Gifts, Gifts and more Gifts

First of all, let's say Happy Birthday to M2 who turned five on Saturday!

She is such a fun-loving kid. She opened her presents and was truly surprised and thrilled with each and every one. She requested a strawberry cake with vanilla icing. I delivered. Keep in mind that home made organic vegan strawberry cakes and no added coloring are NOT pink. So her response was "Wow, nice...it's not pink, huh?" I think she (and the rest of the skeptics) were thrilled with the taste though. I should really write down the recipe before I forget it.

I still didn't manage to finish my doll for her but she will get the first one as soon as I finish them. I DID manage to make her a new Maezy dress in a print that she loves and a little matching dress for her doll. (Note my awesome ballooning skills.)

It was such a great day for her. She's getting to be such a big girl. Pretty soon she'll be in Kindergarten! Yikes.

And our gift receiving doesn't stop there.
I entered into one of the One World One Heart giveaways on the Pumpkinhaus blog. And I won! I couldn't believe it... I never win! I got this great 'little lumpkinmaus' figurine named Marcy (unrelated to my Lumpkin, but just as fun:) AND as a great surprise bonus Dani threw in some beautiful tye-dyed T-shirts and pinwheel barrettes for each of my gals. It was such a fun package to open. The girls got so excited about it. Here they are modeling...

and here's my new little Marcy paling around with one of M1's beeswax snails...

I think maybe Mr. Snail sleeps inside her little belly door at night when we go to sleep;)

And last but not least,
I picked up my new yarn from Rachel-Marie last week for a custom sweater order and it was beautiful as usual. It's my first time using the Autumn Patchouli and it's crrrrazy pretty!

I was happy to discover that she also gave me a couple more of her beautiful hand dyed yarns as a gift. I think I'll incorporate the purple into the sweater (pictures coming soon!)

I'll leave you with my (finally) finished Orange Frogfest sweater (also made with KDG yarn). It turned out really cute but MAN did it give me some grief. I would have to charge $500 to compensate for the mamahours I put into that thing, but it was a good learning experience.

Hopefully, I'll list it in the shop soon. (don't worry it won't cost that much;)

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone for all of the wonderful gifts we have recieved!
(And for my family that's reading this, check out this Chet and Edgar update.)