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[faeriemaiden]

...Well, everyone else is doing it. And some people who read this journal are my mother and will be buying me Christmas gifts anyway...

CHRISTMAS WISHLIST MEME

How it works:
Step One
- Make a post (public, friends only, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain a list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and internets-related ("I'd love a such-and-such icon that's made just for me!") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD!") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV!") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where a "holiday elf" could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ.

Step Two
- Surf around your friends list (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true! Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
- You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday fairy--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
- There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

• A clock radio with an iPod dock. I have a clock radio -- no, wait, I don't; I stole my brother's because he never uses it and I actually need to set an alarm sometimes. Anyway it is no good at all, as far as speaker capacity goes, and even NPR sounds painfully tinny (usually with People Talking this does not bother me as much, but owww). Anyway, I want to be able to wake up to Morning Edition and noisy wake-me-up playlists.
• Nifty t-shirts! I am all about the nifty t-shirt -- the kind that you can potentially dress up with ironed jeans and heels and a nice blazer, especially if you're, um, going to a geek party. I love wearable art, I love professions of geekdom. Some shirts I want particularly: Sarah Slean's The Baroness shirt (in army green); this Vampires Beware t-shirt from Threadless (I NEED THIS SHIRT YOU GUYS); any of Over the Rhine's shirts because they are awesome, and naturally, Think Geek's Blue Sun women's t-shirt. Things attractively representing Boston, steampunk, Victoriana, or writing = yay. And the NaNoWriMo shirt! ... *goes away* (Also, I think I tend to be around a women's medium?)
• An attractive pea coat with a high wool content. I need a warm coat, and I need a really sharp-looking coat, and I have wanted a pea coat for most of my life because they are awesome. I would love one in dark red, brown, charcoal grey, or black, or a dark turquoise -- I saw some yellow ones and green ones that I loved, but with the bicycling to work and the mud, things would go very badly. And I found the most gorgeous 70% wool pea coat in dark turquoise with black buttons at Old Navy, but alas for its &70 price tag! Perhaps it will go on sale, for it is the most perfect one I have found in local shops thus far. (Again: medium. Usually. For coats, apparently, anyway.)
• Fingerless gloves. I love fingerless gloves. I have several pairs of different colours, shapes, and designs, but I love fingerless gloves and always want more of them. Lace ones, fuzzy striped ones, hand-knit ones, whatever. Anyway my hands get really cold in the winter.
• Buttons! For my satchel. And, um, maybe a new satchel. Because mine is getting shabby and there is a great hole in the bottom which spare change keeps escaping out of, and one of the front pockets won't close anymore. The problem for me is finding one that is big enough (I also use this for library trips!), and still pretty and quirky and me, and also one with a shoulder strap, for bicycling ease.
• Nifty jewellery. I love Victoriana (cameos!!!), and Claire's seems to have this awesome new line of jewellery -- it was out front the last time I stopped in -- that's all Victoriany, with, like, a cameo bird and a birdcage, and earrings shaped like roses, and lock-and-key themed things (I bought a pair of silver earrings with locks and keys danging from little bows). I love things made out of buttons, and quirky fun kitschy things (I have a green necklace with the splendidest little owl pendant, and earrings shaped like apples), and pearls, and lockets.
• Posters, art, pictures -- things to put on my walls. I love the tour posters the Swell Season has, and the Decemberists, and Over the Rhine. I love movie posters, but only if they're not tacky-looking. (A lot of them are. Even ones for good films.) I'd especially love movie posters for Wings of Desire, Pan's Labyrinth, and The Illusionst -- because they are all films I very much love with posters that appeal to me aesthetically. I prefer a minimum of words talking about how awesome the movie is or when it's coming out on DVD. Just leave the poster alone, guys! :p I have some really nifty stuff on my deviantART wishlist (you know, deviantART, to which I have not logged into in about a year). Also, I don't even know if anything like this exists, but my heart cries out for T.S. Eliot quotes on a poster. In pretty text that fits the mood. This would be the best present ever. Like, just "Preludes". Or bits from "East Coker", or "Prufrock". Would. love.
• HAAAATS. I love hats. I love berets and cloches and bowlers and sophisticated straw hats to keep the sun off my face in an elegant manner and fun Victorian hats with little veils and everything. I also really want a fun, kitchsy, brightly coloured winter hat with a pom pom and ear-flaps, because my ears get really chilly riding to and from work, and they're awesome in a silly sort of way. And hey, headbands are always shiny, too. (With little bows on! Or polka dots!)
• Action figures. Oh come on. Like, I want a Martha so badly. And a Wesleyyyyyy! And maybe a Willow, and a Spike, and -- and -- Look, I really love action figures, okay? I just do. They are geeky and can stare down at me from the ledge over the window.
• ...a cello?
• Socks! And stockings! Fun striped ones (I do finally have black and white striped stockings, and black and pink ones, but any and all other shades of stripes are fabulous), nice wool socks, argyle!, ridiculous socks -- I had striped and sparkley toe socks two Christmases ago and I adored them to pieces. Literally. I still have them but they no longer keep my feet warm. Mum, since you're obviously reading this, there are excellent socks at Maurice's, and a few at Rue21 and Ross and Wal-Mart.
• Gift cards? Rue21, Maurice's, Claire's, Amazon, um -- Arby's, actually, because there is one right a
• films I want to own: Pan's Labyrinth (the two-disc edition), Truly Madly Deeply (SO MUCH. This is one of my favourite films and it seems impossible to find a DVD for less than about thirty dollars, which is ridiculous), Stardust, Wings of Desire, Once, Marie Antoinette, The Importance of Being Earnest...
• books I want to own that I can think of off the top of my head: War for the Oaks, The Perilous Gard, Salamander, The Logogryph, any Neil Gaiman (except Coraline; I found one at Goodwill), any Robin McKinley (I own pocket-sized paperback copies of Beauty, The Hero and the Crown, and Sunshine), The Blue Castle, any Harry Potter in hardcover (I have Deathly Hallows, though, of course), A Countess Below Stairs, and, um. I just love books. Getting books makes me really happy. Old books, new books, books I love, books I am not acquainted with but which come from people who would not send me stupid books. Just -- books.
• music: Linford Detweiler's other two solo piano albums (I have I Don't Think There's No Need To Bring Nothin'), any Over the Rhine (I own Drunkard's Prayer and Snow Angels), any Kate Rusby, Solas' new album (except I am ninety percent certain that Dad will buy that for me, judging by past experience and how much we both want it), the Duhks' new album, any of the delicious, weird neo-folk I love so much. Oh, and Steeleye Span's All Around My Hat. We have it on tape, which is all wrong. It's not even vinyl, much less something I can put on my iPod. AND AND AND the soundtrack to Wings of Desire.
• In that vein -- a record player. Or this.
• I love things that remind me of you. Little knick-knacks, things from where you live, things that represent inside jokes, whatever. I just love having mementoes of my friends all about. Also, if anyone made me cookies or other foodstuffs, I would be over the moon.
• intangibles: fic! and stories! and mixtapes. I love that my iPod represents most of my f-list (aside from the fact that most of my f-list bought it for me). I put it on shuffle and there you are, and I scroll through my playlists and there are representations of most of you. It makes me warm and cosy inside. Anyway I love music. (Speaking of intangible things, my paid account runs out this month...

So. Now you lot must all go out and do this too.