Part 1 (June 24, 2013): I was so excited when I got my post today! I was at work so I couldn't read it too much but I've got home now and settled in to the world of Bon Temps!

I love cocktails and True Blood so it was such a perfect choice! And I know my friends will be trying to fight for it too (I might let them for some Dead Red Cupcakes!)

I was inspired to have a play so I mixed up some of the drinks from the book! (Well sort of didn't quite have the ingredients!) These cocktails will do bad things to you :-P

It's a gorgeous book - full of pictures and quotes from the show and I had a 'bon temps' reading it!

Now its time to toast thanks to my wonderful Santa, DerbieDerb, and pick my next taste of Bon Temps to try.

Also DerbieDerb shared that there's another parcel on the way from Canada so I'll update when it arrives. I really am so grateful!

Part 2 (July 1, 2013):

The lovely DerbieDerb had already made my day buy sending me the TrueBlood book but I still really excited to receive another gift :-)

A parcel arrived today with a lil reddit alien in a box - I very excited and couldn't wait to open it!

As soon as I opened it I could smell "Canada" and out came a tin of maple sweets and a maple leaf of sugar! I love getting something local from the area so that was great - can't wait for a taste of Canada!

Also there were some super cute and snuggly socks, a card and two wrapped parcels.

I opened the lovely handmade card - thank you for the lovely note :-) and then dug out my scissors!

And inside were two beautiful necklaces :-D A lovely silver one with loops and a black leather one with silver beads.

I am so happy with all my gifts - DerbieDerb you really made my day and I'm so pleased you were my Santa!

Thank you so much!!