
First of all – for never doing something like this before, I am so darn pleased with the level of participation (14 Secret Santas) and most of all – realizing how amazingly creative and thoughtful you are. I mean, I KNEW you gals were good, but I had no idea how special and personal you made all your gifts. And since I drew names out of the hat – many of you were paired with people you didn’t know quite so well. My proverbial sorting hat is tilted to you, ladies, and your kickass gift giving skills!
So, I know you are all dying to see who had who and who gave what. And since there are a few fanfic gems and smoking hawt pics and banners, consider them your MmmmmMonday selections.
ENJOY!
SBDGT (Betti Gefecht’s Secret Santa Recipient)
"I can say that I absolutely loved my gift from Betti! She took everything I love (Jackson, Texas, & me being a Pisces) and gave me the best present this year! I love homemade gifts the best. I cannot thank her enough. It was a new banner for my blog, a button for my friends to link to me, a HOT banner for my FanFic Together Again, and a pic of Jackson that had me staring (and drooling) forever!
"The Story: I got an anonymous comment giving me a mysterious link telling me I should wait till Christmas. I've never been much for peeking so I was trying to wait. I was coaxed into checking it while I was at work. I cried! I *squeed* I got strange looks from my co-workers... it was AWESOME!
"I cannot thank her enough and I wish I could have had a camera on me when I realized that in the pic of my "Secret Santa" (Jasper) I saw his... SHOULDER! (This was prior to shirtless Jackson) My friends at work now realize I am crazy :) "
From Betti: And my own Secret Santa 'victim' was SBGDGT, the fanfic writing, Jacksper loving pretzel artist. I don't know whether it's just me (no pun intended, Itsjustme... LOL), but I so LOVED to have to think about a present for someone that was assigned to me - so exciting!!
I made her a complete set of a new header and buttons for her blog and her fuckhawt lemony fic. And then I left her anonymous teasers and hints on her blog, impatiently waiting for her to find her present. But she didn't even stir. Darn girl said she wanted to wait until Christmas - WTF?!?
I teased her brainless on twitter until she couldn't stand it anymore and went off have a look. And then... nothing! Silence! After like 15 minutes I considered calling 911... afraid she might have suffered apnea or a sudden heart failure.
But finally she tweeted again, delighting me with a multiple tweet happydance freakout orgasm. WOOT!!
Uhm... yes, I guess I liked that Secret Santa concept... because I think... ITWASFUCKINGAWESOME!!!!!!!
Is it Christmas again yet? Is it???”
Amazing Jacksper Bloggy buttons and websiteMrsVanquish (Hmmille’s Secret Santa Recipient)
"She knit Alice gloves for me!!! (Because she so often hears me saying that I'm freezing so fast)
She got me a Vampire magazine with True Blood and Twilight!, There are Yummy pictures and posters inside. (Because she knows my obsession about True Blood and Twilight)
She got me a key chain ring from New Moon where I can take the trinkets and put them on my bracelet. (Because she knows how I freaking adore the bracelet I got from Betti and she said I can put those trinkets on this bracelet)
She wrote me a wonderful letter which really watered my eyes! (Hello WIME!)
She changed the name of one of her characters in her story into Dani! (Which is the most wonderful thing ever!!!)
"All this together is so well thought, you really see that she thought about what to get me, this wasn't just a present for anybody it was all for me personally. If you know what I mean.
"...Thanks UhYesPlease for doing this Secret Santa thing, it was such a wonderful idea and I truly enjoyed it!
"I had fun with my gift I made for itsjustme and I freaking love what I got. "

ItsJustMe (MrsVanquish’s Secret Santa Recipient)
"I was super surprised by my secret Santa. I had spoken with MrsVanquish a few times about a new layout for my blog, but she was always very vague. I didn't think anything of it as I know how busy she is and I knew she would get around to it when possible and I was in no hurry. Then I started receiving twitter messages from @ijmsecretsanta and I totally thought it was Ang (amcas) because she loves to mess with me. This went on for a few days and I noticed fragilehuman hanging around the park more often. So I thought maybe it was her and thought I was so smart for figuring it out. Then 9 people from a knitting group joined my blog (which I still find a bit strange BTW) and I thought, "hhhmmmm...cutie? The last twitter message was a link to my new blog. The most beautiful blog evah. I'm still a bit overwhelmed at MrsV's brilliance and generosity and from the bottom of my heart I thank her."
The shiny and new: RobMusement Blog
Bierbeck (UhYesPlease’s Secret Santa Recipient)
(From her email to me) "Oh my God you are awesome!!!!! I can’t wipe the grin off my face and I keep giggling. The banner by Betti is great! I was never expecting something like this and I LOVE IT! My husband says he wants detention now! You are the best!"
I wrote a lovely little fanfic and made a cute little lemon ornament to hang on her tree. I was sparked with a Glee-kind of crazy idea when I was having an insomniac moment and the first thing I did the next day during my free time was write! I sent it in two parts, one to tease and then the second part was the little lemon. The stars of this fic were Becky and Puck from Glee. It’s up on ff.net, so you can read and comment as much as you want! Then I pulled one of my favors from Betti and instead of a simple little photo collage – she came up with this AWESOME banner that Becky’s husband had framed for her for Christmas!
Isn’t he a gem?


Click on the banner to link the
story!

BeckyBoodles (fragilehuman’s Secret Santa Recipient)
A shoutout from Bex
I bought the ornaments and added the Rob pics. I had no idea that the one on the left was her Twitter background until after I sent the package!
I also sent her some crazy stuff (instant grits, Easy Mac, and Burger King New Moon pics/coupons) and a gift certificate for one-shot of her choosing.

