Cold Hands, Warm Hearts Swap 2010 Link-Up Party!!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all that participated in our first ever Cold Hands, Warm Hearts Swap! It was so exciting to see how many of you wanted to be involved and spread the word so quickly about it. I loved making new blog friends, and Sandy and I had so much fun planning, dreaming and packaging. We hope you had as much fun as we did, picking out gloves/mittens and other fun goodies for your swap partners - and most importantly, we hope you gained a new friend through it!

 {my sweet package.}

I cannot tell you how giddy excited I was to receive my package from Sandy! (Like Sandy mentioned in her post yesterday, since we hosted the swap we thought it'd be fun to go ahead and be each others partners - and no worries, everyone else was totally at random!) So, yeah...I totally gushed over the Christmas sweater packaging and couldn't wait to rip it open. 

Sandy included a very sweet note which I loved. (I loved handwritten notes - I don't think we write enough handwritten notes in this day in age so I cherish any that I receive from friends.) She noted that she included the blossom ring from Pear and Peacock because it reminded her of me since it looked like a little poppy. She also bought herself one, so it like our friendship ring! (I looove the idea because Sandy and I have become such good friends since our meet-up last summer.)

Then she included one of her beautiful mustard yellow bow hair clips from her shop. Gush! It's just perfect and fits so snugly in my thick, mane of hair. (Not a lot of hair clips do that - so Sandy's bow is def. a winner!). I seriously love it so much I might have to go shopping for more from her shop.

And last but not least, in LOVE with my new gray gloves from aldo! They are fingerless - so perfect for South Carolina winter and for technological purposes (um, yes I'm talking about texting. No shame.) - and they each have a precious little rosette sewn on each one. Too perfect!

long gray cardigan: Forever21

floral dress: base exchange

black leggings: Forever21

belt: Forever21

mary jane heels: Aldo

nail polish: OPI dating a royal 

Okay, so as you can tell I'm in LOVE - utter LOVE - with everything in my package! 

THANK YOU, SANDY! I LOVE ALL OF IT!

I'm so glad that I had the privilege to be a part of this incredible swap and be a part of something with so many of you.

{So now it's your turn!} 

For those of you who already received your packages, be sure to link up your blog post below so that we can all see what you got. Don't forget to sprinkle lots of link-love for your swap partner, so we can visit everyone's blogs! 

And for those of you still waiting on packages - no worries. The link tool will be active until December 17th, so there is plenty of time! But be sure to do it sooner than later...'cause we can hardly wait to see everyone's goodies!!

{happy tuesday, friends.}