Mailbox goodies.......

Earlier in the week, I blogged about a giveaway I'd won from the Patchwork Penguin blog (click HERE for that blog). I won 12 very nicely-coordinated fat quarters. They arrived on Wednesday and this is a photo of them. Don't you just love the colors and patterns? They will go well with the colors in my home. (You should be able to click it to enlarge it.) I think they are VERY pretty and can't wait to decide on a project for them. Thanks, Nancy!Also on Wednesday, I got a wonderful birthday package from Sandi of A Legacy of Stitches (click HERE for that blog). She also has a couple of other great blogs and owns a couple of Yahoo groups that are terrific. (You can find info about that on her blog, if you wish...or email me to ask.) Anyway.....below is a photo of that package. She included so many goodies for me......a wonderful pattern of hers, a recipe booklet, an inspirational booklet, two lovely fat quarters, a red/white/blue dish towel, some post-it notes, and a great book to make paper-pieced quilt labels (she knows I LOVE paper-piecing), and a very cute card that has special meaning as there is a sheep on it and I'm part of her Wooly Buddies Yahoo group! Thanks, Sandi.....this was a nice surprise to get in the mail.
My birthday was very nice......went to lunch with a few gals. I was going to eat dinner out, too, but I was honestly too full from lunch, so I'll do dinner out another night soon. Hubby surprised me with a Nintendo DS Lite unit and an extra game for it. The grandkids will now think Grammy is "cool" since they have those units, too! (MY games are harder than theirs, though....LOL) I got very nice cards from our daughter and the grandkids. They had hoped to come here for the day but between her work schedule and an injury she got at work (might be a torn meniscus), she was unable to come. With the horrible downpours of rain we've had, I'd not have been too comfortable with her being on the road with the kids in that kind of weather anyway.

I want to thank the many of you who contacted me with birthday wishes, which were very much appreciated. And also, I am happy that so many of you went to the Ooglebloops' blog I mentioned and were able to help her get BEYOND her hoped-for 40 followers! You folks are the best!!! OH...and Woo-Hoo....folks from Latvia, Lithuania, and Ireland checked in on my blog yesterday....such fun to see so many countries and states represented now on my flag counters.