Erikasbuddy (OnePushyFox’s Secret Santa Recipient)
"OMG!! My gift was freaking fabalicious!! The UPS man knocks on the door and my son comes bounding at me with this brown envelope. He tells me it's from California and asks me what it is.
"California? Who the hell do I know in California?
"So, I rip it open and low and behold it's this smexy Little Red Riding Hood Keychain from Zazzle made by OnePushyFox. OMG!! tra la la!! AND!! It had my name on it.
"Now, the funny thing is... I was just bitching about how I can't ever find a keychain with my name on it and NOW!! I finally have one.
"So, I e-mail PUSHY my thanks and THEN lol... she e-mails me back with an attatchment. Now, I just assume it's the pic clip art thing of my keychain... but boy oh boy was i WRONG!! My little Pushy pet put together a fabulous One-Shot staring a rockin leather wearing vampy poo named --- OMG --- GRETA!!
"Well, let's just say, my hubz should have been home after I read that because I would have mulled his brains out.
"THANKS PUSHY!! Loves my keychain and loved my lemons!! You're the best!!!"
I just wanted to say that I loved this process. I so enjoyed making something special and was thrilled that I got someone I didn't "know" well because it freed me to be totally creative and it worked so well. 

OnePushyFox (SBGDGT’s Secret Santa Recipient)
"So, as you can see, Edward was just as excited as I was to see that our gift had arrived!!! He helped me open it (even though Jasper's not in the area, you don't want to fool with paper cuts around vampires, you know?) and then gently laid it out for me to admire on the table. Of course, when he read Desi's note about me being Team Switzerland, he lost his temper a bit and broke the dog's legs! Sheesh! Just relax, baby! You know you'll always be number one with me!! Anyway, my wolf and letter H (which sparkles in the sunlight, btw) will remain in a safe place but the heart is DEFINITELY going on my key chain. :) Thank you again to Desi for her wonderful gift!!!!"
I had this idea for OnePushyFox since she told me she was Switzerland. I wanted to make her a bracelet (also b/c I've always kinda thought it would be awesome to have myself). But a bracelet was a little hard to do. I thought and thought and finally settled for making her a keychain. It's something w/ a crystal heart and a wolf that's subtly proclaiming her love for Twilight w/o screaming it :) The craft was not w/o its issues. The clay broke a total of 3 times!!! I absolutely love super glue ;) Maybe we should all buy stock in that wonderment :-D I hope she got it, or gets it soon.


Betti Gefecht (It’sJustMe’s Secret Santa Recipient)
“Since I'm 1. German, and 2. haven't celebrated a Christmas since 1994, I wasn't familiar with the concept of Secret Santa. So Uhyesplease explained her ass off to this dumb German (How many emails did you need, sweety? Three? Four?), and once I got it, I was all claps hands and squee and woot!
"I received my SS present early, and at first I didn't know what hit me... there was an assload of files and pretty colors and flowers and poems and WHAT?? Ohmygod... it was Itsjustme, and she made me a personal scrapbook, summing up my 2009 bloggy life - which is actually my complete bloggy life - and she had put so much effort and thoughts and love into this I almost cried!!
"Never were my copyrights violated more beautifully - LOL!
"Seriously, I LOVED IT! You all know, form the Button Guru barterings and else, I am a sucker for things money can't buy. I was sooo touched by this thoughtful precious thing... this is so awesome. Thanks tons, Itsjustme!!!”
I was a little intimidated by Betti. She's great and I wanted her gift to be great. I hope it brings her much joy. 
Nachos4Children (Erikasbuddy Secret Santa Recipient)
"I got a Domo doll, a salsa bowl (for my nachos!), a chocolate Moon Pie, a marshmallow/jelly candy on a stick, and a coupon for 12 free issues of Rolling Stone. Not a bad haul!

"As you can see, my kitty, Haushinka, was very interested in Domo! Ha ha ha!

"While I was disappointed that Carlisle was not folded up in the box for me, I was rewarded with many Southern treats. My cat, Haushinka, now has a new snuggle buddy at night - she wraps her paw around him when she sleeps, just like I would do to Carlisle if I could figure out a way to get him into my bed."
FireCr0tch (Hookashewz Secret Santa Recipient)
"OMG! I just got home tonight and opened my package...she made RPattz coasters, NM chocolate, and a certain What-Shall-Not-Be-Named bootleg (shhhh!)"
UhYesPlease (BeckyBoodles Secret Santa Recipient)
Time stopped while I ripped open the package to see what I got! It was more fun than Christmas morning! I think the chocolate may have lasted about 3 days (um, if that) and I loved loved loved everything else!!! I still need to get a T-shirt to put my decal on where I will wear it with pride! Thanks Bex – I’m so glad you still wanted to play along with the Unsecret Santa part, since little ol’ me knew it was you! You are awesome!!!! 
Fragilehuman (FireCr0tch’s Secret Santa Recipient)
"I got the New Moon: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion! I totally squeed and stood at my door, my coat still on, looking at every single page as soon as I took it out of the box."
Hmmille (Nachos4Children Secret Santa Recipient)
Hmmille scored some awesome Twi-gear: An Edward puzzle, Edward bookmark, and Twilight Chocolates. 
Hookashewz (Bierbeck’s Secret Santa Recipient)
She unwrapped an RPatz calender, Twi/NM candy and Edward Cullen book mark. [NICE!]
Thanks again everyone for participating - I'm seeing a birthday exchange somewhere in our future for next summer!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Very Happy New Year!