My box arrived!!

Themed with niceties from BC - Requiem spoiled me once again. There is the beautiful green yarn - one of my favorite colors - with a pattern attached to knit and felt. I am so excited to knit this up! Stitch markers for large needles - which would also work as lovely earrings, tea, and chocolates!! Thank you, thank you!! It is a cold and snowy day here today... I am enjoying the tea and chocolates right now... Thank you again, Kirsten!

Twilight-y themed godness!

My wonderful partner GirlyWithATwist (AKA AngelaMarie) sent me a Twilight themed package, to wrap up the swap with a bang! She sent two skeins of Cascade 220 in ruby red and black, along with THREE twilight themed patterns. I am currently working on the Bite Me scarf, but adapting it into a cowl, for instant gratification. I want to wear it in Chicago, which is where I am spending my Thanksgiving. She also included Rosalie and Eclipse socks. And, because she knows me so well, some delicious dark chocolate and a pocket Oregon calendar. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Angela!

Vegemite

I got it! I got it!

I was soo happy when my package came on Saturday.





T sent me a lovely calendar, Ned Kelly Soap which smells so good and has contaminated everything with sandal wood scent. ( totally not a bad thing!)

Some vegemite, peanut butter, and honey. I tried the vegemite, and it was different. It almost tasted like soy sauce made into a paste for me. Maltish, salty. It was yummy as suggested by T, on toast with butter.

And wool/alpaca blend yarn that is wonderful to touch, chocolaty, soft & squishy and is waiting to be ...........?

Thanks T!

Thank You Arika- Again!

I received this lovely second package today from Arika. She had made sheep knitting needle tops which are just so cute, The yarn is dyed locally, very squishy and beautiful colours. You can't properly see the chocolate crochet hook dusted with real gold made by an artisan nearby to Arika's home or the white chocolate sheep also dusted with gold so I'm sorry for my terrible photography. You can see the card with a heron print on it, a lovely addition to the parcel.
Thank you Arika for a great parcel.

Contest Winners!!

Sorry, it has been a little delayed... But the contest winner is Life Junkie with the pattern sent to her by KnitKat! There are two skeins of Regia sock yarn for both of you - the brown is silk color and the blue is crazy color... You two decide who gets what, e-mail me and I will send your prize packs out...

Thank you everyone for playing!! There were a lot of great songs and really interesting patterns.

It looks like most packages have been received - if you don't have your package, aren't sure its in the mail and haven't heard from your pal, please let me know. We have had a few angels step into this exchange already... If we need more, I would like to know soon! Also, if you have received your package - please post it. I will follow up on this more next week.

Thanks for playing!
Sunne

Very late thanks

Here at long last is a picture of my second package from Rhoda. I honestly can't remember when it got here as I have been pretty distracted lately. Most of ya'll don't know that my husband recently suffered from a mild heart attack. This was on the 2nd of the month. He is at home recuperating quite nicely. As a result of this, I am way behind on my emails. The package was greatly appreciated. The two boys loved the little dinosaur. I haven't shown them the Thomas whistle yet as it no doubt will start a screaming battle between the two. I love the yarn and the book. Thankfully it is one that I didn't have. So thank you dear pal for your very sweet package and please accept my apologies for not posting the thanks in a more timely manner.

Thanks Kat!

I got the nicest box full of things to relax with..tea, a togo mug!,

chocolate,

an awesome assortment of tea,

playdoh quickly accosted by Osky and provided me with TEN WHOLE minutes to enjoy some tea,

lovely soap ( i love the ginger!), two kinds of yarn - one fun fuzzy and one socks away!!!!!!!!!..So nice.
Thanks gurl..;)
This last one is just nice.

GO MAKE A CHART Y'ALL!!!
YAY PRGE!!!!!

Landed in the land Down Under

My Parcel arrived and packed full of goodies from our Hostess with the Mostess Sunne. I now have yarn to play with that I dont have access to here SWS and Venezia. I have the most awesome needle holder and a little book of knitting as well as a cute little journal. A great enviro bag and some stitch markers with cute little pirate dogs.

