December 22 UPDATE – the blog hop is now ended and Judy Ree was my randomly selected winner for the $25.00 Amazon gift card! Thanks for all the fun comments and terrific stories about gifts you’ve received in the past! Happy holidays!

Always a fun blog hop! Leave a comment on my blog to enter to win the $25.00 Amazon gift card I’m giving away and then visit the blog hop central for more links and more chances to win prizes, including their Grand Prize, the Kindle Fire. (A comment here only enters you to win my prize, must go to that link to enter for the Kindle Fire.)

So what was the most unusual gift you ever received at the holidays?

The one I’m thinking of was unusual – for years I had said I wished there was a poster of the scene at the very end of Return of the Jedi – the moment (blink and you miss it) where all the main characters are neatly lined up, clapping along with the Ewok music (which I also love), and happy after all the trials and tribulations and death stars…so this particular year (a long time ago in a galaxy far far away…) my younger daughter had drawn the scene for me and framed it! I kept it over my desk for a long time….