Mrs Pao and Pao brought along fabulous gift bags when they visited us in the Twin Cities. Thank you both very, very much!!
There was a lovely purple gift bag (which Mayhem thought was tasty) and lovely blue tissue paper (which Chaos thought was tasty, even though it didn’t match his eyes like Jeanne’s tissue paper matched Pudd’s eyes). Remains of gift bag and tissue paper were removed before this photo shoot began.
Pictured below is a new-to-me mystery by Simon Brett, a stack of my beloved Kallo dark chocolate-covered rice cakes, and a copy of Simply Knitting with an adorable sheep-shaped row counter!
“Hmm, I don’t know why you’re so excited about these rice cakes, Mom, because they sure don’t smell like food.” -Mayhem
A lovely Canterbury Cathedral tea towel (you need to use your imagination a bit on the Cathedral bit, since it looks somewhat like a black blob), bringing my total number of tea towels to three. (I have a lovely one of the Big Merino from Sahara’s trip to Australia – did I remember to post a picture of that?! – and quite a nice one from when my stepmom taught a semester at Alnwick Castle, aka the castle in the Harry Potter movies.)
“Doesn’t this look better as Chaos Cathedral?” -Chaos
Some absolutely gorgeous silk and wool sock yarn – yum!
For some reason, the Paos thought of us when they saw this bib. You might see more pictures of the bib another day… *insert ominous music here*
“How do you fight with food? Does it have something to do with how the big kitty wants to chase me away from my food bowl sometimes? That’s very rude of him. I never leave unless I’m good and done, though. Or unless I get bored with eating.” -Mayhem
“Don’t worry, big kitty! I have the bib situation under control! Even if you are rude about my food.” -Mayhem
You sure that’s a sheep?!
Those kitties have no taste. I would have rolled around on the Silk and Wool, even though one of them looks purple-ish!
Chris- England is a great place for tea towels.
I can just see the fear and horror in Chao’s eyes “Not the bib- anything but the bib!”
That bib is almost scary with it’s names, I wonder how they stumbled across such an item. The yarn and other treats are wonderful. Hope you have a great weekend.
Fabulous goodies! I wonder if the SK magazine with row counter is in stock at the bookstore yet…
And that bib? Too funny!
The chocolate covered rice cakes look yummy! Where do you purchase them in the TC? That yarn is also yummy looking 🙂
Hee hee! I love that bib! It’s just perfect! And Simply Knitting is a great little knitting magazine – I love it, it’s always got goodies in it, and nothing pretentious, like, uh, other mags…
It was tough to get past the wool/silk sock yarn! That bib is a hoot…better watch out May…she’s got something bad in mind for you!
Cool loot! Extra cool that they brought you a tea towel. I’ve been collecting them, and they’re fun. That bib is perfect!
Oh, very nice gifities! That bib is just amazing if they didn’t have it specially made. And such prettttty yarn!
I think Canterbury Cathedral is greatly enhanced by Chaos.
Oh, it’s all perfect. I’m always amazed at your Chaos and May shots…they take direction well. You must pay them well.
Funny, I always thought Canterbury Cathedral would look less… furry.
Seriously? Alnwick Castle is where my brother was based in his college exchange program! He learned to play the Uilleann pipes. He also makes pipes, though not full-time anymore.
Score! Woot!
That silk and wool sock yarn is very yummy looking. Mmmm…
RE: Your previous post – Spam curds?!!! Ew! But I love the sock monkey furniture.
Wonderful stuff! Perhaps you will need to travel to Britain to get more tea towels. Now the kitties will send me hate mail.
Such pretty colors in that sock yarn, and it must feel fantastic.
Have a great weekend!
Omg that bib is the funniest thing I’ve seen today…. dude!
Remind me to start inviting people to my house more often!
OMG! That bib is adorable! Can’t wait to see an action shot!
That sock yarn must feel yummy! The bib — priceless!
Can’t wait to see you bib the cat!
Chaos, I much prefer the tea towel as the Chaos Cathedral. I do suggest hiding under said towel, however, because I think your mom is stalking you with a camera and that bib…
that bib is fantastic!
love this bib!!!
Those are great gifts. I love the bib and the sock yarn, of course. Katie and the ferrets always take over any tissue paper or bags that come to the house.
The dreaded bib, poor Chaos. What a great package
Ooooohhhhh, that sock yarn looks mind-bogglingly beautiful!
Very nice gifts. Did the kitties shudder when they saw the bib?
What a great package of goodies! The yarn looks scrumptious and I simply MUST have a sheep row counter.
The bib is perfect – gee, I wonder if we’ll see it being modeled 🙂
Awesome bib. Awesome.
I look forward to seeing one (or both) cats wearing that bib. Too perfect!
Mmmmmmm. Purple is my favorite flavor too. 😉
Interesting tea towel collection? It is cute!
Haha yes such a perfect bib can’t believe it has both names on it! The Paos really found some beautiful and interesting stuff 😉 Glad they had such a good time on their vacation!
that bib is hystercially funny….
and the silk-wool sock yarn amazing colors. absolutely nothing takes dye as well as silk. have fun with those.
That bib is AWESOME! At first I thought they had it made. Truly though, it was meant for you. If you ever adopt more babies you’ll have to name them “Food Fight” and “Messy.” Hehe.