My yarn swap Secret Santa and I had a bit of a mix up... not between us, but caused by the company she ordered from. It wasn't a huge deal, but it was a bit weird, and not a situation I've ever had to deal with, with my years of shopping online.

So I got a package on Friday that was filled with 17 skeins of DROPS brand wool in a pretty charcoal grey colour. I looked at the bill from the company it was ordered from, and it neither had my name (or address) nor my giftee's name, since I knew her first name) on it. I was confused, but set it aside for a brief moment to take care of some errands. In the mean time, I got a RG message from my swap partner telling me that, somehow, I had gotten another Canadian customer's package. The company had mixed up the two envelopes and package contents. What?!

So after a few messages back and forth (mostly of us saying how weird of a situation this was), she got me in contact with someone at the company, and we figured out a plan together. I was shipping this package to the righful owner, and she (who had received my package in return) was shipping my package to me. We would both be reimbursed for our extra shipping costs. It was a weird situation, but thats life. Crap happens, right?

So I packed up the pretty charcoal yarn (sniffle!) and began to wonder "What did my Santa get me? I know where its from now!"

Today I got my package. I opened it up. HOLY CRAP I was spoiled! I had mentioned I wanted to do some baby knitting since it seems everyone I know is getting pregnant (and hopefully me next, since my husband and I have been meeting with a fertility clinic in our area)... so I have a lot of baby knitting planned for the immediate future.

My amazing Secret Santa went ABOVE AND BEYOND in my package. I received 10 skeins of pretty DROPS Merino extra fine in a navy blue colour - its so soft! I also got a DROPS baby patterns magazine from 2009 (brand new though) that has a LOT of adorable baby patterns in it, one of which the yarn is suited for (which is the page I opened the magazine to for the picture), along with 14 buttons (exactly what the pattern calls for!), AND needles! A 24" US7 (4.5mm) circular, along with a set of US4 (3.5mm) and US6 (4.0mm) needles - the exact needles I needed for the jumper suit, and hat that goes along with it.

This is such a special gift and is WAY over the top (and appreciated so much!). I plan on saving the "kit" that she made me, and the MOMENT I find out I am pregnant, will be casting on (don't want to jinx it) to knit it to keep forever as a family heirloom. In the mean time, there are about 20 other patterns in the book that I will mull over and pick out for everyone ELSE who I am knitting for ;)

Thank you PearlBeauty, you are one AMAZING Secret Santa! I wish I could rate this gift 100 out of 10!!!