fishie’s aquarium

The whole package. Two skeins of yarn, some nice bamboo needles (you can never have too many, right? ;) ) a little tin for notions, a retro card, and Whale Soap!

Cotton ease in two of my favorite colors. I’ve never seen this yarn before and it’s SO SOFT I can’t believe it. PurlyGrl said she was thinking of a scarf, but I’m thinking there’s JUST ENOUGH to make the Two-Tone Shrug from Fitted Knits.

SOAP! It smells really nice.

A close-up of the tin.

It’s the perfect size! Now I can carry all my notions with me and not have to worry about losing them all!

It’s bad enough the post office decided to not forward any of my mail from when I moved in April so nothing ever comes for me, but my SPLJ4 package is still MIA too. I’m 99.99% certain I gave the right address and everything.

:(

Update 6/7/07:
I haven’t gotten it because it never got sent. A new person got assigned to me though, so I should hopefully get a package soon. I’m just worried I won’t get the $50 minimum now since it’s more than a month into the swap.

This swap really could be going a lot better. I don’t really feel like the person I’m sending to appreciates what I’m sending her, and that hurts more than not getting anything since I’m trying really hard and putting a lot of thought into it.

Went shopping for my secret pal, and I admired a set of DPNs that comes with FOUR sizes, 000, 00, 0 and 1. It was $10 and more that I felt I could reasonably spend on something I had no immediate use for, but I was out with Chris and he bought them for me. :X :3 Unfortunately, the store I went to didn’t have what I needed, so I went somewhere else and ended up spending WAY more than I should have, but ended up with the back issue of Interweave Knits I’ve wanted but my other yarn store was out of, and I picked up the new Knit1 which I might end up subscribing to.

Anyway.

I’m accumulating a lot of crap. The craft room is almost done so at least I have a place to put everything now.

After work, class, and my chiropractor appointment this morning, I stopped by my favorite yarn store, which I haven’t been to in years. I finally got paid last night, so I had money to start my shopping for my splj4 partner.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been there, and now that I’m familiar with a lot more yarns and fibers than before, I could really appreciate what they had. They have the soysilk laceweight yarn (dude, it looks like THREAD), along with other crazy fibers, like the corn yarn (SO SOFT), as well as the bamboo, which I already knew was soft. They had $5 skeins of cascade fixation, but only one in variegated hot pink, which was why I didn’t call Chris and ask him how many I’d need for the Zaftig bra (note to self, 2), so I didn’t get any. There was some yarn that I forgot what exactly it was, only $3 a skein on sale, but I didn’t know what I’d use it for and $3 a skein adds up.

I grabbed three magazines out of the $1 bin and everything else was for my partner. It was funny how even though I wasn’t buying for myself, this yarn trip was the only thing that kept me awake through class this morning.

Long winded, as I tend to be.
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