ma's presents 2007

As always, my very last pre-Christmas duty is to wrap all the presents for Ma... technically I could have done it on Saturday afternoon, but then they would have just had to sit around the place all weekend, so I decided today would be a plan...

And instead of my usual plan in years past of just photographing them against my really unattractive carpet, I set up a mini-studio on the floor, much like I did when I was photographing her birthday presents... dragged out a piece of really appalling faux velvet that I have in the wardrobe (and have never used for an actual photoshoot thankfully) and this was the result... could have been worse I guess...

So because of that I couldn't quite fit all the wrapped items into one shot while keeping them still visible... hence the two "after" shots (it could have been worse too, but I decided to double up each of the DVD's, so there were only seven bags for those instead of a possible fourteen). And look, I even bothered with a bit of ribbon this year! But only because it came in the pack with the red and green ribbon we bought on Saturday.

This year her gifts are:

• Whyte Images Calendar and Calendar Wallpapers on CD
• Purple Rose painting
• Versace Woman perfume
• Jewelled seahorse brooch
• Silver bracelet
• Silver spiral earrings (in the little white box next to the painting, I couldn't be bothered opening it and repacking them)
• Two Mary Janice Davidson "Undead" books
• Copy of Robbie Williams "Swing While You're Winning" CD
• Double Rock and Roll CD
• "M" Bookmark
• Thong luggage tag (for our trip to Sydney)
• Set of Ikea knives
• A big ol' pile of DVDs
• Cats
• Dangerous Minds
• Doom (which is something of an in-joke and will probably end up on my shelf, but Ma made the fatal mistake of admitting to me she thought The Rock was a bit sexyful, so I give her grief about it, and nothing worked better in that regard than Doom)
• The First Wives Club
• Hearts in Atlantis
• The Holiday
• Nicolas Cage 3 disc set (mostly, I think, for Guarding Tess)
• The Joy Luck Club
• The Lake House
• Mr Smith Goes to Washington
• The Prestige
• Roman Holiday
• South Pacific
• Tea with Mussolini
• And last, and possibly least, a DVD of my "appearance" on Collectors

Only another eighteen hours or so to go before she gets to open them...

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