And Now for Some Happy Mail .

Both my anticipated pieces of happy mail came yesterday while I was out at Saturday Slaughters, so that was nice to come back to. 

First up was this. 

I know, yarn. But lovely yarn, the first in a series based on Great Paintings. I haven't signed up for the whole year, intending to pick and choose depending on artist/painting, but this first one was dancers and Degas  so I wasn't passing that one up. The colour is certainly not what I was expecting (!) which is not to say I don't like it, and I wasn't expecting the print either. So that was a nice surprise. 

And secondly was this

A Yoshi backpack. I know, it's only days since I was congratulating myself on talking myself out of buying one of these, but when we were south we met up with a friend who had a small backpack about this size and she was very enthusiastic. We'd actually seen the Yoshi ones  on our way down because we had called in at the Highland Chocolatier in Grandtully where they stock various Yoshi thigs in their very lovely gift shop and after talking to D.  I suggested we drove back that way and I would get one. 

Luckily I opened my e-mails before we set out and imagine my delight to have an e-mail from the company with a '20% off and free postage' offer on everything on  their website. So we skipped the trip to Grandtully and I ordered this when we got home. 

The OH asked if they had sent 'the right one' because it isn't the Jane Austen design of which I have a matching set of almost everything they do. I sighed because we had already twice gone through the thing about how I didn't like the JA design in the backpack and how much nicer it was in this new design. I'm quite pleased I was able to set aside the completist part of me and actually order it in something different tbh, And I'm very pleased I got 20% off!