Carol
I've been working on my trade. Thanks for the card and stickers and seeds. I marvel at all the energy you have to do all of this. If you ever find a way to bottle and sell some of that energy let me know. Thanks so much.

My box went out today, USPS #0305 1720 0000 6245 1327.

My special leprechaun package arrived today!! Thanks a bunch Beth. I will post a bit later on all my goodies!!

Leprechaun #1 of 2 left for Mellen's from South Carolina today....#2 coming from NW Florida. Be patient, they have short legs dontchya know...;P
...(LEPRECHAUNS SINGING ON THE WAY TO MELLENS,...ALL TOGETHER NOW, ) "and its no, nay, never; (POUND TABLE 4X LOUDLY HERE PLEASE) NO -NAY- NEVER- NO MORE, WILL I PLAY, THE WILD ROVER, NO NEVER, NO MORE. ...." of course the wee little ones will be so tuckered out by the time they get to Iowa, they will take up residence in Mellen's garden forevermore.

Would someone please email me Jenell/LunaMoon's address!! I received the card but it doesn't have an address!! Package is ready to go as soon as I get an address!! Thanks in advance for your assistance!

I received my box today from Amy. Think I will wait until the 17 to open it. Will post what I get later and e mail Amy that I received it. I have my box ready to go to Number 1 angel Will mail tomarrow or sat.

Carol~ I haven't received a card yet.... Could you please send me my pal's info so I can get her package out? Thanks!

plantladyjan~ I sent you an email with my address.

Lunamoon I haven't received an email from you. Please try again to send me your address.

I wanted to post what was in my box from my leprechaun Beth!
Wow Beth can really pack a box!! In my box I found Hostess Lucky Puffs (yummy), Dish towels one in cream with a herb theme and one solid sage Great choice as both will go well in my kitchen! Not to mention the fact that I could use a couple of new ones! Also included is some lovely smelling candles..........Irish Mocha and White Linen! Can't wait to burn them! Also some Irish Breakfast tea..can't wait to try that one as it is something new to me. Lots of mint patties!! Reminds me of my dad as we always share mints! A bar of Irish Spring Soap and a book titled Irish Food, Fun and Crafts. Plus 4 self watering planters in a sage green color!! And a stick candy which is green and white!! Wow Beth Thanks for the wonderful package!! I enjoyed going through it and will enjoy it even more using all my new goodies!! Congrats as you were the first one to get your box sent out!Thanks to Beth for the package and her friendship! Happy St. Patrick's Day to All!!

Plantladyjan~ I resent you my address. Hopefully, this one will go through....

Plantladyjan~ I resent you my address. Hopefully, this one will go through....

Wow I received a packed full box from my leprechaun pal Debbie, green shower gel and lotion st pattys stickers, a beautiful swirley windsock green windchimes, a notepad, a kiss me I'm irish mug with the water in the sides, seeds hibiscus, hardy bannana, which I have wanted and 2 pkgs of bulbs Thankyou Debbie, I'm sorry if I missed posting something, I love it all Aurore I need your addy, I burnt it
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O.k. I knew there was a reason Otis O'terrier was barking!! Was in the "way-back" didnt hear the bell. My package arrived from Carol, First of all it was a flat package just chock full of stuff. Here is a list of what I received:
Dahlias, mixed bulbs X5, thanks, these bring back good memories for me!I used to grow these when we lived in Bremerton, WA. havent seen them here...
A bead keychain that spells "Seattle"- my daughter will snag that...
a journal, good for making notes will stick this in my garden bag...
a magnetic notepad
a rock with a lifelike looking baby turtle. Otis had to nose him to see if he moved.
a big bone for Otis ---thanks! He is pigging out now, I say that 'cause he is actually grunting?!!!
Some Almond Roca that I have opened right now, hee. delicious!
A portable radio with earphones,
A watch with a purple sash wristband
Sarah Michaels tiger lily shower kit little soap, gel, fragrance and drawer sachet...
2 hair clips with shamrocks on them, cute!
Thanks so much Carol/Veeja, and thanks for hostessing this swap. I love all my stuff, now I am off to pot up my dahlias and hide the Almond Roca, I hear teens rummaging through the kitchen!!!

