 Hey guys, alright. I just went to get the mail and I literally got this box just today in the mail and I usually, honestly I'm usually really busy so sometimes the happy mail sits a couple of days but in this case I just have to open it today. So it's from Connie Kruger. Connie I hope that's the right way to pronounce your last name. I think it is. And I'm assuming it's happy mail because it says this on the top, Summer Spring Cleaning LOL. I don't know what that means Connie but I think that kind of scares me. I don't know what this is and I'm not remembering that I was expecting anything. It doesn't really mean anything because I forget stuff all the time but I don't think I was so let's open it. I have no idea what's in here. Holy cow. Okay first I'm gonna put this this way. So first of all I know this is just like packing or filler but what a pretty color of burgundy tissue this is. Really pretty. So I'm gonna put that aside. Get my scissors out of the way. Alright. This says handmade pots for air ferns and my brush lost its hair so I replaced it with my own. I don't know what that means. I guess it's find out the containers interesting. Does the bottom come off? It looks like it might. I'm distracted by the container. If the bottom comes out it might work for um this might work for acrylic pouring. Sorry I know. Screw. Holy cow this box is really full. This is gonna be a long video you guys. Wow. She sent me an artist's trading brush and that's literally her own hair. That's so precious. Look at that. And then look at these little pot hanging pots. You know I bet Connie I could put some cotton balls in there and put my favorite essential oils in there and hang them around my house. Those are super cute. I love them. Look at the pink one. Alright there is a ton of stuff in here. There are some die cuts right here on top so I'm gonna pull them out. They're die cut snowflakes out of magazine pages. It looks like they're cute. And there's a note I think. Oh Connie you're so welcome. I'm not gonna read the whole note word for word because it's a little private but these are things that she can't use anymore and she wants them to go to a good home. Connie thank you so much. They definitely are going to one. I'm gonna save your two notes. I have a box in here in the office where I put all of your little notes that you sent me. And there is some treats in here too so here is some trident gum. My husband loves gum and mints. You guys didn't know that but and these are neck away first which are really cool. They're good. Tea lemon. Okay you guys are listening to my in the my video to have I mentioned lemon zinger is my husband's favorite tea. He's gonna be so jazzed. This is his favorite tea. I have to tell him some of the boxes for him. These pipettes. I love these and you really they're kind of disposable so you can really only get like one or two uses out of them so they're always handy to have a whole bunch of them around. There's a bunch of stuff that's wrapped and those snowflakes are everywhere. Holy cow. So this is wrapped in some beautiful blue ribbon and some snow white fabric. You know put the food things over that way by my phone. I think I need to sit down for this. Alright. I love the fabric. It reminds me of making things for my daughter when she was little. Something in a Walmart bag. This is so cool. I love this. I can't remember the last time I got such an interesting unexpected box of happy mail. Such a big one. This is a huge box. Alright. So there are different sorts of papers. Some found distressed papers. This looks like wrapping paper or origami paper. I bet you it's wrapping paper. Found papers like chip bags or in this case a cracker jack bag. This is a stitch in color chart for Holly Hobby. And you know what? I'm a big Holly Hobby fan. She's a little bit after my time because she wasn't she like a 1970s 80s. I was born in 63 but I like Holly Hobby. Ghirardelli chocolate dropper. Different thing. These are fun. Some cards. I should say card fronts. Oh look at this. Fun watercolor paper with paint on it. There's two of them like those. They would actually be. They look like they're card blanks and they would be good cards. But I'm also thinking they would be interesting start to a journal. They would make good signatures. More paper. Old paper. Some interesting wrapping paper I think. I like it. I don't know what it is exactly. More watercolor paper. Something in a envelope. Keep calm and color on. I'll try. I don't always do it successfully. They're little small coloring images. I can sit and color on the couch. Those are cool. All right. Let's see what else is in this bag. I mean box. It's not a bag. All right. I use these for many uses such as a pallet, coaster, frame for ornaments, holder on a desk for small things, circles. These are great. Just lids. You can't really have enough lids lying around your room as far as I'm concerned. They're good for a lot of things. Look at these bottles. These are cool. You can feel these like I have a giant like gallon sized bottle of pouring medium. So these kind of bottles are great so that you can decant some of it into a little little or bottle like this. It makes it easier to use. All right. Look at all these medicine bottles. They all have stuff in them. Every single one. There's another snowflake on coated wire. That's going to be interesting to play with. Look at that. That might be fun to spray through. Hmm. Here's another one. More medicine bottles. No weird little bottle. Weird isn't unusual. Not weird as bad. All right. So these little wood wedges. These are actually for tightening a stretch canvas frame. They actually go in the corners of the frame. But these are also good if you don't use them for that to just use them as, you know, just random little pieces of wood in mixed media. Okay. This one looks like it's full of, I was going to say, split rings. But there are is some jewelry pieces in there. Look at that. So there's some random jewelry pieces in there. Oh, they're not split rings. They're these things. I don't have any of those. Well, I do now. There's another thing with a bead in there. These jewelry parts. Those are cool. I don't know what these are supposed to be for, but they already give me some ideas. All right. This one has, I don't know what that is. Earring backs? Yep. Earing backs. Oh, clip-on earring. The clip part. Let's see if I can get one out to show you. There might be one or two of you out there that don't know what a clip-on earring is. But there we go. When I was still working in a medical office, even though I have pierced ears, I used to wear clip-ons because it was easier to yank one off when you needed to answer the phone back in the day. All right. This is something sparkly. Look at that. I don't know what it is. Chain. Wow. That's some really nice chain, too. That's beautiful stuff. More of those ring things and