Boss was spoilt as well with 2 new toys. He loves them and thinks Sunne is the best spoiler.

Thank you Sunne.

Contest

Hi All - I am on my way out of town unexpectedly - so the contest winners will be announced on the night of the 11th. I am so impressed with the entries - and all the packages being received...
Have a great weekend!! And thanks for playing...
Sunneshine

shame on me!

Hi all!
I completely forgot to post to the blog about the fantastic package I received from Ms. KikiBowns! She sent me a lil bag of green and black dark chocolate (who knew you could have a lil morsel of dark chocolate courtesy of them??), a Pinocchio tape measure, a sample of soak in flora, 2 skeins of kp gloss for a pair of super cool mitts, a tin of knitted gift tags, and the best part of all, a cool lil clutch! :) Thanks again, Nicolle!! I love everything. :)

Package received

I got my package from Life Junkie on Thursday, which made it an awesome day. I will post a proper blog entry with deets about all the goodies as soon as I get a chance. Most likely this weekend. Happy knitting everyone!!

I love packages!!!!

My package from Dawn arrived Thursday but I'm just now getting to post it. Dawn is such a talented, creative person so I feel very lucky to have been matched with her! Let me tell you about the goodies I got!

• DPN's
• A tiny treasure box
• Pom Pom maker
• Tape measure
• Marzipan Chocolate which my kids watched me eat with puppy dog eyes
• Fun magnets
• Face oil made by Dawn that smells so good!
• One skein of Rowan felted tweed
• Three skeins of Lion Brand wool in lovely lemongrass (can anyone recommend a good pattern for a cabled bag for this?)
• Turkey with a hand knit scarf by Dawn

Thank you, Dawn! You're the best!

Last minute contest entery

So sorry for my late entery. I have been taken down by this cold and flu season AGAIN. Can't believe it my self. Sick twice in the matter of a month and a bit. Oh well, hopefully this is it for a while.

I sent my partner some Koigu and she picked this pattern to go with it. http://www.knitty.com/issuesummer04/PATTcozies.html I think the perfect song to fit this pattern is by Liz Phair called W.H.C.

late contest entry

I got some red angora for Requiem and she wants to combine it with black yarn to make a pair of these.

The look of the gloves and her color choice will make this a rather gothic project, that's why I decided for this song. It is called Eisblumen and from one of my favorite German bands Subway to Sally. As the song is in German, I tried to translate the lyrics for you - I hope it makes sense, it's really hard to translate lyrics.

Ice flowers

The day is quickly fleeing town, which is getting it's fill of the shadows,
it's showing its true face, the puddles are glimmering like ice.
A silvery stripe is gleaming in the sky, the evening transforms the thaw to frost.
The pale skin of of our cheeks makes us beautiful like angels,
they should fall to their knees and pray that the moon will stay hidden behind clouds.

We are like ice flowers, we bloom during the night, we are like ice flowers, way to beautiful for the day, we are like ice flowers, cold and black is our night, ice flowers bloom during the night.

Morning melts frost to thaw, the day makes everything shrill and harsh,
we cloak ourselves in sadness, but the day will go and our time.
Those who want to glow are fleeing from the light, are looking into the face of the night.
The pale skin of of our cheeks makes us beautiful like angels,
they will fall to their knees and pray that the moon will stay hidden behind clouds.

We are like ice flowers, we bloom during the night, we are like ice flowers, way to beautiful for the day, we are like ice flowers, cold and black is our night, ice flowers bloom during the night.

Package Received, Check!

Shannon is the bomb! she treated me right this whole exchange. Love her!

• Noro yarn (my favorite)
• a cool mini craft organize (need that)
• a wild Christmas ornament for my tree
• Chocolate
• Coffee!!!
• "tag" stamps
• iron on studs

Gonna be havin' some kinda fun at my house. Thanks Shannon for being such a great PRGE Pal!!

Much Love~

Dawn

I got my package!!!

