So, my Santa was great, wrote me immediately when he/she looked at my details and was superkind telling me that I was a great giftee and writing lots of compliments that boosted my self-esteem!

And then, one day, I woke up... and I was an elf!! I went elf last year and I enjoyed it very much, but this year I thought that maybe it was better to spend a bit more on my match present so I didn't double the elf experience... but my Santa did that for me!

He/she also wrote there is also a package on its way, but unfortunately it isn't here yet.

There's no reason to worry since italian mail is not so great during the holidays, because here in Italy Christmas and New Year connect to another holiday on January 6th, so everything stops and delays in this period of the year with holidays and saturdays and sundays in the middle... my boyfriend's gift arrived yesterday and I am sure my package will arrive in the next days.

I wanted to wait for it so I could post all the pictures together, but in the end the redditgifts mail 'post it now!' arrived and I decided to interpret the first part of my gift t(hat I enjoyed a lot in these days browsing the gallery and giving elf awards!!!)

I will update and repost as soon as the rest of the gift arrives!

For now I can only say THANK YOU to my great Santa, I appreciated a lot the elf benefits and also your kind words!!

Merry Late Christmas from Italy!

EDIT: My package arrived!!!

It was an envelope qith 20 (20!!!) Magnets with scientists names and a design inspired to the corresponding scientist.. I love this kind of simple but clever graphics! In the package there was also a postcard with 4 scientist that are famous for their role of science communicators and explainers, and their inspirational quotes: very nice! I don't know if I mentioned it in my profile, but I worked explaining science to people, children and teenagers in festivals and events dedicated to science. I think that's a great thing, because if more scientists try to explain people their science and their discoveries in an easy language the world would be a tiny bit better. So, thank you Santa!! I appreciate!

You told me in a message that you hoped there where some of my heroes among these scientists... they all are heroes in my opinion! Anyway I was very happy to find in there Ada Lovelace, a girl mathematician that worked at the firs idea of a computer... in the first half of 1800s!! I also especially love Newton, one of physics fathers, Mandelbrot that gives the name to Mandelbrot set from whic you can draw beautiful fractals. I also love the work of Maxwell, Faraday, and Tesla (the latter was a bit mad, it seems, but who is not?). I love the design of Feynman magnet, with a typical Feynman diagram, and of Edison magnet that is original because it doesn't have the usual light bulb!

So, again, thank you, I now have enough magnets to cover every surface at home :-) I put some on a mangetic board (they keep in place the pizza delivery service and the ice cream delivery service sheets!) and some on the magnetic board that's in front of my desk. I'll think about a good place for the others!

Thank you again :-) I love everything!