I got the best package from la_chrystelle the other day!!  Thank you!!!  I love everything!  She chose me for the bird necklace (from my wists), but threw in tons of extras for me!!

So I finished my scarf today (yay!) and I decided to go ahead and unravel the ball.  Little did I know, there has been a treasure chest sitting in my closet for these past few weeks!!!  CrochetAdikt, you are the best...I love it all!!!!

Okay, get ready for eight million pictures.

































CrochetAdikt, you are amazing!!!  This is the best package ever, and seriously, the wallet that holds tea bags and packets of sugar....pure genius.  I'm going to use all of this stuff all the time!  In fact, I'm eating one of the 100 calorie packs right now....and its delicious!

Thank you sooooo much!!!!

I finally got my camera up and working again!

So here is the sudoku book I got



And my scarf in process!

well...its not entirely maroon...just wait til you get farther in. and you've only gotten to the sudoku book?!?! COME ON!!! i'm dying of suspense!! and i already know whats in there! lol

It's not all maroon?!  Oh man...I'm going to have to make like 4 scarves to find all of my goodies.  Hehe.  The only thing that has fallen out so far is the pink tote bag!

The scarf is coming along well....



But the MYB is still HUGE!  (hahaha!  I just noticed how crazy my face looks in this picture - hopefully everyone gets a good laugh.  lol)

hehe....i got the beads from a Little Visitor swap, when my troll Magenta went to Louisiana - you'll have to ask her how she got the beads.  =)

I started knitting today because - well - I couldn't resist finding out what was inside of my huge yarn ball!  And the first thing that fell out was this amazing pink tote bag with a guitar stenciled on it!!  I love it sooo much and I'm totally using it this weekend when I go to Chicago!!

Here's an action shot:



And a better shot of the bag:



There are so many goodies peaking out already, and I just want to stay up all night knitting, but feel like I should get some sleep.  Hehe.

Am I the only one not unraveling the MYB, btw?  There has to be someone else who is going to stay strong and resist the urge with me!!   Lol

Get prepared to be jealous!!

So I told CrochetAdikt that I wanted to make a Harry Potter scarf, but she could send me one skein, and I would provide the rest - but she is an amazing partner and sent me all the yarn for it!!



Seriously, the yarn ball is bigger than my head!  I can't wait to find out what it inside of it - I had to hide it in my closet so that I wouldn't look at it and the urge to just unravel it all is sooo big right now!  I promised myself I would knit it out, but I have a huge grad school interview on Monday that I need to prepare for, so I had to hide it until the interview is over.


Thank you soooo much CrochetAdikt!  I will definatly be posting pictures of things as they fall out of my magic yarn ball!

Magenta got home yesterday!!!  She had sooo much fun in Texas and had so many fun stories to tell me!  Here are some of the pictures I took of her arrival:

Here's Miss Magenta:


She brought back lots of brochures with her!!


A couple of books about Texas..woo!


A few Texas Souvineers....


A lovely card that my partner, Jonnamarco included, and a CD that I am assuming is pictures of Magenta's Trip (I haven't gotten a chance to look at it yet - Lol)


Magenta with a Texas shotglas, and her new friend that she brought home with her!!


A Texas Longhorns t-shirt that Magenta brought back for me!!


And, of course, the scrapbook!!



Thanks, Jonnamarco!!!

Here is a picture of what I recieved in the mail. 





EDIT: I actually said a lot more than this originally, but the swap mods found my comments "demeaning" and "rude".  Am I at least allowed to say, at the very least, that this package does not meet swap size requirements? And I also hope that anyone who is in a future swap with the partner I had will contact her to make sure she will be sending items in accordance with the guidelines of the swap so that you do not spend hours working on your package to get something similar to this in return.

[Pedro and I just got back from out little trip to North Dakota!! This is probably my favorite picture of him, looking out onto the prairie!]

Pedro and I just got back from out little trip to North Dakota!!  This is probably my favorite picture of him, looking out onto the prairie!

Pedro just got here!!!  I'm sooo glad, cause I was starting to get worried.  And I'm bummed that he missed my trip to the zoo (I was babysitting today and took the kiddo to the zoo, but Pedro didn't make it in time...grrr).  But....I am taking him to the theatre tonight to see a production of "Almost Maine!" Woo!



My dog seems very interested in him!