So what did Santa bring you?

[BrilloPad]

Oh for those of you who do not feel well/kids not feeling well, hope you feel better soon.

hear hear. And make sure you keep away from us while contagious :-)

[realityhack]

squirrel flu?

Yes, just kicking in now. Had a bad cough for a while and now everything aches. Excellent.

The courage to say goodbye to my bf.

HURaah!

Nice one Lucy - hope you're feeling a lot better for it too - here's to new beginnings.

1 remote control helicopter (this is very cool, though the noise it makes is worsening my headache).
Banksy book.
Set of Staedtler pro drawing pens.
Set of Rotring Marsograph pens with usual accessories, compass thingy, pencil etc - with spare nibs and ink.
Chocolates.
2 T-shirts, one a bit lame and the other excellent.
Aveda shaving stuff, ThisWorks muscle rub (which doesn't bloody work).
A bottle of my favorite Armagnac.
A couple of half decent bottles of red and a bottle of Bolly.
More chocolates.
Bottle of black sambuca.
The Times sudoku calendar.
Some Moleskine notebooks.
Set of solid silver cufflinks in a funky design.

[Diver]

Yes, just kicking in now. Had a bad cough for a while and now everything aches. Excellent.


Nice one Lucy - hope you're feeling a lot better for it too - here's to new beginnings.

1 remote control helicopter (this is very cool, though the noise it makes is worsening my headache).
Banksy book.
Set of Staedtler pro drawing pens.
Set of Rotring Marsograph pens with usual accessories, compass thingy, pencil etc - with spare nibs and ink.
Chocolates.
2 T-shirts, one a bit lame and the other excellent.
Aveda shaving stuff, ThisWorks muscle rub (which doesn't bloody work).
A bottle of my favorite Armagnac.
A couple of half decent bottles of red and a bottle of Bolly.
More chocolates.
Bottle of black sambuca.
The Times sudoku calendar.
Some Moleskine notebooks.
Set of solid silver cufflinks in a funky design.

You had goodstuff, I had the usual round of uselessstuff

[wantacontract]

some good some bad

b ball shorts - too long......plus i have 4 already.....sigh
vests - ok
bamboo steamer - useless
kangol hat and shower stuff - nice but not my bag
face towels - really needed these
sweetcorn forks - useless junk
small jigsaw of piano - i hate jigsaws
t-shirt - yeah!! (I chose it myself)
simpsons chocolate - i am not 5 you know...........
Frying pan set - i have two frying pans already....
hand made soap - do i smell of something....
two crap plates from ikea - need i say more......
cadburys chocolate fingers - not too bad.......I'll give it to someone else for pressie
tin of quality street - i hate quality street

gifts I gave:

fuji digital camera
womens boots
box set dvd of heroes

I don't want lots of presents that are junk, just one big present will be nice.......

[realityhack]

You had goodstuff, I had the usual round of uselessstuff

I long ago made it clear through hinting, comments when buying presents for others with the other half, when shopping etc - that presents with no useful or practical value are completely pointless (i.e. TAT). The rc helicopter is an exception to this rule - but my brother always buys cool tat. For my sister's wedding he bought bride & groom a super-soaker water pistol each.

[Diver]

Tools, boxes of screws, Printer cartridges, etc. useful stuff that I need and use regularly would be nice.

What do I get.

Wine - don't drink

A stupid 6" miniature leather armchair with remote control holder and beer bottle holder - carp, straight in bin

Fluffy bigfoot slippers - straight in bin

Old spice assortment - straight in bin

Whiskey - don't drink

Y fronts - hate em - straight in bin

Thermos Flask & Hand warmers - Excellent

[wantacontract]

diver, you wanna swop any stuff that's useless in my post?

I'll take the fluffy bigfoot slippers off ya!

[Diver]

diver, you wanna swop any stuff that's useless in my post?

I'll take the fluffy bigfoot slippers off ya!

Gave drink to my brother (who didn't buy me anything but came up and did a load of work on my new house instead )

Rest in bottom of wheely bin already

[Troll]

Set of Staedtler pro drawing pens.
Set of Rotring Marsograph pens with usual accessories, compass thingy, pencil etc - with spare nibs and ink.

Me old man used to be a draughtsman for TNPC way back, so I'm familiar with those brands... I always thought with PC's & plotters the trade would have died out - what use will you put them to?

[realityhack]

Me old man used to be a draughtsman for TNPC way back, so I'm familiar with those brands... I always thought with PC's & plotters the trade would have died out - what use will you put them to?

Dad's an architect - the old school kind who has never had to use a computer/plotter as he can do all that quicker by hand than his business partner who uses a plotter and spends half the time programming it. Always been in awe at his ability to draw in perspective and almost exactly to scale - by hand, straight lines/circles/ellipses with no rulers or templates, very quickly.

He buys the stuff for me as I use it for my design work and fine art - layout, storyboarding, wireframing and concept work prior to photoshop/illustrator work. I always work out the concepts on paper before firing up the computer, it's just quicker that way.

The fine art is just a 12-years-and-counting hobby at the moment - getting more serious lately - but pigment ink fineliners are still highly useful as much of my stuff is charcoal ink and wash before the oil paints come out.