It's been a busy couple of weeks. I got ready for a vacation and a hurricane, went on my vacation, came back to a yard that looked like a disaster and had to be cleaned up, hosted some people with no electricity in their house, and got a cold. Worst of all is driving through a city with very few working traffic lights. One night it took me 1.5 hours to get home from work, another it took two. It's usually a 40-minute drive. All of those things have kept me away from the computer.
But now I am back and I want to thank my Secret Pal 12 spoiler, Jaana, for being a great pal. (She is Muoriska on Ravelry.) She lives in far north Finland (Lapland) with all the reindeer and Santa Claus. She has been sending me very nice packages for the past three months. A few weeks ago I received this one and she revealed herself to me.
She sent so much nice stuff! There's an issue of Simply Knitting, a pattern for the Revontuli (Northern Lights) Shawl, beautiful hand-dyed yarn, coffee, fruit-flavored gum, hand creme, clips to keep socks together in the wash or in your drawer, a pretty blue project bag, two skeins of cotton yarn, some fun napkins, a crochet hook, some Finnish black licorice which is described as sweet and salty (it's both and it's delicious), and some literature about her part of Finland. I was really lucky to have such a nice secret pal. She kept in contact with emails and ecards and sent packages that she put a lot of thought into. 
Here's a closeup of the yarn and knitting gifts.
And this is a better view of the beautiful yarn. I think it will make a lovely Revontuli shawl. You know, I had seen this shawl on Ravelry and really liked it. Now I have everything I need to make it for myself.Thank you so much, Jaana!
2 comments:
Those are awesome gifts!
You're welcome. Nice to see that you are finally getting in normal rythm, altought holidays and especially hurricane. I have to admit, that I was a bit worried, how the hurricane was going to affect to your daily life. We don't have hurricanes, some heavy storms though. The worst was in february 1999, when we had -40deg and below till -50,6 deg cold for a week. Lots of failures in elericities, and.. frozen cars and tires.
You have to come some year to run the Ruskamarathon in Kittilä. This year there were over 2000 people on that event.
Tromsö is north from us, but as its by the sea, that keeps it warmer in wintertimes.
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