Hello, people of redditgifts land! So, Monday there was a surprise in the mail from my MLP rematch! Wheee!

First thing I did when I got home and saw the packet huddled against my door was pick it up and give it a hug, because gifts get lonely when they have to wait all day for their new owners to show up. Then I carried it inside and left it on a comfortable cushion for a while, because my iPod was no longer speaking to me, and it's my only camera with picture-downloading skills. And today, semi-fixed iPod in hand, I cried "I can bear it no longer!", grabbed the envelope off the cushion on which it had been peacefully dozing, and opened it up with a razor (but I was gentle and only took a bit off the top).

First thing I saw was a pair of enormous blue eyes surrounded by a lot of pink. Pinkie Pie pink! Oh, my, a pastel-acrylic-oil-based-on-a-markered-outline drawing of Pinkie Pie! Wearing a Santa hat! On an 11 x 17 canvas! Santa Pinkie Pie is practically bursting out of the frame, so ready is she to party. (By extraodinary stalker telepathy, my rematch Santa somehow knew that I had an empty 11 x 17 frame waiting for something to hold. Seriously, had a bunch of 'em for years without ever being able to find any art that would fit. So, perfect!).

Up next was a thick manila envelope! (Who doesn't love a mysteriously stuffed manila envelope?). Yay! Another thing to open! I LOVE opening things. And it's a sheaf of MLP stationery! Different designs! Featuring all my favorite ponies! Including a stack of Doctor Whooves! YES!

I was looking at the stationery pretty closely, trying to get good shots while I paged through the sheets, and suddenly I gasped and reeled back a little. Rematch Santa had hidden a sneak surprise in the stationery. A single sheet of Pinkie Pie with her face pressed up against the 'screen' and posing as if she's in the middle of a leaping hug attack. Hilarious! Well done, you! (That said, I'm glad nobody was around to see me being startled by a sheet of paper :P)

My rematch Santa worried I might be disappointed that the stationery is not in color, since their laser printer doesn't do color, but, seriously - PONIES!

Thank you, rematch Santa! I did not expect to be rematched for reasons that are rather complicated, so getting something with so much thought and effort put into it was an extra-nice surprise! Santa Pinkie Pie is on my wall even as I type this :D

I didn't see your reddit name on anything, or I'd put your name in the 'From Reddit Username' field. (Let me know what it is only if you want to :) )

P.S. I'm sorry though about the picture quality. Anyone reading this: know this! The lines on the stationery are clean, clear and crisp and are NOT grainy or faded, and Santa Pinkie Pie is so much richer and livelier and brighter pinker in real life. My rematch Santa did well; my iPod did not :P