There is an Angel out there ...

... and her name is Tobie!! I hope Tobie doesn't mind, but I have to share something that happened to me today ... Work today has been exceptionally difficult, in that I started at 4am - that means the alarm went off at 3am ... and I've really really struggled to get through my day until 2pm this afternoon. They were needing people for overtime from 4am-7am to help with handling ex-London calls ... deciding I really need the money for my birthday dinner, I put my hand up ... never, ever again will I do that! My rostered 5am starts are bad enough, 4am is just WRONG! LOL.

So, today I left work like a rat up a drainpipe as soon as the clock hit 2pm ... I felt like death warmed up, and probably looked it too! Anyway, my PO Box is a short 5 minute walk from work (I figured that was a more stable address than my home living situation when I first moved here, so that made more sense having one near work ... but I digress ...) - I made my daily pilgrimage to post my mail, and pick up the day's bills ... only to get the surprise of my life - sitting in that little PO Box was a parcel ... thinking it was my Silkweaver FOTM finally arriving, I thought 'that's nice' and wandered out the PO again. Then I started looking at the envelope thinking it was quite large for SW - then I looked more closely ... it was NOT from SW - it was from an angel in the name of Tobie. Now I have to admit I knew a gift was coming from Tobie ... which you can see from the following piccies:


Before (my current snippet 'bag')

After (my new, beautiful snippet bag!)
However, that envelope seemed awfully large for a little snippet bag (and if you haven't seen these on Tobie's blog beforehand, you're really missing out!) ... Sure enough, Tobie didn't stop there - inside that envelope/parcel was a little stitcher's treasure trove, and my jaw hasn't been removed from the floor ever since I opened it! Inside was the snippet bag (in a beautiful blue, of course!), along with a kit of the Thistle Bag from M Designs (which was on my wishlist) - not only that, but also the fabric that is suggested on the chart (a lovely Lakeside linen) ... but she didn't even stop there - tucked inside the snippet bag was the most adorable hand-dyed threads by an Oklahoma designer called Windy Hill Designs ... WOW!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know what I did to deserve all that spoiling, but I feel very very blessed. Thanks again, Tobie, from the bottom of my heart! You're a real sweetheart!! {{hugs}}


I did manage to pick my jaw up for 1 1/2 hours tonight, though, to take me 1/4 of the way through my 10 hour rotation slot for a new piece - Le Jardin Silk Sampler from some 1998 JCS magazines ... just to prove it, here's the progress piccie - not too much to show for it though - I think I was so boggle-eyed with tiredness tonight, I was stitching at about half speed haha. And I'm an hour late getting to bed, so I'll be moaning again tomorrow when the alarm goes off at 4am ... {groan}