LJ Wish List 2010
Step One
* Make a post (public, friends locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's 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 Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
* Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
* Surf around your friendslist (or friends friends, or just random journals, or holiday_wishes / wish_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.
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1. One of the things I have missed a lot since I moved out here is my Nana's homemade chocolate fudge. I've tried a lot of store bought fudges, but they don't taste the same as something homemade -- and Nana can't do a lot of cooking or mailing things or else you just know Munchkin and I would keep getting care packages of food that is bad for us :). If you're one of those people that like cooking and making desserts, I would love it if someone would be willing to send Chey and I some homemade chocolate fudge.
2. Paid time or extra icons for any of my friends for their mun journals or for any of their character journals -- whether on LJ, IJ, or DW. It doesn't necessarily have to come to me in order to be something that makes me happy. Buying paid time for someone else that needs it is always something I like doing when I can.
3. Anything that could be aromatherapy related. I love aromatherapy, and for a long time Bath and Body Works almost owned my soul. My favorite scents are lavender, rose, jasmine and lotus. I also like mint and pomegranate. This could be oils, lotions or incenses of any kind.
4. Tea! I am a serious tea drinker, but I haven't been doing that lately. I love tea and anything that could be considered tea accessories. A coffee cup that reminds you of me, tea that you think I would like or something that you've tried that you would like to share. Anything tea related is lovely.
5. Anything random that reminds you of me or the things that I like. My profile page shows a lot of different things, but not all of my interests or likes fit there. It's a possibility that not everything that reminds you of me will be listed there and that's fine! I like knowing what randomly makes people think of me.
6. Anything from Cheyenne's Amazon Wish List or anything from Mine. Mine is huge and there are organized OCD-type lists along the side of the page for easier navigation.
7. Customized icons/graphics of any kind/playlists/fics of my characters or ships -- canon or AU crossovers. I love getting things that have been created especially for me of the people or ships that I either play or do writing for. I am such a graphics whore. :D There's a list of characters and ships I like on the info page of my fic journal -- eternalscribe -- though it needs to be updated and in my muse journal ninjaenabler there are tables of my characters and the PBs I use for them -- past and present. (I should probably update BOTH places as I have several on IJ and DW that are not listed.) After much poking and snarling, I did indeed update my muse tables with the things from IJ and DW.
8. I am a big cat fanatic. I love jaguars, panthers, leopards, tigers... I love things with their images. Stuffed animals, notebooks, postcards, posters, etc.
9. I love getting cards and they don't even have to be cards related to the holidays at all. Cards with scenes that I could put on my wall next to my desk, or something with lines of songs or poetry is one of those things that I get a great deal of enjoyment from. Surprise me! Send me a note or a care package of things you just decide to send. It could be a handwritten note or it could be more. As long as it's something that you enjoy doing.
10. Paid time or extra icons for any of my character or muse journals. There's sort of a list at ninjaenabler, but those are only the ones on LJ that I play or mess around with. There are a couple of muses on IJ and DW that I would love to have paid time for. If you need an idea of those ones, contact enochiansigils. She keeps better track of my people over there than I do sometimes. :D
E-Mail: Not.From.Stars[at]gmail[dot]com
Helpful Elves To Talk To If You Need Them: enochiansigils, kajivar, queenmidalah, and tinylegacies. (Others might be added as they volunteer or I recruit them with their permission.) :D