Okay so first of all, I've been visiting the gallery a lot lately, and I've been deeply jealous of all the gorgeous pets everyone has posed with their gifts. We have no pets (so many allergies!) but I do have this triceratops footstool and he's very amenable to sitting still for photos..

Anyway, I am SO excited about my SS parcel which arrived this morning. I've only just shipped mine yesterday so (despite my Santa's apologies) I totally understand and tbh I prefer having the parcel to open closer to Christmas.

I was an absolute pain this year in my requests so it's extra impressive that SS managed to nail this so well. I signed up in the very last minutes so my SS requests were varied and random. I mentioned my son a few times because I appreciate sometimes it's difficult to shop for me and I'm genuinely always happy to have something for him instead. I mentioned that we like playing games and he loves maps (absolutely canes us at Where is Moldova?) so SS bought us Mapominos Europe! This is so perfect because we actually already have the UK version. We haven't given it a go yet (it's a recent acquisition and my son has autism; it takes a while for him to warm up to something new but when he does it's 100%) but I am VERY excited about it and I know we'll really enjoy playing it.

The nail polish- bless your heart, I saw the comment "I've never had to buy nail polish before" and it made me smile. I honestly thought I was giving an easy thing to buy there when I said I fancied the China Glaze Grinch collection- it's a safe bet, small to post, and well within the SS budget. Apparently it's turned out to be stupidly popular and actually tough to find this year, so really well done on that! This shade is wonderful and if I remember I might update with a picture when I do my nails again. The OPI is also spot on- it's my backup brand, and I love purples.

I've never had smoked almond butter but I do absolutely love smoked almonds and I'm going to struggle to not just eat this with a spoon. (Good call on the crunchy style as well!)

I will be using the labels immediately thank you, it's hilarious actually that I even put those in. I think I'd just been bottling this year's sloe gin and that need was fresh in my mind! And yes the gin sign did put a smile on my face.

Sorry this is TL;DR for everyone else but I really do appreciate this level of effort and thoughtfulness. I hope my SS's gift is as nice as the one he/she assembled for me. Merry Christmas!