A most pleasant surprise
Today started off as a hectic mess. A knitting night with a friend on Friday ran quite late. When I finally came home, I was so hopped up on caffeine and sugar and laughter that there was no way I could get to sleep. So, I knitted. And knitted and knitted – until faint bird chirps began filtering their way into my apartment. Needless to say, I slept quite late into the day. That, of course, has the unfortunate consequence of squashing everything I needed to get done today into a much, much smaller window of time. Just as I was running out the door, much frazzled and stressed, I found this from Phillipa in my mailbox and suddenly, my day seemed much better.
I didn’t have a chance to open it right then but remembering that I had a special package waiting for me made all the errands I was running seem much less of a chore.
When I finally opened the package, I was greeted by a soothing perfume. It smelled like lavender and clothes dried in the sun and general coziness. Here is what I found inside the envelope:
An enormous cut of whimsical Liberty fabric printed with yarn and knitting (I have been desperately coveting Liberty fabric ever since I knew of its existence. Now I finally have some!). A bar of delicious smelling candy intriguingly called Kendal Mint Cake that was a great favorite of Sir Edmund Hillary’s famed Mt. Everest expedition. A lovely post card of some spires (a spire) of Oxford. And the wonderful goat milk soap that suffused everything with its perfume.
I’m quite over the moon with everything. I can’t stop fingering the delightful fabric (soft as well as adorable) and sniffing at the soap. It’s all so generous a thank you for a little felt hamster.
Thank you, Phillipa, for such a wonderful and unexpected gift!
I didn’t have a chance to open it right then but remembering that I had a special package waiting for me made all the errands I was running seem much less of a chore.
When I finally opened the package, I was greeted by a soothing perfume. It smelled like lavender and clothes dried in the sun and general coziness. Here is what I found inside the envelope:
An enormous cut of whimsical Liberty fabric printed with yarn and knitting (I have been desperately coveting Liberty fabric ever since I knew of its existence. Now I finally have some!). A bar of delicious smelling candy intriguingly called Kendal Mint Cake that was a great favorite of Sir Edmund Hillary’s famed Mt. Everest expedition. A lovely post card of some spires (a spire) of Oxford. And the wonderful goat milk soap that suffused everything with its perfume.
I’m quite over the moon with everything. I can’t stop fingering the delightful fabric (soft as well as adorable) and sniffing at the soap. It’s all so generous a thank you for a little felt hamster.
Thank you, Phillipa, for such a wonderful and unexpected gift!
posted by Marie at 10:15 PM
2 Comments:
I'm so pleased you liked it! I tried to make it a very British package. The round building in the postcard is the Radcliffe Camera, part of the Bodleian Library. I got a reader's pass for the library during the Easter holidays before my finals and revised under that dome all day. I always buy mint cake when I go to the Lake District and would be addicted to it if I didn't keep it only for emergencies. I've heard there are many states in the US where they can't sell it because it doesn't conform to trading standards - i.e. it is not a cake. But I guess it's a bit like a cake of soap, if you have such things? - only made of sugar of course. I really look forward to seeing what you do with the fabric, but you don't have to use it all it once!
What lovely fabric! Any idea yet of what you'll be making with it?
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