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This is an updated gift list as of October, 2024. Stared are most wanted
Most Wanted
Raised Bed Gardening
- Soil: Bags of Raised Bed Soil Mix, or money eg Ace Hardware gift cards to buy soil***
- Wood: Home Depot gift cards to buy more wood to make more raised beds
Kitchen
- 'Trust your Gut not the Recipe' Art Print from Nourishing Notes**
- Mini Bowls** in "Craft Charcoal Coupe: from Crate and Barrel
- Ikea Kallax 1-Shelf Inserts
Quilt Repairs:
- Julie Zaichuk-Ryan of South Atlantic Stitching Company ***
Mail-in Mending Services
Cookbooks
- Hiakai by Monique Fiso**
Expanded List
Consumables
Snacks
- Nutty & Fruity snacks - e.g. mandarin, lime, hibiscus***
- Huang Fei Hong Spicy Peanuts
Sauces
- Soothsayer Hot Sauce. I prefer red sauces to green or yellow ones.***
- Mrs. Renfro's Salsa, especially the Ghost Pepper or Habanero ones***
- Dried Chile Salsa from American Spoon
- Gwen’s Hot Salsa Macha
Spices
- (I moved spices to the Kitchen Section, Below)
Art
- From You: Sunflower artwork made by you or the children***
- From Friends:
- kite, (this artwork is not yet titled) by Andrew Shoemaker. He will probably know what I'm talking about if you ask and say you know me.
Art Supplies
- Frames:
- NZ native wood frames from Silvan Made for some New Zealand art I have
- 8.5" x 11" wood frames, sometimes called "Document Frames", something like this
- Papergoods
- Envelopes: A2 sized envelops in fun colors
- Fold Cards: A2 sized fold cards in white or cream
- Giftcards to Make and Mend, an online creative reuse store
Garden & Yard
- Tools:
- Hose Nozzle
- Small Wheel Barrel
- Raised Bed Gardening
- Soil: Bags of Raised Bed Soil Mix, or money eg Ace Hardware gift cards to buy soil***
- Wood: Home Depot gift cards to buy more wood to make more raised beds
- Seeds: I have an abundance of seeds at the moment. Thanks everyone!
Cleaning
- Mop: Cuban mop, could be handmade***
- Housecleaning: would love a housecleaning Service, or money toward such a thing
- Pocket Knives: 3x Victorinox Classic SD 'Classic Red' pocketknives
Mending & Repairs
- Thread:
- Gift cards to Maiwa to choose linen thread in whatever color I need next
- Mail-in Mending Services: such as
- Old Flame Mending
- Little Cliff Mending
- Mindl's Mends
- Heidi Parkes or Addie Best
- Mail-in Dyeing Services: such as
- Quilt Repairs:
- Julie Zaichuk-Ryan of South Atlantic Stitching Company ***
- Ann's Quilt Repair
Kitchen
Tools n Stuff
- A Metate & Mano (saddle quern) for hand crushing hot peppers and other spices.
- 'Trust your Gut not the Recipe' Art Print from Nourishing Notes**
- Ikea Kallax 1-Shelf Inserts
Spices
- Whole dried hot peppers, any kind
- Fancy salts
- (I have an abundance of flavored salts right now, but I can always use cool 'plain' salts)
- Alaea Pink Salt, blue salt
- sel gris (grey salt)
- sal de ibiza
- black salt
- smoked salts
- Prickly Ash Peppercorns, any kind
- American Prickly Ash
- Sanshо̄ Pepper, eg from The Spice House
- Sichuan Peppercorns, eg Fly by Jing's "Tribute Pepper"
- Mah Ket or Mah Kwan Pepper, Batak Berry
- Fancy Turmeric, eg from Diaspora Co
- Other Fun Stuff:
- Whole Sumac, any kind
- Doubanjaing
- Nordic Spices
- Any other unusual spices, especially whole ones
Cookbooks
- From Extreme Latitudes
- North: New Nordic Cuisine
- From Oceanic or Island Lands
- Islas
- Hia Kai
- Eat Pacific
- From Continents I've Never Visited:
- Simply West African: Easy, Joyful Recipes for Every Kitchen
Dishware & Linens
- Everyday Dishes: our set is called "Craft Charcoal Coupe" from Crate and Barrel
- Mini Bowls**
- Mini Plates
- Sometimes they come out with new Serveware in our style, that would be cool too.
- Everyday Flatware: our flatware set is a more or less discontinued style called "Royce" by Reed and Barton. I sometimes find them on Ebay for a better price than replacements.com
- Spoons: tea spoons**
- Forks: salad forks
- Knives: We still have an abundance of butter knives, so don't need more butter knives. Thanks everyone!
- Everyday Linens: our set is called "Marin" from Crate and Barrel
Living Room
- Pair of Sunflower Pillowcases: two 26x26 square "Stillwater Floral" shams from School House in the Juniper green colorway
- Some Games
Party
- Bunting: Felt or fabric bunting or banners to decorate the party space year after year. Bonus points for birthday or ice cream themed (could be homemade)
- Bunting: Felt or fabric bunting or banners to decorate the party space year after year. Bonus points for birthday or ice cream themed (could be homemade)
- Party Hats: Felt or fabric cone shaped party hats to wear year after year, sort of like this (could be homemade)
- Party Crowns: Felt or fabric crowns to wear year after year, sort of like this or this (could be homemade)
- Ice Cream Dishes:
- Vintage William Sonoma Ice Cream Cone tall dishes
- Vintage William Sonoma Ice Cream Cone low dish
- Vintage William Sonoma Ice Cream Cone spoons
Cat Stuff
- Hancock Tower Scratching Post***
- Treats: we & kitties love salmon bites from Ava’s Pet Palace*
- Toys: we & kitties love felt toys from from Sesame Cafe*
- Vet Visits:
- Uber Rides: cats hate driving - they can barely even reach the gas pedal!! - but have to get to the vet somehow! Help them get around with uber gift cards
Final Note
If you are interested in financially donating in my name, I would be honored by gifts to the following organizations:
- The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora
- Children’s National, workplace of Dr Packer who invented the treatment that saved Tom’s life
- Organizations that rescue cats, especially those with FIV and/or FeLV:
- Hearthside Cats in Geneseo, NY , where we adopted Chase
- RocKats, which does TNVR with urban community cats (like Steve!)
- Barn Cat Outreach, which finds loving homes for harder-to-adopt cats
- Felines and Canines in Chicago, where we adopted Fievel and Aesop