Holiday Wishlist
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 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.
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.
Contact info:
Kristen Ridley
465 N Summit Ave
Pasadena, CA 91103
artdyke@gmail.com
- Money. I feel shallow, but think of it as an investment in my future farm! Years from now I will reciprocate with delicious noms!
- Noms. The fattier/sugerier, the better, as long as you made it yourself!
- Books! Anything by Joel Salatin (except You Can Farm 'cause I have it!), Wendell Berry, Allan Nation, Gene Logsdon, Andre Voisin, A Place of My Own and/or Second Nature by Michael Pollan, Grass-Fed Cattle by Ruechel, Storey’s guides to sheep, pigs and cattle, 5 Acres and Independence, Making your Small Farm Profitable, Pig Perfect, Small Scale Livestock Farming, Living with Sheep, Greener Pastures on Your Side of the Fence by Murphy, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver, Stocking Up, The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable, Harvest, Keeping the Harvest... Anything on starting a small business, grass-fed livestock, canning & preserving, homesteading, house building, organic gardening or DIY.
- Magazine subscriptions: Graze, Acres USA, Progressive Farmer, Stockman Grass Farmer (Kim's totally getting me this one!), Backwoods Home, Countryside & Small Stock Journal, anything related to these things.
- I'm sure there are lots more things I would really love and appreciate, but I've been trying the past year or so to only ask for things I NEED (and before you ask, I do too need noms!).
I don't really expect anything, but if you feel so compelled, there you go!
- 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 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.
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.
Contact info:
Kristen Ridley
465 N Summit Ave
Pasadena, CA 91103
artdyke@gmail.com
- Money. I feel shallow, but think of it as an investment in my future farm! Years from now I will reciprocate with delicious noms!
- Noms. The fattier/sugerier, the better, as long as you made it yourself!
- Books! Anything by Joel Salatin (except You Can Farm 'cause I have it!), Wendell Berry, Allan Nation, Gene Logsdon, Andre Voisin, A Place of My Own and/or Second Nature by Michael Pollan, Grass-Fed Cattle by Ruechel, Storey’s guides to sheep, pigs and cattle, 5 Acres and Independence, Making your Small Farm Profitable, Pig Perfect, Small Scale Livestock Farming, Living with Sheep, Greener Pastures on Your Side of the Fence by Murphy, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver, Stocking Up, The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable, Harvest, Keeping the Harvest... Anything on starting a small business, grass-fed livestock, canning & preserving, homesteading, house building, organic gardening or DIY.
- Magazine subscriptions: Graze, Acres USA, Progressive Farmer, Stockman Grass Farmer (Kim's totally getting me this one!), Backwoods Home, Countryside & Small Stock Journal, anything related to these things.
- I'm sure there are lots more things I would really love and appreciate, but I've been trying the past year or so to only ask for things I NEED (and before you ask, I do too need noms!).
I don't really expect anything, but if you feel so compelled, there you go!