Arriving home from Seattle, I was showered with presents. Hooray!!! Ok, not really showered, but I did get some super fantastic mail. I feel spoiled and grateful! Gratefully spoiled! (And reminded how many parcels I owe people too! Eeee.)
The first parcel was from the incredibly thoughtful Nath — wrapped in tissue paper in my most favorite color!
— this amazing hormone balancing tea, which I have never seen. It’s delicious and I should bring it to drink since I shouldn’t be drinking coffee! Is the tea a UK only thing, maybe? Either way, rose tea of all kinds is my fave, and even better if it can help with health-things. I haven’t mentioned it here but I have to have surgery over the winter holidays for a large fibroid cyst. Meh! So this tea is perfect.
The brooch is darling and I want to wear it on sashes wrapped around my waist!
A few days after that, this book from Cyndemouse arrived. Chock-ful of homesteading tips and wonder!! (By the way, check out the amazing hot pants she made on her Etsy!)
Someone tucked this list of VERMONT property listings in it, too. (!!!!) I need to go back in time and buy the old house with 40 acres in Woodstock, VT for 158K in 1980 – worth a few million now!
Annnnnd, a few days after THAT, I was given this amazing enamel, gold, and pearl mourning ring from 1876 by the ever dreamy Professor. It’s so so so magical and even has a little nook in the back for hair hiding. Eeeeee. I’d spent the whole day reading this book, so of course I excitedly said “MAYBE THEY DIED OF CHOLERA.” There is something wrong with me.
P.S. Cake. This was amazing – ganache and caramel. I need to stop eating sugar and wheat because my bellens hurts all the time. So I’m just going to look at this and pretend I’m still eating it. Ok!
Love your new ring…
oh! i did not know you had to have surgery. i hope you will let us know when, so that i can send you some healing treats. i owe people parcels, too. it’s my favorite thing, but i’m ever in need of money. i need to set up a free courier service. bicyclists, owls, strong winds…
laura: over xmas vacation! what a drag! but at least we have a week off work so I can hole up and read and sew things, or something…thank you for sweet thoughts. and yes, owls!
More parcels await ye! Soon to be winging their way towards your mailbox,
oh yes indeedy!
oh, that’s nice. glad to have mailed you a little cheer. i love sending and receiving parcels.
Thank you so much!! Can you email me your address for some gifties back?
i wish you all the best in regards to your surgery. tea will help.
Thank you! How are you healing up from your ordeal?
I love getting parcels! I guess that’s why I’m such a shopaholic… yup.
That ring is a stunner! So is that cake!
That ring is beautiful. My friends and I were drooling over those property ads too. Wasn’t there one for a castle/resort with lots of rooms and property? Glad you like the book. I want a vegan version of that cake!
wow. just read this. ole mr s did a hell of a job with the ring. LOVE it. i had to laugh, though…before i read your cholera thing i immediately thought “ooh, i wonder if they died of some weird malady?!?!?”…
so. we’re both sickos.
all the little gifts were perfect for you, too. look at all the people who love you!!!
yessss. this isn’t theeeeee ring, though. did i show you that one?