Wow! My Secret Santa really came through to me. Thankyou!! This was my first Reddit secret santa and to be honest I was apprehensive how it would work out due to some of the horror stories I've seen of people getting unexpected troll gifts. The gifting was later than expected due to the fact that I ended up being rematched because my prior SS mentioned they had some family issues over the holiday. Rather than add more stress to the first secret Santa to try to get a gift out to me, I decided it would be better to be rematched.

My secret Santa immediately made themselves known to me, stayed in contact the entire time, and was very pleasant to speak to.

On to the actual gift...

I'm pretty sure they did a lot of research based on my profile because I received a lovely Alice in Wonderland-themed typographical poster which will soon be hanging in the bedroom when I can get it framed. What makes this special is that I am a HUGE fan of Alice in Wonderland. It's one of my favorite children's books. I have an entire half sleeve tattoo based on an Arthur Rackham piece of Alice. I'm also a librarian with a big fondness for children's novels so this type of art was perfect for me. I don't know if you can tell in the picture but it's the entirety of book Alice in Wonderland on one sheet and has a silhouette of Alice and the Cheshire cat on it as well. I literally gasped aloud when I saw it. Thankyou again to my Secret Santa, what a thoughtful gift all the way from the UK. I will definitely be participating in next year's exchange.

UPDATE 1/23/2014 so i don't look like an ungrateful ass WOW! I totally forgot my SS had mentioned there was another package coming. I was pleasantly surprised to find a package from them in my mailbox. I opened it up and there were as follows:

1 Map of Prague. My fiance and I are taking a trip to Prague for our honeymoon after we get married, so this will be a perfect addition to our trip.

2 Bags of fruit flavored british hard candies. One was Rhubarb and Cream. The other was Lemon flavored. Both were SO GOOD. I asked for sweets from my SS's country if they were from one different from my own, and they totally delivered! I also received a bag of chocolate pounds and a bar of cadbury milk chocolate. DELICIOUS.

1 very nice card. Awesome! Thankyou so much Secret Santa! :D

***UPDATE: 2/04/2014

This is the first time i've had time to make this update. I think this is my final gift but what a wonderful gift it was! I received a embosser for my large library of books at home. It says, "From the library of [iamthesoviet's name] but it has my soon to be married name rather than my old name because my fiancee and I are both changing our names.

My secret santa went all out! Reddit can truly be a wonderful place sometimes. Thanks again! :)