Thank you Secret Santa

December 27, 2014 ~ Agata @BarkTime ~ 13 Comments

Yes, you guessed right; this is a heartfelt thank you post to the blogger who was my Secret Santa 🙂

I totally love the idea of the Secret Santa – you get the name of the blogger and a budget and off you go… read, and then read some more and then go hunting for the perfect gift.

This year I took part in Twin Mummys Newbie Bloggers! Facebook group Secret Santa. We all were allocated one blogger each and given a budget of £10.

I think sometimes it is not so easy to find the right thing. I struggled a lot with the choice of my gift… I’ve read post after post… changed months… dug deep into the archives but I was still not an inch closer to finding something personal about my gift recipient that could guide me to a nice gift… Finally there was one post which gave me some insight into their likes and dislikes and this was all I had to go on… I hope I did well with my choice… or at least partially good…

I think my Secret Santa did a fantastic job… here are my gifts…

We use coasters a lot as we have wooden stained furniture and I even featured some on the blog and of course we love our pets so it works out perfectly.

The coasters are really well made and I am very pleased with them but my favourite part of the gift is by far the key ring…

I normally don’t use key rings as I have my keys on a lead around my neck just to make things easier but this one I will use for sure. It will be joined by my car keys.

I love this key ring and I totally love the quote on it.

Home is where your Dog is!

This is so true!

Secret Santa, you where spot on with this gift; it is just right for me and it put a huge grin on my face; Thank you!

Did you ever play Secret Santa to someone?

Who / What Am I? 03/01

January 3, 2014 ~ Agata @BarkTime ~ 9 Comments

We have a New Year full of wonders to be discovered, and endless stream of moments each ripe with possibility and yet as a rock of certainty I still bring you the Who / What Am I? series, it must be a Friday 🙂, the first Friday of 2014!

I had great plans… a plan of writing something different, more inspiring for the beginning of this lovely New Year, but… as you already know we have a leak, so not feeling very inspired more worried, therefore forgive me if I am brief…

Last week I asked you to guess what my Blogger Secret Santa gifts were… the answer given of “cheese” made me laugh but I think my favourite was “a paint scraper” – Colonialist I really like your thinking… looking at the picture it does look like one or maybe a car window scraper…

There was one right answer – chocolate! I received 2 bars of lovely chocolate, a slice of cake shaped storage tin (although it might be good for a cheese) and a set of measuring cups or rather should I say hearts…

I liked my gifts a lot. The cake shaped tin was a nice touch… I didn’t even have a glimmer of an idea that you can buy one of those. I really like it! Big thank you to my Secret Santa <3

I was also thinking about mixing up my pictures a bit and maybe giving them a bit of a twist but as stated above not in the mood today for creative thinking, so maybe next week I will try to implement my new ideas… if the house hasn’t fallen down, yes drama queen but at the moment I think I have the right to be one…

Anyway for this week you have something green… I would say it is wide open to interpretation…

Who / What Am I?

Happy New Year one an all.

Who / What Am I? 27-12-13

December 27, 2013 ~ Agata @BarkTime ~ Leave a comment

Hello,

All this build up before Christmas and now… everything is all over.

What a shame… but not to worry… only 363 days to go… and we will have Christmas again 🙂

I hope that you all had a wonderful time… now time for the build up to New Years Eve and a big party.

Anyhow…

Last week picture was a…

dry grass… yes, it was so simple 🙂

No special grass what so ever, so I hope I didn’t disappoint anyone. I just like that picture.

This week however I have something totally different.

You might wonder why?

So… here is why…

This year I took part in a Blogger Secret Santa. We were matched with other bloggers and we were supposed to pick the perfect gift for them based on their blog posts/ Twitter feed etc…

So, I would like you to guess what I got 🙂 Too make it just a bit easier and too give you a fighting chance you can see the shape of my gifts.

This was actually a lot of fun. I hope that my Secret Santa recipient liked the gift I picked. I didn’t have any feedback, but I also didn’t disclose myself to them so how could I get a feedback… silly me…

Without any further a due… here are my 3 gifts… I hope you can guess what I received…

Who What Am I?