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Guess who got her Twilight End Swap package today? ME!
And can I just say, that the ever-awesome, Troismommy, put together the best package ever! I love everything!!!!
WARNING: PIC SPAM AHEAD
Here’s what I saw when I opened the box:
Everything was all wrapped up. It was like christmas! So, I pulled everything out and there were little notes!
And all opened up, it revealed SO MANY WONDERFUL THINGS!!!!
Is that not some serious swappy goodness? Everything was so perfect!!! She found such wonderful goodies for me!
Mmm Twilight Delight chocolate. Must resist urge to eat the whole bar tonight… Mmm the world’s best coffee: Senseo Hazelnut Waltz. This coffee is my vice. If I don’t have a cup of it every morning, I am unpleasant. Ask my co-workers. It’s sooo good. Yummy yummy!
Gorgeous Twilight stitch markers from the fabulous Velvet Hippo. I had spied these same markers or some that were very similar a few weeks ago in her etsy shop and had contemplated buying them, but was trying to save for my vacation so I didn’t! How lucky! :) And check out the ever-so-awesome key ring! It’s a mini Twilight book! I love it!
And the sock yarn! Holy crap, this is some gorgeous sock yarn! It’s MacKintosh Yarns Celtic Sock Yarn in the colorway Half Blood Prince. Oh, yes. Harry Potter goodness!!! This will most definitely become some fabulous socks to wear to the Half Blood Prince movie on opening night next July! (I’m still bitter about the date change, by the way.) And it feels wonderful!
But oh, here’s the best part:
About 2 months ago, I did a test knit for the WONDERFUL Troismommy and made this scarf. THESE GLOVES MATCH MY SCARF!!!! How awesome is that? The fit perfectly. They match perfectly. (Although, it’s hard to tell in this picture with the crappy indoor fake light. I hate that it’s dark at like, 5:00 pm now!) I’m so wearing them to the movie on Friday. I love them. I really, really, wicked love them!
This was such an awesome surprise to come home to! She had mentioned in the swap thread on ravelry that she had sent her package to a “midwestern blue state” and I wondered… because I’m in a midwestern blue state (for the first time in decades). And when I saw the package on my porch as I pulled into my driveway, I got excited. When I saw who it was from, I squeed with joy! (I would like to apologize to my neighbors for said squee, as it was a little on the loud side.) Thank you, thank you, thank you Genevieve for such an AWESOME package! :)
Now, I’m off to pack (and eat my chocolate) as I’m heading to South Carolina tomorrow!
What a great day!
Day two of 4 days of non-work bliss has been quiet. Which is what I was going for. And I still have 2 days of peace and quiet left. Two more days to sleep in until 8:00 am. That’s truly a luxury for me. Oh, and coffee in the morning. Another luxury. Normally I don’t allow myself any extra time to make breakfast or coffee for myself before I sprint out the door to work. But it’s something that always make on my days off.
I started Icarus this afternoon. I’m about halfway through chart 1. I’m knitting this up with my crazy wonderful Malabrigo lace yarn in pearl ten which which is a silvery greyishpurplebrown that reminds me of a black pearl. It’s really a stunning color. I’m sure that any photo that I post here won’t even begin to do it justice. Speaking of which, I’d post a photo of it, but it’s so tiny and early in the pattern that you can’t even see anything other than a little greyish blurb against the pattern that it’s sitting on. Photos to come later once it becomes a little more substantial.
I had grand plans for yesterday which consisted of hours and hours of spinning cormo on the wheel and finishing up the merino on the spindle. Of course, I got distracted by sock knitting and touched neither of them. The sock is nothing too exciting either as my gauge got all wonky on me with the particular yarn that I was using (Tofutsies) and somehow I’ve ended up with some gianormous sock that could probably only fit bigfoot. I tried it on and at a glance, it didn’t appear too big, but my foot felt as though it was swimming in it. I’m trying to decide if I should frog it and try smaller needles or if I should just finish it up, complete the second sock and hope that I meet someone with feet exponentially larger than mine that likes magenta. I just need to kitchner the first sock and I’m ready for the second…but I’m still trying to decide.
It’s not really that interesting of a sock, so I guess I probably should frog it and find something a little more creative to knit with the yarn. Eh. I don’t know. I’ll just let it marinade for a while.
In patio garden news, Holy Cayenne, Batman!
I’m trying to think of all of the wonderful spicy foods that I will be able to make with them very soon. I’m too excited about these cayennes.
But back to Icarus and his loveliness…
