Birthday presents

So yesterday, I could finally open up my presents!

The first one is from Joke for the Crazy exchange group:

She must have known my favourite colours are Autumn colors! I've got some quiltfabrics, a package with felt and threads and this gorgeous set of floss tag and needlebook:

Isn't that pretty? Thank you so much Joke!

And than there was the exchange of Tineke for the Borduurhoekje group:

She sent me some ribbons, buttons, a beautiful piece of Silkweavers linen, a lovely wooden chicken and this wonderful pincushion with trashbag:

Now, that's useful!!! And I love the LHN design Tineke used for it. Tineke, thank you also for this great exchange!

And here's what came out of the big box from Sonda, for the SBBC:

Sonda made a "Christmas-in-May" present of it! So there was a Just Nan chart, DMC gold thread, a package of Kreinik metallics, a finishing fabric, napkins, a planner, lots of DMC varigated threads (which I didn't had yet) and this gorgeous Christmas ornament:

The ornament is so beuatifully stitched and finished! And Sonda even personalized it!

Sonda, thank you so much for this Christmas / Birthday present!

Look what I've got from my men:

Isn't that cute? I also got new hiking-shoes!

Yesterday a few friends came over and most of them came with plants for my terrace. I also received a package from Bep with some wonderful fabrics. I got some money from my MIL, that I'm going to use for a new, big cutting matt and I got book 6 of Harry Potter.

So today I did clean the mess in the house, try to keep up with my email and enjoying all my presents a bit more...

Thanks everybody for making my 38th Birthday a special one! I feel so spoiled and priviliged with all the presents and congratulations...

Hugs, Simone