turtleknits

I recently signed up for a Mix n Match swap. My swap was Erica from Sweden. www.stickis.blogspot.com . A wonderful parcel arrived yesterday as you can see from the following pictures and I am delighted with the gifts. A beautiful pink silk covered notebook, lovely fruity tea, which I will try later, some biscotti style biscuits with a hint of mint flavour, very unusual and delicious, that green cone-shaped package contained delicious chocolate (notice the past tense on the chocs). A lovely pink linen dishcloth, 4 beautiful bluey pink buttons and fabulous coloured what I think is cotton sock yarn. (I can't read the Swedish label) This is the lovely yarn and gorgeous buttons

Yeah!!! My cocoa swap parcel arrived yesterday. I was so delighted. Was not at home when it arrived so had a note to say that the postman had called and that a parcel could be collected at the local postal sorting office. My cocoa swap partner is Felicia from http://www.feliciaknits.blogspot.com/ . These are the contents, mostly wrapped in tissue. Beautiful sock yarn from Crystal Palace yarns. Its made from bamboo, wool and nylon and its so so soft. Some really yummy 'Archer Farms' Milk chocolate mix. Its really delicious and also tastes very good shaken on a cappuccino! Three sachets of Cocoa classics from 'Land Lakes' which I will taste later. Delicious nutty butterscotch - gone, and a yummy bar of Lindt orange chocolate - also gone! Lovely stitch markers which match the colour of the sock yarn - exactly. And last but certainly not least, my lovely 'blah buddy' to cheer up this month. Its a lovely felted owl, beautifully made! I've named her 'Butto...