A really great day in the end

I was having a really blah day until the mailman came today. I received my placemat from Autumn and I LOVE it! She totally gets me. This beach girl loves her some mermaids and sea life and Autumn delivered. Here's the front of the placemat: Here's the back... At least I think it's the back. Both sides are beautiful works of art. I know the front lawn is probably a weird place to photograph a placemat but I couldn't get a good picture inside. Besides, I have zero intentions of using it as a placemat. It's too pretty. I'm going to hang it up in my office. I also have have a side swap with Victoria **for a mini quilt that I'll be adding to my collection. Hopefully, one day I'll have a whole wall full.

Autumn also sent me some cute Hawaiian fabrics and seashells from California and Hawaii. Only a beach girl would send another beach girl seashells to add to her collection :0).

I also received my swap from Lisa. She has a to die for collection of Heather Ross and Munki Munki fabrics. She sent me a yard of the HR Volkswagon buses in blue and a bunch of charm squares of HR, Munki Munki and Japanese prints. I LOVE the pink gnomes. Eeeek! She also sent Sublime Stitching some embroidery patterns filled with gnomes and fairies.

Zonnah's block arrived and omigosh, it's even prettier in person!!

Some of Michelle's good luck rubbed off on me and I won a charm square pack of May Pole by April Cornell from Dawn. So pretty!

Edith's fabric arrived for her month in PTQB. She wants circles and I love making circles so this block will be fun! I love her selection of fabrics.

Dana and I also swapped and her package arrived last Friday. Look at all that cuteness from the Minny Muu collection by Lecien. LOVE!

This was a great ending to an otherwise very blah day. I have been dragging all day. I may need to detox from this past weeks' festivities. I ate too much and drank too much. Lest you all think that I'm a raging partier, I am what some people call a "lightweight" and others may call a "cheap date". It depends on who's doing the name calling. I average about 2 drinks a month and just this past week I've had quite a few months worth. To top it off, while I enjoyed crabcakes and tuna steaks at a cookout last night, the mosquitoes had an all you can eat Asian buffet. I am covered in mosquito bites. So I'm off to go bathe in Calamine lotion and go stare at my loot. I hope you all had a great weekend.

**** Victoria is looking for people to make blocks for a charity quilt. If you would like to help, go here.