Luna, I had the wrong zip on yours so p.o. sent me back home with it so it was mailed a day late, you have Aurore, I lost her addy and have e-mailed her for it thankyou carol

Just wanted to let Luna know 2 packages left here on Friday and are headed your way!!

My o'package to Beth O'Berry left today too!! You should have it in plenty of time for St Pattys day--
Carol--thanks for hosting-I have enjoyed this- wish I could 'meet up' with you and Beth too--have fun!!
Jeanette

Thank you Ann!! What a great box full of goodies!! Let me list them so I don't forget anything!!
Leprechaun-he's on my desk
floral calender
2 Quick cookbooks
lucky clover grow kit
DOVE chocolates
pine candle
stickers
gloves and plant labels
angel statue and picture frame
foot soak and lotion
squirrel plant stake--and--
seeds-lobelia crystal palace
godelia sybil
clarkia pink buttercup
lavalera white
calendula radio
delp. pac.giant mixed

I will be looking some of those up!! You were a great partner! Thanks again!!
Jeanette

My first package from plantladyjan arrived today. She sent a much needed pair of gardening gloves, St Patrick's Day napkins and a spoon & fork set for DD. Many thanks, Jan! I can't wait to see what's in packge #2!

Hi Mellen! I forgot have a delivery confirmation # for you...03010120000268339477, sent priority. The leprechauns left it behind,(the #) still, should arrive soon I hope!! Susan/giverny4me.

Please let me take the time to update you on Sue (skholer) who was recently hospitalized.

IÂve had several telephone conversations with her. She remains in high spirits and just wants to get well. She has a blood clot in her lung and is being treated with bed rest, medications and monitoring. There will be a period of down time for her and she will not be participating in trades for the time being until she is up and about and able to pack her own boxes. SheÂs very bored right now, and especially missing her animals and reading updates/posts on the forums.

Her brother Jim has been an absolute God-send to her and is taking care of her father, her animals and some trade boxes that she had packed and ready to go. HeÂs working on hooking up her computer to a different location, as she is going to require bed rest once sheÂs discharged. SueÂs hoping for a discharge this weekend, but itÂs iffy as of today.

SheÂs currently at Battle Creek Medical Center, 300 North Avenue, Battle Creek MI 49017. Her room number is 3104. IÂm almost positive she would love to hear from all her garden web friends.

If you need any other information, please contact me through e-mail and IÂll pass it on to you.

Be well,
Maryanne/Earthly

I just saw that when i got on here to send Sue her Conf. # on the leprechaun package I mailed her! Maybe her brother will get for her and it will help cheer her up! Melinda

melinda, her brother is in fact taking care of pretty much everything. her dad lives with her and he's there checking on him and the animals, so i am sure he will sort through the mail. please let me know if there is anything perishable in it and i'll let him know. otherwise, i'm sure she be excited opening it when she gets home.

i believe sue's pal in this swap is debby? can i get her/your address and i will make up a box and send it on behalf of sue. are there any specific rules to this swap, or a free-for-all? i assume you are following a "green" theme.

please e-mail me with the address.

thanks
maryanne/earthly

Susan, Wow! Your gift package arrived in two days!!! From Florida to Iowa??? That has to be a record for the post office lately, huh? AND, your gift of seeds from Park's came today, too. GREAT timing. But you had it planned that way, right? ;P

