Showing posts with label secret santa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secret santa. Show all posts

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Shopping Handmade: Secret Santa for Al

Hello everyone!


Having a good Saturday? I've arrived home only a lil while ago, after going to Madrid with my friends to see the Christmas lights (a bit late, you might think, but we have still presents day on Jan 6th, so Christmas holidays are still not over), and we did a bit of walking around, some picture taking and some eating around!






We also exchanged gifts, since we had set up a Secret Santa (we call it the Invisible Friend over here) among us four. I got my friend Al, and I went the handmade route to keep with my ongoing resolution of buying as much handmade as possible!




Since he works in a bank, I decided to get him a tie, but I didn't want a boring store-bought tie, and upon Amber from RockerByeBaby recommendation, I went to RokGear's Etsy shop, and found that I really had some issues choosing just one! I was lucky and scored an amazing periwinkle tie that was on sale (which mean I could get another gift, and not just one!).






Al really liked the colour and the design, and the fact that it is hand-printed, he says he can't wait till he can show it off at work!




For my next gift I was looking for something B&B related, cause he's one of those guys that likes taking care of his looks, and is one of the few straight guys I know that uses a moisturizer daily! So, I got him a Shaving Gift Set from Red Leaf. It includes After-Shave lotion, Shaving soap and a super cool chrome stand to keep the soap! They offered good variety of scents, and I chose Black Tea, and wow, it does smell great!






This, once again, he liked a lot, kept on sniffing everything and already put some of the after-shave lotion on his face to see how it felt! I suspect he'll ask me to get him more once he runs out of it!




I really like the scent, so I might get Gaurav a set too, with the Black Tea scent or the English coast one... or both!



See you later, with the Sunday Shots!

Monday, December 21, 2009

Shopping Handmade: Secret Santa for work

Hi there everyone!


I'm guessing you must be wondering... "Where the heck are Sunday Shots!?" well, they are in the making, I have to say that for the most part it's my fault, I haven't been too inspired this past week, nor was I today, so maybe later today or tomorrow they'll be up!


Last Friday was work's Christmas dinner and Secret Santa gift exchange! I got a super cute Hello Kitty set of pj's (huge Hello Kitty fan here, so that was a big score!), and the person receiving my Etsy & handmade purchased gift loved it too!


I got a gift set of bath & body goodies from DressGreen, that included body cream, lipbalm, hand cream (travel size) and perfume oil, all packed up super cute in a take out box!




And here's Mayte, my co-worker and lucky owner of those goodies now!



And I know I've been promising this for the past two weeks, but I'm hoping I'll blog a bit more this week!