Secret Pal 7 Reveal!

So, I've been a super lame blogger lately. Lots has happened in the meantime. Lots of baking, crafting, knitting---no pictures, unfortunately. My camera will upload pictures to my comp for some reason. Interesting.....

Anyway, I found out who my Super Awesome Secret Pal is!! Jennifer! And I was spoiling Jill!

My last package from Jennifer was AWESOME. She totally outdid herself. I got tons of Candy--Razzles (YUM!), Jelly Belly's, and Orange Sticks--a orange scented candle--smells sooooo good. I actually saw these in Lucky Magazine and have been looking for them!!! Thanks!! Hot pink Duck Tape--sooo cool! (and totally me!) Yarn--the softest prettiest chunky Plymouth yarn. LOOOOVE it. I have been looking for just the right hat pattern to use it on. I can't wait. Total airplane project. And this greenish bluish varigated ball of yarn-not sure what it is--but it's awesome. And a copy of Knitting Magazine, from England. It's so cool! I love their terminology. "Figure-of-Eight", "going to uni". Awesome. I think I'm forgetting some stuff--there was a ton! As soon as I get a chance, I'll update with pics of the gorgeous yarn. Thanks Jennifer!! You rock!! SP7 was awesome. I had a great spoiler, and the girl I spoiled is super cool and does incredible knit work. I mean, gorgeous sweaters. And a cute cute kid.

I wish I had taken pictures of the pretzels I made before I gave them all away. I was quite impressed with myself. They were just pretzel rods dipped in chocolate almond bark, then drizzled with white almond bark. Nothing super fancy, but they looked really professional!!! I used my mini crock pot and melted the bark in that and it worked like a CHAMP!! It took several days to finish all my dipping (I did peanut butter balls, too), so I would just unplug and cover every night and then plug it back in the next night and it would melt back up beautifully. So...if you use melted chocolate for anything---use your crock pot!! Perfect for fondue, too!

I hope to do lots of knitting over Christmas. I have a feeling we'll have some delays on our flight to CT. Flying out of Milwaukee, layover in Detroit, arriving in Hartford. Doesn't that just SCREAM "weather delays"? And on Christmas Eve, no less! Well, I guess it will make for an interesting story, if nothing else! And for lots of knitting time! Hooray!