My Christmas present from DH is really my new sewing machine, which I've actually had for 3 weeks (gosh, can't believe it's that little, I've used it a lot!), but he really wants me to have something to open on the day, so finally, inspired by Patti's book and another equilateral triangle design in an old mag, it hit me to ask for rulers. So I asked for an equilateral triangle, the wider omnigrip 24" ruler (can't remember whether it's 8 or 8.5), a larger square (my biggest is 12.5) and something that will aid cutting 8 point stars.
I was very proud of DH for figuring out where he might go to have a chance of getting more than one of these at the same time, so he's gone off there with DS this afternoon. I also dropped hints that he should look at bolt ends and grab bags of fabric - I like fabric chosen by other people as they often think of different things and it inspires me.
Like NightMist, we also got lucky with things owed to use turning up at a good moment, we had a car crash in the summer (we were hit head on by an out of control car near the top of Mount St Helens!) and though we only had minor injuries, the process of sorting it all out didn't go at all smoothly. We hadn't planned to ask for anything other than costs, which they had been good about and paid very promptly, it was the medical stuff that dragged on and on, eventually DH added to one of his phone conversations a very brief comment roughly "I presume you'll take the amount of hassle this has been into account when making a settlement" and then did some research on what amount was reasonable. Much to our surprise the settlement offer was greater than this, so we gladly accepted - the cheques arrived today.
In the same post there was also a letter demanding all details from our health insurance company, as some of the medical bills had been sent to them due to the time things were taking, we now need to find out if this was sent out before they were told all our medical bills were being paid, or if they still want to know to watch out for future claims that they might be able to tie to the accident - which could turn out to be an ongoing hassle, as for me some of the injuries were very similar to problems I already had intermittently, I don't even know if some niggles I'm experiencing can be attributed to the crash. Ah well, more faff!
Cheers Anne