Woohoo!!

Now that I have a super tidied up sewing room, you would think I have spent the week in there. Alas, I have been working all week and have been having crafty withdrawals (apart from the times I have been just standing in front of my new cupboard, staring at my fabric!) However, when I came home from work this afternoon, I nearly tripped over a big box on my front step. A little while ago I had entered a giveaway, then promptly forgot about it...until I got an email from the lovely Erica of Erica's Essential Suchness telling me I had won her giveaway, woohoo!!! Erica you have totally spoilt me...check out what she sent me all the way from the US....

Look at how Erica has wrapped my pressie, in such gorgeous paper, and then what a fabulous idea to wrap it up in coloured wool with a matching, gorgeous, handmade crochet flower! I'm going to put a pin on the back of her flower and turn it into a brooch and wear it on my denim jacket, I love it.

Inside the beautifully wrapped box was this...

Let's go through it...

Pom Pom makers! I loved making pom pom's as a child and spent many long hours cutting out the two cardboard circles and forcing a large ball of wool through and around the small hole in the cardboard donut. These pom pom makers are so much easier...I can see lots of pom pom's being made around here again.

To help me make lots of pom pom's Erica has given me 3 beautiful balls of superwash merino yarn, with the most yummy names...Asparagus, Petal and Beach Glass. I will have to make sure my Mum doesn't eye these off, she is an amazing knitter! Aren't they simply gorgeous colours?

Then she threw in a big surprise...3 fat quarters of flea market fancy...oh-my-goodness Erica how could you part with these, you know how much I love fmf!! And the all elusive grey with orange flower that I have been trying so hard to find more of.

Thank you so much Erica for your wonderful, thoughtful gifts, I appreciate them so much. And just to show I can make pom pom's still...here's one I whipped up in about 2 minutes using my new pom pom maker and some leftover sock wool (I couldn't bear to touch my new wool just yet, I will savour that for a while first!)....

Oh, and while I'm on a winning streak I found out this morning that I had won someone else's giveaway...I will show you that one soon. Lucky me! xo