Pixie Purls

The only thing I could think to do to help me say thank you, my wonderful secret pal, was to take a photo of my happyness (I don't normally like to take photos of myself in my PJ's!).

I am SUCH a lucky girl, I have the BEST pal ever! I always, from the first days I heard of Secret Pals, thought how fun it would be to get someone from another country. How lucky I am that I did! She is sooo thoughtful in all the things that she gets me. I am simply in bliss over this package.

Burts Bea's Cuticle Stuffs - Lemon, yum! I adore Burt's Bees and just recently accidently washed the only Burt's item I owned, some lip balm which I loved. So this makes me very happy!

Marmite Yeast Extract - This is very foreign to me but the note came with suggestions for use, and the one that says to put 1/2 tsp in hot water and milk, well that I *must* try.

Highland Shortbread - Oh how this reminds me of our trip to Australia! All the hotels had shortbread cookies and tea. We don't ever get that in the US, even in expensive hotels. I loved Australia so much because every hotel room had tea, and not "lipton" tea but tea's with actual flavors!

Twinings Aromatics Organic Earl Gray - Can I say wow? This has the most unique flavor, I have never seen this tea before but I am familair with Twinings. When I opened the box i felt like a princess, it was just all very grand and the design of the box was so pretty. I could smell the tea when I had first opened the shipping box. As you can see in the first photo, I have had some, and the cookies are soo yummy in it. I am a big fan of organic things, so how neat these are organic. My pal has superb taste :)

The yarn, lets talk about this yarn! This yarn is EXACTLY the type of sock yarn I would see in a store and love and want! It's soo pretty. The color is called "Ocean" and it reminds me of the color of the water, when your in Hawaii or the Bahamas, and there is white sand, and there is a place or a large sandbar, so the sea water is ever so thin and see-thru and has that slight aqua hue to it. It is faded and antique and perfect. MY PAL RULES! Thank you soooooooooooo much my wonderful Secret Pal!

Oh yeah, it's Cuious Yarns, 100% wool (Superwash!) 4ply 260 yards. I can make some cute little socks with this!

I just finished my first cup of that Early Gray. So Yummy! *happy dance happy dance*

Posted by pixie at 01:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

HOW COOL is my secret pal?? She is also phycic!

It came with instructions so I was good and listened, besides who doesn't like to dive straight into the present?

All kinds of goodies for me to love!

Okay my pal really got stuff I would like, but it was all unique stuff I would have never expected! Oh did I mention my Pal is overseas! That makes it like, twice as cool.

Alpaca Roving - This is going to be fun to play with, I love it, cause I adore alpaca! ALPACA! It's a very pretty color too.

Vanilla Candles - yay love it, never can have to many of these. I have two little glass votive holders on my mantle that I needed to replace and the ones in it before didn't even have any smell.

Horlicks - I have no idea what this is but it's some kinda malt thing and it looks yummy and I will be having some tonight!

Clover Yarn Guide - YOU READ MY MIND!! I was at the quilt/yarn store last saturday and they didn't have one! I was going to get one! You rule! *happy dance* This whole knitting with 2 hands thing is just not currently working well for me.

Clover Basting Pins - Oh you KNOW I needed these! I'm getting together with some knitting friends this weekend and hopefully they can help me seam up that baby cardi, and I'll be using these for sure! I was gonna use my quilting needles, haha!

and the last item in the box, well it was very funny and it's sort of an inside joke I guess but lets just say I was perplexed and THEN suddently my mind went PING and my mouth went OH!

PHILDAR! Hah! My first ever ball of phildar yarn. Ya know it's pretty dang soft! I LUV it! :D Colors, acrylic and all, Phildar!! yay!

So then i read the cute card (love the card btw), which my husband said "she has good hand writting", and she does. I had to show each item to him and explain how cool it all was. It was a sweetly written note. So thoughtful. I am a VERY lucky SP!!

Thanks! :D

I had a 2 hour dentist apointment so this made my day!

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Thanks so much SP7 person. You rock, and gave me exactly what I was wanting to buy not like 2 nights ago! I finished reading the other book I got and was really wanting to get something off my wish list, hah! It's filled with loads of patterns, and color photos! I am sooo anxious to learn fair isle but I'm being a bit chicken about starting it out. Lots of research, and this will be loads of help! It's also a very pretty book, cover and photos etc. Maybe in another month I can start that fair isle vest I have the kit for.

It's really fun to get stuff off the wishlist, cause of course I'm garunteed to like it! No one has ever gotten me anything from it before which makes it extra fun/special.

THANK YOU!

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