Hooray! :) This package was in my room when I got home for winter break!


So beautiful! I didn't want to open it because it would ruin the artwork. But I did anyways. D:


Inside! a wonderful little note.


Immediately inside were a shirt and a headband! I'm pretty sure the headband is handmade and it is beautiful.


There were wrapped goodies under! :O


Really adorable animals that I can't wait to use. :D


A wonderful owl keychain!!


SOCUTE SOCK MONSTER.


A friendship bracelet!


hehe! I do love gnomes.


chcocolate Euros! I was fascinated by their Euro-ness and I don't know why.


more chocolate! :D


and more chocolate! All this chocolate is a godsend really because well, #1, I love chocolate, but #2 I have an enormous sweet tooth and I forgot that my parents don't keep many sweets around the house.


obligatory group shot! :)

Thank you Lonneke! Everything is amazing and I love it all! ♡

Santa is back again to sweeten up your life!




The shipping deadlines for Secret Santa are as follows:

International senders: December Wednesday the 7th
Domestic senders: December Wednesday the 14th

If for some reason you cannot send by these dates or if you cannot send at all, let me know ASAP!!

Please e-mail Santa if you have questions about SS or if you have additional questions for your recipient!

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS (do not request people)____________________
kathleenisradical
Outlaw01
nikolina100
bcrider
nonbloggerholly
Twiggyhall
Polyester Jones
Mountain Gnome
squintygirl
lonkiponk
Jet Approves
lemonalle
Ryder Revolution
HorsefaceDee
xnarx
pyr4lis
courtney pie
Mya Jamila
Phifferette
Jake Friedman
Stoma
rhythmdev9
thirteendaisies

I've outgrown you, or you've outgrown me. :(

Either way, one of us has got to stop growing.

Love,
Hanna

PS- HOW ARE YOU? HI, I MISS YOU.

I know no one's around right now but I still want to show you my secret santa goods.



So I got this sweet little package last weekend from my secret santa. And when I opened it I decided to be lazy and use photobooth. Also, I am swaddled in blankets because I am very cold.


an entire case of pear om noms! what I always wanted! haha just kibblings.


a sweet little note from Ms Amelia!


it's those iron on fuzzy things and they're yellow!


a yellow fuzzy belt! now my pants will stay up! huzzah!


so I'm a giant packaging whore. Amelia wins at packaging/gift wrapping.

yay! I always put that I don't want scented things unless it's from Lush because Lush=never fails and I got a yummy Lush soap! :D


more packaging win!
after I opened it though I decided to get my lazy duff off the bed and use a real camera because I can't hold three awesome cookie cutters at once.

hehehe I'll have to make some creature baked goods!


see how much packaging and candyness win? The chocolate coins were Canadian coins and for whatever reason, I was highly amused...


I'm glad that you used clementine mesh♡ haha


aw heart shaped swirly crayons! :D sadly they broke but I've actually been experimenting with melting crayons into my own molds at school, so when I get back to school I'll try to stick them back together with my heat gun! (this is like the fourth time in the week I've been home that I've regretted not bringing it. oh darn.)


more lush!! :O


yay chalk for the chalkboard!


Awwwwwesome cat guy head! he's so squishsquish!


This is sad, but there was a broken glass jar. :(
This is actually a really neat gift though because the jar was for a terrarium and it included instructions, activated charcoal, and little houses and a mushroom which are of course necessities for a terrarium! I shall have to try to find another glass jar for this because it's too exciting to let go!




and then...

a sneezy laughing cat


a reptile of some sort


a confused mammal


and a contemplative walrus all jumped out of the package!
we played a few games of ring around the rosy and ate some candy canes. it was a joyous time.

Thank you Amelia! Everything is amazing, even the broken jar! I've actually been wanting broken glass for the last semester and that sounds weird, but I wanted to incorporate broken glass with ceramics and I hadn't had the chance but now I have broken glass, hoorah! :D I hope you have a happy holiday! ♡

hm, so.
this boy texted me something strange. it said:

"you know, sometimes you make me feel like biting into a giant marshmellow right before the hot cocoa burns my tongue."

what the hell is that?!

Everyone should have gotten an e-mail with their person by now!

If you are interested in being an elf, e-mail threadlesssecretsanta at gmail.com with your name.

Elves are not always used, but I will contact one if neccessary. Elves generally remain anonymous so I will not post a list here. People participating this year may not be elves!

For Santas

EXTRA QUESTIONS

If you would like to ask your person questions, e-mail me the question and who your person is. Sorry, I can't possibly memorize who everone has!

