It's swap package show off time once again!
Silk and Stainless Steel handknit earrings! With what look like Connemara marble beads to me.
5 sock wools to add to my blanket!
70% Dark Chocolate bar and two milk chocolate roll candies from Norway.
Earl Grey Strong tea - squee!
A soft, warm, lovely green lace scarf - I would probably not knit such a thing for myself but I’m so in love with it already…that I think I might wear both it and...
a...
blue…
lace…
beaded…
shawl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be a gorgeous shawl without beads but the beads make me about want to faint from fantasticness. Love times a million.
All this and two letters from NZ Biosecurity - one telling me they’ve kept the tea with citrus peel and loose lavender with ‘contaminants’ which I can have back, after heat treatment for a fee or I can return to sender for, breath in - $74.47. Now, breath out hysterical laughter with me. Tea. Shipped. For 75 bucks. NZ post is really ridiculous. Or the Biosecurity people using NZ post are making a small killing off overcharges.
The other letter totally makes all this alright though. It reads ’ Dear Madam, Due to the enthusiasm of one of our Biosecurity Detector Dogs, the exterior of your mail item/parcel has been damaged during our Mail Screening Process. I apologise for this and would like to suggest that you contact us should you have any concerns.’
Attached is a card of “Chilli” the cute detector dog I assume is responsible for the damage as his ‘favourite smells’ listed are ‘flowers and seeds’ which makes sense if there was lavender present. The card also states that Chilli’s weirdest sniff out was a ‘fresh crow foot’. Riiiiight.