To Distract You…
…from yet another week without WIP pictures (I’m almost done with the SP project, so normal pictures should resume next week), allow me to share with you the fabulousness that is my final Knittyboard SP9 package, which arrived today (OK, I picked it up today. My mailman tried to deliver it yesterday, but I wa mid-haircolor and couldn’t answer the door.). Warning – LOTS of pictures ahead.
When I pulled off the wrapping, I found this, which just tickled me so much that I had to take a picture:
Yes – that would be a Bran Flakes box. Sounds better in French, doesn’t it?In the box? These lovely tissue-wrapped packages, along with a card that said “Please open me first” and a small box labeled “Please open me last.”
The card:
The inside was a lovely sweet note that just made me smile so much. Package #1 – Peeps notecards. Too freaking cool. And she has a set of her own as well. 
Let’s get a closeup of that, shall we?
Package #3 – The most beautiful Odessa hat I’ve ever seen. In the perfect colors, with the perfect beads, and in the softest alpaca imaginable. I really, really hope it gets cold enough for hat weather soon.
Package #4 – This beautiful bag. Per the note: “These bags are produced by a local indie artist I run into at shows sometimes.” The fabric is so soft, and it’s such great colors! I have a new knitting bag!
Package #5 – Possibly the most intriguing item in the whole bunch. The note: “I know it sounds like an odd combination, but seriously? You’ll do someone bodily harm to get more once you try it. I already won’t tell friends where I buy it, for fear that they will go and clear it all out from under me.” Truly, I cannot WAIT to try it.
And in the final package, the one labeled “Please open me last.”
She had warned me that she had put her head together with Cristi to come up with the reveal, so I wasn’t entirely shocked to see the Oz theme.
Inside the tin:
Etcgirl! Thank you, thank you, thank you, sweetie. You have truly spoiled me rotten and made me feel like such a princess this entire round. And I cannot wait until Rhinebeck, because I get to meet you in person!!!
September 26th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Wow – it looks so good when you tell it that way!
I never even gave a second thought to the french on the box – lol – it was just the right size, and empty.
It has been my very great pleasure to send you goodies, and it will just be all the better to cap it off with a real, live hug.
You, in short, rock.
XX’s,
Lynne
September 26th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Wuhahahahahaha! Great “reveal”!
September 26th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Wow! Awesome stuff! That roving looks almost as delicious as the chocolate…
September 26th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
What a great package – and I love how she did the reveal! Very clever!
September 26th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
What a fabulous package!! I love love love the Odessa hat colors!!
September 26th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
That reveal is the best ever!! I so admire clever people!!
(especially those who come with great gifts)
September 26th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
It’s been so hard to restrain myself from screaming all through the round, “I know who your SP is!! I know who your SP is!!” Etcgirl is the awesomeness. Oh, and I can speak for the chocolate (she was gracious enough to share some at a recent knit nite): it is wonderful!
September 26th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Oh, and true story: I IMMEDIATELY guessed your identity at the beginning of the round when she was telling our knit nite gals that her downstream “loves musicals and the colour green.”
September 26th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
OMG, she was a great SP! Great reveal!!!
September 26th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
That chocolate is making me do the Homer drool. Yummy!
September 27th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Awesome goodies and a great reveal!! That is one gorgeous Odessa! Um…you better bring it to SAFF..I hear tell it gets cold out there!
That chocolate looks very good right now! 
September 27th, 2007 at 8:25 am
What a great package – that roving is beautiful. I can’t wait for hat weather to come, too – damn 90 degree temperatures at the end of September!
September 27th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Fantastic! So glad you were properly spoiled. Everything in the package is fabulous. Great reveal, too. Yay for both of you!
September 29th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Oh she did it! Love it. Now that’s a creative reveal. =)
October 8th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
what’s interesting to me is that we have President’s Choice in our local grocery store, and it is the store brand. wherever did that box come from?