Yea!!!! I got my package!!!! I loved it!!! I got some wonderful Egyptian cotton yarn, glow sticks, NYC postcards, skull charm, labels that say "hand made by", yummy chocolate and cool magnetic board that helps you hold your place while charting!!! I have been doing a lot of color work lately, so that will be GREAT!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

Awesome Package

HI Everyone! I got my second package from Imen Stitches on Saturday. She really packed a lot in. And she wrapped everything separately, it was like Christmas. There is some yummy "Limbo Mexiko" yarn, which is German. A pattern for fingerless mitts to go with it. A book, Knit Wit 30 Easy and hip projects. And a bunch of little goodies- Chocolate, post-it arrows, a little sketch book, a wood bead necklace kit (made it last night), A wonder woman wallet, cds, handiwipes, and a reed diffuser. I think thats it. Deb was a great spoiler and who ever gets her next time will really enjoy their packages. Thanks Deb!!!!!

Contest

Okay, so Carly sent me the Floopy Hat pattern from Ravelry. This one was very difficult. I found a song called Floppy Hat by Allan Holdsworth, but I couldn't find a link. Then I thought the hat looks like a funnel and Switchblade Symphony has a song called Funnel, but I couldn't find a link to that song either. So here is is my song. Therapy by Switchblade Symphony. Which is what I might need after this contest!!

Contest entry with 6 days to spare!

Kat sent me this pattern to match with a song. It's a knitted lampshade! I am discovering that there is nothing that can't be turned into a knitting project! It's been nice to stop thinking about the election for a few moments to find a song match. I found one from one of the most talented bands of all time, Rush. Have you checked out their website? If not, you must go see. I had no idea they were still together and will be listening to their new album after I'm done posting this.

I picked the song, Limelight. The video is not the greatest but the tunage more than makes up for it. Enjoy!

Contest Answer

My partner Life Junkie sent me the link to Pulse Warmers and as demented as it may be, when I think of pulse warmers it makes me think of suicide (not for me personally so please no hotline phone numbers).  Anyway, I tried and tried to think of something else besides that when I would look at them but there it was.  The first song that popped into my head for these chunky wristbands was by one of my favorite punk bands:

The Distillers "Drain the Blood"  it is a cool song.  Sorry for the horrible analogy and if it offended anyone.  

**side note my final package is going out to Ellie tomorrow**

Great time, everyone!!

~Dawn

I got my package!!

I received my package from Rachel this weekend. It was amazing. I had so much fun opening it. Because I am crazy, this is the first thing that caught my eye...

That is sooo awesome. I love it. I got so many great things, don't be mad if I forget some. I got a Munny, a project bag with two gorgeous skeins of yarn, Spicy Chai, chocolate covered pretzels, treats for my dog, a silcone flower ring to cook eggs in, a fan, pencils, a package of my own plastic silverware, and a little chicken guy. I know you said he was your favorite, but I have never heard of him. I will have to do some research...

Thanks so much Pseudobunny. It's amazing.

Package 2 - A birthday Treat

Saturday was my Birthday and Shelvicious had a lovely surprise waiting on my doorstep!

The package was chok-full of wonderful! Halloween cocktail mixes, dish scrubbies and Mr Potato Head. A skein of K1C2 Ty-Dy Sock, a skein of Silky Malabrigo in the gorgeous color Amoroso (I'm making mittens out of that colorway in worsted Mal!). Rounding out the package are some Ferrero Rocher chocolates and a really neat bamboo needle repair kit - it includes sandpaper, beeswax and buffing flannel to touch up the needles when necessary!

Thank you so much, Vanessa! I had such a great time this round of the swap. I hope I can participate next round if it doesn't conflict with wedding timing!

Last Package Posted

I put my last package in the post on Friday- later than I'd hoped. I had the dates in my mind, then got distracted by organising DH's 40th birthday celebrations. Suddenly I realised it had to be delivered by yesterday (OMG!) so thought I'd better pull my act together! So unreserved apologies to Knitting Knut but I hope you love your package when it arrives :)
Ali