I want to thank everyone who sent gifts in our direction! We had an awesome day and all 5 kids LOVED their gifts!! A special thank you to my partner, What lovely gifts you sent! Thank you so very much! I Wish All of you a Very Merry Fishmas, Christmas and New Year! Hope your Holidays are safe and happy!

From Me and my Gaggle to you and yours!

ONE MORE "SLEEP" TIL PRESENT OPEN TIME !
I will be opening them FIRST THING when I get to work at 10 a.m.
I have them all stacked up beside the computer, will clik on to the " - party" site and then start "tearing" into them !
Being GOOD til then is part of the FUN

It's Opening Day!!!


I hope we get to hear about everyone's gifts!


I wish you all a very




And a Happy & Healthy 2012!

I don't know how many of you are still up opening your gifts, but I just opened mine:

From curlyQ I received:

My favourite coffee from Starbucks "Christmas Blend"
A yummy bar of Lindt's Sea Salt Dark Chocolate
a tin of Deluxe Mixed Nuts and
a reindeer ornament

Thank you curlyQ and I hope you liked your gifts. I wish you and all of your family a wonderful Christmas.



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From Missakissa (my new friend from the Rock) I received:
a cute glass Santa Claus ornament (I'm amazed it arrived intact!)
a make-up bag with mini toothpaste, mouthwash & dental floss
a bottle of bodycology fragrance mist "vanilla cupcake" scent
a little box of chocolate covered wafers and some loose treats
a mini Montreal Canadiens Calendar
a 2012 Trivia Desk Calendar
a travel journal and
a book by one of my favourite authors, Lynn Kurland, "With Every Breath" which I know I will enjoy.

Thank you for everything; I feel very spoiled.

I hope you enjoyed your gifts as much as I did shopping for them. You'll notice that I stuck with your favourite snowman theme. You'll also have noticed that one of your gifts is in French, but I thought that you would be able to use most of it anyway. Enjoy! Have a very merry Fishmas!

The benefit of insomnia is that I get to open right away!

And my wonderful gifts from luckyguy:

- crossword puzzle book
- Burt's Bees lipbalm
- kitten calendar
- gold leaf ornament
- a bag of Lindt chocolates (had to test those right away)
- a box of Twinings Lady Grey tea
- a tea set with mug, tea ball (the cat liked that - shiny and round!), tea tin, tea and cookies
- candy canes (okay, I ate those ages ago)

I am drinking tea from my new mug and eating chocolate now, and my lipbalm is by the keyboard ready for handy application (I leave them all over the house).

Thanks, luckyguy, I love it all, plus yours are the only gifts that actually come wrapped this year.

From FabienLesley I got:

A cool collection of autobiographies
a rootbeer bear ornament
VERY COOL pens with winnie the pooh, eyore etc with a honeypot holder
a couple other little things

I loved everything, thank you sooo much!!!

Thank you Pearls and Lynda for the wonderful gifts! I got a great deal of chocolate, my FAVORITE coffee pods!!! A fantastic photo frame with my traveling gnome, (and a Leafs gnome!!!) A Leafs ornament, a Christmas countdown, a scent diffuser, a notepad (really nice!!!) and some lovely treats for my furry friends too! Thanks you so much! Also, my guppies loved their gifts from Nrthrnstr and Lyndas guppies, and Luckyguy wanted me to thank Niffy for his gifts as well, he loved them Merry Fishmas everyone!!! (I may have forgotten a few things, it doesn't mean I didn't love them, it means the old grey mare ain't what she used to be!!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS ! I got my christmas tunes playing and everything laid out to open !

My Christmas exchange partner is KELROCKS !

