I won Carole's Tour de Fleece contest last month by guessing how much fleece she would spin during the TdF, and looky what arrived in the mail today from her!
That's three (3!) skeins of KP laceweight alpaca, a skein of fun Opal sock yarn, and the yummiest hand-made (by JoVE) soap ever! I already have plans for the sock yarn. The alpaca may look black in the photo, but it is actually deep, deep blackish-blue with one extremely fine ply of bright blue hidden in there. Mmmm, 1200+ yards of gorgeous laceweight alpaca, I think I may see a shawl somewhere in my [distant] future [when my knitting skills are up to lace]. The soap is "...scented with pure essential oils of orange, tangerine, cassia and clove, with added ground cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, ginger, allspice, and orange peel." It smells wonderful.
Thanks, Carole, you rock!
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I got this link today in an e-mail from a friend. It has amazing photos of the bridge collapse. Some, maybe all, of them appear to have been taken by newspaper photographers, but the link seems to be to the LiveJournal blog of a Russian-speaker in Norway. Ah, the internets...
