Stacy, You made the apron & the towels? How lovely! I can't even stitch a straight line. They're beautiful and I agree, the patches on the towels look like fruit crate labels (which I love). I'm loving the bowls (of course) and the canisters too...the canisters remind me of the kinds they used to show with the old Hoosier cabinets. (sherry, I hope that you opened those canisters up outside & shook them out really well. That fertility dust is invisible, you know). I just realized that nearly everything in that box had multiplied! Eek! Nina

Okay, y'all--before I retired, I taught "sets" for decades in my math classes and I can certainly offer oodles of rationale behind my groupings! LOL Here's a new way to look at it if you wish (humor!)...for any item(s) that might be questionable as part of a set, well, the item(s) will automatically become Bizzo's birthday gift(s)! Ta-daaaaah! See? No "cheating!" Her birthday is Monday so this works out perfectly--she just got herself a bonus of more b'day stuff if anything doesn't fit into a set! :O) Celebrate the zero, Bizzo! As a former multi-subject teacher, you now have permission to *subtract* from your age, by one year, every year, until you are once again 21 years old! It's the new, creative, more gentle math!!! Smiles, Sooz

oh diana, i'm so glad you got a camera. i certainly learned for next time to always take pictures. barnomom...more than three? the cruets are one piece, the pitcher and glasses a REAL set and the napkins are the third item. the mag certainly does not count as a swap item. funny that you mention "more than three" is to this swap box and not a comment to some of the others. i must be missing something. diana, enjoy it all. i absolutely loved each item i sent to you and certainly hope you will for quite some time to come. maryanne p.s. michelle, nice dog outfit. you are obsessed with those skeletons LOLOL

The cookbook is wonderful and so full of information. I haven't had alot of time to enjoy it, but I pick it up every chance I have. I am still taking lunch to the field, but we should be through with harvest in a few days so I will have a little more time. I use the applejack soap in the bath and the pear in the shower. They smell so good. I have already been on the parsonagesoap.com website. DD and DDIL will have some sweet smelling soaps in their stocking this Christmas. The cake mix, I think I will fix it for one of my Thanksgiving desserts. Thank you again Jeanette! I love everything!