A Thanksgiving turkey, all right

So the turkey I'm referring to in my title? That would be ME. Ugh. Let me explain:

Back in October I signed up on Pink Trees to participate in a Thanksgiving decoration swap round robin. I made and sent off my package to Shanna (the ribbon garland). The blogger sending to me, Heather at Scarlet Tanager, posted back in the first week of November that she was sending my package. So here it has been weeks and no package and I have been getting a little worried that maybe it got lost in the mail.

Fast forward to yesterday afternoon. On most days, my front room looks like Shipping & Receiving in a small warehouse. DH has a small side business and is constantly getting packages, and my eBay crapola is usually piled up as well. I've actually had people come into my house for the first time and ask if we just moved in! I'm not proud of this fact, but it's just where things first land and tend to stay. However, we have family coming to visit this weekend so in an attempt to clean up the disaster and make it look more like a front room than a mail room, I cleaned up the boxes. That's when I found one in the way back addressed to me!

I knew immediately it was my swap, and felt just terrible because I had no idea how long it had been sitting there--it was in the back with the address facing the wall and I just assumed it was one of DH's boxes. By checking the Delivery Confirmation, I found that it was delivered on the morning of the 9th--the day I left for NYC. I'm fairly certain that I asked DH when I got home on the 13th if anything had come for me (since I was expecting my swap package) and he said no. So I'm including HIM in the Turkey category, too!

Once I opened up my package and saw what Heather had made for me, I felt even worse! She made the most darling pillow with a fat wool felt gobbler appliqued on the front. He is just adorable! He adds a lot of life to my otherwise boring neutral couch. She also made the cutest little tissue holder (which I've turned around in the photo so you can see the precious fabric better) and a really cute banner using those big round letters that I just adore! She included a sweet card as well with a wee quail on the front.

I've already apologized to Heather for my total idiocy and supremely bad swap manners, and I hope she'll forgive me! I really do love what she made for me and was just tickled to open the box. Moral of the story: keep the front room clean!