9/5/2024

 

Anything in Paintbox Soap Works Halloween release that you'd like?

Oooh.  Fairytale!!  Jack-of-the-Woods sounds interesting except I'm scared of the mushroom part.  Ask Tarty how heavy that part is?    

Let me in at your Window?  The Grey Hound?   

 

The products I like are bath streusel, sorbetto, hot process soap -- the partner would totally try some of the shaving soap (Black Sun, Wayfinder.)

 

Anything hand knit or embroidered you might like?

I would love embroidered things!  Especially snarky gothy embroidered things. 

 

As far as hand knits go, I am WAY too picky about stretchy cast on/bind off, sizing, yarn, etc. since I am also a knitter.  I make my own things.

 

I make shower steamers, salves, candles, soaps and other such. Are you interested in any such homemade goodies?

yes please.  All of the above except salves, I already have a brand new tin of it from Winterblizzard. 

 

9/7/2024

 

Would you like a small watercolor painting?  I'm talking 3×5".  If so, would you like it based on your preferred Halloween motifs or something else?

oohh yes!   Bats and the moon?   Spooky trees?  Whatever speaks to you.

 

I make light-weight hair falls ( I can do single or double, if you have a preference for pony tail or pig tails)- I make them out of things like soft yarns, up-cycled silk and bits of lace. Is this something you'd like? If so, tell me up to three colors and a length in inches you'd like.

Only if you show me how to wear them with my super short hair!  (pony tail, purple / black / blurple, ummm long enough to go past my neck and shoulders?

 

Anything from the Haus of Gloi Fall update?

I love their Ghost Puffs in body powder!!  And/or Bubbling scrub or sugar exfoliant.  

 

How about the Nocturne Alchemy Halloween update?

So I don't really want anything with cinnamon, coconut, oak, moss, or oakmoss.    That leaves out a LOT of their Halloween offerings.  I'm also not a huge fan of florals or fruits, but I really like their vanilla, amber, patchouli, other woods/resins, rose, lavender, and musks.

 

From Halloween Limited '24:

Black Vanilla Kulfi

Candy Corn Wraith

Black Amber Incense

Black Patchouli Amber Incense

Black Rose Amber Incense

Blood Moon

31 Bats Pandora

31 Bats Morticia

31 Bats Mircalla

 

9/8/2024

 

Milk, Dark, and or white Chocolate?

Milk!   (I will not go into the "white is not chocolate" debate, look at my restraint!)

 

Would you like a gently-used tarot or Lenormand deck?

Sure!   If it fits my wishes/aesthetic.   

 

I'm going to Disney World all next week!!! Can I get you something? (Maybe you have a favorite Disney / Star Wars / etc character or fandom? Maybe you're a Pin Trader? Maybe you like cute kitchen-wares / tea pots / nice English tea / pot holders tea towels?) 

YESSSSSSSSS   All of the Nightmare Before Christmas things!!!  I love kitchen stuff!!!!   Anything would be awesome but I have a skeleton themed kitchen so any towels, teapots, canisters, pot holders, kitchen stuff in general.   I love 20oz or larger mugs.   I like pins too!  

 

This is has been alluded to in other questions, but feelings about candles/wax tarts/incense and scent profiles?

I love all of them!   New place will have a huge jetted tub with lots of room for candles and good air circulation, I love beeswax candles and candles from Sea Witch Botanicals or other places that don't put a lot of synthetic fragrance or additives in their wax.  

 

I have a few wax tart melters, same with the synthetic fragrance and additives.   

 

I love good quality low smoke incense like Shoyeido but if you can find other good quality low smoke incense with a great fragrance throw, I'd be down to try it.   

 

(I have major respiratory issues, so I prefer places who use really safe products in their candles and incense, like Sea Witch Botanicals.   Here is an article about breathing in things from additives:  https://seawitchbotanicals.com/pages/what-are-synthetic-fragrances  I guess this applies to perfume and room spray as well!)

 

 

are you interested in skincare, such as trying travel sizes of various types? (would be cruelty-free, cleaner options coming from over here, if that matters to you!)

Not really, I never use them and they aren't usually large enough to see if my skin likes them or not.  (I would need to use for a week or more.)

 

 

9/9/2024

 

Let's talk earrings.  Pierced?  Stud, dangly, hoop?  Any ear wire preferences?  Large or small?  Other preferences?

I think I talked about this in my questionnaire.  Right now my ear piercings are closed up and I'm hoping to get them pierced again but gauged up (I don't know how large yet, so with a hollow needle at a body piercer place.   So I'll be looking for larger than normal earring wire (but not huge) spirals and things.   I'd prefer 304 stainless steel (if not sterling silver) or 316L surgical steel (low nickel content) -- please no 316lvm surgical steel as that has more nickel.   Titanium is also supposed to be nickel free, as is Niobium (non-plated.)   No color plating on anything, that irritates my ears and causes infection.   I'm PROBABLY going to go with 16g as that is the lowest size available in most of the jewelry that I like.

 

If there is something extravagant on your wish list, would you like one large gift and the rest of your gifts quite modest, or would you rather forego the lavish item in favor of more of a mix among your other gifts?

