Close-up of the card - love the blue and purple shading across the embossing and the little filigree heart 3d on top just makes it pop. Heidi you’re an artist. Do you shade with a brayer and stamp pad or something else?

Doing these a few at a time due to yesterday’s multiple picture fails. Will try a few here.

Heidi was paying attention - in honor of my voracious garden visitor she painted the back side of the sign - VOLE-unteer - ha ha !

Gererous seed share as always. Marigolds, Hollyhocks, Cosmos, Shastas, Penstemon. Most interested to try the Blue Globe Thistel (Echinops). Have a spot in the bed furthest form the house some tall things go and will try it there.

On the Penstemon Firecracker, great minds think alike. Jayeanne had sent me seed a few years ago, I winter sowed it then grew it in a pot for a year. Wasn’t all that impressed with it in a pot. Did donate a few to the Master Gardener sale. But, put it in the ground and not only does it look great - it’s a plant gophers are supposed to ignore (with the caveat that if it’s not poisonous and they’re hungry, they will eat anything). So, I’ll be growing a few more (including for our sales as I’m not the only one with gophers). Spring bloomer for me, but the green base is neat enough (and short!) for the summer hot months). Jayeanne - I also put the Penstemon Rocky Mountain in hte ground this year (and donated a few for sale) but don’t have a good picture of it. It should be fantastic come next spring, I think they’re one of those perennials that need to hit their second year from seed to look good..

Annie ... THANK YOU so much for the clever 'IT IS WHAT IT IS' card, love it and all the glitter confetti that burst out when I opened it, it fit right in with our Crimson Tide win today! loved it! and the seeds from Baker Creek have arrived ... 'Rezha Macedonian' Pepper - very cool, have not grown these and look forward to starting these in Jan/Feb, the 'Malaga' Radish ...OHHHH... cant wait to start these for fall ... got another good 3+ weeks yet before our weather even thinks about cooling down for planting those, and the cilantro ... perfect! I always grow this along with peppers/tomatoes for salsa making! ....AND ... the SIGN ... LOVE LOVE IT! THANK YOU Annie ... what a good laugh when I opened this ... it is now hanging beside my coffee pot, LOL! (no, I dont drink coffee, friendly reminder for my better half, LOL!) What a fabulous package Annie, thank you very much!

DC shows my package was delivered to Sara on Tuesday. Still waiting to hear from her.

Yes, Jayeanne, it is what it is!!! LOL!!

so true....

Happy Sunday!!

Annie

This JUST came into my feed on a Facebook crochet group and had to pop over and share it here.

Maggie--i finally got a braver but haven't tried it. I have the 1 inch Distress Inkpads. I try to lightly touch thinkpad to paper. I like to use several colors. I can leave it or spray a mist of water to mix the colors. I love your craft sign!

Oh Houzz! It won't let me edit the last post and it disregarded my columns! I'll try plan B.

Amybabyboy3

Beth b Kodiak

Canyonwind sent received

Canyonwind sent received

Faerygardener sent received

Jdmom sent

Karen Holt

Paula

Pinkiris sent received

Sandlapperrose sent received

Shp123

Smitties sent

Wvgardengirl

Xiangirl sent received

Yes, I love cocktail napkins. I make a point of saving one napkin from every package. Ruth sent me these cocktail napkins two or three years ago.......classic....and if Ben Franklin said it, it must be so!!

Heard from Sara that she received my package. Said she was sending mine today or tomorrow. Not sure why she hasn’t posted here.

Urooj, Thank you so much for the beautiful garden sign! I love it and the colors are so beautiful! Thank you also for the pretty card and cardinal climber seeds. I also love the new flag and love to change them often. What a wonderful package! Amy

My wonderful package

yaaaaaay. im so glad you liked it. i also used a card from heidi!

Heidi’s cards are really making the rounds. I know I love mine.

Urooj ... did you make the sign you sent Amy ?? It is absolutely gorgeous! love it =)

jayeanne, yes i did!!! i just had the idea and put it together. i had flowers from wreath making... and flowers from making pens for teachers and my allergists doctors office. the wooden sign and letters are from Michaels. it kind of just came together.

the theme was so cute (great job heidi) i just had to make something.

Sharing a couple of handmade signs I have around the garden...

Urooj, Your package is going out today. Hope you enjoy! amy

Hi -- my package was sent today but I haven't heard from my swap partner (wvgardengirl) but I did hear from a friend of hers and sent my address to her as well. Thanks!

so excited. cant wait to see everyones packages!

found this on the internet...

Posted October Fotess a few days early. I’d like to assign partners in a week so we have plenty of time to display our received Halloween goody before Halloween. https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5794396/i-love-halloween-swap-fotess-october . Just looking for sign-ups now and to get you thinking, activity will start in a few more days..

October swap is up. That's great.
I love the sycamore sign.
So glad we/you got help contacting wvgirl.
I was very good today. I looked at tulip bulbs and clearance mums and didn't buy. Heidi

Oh, we don’t need to be done with signs and garden shots yet here, just signups for now on the new thread. If I knew someone with a pug, I’d make this one.

