Nicked from Everyone
Since I've started seeing this everywhere, and the RAK wishlist group is dead, I'm posting this here.
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.
Step Two
- Surf around your friends list (or friends friends, 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 - (Marianne notes: shelter dogs and rescues are really the way to go, though) 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.
- Trip back to the UK or Virgin Air miles!
- 1/2" metal letter/number stamps or any decorative metal stamps
- more jewelry tools - burnisher, calipers, good pliers (since I break them all the time) anvil, forming blocks, large daps, etc...
- more broken vintage jewelry castoffs-charms, chains, pendants, lockets single earrings, etc....
- little Shadow boxes or ornate frames
- little weird things to put in boxes/shrines/artwork-especially tiny seahorses, decorative wood/metal trims, weird tiny doll stuff, etc.
- vintage handwriting-letters, postcards, ledger paper
- Frederick Fekkai Glossing shampoo, conditioner and creme
- New rockabilly music to listen too. Most of my stuff is old!
- the occasional letter or postcard 'just because"
Barbe Saint John
530 Brannan St #406
SF, CA 94107