Dec 14, 2025 - Kaylee
Ms. Vanya Gold, a mysterious heiress who spends her days sunning herself on the beaches of Santorini, charming foreigners to invite her on their yachts and to their lavish parties.
Dec 23, 2024 - Lou
It’s a farm animal. Farm animal is friends with me.
Dec 7, 2023 - Mike
MoVEM from Florida in her rain jacket likes to remind people of the sequence of the planets but unfortunately usually only gets to Mars before people lose interest. Despite all the hurricanes this year, she still has house insurance.
Dec 18, 2022 - Jenny
Samuel E Jackson. No relation. Happy person all the time. Kind of a Anne of Green Gables sort of optimism. Prefers to couch surf globally and has enough good will and karma to make that happen with ease. Forages for wild foods or dumpster dives so expenses just really low. Reads lots of books.
2021 - Kaylee
Ruby Ravenclaw, the lesser known of the Ravenclaw line. She always envied her sister Rowena until she lost the family crown.. because then SHE became the golden child.
2020 - Marc
Janet is an event planner in Villiers-Saint-Frederic, France. Her party planning services are in high demand due to her adeptness at picking the exact best wine to pair with any variety of cheese or cheese doodle.
2019 - Kaylee
Lola. Loser, loner, complicated wreck. Loves watching The Holiday.. all season long.
2018 - Marc
Bubu Bustamante works in a salmon cannery in Alaska, where she commutes by caribou.
2017 - Kaylee
Fiona, or FeeFee as she’s more affectionately known, LOVES Christmas, and everything about it. The twinkle lights, the ornaments and decorations, the trees, the homemade cookies, the booze, but most of all.. the caroling. She loves the FA-LA-LA-LA jingles that echo throughout the season. She loves it so much, that she listens to Christmas music year round.
2016 - Mike
Myra alllllll the way from Denver where she usually enjoys skiing in her onesie and sipping on margaritas when she’s not on the slopes or volunteering at the Pet Shelter downtown. Also, she told me that she’s pleased to be second on the tree this year, took her by surprise when she got the email notification!
2015 - Kaylee
Regina Phillange, a show tunes aficionado, spends her days working a desk job that she hates. It pays the bills, but if she had her druthers, she would be singing and dancing on Broadway! To find happiness in her day, she has discovered an exercise program that specializes in show tunes- Richard Simmons videos! She starts and ends each day with a dance and a tune!
2014 - Mike
Lisa Turner's slogan: once a fashion designer, always a fashion designer. The world looks different to Lisa since her return from Japan last spring, and her clothing line shows it!
2013 - Steve
Lee Wong or Wong Lee from Shanghai. No one is ever quite sure of which way it is as she uses them interchangeably. She was in a terrible car crash last year in which she lost all of her friends and family (don’t ask) and she, herself, was decapitated. However, due to the modern medicine and the miracles of science they were able to reattach her head and is still undergoing therapy to recover. Doctors say it looks like she’ll make it!
2012 - Steve
Her name is Lilly Lollipop. She was once a beautiful frog who roamed the land and had all the boys trying to court her. However, a frog witch got jealous and cast a spell on her to turn her into a human. Yuck! So now she is trying to find a way to cope with the life she's been given until true love can someday break the spell. Her frog prince must find her and kiss her to turn her back into a beautiful frog.
2011 - Kaylee for Steve
Her name is Wanda Yu. She is from Beijing, China where she was penniless and living aside the Great Wall with her family. During their long days struggling to find ways to make money, her family discovered their shared talent of singing and dancing. They were discovered by the creator of China's Got Talent and now tour the country as a family show choir.
2010 - Mike
Dec 23rd too busy a time. This one was missed...
2009 - Marc
Her name is Penny and she lives in Gibraltar. She delivers fresh fish to homes and restaurants. She is somewhat of a local celebrity in the community for her habit of singing opera very loudly as she makes her delivery rounds. She has a soft spot for stray cats and puts out all the leftover fishheads and entrails at the end of each day for them.
2008 - Marc
Isabella Von Hildegard. Isabella owns her own German restaurant in Modesto, CA. Her streudel is famous and brings people in from miles around! Her aspiration in life is to become the German Julia Child and have her own cooking show on the Food Network.
2006 - Jenny
Ming Yamoto. Half Chinese, Half Japanese. You can tell by how she has two different slants to her eyes. Stereotypical but true. She speaks mandarin and Japanese - very impressive. She lives in Newport, Nebraska.