LJ Holiday Wishlist 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, or link to this post (it'll be public) 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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My Yuletide List
1. My family's most original tradition's during this time is the Christmas Mouse (who brings you new pjs and slippers on Christmas Eve) and a recipe for an amazing Cranberry Orange Bread. Pass down a tradition or recipe that is a hallmark in your family to me this year; either as making me apart of it or simply telling me about it. I would love to receive these little secrets of your world in my mailbox!
2. I truly love getting Christmas cards every year. This more even more than most, and thus this would be a really lovely thing this year. I love mail time and I would love to hear from my loved ones and from anyone who happens to run across this. And I could toss them up all over my walls in my tiny apartment. Just some kind of warm, wishful thing. It could even be just a copied lines of quote or poetry or movie or a secret. Anything. I would truly, deeply love this.
3. Anything from my Amazon Wish lists (there are categories on the sides, with list titles) would be really cool. Especially used, because it's how I'd buy it anyway. I'm still on the hunt for getting all 2-disc sets of Disney DVD's and can never have too many books. I'm especially in love with poetry and classics, but I would love any books that need a home.
4. Tea! And tea, and more tea. I love tea. Love, love, love. I love black tea and green tea and white tea and red tea and loose tea and bagged tea and flowering tea. I love tea pots and tea cups and tea balls and tea related paraphernalia I haven't even found out yet. I would love to get tea, if you'd be willing to share a few packets of your favorite brand or a few packets of whatever you've got around that didn't work for you. I love trying all sorts of tea.
5. Something random that combines blue and silver. Or dragons. Or Unconditional Love. Or soft. Or scarves. Or fingerless gloves/mittens. Or rainbow colors all together. It can be combined with anything after that and be in any format. Feel free to do anything that comes to mind from online to solid objects. Go crazy and enjoy.
6. Comic shirts and crazy socks have been winners at the LJ Christmas lists before this one, as well. I'm still a big fan of comic shirts and crazy socks. I'm a size small frequently in the boy cut shirts but I love comics shirts in any size. I slept in the Death Shirt I was gifted two years back for ages before moving here and still end up wearing the socks I got last year.
7. Things with the Cullen Crest on them. Yes, the Twilight Cullen crest. Anything, everything. I own very little with it on it and I really, really want things that have it (like Edward's bracer [which is my golden, penultimate fandom wish of two years now], or a scrabble tile pendant, or a bag, addnum etc) but somehow I always, always, always keep myself from actually doing it. And it's hugely relevant to my fannish pursuits while I'm a stalker/avoider of most of the related fandom.
8. Unloved jewelry has worked well in past years, too. Earrings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets. Earrings worked best last year and have all through this year on. They are still my random thing focus at the moment. I love common to bohemian to fancy, but I rarely spend more than three dollars on a pair of earrings. Ever. I really would like to have more of a collection of all of these though. If you're doing this one, feel free to even choose things you might not be wearing as much anymore over buying a set. After all, it is all new to me either way.
9. I love pretty much all things chakra and goddess worship related. I don't really have a huge assortment of these things, but I've been drawn to them forever. So I'm tossing this out there, and maybe someone somewhere will see this and find some inspiration in the simplicity of the listing.
10. Lj Fairying paid time or more icons or is never unloved. Especially at themidnightson, iwouldfollowyou, real_or_notreal, bright_daughter, and sheisourheart.
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E-mail address: Wanderlustlover (at) gmail (dot) com.
Elves to help you get my address in case you don't want me to know:
sageness and neenie and emeryll.
(I would love links to everyone else's, too!)