Treasure Chest from Canada

After a long day at work and then a swim to decompress, I walk through the door and a box from Canada is addressed to me. I'm thinking, who could be sending me something from Canada?  I haven't purchased anything and I have no relative there.  Well, I see the return address and it is from Langley Girl...the winner of my "A Sea Witch in Paris Giveaway" a few months ago. 

 I'm thinking, why would she be sending me a package and what is inside it.  Well, this sea witch was left speechless.  It was a treasure trove of wonderful things and just because.  Yes, just because she wanted to say hello and thank you for all of the things I had sent her in the Sea Witch in Paris box. 

Like Christmas, I couldn't wait to tear into it.  But I had to take photos so you could enjoy the items as I pulled them out.

 A lovely note saying how much she enjoyed my giveaway box and that she wanted to say hello.  Well, if this is a "hello" I can only imagine what a "How are you doing" is. Nifty paper trunk with New York icons all over it.  I spent many weekend in "the city" as a child so this was like coming home.  Let's open it up and see what is in side, shall we?

Lovely linen handkerchief in aqua blue with pretty embroidered flower, a Langley girl creation just for the sea witch...mermaids, sea stars, she shells and words to dream with.  Oh, and a handmade fortune cookie with a fortune in it.

A pair of magnets which are of sweet birds on a letter cancellation stamp.  Love these.

A huge stack of Eiffel tower tags.  I know my french loving visitors will be sea green with envy over these. So many uses, I think I will give them a Christmas in Paris look and use them as gift tags for Christmas gifts this year.

Lovely framed pendent of a Japanese print with a turquoise scarab charm on a beaded chain.  Flip the pendent over and you have...

another Japanese print of a koi.  Love this side for its fish in a neutral palette.  I will be wearing this to work tomorrow.

Now add bead baggies, mini cards, jewelry elements, post its, diner star envelopes, a lovely hand created thank you note,  and a pretty ribbon and you have treasure falling everywhere.  Speechless, I am speechless by Betty's thoughtfulness and generosity.  All so unexpected and such joy she has delivered to my door.  Thank you Betty, for thinking of me and sending treasure to my door.  More importantly, though, thank you for this marvelous, long distance friendship we have established through blogland.  If it hadn't been for this venue, we would never had met, we would never have visited each others blogs and learned a little bit about each other.  Such amazing friendships are born from simple blogs.  What a ride we are all on.  Sea Witch   

...and the WINNER IS...

Que the horns,

the confetti,

and the dancing girls. 

Langley Girl - is the winner of the Sea Witch in Paris Giveway!

 

This was a fun giveaway for me.  I had lots of wonderful comments - total of 55 comments, had new followers...didn't make 100 but came 9 shy of it, and made new blogging friends.  I put everyone who left a comment, was a follower and/or posted about this giveaway on their blog in a spreadsheet and then utilized a random number generator and applied those numbers to those who participated.  I listed the participants as they left a comment, follower and button use.  (screen sheet of partial list)

I then utilized a custom random number generator based on the number of total entries (109) and clicked the random number generator and 66 appeared.

I then searched for the number 66 and it was assigned to Langley Girl.

So miss, thang, I have posted a short comment on your blog today announcing that you are the winner of my giveaway.  Please send me your address so I can get this in the mail to you.  Congratulations to Langley Girl and thank you all of participating in the "A Sea Witch in Paris Giveway.

  You have all made this giveaway a lot of fun for me. 

Now for some wonderful news for the Sea Witch.  My son, presently downrange, has just been promoted to MAJOR.  Yes, my son is now a MAJOR or as my delightful granddaughter now calls her daddy, " MAJOR DAD".  

From silver bars to a golden cluster.   I am so proud of him, his lovely wife and all the raviolis.  They have all worked together to see this achievement.  Sea Witch (can I be a MAJOR Sea Witch?)