Lucky Me! {continued}

Last week, I was talking about how lucky I am. I AM! Really! If you read last week, you know it for sure. If you haven't read last week, I'll wait until you catch up. Go ahead...I'll wait.

OK.

For this week, I will talk about the boxes I received from two women whose work I admire. The first one is Kathy of Petticoat Junktion. She is somewhat of a junk collector and a furniture remodeler/painter. She and her husband sometimes do projects together. For the contest I entered, Kathy put a bunch of goodies into a Priority box for one lucky person. That would be me!!!

What I saw when I opened the box.

I'm surprised the Starfish made it intact!

 Look at these goodies! There's paint, a jar of decoupage medium, a candle, a picture frame, a couple of blocks, a stencil (which I've never done) and the rubber stamp with a letter F for Fonda. That's me!

Yay! Handles! and shells!

I'm not sure what those doo-dads are in the upper left corner, so I don't know what to do with them. What is below it is a kit to make a small sign. I'll use it to hang on the stem of my pumpkin next year! Cute! Of course I can use the paint brushes, and the shells in the green Ball jar are lovely. I've added them to my extensive shell collection. And, the handles: one for a spigot and the other for a dresser drawer. I love them both, and they are worthy of display if not used on some future project. Much thanks to Kathy!

The next box came from Donna of Distressed Donna Downhome. She wrapped and presented each piece as a little gift. It was amazing. Let's get started.

Reading the accompanying letter

 

Packaged

Opened

These were tiny boxes that held stickers and glue-on paper designs.

Packaged

Opened (The red book matches my set, but my set doesn't have this particular book. Added to it.)

Wrapped

Keys, envelopes and sewing supplies

Book

Jar of buttons and doo-dads plus a tea steeper

Just precious!

Photo copies of old photos

Original photos

Wrapped

Opened (Folding yard stick)

Wrapped

Opened

Opened

Opened

Opened (So precious)

Something wrapped, but lost track what was inside. Beautiful wrapping.

I have to do something special with this.

This last package needs some special consideration. Apparently, Donna received this little bit of craft supplies from someone. She probably took a thing or two from it, replenished it with something new, then she sent it to me. I will take something from it, add a little something to it, and send it on to someone else. I've decided who, but I can't tell.

Inside the jar with the buttons and doo-dads was a shoe string holder with a bell for the baby shoes. Just one. But, it brought back memories of seeing the ones my parents used on my shoes when I was a baby.

Now, have you seen anything nicer than this giveaway. The packages. The contents. I'm not worthy! But, I am!!! Thank you so much to Donna and Horror Monster from whence the goodies came. You see Donna was cleaning out her crafty supplies. I guess she was beyond saturation. I don't know how she did it, but she sent all kinds of items that I would have chosen myself. Now, it's time to make something! I was so lucky to win this.

If I win anything else, I will be sure to blog about it. If you have an opportunity to win anything, sign up. Someone has to win, and it might as well be you.

I'm lucky that I have a few people following me, too. I hope you consider yourselves lucky enough to be here.

Showing off at: Share Your Cup #284, Vintage Charm Party #121

From lucky me to lucky you ... and everything in between...