Busy Dilly

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My dear friend Dilly has been busy again and she and her mummy, Helena, have sent me a gorgeous parcel which arrived here today on a lovely sunny Lincolnshire day. You can do no better than to read Dilly's own explanation by enlarging the photo above. Dilly has such a wonderful way with words. Fnarr!

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I am absolutely delighted with the wonderful concertina book which Helena has made and in which she has included some of the papers I sent her. It is really lovely to see some of the papers I made embellished and incorporated into Helena's work.

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What you may not be able to see from the photos is the lovely textures of the papers.

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The other book in the parcel is a notebook which I will enjoy using which Helena has covered with some paper that I made a while ago. I was supposed to make the paper into a pendant but I never took it that far (sorry to my Fiber Art Trader friends!).

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Thank you Helena and Pwincess Dilly for my beautiful parcel. I will have a lovely time using the notebook for all my art ideas and I will be able to think of Dilly every time I use it. :o) The concertina book is going to sit on my cabinet for a while so that I can enjoy it. It's too lovely to put in a drawer!

Helena's cards

The very lovely Helena, mummy to my favourite gweenwagon Dilly, has just started to offer her cards for sale over the internet. I thought I would jump in and be her first customer and my purchases arrived today.

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I am really pleased with my cards. Helena has taken a lot of trouble over them and they have lovely watercolour painting and textures on them. (I can't show you the second card in detail as the person it's for reads my blog!) I had an added bonus of a special "Hewo" from Dilly :o) Do go and have a look at Helena's shop http://www.shophandmade.com/Store/Helena, she is adding to it all the time and if you are looking for something a little different for someone special you'll find it there. While you are there follow the link to Helena's personal blog to enjoy her photos and drawings.

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Thank you Helena for the lovely cards which arrived at top speed!

Biogriffy

I have just realised that I didn't show you this very special book that I received a week or so ago from my very special friend Dilly the gween wagon. You can see what Dilly had to say about it here.
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As you might expect from Dilly her book came wrapped in very pretty pink tissue. I was very excited to read Dilly's life story!

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Dilly's story started in the adoption centre. I love that she has drawn all her friends.

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This is a bit later in the book and tells of Dilly's adventures with her new daddy.

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Lovely drawings Dilly!

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I think Dilly's mummy helped her make this lovely book and I am going to keep it very safe as it's a first edition! Thank you Dilly, you made me smile with your lovely book. :o)

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Along with Dilly's book came this lovely card from Dilly's Mummy who makes and sells cards.

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If you check Dilly's blog today you will see that she has a special visitor staying with her and her brother Bob. Dilly always makes me smile especially on days like today when I have had to go to the doctor unexpectedly and feel low. Some new pills should hopefully sort me out after a bit of a fright this morning. Would you believe? I got my wonderful DH to come home from work as I was a bit frit and he didn't complain. I am so lucky to have this special man looking after me. I'm still waiting for the results of an ultrasound that I had on Monday but I do know that I don't have gall stones or kidney stones so that's good news.

A Pwincessy present

A few days ago I had a message left in my comments from the lovely Dilly, the very princessy dragon, that I was to expect a parcel through the post. Well today, when I got in from a workshop in town, a parcel was waiting for me.

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This pink ribboned tissue wrapped parcel was in the envelope.
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Inside was this lovely card of a sleeping dragon which Dilly had helped to make.

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The tissue held a lovely purple gift bag with pink yarn attached to it and inside the bag was a pretty pink wrapped package (have you seen there's a theme here?)

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Wow! What could be better? Gorgeous scrummy chocolate with a pink ribbon! So much pink! And a very special card from Dilly. The chocolate is handmade in Derbyshire and is a dark chocolate with Marigolds and Hibiscus flowers. I think I shall have to hide it away from my DH!

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Dilly, thank you so much for such a lovely thought. As always you have brought a big smile to my face and I will enjoy the yummy chocolate and all the extra tissue and ribbons. You are a very generous young wagon and a really speshol fwend who always cheers me up with your adventures and the byrds and flowers in your garden!

Of presents and dwagons

I had to nip on here quickly (I'm supposed to be practising FME today) to show you what the postman brought me this afternoon.

My friend Dilly St George sent me a parcel and as she is a princessy croco-dwagon she decorated it with princessy stickers! I knew Dilly was sending me a present because she blogged about it here but I didn't go and look because I wanted a surprise.

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When I opened the envelope this is what I found,

A lovely sparkly box and a very pretty, sparkly pink card - well it has to be pink from a princess, doesn't it? The box is decorated with skeleton leaves and glitter but it was hard to get a good picture in the bright sunshine today.

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Inside the box, wrapped in a tissue which I think maybe Bob T Bear had isshooed was this lovely soft, pink, pwincessy brooch,

It is absolutely lovely, Dilly, thank you very much and thank you too to Mummy for helping you make it. If you'd like to see how Dilly made the brooch please do have a look here. Dilly's mummy had a great idea to get the shape!

Inside the card Dilly had written me a special note. I'm glad to be your friend, Dilly, you are a very special 'wagon :o). Oh, and, I love your self portrait Dilly, it's great!!

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On the subject of dwagons, we did see one or two on our travels thro Austria.

These chaps were waiting to be adopted and taken to their new homes (some of them were only babies and were having a little nap!).

If you look very carefully at this photo of a beautiful Austrian house you can see one of Dilly's friends peeking in at the bottom.

I think this beautiful rusty sculpture is just pretending to be a dwagon. (Oh, It's got a bit stretched, oops!)

And, unfortunately, these dwagons are being a bit rude as they are spitting water everywhere in a fountain in Innsbruck!

Oops! This is a better pic, the previous one was blurred. Well I was in a moving carriage at the time!

Well, I had better get back to my sewing. See you all later and thank you again, Dilly for my lovely present. I am going to wear it when I go to the Festival of Quilts next month.