Having a whole slew of credits to play with, I decided to join both the Arby Day and the Arby Day + exchanges this year. I really enjoy the giving (sometimes I think I'm more excited than my giftees when they receive the presents I send), but in previous exchanges the gifts I've received have been mostly lackluster, so I figured the + exchange would be a good way to get someone who was experienced with this whole thing and might net me something cool!

Since the 16th of July, every day when I get home from work I first check the table in the communal foyer downstairs for boxes, then if there's nothing there, I run up the steps to see if anything is waiting by our flat door. Until today, I was disappointed! Today, I came home to a small parcel sitting on the table in the foyer, but no, that was something I ordered so I thought I was going to be disappointed again. But then, when I got up the stairs there was a box sitting outside the door, with a suspicious alien on the front! Whoop Whoop my Arby Day Plus pressie has arrived!!

I opened the box to find a cardboard envelope with a nice letter inside, which stated that this isn't my only pressie! More on that later...

I set the letter aside, and pulled out the newspaper stuffing to find 3 tins; 1 containing some Dutch Butter candies, 1 containing some Coffee flavoured candies (I don't actually like coffee itself, but I do like coffee flavoured things (I'd kill for an Arby's jamocha shake) so I had to try one right away and they are yummy)and lastly some waffle cookie things. I really like the tin for the cookies! The other 2 tins might just get covered with some polymer clay when I'm done with the candies (although as many as there are, it may take years!)

Then, I pulled out the rest of the stuffing to find a book laying on the bottom of the package. I'd noticed on the customs form that it said there was a book in the package so I was curious to see what it is. I'm a very voracious reader so I'm kind of hard to buy books for because if it's Sci Fi or Fantasy, I've probably already read it. Well, I'd said in my likes/dislikes that I was interested in Arduino. I've never actually DONE any of it, but I'm quite interested in getting started. My gifter got me a book called Programming Your Home - Automate with Arduino, Android, and Your Computer. I am totally psyched to start playing with this, and I think it's something I could get my programmer husband interested in too!

But that's not all! I also said that I'd love to get a MaKey MaKey http://www.makeymakey.com/ because they look really interesting and I'd like to see how I could incorporate it with my love of Polymer Clay and make something cool. So, my gifter has ordered me a MaKey MaKey which will be delivered sometime in September hopefully!

Thank you so much C, for making this a great Arbitrary Day - PLUS!