christmas in . . . march?!

This week has been a very FUN week to make the trip to the post office and check our post office box!  First, I received a little happy from Barbara, over at Cat Patches.  I'd won her Fun Facts Freebie Friday contest and the prize was a sweet fat quarter ... in my *favorite* color!!

Barbara has the FFFF giveaway every Friday and it's easy to enter.  The button is on my right sidebar.  You should definitely check it out tomorrow!!

And then yesterday, I received a complete surprise!  It truly was Christmas in March because it was from my Secret Santa, Kris, from Lavender Quilts!! There was a package inside the package ... double the wrapping, double the fun, right?!  Isn't that paper pretty?  And such a sweet note!

Oh my, I was completely blown out of the water -- isn't this darling teapot mug rug *DARLING*?!?!?!?  And the colors are just perfect for me!  She even blogged about quilting it HERE, and I never put it together!

Check out the handiwork on that teapot -- and her quilting is perfect!  And as if that wasn't enough, she included some loose leaf teas for me, too!  Another batch of the lovely Earl Grey, plus a Darjeeling *and* a little novelty tea!

Get a closeup of this ... isn't that FUN????  Hot Lips tea?!?  That's so totally me!  And yes, those are tiny little candy "hot lips" in there with the tea!

Yup -- I'm settled in for my morning tea!!  Kris, you are such a darling -- thank you SO much!

Today I'm heading to spend some time with my Ellie-belly-baby.  Good times.  I'm taking the cream cheese mints.  I hope they last until Saturday.  LOL!  Happy Thursday!

:)

secret santa arrives . . .

Well Ho, Ho, Ho!! In all the fun of collecting little happies for the delightful blogger I'm sending to, I completely forgot about the fact that I would also be receiving something from my very own personal Secret Santa. When Todd brought me in a box from his run to the post office the other morning, I had no clue what it was. Isn't that the BEST?!!

Anyway, he drops this box into my lap and I'm thinking that perhaps it's one of my recently ordered Etsy items. There's no return address, but perhaps, due to the season, they purposefully leave it off to throw nosey people off the scent (which is *exactly* why it was done that way -- LOL). So I open the box . . .

I'm surprised but very tickled that a vendor wrapped their product in such festive tissue paper! And then I push the paper aside . . .

And my first thought is, I didn't order anything with an angel ornament. I know I didn't. Where is this from? And so I dig a little deeper and dig it all OUT.

Oh! Look at all this loot. Oh, what fun this is!! And then I turn the little tag over and see For: Denise - Love, Santa. OOOOOH!!! Now I'm getting it!! Look at this pretty fat quarter of violets -- with a vein of sparkly thread running through it. So charming!

Did you see that darling little butterfly box? Cinnamon shortbread tea cookies. Oh yummy!

In the pretty green bag?! Tea . . . delicious loose leaf tea. I didn't even need to open the bag to know that it was filled with that rascal of a chap, Earl Grey. Oh my, it smelled so good!! No seriously, it smelled so good I had to stop right there and make a cup of tea!

And perhaps I ate a cookie with it, too. Or two.

Thank you, my darling Secret Santa pal -- you are the BEST!!! And quite *clever*!!! Haha!

:)