This was my first year doing secret santa, and hoo boy, did I get spoiled! My santa went ALL OUT.

My first gift arrived what seemed like just days after matching: a painting kit, complete with paint and brushes, in line with my desire to learn how to paint. Alongside the easel my fiance got me, I was able to paint my first painting at home over Christmas! (no you can't see it, it's awful. next one, I promise)

Next up my santa asked me for my steam ID, and proceeded to go nuts. Altogether on Steam, santa sent my fiance and I Tropico 5, Age of Mythology (the extended edition!), Endless Legend(!!!!!!), and Spore and all its DLC. Holy crap! We were both totally astonished by her generosity, and we've already installed most of them. A couple we can't quite play on our poor, ancient machine yet, but that's just extra incentive to go forward with our plan to replace it in the next couple months!

And then came the big boxes with my "proper" gift (as my santa said). Two boxes!! Hopefully I don't miss anything! The first thing I opened were the BOWS. There was a brown-white-and-red bowtie bow, a la Matt Smith (squee!), and a red-and-gold Starfleet bow, and the blue-and-white with hearts bow that reminds me of the TARDIS <3 I went for all the smaller packages first (while sucking on peppermints, which were liberally sprinkled throughout). The next one was a really pretty gold necklace with the Targaryen crest. I've worn it everyday since, it's gorgeous and makes me feel powerful (LOL). Next was my other new favorite piece of jewelry--a bowtie necklace! I'm wearing it every time I have to wear a button-down from now on =D

Now, I don't know if my santa is super-crafty, or super-good at finding crafty stuff (although I'm fairly certain she's crafty. The bows are beautifully made!), but this next one surprised and pleased me immensely. I am the proud owner of my very own Starfleet communicator! I wore it around the house for the rest of the night, thumping my chest every time I talked to my fiance (who was considerably less amused).

I had marked a couple of phone/wallet combos in the redditgifts marketplace that I liked, and it looks like santa MADE ME MY OWN. It's personalized and it's Doctor Who and it makes me SUPER HAPPY. Next up? My very own sonic freakin' screwdriver. I haven't been able to bring myself to get it out of the packaging yet ^^;

Under that? The cutest stash ever. Seriously guys, check out the pictures. SO CUTE. The next thing I found was a Klingon phrase book, complete with a touch-and-say system! I took a video with a couple of my favorites. Of course, there's also pictures of everything.

At this point, I moved over to the final package. Dudes and dudettes, this part is like, the coolest freakin' Christmas present ever. And I'm pretty sure Santa painted 'em herself. Inside were three canvases; the first one appeared to be the silhouette of Tom Baker's head, the second, of Christopher Eccleston's. At this point, I am freaking out a little. My two favorite Doctor's, and not only that, on the two silhouettes are two of my favorite lines ever: "There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes," and "Everbody lives, Rose! Just this once, EVERYBODY LIVES!" And that's not all, no that's not all, kids: There was a third canvas, on which Santa had painted MY NAME IN GALLIFREYAN. HOLY CRAP. My fiance and I squealed like schoolgirls together and then fumbled around our apartment trying to decide where they will go. At present, they live lined up along the back of our couch, until one of us remembers to buy a hammer next time we're out.

All in all, I went into this a little leery, and came out absolutely BLOWN AWAY by the generosity of my santa. I hope my partner is even a tenth as pleased by their gifts as I am with mine, even though it took me too long to write this review (I've been sick, unfortunately.) Seriously y'all, my santa gets a gold star this year--I'm not sure I could've received more perfect presents if I'd picked them myself. THANK YOU SHINYXIAN!!!