I want you to know how much I love what all you sent!The cute red pen with the fuzzy red top and the ladybug on the tiptop. Plus the socks with the little red ladybug on them. I just love them! Yes, the kids at school will definitely wear the shamrock stickers. I will take them with me tomorrow so I have them on Friday. What a great gift! Thank you also for the beautiful shamrock pin and Irish prayer card. I will wear the pin on Friday, too, along with some ponytail holders that have the head of a fat little leprechaun on them. I got those from Carol/Vee. I will also be wearing some green fake fingernails that have shamrocks on each nail. Those came in another gift box from a friend. I am Irish so I should be pretty well decked out, don't you think??? Also, thanks for the deLISH Ghirardelli DARK chocolate squares with white mint filling. Yes, you are right when you say that dark chocolate is good for you. I will tell myself when I eat every single one! HAHA! I want you to know how thrilled I am with the seeds that you had sent to me from Park's Seeds. I looked each of them up on the Park's site--marigold capriccio, Janie harmony improved, and aurora light yellow. I am truly excited. I will be starting each seed with plans to plant each plant along each side of our 400' long driveway. That's what DH was wanting to do last summer, but it just didn't work out in time.

Many, many thanks, Susan, for a bunch of absolutely wonderful gifts. You're a real peach of a gal! I see you are/were one of "those" teachers. Do/Did you enjoy teaching that age? Have a great St. Patrick's Day! Mellen

Well first of all I hope Miss Susie is resting comfortably it is hard to do when you have responsibilities but try and relax and get strong...I am praying for you...:)

Hi Mellen, your welcome! Well I was starting out with a St. Pat's theme and was overcome by ladybugs...lol. I think there were 4 packs of marigolds you may have one more straggling in!
RE: Teaching, I really enjoyed the middle schoolers, kind of retired at present but want to go back....miss doing the yearbook. whoa. Can't believe I said that!!! (yearbook, not teaching, always ended up costing me every year..lol.)

Susan, I will check the Park's box again when I get home today. With all of the tight packing that was in there, there could easily have been another pack of seeds.

You miss the yearbook??? Now that is rather interesting!?! I've been at this for almost 28 years, and I still love coming to work every day. I must be a little crazy--just like the kids.(I say that with love, folks.) Need to get busy. Everyone have a GREAT day! Mellen

Aurore,
Thank you so much for my St. Patrick goodies. I love everything. I already planted my seeds, gladiolus and iris bulbs. My son helped me and it was alot of fun. My windchime is beautiful hanging by my garden. My son also tried one of the chocolate stirrer sticks and loved it. I will have those in my coffee.Yummy!! We also planted the monarda that you sent and it arrived in very good condition. The basket with the kitty and flowers is so cute that is going on my sunporch. I am going to put the shamrock cling ons on my front door. I just love everything and hope I haven't forgotten anything. Thank you so so very much. Amy

HI Gal's
1st I want to say Thank you 100% to Carol our hostess for calling me while I was in the hospital trully made my day.

Also to earthly for calling me while my stay .
I was released last evening about 4pm it is good to be home .
Debby I want to let you know how sorry I am for not getting your box in the mail to you this last week .
I will one day make it up to you.
I trully had or have most of what I wanted to send to you
but I couldn't get it packed & it was to hard to try to tell my brother how to pack the box .

mails here I have a package :)) :)))

MELINDA
You have me in tears I have never ever had daylilies on my bed :)) oh dear friend what a wounderful box.
I have to say magical what a day to recieve all these
great gifts going to try to let everyone share in excitement .from top to bottom here is what I opened :))

st patty's day plant sticker
package of reese's peanut butter cups MMMMMMM
daylily Ribbon candy :))))
Daylily Night Beacon :)))
tiger lily pink :))))
oriental trumpet lily Red Dutch :)))
Hosta Christmas tree :))))
bird feeder with mirror & bell
bird toy with mirror & toy
green gardening gloves
wind chimbs green by victoria gardens
Note Pad With pen
some minature st patty's day people ,pot of gold ect ect
going to hang them here by my bed for good look while my stay here in bed .
a mini bird house by victoria gardens
a green glover ring dish to set on my shelf to hold my rings thank you
also a bottle of green hand soap love it
she sent seeds :)))
verbascum white, & summer sorbet
Blackeye susan vine blushing salmon
Zinnia green envy :))))
Scabiosa Butterfly blue
""" Cream color
Daylily Constitutional Island
""" Sugar candy
""" LnLs Gift ???
"""" Cranberry Chalice
"""" woodside firedance x???
Golly GEEE I thing I went to heaven & was reincarnated
malinda you sent a wounderful box & thank you for the wounderfull letter about yourself thank you for sharing
I'm going to call my garden friend here in town to ask her to put my plants in pots for me till I can get them in the ground but that is going to be awhile we are in for 3-6 inches of show between now and 3 am :((
wounder happyness just knowing all of you
thank you all for your love & wishes & prayers

susie

A special thankyou to one of my leprechauns that sent me some cute st pats handmade refrig magnets. Thankyou sneaky little elf. I love them who are you?
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thankyou hugs

