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Can you believe Christmas is only about 2 1/2 months away? For those interested, I'll organize the Kringle exchange again this year.
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For those wishing to participate, Here is what you need to know!

This is our annual Christmas gift exchange. To participate please fill out the form below and email it to DDBBKringle@gmail.com. I'll do my best to get your Kringle assignment to you before thanksgiving. You'll then go shopping for your Kringle, find that perfect gift, and stick it in the mail! If we have anyone wanting to join in the exchange after Thanksgiving, I’ll do my best to accommodate! Please try to get your gifts in the mail early enough to arrive before Christmas.

Happy Kringling!

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Mandatory (i need this information to include you in the gift exchange):

Your full name:
Your UDBB name:
Your address:
Your phone number (only to be used for questions regarding delivery - if you do not wish to disclose this, it's fine):

Are you willing to ship to someone internationally, or only within your own country (US for Americans, Canada for Canadians etc):

Optional, but very helpful (this will be forwarded to your Kringle in full):

Horsey things

- What type of horse(s) do you have and what are their names?
- What size is your horse?
- What are your 'stable colors'?
- Do you board or have your horse(s) at home?
- Any dressage videos/books you are pining for?
- Any non dressage books/videos?
- Describe your fantasy saddle pad.
- Do you Smartpak?

About You

- What is your age range? (ie. teenager, 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, over 60)
- Gender?
- Who else is in your household, and share your children's names and ages if you would like.
- Dogs, cats or other pets? Names?
- Do you wear hats/scarves/mittens/gloves?
- What size shirt?
- What size breeches/pants?
- Gloves size?
- Shoe size?
- Do you wear glasses?
- Do you wear jewelry? Pierced ears?
- What is your favorite color?
- Are you allergic to wool (or any other fiber)?
- Are you sensitive to smells?

Lifestyle

- Do you spend a lot of time indoors or outdoors?
- Does your work/lifestyle keep you at a desk a lot, or traveling a lot, or on your feet a lot?
- Do you garden?
- Do you live in a cold climate?

Nom Nom Nom!

- What are your three favorite fruits? Vegetables?
- Do you have a favorite drink (coffee, tea, soda, etc.)?
- What is your favorite candy?
- Do you like chocolate?
- Are you a vegetarian or a vegan, or do you have any food restrictions?
- What is your favorite food/cuisine?
- Favourite wine?
- Do you like to cook/bake?

Hobbies

- What would you like to learn to do or learn about?
- Do you like the theatre / opera / symphony?
- Do you have any other hobbies besides horses?
- Any sports teams you follow/like?
- What type of music do you listen to?
- Do you like iTunes?
- Do you like books? If so, what kind (mysteries, novels, sci-fi, etc)?
- Do you cross stitch/crochet/knit/sew?
- Who is your favorite artist (music, photograph, painting,etc)?
- What magazines do you wish you had a subscription to?
- What are your favorite animals?

Everything else

- Favorite holiday ornament theme or color?
- What store would a gift card be most handy at?
- Where would you go for your dream vacation?
- Do you like scented candles? If so, what scents?
- Do you like knick knacks?
- Are you a long bubble bath taker with nice scented candles and soft music, or a quick shower type person?
- Do you like warm cozy throws?
- Do you have any rooms decorated in a certain theme/color?

And Finally...
- Do you have an Amazon wish list?
- What would you love to get for Christmas, but is way too expensive?
- What would you love to have for Christmas that costs less than $2?
- What do you not have enough of?

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Thanks for doing this again!

Oh, I'm in! Thanks for organizing. I'll make a separate post for the card exchange.

thanks for doing this again!! I'm in!

Is it too late to sign up?

pKOR wrote:Is it too late to sign up?

Not at all!

I'd be happy to join in! Hope we get more people on board!!!!!

I need to get off my duff and send in my info.

We've got about a week and a half to go before I send out kringle assignments! There's still time to send me your info if you want to participate!

Kringle's contacts going out soon??

galopp wrote:Kringle's contacts going out soon??

