The other day, I drove up to my house to see a package waiting for me. I thought. Hmmm. I thought some more. I am expecting something from Knitpicks, but I knew it was too soon for that, so what could it be? Ah, perhaps a birthday gift for Gwenyth, who is 2 today. I picked it up; it was for me! And even more surprising, is was from Kris, my downstream pal from Secret Pal 10! She sent a lovely card, thanking me for being such a great pal, and calling all this goodness an early birthday present. :0) Kris, you're amazing, thank you so much for your thoughtfulness!
You see here all kinds of lovely goodies: a notebook, a cool knitter's kind of pen, with a built in highlighter, a Lantern Moon keychain with a tiny sweater, the coolest bookmark ever (a reproduction of a real Turkish carpet) and a very nice candle with it's own tiny box of matches. Also, check out the great dishcloth Kris knitted for me - isn't there something so special about knowing another knitter has spent her precious knitting time on you? I love it! I also love the Coolspun Cotton yarn - it's much softer than the worsted cotton I am used to working with, it's almost "too good" to make dishcloths out of!
The finale, of course, is the perfect, amazing, exciting sock yarn! Not only is it in my favourite colours, but is from Sweet Georgia Yarns, and is soft and lovely. Almost too lovely, I'm seriously thinking of just keeping this in a basket beside my bed, so I can look at it and pet it. It's wonderful, and I feel so special and blessed.
I mentioned that Gwenyth is 2 today - I can hardly believe it! How is it possible that she's grown so quickly, and gone from teeny tiny baby, to this?
I blinked. I so need to stop doing that.
Happy Birthday to your beautiful baby girl. They grow so fast.
Hope you all have a wonderful day!
Posted by: Kristeen | July 18, 2007 at 04:42 PM
What a great gift package! I've gotta get into one of these swap thingys! Definitely!
And you're right... stop blinking! My oldest is starting high school and my youngest is starting Kindergarden. Very strange. I clearly did way too much blinking! But I must admit, that after 5, their growing independence is a bit of a relief.
Posted by: Tammy | July 18, 2007 at 05:25 PM
Happy Birthday Gwenyth! What a bonny wee lass!
And what a lovely birthday surprise for you! Lots of yummy goodies! Blinking...if only you could stop...so you could 'catch' it all.
Posted by: marianne | July 18, 2007 at 05:39 PM
Happy, happy birthday to your beautiful daughter - all the very best to her! And oh, that's a great gift package indeed - enjoy everything ;)
Posted by: Dipsy D. | July 18, 2007 at 11:24 PM
Happy Birthday to Gwenyth for yesterday and what a lovely surprise for you. A lovely day all round :)
Posted by: Sarah | July 19, 2007 at 05:47 AM
What a fun package - Such a nice blog friend!
and Happy Birthday to Gwenyth (a wonderful bubble picture)and since I'm catching up a bit...your WIPS in that last post are beautiful!
Posted by: Pat | July 19, 2007 at 05:54 AM
Happy Birthday, Gwenyth. Lovely picture of your little one and what a nice package your pal sent to you. Enjoy!
Posted by: Peg | July 19, 2007 at 06:55 AM
What a lovely package of gifts!
Happy birthday wishes to Gwenyth.
Posted by: Jennifer | July 19, 2007 at 09:28 AM
Happy Birthday Little One!
What a fabulous package.
Posted by: Rain | July 19, 2007 at 12:24 PM
and then all of a sudden they are grown up and moving away yet you haven't aged a day. Really, not blinking doesn't help at all.
Posted by: Judy G. | July 19, 2007 at 04:02 PM
Happy Birthday, Gwyneth! Now slow down.
Nice package! The dishcloth and the yarn are really scrumptious.
Posted by: Carrie K | July 19, 2007 at 05:11 PM
Happy Belated Birthday Miss Gwyneth!
Doesn't it just seem like yesterday we were at MOMs and our babies were still tiny? My how time flies.
Posted by: Lisabc | July 19, 2007 at 11:57 PM
Wow, the yarn is gorgeous! I have one of those key chains and love it!
Kids do grow too fast, don't they?
Posted by: Pam | July 20, 2007 at 03:54 AM
What a fantastic treat!!! That is the kinda mail we all need!!
Little Gwen is so adorable. I hope she had a great birthday!!
Posted by: Alisha | July 20, 2007 at 04:51 AM
aww, that photo of gwen is just delightful. as a mom though, i hate realizing that i have just had a *blink* moment. i am so glad that we met via ise4!
Posted by: marti | July 20, 2007 at 09:41 AM
What a great early present Charity, and I love that sock yarn, what a sweetheart Gwenyth is, and such a lovely name!
Posted by: jo | July 20, 2007 at 11:18 AM
Happy birthday, Gwenyth!
What an awesome package!
Posted by: Julie | July 20, 2007 at 01:02 PM
What a lovely picture of Gwenyth! A belated happy birthday to her!
Posted by: Karen | July 20, 2007 at 02:18 PM
Happy Birthday, Gwenyth!! She is a beautiful little girl.
Hurray for you and your early birthday present. What a lovely bunch of gifts. I have contemplated the Sweet Georgia Yarns. Have you knit with it before?
Posted by: Kristy | July 20, 2007 at 10:14 PM
Sweet!
Posted by: Fiberjoy | July 22, 2007 at 07:05 AM
Happy birthday to Gwenyth! She's the cutest little girl ever. And what a great package for you!
Posted by: Hasbu | July 22, 2007 at 12:25 PM
Bit belated" Happy Birthday"little one . I love those yarns especially the sock yarn.
Posted by: angie Cox angie | July 23, 2007 at 11:24 AM
1. Oh what a beautiful little girl! Happy Birthday!
2. WOW what a nice pile of gifties! Lucky You!
3. email me at cbast25 at yahoo dot com so we can talk toe up socks!
Posted by: Colleen | July 23, 2007 at 12:34 PM