LJ Holiday Wishlist 2012
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.
~*~
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 Secret Family 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, making it hundreds things in every direction) would be really cool. Feel free to go for used, because it's how I'd buy it anyway. Most of the newest list is 2013's Christmas on the hunt for getting all 2-disc sets of Disney DVD's, but one 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. Or anything from any list.
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 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. Unloved jewelry of all kinds has worked well in past years, too. Earrings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets, everything, anything. Earrings worked best last year and have all through this year on. They are still my big t hing 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.
7. Crazy socks have been winners at the LJ Christmas lists before this one, as well. I'm still a big fan of crazy socks this year, even more so when I'm suddenly wearing boots more often. So crazy, cool, nifty colored, any kind of patterned, argyle, knit, normal, nifty, different off the wall, socks. Whatever your pleasure is or would be to share.
8. I love pretty much all things chakra/goddess/tarot/wiccan related things. 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.
9. This is probably unlikely, but I think the thing I want most this fall and have no idea how long it might be until I can afford pulling it off for myself is a Kindle Paperwhite without ads. So there's my big, hands clasped, five year old wish.
10. Dreamwidth Fairying paid time or more icons or is never unloved. Especially at
wanderlustlover (as my DW account is not permanent, while my LJ one is). Or any of my gaming journals. Especially
thebesteverseen,
queenofmay, and
the_fairest.
~*~
E-mail address: Wanderlustlover (at) gmail (dot) com.
Elves to help you get my address in case you don't want me to know:
My Girl /
sageness, My Roommate /
emeryll, and Laura /
alemara
(I would love links to everyone else's lists as they go up as well, too!)
[This entry was originally posted at http://wanderlustlover.dreamwidth.org/2201685.html. Comment on either at your leisure.]
- 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.
~*~
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 Secret Family 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, making it hundreds things in every direction) would be really cool. Feel free to go for used, because it's how I'd buy it anyway. Most of the newest list is 2013's Christmas on the hunt for getting all 2-disc sets of Disney DVD's, but one 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. Or anything from any list.
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 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. Unloved jewelry of all kinds has worked well in past years, too. Earrings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets, everything, anything. Earrings worked best last year and have all through this year on. They are still my big t hing 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.
7. Crazy socks have been winners at the LJ Christmas lists before this one, as well. I'm still a big fan of crazy socks this year, even more so when I'm suddenly wearing boots more often. So crazy, cool, nifty colored, any kind of patterned, argyle, knit, normal, nifty, different off the wall, socks. Whatever your pleasure is or would be to share.
8. I love pretty much all things chakra/goddess/tarot/wiccan related things. 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.
9. This is probably unlikely, but I think the thing I want most this fall and have no idea how long it might be until I can afford pulling it off for myself is a Kindle Paperwhite without ads. So there's my big, hands clasped, five year old wish.
10. Dreamwidth Fairying paid time or more icons or is never unloved. Especially at
wanderlustlover (as my DW account is not permanent, while my LJ one is). Or any of my gaming journals. Especially
thebesteverseen,
queenofmay, and
the_fairest.
~*~
E-mail address: Wanderlustlover (at) gmail (dot) com.
Elves to help you get my address in case you don't want me to know:
My Girl /
sageness, My Roommate /
emeryll, and Laura /
alemara
(I would love links to everyone else's lists as they go up as well, too!)
[This entry was originally posted at http://wanderlustlover.dreamwidth.org/2201685.html. Comment on either at your leisure.]