Two Wonderful Birthday Presents!!

Since I won't be going back to my families for my 30th birthday this year, we sort of celebrated during Christmas holidays. Since it turned out this way, most of my gifts feel like some kind of "birthday-Christmas-combination", except mainly two of them - and these two will get their own post here in the blog! :)

First and foremost, I had early on told my parents that I wanted a digital systematic camera for my birthday. I don't know much about photography, but I really want to learn and I think it's wonderful to try to compose pictures. I have only had a small automatic camera before, and while it certainly took great pictures, there were no challenge there - all I could do was point the camera and push the button!
I did get money from both my parents and on the annual sale right after Christmas I bought a wondeful NikonD40x that I'm completely thrilled about!!!! It was a really good price and I also got a proper bag for it a few days later!! So far I haven't had time to check it out properly - that will take a lot of time - but I have used the "Auto-mode", where you only adjust the zoom, and the camera does the rest - and the pictures are AWESOME!!!!! A really GREAT gift!

I knew about the camera beforehand, but I also got a surprise gift from my Mum, that I had never ever guessed. Without me knowing, she had made the most wonderful bed-cover you can ever imagine!!!!!!!!! It's HUGE and completely hand-made, and she's been working pretty much around the clock since August to get it ready - talk about feeling speachless!!!!!!!!!!
It's absolutely gorgeous and means SO much to me, since she's actually made every little bit of it herself - a fantastic gift to say the least!
I put it on to take some pictures, but I won't have it on all the time, since it'll get ruined (by cat-hairs and other dirt)! I'll only put it on for visitors! Doesn't my bedroom look SOOOO great?!!??!?!