Holiday Wishlist Thingy
Dec. 11th, 2011 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Step 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 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 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. 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.
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Mine are the usual:
1 - A day late but the Amnesty International 'Write for Rights' campaign http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10673 is a cause close to my heart. If you have ten minutes, an envelope and don't mind writing a letter, choose a cause close to your heart and write a letter for them.
2 - More selfishly, links to people who make icons and don't mind other people using them (with credit, of course). I am on the hunt for more icons, particularly a Sherlock one, an X-Men:First Class one (Mystique, equally of course), a Covert Affairs one and a Human Target one. The problem is I have a definite image in mind for the first two and I don't have the talent to make them. I think you have to have an eye for colours and shapes that I just don't have. So yes, icon recs please.
- 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 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 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. 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.
~~~~
Mine are the usual:
1 - A day late but the Amnesty International 'Write for Rights' campaign http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10673 is a cause close to my heart. If you have ten minutes, an envelope and don't mind writing a letter, choose a cause close to your heart and write a letter for them.
2 - More selfishly, links to people who make icons and don't mind other people using them (with credit, of course). I am on the hunt for more icons, particularly a Sherlock one, an X-Men:First Class one (Mystique, equally of course), a Covert Affairs one and a Human Target one. The problem is I have a definite image in mind for the first two and I don't have the talent to make them. I think you have to have an eye for colours and shapes that I just don't have. So yes, icon recs please.