I AM OPENING WHILE I TYPE THIS :
~ blue oven mitts with pretty little snowmen on them (they'll be so cute in my all blue kitchen) thanks !
~ OOOOOH !!! 2 beautiful silver glitter reindeer: oooooh they are gorgeous ! They will definitely be on my tree tonite !
~ some lip balm and I've tried it already. nice soft lips !
~ WHITE Hot chocolate (w/polar bears on pkg.) Hot chocolate with a christmas puppy and Cookies 'n Creme Biscuits (nutcracker design inside) I'll be into those very very sooooon I've never had white hot chocolate before or cookies n' creme biscuits
~ A christmas emery board and a little package of hot pink emery boards (how did you know I need to file my nails at work so as not to "nick" the lingerie ? always need emery boards ! )
~ 2 packages of DOG TREATS for Leenie. her favorite ! (did I tell you those are her favorites ? or are you just a good "guesser" of good gifts ? one chicken & one ham & cheese. I opened the ham & cheese for her. Tell La La .. she's in back playing with one of them already !
~ OH! a beautiful glittery peacock blue cosmetic mirror with shiny stars all over it ! and its got the "2 mirrors" (magnify/regular)
and now I'm opening the last gift (like you haven't spoiled me already
~awww a little puffy santa claus w/a bell ! ... ever cute !
and ....
~oh wow ! a little picture SANTA CLAUS FRAME ! is he everrr cute ! (incentive to take a new memory christmas photo)

Thanks Kelrocks! and Leenie thanks La La !
have a wonderful Merry FIRST Christmas in your new home !
May you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy Healthy Prosperous New Year !

now I'm going to go make myself some white chocolate & munch on some cookies 'n creme biscuits while I watch everyone open their gifts !


A BIG THANKS TO PEARLS FOR MAKING THIS "CHRISTMAS OPENING DAY" SO MUCH FUN ! Merry Christmas to you and your family & Happy New Years !

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
+ HAPPY NEW YEARS
TO ALL MY " - cousins" !

Merry Fishmas! Have just finished opening my gift from jl24! I got:

- a beautiful Christmas card that looks handmade...did you make that yourself, jl24? It's awesome, I love it (and it's my only card this year)

- a package of Orange Brandy coffee...yummy...can't wait to try it!

- a little star shaped potpourri ornament (orange cinnamon scent) Ohhhh....it smells sooooo goooood...

- a snowman tealight candle holder...he's so cute, I'm going to put him on top of my tv!

AND jl24 remembered my spoiled rotten fat cat too! A package of treats for her!

Thanks so much for the gift, I love it, and am hoping that you like yours! So glad that I was able to join the exchange this year, and I'm already looking forward to next year! Merry Fishmas everyone, and a special thanks to my partner and to Pearls for setting it all up!

I'm a bad fishy I totally forgot it was opening day and being on the west coast, I could've opened it prior to midnight last night. I completely forgot!

At least the tree is going up today (hopefully - we are so far behind!) and I get to look forward to doing it after work.

Merry Fishy Christmas to all the Guppies and Fishies in the pond!

Well i got a lovely gift from my partner, a beatiful little hand blown glass dog!! , a lovely Christmas ornament, body wash, a little compact mirror in a case all very much appreciated and loved. i really love the little dog...!! thank you

Originally posted by curlyQ Thank you Pearls and Lynda for the wonderful gifts! I got a great deal of chocolate, my FAVORITE coffee pods!!! A fantastic photo frame with my traveling gnome, (and a Leafs gnome!!!) A Leafs ornament, a Christmas countdown, a scent diffuser, a notepad (really nice!!!) and some lovely treats for my furry friends too! Thanks you so much! Also, my guppies loved their gifts from Nrthrnstr and Lyndas guppies, and Luckyguy wanted me to thank Niffy for his gifts as well, he loved them Merry Fishmas everyone!!! (I may have forgotten a few things, it doesn't mean I didn't love them, it means the old grey mare ain't what she used to be!!)

I'm glad you and your guppies enjoyed your gifts CurlyQ!! I won't be opening our gifts until my guppy comes home on wednesday from a 3 day field trip.

We love our gifts from Autumn & her guppy.

I got a beautiful ornament & bookmark with the See no evil frogs on it. I can see me spending more time watching the frogs move than read, lol.
My guppies each got a wooden brain puzzle and a battle bug.

Also in the box were kinder surprises, ice cap mix, a glue dot dispenser & some glitter glues (we go through alot of these)

Happy holidays everyone!

My partner was really good to me :-D

-4 large Hershey chocolate bars(I had to fight off the little buggers. Cookies and Creme is my 9yr old's fav)

-Lovely Christmas card

-Santa Christmas ornament(so cute)

-makeup bag filled with little things of Smashbox cosmetics!!(I'm guessing the little bottle of clear is lip gloss?)

Thank you and Merry Christmas!!

I opened my gift today and received:

-a pad of paper
-mint chocolates
-a small sign
-two soaps
-a facial masque!
-a foot care brush
-lip balm
It was so nice to open something today.