The last couple years my family has been doing a secret Santa gift exchange instead of buying gifts for everyone in the family. This works out extremely well. Instead of drawing names out of a hat this year we used Elfster. The site is great and allows you to exclude spouses from drawing each other, add wish lists, and it even includes a secret messaging system. My family heavily abused the messaging system which made the whole gift swap thing hilarious. For instance one of the questions I got (I guess in response to my vague wish list saying that I would like “anything sewing related”) was this:
Here’s the link to what they sent me:
This had me laughing for about an hour.
For the elfster swap I had to buy gifts for Erin, my brother’s wife. I was very excited to get Erin because it meant I could go all out with Dr. Who themed gifts in addition to whatever puzzley things she asked for. As I was leaving Walmart after picking up another present, I saw this perfect TARDIS blue sweatshirt. For future reference it was the Hanes Women’s Fleece Zip Hoodie in Blue Allure.
I used the applique patch patterns I had created for my TARDIS dress to adorn the sweatshirt. Here’s the finished product on my sister-in-law amongst our other Christmas treasures:
She really liked it! So much so that my brother wants one too and I’ll probably make one for myself. I’m also looking into putting them on Etsy… stay tuned for that!
