Tea and Cakes

Fancy exchanging knitterly goodness with another blogger, but can’t spare the time commitment for a full-on secret pal exchange?

Wish you could spend some time settled down with a nice magazine you haven’t seen before and a something delicious to go with it?

On a yarn diet but really need a fix?

In short, do you need treating?

Well, do I have the exchange for you.

Tangelled Angel and I are running the Knitters Treat Exchange.

It’s a one off, secret swap. You’ll send a package to one person, and receive one from another.

The package will contain:
1. Enough yarn for a one skein/small project
2. Magazine
3. Pampering treat – e.g. Hand cream, bath fizzer etc
4. Delicious treat – e.g. chocolate/candy/tea/coffee
5. Your blog address, so your pal can say hello

Full details and instructions on how to sign up are over at the Knitters Treat Exchange blog.

Two very exciting packages arrived today. One I’ll tell you all about tomorrow, but first, here’s my Secret Pal 9 package!

What a package – it was enormous.
I opened it up to some lovely fabric with teacups and pots on, and some knit picks dpns.

Inside was sooooo much lovely yarn:

3 skeins of knitpicks shadow, a laceweight merino wool
Some absolutely divine mountain colours mountain goat yarn in the mountain twilight colourway (lots of mountains)
2 large skeins of wool dyed by my spoiler in a Spring Garden colourway. So clever!

Also, (deep breath) some lovely purple fabric, patterns for bags and accessories (perfect, as I have some purple cord I want to make into a bag, and now I have a pattern!, some teapot buttons (so cute!), very useful place marking in pattern post its, two types of tea (mmmm), sweet hearts, some luscious vanilla soap, some recipes, a really cool pad for the teapot to rest on that has cloves inside to make the room smell nice, and 2 wonderful books – Knitting Without Tears by Elizabeth Zimmerman, which I’ve wanted for a while now, and Vegan Cupcakes, which is so absolutely perfect it’s almost not true. No eggs! But Cakes!

Phew. Breathe out now.

What a wonderful package that was! I’m really lucky and feel very spoiled. My spoiler was BJ from BJ’s Musings and Meanderings. Thank you BJ!

Secret Pal 9 comes to an end this week, and I’m delighted to announce that my spoilee has received her final package, and now knows who I am.

I should hopefully be receiving a package from my spoiler sometime soon too, as the exchange is pretty much done, so when that arrives I’ll be sure to post it up here.

Anyway, I was spoiling Glenda over at Still Life With Books, and it was an absolute pleasure.

Yesterday was a wonderful day chez Tea and Cakes.

I was haircut modelling after work, and didn’t get a chance to take the make up off until late in the evening when I got home, so apologies to anyone who saw me in the pub and was a bit unsettled by it.

Anyway, we were in the pub to see friends who moved to America a couple of years ago. They came bearing unexpected gifts!

Leanne brought over the Winter and Holiday Gifts Interweave Knits, plus a lovely set of Brittany Birch dpns, and a beautiful soft baby blue crochet scarf. A really lovely surprise. Thanks a million Leanne!

Then, when I got home, the winter Vogue knitting was waiting for me – sent by Nic as second prize in the random fact contest.

Thanks Nic!

Then, as if I didn’t have enough, there was a lovely postcard from my new secret pal spoiler – who’s in Buffalo, New York! Very exciting. Thanks secret pal, I love getting postcards.

Right, off to Leitrim this weekend – hope to get some knitting, walking, cakes and blogging in.

I came home from work today to this lovely autumn card from my secret pal. Thanks SP!