Summertime Exchange Gifts and tiny hooks

I took part in a Summertime Exchange organised for members of HBT Yahoo Groups. And just look at the goodies that I received from Susan BT. Here they are all together -

... and the close-ups ...

Star and Coats Tatting thread,
a Card that Susan has decorated with tatting,
and some blank ones for me to decorate myself.

A fabric hold-all which opens up to show these.........

A spool of Sulky thread,
Beading thread - I have not seen anything like this before,
Beads one in a phial and another in a smaller container,

A pack of floss threaders - woo...wooo ... now I can practice my clunys.
And the special thing about the hold-all - there are small pockets in there to stow away all the small stuff, clever idea!

Five Workbasket magazines - now I can understand what you are

talking about when referring to them in your posts,
A piece of linen hankie.

And the tatting part - a bookmark of Susan's own design,

a heart from Karey Solomon's Tatting with Buttons.

Susan also sent me some chocolates, but they didn't stand the heat and went all soft, but still in the wrappings. I put it in the fridge immediately and got to taste it after it hardened. Lovely - I love chocolate with hazelnuts.

On my part, my gifts are for Arlene. You can see what I made for her in her blog. I have enjoyed putting all the gifts for her, but the one that I like most is this bag that I made,

This is a close-up of the tatting on the bag.

And to make it a double celebration, the tiny hooks that I ordered from Georgia Seitz also arrived the same day. They are shown here with a shuttle for to show you the size.

The snowflake-in-the-making is using one of the balls of thread I received from Susan using a pattern from one of the Workbasket magazines. You can guess that I am so excited about receiving the summertime gifts that I started to work with them straightaway.

Thank you Susan for the gifts and Sue for organising the exchange. Doing my Happy, happy dance!