Counting down to Christmas

As Christmas is almost here I'd thought I'd give you an update.


I got the game Here, Kitty, Kitty! as an early Christmas present. We played it with friends and it's a really fun game. I won!


We also received these warm, fluffy socks and Christmas piggy from the same awesome person who gave me the kitty game.


We received lots of beautiful Christmas cards.
Isn't this one cool?!


People spoiled us by sending us books.
These arrived today, but we also received books from Melliane.


As you might have noticed in the previous pictures:
I got a new festive hat.


I just love these colors.


And there were lots of Christmas goodies for us yesterday!
The FairyLoot boxes didn't contain FairyLoot, but were filled with ChristmasLoot.


Just look at all these awesome goodies!


I'm looking forward to Christmas, and hope you will all have a wonderful holiday season as well.

A Cool Present

I got a really cool present from a colleague yesterday:


A matching hat and scarf!

It was cold outside yesterday so they really came in handy as well.

Thanks :-D

Milka Hat

Yesterday I got a free hat when I bought a drink from the grocery store.


It was purple and white, the colors of the packaging of Milka chocolate. I tried it on, but it didn't really fit me.


One of the sheep in the Milka room really loved the hat though.

I will have to bug my owner to knit me a new hat soon.

Flying Pig and a New Hat

My owner got a birthday present from her colleagues yesterday.


It's a new piggy friend!
His name is Bungee and he can fly.


And today I got a present from a colleague.
A new hat.


I think this hat makes me look very sophisticated and swanky!

Thanks everyone!

Lots of Presents

Earlier this week we received a mega package!


It was from Miki, who wanted to cheer us up when she heard we were still trying to recover from the nasty flu we caught in January. How awesome.


There were lots of surprises inside!


Look at all the goodies.
There was lots of chocolate, tea, cards and more!


I absolutely love this Game of Thrones mug.


And there were figurines of Spirou and Fantasio.
They're the lead characters of a really cool comic book series.


Miki even sent a poster book that included posters from my favorite computer game Mass Effect.

What an awesome surprise. This certainly cheered us up.

Thanks Miki!
You are amazing.




And yesterday I got a belated birthday present.


Two new hats!

Thank you J&G!
I'm very happy with these cool hats.

Hats and Sinterklaas

There has been a lot of hat-making going on this week.


My owner made a pompom for the hat she knitted.
I think it looks really nice this way.


My owner's OtherHalf made a hat for me as well.
I love this one! I can use it for Halloween.


This is my owner's latest creation.
She's getting the hang of it, there's no holes of unexplained extra stitches in this one.

I think she should keep trying though. I can use lots more hats, and maybe some scarves.


Sinterklaas is in the Netherlands again, to celebrate his birthday next month. Yesterday the Armadillo and I got to put out our shoes, because we forgot to put them out the day Sinterklaas arrived. We sang Sinterklaas songs and put an apple with the shoes for the horse of Sinterklaas.


This morning we found presents in the shoes!




I got a book and a piggy bookmark.
How awesome!


The piggy bookmark has glasses.
I think he's a librarian pig bookmark.

Thanks Sinterklaas!

Loot, Mail and Little Hats

As promised: a picture of me and all the books I brought home from Brighton. And yes! That is a bookmark signed by Neil Gaiman I'm holding.


My owner also bought two cool t-shirts.


And we collected some cool buttons.


At home this t-shirt was waiting for us.
Amanda Carlson sent it to us because as part of her street team we posted a review of Cold Blooded on Amazon during her Review Blitz.

Talking about cool stuff:


I got marzipan cheese from my owner's OtherHalf.
They made a mistake in the store: They said it was a marzipan pig, but anyone can see that's not a pig. My owner corrected the mistake.


Today we went to the library and got free stuff!
Eric in The Land of Insects is a story about a boy who enters a painting and ends up just as tall as the insects in the painting. The other book has all kinds of art in it. There were also a pen, mints and a coin for a grocery cart.


My owner also bought two of those drinks that sometimes wear those cool hats. This time however we got two small knitting sets so you can knit your own hat!

I told my owner to get knitting of course.


This is her first try.
It's... acceptable.
She managed to get some holes in it, but those are on the back. And even though it's been years since she knitted, she's still the queen of unexplained extra stitches. I think she needs to knit some more hats until she gets it right. And this hat still needs a pompom on top of course!

Cthulhu Hat, Paris and a Book

Look what I got yesterday:
A Cthulhu hat!
Isn't it cool!?

Today I saw this beautiful picture of Paris in the newspaper. I really want to go there some day. I'm already trying to save money for a trip.

When I got home there was bookish mail waiting for me.
I won this book in a giveaway over at ReaWrite. Looking forward to read it.
Thanks Kellie!

Dawn of the Hat

Candy and yet another Hat

I got a bag of candy from one of our co-workers at work today!

And we bought another hat.
This one is red and I gave it to my brother Dougal because it matches his pants.

Another Hat

My owner bought another drink with a hat today.
This one is green with orange.

I'm not sure which one I like best.
Green is my favorite color, but the other is much more wooly and soft. Maybe I should start a collection so I can pick a hat according to my mood.

A Bottle with a Hat

On our way to work my owner bought something to drink. I was a bit surprised to see that the bottle she bought was wearing a hat!

As the hat looked warm and was about my size I tried it on of course. I'm all set for winter now!