Have
you ever pre-ordered a book and then forgotten you’ve done so? And then
months later you get the shipping notice, and it’s like a little piece
of Christmas in your in-box? That’s what happened to me the other day
when a certain online book retailer notified me that my copy of Alicia
Paulson’s long-awaited Stitched in Time: Memory Keeping Projects to Sew and Share was on its way. It’ll be here today. (You may know Alicia from her delightful blog, Posie Gets Cozy, which was the very first handcrafts blog I ever subscribed to.)

Hurry on over, Mr. UPS Man; we can’t wait to get cozy with this book! (Good thing I got all caught up on my Cybils
reading yesterday. I can’t peruse any more nominees until the next
batch of library holds comes in, or until another nice fat packet
arrives from a publisher. Which may well be today. We’ve been keeping
Mr. UPS Man hopping lately. And may I just say he is one of the nicest
guys you’ll ever meet? One day he brought us a bag of clementines from
his neighbor’s tree—he said he’d been given so many he couldn’t eat
them all and he thought maybe my kids would enjoy them. Don’t think I’m
unaware this is all Rilla’s doing: she charms him daily with her warm
reception as he jogs up our driveway with packages stacked high. "Hi
dere! You ’liver dat for me?")