WOOOOHOOOO I got Kym's box yesterday!!!! BUT I didnt want to post until I could get the photos to work FINALLY today Kodak and I got the software to load, tried to yesterday but what they told me to do didnt work. WOW KYM!!!! OMG, I love it! (You know who got the Chocolate lol!) WOW OH WOW KYM SENT! Strickers! She KNOWS I LOVE stickers LOL. Assorted Jumbo Fairy WALL STICKERS! Chocolate Hearts Candy Reese's Peanut Butter WHOPPERS! Yummy! LOL A Pocket Packet of Hydrangea Tissues (you know these will not be opened!) Ceramic Cow (it got broken) Ceramic Sheep Terra Cotta Garden Marker that Says: Gardens Know the Best Dirt Sun Flower Candle Holder Chocolate Scented Candle from the Chocolate Farm! A Flower Shaped Flower in a tin Flower Pot Decorative Sunflower Stake cute! A grow me flower pot cute The Cutes Little Garden Trowel, trying to figure out how to make this a Keychain! LOL A PIG PLANTER OMG, IT IS SO CUTE, I will get a pic of it by its self it is too cool! A Butterfly Wind chime this is gonna get revised, those darn strings keep coming off, I will be putting fishing line of these! LOL Kym made a BEAUTIFUL HANDMADE CARD she quilted it! YES SHE DID! She also made one for Marie in the Cupid swap! WOW!!! FLOWERS Bulbs: Anomone Dahlia Peaches and Cream Brodiaea Acidanthera Peacock Orchids OMG THANKS I WAS GONNA ORDER SOME! Caladium White Queen Caladium Carolyn Whorton Crocus Kit that includes: Jeanne d Arc, Pickwick, Remembrance SEEDS: Mawnature Sunflower (?) Tomatillo Gigantic (YEA) Dipper Gourd (THANK YOU!!!) Pepper Sigaretta Dolce Pasilla Bajio Culinary Pepper Red Corno di Tojo Rasso Franchi Pepper Giallo di Asti Yellow Pepper Pepper Greek Pepperoncini Tomato Giant Belgium Pink Tomato Red Cup Tomato Pomodona Red Noid Pink Columbine Sunflower Autumn Beauty Mixed Sunflower Feverfew Virgo Hosta Hydrangea Oakleaf Moonflower Bush Noid Coral Bells Mixed Sunflower Kyms Beautiful Handmade Card Close up Even closer of the HAND STITCHING ON THE CARD! This is the paper she included in the package I liked it too! This is one of the many wrapped packages she included in the box!!! SEE THE PIG PLANTER IN THE BACK> WOW OH WOW, I LOVE IT! The cow got broken :(! This is the butterfly Wind Chime and in the corner of the calendar pocket is the hangy things that goes at the bottom, and the fairy's are the Fairy Wall Stickers! This is a close up of the Candle holder it is the green round thing, the Flower Candle is the metal thing on the corner there, and the little cute trowel thing is sitting in it! Isn't it cute?! Kym girl WOW, what can I say? You out did yourself! Thank you so very very much!!! I LOVE THE PIG planter, I will get a better pic of it alone it is so darn cute, I hate the cow got broken what a bummer! AND HERE IS MARIANN'S WREATH!!!!!!!!! :) Fran

I use Gingher for cutting fabrics, the small Fiskars snips for thread cutting and for cutting out tiny things for fusing, Henckle's for household and I have a cheap pair of scissors for wire or things like that. I use tiny Henckle's and Gingher's for embroidery and hand work. I have some black handle Gingher's I use for cardboard and paper in the craft room. I have a Gingher stone that I use for sharpening those, the others have never needed it. I am drowning in scissors, after we cleaned out MIL's house, Woody took all her scissors and dispensed them about the house. It's almost comical how many we have. That's a great tip, though, Bonnie, thanks. I'll try it on my wire scissors!

Mine go to the greatest sewing machine mechanic in the world every 6 mos.. I have close to a dozen pair of scissors; embroidery scissors, cutwork scissors, points, dressmaker shears, 10" and 12" canvas shears, and the inevitable "snips" every production stitcher knows and loves. ;) You name 'em, I probably have 'em! (even have BANDAGE scissors from a long deceased great-aunt who was a nurse). The key to maintaining a nice edge is to use the shears for the purpose for which they were intended. I hang mine on the same pegboard that holds my rulers, curves, and standards. Many years ago, I discovered the helpmeet cutting up a stewing chicken with my coating shears... he remarked they were "really sharp". I siezed them, washed them, and icily told him, "NEVER use MY shears again, EVER!". He never has, lol. (never touches my measuring equipment, either!). They're the tools of my trade... keepa you hands off. :)

Thanks ya'll for the wonderful birthday wishes!! I always take my birthday off...one of these days I'm gonna fly and bring cake for the entire plane...maybe on my 60th! Ya'll come join me!