The Mailman cometh......

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you've been warned.....

(sing to the tune of Jesus Loves Me...)

The Mailman loves me this I know
For my mailbox tells me so!
It's overflowing with such and stash
that the owner's mouth is all a gap!
Yes, my Mailman loves me! Yes, my mailman loves me!
Yes, my Mailman loves me! My mailbox tells me so!!!!!

OK, I was so disappointed Friday. I came home from lunch to find nothing in my mail box. No Scream House..nada. Bummer. Well when I got home from Black Belt class, I thought to myself "WAIT you Moron! It should have came UPS!" I ran downstairs to find this on my front porch:

I heard something 'screaming' from the box so I opened it very slowly...breath I told my self...breath....then I saw this!

Ah....jellybeans....mine all mine! Scissors....mourning pins...Weeks threads...but WAIT Johnny, there's more! What's behind tissue paper number 2?

The Silver Needle does some of the most awesome packing jobs I've seen for needlework. I'm so bad that I saved the sticker above from the tissue paper. Sad, huh? The voices in my head were telling me to hold my breath as I opened this package....

And then I did it. I almost screamed with glee. I quickly stuffed my fist in my mouth to muffle the sounds so the kids and DH didn't think I'd completely lost my mind (well, it's hard to do that twice, I lost it when I heard "uh you're going to be expecting quints..."). The next thing that came along was fondle, fondle, fondle...*sigh*. But wait! There's even MORE! (Please sir, may I have some more? MOOOORE? Yes Oliver you want MORE you say????)

Here comes Saturday and the mailman loves me so that I came home to THIS! WARNING WILL ROBINSON! WARNING! SYSTEM OVERLOAD IN 3...2...1...

Drema from The Needlecraft Corner sent me my Nan's that I've had on order for a while. My Over the Top Boo tin and needle book, the 2008 Blitzen Glitzen Christmas ornament and frame, the Lavender Angel and Pearl frame plus she adds the fabric with her pricing so all I have to do is gather the threads. Breath, breath, breath...
I did the Pearl Angel for my one DD who loves pink and my other DD wanted to know where hers was at. Well, it was like Nan read my mind because she loves purple so here it is! Thanks to Nan for helping me keep my sanity in making it look like I'm showing favorites! I was actually going to change the pink one to purple so she saved me the trouble. The Blitzen Glitzen is FANTASTIC. Even if you don't get the frame for it, I highly recommend it. It would make a GREAT ornament for a tree, exchange, or whatever. This picture does not do the frame justice though.

Holy High jinks Batman there is more???? I've been waiting for these old Bent Creeks. I guess I must have lived under a rock for a while (6 kids, yes 6 if you include the DH, do that to you) because Bent Creek had these little 'book' series out. I now have gotten 4 out of the 5. Now here is the true mystery...I have no idea what the name of the 5th book is. This one on the left is called "Down on the Farm". The one on the right is called Holiday Houses part 1...I just really liked those. I'd be thrilled if I could find part 2. Old stash, new excitement.

Now for my last little enjoyment. Actually it was my favorite out of all of it.....

Ranae from The Needle & I had a contest on her blog for guessing what she was stitching. She started out small with a bat...but that bat was looking way to familiar to me. I thought maybe a Birds of a Feather. I guessed. She said nope. Then I got to thinking some more so I ran to my freebies and then it hit me. It's a Barbara Ana! Sure enough it was. I guessed again and I was right! Her little contest gave me a choice of either a copy of the Halloween issue of JCS with some fabby to finish off some ornaments OR the fabby above with the floss ring. I fell in love with the floss ring when i saw it. I opened up my little gift to find the scrap booking stickers and the silks as well. I was NOT expecting that at all. Ranae, thanks from the bottom of my heart. What a generous and fun thing to do. My DD has tried several times to snatch my little scared kitty ring, she loves it as much as I do! Please visit Ranae's blog. It's pretty cool :-)

Tired of me talking yet? I warned you! Well here's a quick update on my Trick ORTreak Box. I've come to the conclusion that I will probably contact the finisher on this one, since I did something REALLY stupid in having it be 1/2 stitch off. I really want it to look nice when I'm done with it. Now because I've done this, I'll be 'scared to death' to try the Scream House. I'll need complete quite and focus to start that one. I haven't been working on it much because it's crunch time with TKD.

I'm doing this blog while my zucchini bread is baking and my one DS runs upstairs from the basement and shouts "OK where is it? Where's the bread?". He didn't even see me making it...lolol...

Anyway, I had my first Black Belt class this past Friday. We have this the first Friday of the month. It was my first (being a BoDan) and it helps prep us for that 'big' test. It was awesome. Master Shinn is so full of knowledge. I have so much respect for him. He gave us a history of TKD and his history to date being from Korea. Just awesome to hear about another culture.

Well, have a great week...I'm going now to pry my fingers apart from typing so much and to hopefully stitch a little between bread batches....Feel free to take the cotton out of your ears now.