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Here's my shameless list of crap I want.
Now if you feel like getting me a present or you just want to know what I'm saving up for, you can wonder no longer. Mail me if you have a suggestion or question about this list, or if you're a random online stalker and want to know how to get your present to me. Hehe.
Company Wish Lists:
These are automated Web site-run wish lists, similar to bridal registries or baby registries.
- Amazon Wish List: This is the link to the movie list (my default), but there are a ton of categorized wish lists for types of music and books on the sidebar. Just click the category you're interested in.
- T-Shirt Hell Wish List: Actually some of these shirts aren't even for me, but you'll be able to tell by the ones that are "girl" shirts in small which ones I actually want and which ones I have on there for my friends. :)
A word about automated Wish Lists: Lots of Web sites have wish lists you can make online. (You can make one too, and let me know so I can buy YOU stuff!) You can put in your shipping information, choose what you want, and other people can buy those things for you without even knowing where you live if they want. Plus they can just browse them out of curiosity or to get an idea of your taste.
Now for more general information:
Stuff to collect:
You can always be safe getting me additions to one of my collections, because as long as I don't already have it you can rest assured I'll want it. These links go to pages where I list the stuff I've already got.
- My Flower Fairies Stuff Collection--That's the artwork of Cicely Mary Barker.
- My collection of Sleeping Beauty tales--I collect any versions of this story that I don't have because I wrote a book based on it. Please check the ISBNs if you want to be sure I don't have it already without asking me first.
- My Essential Oils Collection--I prefer the natural stuff, not "perfume oils" or whatever. I'll take anything, and they're cheap.
- I collect candles and incense as well, but for these it doesn't matter if I have them already, I can always use duplicates. If you want to get something scented, I am partial to such scents as strawberry, vanilla, lemon, satsuma, and mulberry.
- Nice journals: I keep a daily journal, so there will always be a time when I need a new one. If it is a repeat of a design I already have, the world will not end.
Stuff to read:
Stuff to listen to:
- I have Amazon wish lists for music too. Not all the music I like is available through them, though, since I like a lot of folk musicians and people whose stuff you can get only from their Web sites, so first I'll list my Amazon categories and then you can look below for alternate and additional links for less available musicians. [Classical]
[Folksy & Funky]
[Funny Stuff]
[Hippie & Oldies]
[Mellow Gals] [Musicals]
[New Age & Celtic]
[Pagan & Chant]
[Pop & Rhythm]
[Techno & Synth]
[Unique Sound]
- I'd love to hear more of Maddy Prior, I'm only just now seeing how great her stuff is. I have none of her CDs. They're available at gaudela.net.
- I'd like one or all of the Legends of the Goddess trilogy by Laura Powers.
- I want Kathy Mar's CD My Favorite Sings.
- Elvendrums's CDs on this site.
- Gypsy's CD Enchantress.
- Kiva's albums Finding the Balance Within, A Call to Beauty, Live at the Forest Inn, Kiva's Excellent English Excursion, Alchemy, The Healing Art, Songs of Mysts and Moon, and Mother Wisdom.
- I'll listen to your favorite CD gladly. As long as it's not one I already have.
- I've got my eye on the CD The Music of Gwydion by Gwydion Pendderwen.
- Make me a mix! I know I'll love it.
- I'd love to receive CDs of artists that I like that I don't already have, and you can rest assured that if they're listed on my artist page but the CD isn't listed on my music collection, I don't already have it. I keep that very up to date.
Stuff to watch:
- Here's my Amazon Movie Wish List.
- I'd like the Subgenius movie Arise! It is available here.
- I would gladly accept a recording of your favorite movie.
- You can look and see if they make a DVD of a full season of one of my favorite TV shows, if it isn't already in my collection.
- Any of my favorite movies would be a welcome addition to my library even if I already have them on tape (for that you can check here if you care). Anything that doesn't say "DVD" next to it is VHS.
Stuff to wear:
I love clothes, but rarely shop for them. If you want to get me a shirt, you probably want to get me the smallest size there is, assuming it's for adults. I swim in nearly anything labeled "medium." Pants (as if you'd get me those) depend on the make but the smallest ones I'm wearing these days tend to be size 1, probably up to 3 or 4 (waist around 22-24) and very short. If you shop for clothes for me I hope you know my taste.
- New work shoes.
- New work clothes in general, especially black pants.
- A pair of galoshes! I wear a women's size 6ish, but I want to get some that go over my shoes for biking days. So if a size 6 women's shoe fits inside it, I like it. Preferably something funky-looking, but I don't care.
- A pair of cool sunglasses. I have a nice pair, but I like cool colors and shapes too.
- Go here! It's the Ozdust Boutique with stuff from the Wicked musical. I want the "Popular" shirt. (It's from a song. Not because I think I'm "popular." You'd have to hear the song to know why I'd want the shirt. Haha.) I think eventually I'm going to buy the short sleeved one.
- The Pyramid Collection is a cool New-Agey place and I like some of their clothes. But some of them are a little pricey. In any case, it might help to look at them even if you don't want to buy them, because you'll get an idea of my taste maybe. All would be in the smallest adult size available.
- I want shirts from T-Shirt Hell. Probably something wonderfully offensive. I do have a T-Shirt Hell Wish List.
- I like the selection at Burning Airlines. Maybe a cool band shirt.
- Go through the remnants bin at a store that sells material and buy a small attractive square of fabric no smaller than about a foot and a half each side. I love to make these into hair kerchiefs. Quilt blocks work wonderfully as well.
