Okay, I confess: the temptation was too great for me to resist. The real Santa will be leaving coal in my stocking for my naughtiness. I opened my SS pressie from SS (Secret Santa pressie from Sandra in Sydney!) last week.

And WOW, what a bunch of stuff!! Hope I remember it all, since I'm not at home right now and I didn't bring along the list of things in the package:

Homemade wrapping paper with laser-printed kittycat clip-art and borders carefully collected by Sandra
Christmas card with a wombat on the front
Little needlepoint pillow made by Sandra herself, featuring a cat and mouse with the message "Meow-y Christmas"!
Lanyard-style necklace with glass cat charm and metal beads
Two cat ornaments
Mousepad with various road signs typically seen in Australia (such as "kangaroo crossing", "sharks – swim at your own risk", "last outhouse for yo-many kilometers", etc.!)
Australia-souvenir mechanical pencil with koala on top
Postcards from Sydney with important landmarks noted (namely, Sandra's home and workplace!)
Photos of Sandra's collections of bears and cats and such
12 digital pictures of her friend's cats (enough pics for a calendar, conveniently enough, so I'll put 'em in one of those calendars with inserts for photos)
Hamlet's soliloquy rewritten from a cat's point of view (I'll reprint it here later)

...multitudes of cats... and more! Yay!! Sandra, thank you so much for all the pressies, and for taking the time to put so much of yourself into them! You've certainly made my holiday season merrier!! Hope yours is happy as well, and I hope your Secret Santa's package is unearthed by the postal service soon.

Take care,
Sharon