Guess what arrived in the mail!

Remember all the stuff I mentioned in my post 'You know what's better than shopping? Personalized shopping!' ?
Well, after a slight delay, all that stuff has arrived now so I can post about it. First, let me show you all the stuff I got for myself- (In descending order of my liking for them)

My visiting/business cards. I ordered 250 of them. And no I'm not planning to actually take up professional photographic assignments (unless someone personally asks me to!) but it still feels nice to actually have my own visiting cards. If you magnify the image you may find parts in the middle of the card patch. That's because I had to remove my address from this picture & I think I did it rather clumsily. I really ought to learn Photoshop.

And this is my personal canvas tote. I fell in love with it when I knew it would be eco-friendly cotton. It has my name & my blog url. I plan to carry it for any blogger meet/tweet up/twestival I go to. Oh mom is the model in this picture.

This is my personalized dog-tag. On side 'A' it has a picture of my Mom & Dad with the words 'I ♥ Mom & Dad' written below in the picture in bold lettering. The starting 'I' & ending 'd' got cut off a little bit but I don't mind.
On side 'B' it has a picture of me & my really good friends (from college). (From top: Brinelle, Me & Angela) With the letters 'bam' written. BAM is obviously our initials & I know that we aren't in proper order, we just didn't think of it while clicking the picture. Oh this picture brings back a ton of happy memories. :)
I wore it to my French classes yesterday & a lot of my friends from there were really inquisitive about the dog-tag& they all loved it!

And from here starts the knick-knacks I got my parents. For my Dad I got-

This personalized wrist watch with a Xena, Gabby & Argo print. I am a HUGE fan of the series (Xena: Warrior Princess). Really huge. But dad likes it too. Especially Gabby. So I got him this watch. Hope he likes it. (I think he will.)

And here's my second gift to him. A T-shirt with our family picture printed on it. The sentiment behind this one goes way back. When I was just a six month old baby & dad was sailing, Mom used to regularly send him new photographs she clicked of me or of both of us together. So once when he was in Manila, Phillipines, he went ashore with one of those pictures of mom & me & got them printed on a T-shirt twelve T-shirts. In those days the printing quality was nothing like we know it now, it was just one color (grey) & looked pretty pixel-lated (You have to keep in mind that it was over a decade & a half ao, way back in 1992!). Obviously I am virtually unrecognizable. But we still loved those T-shirts. He wore them throughout the years & now I think he's down to his very last one. So I got him this T-shirt with three four of us.

(This picture was taken in Safari World, Bangkok, during our vacation there last year)

And last but not least, this is my gift to mommy dearest-
A personalized heart pendant, very similar to my dog-tag. On side 'A' it has a family picture (+the tiger cub) taken at the same time as the picture I got printed on Dad's T-shirt. On side 'B' there's a picture of dad & her (also taken at safari World!). I know she likes it but it seems she's feeling a little shy to wear it!

So, what do you think of all the stuff? Would love to hear your views.


xo