My Secret Pal loooooooves me, my Secret Pal loooooooves me, nyah nyah!

There were not one, but TWO boxes waiting for me when I got home today.
TWO! So lucky I am.

The first one was from my secret pal. Who, you must know, Kicks All Available Ass. Bigtime.
Check it out (enclicken to embiggen - it deserves to be full size)

Everything in the box was individually wrapped, which made it that much more fun to open, and inside? OMG. Verklempt, people. That’s what I am.
Top package? An OUNCE of QIVIUT. I kid you not.
Then? Two ounces of gorgeous hand-dyed alpaca.
And a fuzzy sheep pez dispenser/key chain!
Then! Chocolate brown yak! That doesn’t smell like yak!
And? It doesn’t stop there - next up?
GUANACO A bag of guanaco!
Then coffee! And Chocolate! and a lavender & bergamot Badger bedtim bar that smells so good I just want to take a bite out of it.

I? Have the best secret pal EVER. Seriously. I am the luckiest girl in the world.

And then there was the second box, which was from one of the wonderful people on the FiberTraditions list who was destashing her sock yarn supply. Woo! Who could pass that up? And Jen says sock yarn isn’t stash enhancement, so it’s ok. She divvied her stash up into paper bags, and sent it out random-like. I got two bags worth, which turned out to be two skeins of Lorna’s Laces in Ember, and two skeins of Socka Color in browns with sparkles! Both should be great knit up, and were WAY too good a deal to pass up.

And one more pic for you, just to round out your day:
Our ever so balanced breakfast from Saturday with the TechniViking (who has put his pics from the rainforest trip up in the gallery):

peace out

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Finally. I know, I know.

First, and most importantly, the goodies from my Secret Pal:

The finished Booger Socks (pattern to be posted soonish)

The blue stripey socks (yarn from Lara’s bottomless pit of self-striping sock yarn)(and yeah, my legs really are that color - gonna make something of it?):

And, lastly, more Trekking XXL (it’s color 109 for those of you who need to track down the elusive purple Trekking), being turned into a pair of Jaywalkers for my friend Barb:

So there you go.

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There was a WONDERFUL (as in OMG wonderful) package waiting for me when I got home last night! Hooray! My Secret Pal? The. Best. Seriously. She so totally rocked my world with this one.

And no, no pictures yet, but I should be home tonight at a reasonable hour, and will take a picture of (what’s left of) it. There was chocolate (Lindor truffles, which I am powerless to resist, and Hershey’s kisses mmmm), COFFEE (the elixer of life), and, get this, four skeins of Rowan Kidsilk Spray. Four skeins, y’all. Four! And coffee! And chocolate!

On top of that I managed to finish TWO pairs of socks in the last two days. The Booger’s socks are done, I just have to block the second one, and the blue-stripey cotton/wool socks are also done (and comfy! Thanks Lara!).

I’ll take pics of the stuff tonight and get that posted when I get home. Yes indeedy!

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