I collect Bicycle card decks, and interestingly this is the second time the Guardian deck has shown up. The first time was my July 2013 "Hometown" SS, who created a cloudy sunset beach poster with the Guardian Ace propped in the sand. And now I have the real deck for my collection. Funny how that works out.

The Book Of Secrets has provided moments of bedside reading.

The blue writing book is beautiful. I will be using it to write my mentalism routines. Correctly the sticker on the package suggests that it will take your breath away.

And finally, I am one of those people who use a different colour pen for everything I do. If I sudoku in one colour, I crossword in another. These pens are nice addition - almost normal black ink, but with subtle green and purple overtones. I'm probably the only person who would notice. But hey, it's my thing!

Thanks Santa!