It's a cracker of a season!

Today was our work Christmas lunch and Secret Santa exchange!

They also decided to celebrate my birthday at the same time as they discovered yesterday that my birthday was over the weekend, so I felt rather spoilt by the time I left.

Prawns and massive ham for lunch! (Ham not in picture!)

My wonderful boss also made an ice cream birthday/christmas cake! It's vanilla with macadamias, marshmallows, oreos, cranberries and of course, two ice magics on top with coloured sugar balls!

It was AMAZING!

Secret santa was so much fun, I love seeing what everyone gets and hoping that my recipient likes their gift. The budget was $30 max. My Secret Santa was into fitness, so trying to make the most of it I went to the Lorna Jane outlet to see if I could find an item within the budget.

I managed to pick up a singlet reduced to $20 down from $30 something and then headed to Typo for a fancy diary (she was going back to university next year so I thought a diary would be great to get everything organised!). After alot of umm-ing and ahh-ing, I settled on a navy blue buffalo diary for $10. I was very proud that I been right on target with budget. I'm not certain, but I think my recipient liked her gift!

From my secret santa I received a 6 month subscription for Recipes + plus two Revlon nail polishes (Fearless and a Quick Dry topcoat). I am very excited about the recipe subscription, I'm not much of a cook, so I'm always looking for healthy food recipes. Hopefully there's still a few naughty cake recipes in there for me to bake as well!

One of our workmates J whipped up some beautiful Rum Balls and White Christmas for all of us with the cutest christmas card attached. It's so cute I don't want to unwrap them!

Our bosses also gave us each a lovely Christmas card, mine included a message about how they were happy to have me as a part of their work family. I'm a sentimental person and I'm definitely keeping that card, it's so nice to feel appreciated. The included gift cards certainly helped too, haha.

Very spoilt today!

While at work I also discovered my order from Ambient Living had arrived. This was my first order with them, and though we had a few hiccups at the start so I couldn't get my order in time for secret santa, I have managed to get a gift for Mr Kittylove's sister in my order. I have to admit that they did an excellent job with the gift wrapping. I'm very fussy with it myself and they've done a better job than me!

Of course it never makes sense to just order one item, so I got a few gifts for myself.

Jimeale weekend bag, Glasshouse Rio De Janeiro, Glasshouse Leura (gift wrapped) and Glasshouse Tahaa minature

The Jimeale bag made it just in time for my trip to Melbourne and I'm quite pleased with it, I've already started to pack clothes inside! Ninja cat had a wonderful time playing with the styrofoam packaging in the delivery box-he was running around so much I couldn't get a picture of him with it. Whenever he flattened a foam piece, he'd go back to the box to fish out a fresh piece to play with!

How does your workplace celebrate Christmas?