A swap and a tag

I'm excited every time I get a package in the mail, and a package from overseas is especially exciting! My partner for the Sweet Goodness Winning Hand swap was Caroline, who lives in Bath, England.
She sent me such a fun package! Caroline didn't even know that I collect Alice in Wonderland things when she chose this great edition of Alice for me--what a lucky coincidence! (And as an Alice aficionado, I'm embarrassed to admit that the idea of using Alice-themed things to fulfill the swap theme NEVER even occurred to me!) Caroline also included a neat handmade beaded bookmark that is perfect because I'm guilty of grabbing the nearest scrap of paper to stuff in my book, so it will be nice to have something pretty. She also made me a set of darling heart hairclips in my favorite colors of red and turquoise.

Another clever interpretation of the theme was the package of cupcake sprinkles and the beads that are definitely club-shaped! And last but certainly not least, a few of my favorite British candy bars, including the BEST peanut butter Kit Kat I've ever eaten, which is conspicuously missing from this photo because it made its way into my mouth immediately after its discovery. :) (The Mister and I loved it so much I'm thinking of starting a letter-writing campaign to the Kit Kat folks to convince them to sell them in the US). It was such fun to swap with Caroline and I love the package she put together for me!

I was tagged by one of my fellow blogland Heidis to share the 6th photo in my 6th photo folder. I have to admit that I've been tagged with this before but didn't participate because my 6th folder doesn't even have six photos in it! LOL I just did some cleaning and sweeping the old photo folder and moved things around but folder #6 still doesn't have six photos in it, so I'm going to improvise and choose the 5th photo in the 5th folder.
This was taken of Maren the Sunday after Valentine's Day. A friend gave me this dress even before Maren was born, and it just now fits her. It's very frou-frou and pretty--not something I would normally have picked out but it's awfully cute, so I wanted to take some photos to send to her grandmas. The string she is holding is the enormous heart-shaped mylar balloon that Daddy bought her for Valentine's Day. This wasn't the best photo of the bunch but the look on her face does make me smile. :)