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I was catching up on my bloglines today when I clicked on a link from Dee‘s blog and what do I find there?
The lady mentioned my blog! My Irish crochet purse, actually. I wanted to thank her, but her blog doesn’t allow comments and I don’t know how else to contact her. So if any one knows how to contact Jane of Jane’s Hooked on Crochet, please let me know.
The sky is on fire!
I have caught my first-ever bookcrossing book! Susan (a postcrossing and bookcrossing friend) sent me this book, a delicious mix of food and murder:
From Nina in Duisburg, Germany, a postcard showing the Landschaftspark, which is an old steel factory now turned into a park.
Nice orange tones here.
This special package took a whole month to get to me. The Crochetville elf from Jacksonville, Florida posted it on August 01, and I got it today! My adventures with post continue…
Here are all my goodies:
A lovely Christmas card with a kind message.
Wonderful, wonderful comfort grips for my hooks from Kahoot!
A whole bunch of patterns for me to drool over make.
A fluffy, soft, pink skein of yarn. Somebody please tell me what it might be?
A Boye hook in size F/5 (3.75 mm). I didn’t have this size before, so it’s very welcome!
And the sweetest thing of all…
Candy!!!! I’m waiting for my husband to come home so we can share these.
Thank you so much for all the goodness and thinking of me!!!
My first-ever communication from Finland! From Kirsi of postcrossing. Lapland reminds me of childhood fairytales, specifically of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, whose 200th birth anniversary is being celebrated this year. It’s a haunting story…I’ve just been surfing, and I found that indeed my memory is correct, because the Snow Queen lives in Lapland in the story!!! YAY!
This one is from Kimberley, showing an entire carpet? tapestry? made of flowers. Isn’t it amazing? What’s also amazing is that the card took exactly 3 weeks to reach me.
The second one is from Nadine in Cologne for postcrossing. The green lighting is so intriguing!
Thought I’d try sepia today.
I needed (no really!) thread to finish my current project, as well as some for my next assignment, as well as some beads…so I had to go shopping. These are the goodies I came back with:
The smaller balls are the project finishers, nothing new there. The large one is the famous “knitting cotton” which might be size 10 or might not. Haven’t decided yet what wearable I am going to make for myself, but had to have a sample of the thread *grin*.
Some needles in a case…just in case! I was hoping I would find that big-eye needle that is used for beading, but no such luck. Found some very fine ones (on the left) which I doubt I will be using for anything at all. They are beading needles, but must be used with thread the size of sewing thread or something. I had a problem even getting my needle threader through them.
And with my trembling hands? Forget it!
Local pattern books with lovely doily patterns! I need about 36 hours in a day, methinks.
My next project will probably be in this colour, size 20. What’s wrong with yellow?
Haven’t got a pic of the beads I picked up, really cheap (and I mean cheap, not inexpensive ones). I’m not very happy with the quality, but I have to take what I get…And if I want to work in larger gauge thread, I need larger beads, but these seem to be the only ones going…*sigh*
And for those of you who might be wondering, yes, I do actually use all the stuff I buy, just haven’t got anything finished to show you right now…..
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