Christmas List

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If we aren’t blood relatives of close degree/explicitly seeing each other at the party or Christmas Day to exchange gifts, please don’t get me anything (nice though the thought may be!), because I don’t have money to get you anything and will feel shamed by the discrepancy, etc.

For shipping cost reasons, it’s always better to order something for me online from a UK company, and if a gift-certificate is involved, to get that via a UK company as well. I don’t mean to be fussy, it’s just unnecessarily expensive for anyone to ship items from the US, and difficult for me to buy things while home and get them back to the UK.

In no order, save ‘money’, which is rightly at the top of any list I make x_x :

* money
* a class where I get to learn to make something cool or learn a new skill (jewelry making, hats, sewing, cooking, learning about something I don’t know about like cheese-making, etc.)
* something (if it’s clothing related) of the above that I can do with Katy
* a sewing machine
* a Kitchenaid mixer
* a copy of Benjamin’s Arcades Project (book)
* Primark brogues? shoes (not like, heels, which I can never wear, unless very flattish--I should like to help pick out shoes, if possible)?
* board games well-rated on boardgamegeek.com
* a travel chess set of this specific sort (not necessarily from this site/this brand): http://www.jwebshop.com/images/l/J00064/J000640320.jpg without necessarily the timer or bags
* a new cutting board of decent quality
* piping bags
* book store money
* money to spend at Borough market, other nice food places
* theater gift certificates
* this action figure set: http://forbiddenplanet.com/61534-doctor-who-action-figures-fifth-doctor-the-master-planet-of-fire/?utm_source=googleps&utm_medium=comparison
* William Morris pattern curtains
* Arts and Crafts and/or Aesthetic movement-looking things