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Happy Friday ....... Well that was a busy week!  I don't know about you but I'm definitely looking forward to the weekend. It's been nothing but Christmas, Christmas, and more Christmas this week.  Cards, baubles, late night shopping.  We had the Christmas lights switch on in town last night, more shopping, and even more Christmas cards.  I even posted my first one, and ........ wait for this ....... I BOUGHT a Christmas card this week !  Oh yes I did!!!!!  Have you seen the price of them these days ..... I only bought the one, it's very nice but, it cost me a small fortune!!  Let's hope I don't need to buy any more!! Anyway enough of all that ....... I'm playing along with a Blog Challenge today.  This month's challenge from County View Crafts is all about Artist Trading Coins ....... one of my new addictions! I've recently joined an ATC/Coins Facebook Swap Group , put together by Kylie, the brains behind Happy Little Stampers and also Kylie is...

Happy Thursday ...... What's this .... no tag? No, I've got something a little different today ...... Artist Trading Coins. If you're not familiar with these, they're just like ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) except they're circles.  Two and half inches in diameter and, as with ATC's, they can have any design on them or be any theme, and they are mean't to be swapped. I recently became a member of an ATC/AT Coin group on  group on Facebook , started up by the lovely Kylie (Addicted to Stamps and More) .  There's quite a few of us on there now, from all over the world, and the idea is we swap our little works of art with each other.  There's a swap going on for November, we have to create a set of three Coins with a Christmas theme.  This particular set will be winging its way to Australia very soon! These coins are made from MDF, which is a great surface to work on.  They can be made from card though ..... perfect if you have a 2.5 inch punch. I ga...