I'm shooting for next week!

Am I too late to submit?

Thanks

Hayburner wrote:Am I too late to submit?

Thanks

Nope! Send it on in!

I am excited

Kringle assignments have just gone out! Please let me know if you didn't receive an email,if you notice anything else amiss, or if you have any questions!

Didn't get one but maybe I sent my thing in too late?

Sue B wrote:Didn't get one but maybe I sent my thing in too late?

I did get yours after I sent them, but I’m still going to get you in!

I got my prezzies today! Kelo sent me a cushy grey plaid scarf to wear at the barn, a box of Bic pens, a darling pocket notebook with a horse on it, and the biggest bag of Ghirardelli chocolate with caramel squares. Thank you so much!

I have been out of town, so sorry to the people who have sent messages the last few days.

Zevida, please check your email!
Galopp, I'll get back with you tonight regarding your PM!

I got my gifts this weekend! Thank you for the sunglasses and the Reese’s galopp! I am taking my sunglasses on a trip this week. And I put the Reese’s in the freezer so I will hopefully eat them more slowly!

Can I have an elf please

Baroque wrote:Can I have an elf please

Send an email to DDBBKringle@gmail.com with your needs and I'll elf for you

I received my gift from pKOR! She sent me a book I've been really wanting to read, "The Girl On The Dancing Horse" by Charlotte Dujardin, an elephant necklace I had on my Christmas list, and some of my favorite candies!
Thank you so much Jen! I've almost eaten all the candy already, and I can't wait for an afternoon to dive into this book!

Zevida, more to come

PhoenixRising wrote:I received my gift from pKOR! She sent me a book I've been really wanting to read, "The Girl On The Dancing Horse" by Charlotte Dujardin, an elephant necklace I had on my Christmas list, and some of my favorite candies!
Thank you so much Jen! I've almost eaten all the candy already, and I can't wait for an afternoon to dive into this book!

Yay! I haven’t participated in a few years and I missed it so much. Your wishlist looked SO fun, I wanted to buy it all but wasn’t sure how appropriate it all was for a horsey gift exchange
I’m so glad you liked it. I tried to go for a horse related gift and also something non horse related that looked fun.

Also, I wanted to leave a note for my Kringle. I’m headed out of town this Friday, so if my gift happens to get here after that, it might be a week before I get back home and see it. I don’t want anyone to think I’m ignoring them.

I got the best gift from Chisamba!!! An Amazon gift card! Thank you so much, I love to spend money

Huge thanks to my Kringle, PhoenixRising!!!!!

I got a cornucopia of wonderful items for not only me but also my ponies and puppies

First, everyone got treats - I got some of my favorite candy, and the horses got some stud muffins they're going to go berserk over, and my dogs got some freeze dried liver treats (which is my favorite thing to give them!)

I also got a BEAUTIFUL little handmade Native American-made horsehair pot, it is just wonderful.

And I got just exactly the dressage saddle pad that I not only wanted, but NEEDED -- I have one that I've had for many years that I recently managed to love to death, it started shredding from all the use/washings. And now I have a brand new one to replace it, which will be put into use very soon

This is my first time doing the exchange, and it was so much fun Thanks to everyone who made it happen.

Merry Christmas everyone!

pKOR wrote:I got the best gift from Chisamba!!! An Amazon gift card! Thank you so much, I love to spend money

Thank you for liking it.

Sue B, thank your for all the yumminess. The local Idaho delicacies are being enjoyed for Christmas dinner. Thank you so much for so many lovely items!

I have a mysterious box that I am restraining myself until tomorrow to open

(well, that was a nice, unexpected gift from my daughter in law )

So...I do not know who my Kringle is this year because the package came direct from Amazon with no name attached, BUT

Thank you very much for all the wonderful goodies!!! A super soft throw to wrap up in, chew sticks for the dogs, my two newest favorite movies--Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocket Man and I think something else, but I'm at work and can't recall. I love it all, thank you so very much.