My tall Sedums are all in full bloom and the bees are happy.

;-).

Chose wisely ....

Envelope in the mail to Karen. Estimated delivery is for Saturday. DC# available if needed

I sent my package to Margo (smitties) on Monday. Hopefully you have received it by now.

Sara, received my sign yesterday. I’m going to attempt to post a picture after I explain it to everyone. I want to say thank you. It’s awesome. You did a great job. Thank you for all the seeds as well. In case the pic doesn’t come out Sara sent a wood sign she handcrafted and it says “All I need is a little coffee and a whole lot of ❤️

I've been out for a couple of days. A quick update:

Amybabyboy3 received

Beth b Kodiak sent

Canyonwind sent received

Faerygardener sent received

Jdmom sent

Karen Holt

Paula

Pinkiris sent received

Sandlapperrose sent received

Shp123 sent received

Smitties sent received

Wvgardengirl

Xiangirl sent received

Hello All , Sorry i've been a bit absent the past week or so. Houzz has not been sending me any notifications, which allowed things to slip my mind a bit! Jayeanne and Heidi have been kind enough to reach out and make sure I'm still alive LOL. My son got sent home from daycare last week with an fever, and we though we were through that and then he got an ear infection so I have had my hands full. Paula, I will ship out your package either Saturday or Monday, when I make it to the PO. I am so sorry for the delay! I am loving all these signs everyone!

So enjoyed your sign swap this month!! Fun Fun Fun! Thanks Heidi!

Annie

WVGarden Girl .... you must have me mixed up with someone else, it was not me that reached out to you BUT glad to hear you are OK! not sure I would even have time right now to reach out to anyone actually between the temps nearing 100 almost every day for the last month(s) and NO rains, and now my irrigation system is on the blink.

Heidi ... thanks for hosting such a FUN swap! loved it!

You're Right it was JEANNE! Oh My Goodness...I am LOSING my mind! Many apologies.

Jayeanne, I hope you get some rain soon! Every day I have been hoping for rain. We haven't had rain in at least a month. I have lost 2 of my fruit trees and my husband dug up 2 trees from our old house and brought them down and I think they have died also. Everything is so dry, somedays I water twice a day. It is really bad!

Heidi, Thank you for hosting the swap this month! Amy

hello everybody. just got up from my nap and i got my package. wooohooo.

thank you so much Amy! I love everything in the package. the little bamboo utensils will come in handy! I needed new gloves. I will stick the gnome in my front yard because I didnt plan anything this summer. my favorite is the sign! its so creative. did you make this??? off to find a place to put it!

Urooj.

Heidi - Thank you, fantastic swap!

Urooj, I'm glad your package arrived. I did make the sign. Hope you enjoy your weekend! Amy

I got my peonies and red hot poker plants moved yesterday and we got the holes from the stepping stones we removed filled with dirt. That was a bigger job than I thought. See you on the October thread for spooky, creepy, Halloweeny fun! Heidi

Paula, your package went out today! Tracking # is:

9405503699300124377766

Thanks!! Just sent your tracking under messenger. Happy Fall!!

Reminder that I’m assigning partners early this month - assigning TOMORROW eve OCT 2nd. So, if you’re thinking of joining us, now’s the time https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5794396/i-love-halloween-swap-fotess-october .

Got my package and the sign is perfect, we are in the process of moving and I had to pack it before I thought about taking a picture of it to post. I also got some wonderful squash seeds which I will for sure plant next year. Thanks so much BenLovesBeets!! I hope you enjoy your package. I forgot to put a little note in there, but I just love fairy gardens so I hope you enjoy what I put together for you!

Sorry Should have commented sooner! Very busy weekend. I received my package from Paula on Saturday :). It contained a lovely pack of lavender seeds and some adorable items to create a fairy garden. I have never made a fairy garden, but since that's something I actually have space for, I might have to now! Thanks Paula for the thoughtful gift!!

Heidi, once again, I loved this swap. I came back to look again for some "sign" ideas for a gift. Is this swap over? I see that everyone did not not send receive...Karen Holt? Beth...she sent but did not post that she received.

Benlovesbeets....how is motherhood!

Thanks again Heidi.

Happy day!

Annie

Karen cancelled her Nov swap on Garden.org saying she was burying her best friend of 18 years and dropping out of swapping. I'd messaged her there 2 weeks before that notice as was updating the Fotess address list, but hadn’t heard back. She didn’t go into detail. <editing to add> her final goodbye to friend would have just been on the 4th, it was a recent post.

Annie,

It is wonderful now that things have calmed down a bit, but keeps me chasing my twiltail most days. Wouldn't trade him for the world or all the time in the garden though. I cant wait to teach him aababoabojabojt nature, and sustainability, and how to grow things on his own. Thanks for asking :) hope you're well!

Received a lovely package from Karen in the mail on Saturday. Want to thank her and Heidi. I enjoyed this swap. I am a confirmed reader of signs and posters