Surprises by Mail!

I received a box of goodies from my friend Lucy today!!! Although she told me the box was coming, I still was surprised. It's not been the best week for me, so I needed a good pick-me-up and Lucy's gifts were perfect and could not have come at a better time!

Lucy sent me some of her favorite things and because we're so similar, of course they're my favorite things too!!



The glass prep bowls will fit right in with my daily baking and cooking. I like working with prep bowls and due to the fact that I bake and cook so much I do sometimes have a hard time remembering if I added the vanilla or not. Setting the ingredients up in prep bowls seems to make everything so much more streamlined and efficient...hey it works for me!

Next are the wonderful, thick, cotton towels by Martha Stewart. Oh...they are so soft and the towels will work out beautifully for my yeast breads. I think I will make some yeast bread tomorrow!

I saw a picture of this pasta and sent it to Lucy, thinking she might be familiar with it. Well, come to find out it was new to her too. But she's lucky and found it at her local market and of course being the sweetie that she is she picked up a bag for me too. I hope she sends me a good sauce recipe...Hint..Hint!! In the close up you can see how unique the pasta shape is...so cool. I can't wait to use it!

Next is the wonderful Rose Bundt Pan....Love it! I've wanted one of these pans for so long! This pan is perfect for my Angel Food Cake with Rosewater! But I'm sort of craving chocolate lately, so I think I may make a chocolate angel food cake...yummy!!

The small Pizza Peel is the 2nd one that Lucy has sent me. She sent me another one a few months ago. I needed a peel and my good friend did not let me down. And when she found out that Joe and I make individual pizzas and I needed another peel, well Lucy came through again!

And last but not least and this is absolutely my favorite thing and I've already used it twice, is the GORGEOUS bamboo cutting board. How did you know that I've been trying to find the perfect cutting board? I absolutely LOVE IT!!! And it fits in my thin cutting board storage cabinet too!! Oh...I needed the cutting board and it's so pretty. Don't you just love working with beautiful things.

Oh Lucy...what would I do without you!! Thanks ever so much for thinking of me and thank you for being my friend!