HAPPY NEW YEAR! and part 2 of quick, quick, hurry up!

I wish you all a happy, healthy, prosperous and successful 2013. 

I count myself so very lucky to have such amazing bloggy friends. I so enjoy reading your blogs, and I usually have a blast writing mine. It makes me happy to know that you visit here. Over the years I have come to know some of you so well, and formed friendships which I treasure. I am thankful that we live in such incredible times that we can see and talk with friends around the world at the touch of a button. I love being able to do that , yay :-)). 

Now before I get too soppy, I had better get on with finishing yesterday's post properly.

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I had taken photos of an amazing gift when the package arrived, but when I looked at the pics yesterday, they really were awful, fuzzy and wobbly, because the weather, and therefore the light, had been so bad. I decided to take some more pics today, and would you believe it, it was a gorgeous day, blue sky and sunshine. The first in weeks. What a great start to the new year.

I only salvaged one photo which I had taken of the wrapped gift. The other photos are of everything unwrapped. This incredible package came from my much loved friend Suzy. Everybody knows Suzy's blog, but just in case you are new to our corner of blogland, you can find it HERE.

I think I just let the photographs speak for themselves, Quite frankly, I am usually speechless anyway when I see Suzy's creations, lol, so you get just a few words from me ( makes a change, eh? )

Lovely wrapping -

The most beautiful heart collage -

A gorgeous tag, which will look fabulous in the Mermaid Journal -

Wonderful supplies for me to create with -

And then, OMG, can  you believe it, THE most exquisite page for my Mermaid Journal -

And this was such a sweet find -

You can see why I didn't want to show these exquisite creations in fuzzy, wobbly photographs, right?

And now I am off to try and catch up on some blog reading.

Have a wonderful New Year's Day,
toodlepip xxx