So for my first SS gift exchange I was a little dissapointed to not get a gift. Don't get me wrong, i loved the giving part a lot and had a bunch of fun shopping for and packaging up the gifts, but to not get one in return made me feel like I missed part of the fun. So i put in for a rematch and hoped for a better outcome.

My SS Rematch experience was AMAZING!!!! I got a bunch of gifts that are AWESOME.

Everything was packaged beautifully in recycled/reused packaging with a really nice recycled box. All with little post-its to tell a story. I really appreciate the efforts of my SS Rematch here, the extra effort made the experience all the more magical and was planet-friendly.

Most important of all, my SS Rematch included a sacrifice for my Feline Overlord. She will be most pleased by this. She has always been a fan of kitty boxing and will have many hours of fun batting this spring loaded toy.

I'm just getting into a new hobby - woodworking. To help with this I now have a beautiful leather tool roll bag to protect my tools. Just what I needed for my chisels and files - thank you SS! I also got a stack of carpenters pencils, which are probably one of the most important tools. They came with a sharpener (i had no idea these pencils could have sharpeners due to their shape - so that is cool).

To cater to my hugely geeky side, my SS got me Guilds of Cadwallon - a card game that looks like a bunch of fun. It comes with great looking minis and really nice artwork on the cards. I'm sure this will become a regular in my board/card game days. With a 30 minute play time, this is just the kind of thing my friends and I often play.

If all that wasn't cool enough, my SS Rematch Superhero went above and beyond the call of duty to save Christmas for me by doing a cross stitch of the Avengers. HOLY SH!? this is sooooo cool!!!! I love hand-made gifts, I love art and I love comics so this one of a kind gift is just perfect. Hulk and Capt America are two of my fave comic lines, so seriously SS Rematch Extraordinaire - thank you so very much. I really love it, its gone up on display in my lounge room.

This awesome experience has inspired me to make this pledge: next year I am going to set aside a little extra $ to sign up as a rematcher and try to save someone else's SS exchange.

Thank you, thank you, thank you SS Rematch Extraordinaire - and a Happy New Year to you too.

Cheers, geekOnaught