The t-shirt exchange is weird for me. When left to my own devices I buy the same type of shirts over and over. Black, grey and navy fill my shirt drawer, and usually from an event or a freebie. I have no discernable style. I asked my Santa to take the reigns so I'd end up with something different and provided so little guidance that I'm sure it was frustrating.

Sure enough, my Santa reached out and asked nicely for just a little more help. I'm a lurker, so there isn't much post history to help. I provided some further details and some guidelines of what I was trying to avoid. Santa then took a shot and did a fantastic job.

First I received a set of crochet hooks. These range from tiny little hooks for threadwork through medium sized hooks used for most easily bought yarns. I didn't have a full set of tiny hooks and had been buying the missing ones as needed. No more of that noise, because now I'm all set! That is awesome because nothing derails a project faster than missing a needed hook size. As for the larger hooks, I looooove having duplicates. I always have a few projects going at once. I try to keep the hook with the project so I can just grab and go. I've run short on a few sizes, so this puts me in better shape to do that again. It is like Santa understood my pain and fixed it all.

However, this is a t-shirt exchange. The note with the hooks said it would go well with the shirt. No shirt in the package, no reference to a shirt on the packing slip. Ahhh, Amazon at its finest, splitting up orders in nonsensical ways. Two days later, a beautiful olive green shirt with a heartbeat line including a ball of yarn and a heart shows up. It is PERFECT. Yarn allows me to create. Creating things is life. I love it. I have looked at shirts like this many times and always held off on buying. No good reason why not, just didn't. I'm happy somebody else did it for me, because I love having it.

Santa, great job! I love it. The whole experience was fabulous.