SENDING DUE DATES

sending internationally: Thursday, December 2nd 2010
sending domestically: Thursday, December 9th 2010

e-mail me after you send and recieve!!

If you have trouble with this deadline, let me know asap!

(THIS BLOG IS NOW A YEAR OLD BUT I STILL WANT TO TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT SHOULD BE CHANGED)

I feel like some sort of animal that is gone and returns annually for Secret Santa. It's a ritual. Or maybe a habit.

I need help this year though.

hi.
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SECRET SANTA

Oh yes, I'm serious. I'm not starting it quite yet, but I started it early Sept. last year and I want to get some feedback and input from the community before it gets rolling again. This year, I'm pretty sure I'll do it with Nicole again, like it was in 2008.

Brace yourselves, this may be a long read.


What are things that should be changed?

Like I know in past years, some people have not gotten packages, and even though I implemented the Elf system, often that falls through as well. Any thoughts on what could be done as a step after that? I've tried reimbursement; like sending an Elf something in turn for their service, but usually Elves don't want reimbursement, they do it out of kindness, and then they get busy around the holiday season.

What about newer/unknown members?

Regulars usually want to be a Santa to someone they know, but every year, new and unknown people join, and often because they may not be on the blogs much, and therefore not as invested in the community, the packages don't get sent or they're kind of half-assed because they don't know the person well. They also don't have really great communication with me like if I send them an e-mail, I sometimes have to wait a while for a response, and sometimes I don't get a reply at all. I know there's been talk about just NOT allowing unknown people to join. I don't know if that's fair, and I don't even know what kind of guidelines we could set for that, but what do you think?

The Questionnaire

What do you think of it? Can it be improved? What questions should we add or take out?

Right now I want to add
-do you smoke?
-do you have any piercings?

This is last year's questionnaire. (ignore the last one, that's just for sorting. :P)

Username:
Real name:
Address including country:

Willing to ship internationally?

Some of your favorites/stuff you want:
-books/novels/stories/etc:
-colors/color combinations:
-guilty pleasures:
-music:
-candy/snacks:
-animals:
-scents:

Dislikes?
Allergies?

Are you stalkable? (flickr, wist, facebook, etc please provide links!)

Do you have pets?
Any shirts you want?
Shirt size?

Anything else your Secret Santa should know?
Pick a number (1-20):


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Ok, that's all I can think of now. If you have something to bring up, please do so, and those who haven't participated in SS before are welcome to make suggestions. I thank you if you read this entire thing! :)

PS- I'm posting this at 3:30am EST because I've been doing/am doing RA training and orientation and that stuff lasts aaaall day and this is the only time I have. :P I'll bump it in the morning and if i have breaks!

On Saturday, I recieved a summer secret santa lovely package from mr Tyler/Todow himself! My brain's pretty much just been full of the World Cup lately so I forgot to make a blog, but I did take pictures of the wonders that were inside the package!

Thanks a lot Tyler! I had a lot of fun opening it and I love it all! ♥


First, a note identifying the secret santa!


Meow! A blank paper mache cat mask that I will have to decorate! :3


A comic book and a bookmark! I haven't read it yet, but it sounds interesting!


ooooooooh

a cute little cup made by Tyler himself! want a sip?

haha, sucks for you. I drank it all.


hehe some Pokemon noms. I used to have these when I was little, just not Pokemon flavored. ;)


One of a kind letterpressed journal! This kind of thing for a happy Hanna makes.


And everything was in this really cool colorful burlap backpack that was apparently handmade in the Himalayas! My sister really wants it, but she cannot have it.

Bye guys, I'm going to school.

I made a gigantic monster for my sculpture class. There's an actually messages and stuff behind it, but I'm sure you'll be ok with just the pictures.


Meet Oliver!


He is an excellent student


he has many friends (they're small monsters that I gave to my classmates+prof)


He loves them all!


He's really cuddly and awesome. He was made to give you hugs. Nobody can resist him!


He is my buddy. ♥

He is 100% sewn by hand. For scale, please consider the fact that I am 5' 10" (~177.8 cm).

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There was a free hugs event at the park today. (one of the organizers happen to be a Threadlesser- Elwood78! :) ) I took Oliver of course. and Brian.






this thing is seriously a kid magnet.




:)

Well Kelsi seems pretty busy so I thought I'd just make my own blog. Part of my Etsy sales until August 12th will be donated to the cause.



These are some of the items in the shop. Right now it's mostly just more girly stuff but I hope to make and list other items when school's out.
Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade
hannabear.etsy.com



There's also monster drawings involved over here in Becca's blog. :) (That image up there is just doodles of monsters that I doodle during math class. Clearly, I like to name them all for some reason. :P)