so much!! I have some Harry Potter and Spider-Man ones I put on my laptop and I’ve thought about getting some Taylor ones but just hadn’t gotten to it yet, I’m so excited to lay them out when I get a chance and stick them!! Your card and gifts were so thoughtful and creative, I always wanna send stuff with my cards but never sure what. Last year I did the crochet ornaments and this year of course I wanted to do the friendship bracelets, and I think initially I had planned to do several for everyone but I spent all day just making a few and I was getting frustrated and overwhelmed so just sent everybody one, some better than others, some more personal and some botched attempts, I wish I had just calmed down and not worried so much and done better but I always blow things out of proportion ![](https://i.imgur.com/3M7kKFl.gif) anyway, I’m just thrilled to death about these stickers and I’ll post a picture when I use them! ![](https://i.imgur.com/TABGKFv.png) I’m so glad you liked everything! The stickers I thought of getting just cause they were easy to sneak in a card. I got one pack of stickers from Amazon and one from Etsy (of course they ended up being the same pack anyways). I liked the designs on them but I realize in retrospect that those designs were probably stolen so I think in the future I’m going to make sure my stickers are ethically sourced and that the person selling them is the one designing them. That, or I’ll attempt to make them myself. As for sending things out, it was really nice to be able to send things out, but also kind of pricy. It cost me about $106 to send everything out to everyone so I might stick to sending presents out every 5 years or so. The thing with crafts like these too is that you have to take time to prepare for them. I started planning all this out in July. Had I not started so early I would have never finished everything in time. Also there were things I made that didn’t work out so had I not have been patient and given myself extra time, this wouldn’t have been possible. Yeah, my grandmother and I were discussing this yesterday, actually - she gets free stamps from work that she gave me to use and she used herself, and said that if not for that then she wouldn’t have been able to send them as it’s just too expensive. Forever stamps rose to sixty cents this summer, which isn’t horrible if you just needed one but they do add up. I usually put two on my American cards just in case as they’re often bulky, and international 3 - which I wasn’t too sure about this year since I remember looking it up years ago and it being a solid answer that three stamps was what was needed, but I couldn’t find that this year when I went to double check, it only mentioned the global forever stamps of which I don’t have ![](https://i.imgur.com/3M7kKFl.gif) I think two stamps might have actually been alright but I wasn’t sure and wanted to be safe especially since I know it was once three for sure.
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Post by SydneyPaige on Dec 16, 2022 11:37:46 GMT -5
I’m so glad you liked everything! The stickers I thought of getting just cause they were easy to sneak in a card. I got one pack of stickers from Amazon and one from Etsy (of course they ended up being the same pack anyways). I liked the designs on them but I realize in retrospect that those designs were probably stolen so I think in the future I’m going to make sure my stickers are ethically sourced and that the person selling them is the one designing them. That, or I’ll attempt to make them myself. As for sending things out, it was really nice to be able to send things out, but also kind of pricy. It cost me about $106 to send everything out to everyone so I might stick to sending presents out every 5 years or so. The thing with crafts like these too is that you have to take time to prepare for them. I started planning all this out in July. Had I not started so early I would have never finished everything in time. Also there were things I made that didn’t work out so had I not have been patient and given myself extra time, this wouldn’t have been possible. Yeah, my grandmother and I were discussing this yesterday, actually - she gets free stamps from work that she gave me to use and she used herself, and said that if not for that then she wouldn’t have been able to send them as it’s just too expensive. Forever stamps rose to sixty cents this summer, which isn’t horrible if you just needed one but they do add up. I usually put two on my American cards just in case as they’re often bulky, and international 3 - which I wasn’t too sure about this year since I remember looking it up years ago and it being a solid answer that three stamps was what was needed, but I couldn’t find that this year when I went to double check, it only mentioned the global forever stamps of which I don’t have ![](https://i.imgur.com/3M7kKFl.gif) I think two stamps might have actually been alright but I wasn’t sure and wanted to be safe especially since I know it was once three for sure. Stamps are about a dollar a piece here. If you’re sending out of the country usually 2 stamps is fine but I always take the to the post office to be safe. I had to send everything I sent out of the country as a parcel because the ornaments weren’t made of paper. The post office loves to make you pay. I almost went UPS but figured it wouldn’t be any cheaper.
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Post by sharonlovestaylor on Dec 16, 2022 12:24:17 GMT -5
I'd rather be too nice than too mean! Besides you deserve to be spoiled!
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Post by sharonlovestaylor on Dec 16, 2022 12:39:58 GMT -5
Reagan and Sydney you two are so creative and talented!
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Post by sharonlovestaylor on Dec 16, 2022 12:44:45 GMT -5
Thank you Sydney so so much your parcel arrived yesterday night. I love love the ornament. It is on my Christmas tree! I also liked the stickers, card, and cardigan craft. I loved the whole thing so much I even got a little teary eyed.
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Post by SydneyPaige on Dec 16, 2022 14:01:10 GMT -5
Thank you Sydney so so much your parcel arrived yesterday night. I love love the ornament. It is on my Christmas tree! I also liked the stickers, card, and cardigan craft. I loved the whole thing so much I even got a little teary eyed. I’m so glad it got to you! That means that DogLover, Roman, Patrick and Callie are the only ones who still have yet to receive their cards.
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Post by ohiotaylorswiftfan on Dec 16, 2022 16:43:07 GMT -5
I want to thank Roman for his nice card that I received today!
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Post by SydneyPaige on Dec 16, 2022 16:47:24 GMT -5
In honour of my dad’s birthday today I’ll share a conversation I had with him when I was making the cardigan cards
My dad: what are you doing Sydney Paige? Me: making Christmas cards My dad: it’s AUGUST Me: well these aren’t really Christmas cards, they’re thank you cards shaped like Taylor Swift’s cardigan. I’m making them because they’re cardigans but I’m also sending them cards again! Get it? My dad: you’re so weird!
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Post by ohiotaylorswiftfan on Dec 16, 2022 17:05:54 GMT -5
In honour of my dad’s birthday today I’ll share a conversation I had with him when I was making the cardigan cards My dad: what are you doing Sydney Paige? Me: making Christmas cards My dad: it’s AUGUST Me: well these aren’t really Christmas cards, they’re thank you cards shaped like Taylor Swift’s cardigan. I’m making them because they’re cardigans but I’m also sending them cards again! Get it? My dad: you’re so weird! Please tell your Dad that I wish him a Happy Birthday!
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