the thing about having minyin for a best friend, is that you never know what's going to show up in your mailbox. today i found she'd sent me a pack of toothpicks and a dropper. this was initially mystifying, but her note instructed me that this was for a nifty little trick (for turning 5 broken toothpicks into a star)

and just the other week the woman sent me a cross-stitch pin.

wonderfully unpredictable, that woman.