Two very good things happened today. First, the school at which I teach closed at lunchtime due to bad weather. But even more exciting than that, I arrived home to find the most beautifully wrapped parcel waiting for me on my doorstep. I just about contained myself enough to be able to take pictures of the unboxing. The first delightful thing I found was a totally adorable, hand made Totoro! It's obvious that ohhelloaleks has out a huge amount of work into it and I love it so, so much. Lots of people have Totoro plushies, but I have a handmade one! But wait, there's more. My next bit of unwrapping revealed another, much smaller forest spirit. Cute as a button. And then the third parcel I unwrapped completed the set with a middle sized blue spirit. As if this wasn't already an awesome selection of gifts, another rummage in the box turned up a tiny package, delicately tied up with brown thread. Imagine my delight when I opened it to reveal a handful of nuts, just like the ones Totoro gives Satsuki in the film. I thought it couldn't get any better at this point. But I was wrong. Nestled snugglly in the bottom of the box was a parcel wrapped inconspicuously in brown paper. Inside was an art book of my favourite Ghibli film, Kiki's Delivery Service.

I am overwhelmed at the thought and care ohhelloaleks has put into this fabulous collection of gifts. This has been by far my favourite redditgifts exchange so far.