I love surprises!

every now and then i'll get an occasional comment on my blog or email that will leave me BEAMING from ear to ear! when i first started this blog i was a little hesitant (mainly because i didn't know if i'd actually go on it). my husband encouraged me to do it. afterall, he was the one that got me the sewing machine, and he knew how excited these projects made me. i don't think either of us realized how much fun i'd have and i certainly didn't think that i'd grow to love some of you guys as much as i do!! my google reader list has expanded tremendously and there are sites that even though i know aren't updated daily, i am constantly clicking on them...just in case!

this weekend i received an email from someone who was searching for the Amy Butler Porfolio, which i have made several times. she came across my blog and had nothing but nice words to say! she had also read some of my older posts and saw how bummed i was that Adorn magazine was no longer in print. so what did she do? offered me some of her old copies of Adorn and Craft Magazine!!!!!! how great is that?!!! she is also from the DC area (which kind of surprised me even more that she was being so generous! i mean, i've lived here my whole life and i can't even get someone to say thank you when i hold a door open for them, let alone someone offering me something of theirs! my husband always jokes that he doesn't know how i turned out to be so nice living in this area and that i'm too much of a pushover!) in return for the magazines she had mentioned we could do a swap! so i'm going to make her a Kimberly bag! now the hard part is deciding what fabric to use!!