I really, really wanted to sit down and devote adequate time to this as it was probably by far the most thoughtful exchange I've participated in. Without taking a literal interpretation to my likes and dislikes, /u/lolita_iori managed to find gifts that really made me smile and go AH! I GET IT!

First, because I imagined if I were any character from the Ghibli films I'd be the witty Calcifer, I received a book of his story, Howl's Moving Castle, which I've already begun reading to my infant daughter during sleepless nights.

Second, a folder from a Japan tour (jealous!) featuring the cat bus from My Neighbor Totoro. My husband and I are planning a trip to Japan ourselves for our tenth year wedding anniversary in a few more years. We met and bonded over Japanese music and movies, and have been talking about a trip together ever since. This will be framed right along side the next gift.

Wall art! I have none. Seriously, I got my first wall art since buying a house two years ago during the Harry Potter exchange. And if I don't have wall art, you can bet I don't have paint on my walls either, allowing me to plan decor around my wall art. Totoro and Tour Folder will find themselves at home in the basement studio, where I spend ample amounts of free time (and not so free time because I do have three kids under the age of 4).

And then there's my favorite personal touch, the duckie stationery letter. I love rubber ducks, especially the brief duck spirit scene in Spirited Away. I have rubber ducks all over my house AND socked away in a box far, far, FAR away from my kids I have my own stationery that I saved up for weeks to have shipped from Japan when I was a teenager. I love stationery, I collect stationery, especially adorable Japanese stationery. This letter too will find a home in the basement studio, safe behind a frame. Perhaps I'll finally pull out my tare panda stationery to hang up right along side it.

Thank you Moriah!