This hearty thank you goes out to Melanie in Australia. I won her 1000th comment giveaway on her blog in November. Poor gal has been totally swamped since then and was fretting about what to send me. Well, she totally outdid herself, folks. I received the most marvelous package from her at the beginning of March and am still over the moon with what she sent.
First off, you have to see what I saw when I opened the package. I was so tickled by the fact that Mel took the time to wrap everything up so nicely!
The most notable gifts in the package are two sets of stationery, one in shades of purple and the other in shades of blue, packed into lovely matching organza bags. I don’t know how Mel printed these babies out, but many of them were printed in silver that catches the light nicely. She put together a design for the stationery of stars with the words “thoughts from a creative mind” at the bottom. Very appropriate, considering my penchant for stars and the subtitle of my blog (random thoughts from a creative mind). Such a clever gal!
She also included some goodies, as if the stationery wasn’t enough. A generously sized piece of purple Silkweaver fabric named Magic, several spools of ribbon, a marker duo and some yummy hand cream! Thanks for spoiling me rotten, Mel!
oh such a nice package! Beautifully wrapped and so pretty. The cards are incredible, how she managed to do that…. ?…. wow.
What a nice giftie! Now I’m curious… How do you find out how many comments are left?
What a fantastic package – Melanie is a lovely person.
I’m so glad you liked everything Jenna 🙂 I just realised I forgot to tell you about the magic markers – if you mark something with the coloured one, then go over it with the white marker, it will change colour. It can be useful for marking your chart with where you’re going to stitch next, then changing the colour to indicate what you have already stitched 🙂
Meari, I run my blog with WordPress software, and WP indicates how many comments have been received in total. I don’t think Blogger does?
Jenna/Angela, I printed the stationery on a Print Gocco – it’s a table top printing press, and lots of fun. You can see what others have been doing with Gocco in the Flickr Gocco group.
What a fabulous gift! Enjoy!
Wowser, Jenna, that’s really a super package! And so perfect for you. 😀