I received a BEAUTIFUL Audubon weekly calendar, which is perfect for planning lessons and other bits in detail AND fits perfectly into my bag! The photos are amazing and I have to stop myself from 'spoiling' future me by looking too much at some of them. I'd never heard of this magazine (?) before, but the pictures are definitely going to find themselves re-purposed after 2015 as pictures on my wall.

I was also extremely lucky to receive a second gift, a gorgeous gold-leaf Q&A 5-year diary, asking a different question every day of the year across 5 years, so that you can look back and see how things have changed in your life (or haven't!). I was really torn about how to write this gift up, as I actually have one of these! I was stuck because usually at this point I'd just pretend I didn't already own one, but I'm owning up for the following reasons:

1) It shows just how good a job my santa did, giving me something that I also fell in love with and went slightly insane over years ago (I gave copies to several people too!) 2) I'm nearing the end of mine and was only the other day worrying that by the time it came to 'renewing' it the book might be out of print. Now I have a lovely, scuff-free version just waiting to go in a year and a bit!

A huge thank you to my santa; I hope you received equally amazing gifts! I can't wait to use my weekly planner in what will (hopefully) be a busy and productive 2015, and I just hope I don't get too excited using the Q&A diary that the next 5 years whizz by too quickly!