XMAS IS HERE WHAT DID YOU GET YOUR...

[highbrow]

Finally finished my Xmas shopping for everyone and I am always curious what tohers get their loved ones, for me it is as follows

Mom and Dad : Wii and some games ( old people are great ) XM radio and GPS random other crap

INLAWS: same as mom and dad

Brother and Wife: nothing only buy for their children and ask they dont buy anything for us, however we each treat the other couple to dinner the two days after, Saturday and Sunday

Brother in law ( hes a kid ): 2 xbox games and some other thing for the xbox

Nephew: Hanny Manny work bench and other toy
Niece: Alot of clothes from Aeropastle, and a few wii games

Wife: various video games and blue rays, psp, a cartier keychain and each year since she has to put up with my crap ( im messy, spend to much on art, and many other things, but I do get great grades ) I try to buy her one amazing gift, so this year I purchased her a Cartier Santos stainless steel watch.

MYSELF: besides the amazing tv set up which was suppose to be our only gift I just purchased the new Thomas Doyle work that was posted here it is small and a steal I think

ok guys lets hear it. I am so happy to be done shopping

[|peetov|]

congrats

my family agrees on no gifts and we all donate to charities. so it's pretty easy.

[droow2]

mum-2 moleskine watercolour notebooks + lots of chocolate
dad- -a dozen various bottles of ales and an audobon bird call + chocolate
Sister - a binchotan water purifying stick!!! yoga mat + massive amounts of posh chocolate

mum & dad - my mum loves a local artist here called Mary Ann Rogers she'd been hinting non stop about a print she wanted so i bought them the original piece (with a bit of help from the great ownart scheme) They're going to freak out as i told everyone i wasn't buying much as I've been trying to save for a new car. So i'm going to hide it and bring it out when they think we've finished unwrapping gifts



Me - BMW120d msport convertible!

[|peetov|]

that's a cool looking piece. especially with that frame.

[highbrow]

great stuff everyone I tend to overcompensate cause im an A$$ year round

[grotesqueanimal]

That is really some nice stuff up there! Here is what I got for family and friends:

Boyfriend: mainly DVDs and comics (got him some from the Hellboy series signed by illustrator Jason Shawn Alexander)
Dad: some rare coins (he is into numismatics and collects other stuff, too - I definitely have the collector's gene from him!)
Mum: vouchers for her favourite clothes store (not really original, I know)
Sister: some posh soaps that she specifically asked for
Friends: mainly books and self screen-printed shirts - I went totally DIY ;D

My boyfriend and me picked up screenprinting this year - we would like to do this professionally sometime, but at the moment we are still practising. It is a lot of fun, too! So everyone gets self-printed shirts with our own designs or also some Monty Python quotes. Who does not want a shirt saying "My hovercraft is full of eels" (from the Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook)?
The name of my boyfriend's brother-in-law is Brian (how convenient!), so we printed him a shirt saying "I'm Brian and so's my wife". Haha, we are so proud

[commandax]

For the fifth year running, I made a CD of the music that I've been listening to this year for 25 of my closest friends, relations and co-workers. It's amusing to me that mix CDs, which I once thought of as a cutting-edge upgrade on the old cassette mix, are now a bit old-fashioned. (Forgive the all-CAPs, copied and pasted from the sleeve art.)

If you're ambitious, all of this can be downloaded from emusic, except for Amanda Palmer and Feist, which you'll have to get at iTunes.

1. YOUR EX-LOVER IS DEAD – STARS
2. ONE MORE TIME FOREVER – BIKE FOR THREE
3. MORGENROT – HAUSCHKA
4. RAMBLIN’ WOMAN – CAT POWER (HANK WILLIAMS)
5. WHO BUILT THE ROAD – ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN
6. NIGHTDRIVING – BIKE FOR THREE
7. RIDE THAT CYCLONE – LARKIN GRIMM
8. INSIDE & OUT – FEIST (BEE GEES)
9. LOVE YOU BABY – COLLEEN BROWN
10. FALLEN SNOW – AU REVOIR SIMONE
11. LIFE IS BETTER – Q-TIP & NORAH JONES
12. BIG FURRY HEAD – AMON TOBIN
13. DIRTY & TRUE – HAWKSLEY WORKMAN
14. DOUBLE HEADER – BUCK 65 & OMID
15. LEEDS UNITED – AMANDA PALMER
16. STRIPTEASE – HAWKSLEY WORKMAN
17. SHOTGUN BLUES – ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN

[Weekender]

Dec 23, 2009 7:29:56 GMT -8 commandax said:

For the fifth year running, I made a CD of the music that I've been listening to this year for 25 of my closest friends, relations and co-workers. It's amusing to me that mix CDs, which I once thought of as a cutting-edge upgrade on the old cassette mix, are now a bit old-fashioned. (Forgive the all-CAPs, copied and pasted from the sleeve art.)

If you're ambitious, all of this can be downloaded from emusic, except for Amanda Palmer and Feist, which you'll have to get at iTunes.

1. YOUR EX-LOVER IS DEAD – STARS
2. ONE MORE TIME FOREVER – BIKE FOR THREE
3. MORGENROT – HAUSCHKA
4. RAMBLIN’ WOMAN – CAT POWER (HANK WILLIAMS)
5. WHO BUILT THE ROAD – ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN
6. NIGHTDRIVING – BIKE FOR THREE
7. RIDE THAT CYCLONE – LARKIN GRIMM
8. INSIDE & OUT – FEIST (BEE GEES)
9. LOVE YOU BABY – COLLEEN BROWN
10. FALLEN SNOW – AU REVOIR SIMONE
11. LIFE IS BETTER – Q-TIP & NORAH JONES
12. BIG FURRY HEAD – AMON TOBIN
13. DIRTY & TRUE – HAWKSLEY WORKMAN
14. DOUBLE HEADER – BUCK 65 & OMID
15. LEEDS UNITED – AMANDA PALMER
16. STRIPTEASE – HAWKSLEY WORKMAN
17. SHOTGUN BLUES – ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN

Great selection! Your friends are lucky!!!

[sleepboy]

Haven't finished my Xmas shopping yet!!!

Anyways, Happy Holidays everyone! Looks like the typical holiday slowdown for the next week or so on the forum and also in terms of art news...