I just had the best day of my life. I upgraded to a phone that doesn't have a broken 3, I'm finally getting over this dumb cold, and I got out of the shower to find that my angel of a postman had left a box on my doorstep. Then I opened that box and almost broke down in tears because it was so beautiful.

Staring my in the eye was a mass of blue/green roving. Roving. More than that, it sparkled. I mentioned that I was getting into spinning, and wow. I had mentioned I love unique fibers, and local fibers, and this was definitely both. I have never seen fiber sparkle so finely, and merino! I love merino! Honestly I just want to rub this against my face a few times because it's so soft and beautiful and just the loveliest.

After I managed to put down the roving, I found chocolate! And Pop Rocks! And Gummy Bears! I like these things!

There was also a note in the box, letting me know exactly where these came from (the fiber, I mean. The Gummy Bears are Haribo, the Pop Rocks are Pop Rocks, and the chocolate (delicious delicious chocolate) is Endangered Species Chocolate, and proceeds go to protecting species and habitats, and I really really like this chocolate and its cause). The fiber came from BJS Fiber Creations of Washington, and there was this really neat set of Pom-Pom Makers from Clover that I really want to start playing with.

Then I finally pulled the lot of them out of the box, and sweet baby Jesus what did I find?

The purple masterpiece at the bottom of the box.

It's everything from white to blue to purple to thick to thin to wonderful and it's all handspun, by my incredibly talented Santa who is incredibly wonderful and words can not describe how wonderful she is. I tracked her down on reddit immediately after finding that to express my thanks because I couldn't bear to leave her hanging, to find that I had upvoted every submission she made, and man, I definitely recognize every post she'd made in /r/YarnAddicts and my god how did I get this wonderful person?

Back to the purple.

God it's so lovely. I can't decide what I want to do more with it. I want to make a hair piece so I can show it off, a scarf so it can keep me warm (except now it's warm out so it would take a special kind of dedication to show it off in that format year-round), a wall hanging so I can just appreciate it every time I step in my house. Endless possibilities and my god it's so soft