Could my DAY get any BETTER?

Today is like the polar opposite of Wednesday/Thursday.... not only have I scored new, happy work... but I also got my AMAZING care package from eiluned (care of sihaya09's Care Package Swap)!!!!

It was JUST what I needed!  Full of amazingly awesome stuff.  Thanks dearie!!!



*Hello Letter- written on Betty Page/Pin-up stationary... Squee!
*Natural Leaf Paper Notebook, made in Bali
*Cone Incense and Burner (so cute!  Elephants chasing their tales)
*Amazingly awesome big ass necklace! (gorgeous gold and blue toned glass.  I'm wearing this right now.)
*Two black mala bracelets in a purdy pin bag

*BPAL Imps-

<td></td><td>Leanan Sidhe/Bewitching Brews:
Most of the Gaelic poets, down to quite recent times, have had a Leanhaun Shee, for she gives inspiration to her slaves and is indeed the Gaelic muse -- this malignant fairy. Her lovers, the Gaelic poets, died young. She grew restless and carried them away to other worlds, for death does not destroy her power. – W.B. Yeats The name translates to “fairy, love of my soul”. A vampiric spirit and a dark muse, the love of the Leanan Sidhe is both a gift and a curse. These eerily beautiful Irish spirits drain the sanity and lifeforce of the men they inspire to artistic greatness. Her kiss infuses a man with depth of vision and feeling, otherworldly passion, and a sudden and ineffable understanding of the unending sadness that plagues mankind. Her perfume is a crush of Irish herbs and flowers, Gaelic mists, and nighttime dew.

(Wow! This one is soooooo sexy and amazing!!!  jane_stclaire, this one really seems up your alley!)

Sri Lanka/Wanderlust Collection:
<td></td><td>Indian sandalwood and cedar, and the dry incense smoke of olibanum, gum mastic, patchouli and myrrh.

(I really desperately wanted to try this one! It reminds me a lot of Crowley/Aziraphael... really deep and pretty, but very masculine.)

<td>Goneril/ from the Illyria collection:</td><td>
White geranium, calla lily, cedarwood and black orchid. A gentle floral bouquet masks a sinister and black-hearted core.

(I like this one a lot... it reminds me of the roaring 20s... who knows why!  It just seems like something a flapper would wear out on the town.)

Ode on Melancholy/Bewitching Brews:
Beauty, joy, pleasure and delight: devastated. This is the scent of the hopelessness, torment and despair of love. Lavender and wisteria, heart-wrenching pale rose, desolate white sandalwood and thin, tear-streaked white musk.

(you know... this is eerie. It really smells like the perfume equivalent of The Nothing...)



seriously, though... thanks so much Chris for organizing this.  It was a really wonderful, good energy experience.  Just the act of giving and getting all of these wonderful little things made my heart all fuzzy.  I am totally doing one of these for YuleMas!

:) squeeeeeeeeeeeee

and to top it off, thewrongtim, jane_stclaire, veins_of_ink and I are having an impromptu dinner/boozing tonight for celebratory reasons!  WHEE@!!!!

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