other jewelry parts, including a little miniature dream catcher. I like these little metal dream catchers. These are cool. I think one of these needs to be on the front of a journal page, and that's what you made with those rings. You made little dream catchers. I'm going to have to see if I can do that. And there is this piece of resin in here, and it looks like it has flowers in between the layers. That's pretty cool, too, because I toss them everywhere. I even got one on the floor. Holy cow. Let's put them back in here before I lose one. Oh, you know what? This is the little water dispenser thing for a iron. We actually have one of these in the laundry room for my husband's iron, and I kind of wanted one for in here. Now I have one. I think that might be so far my favorite thing. I know that's ridiculous, but all right. Oh, some beads. Handmade polymer clay beads it looks like. They're pretty. Something in an Altoid tin. Oh, it's a mini watercolor palette. That's cute. I like that. And this is another clay piece, handmade sculpey book. Oh, it's a book. Okay, wait, now I have to open this. And you know what? The box is full. It's really full. All right, hang on. I might have to do this like in two parts or three parts. All right. So it says, oh, it is. It's a cover. So it's a front and back cover of a miniature book covers. How cute is that? They're made out of polymer clay. So cute. I might have to make a mini blue book out of those. Another medicine bottle with more jewelry parts in it. More snowflakes. They're stuck to everything. Okay. More of those dream catchers. I love these. I really do love these. I think these are cool. There's other, I'm not going to pull them all out because there's too much will be here all day, but there's other little small interesting jewelry parts. They're going to make some interesting future mixed media projects. Something already put together, it looks like, or partially put together. Oh, it's a necklace or at least the start of one. That's cool. More of the silver chain. Beautiful. It's a gorgeous shiny color. These are more clip-on earring bases. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's for clip-on earring. All right. What's up? What else is in here? There's some packages like this. More snowflakes. Okay. So this one looks like it's full of trims and a piece of faux leather. There's also some suspender clips here in the bag, which I love, love, love. Look at all this great stuff. All right. And then this one, it's got more snowflakes inside the bag. See? Snowflakes. There's something in there, I think. This is interfacing, it feels like. It could just be a wad of interfacing. That's very possible. Yep, that's all it is. But that looks like interfacing, like the sew-in kind. You know what? I should jelly print with this. I could make some jelly printed trim, some painted trim. Okay, I just got an idea, Connie. Big idea. Oh, wire. I just started playing with wire again and so I don't have any of the brass color and I'm running out of some other one, so this is great. I bet. Is it a peanut can? It's kind of interesting. There's some can lids in here. These are cool. I always, I actually have a drawer of these that I keep because they're interesting to do stuff with. And then I'm thinking this is a peanut jar that she's taken the hard cardboard off of, which has made it collapsible. And then there is a little bit of trim on a card, some more. That looks like eyelash yarn, which I actually don't have any of anymore because I got rid of all my yarn. So I appreciate that. Another snowflake. All right, some more jewelry pieces. These are hoop earrings, gold hoop earrings. Those will be fun to play with. Advanced tape glider refill rolls. Oh, I have an ATG gun. Very cool. Glass. This says glass. What does that mean? Dropper bottle. I love these. They're great for using with alcohol or any of those kind of things that you just need to drop off in your work or to make the paint move around. I love these and I love the blue glass. I'm going to keep that out because I think I have a use for it. There's another one of those containers. I don't know what this is from. Was handmade to bring hope and growth hugs. Okay, I need that note. There's another one of these containers. I really want to see if I can get the bottom off. I think that's just filler. Wrapped in paper towels. Oh, I'm getting excited. This looks so pretty. I didn't see the whole thing yet. Oh, look at that. He's so cute. He has to go on my desk. I love him. Oh, he's so cute. I'm not done yet. There's still more in the box. There's a zipper. You know, I use these. I don't use them in sewing anymore, but I use them in this video. Okay, I can put the box on the floor. Okay, so here's this one. It's wrapped with some more ribbon in a bag. It says something apron. It says, oh, is it a plastic disposable apron? Oh, this might be nice when I'm working with pouring acrylics because, you know, it's very messy. Very cool. When you don't want to, you know, you're going to get messy, but you don't want to, like, use your apron that you have to wash later. I love that idea. Oops. We don't want to knock our little person over. Some bandana pattern duct tape. And it was around in this package. Oh, stencils. So we have this one with Asian characters for peace, energy, happiness, and love. And there's a bamboo shoot in the middle. And then we have this one IV-1. Actually, you know what? I think I've used this in my house before. I used to have the front room stenciled around the top of the wall. It might have been with this stencil, at which I don't have any. Well, now I have it. And then there here's a fan one. This is actually a quilter's stencil, but you can paint with them. No problem. So cool. All right. We have one more package. I can't believe you went to all this trouble, Connie. This is wonderful. I love my little guy. He's so cute. Look at this stack of fabric wrapped in some more interesting yarn. There's this pink one. A tie-dye. I love me some tie-dye. There's this blue one with a leaf. It looks like a leaf print. Oh, I'm sorry. It's a flower print. Here's in white some green and then this brown and pink flower. This is wonderful, Connie. Thank you so much. If any of the rest of you out there want to send me happy mail, maybe join one of my Facebook groups, check out my website. Support me by shopping in my Etsy shop and buying some of my stamps or stencils or original artwork or digital downloads, something like that. Or maybe you just want to support my channel by sending money to my tip jar. The links for all of that are in the description. You don't have to send me happy mail, but I sure do appreciate when you do. And this is wonderful. Thank you so much, Connie. It will definitely be used and used well. I appreciate all of you very much. Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I'll see you later. Bye, guys.