…the sun is shining, the sky is blue, I got 10 hours of sleep last night and new stuff to blog about. Having only had 3 hours of sleep Monday night, it should come as no surprise that I was dog tired yesterday. I would have gone to sleep right after putting the monkeys down at 8 had I not gotten something exciting that I had to check it out. I’m glad I did. A couple of weeks ago, Margene had a contest where entrants left a comment as to why they either liked or disliked stockinette. While I might currently be entranced by cables, I am a stockinette avenger. At the close, she was going to randomly draw a name and I WON! Woo. The very generous prizes arrived in yesterday’s mail:
A gorgeous skein of Mountains Colors Bearfoot in the Raspberry colorway (perfect colors!), a very cute sheep tape measure (been wanting one of those) and the coup de grace, Nancy Bush’s new sock book! Autographed! Margene had it personalized for me. What a super cool prize package. Thank you again Margene! After a mandatory perusal of the book, along with mental notes that further added to my must knit list, I called it an early night.
Good thing too… tonight I have something else to play with..
Suzie is out for delivery! I love online tracking. I forget what we used to do before this. I made sure to tack a note to my door authorizing Mr. UPSman to leave the package. This way I avoid that whole yellow sticky note on door disappointment. I’ll do the wheel assembly after the twins are in bed and then give her a test run. Yay.
Craft on!
9 responses so far ↓
1 Nancy J // Oct 19, 2005 at 11:06 am
Happy Dance! I’d seen you’d won the contest! I’m going to have to get Nancy’s newest book… Online tracking is fun, but sometimes it’s way too slow because they tend to post once a day and late in the day at that (a lot like banks!)
2 Donna // Oct 19, 2005 at 12:33 pm
What a wonder prize! Can’t wait to see the pic of your new wheel.
3 Katy // Oct 19, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Wow. How do you find the energy to keep up with everything?
Congrats on the new wheel–hope assembly is a breeze!
4 Chris // Oct 19, 2005 at 1:46 pm
Good luck with the Suzie! I’m sure, assembled correctly, she’ll spin as well as Rose does, assembled correctly. LOL
5 Juno // Oct 19, 2005 at 2:00 pm
So how many wheels do you have?
6 Carole // Oct 19, 2005 at 2:52 pm
Doesn’t Juno know it’s not polite to ask that question? Sheesh.
Can’t wait to read all about the new wheel tomorrow.
7 Sue // Oct 19, 2005 at 3:46 pm
Congrats on the contest! An I can’t wait to see the new wheel- yay!
8 margene // Oct 19, 2005 at 7:27 pm
Glad your gift arrived safely! Can’t wait to hear more about the wheel!
9 Lynne S of Oz // Oct 21, 2005 at 5:27 am
hoo boy! What excitement! Many parcels and a fabulous Rhinebeck! A personalised copy of a Nancy Bush book! argh, I am so far away and have to make do with online pics