MY SNEAKY Secret Sister!

 I received a box the other day with my on-line quilting friend, Diane's address on it and when I opened it I was amazed and then confused as I knew she wasn't my Secret Sister as I assigned them and then I got on-line and asked Diane why she had sent me a package she acted like she hadn't a clue as to what I was talking about so then I went to inspecting the OUTSIDE of the box  there was the postmark..... COLBERT, WA.... CLEAR ACROSS THE COUNTRY in Washington... sneaky CARROLYN! Carrolyn WAS the partner I was assigned to receive from... we all got a good giggle out of it! And get this DIANE KNEW!!! SNEAKY!

 Back to the INSIDE of the package. Well folks Carrolyn has REALLY spoiled me. There were three lovely hand knitted dish-clothes (LOVE THESE as they last FOREVER), 2 Fat Quarter bundles (1 cats and 1 Christmas/winter), 2 panels (1 cats and 1 Holiday), a really awesome shopping bag that fits over the sides of a shopping cart, and some GREAT cat buttons. I feel like a down right spoiled wretch. GIGGLE!

Yesterday I took the trays of cookies into work and you would have thought I had just shared a Million Dollars with them all. WOW! I guess people really don't bake from scratch anymore. One of the ladies in floral must have came up to me about a dozen times to figure out how I made the dipped pretzels. Perhaps I will post a tutorial on here on how I made them. It's SO EASY!

Lovely Goodies in my mailbox

Laura over at http://craftingsheep.blogspot.com/ emailed me to offer two skeins of beautiful 100% wool - hand dyed - just because she knew I could use it and would enjoy it! She was having allergies to this wool so I told her I would gladly accept it and put it to good use - now to find a lovely project. It is sock yarn but I have never made socks - perhaps it's time to try. It's absolutely lovely yarn. Thank you Laura for thinking of me!


The next fun bit to arrive in the mail was Anne of Illinois' NEW Holiday Round Robin Center. She chose Christmas... I can hardly wait to add my round to it. I sent my center off a couple weeks ago and I know that Carolynn in Washington State was having a blast working on it - if you remember I had done a Halloween Center for my Round Robin. Here is Anne's Center:

To top off the lovely mail Scott and I took a nice leisurely walk by the River. We are both pretty sore in the muscles so it was just a slow steady walk to enjoy this beautiful day. I so miss the New England color explosion in the Fall. Here the leaves just turn brown and fall - then they are gone! Scott and I searched as we walked and found some REAL color and I just piled them up to photograph just so I could make my own small explosion - all in one small pile.