Totally up to my sender, I'm good with both.  I'm going to use the same caveat that violetchaos used on hers -- I don't have room for things that just sit on shelves or flat surfaces.   A figurine of a bat, no thank you.   A box or tray shaped like a bat?  YES PLEASE.   (or mirror, or --- Joann Fabric has garden stakes with bat spinners on them, I laughed, I cried as I put them back in the rack.)

 

The Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer is out with all of their autumn offerings. Is there anything you would like?

I've already picked up the Maple Butter but would take more... sadly my store didn't have All the Fall Things yet.   I'd love the Maple Spiced nut mix,  Milk Chocolate Covered Honey Comb,  Apple Shortbread Cookies, Hold the Cone Tips!!, the dogs love their cookies (preferably grain free.)

 

 

9//11/2024

 

I have in my possession a selection of real Bakelite bangle bracelets! Definitely from the 1940s-1960s era. Would this be an exciting gist for you to receive?

My vintage collection is solely neodymium items that change from purple to blue in different lights.  Not into bakelite or vaseline glass.   Thank you for asking!

 

Would you like anything from sock dreams?

I *have* a Sock Dreams wishlist but I almost literally never wear socks so they really would be wasted on me.   (I wear Madrid Birkenstocks everywhere.   Kidney issues = swollen feet/ankles = most of my shoes don't fit.)

 

9/13/2024

 

Would you be interested in a spooky mini waffle maker or spooky playing cards?

I have *so many* playing cards, so no please.   A regular size waffle maker would be cool but not a mini one I don't think.  Sorry!

 

Does anything from SnagTights strike your fancy?

I never wear tights, sad face.

 

What about from Michaels or JoAnnes?

I love so much of their Halloween offerings!   Everything bat!   (prefer things that are not plastic or flimsy.)

 

do you like Ren faires?  Might there be a fun little thing I should find for you there?

I love Ren Faires!!   Most of the things I want would probably be too spendy.   Hand thrown mugs / drinking horns / vases / bowls / coats / corsets / etc.   Maybe some cute buttons (bats?)   Or if drinking horn holders (that sit on a table) aren't too expensive?

 

 

9/14/2024

 

Weather permitting I'll be going to a witchy Florida themed night market next week! Is there anything you may want from it?

Oooh sounds great!   I love lots of things from markets but I don't know specifically what I'd want that would mail well.   Whatever you think I would like?

 

 

9/17/2024

 

Do you desire any Samhain ritual-type items, if so, what? 
ooooh.   Sadly my brain fog is a thing and I can't think of anything specific but I love this season so ... anything you think I'd like and would fit my spook.

 

Tell me, my ghoul-friend, would you love to see things from these places (and what?) as you unwrap your gifts? I will be going to the Pacific coast soon, and there are witchy stores (one with serious occult supplies, many handmade including inks, quills, books, etc), a HUGE gem & mineral store, a huge yarn shop, shells and way too much sasquatch stuff, also an amazingly diverse mercantile in Yachats, OR, and the Green Salmon, where unique PNW teas, coffees are sold

I could use some rose quartz or blue rose quartz palm stones or towers. I could also use some more selenite sticks (at least 8 or 16 of them) to grid my new room(s).  Or pick some palm stones or beads (or cabs) for intent for me.  I'm needy, haha.  (I can make bracelets or necklaces from the beads and wirewrap the cabs.)

 

I love coffee and have a grinder, so whole bean.  Prefer dark roast and I don't mind flavored.   Also can do k-cups.

 

I love yarn (fingering, sport, dk, worsted weights), (merino, silk, merino silk cashmere, etc.  no acrylic please.)   

 

I really have a LOT of tea so unless it's from Damman Freres or Mariage Freres, pass for now.  

 

Handmade Ink, quills, and books sound interesting.  I love handmade sealing wax and seals as well.

 

 

9/18/2024

 

Would you like spooky-themed stationary supplies?  What kinds if so?

Nice pens?

What about unanointed spell candles?

I think I'm ok on those right now.

 

Could you use any clever storage boxes like these?

nope, I've had those and given them away.

 

9/22/2024

 

If I were to place an order from Cellar Door, what strikes your fancy - they're having a fast 20% off sale through Monday so I'd need an answer fast 

I think I had a wishlist for Cellar Door for a while.  I'd love a candle but would also take soap.

* Black no 1

* Farmhouse Pumpkin

* Lavender Pumpkin

* Once Bitten

* Sanderson Spice

* Spooky Season

 

non seasonal:

* Acadian Driftwood

* Lavender Fields

* Midnight Rider

* Sex Machine

 

 

10/2/24

 

Would you be down for baked goods as a day zero gift? If so, are there any you particularly enjoy that travel well?

Of course!   Shortbread (chocolate or flavored), pumpkin bread?  Open to more but in a hurry and no brain.

 

Is your perfume wishlist up to date? 

Sadly, probably not!   

 

 

 

10/4

 

Do you need herbs? Rosemary, thyme, winter savory, oregano, sage or such? Mugwort for tea/burning? I grow lots of herbs and I'm happy to share!

Sure, I love dried herbs!