Many thanks to my lovely Kringler for sending me a fantastic gift card for some more bobbins for my spinning wheel! I don't know your DD handle so won't put your name here but you know who you are!

Sue B wrote:So...I do not know who my Kringle is this year because the package came direct from Amazon with no name attached, BUT

Thank you very much for all the wonderful goodies!!! A super soft throw to wrap up in, chew sticks for the dogs, my two newest favorite movies--Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocket Man and I think something else, but I'm at work and can't recall. I love it all, thank you so very much.

That was me! I realized after the fact I hadn’t included my name with the gifts. I’m glad you enjoyed everything! Happy holidays!!

Thank you soooo much Zevida. I remembered the last thing...a HUGE bag of KitKats.

Galopp, I'm glad you enjoyed your taste from Idaho.

zevida, you did get a second package right?? Since amazon didnt put everything together??

Baroque, I was very excited to get your shawl and felted sheep. You grew sheared carded spun and crochet it. Its marvelous. Thank you.

It only arrived last week. Thank you.

galopp wrote:zevida, you did get a second package right?? Since amazon didnt put everything together??

I also got the chocolate bar! I think that was it, right?

Chisamba wrote:Baroque, I was very excited to get your shawl and felted sheep. You grew sheared carded spun and crochet it. Its marvelous. Thank you.

It only arrived last week. Thank you.

You are so welcome!

I was very worried it had fallen in a black hole as you can never tell with the post these days.

It's probably a bit late to keep you warm, but I'm so glad you like it. Our sheep are very special and they produce beautiful soft fibre as you can see!
You can wear it as a wrap around your shoulders, or as a scarf which is how I usually wear mine and they are lovely to keep your neck warm.

I'm experimenting with overdyeing the fibre and hope to be able to spin up some I've dyed a deep blackish red colour.

Here's Pikelet looking forward to being put in with his ewes for breeding!

For people who don't know what a pikelet is, it's a small fluffy griddle pan fried yummyness sort of like a pancake, normally served with butter and jam on the top, and sometimes cream too! Pikelet's mum is Crepe Suzette who I hand reared as she slid under the fence when born like a pancake.

Pikelet is very handsome. Is he polite. My ram has suddenly started challenging humans. Ugh.

Chisamba wrote:Pikelet is very handsome. Is he polite. My ram has suddenly started challenging humans. Ugh.

Yes Pikelet is a very polite chap, he's 2yo and has been siring lambs since he was about 5mths old! The other 3 rams are also nice to handle and I can move them around easily by myself which helps.

I'd be getting rid of your ram for safety reasons, life is far too short to have a loaded gun waiting for you in the paddock! Best make sausages from him before someone gets injured.

Baroque wrote:

Chisamba wrote:Pikelet is very handsome. Is he polite. My ram has suddenly started challenging humans. Ugh.

Yes Pikelet is a very polite chap, he's 2yo and has been siring lambs since he was about 5mths old! The other 3 rams are also nice to handle and I can move them around easily by myself which helps.

I'd be getting rid of your ram for safety reasons, life is far too short to have a loaded gun waiting for you in the paddock! Best make sausages from him before someone gets injured.

Sadly, I agree

Further to my nice polite Pikelet..

A couple of days ago I found him macramed to the fence, he had the wires firmly wrapped around his horn, he couldn't get free and he was not happy. At all!

He's a big ram and probably weighs in at over 100kg, so he's a lot heavier and stronger than both of us, add to that those big horns and you have a 4 legged lethal weapon with attitude, and it's the middle of the breeding season here so he's usually busy serving ewes all day.

Hubby & I went to rescue him, I held his back end to help keep him still while hubby wrestled with getting the wires unwound from his horn. He knew we were helping him and he stood as still as a statue!

We finally got him free and I helped to pull him backwards and away from where he had been stuck, he very politely turned away from both of us and calmly trotted off to see all his ladies who were waiting for him further down the paddock.

Many other rams would have turned and had a go at both of us but he seems to be such a kind chap, I'm very impressed with his behaviour. What a dude! <3

that is very cool