Christmas in November?

I usually try to avoid everything Christmassy until December, which is pretty difficult with Ms H around. We also usually keep presents hush hush, no clues!

But today we dragged Ms H through to Glasgow on false pretenses to let her choose a guitar for her Christmas - she's persevered with her beginners classical guitar for a long time. She had already tried a black one when I was shopping for my birthday guitar - it's the one on the stand to the left, but it was best she made a less rushed choice to make sure.

Instead she chose the one she is playing here, it's black too! It's like she subconciously chose her outfit to match her guitar? And since her guitar lessons are continuing up until Christmas, there's no point her using her old guitar... hmmm... how can we recover the element of surprise...