Holiday Wish List Project
Dec. 4th, 2006 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladycaviarI’ve found the Holiday Wishes project, and I think it’s wonderful. Some people are hesitant to post things they want for themselves, and ask for world peace. I think we can make a difference praying together and directing our intention and it will change the course of events and that’s great, but I’ve enjoyed how wonderful I’ve felt granting the wishes I could, and I feel cheated when there’s nothing on a list I can grant at all. It took me years to learn to “want” again after so long not being able to have anything at all, and it makes me feel worthy to be able to give to others. Make a list for yourself, dammit, so I can feel good, and so that others can too.
I think all my brothers should make a list, either here in LJ or on our email list.![[info]](https://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
stitchwitch had a system I think she should share with the brothers, because it’s hers, and because I completely forgot how it works.
1. A 6”-8” boar tusk.
2. A 25-pin hole PCI (or PCIE) slot SCSI card. Thanks,torin3 andsimian_grudge!
3. A paying job equivalent to Society for Creative Anachronism Mistress of Arts & Sciences or Khan of the Great Dark Horde. Not a joke wish—but for the love of toast, I don’t know any other way to word this one. If you’re really serious, I’ll email you my resume [ladycaviar at yahoo dot com]
4. Anything on my Amazon Wish list:
5. A psychiatrist I can afford who understands me.
6. My student loans paid off.
7. Visit my website: Ladycaviar.Com. Entertain yourself by following all the links.
8. Tell me something you’d like to order from a CafePress store and maybe I’ll make it: Ladycaviar Fine Art. If you find something you like already there, get it for yourself. If you have a store, tell me, and if I really like your stuff, I might link to it to drive traffic to you. I already did withetzchaiim's store Etz Chaiim Design.
9. I want to go to Siberia, Stalin be damned: view the cruise
10. Very soft vintage linen or silk white-on-white embroidered handkerchiefs (or dinner napkins), especially with an “R” monogram.
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greatdarkhordeandholiday_wishes
I think all my brothers should make a list, either here in LJ or on our email list.
stitchwitch had a system I think she should share with the brothers, because it’s hers, and because I completely forgot how it works.I’m 40 year old artist of questionable success, and recovering from a long term confusing time of injury and illness, involving heavy metal poisoning from my art materials. I’m learning just what amazing abilities I do have in life, and coping with the ones I’ve lost forever. It’s ok. :)
What Isholiday_wishesand how does it work?
This is the community for the Holiday Wishes project as concieved in 2004 bytartanshellin this post.
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. [Note: Your home address is not required!]
- 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 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 guarantees with this project, 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 Holiday Wish List.holiday_wishesand how does it work?This is the community for the Holiday Wishes project as concieved in 2004 by
tartanshellin this post.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. [Note: Your home address is not required!]
- 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 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 guarantees with this project, 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.
1. A 6”-8” boar tusk.
torin3 andsimian_grudge!3. A paying job equivalent to Society for Creative Anachronism Mistress of Arts & Sciences or Khan of the Great Dark Horde. Not a joke wish—but for the love of toast, I don’t know any other way to word this one. If you’re really serious, I’ll email you my resume [ladycaviar at yahoo dot com]
4. Anything on my Amazon Wish list:
5. A psychiatrist I can afford who understands me.
6. My student loans paid off.
7. Visit my website: Ladycaviar.Com. Entertain yourself by following all the links.
8. Tell me something you’d like to order from a CafePress store and maybe I’ll make it: Ladycaviar Fine Art. If you find something you like already there, get it for yourself. If you have a store, tell me, and if I really like your stuff, I might link to it to drive traffic to you. I already did with
etzchaiim's store Etz Chaiim Design.9. I want to go to Siberia, Stalin be damned: view the cruise
10. Very soft vintage linen or silk white-on-white embroidered handkerchiefs (or dinner napkins), especially with an “R” monogram.
Cross posted to
greatdarkhordeandholiday_wishes
