[Earth] Cause hey, why not?
Gift-exchange meme
S T E P . O N E
Make a post to your journal. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related (fics, picspams, fanmixes) to medium (dvds, books, bracelets, etc) to really big (a new computer, a car, etc).
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 e-mail address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
S T E P . T W O
Surf around your reading list 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 elf--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.
List:
1. Art and craft knicknacks: beads (preferably glass or ceramic, acrylic is tolerable, please no plastic), gemstones, bits of metal, scraps of fabric/fur/hide up to 3 ft. (if you have it that long! :P), embroidery floss (all colors), wood scraps. If you have it and have no use for it, I'll take it.
2. Canvases, any size
3. Calligraphy pens and inks, especially liquid metallics, but also basic colors
4. Used books/PDFs*:
Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin
Leechcraft by Stephen Pollington
Lady with a Mead Cup by Michael Enright
Carmina Gadelica by Alexander Carmichael (If you have a dual-language version, I'd love you forever)
Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain by Rachel Bromwich
Dictionary of Northern Mythology by Rudolph Simek
Any Discworld books - thank you
daven
Temple of the Twelve books
A Magical Society: Ecology and Culture - I have the freely available portion, but would love the rest.
Any of Holly Lisle's clinic-books
5. Piano sheet music, any and all
6. Mp3s:
Pandemonaeon
S.J. Tucker
Libana**
Damh the Bard
Heather Alexander
Helen Trevillion
Anything medieval, Baroque, ancient or Renaissance, especially vocal (suggested examples: Boston Camerata, Anonymous 4, Hildegard of Bingen, Daemonia Nymphe***)
7. Art technique books/pamphlets, especially drawing, watercolor and acrylic
8. A finished map! (if you're interested, pm me for details)
9. Incense - loose, stick or cone - and candles, all shapes, colors and sizes (preferably unscented)
10. The Shaman's Oracle
*But hey, if you like me enough to spend the money for a copy you don't own, I won't say no!
**I already have A Circle is Cas
***I have all of their albums already
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S T E P . O N E
Make a post to your journal. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related (fics, picspams, fanmixes) to medium (dvds, books, bracelets, etc) to really big (a new computer, a car, etc).
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 e-mail address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
S T E P . T W O
Surf around your reading list 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 elf--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.
List:
1. Art and craft knicknacks: beads (preferably glass or ceramic, acrylic is tolerable, please no plastic), gemstones, bits of metal, scraps of fabric/fur/hide up to 3 ft. (if you have it that long! :P), embroidery floss (all colors), wood scraps. If you have it and have no use for it, I'll take it.
2. Canvases, any size
3. Calligraphy pens and inks, especially liquid metallics, but also basic colors
4. Used books/PDFs*:
Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin
Leechcraft by Stephen Pollington
Lady with a Mead Cup by Michael Enright
Carmina Gadelica by Alexander Carmichael (If you have a dual-language version, I'd love you forever)
Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain by Rachel Bromwich
Dictionary of Northern Mythology by Rudolph Simek
Any Discworld books - thank you
daven
Temple of the Twelve books
A Magical Society: Ecology and Culture - I have the freely available portion, but would love the rest.
Any of Holly Lisle's clinic-books
5. Piano sheet music, any and all
6. Mp3s:
Pandemonaeon
S.J. Tucker
Libana**
Damh the Bard
Heather Alexander
Helen Trevillion
Anything medieval, Baroque, ancient or Renaissance, especially vocal (suggested examples: Boston Camerata, Anonymous 4, Hildegard of Bingen, Daemonia Nymphe***)
7. Art technique books/pamphlets, especially drawing, watercolor and acrylic
8. A finished map! (if you're interested, pm me for details)
9. Incense - loose, stick or cone - and candles, all shapes, colors and sizes (preferably unscented)
10. The Shaman's Oracle
*But hey, if you like me enough to spend the money for a copy you don't own, I won't say no!
**I already have A Circle is Cas
***I have all of their albums already
This entry was originally posted at http://nicanthiel.dreamwidth.org/101955.html. Please comment there using OpenID.