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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 fun ("I'd love a [fandom] 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 possible things, 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, 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.
Here are my ten:
1. That every woman I know over the age of 40 has a mammogram. Yes, they're uncomfortable, and yes, hearing that you need a biopsy can be terrifying. But as scary as what I went through was, it was comforting to know that if I *had* had cancer, it had shown up early enough that the five year survival rate was 98%.
2. The name of a place that will redo the wiring on my beloved Singer Featherweight before the 60 year power cord explodes and electrocutes me. Must be within 20-50 miles of Northampton, Massachusetts.
3. A recipe for peanut butter cake. Mum made me one years ago and I'd love to try it again, but the recipe wasn't in her cookbook stash at her death.
4. A copy of How to Make a Patchwork Quilt, published by the Farm Journal in the early 1980s. It is still the best and clearest basic patchwork guide I've ever seen, and I would like a spare that I can use as a loaner because my original copy was loaned to someone I once considered a friend who never returned it.
5. The name of a vacuum cleaner that will actually remove pet hair from wall to wall carpeting.
6. Unwanted BPAL imps, especially ones based on Dragon's Blood.
7. A donation to your local food bank.
8. If anyone has directions for using stick lac for dye, I would be eternally in your debt.
9. A donation to the American Cancer Society.
10. Scraps of relatively thin silks and silk velvets in colors to match my icon, so I can make a copy of Bishop Agli's cushion.
11. Repeat #1.
I can be reached at kittencat3@charter.net. My thanks to anyone who
- 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 fun ("I'd love a [fandom] 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 possible things, 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, 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.
Here are my ten:
1. That every woman I know over the age of 40 has a mammogram. Yes, they're uncomfortable, and yes, hearing that you need a biopsy can be terrifying. But as scary as what I went through was, it was comforting to know that if I *had* had cancer, it had shown up early enough that the five year survival rate was 98%.
2. The name of a place that will redo the wiring on my beloved Singer Featherweight before the 60 year power cord explodes and electrocutes me. Must be within 20-50 miles of Northampton, Massachusetts.
3. A recipe for peanut butter cake. Mum made me one years ago and I'd love to try it again, but the recipe wasn't in her cookbook stash at her death.
4. A copy of How to Make a Patchwork Quilt, published by the Farm Journal in the early 1980s. It is still the best and clearest basic patchwork guide I've ever seen, and I would like a spare that I can use as a loaner because my original copy was loaned to someone I once considered a friend who never returned it.
5. The name of a vacuum cleaner that will actually remove pet hair from wall to wall carpeting.
6. Unwanted BPAL imps, especially ones based on Dragon's Blood.
7. A donation to your local food bank.
8. If anyone has directions for using stick lac for dye, I would be eternally in your debt.
9. A donation to the American Cancer Society.
10. Scraps of relatively thin silks and silk velvets in colors to match my icon, so I can make a copy of Bishop Agli's cushion.
11. Repeat #1.
I can be reached at kittencat3@charter.net. My thanks to anyone who
