Gifties!

Hooray! My Punk Rock Gift Exchange box #2 arrived! It has some of the best stuff in it. My pal is Dawn of Wild Yarn and she has totally been spoiling me.

What did I get?

Yarn:


Two balls of the green/turquise Luna Park 100% merino sock yarn in colourway 200 and 1 ball XXL Trekking in color 66. I think the green yarn is destined to become the Pepperknit zokni socks. I'm not sure about a pattern for the trekking yet. Any ideas?

I also got these that I LOVE:

They are sttch markers made by the oh-so-crafty Dawn and a punk rock case that she made, too. I love them not only because they are cool but becasue they are small enough to use on socks (where they are going tomorrow). I LOVE the case.

Other stuff I got:
A sweet lacy/skull notebook
Body Poof
Yummy Apple Body Wash
Black mod-looking notecards
DPN case (also made my Dawn....I totally needed one of these, too!)
Stitch counters (not in picture as they were promptly put to use)
2 Tape measure (one is retractable, which is exactly what I needed, also in use)
Monkey stickers
Coin purse from Guatemala
And this:
His name is Sheepy (creative, eh?) He's squishy and has fun googly eyes. I'm glad Dawn was able to wrestle him away from her son to come live with me beacause I like him!

In short, Dawn is the best darn Punk pal I could ever ask for who has spoiled me silly and sent me all kinds of wonderful presents that I LOVE. I am definitely nominating her for best punk pal not just for this round, but for EVER.

THANK YOU, DAWN!!!

Thanks PRGE pal!!!

My PRGE pal is the best. Seriously. She makes me feel very spoiled. Not only did I get the jellybean pooping Easter Bunny (see below w/Gertrude), but I got fun yarn, a punk patch, a yummy smelling candle, and the BEST lip cream ever (seriously. I've only had it for 2 days now and I have no idea how I lived without it before).

Thanks punk pal!!!! You are the best. :-D

Gertrude and the Easter Bunny

This is just a sneak peak at all of the wonderful surprises my PRGE pal sent me.


I brought Bunny Rabbit to work today to be Gertrude's new pet and did a demo for the editorial department. There was lots of laughter and slightly disturbed looks as I twisted off his head to fill his body with jellybeans and wound him up so he could walk about pooping brightly colored candies. It was great! My boss was a little weirded out but it was SO funny. Thanks PRGE pal!


(more to come on my PRGE pal presents after I return home and have the use of a proper camera)

My PRGE pal rocks!

These were my birthday digs from my PRGE pal. And I hear that I get another package sometime this week for my "official" secret pal box. How cool is that?!? So I am definitely nominating her for "best punk pal" so far.

I got a funny card (I dig funny card), a Starbucks card (not pictured....because I used it), an SnB Journal (this thing actually looks really cool) and a homemade bracelet from soda can tops....it's very punk rock.

More pics of birthday digs to come....

Happiness comes in cups with mermaids on them

This morning Husband and I woke up late (again). Yesterday was not a good day for me so the last thing I needed was another day of tired, cranky, hungry, uncaffeinated Carissa.

Sadly the train station Husband had to go to this morning was not the one conveniently located by a coffee shop (well, it is kind of by Atomic Cafe...but they don't take credit cards).

Lucky for me, if you text message your zip code to MYSBUX, you will be instantly sent the addresses of the three closest Starbucks to you. I had done this yesterday out of curiosity and so had an address of a Starbucks in Salem which I did not know existed and so this morning on my way to work, I paid homage to the great espresso bean and got myself a marvelous Grande, 1 1/2 pumps raspberry, 3 pumps Sugar Free Vanilla, 2%, Extra Foam Latte and a Blueberry Scone. :-)

Mmmmmmm. Heaven. Its funny how a simple thing like a well-made latte really makes me feel SO much better (and much less likely to bite off the heads of co-workers).

In other news, I made the coolest thing for my PRGE pal last night. I'd tell you all about it, but then it wouldn't be very much of a secret now would it? I think I'm allowed to reveal my identity in April.....so I'll have to save up all my cool stuff to show off for then.

Punk Rock Gift Exchange

I'm supposed to post answers to a questionare for the Punk Rock Gift Exchange to my blog but it is SOOOOO long that I didn't want to clutter my blog with such things. If you're my new secret Punk Pal (or I suppose if you're bored), you can go to my MySpace blog to see my post.