Secret Pal Swaps

I think I've mentioned before how much I've enjoyed the knitting swaps. The swapees are the greatest, incredibly generous and there is something really cool about getting great packages from someone you don't know. It is a great pick me up.

Anyway, I received a package yesterday from Lomester! She has been very generous throughout the whole swap and has been a super secret pal. Part of the fun of these things is also getting those wonderful pick-me-up notes and contacts. Thank you so much.

Here is what I received in my package yesterday:
Simple Scrapbooks (when I'm not knitting or going to school or working, I scrapbook . . . in fact, I think we have over 600 pics to add to an album from our last trip!!).

Knit Simple . . . wow! This magazine is PACKED with great stuff, including an article on flattering looks for fuller figures . . . how did they know???

A book mark to help me keep my place in my book, and I know just the book since I am participating in the Whodunit KAL!

A small vase which I put the gel pens in. Actually there are four pens, I was already using one last evening taking notes for my exam on Saturday. There is also a great "M" memo notepad which I have tucked into my laptop bag.

A tortoise shell purse handle. I have been looking at a pattern that, shhhh, isn't knit but sewn. You need round handles for it. It is to make a craft bag out of 8 fat quarters.

And, finally, wonderful Classic Elite, cotton rayon yarn, in a dark apple green (I hope the pics do it justice). The name of the yarn is BELIEVE! Not only is this yarn great, but I was just telling someone who was questioning whether or not she should go back to school (she is all of 32), that she just needed to BELIEVE in herself and that she can do this. Now, how quirky is that!!

You know, sometimes you just gotta Believe!