I received package #2 from Jan yesterday. In it was a book on floral arranging, a copy of Horticulture magazine and a book for DD. Thanks so much! I'm having fun going through them and getting some ideas of things to try.

The card from my pal finally arrived on Tuesday and her package went out on Wednesday. Hopefully, it will arrive tomorrow or Saturday.

Beannachtam na Feile Padraig! (Happy St. Patrick's Day!)
I raise my orange juice to you all! Slainte! (health)
And now for a maudlin Irish Proverb, 'Tis better to buy a small bouquet, to give to your friend this very day,than a bushel of roses white and red, to lay on his coffin after he's dead.
Or, 'May those that love us, love us. And those that do not love us, may God turn their hearts. And if he can't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles. That we will know them by their limping.'
I did receive Julie's box today, will post on 3/17 after I open it. Thanks Julie!!!

Just peeking in for a second to say HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Ah, tis a truly glorious day here in Alaska with bright sunny skies and sparkly white snow and good friends to celebrate with. Wish all of you were here too. What a party that would be!
Enjoy the day wherever you may be.

Received my St. Pat's package today (perfect timing) from Lunamoon.
What a lovely big box full of little green packages.
I got some (green cucumber) handlotion for after I've been digging in the garden, mint chapstick for days like today when the air outdoors is dry (it's even green) and a green fizzy bath bomb for soaking my tired old bones in after gardening. There was some green garden note and printer paper, a green hummingbird windchime, green gardening gloves, gourmet chocolate caramels -yum, shamrock stickers and some magnets.
For the garden I got a big bag of assorted seeds (some from my want list-I love it!), a dahlia, some gladioli corms and a for-get-me not grow kit. Looks like now I'll have to start my spring gardening in earnest. Three days till spring. Happy spring everybody! THANK YOU LUNAMOON.
Aurore

Has everyone received or do I need to let ye ol doggie out?

carol, debbie should get hers by monday, i hope. i filled in for sue so i'm a little late. stick that dog on me and i'll cry! lol

xoxox
earthly

O.k. here is what I received from my good friend Ms. Julie/Bojo...some Andes mint chocolates, yum, they were good --and they are gone! (chopped em up and put them in green milkshakes I made for the teens last night,big hit!) some San Francisco soap company kiwi mango green all over body massage lotion, good for my beat up gardener hands, thank you. Also a green basket with a handle, I can use this carting seed packets and small tools about the garden, some seeds- Bells of Ireland and Flowering Cabbage, hee, cute!! A magnetic shopping notepad with my name on it, A plastic sunflower butterfly feeder with a supply of butterfly food. And of course Julie packaged everything with green paper. :) Thanks Pal Julie!!! Your the Best! p.s. sorry I did'nt get back on 3/17, spent the day at doctors with elderly neighbor, started out taking him for routine appt. in a.m. and before we knew it doc had turned it into a day trip! Lab, xray, everything. ( He will be fine.) This is a lesson to me to post asap upon arrival of pkg in future. XXXSusan/giverny4me

Well I posted this once but don't think it went thru. I have been having trouble with this computor. I opened my package yesterday from Amy. I had had it quite a while but opened it yesterday as my 3 year old grandaughter was coming up and I let her help me. I received a cute green bag with shamrocks on it I'm sure Amy made it and it was tied with white ribbon. In side a bag of (Lindt)Lindor Truffles, good, 3 receipes on cards, a real pretty card, a cute white picture frame with baby feet on in blue, perfect for my new 4 month old grandson, and last but least was a carrousel to add to my collection. It is 11 inches tall, stairs leading up to the carosuel ,plays let me call you seetheart and is made of copper metal. The first one I have in metal, very neat. Thank you Amy very much, I loved it all and you did a great job. Ann

