March 3, 2009

Swap goodies!

After a typical, yucky Monday at work, I was overjoyed to find that a package was waiting for me at home. I was expecting my swap package from this round of the Knitters' Coffee Swap and this time around, I was lucky to have swap host Knittymama be my swap partner. Well she sure knows how to put together a swap package, because she made my day with her package!
Here's a group shot of my goodies:
First the coffee. It's from a company called Peace coffee, which I had not heard of before. I love that I got paired up with Becca, because we both enjoy organic, fair trade coffees and local goods. Peace coffee is her local coffee roaster (she said they even deliver goods locally by bicycle - I love that!) and I received a huge 1 lb bag of their French Roast. I look forward to this weekend to enjoy a cup of coffee with these beans!
and then the chocolate... I received 3 luscious bars of yummy chocolate (the hazelnut one devoured shortly after opening the box and taking a quick photo hehe)
A cute little buttoned pouch that contained some Clover chibi finishing needles (which was perfect timing, because I seemed to have misplaced mine and can't find them).
And then the yarn...
2 skeins of wonderfully soft sportweight alpaca yarn from Blue Sky Alpacas in a gorgeous green color (I'm in love with the color green right now and this shade is one of my ultra fave greens). I LOVE this yarn and need to find a great pattern to knit myself something nice with this!
I also won a contest during this coffee swap and got these cute little coffee bean stitch markers... aren't they cute?
And last but not least, all of these goodies were packed neatly into this super duper cool tote/project bag that I LOVE. I'm still waiting to confirm if she made this (which I'm pretty sure she did, because she's a crafty gal like that). I hope I can learn to sew tote bags like this myself!
Thank you SO much Becca! I had a blast spoiling you and you definitely spoiled me rotten with the package you sent to me! I'm so glad I had you as a partner!

4 comments:

Cindy said...

So this is how we get you to post. We send you pressies;--)

Carrie Penny said...

you know, I think those stitch markers look very similar to a set I got a while back... hum...

Saren Johnson said...

Wow, nice haul.

Anonymous said...

You got such neat things! I've never seen stich markers like that and they're perfect for you! The tote is awesome.

I just checked out your package to her...you a great swap partner too!

The chocolate wrappers are so pretty.

HA! The word verification is TOTElit...