Early Christmas

This year for Christmas my amazing friend Antiope got me this Wobbly Octopus Magnet. She likes to enable my octopus addiction.

And she also gave me a orange elephant-shaped ornament made from elephant dung. Processed elephant dung -- it feels like papier-mache and smells faintly of hay. Hilarious and wonderful.

I gave her citronella candles shaped like eggplant.

And some vintage maps from my favorite ephemera source, Etsy seller Inkpainter, because Antiope is a geographer.

Afterwards we tried to decide which set of Christmas presents was the most bizarre. We decided it was a tie.