- Hot Topic has some stuff I like and other things I like to make fun of. Mallternative freaks.
- I guess this counts as something you wear: I like the tote bag at the HomestOre.
- I will wear nearly any shirt or type of jewelry that features cool faeries, I like faeries. There has been a rash of merchandise coming out lately that features faeries that are wearing hip clothes and/or punky jewelry. This I DON'T like, so you can avoid those. I'm also not much of a Tinker Bell fan.
- I like stretchy skin-tight black pants for the winter.
- I love long layered skirts.
- I really would like some bell-bottoms or at least flare-bottomed pants. I don't care if this is in style when you read this.
- I have double-pierced ears, you can get me earrings. If you buy these ones, it's for a good cause--the Hunger Site will give 50 cups of food to hungry kids, and they're awesome.
- Cool socks! Plain or decorated! For very small (but not children's size) feet!
- I have four pairs, but I like cute fairy wings.
- I like sparkly jewelry and hair things. One can never have enough of these and it's probably tough to go wrong if you buy something shiny.
- I like tacky fake clip-on hair pieces in funny colors. I don't have many of these.
- I gotta get some nail polish!
- I like glitter. Get me glitter.
Cooking and baking stuff:
- A plastic (not metal) pastry cutter. The thing you cut butter into dough with.
- I also like to have colored cellophane to wrap homemade candy and parchment paper to bake certain things on (you can get those at special baking sections or sometimes craft stores), and coarse sugar crystals to decorate with. This is all extremely silly, isn't it?
- Kitchen novelty items in general are fun, but ask me unless you know I don't have one, because I buy them a lot. I have a billion cookie cutters.
Stuff to use around the house:
- Band-Aids. Not kidding! I love funky Band-Aids.
- I can always use stationery and stickers.
- If you see any kind of gifty or decoratey item that features faeries I'll probably like it.
- I am always in need of quality inking pens.
- There are some really cool sets of Sharpie™ pens out there. I have the fine-tipped twelve-pen set and the pastels fine-tipped five-pen set, but there are the thick ones and bold ones that are not yet in my collection!
- High-quality sketch paper for my pencil art.
Stuff to eat:
- Try any of my favorite foods that lend themselves to being given as gifts.
- Partial to sugar-free candy as well!
- Homebaked goodies work wonders.
- Any sour candy imaginable.
- Delicacies such as Cadbury Creme Eggs, Pez, Cow Cheese, stroopwafels, artichokes, anything caramel, and anything green apple flavored make wonderful visiting gifts.
Electronic stuff:
- Blank CDs are always something I need.
- Rechargeable batteries: My digital camera uses AA 2400 mAh 1,2 V batteries.
- Ink cartridges for my printer: Color or black for Dell All-In-One A940, I use a lot of ink on creative projects.
Other stuff:
- I like Gel Gems, those sticky things you can put on a bathroom wall, mirror, or window. I have a ton of them but I can never have enough.
- If you can find any Eyeshield 21 merchandise besides the manga, oh my god, I must have it. Heh.
- You can always make me something! I'm appreciative of handmade gifts.
Gift certificates:
I cannot stress how much I would love to choose my own gift anywhere you deem appropriate. Along with the above-mentioned online stores, some suggested places are the following:
- Any craft store (Michaels or Jo-Ann Fabrics would be great)
- Any music store
- Any bookstore (Borders and Barnes & Noble are near me)
- Target; I'm addicted to their craft and housewares sections.
- Hell, the grocery store! How about the health food store? Fresh Market, Abby's, and Wild Oats are around here.
Stuff I DON'T WANT:
Here I'll list some things that I have been offered or have received in the past that I didn't appreciate or want to warn against. It can be tempting because you might think "no way," but if I've listed it here please don't get me this stuff.
- A motorized scooter--I know I can't drive and you feel sorry for me, but a scooter has all the same problems a bike does (the wind and the weather, plus problems in traffic), plus it takes away my opportunity to exercise. I actively DON'T want this.
- Flowers--Unless they are planted and alive. I don't really like cut flowers, they depress me.
- Writing classes--Some have suggested I'd get a lot out of workshops or some such. No thank you.
- A pet--DON'T GET ME A PET, even if it's just a fish. I don't want a pet, no matter how friendly you think it will make my apartment.
- A video game system--I don't want to play video games, sorry. At this point I need another addiction like I need a hole in my head.
- It's unlikely that I will appreciate sexy undergarments.
- Confections that contain cinnamon. I'm allergic.
- Clothes whose main decoration is the logo of their maker. I have no desire to pay the GAP or Abercrombie & Fitch to advertise their store. (Clarification: I'll pay the makers of things I'm INTERESTED in, like Homestar Runner and Tenacious D deserve to get paid by me in return for a cool shirt, but as for a shirt that advertises . . . selling shirts? Get over it. In short, it's "brand name" clothes that I like to avoid.)
- Girl power clothes. I generally dislike clothes that say things like "girl power" or have lips and the word "cute" on them or similarly snobby and silly girly things. Definitely nothing with a sentiment like "boy magnet," "tease," or "heartbreaker" or "so many boys, so little time." It is rare that I think that sort of thing is clever.
- Please don't get me any non-vegetarian food, or clothes or furniture that is leather or made of an animal product. If it's secondhand or something then that's different, but I'd rather you didn't support industries that kill animals for my benefit.
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