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Step One
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, 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 an 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 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 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 .
Wishlist
1. An icon. Somehow a meditation on the poetry of Robert Frost: “They cannot scare me with their empty spaces. Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home. To scare myself with my own desert places.”
2.Write me a letter. With a stamp, that goes in the mailbox. Snail mail. Write anyting at all. A limerick, a quotation, a quick note, or a long memoir.
3. ART. Create something just for me. Combine ideas/things/colours that make you think of me. In short...show me your love through creating and I will treasure it always. (any medium)
4. A pedicure. .
5. A full-body massage.
6. My Amazon.ca Wishlist. Search my email kadsousa at dal dot ca./ Lush.ca
7. A print from Ursula Vernon that you think suits me best. http://www.metalandmagic.com/index.php
8. A Scarlet Pimpernel Ringl (a red, five point, star-shaped flower)
9. An Ipod/MP3 player
10.An apartment that accepts dogs.
yeesh! I feel so....demanding...now.
Send me your wishlists, Flist. I like playing the Christmas elf.
[p.s. When all else fails...PENGUINS! I have lots of Emperors...but there are other breeds... ;) ]