Blog Hub Swap 2012 - Day 7 "Saving the World With Ducktape and Fridge Magnets a.k.a I'm running out of cool names"

This is technically the last day of the swap... but as I mentioned yesterday, gings sent an extra package, of which I'll blog tomorrow ... But that doesn't keeps me from feeling pretty much like this:

Sad ... I know ... But I won't let it ruin my day ... GOOO day 7!!!

Today's package was strangely flat, and somewhat soft too ... Today's  handwritten card said that it was something handmade ... 

For a moment I thought  that maybe gings had sent me handmade paper or something ... But my friends, it wasn't handmade paper, it was a strange black and teal thing...

Gings note said it was a small pouch, made with nothing more and nothing less than ducktape ... DUCKTAPE dudes! how cool is that?

While I was checking out through the pouch, I realized there was something inside ...

What could it be?

A fridge magnet! Isn't that great?

Here, a close-up, just in case you can't quite see HOW ADORABLE  the little bastard is

The pouch has already achieved looks of envy and admiration of my family and several friends, and the magnet in just adorable, like everything gings bothered to search (with very little information, but we'll talk more about that tomorrow ) and sending me ...

Here you can see the bag and the magnet doing what they do best ... Storing things, and look pretty in my fridge, respectively

As this was the last numbered package -how many times I'm gonna repeat it?? - This marks, technically, the end of the swap, so the least I can do (today, tomorrow's another story) is  to give a HUGE thanks to Vivianne for coordinating this whole thing, and to gings for her package ...

Tomorrow, a closure post (of this part of the swap, my package still needs to hit home) plus the mysterious extra I've beed talking about for two days, plus a ninja gift, so secret that I'm not even sure if gings known of its existence! Stay tunned, or whatever ...

Blog Hub Swap 2012 - Day 4 "And the Woolwash shall take your sins away"

The package for today was rather small, but strangely heavy ...

The card of the day, though lovely as always, did not give me many clues ... Or so I thought...

This was the first thing I saw as I opened the package:

The little green ball baffled me to no end, what could it be? a bomb? a darning egg? some sort of mystical device that would steal my soul? An alien egg that would fry my brain? What, in the name of all that is furry and adorable could be that little green ball??

After my absolute and unjustified attack of paranoia, I finished opening the package and saw that it was a bottle of Eucalan, and the evil green ball was just the top ... According to I  what I've heard, Eucalan is excellent for washing woolen items, giving them softness, or something like that ... I have a pair of socks on which I could try the benefits of eucalan ... Or even better! There is a scarf that my brother knitted (with a mayan loom) with a 100% wool yarn (Do you remember the yarn I bought?) That its damn itchy, and it sheds everywhere ... According to the website eucalan gives softness to the fibers, because of its lanolin content... we'll see how it goes: D

But wait! That was not all that was in the package, along with the bottle of Eucalan was a small packet of stitch markers ...

Stitch Markers! These would be the first ones I use, since I always use scraps of yarn ... They look so cute it almost hurts me to open the bag... Gings, you really are the best! I can't wait until tomorrow for the day 5 ...

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And now, as I promised what seems like an eternity ago, a little swatch of the pattern that gings sent me for day 2 ...

You could (with good reason) ask "Why the hell didn't you use the yarn gings sent you?? Are you dumb or what??" ...

 To these questions I could only reply that it felt wrong, almost heretical, to un skein the yarn... I Tried to do it 3 times before giving up ... I 'll need titanics amount of willpower when I finally decide to start the sock, but for now, I'll dedicate to admire the yarn, and perhaps pet it ...