To my santa, if you read this, your gift is amazing, and I absolutely love it. It suits me perfectly and once I can decide on what the right place is it will be displayed proudly to be seen everyday.

Alright now for everyone else who might be reading this I'll get to the gift now. It arrived at my doorstep in a fairly mundane UPS box, it was rather light, and it was marked as fragile. So after taking it in and removing the tape I opened the box and found two pieces of foam taped together and wrapped in a ribbon, and a letter folded and sealed with stamped wax.

Now let me have an aside here for a second, I'm big into medieval history and I love the fact that the letter was sealed the old fashioned way. Not only that but the seal itself was a lion rampant, which is very common in medieval heraldry.

Anyways, I heated up a knife, and did my best to try to remove the seal without damaging the paper underneath. My attempt proved to be futile as the wax had been a little too hot for the paper when it was applied and burned a whole through one of the pages (whoops) but that's alright, the thought was amazing and it's the thought that counts. Moving on, the letter reads:

"To Osric250, Your profile on redditgifts suggested something handmade for your gift, which I appreciated and thought "great!" ... But then I remembered I suck at handmaking Anything. Shit. And then, in the depths of my despair, I thought more about what I'd find amazing as a gift. Since I work as an Archaeologist and deal with awesome lithic tools, I thought and thought about pictures I could take to send, or maps I could draw, then remembered that though I am not very talented, my grandfather is! So for your present I commissioned him to make you a blade from Mahogony obsidian found in the area where I work. The handle is antler and sinew to bind it (with a little glue[I think this is the right word, it's where the burn is.], of course!) I hope you like it, as well as the little rock enclosed, which is from my site. I would have given you an artifact, but that's a felony and my conscience as a scientist didn't let me! Cheers from Utah! Santa"

Well I'm glad you didn't do anything that would violate your ethics, I certainly wouldn't want that, and you did incredible with what you had to work with. I absolutely love the knife and it will go well with the rest of my things. And the rock is neat too! I was never that good at geology, (I always prefer plants and animals in nature) but it's awesome that it has come from your site!

The knife itself is really well crafted as well. The obsidian is well chiseled, the handle is nicely contoured for gripping, and the sinew is very tightly bound. Your grandfather really knows his craft.

There is only one thing at all that I can complain about this gift. And that is that the ribbon that was wrapping the foam contained glitter, and now I am finding specks of glitter on my hands and probably will for the next week! Evil evil glitter!