Christmas wish list
Dec. 8th, 2007 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillian13I and many others did this last year, so I thought I'd do it again this year. Pass it along!
In other news, I am now signed up for TWO classes this spring: Art Metals (aka Welding for Artists), and a Special Topics class that will let me work on stuff like bezels and hinges. Social life? What social life?
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.
- 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 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.
My list:
1. Really nice foreign coins, especially pre-Euro Greek and Irish, with the nice designs. Irish pig pennies. Coins from Australia, Singapore, with the cute critters on them. Norwegian coins with moose and squirrels. Older Moroccan coins with the star on them. Just about any coins that look purty to make jewelry with.
2. Pretty rocks, crystals, cabachons to make jewelry with.
3. Movies: DVDs of the first 3 Die Hard movies, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Bugsy Malone, Flash Gordon, Justice League Unlimited, Farscape, the 2nd and 3rd seasons of NCIS, Eureka season 1.
4. An 80 GB iPod (yeah, I know....)
5. A bike or an exercise bike.
6. Joyce Chen's Ultimate scissors (for cutting metal, oddly enough).
7. Good full-size sheets, as long as they aren't pink or black...
8. Getting my car detailed, incuding the engine compartment. Getting the back door release and back window washer fluid dispenser fixed.
9. Anything from this site (I wear a 2 or 3x and I love Discworld.) Or just about any weird Discworld stuff.
10. A spa day.
- 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.
- 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 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.
My list:
1. Really nice foreign coins, especially pre-Euro Greek and Irish, with the nice designs. Irish pig pennies. Coins from Australia, Singapore, with the cute critters on them. Norwegian coins with moose and squirrels. Older Moroccan coins with the star on them. Just about any coins that look purty to make jewelry with.
2. Pretty rocks, crystals, cabachons to make jewelry with.
3. Movies: DVDs of the first 3 Die Hard movies, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Bugsy Malone, Flash Gordon, Justice League Unlimited, Farscape, the 2nd and 3rd seasons of NCIS, Eureka season 1.
4. An 80 GB iPod (yeah, I know....)
5. A bike or an exercise bike.
6. Joyce Chen's Ultimate scissors (for cutting metal, oddly enough).
7. Good full-size sheets, as long as they aren't pink or black...
8. Getting my car detailed, incuding the engine compartment. Getting the back door release and back window washer fluid dispenser fixed.
9. Anything from this site (I wear a 2 or 3x and I love Discworld.) Or just about any weird Discworld stuff.
10. A spa day.
In other news, I am now signed up for TWO classes this spring: Art Metals (aka Welding for Artists), and a Special Topics class that will let me work on stuff like bezels and hinges. Social life? What social life?