My package arrived yesterday as I was getting ready to go out to celebrate with friends from work. Perfect timing there Jeanette. I got seeds for green stuff which I'll post on the 12 month seed swap. A pretty card from my buddie with the #1Angel herself on the front.
I Got two green hats one with bangs and braids made of green yarn and a green tophat with sparkly green fringes hanging down. Way Cool. It's perched on top of the lampshade right now. There is a green sleeve for covering be..../er soda cans. A crowd of people are on there and the guy in a green hat says,"what parade, This is the beer line"
I got a variety of chocolates and choc mints. Mmmm good. There were tiny choc cookies that looked sorta like choc chips shape and size but were good crunchy little cookies. Very tasty.
I got toys too. A green "tentacle ball" that lights up and changes colors. Real cute, that is going to work with me next week. A pastel slinky with green in the middle. I have not seen one in years. There is a beautiful pale green Kaleidoscope. Those have been favorites in my family for as long as I can remember. I did not know they were even still being made. Very Pretty, thanks and a big hug. There is a kit called sticker paint. I'm anxious to see what that is all about.
Um?? Did I mention the magnetic soda bottle caps and the note pad for by the phone??
I saved for last, the perfect thing for a snowbound stir crazy Alaskan.... An ornamental grass kit. It contained a peat pellet, grass seed and an instruction booklet. Then once the grass starts growing there is a pair of tiny scissors to keep it trimmed. I'm going to start that tomorrow.
This is quite a haul!! Thanks Jeanette. Sure hope I didn't miss anything but with all that was stuffed into that box I might have.
Carol thanks for being a super hostess. This is one of my favorite swaps of the year.
BB

The box for my pal finally went out in the mail this morning. Mellen

Oh No, I for got the soft soft squishy fuzzy socks, pale Key Lime pie Green and so cozy to the toesies. Thanks again Leprechaun

heads up debby your BELATED little leprechaun is on its way get you beer chilled :))) conf # 0305 1720 0002 5542 2950 :))))) I hope you can find some use of them .
forgive me but was in a hurry to pack & I forgot to put in the irish coffee & got from our local coffee house :((
I'm so so sorry & I see I'm stuck with the thin mints also.
enjoy my friend & thank you for your patience with me .
susie
ps
sorry for any typo error mind problem lately

Thanks so much Susie! I'll let you know when the box arrives!

Hey Beth--I LOVED those green socks too :)--might have to go get some--soooooo soft--should be good for your cold tired footies!!
This was fun too--between the squirrel swap and the leperchuan swap--I was busy all the time!!! Winter has flown by--you are all a great bunch of friends--wish we all lived close enough to get together--what a great time we would have!!!
Carol--great host as usual!! Did you find any cockroachs for me??? Can't wait to open that package-haha
Hate to see this end!!
Catch ya later
Jeanette

Susie,
Thank you so much for the wonderful basket of gifts! Wow, you really sent a basketfull! My Husband already has the mugs in the freezer. My dog (Toby) loved the pull toy!
I have proof of how much he enjoyed the toy (see pic below)! Also, thanks for the seeds/bulbs and shamrock items! I love the book and the Birds & Bloom magazine! And the grill brush!
Susie, you really outdid yourself! I LOVE everything you sent!

Deb
Happy it arrived just so very sorry it arrived to late
to use the mugs but maybe next yr :))
thank you agin for being so patient with me .
susie

Just wanted to say a big Thank You to Mellen. My box arrived and enjoyed it! Had irish soda bread mix, beautiful photo frame with notecard set, delicious chocolate covered cookies, and 4 packages of seeds from my wish list! Thanks so much! Hope I didn't forget to list anything, but really liked it. Thanks so much! Melinda

Glad you liked it, Melinda. You are welcome, Mellen