Letters and Chocolates

My love for swap-bot is well known. I love to get something in the mail, and I love to send something. It's all about the envelopes, the stamps, the waiting. Good old fashioned snail mail. 

This week was a good mail week.

On Tuesday I received a notification from my local PostOffice to go pick up a package from Finland. I knew it must be for the Chocolate swap I was in.

On Wednesday I received a letter for a swap in the Carpe Librum group for the Anything Goes ~ Bookish LETTER swap.

On Thursday I received another letter for the same swap.

Last night I snapped a photo of my swap-bot mail this week. 

I enjoyed reading the letters and I am positive I will enjoy eating the chocolates.

Of course, the item that drew my attention the most was the Finland one. It was carefully wrapped in a lovely wrapping paper.

I carefully unwrapped it because I have this maybe annoying habit of keeping little bits and pieces from swaps and gluing them in my journal, which it started to look more like a scrap-booking album. Can you see the washi tape on the paper? Yeah, I kept that. 

And when I opened it:

My swap partner wrote to explain that she sent me two of her favourite chocolates. One has toffee filling and the other orange filling. Don't they look delicious? I can't wait to taste them!

I was also sent two tea bags. It was black tea, something I haven't drank before. I drank it at work and it.was.bitter.! even with the tea I added. 

She also sent me some buttons that are just adorable!

This past week I also told some colleagues at work about swap-bot. I am curious if they will sign up. It'd be so fun to exchange thoughts and ideas about swaps.

All in all, a good week swaps-wise.