Great mail day!

We're having a color exchange in a cross stitch group I'm in and my package came today! It came all the way from Germany from a stitching friend named Dane. As you can see, the color I chose is blue. Isn't this a beautiful bag she made for me?! I love all of the J's that she stitched on the inside! The bag was filled with beads, trims, and a really pretty skein of thread that I plan to put to use very soon :). She also sent along a really pretty (and very large!) cut of fabric. There was also a bag of German chocolate in the package! They're not in the pic because I'm eating them..LOL! German chocolate is sooooooo good! Thanks for such a wonderful gift, Dane! As soon as the package I sent to my partner arrives at her house I'll post a pic of the goodies I sent her.

I spent part of the day out shopping for Joshua's b-day. Have you ever heard of Webkinz? If not here's a link so you'll know what I'm talking about: http://www.webkinz.com

Cassie collects these things and has 4. Joshua just got his first one for Easter. He LOVES puppies so he got a dog. He wants another one and let me just tell you they're not easy to come by! They come from Canada and there's a big shortage of them. There are 3 places in town that carry them and they've been out of them for a while. They all tell me they've been on order for some time and they just don't know when they'll be in. I got this brilliant idea to check on ebay and OMGosh! There's a retired dog and cat that went for over $500 for the set! Good grief! I wouldn't mind owning some of those..LOL! Anyway, I called all of the stores within an hours distance to see if they had any and they were all sold out except for 1. I picked up my mom this morning so she could make the drive (journey!!) with me to get this bulldog. It wasn't bad..just about 30 minutes. (but still, for a present?! I'm such a good mom..LOL!) Anyway, I had never heard of this place before but it was just the cutest little boutique. She had all sorts of neat things. All kinds of jewelry, little victorian things, and heaps of webkinz! I'm not telling anybody I know about that shop...lol. It's a really neat place to get little gift items. I plan to go back often. This place is in a really small town of only 3,000 people. There's only 1 stop light in the whole city...lol. I did get that bulldog for him, YAY!