Nice Things in the Post

I've had a horrid cold for a couple of days and have consequently slacking with the blogging - sorry! A quick post before I go wrap myself up in blankets again and get some sleep, to mention the lovely post I got this morning:
On the right: adorable little boxes of tea from a sweet customer who was apparently dead chuffed to get my "congratulations you bought my 1,100th Etsy item!" gift parcel and wanted to say thankyou. Such a nice surprise! (I like to send out a bundle of freebies with milestone sales - the 1,200th will be the next one if you fancy trying to snag one for yourself...)

On the left: the gorgeous butterfly stamp cube I treated myself to from Bombus. It simultaneously satisfies my stamp-nerdishness and what I refer to as my "rubbish girl"-ness as it's just so darn pretty with all those lovely butterflies! Great customer service from the lovely Bombus, too, charming packaging (the parcel came wrapped in a map instead of brown paper) and a couple of freebies for lucky me...
... one of her fab map cards and a set of snazzy recycled envelopes; I always like a nice bit of stationery and I already have someone in mind to receive the caravan card :)

365 / 149 - Fame, Fortune and Felt

Well, two out of three anyway. After my tree stump being on the Etsy front page in the morning, my acorn showed up in the afternoon (thanks to Siansburys for the screenshot!)
... and then late in the night my Crafting 365 article was published. Hurrah!

Fortune as (as yet) escaped me but yesterday afternoon I got to go on a felt-buying spree in Hobbycraft (thanks to my very patient boyfriend) and on the interweb. I appliqued lots of green oak leaves, too, but it's the newly-aquired felt stash that gets to star in my 365 photo:
So much delicious colour...

Oh, and I got great Etsy post today - a print for my kitchen from Bombus, parcelled (characteristically) in a map:
She sent me a gorgeous vintage postcard of lupins, too! So lovely: