[Contest] What you want, baby I got

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So, I'm looking over my lists and realizing - I have so very many things! I like a lot of them, and for a number of them, while I love them, I realize I chose them mostly to raise awareness that they exist at all.

So, take a peek at my wishlists. Do you see something you really like? Something that makes you think "Wow, that WOULD be nice to have?" Learn about a new shop or provider that makes something really cool?

I want to gift someone something they like from my list, or from a shop on one of my lists (lookin' at you, Etsy). You can choose from Etsy or Amazon, I'm not super picky.

So, pick an item, tell me what it is and why you like it, and put a raffle phrase. Pick...... a song lyric or quote about wanting, needing, getting, or giving. =)

Contest closes..... Thursday. Night. 9 pm EST? Yes. Try to keep it under/around $35. We'll see how it goes!

Contest closed! Sliiightly later than I had hoped, but on we go to gifting!

Winner: Carissalf

** Honorable Mention **: blaaaaaargh, GreatCatch, and alydian!

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littlemisslexihttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/littlemisslexi•11 yr. ago

Emergency Seeds would be really a neat thing to have or the [Bee Hotel] (https://www.etsy.com/listing/62788144/single-tier-mason-bee-house-and-insect?registry=NTY3MjQ2MXwxNzg5MjQwNw&ref=registry)would be really cool! We live on 2 acres so either one would be great! We also have lots of bees!

Thank you for the contest!

Ha ha ha ha ha Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want So tell me what you want, what you really, really want I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want So tell me what you want, what you really, really want I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah

Raffle Song

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

That.... is a FANTASTIC song choice! Also, I am really in to the bee hotel, way more than I probably should be. It's just so neat, and definitely getting pollinators and heirloom crops is super great. I would love it if we had more space, 2 acres sounds great!

littlemisslexihttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/littlemisslexi•11 yr. ago

Haha thanks! That instantly popped in my head! I had never seen a bee hotel before I saw it on your list! It really is so cool! Seeds are always great, its so rewarding eating something that you grew! 2 acres is awesome, its a lot of work but so worth it! Just waiting for the April showers to stop so we can do our garden again!

[deleted]•11 yr. ago

The black and white trees drinking glasses are cool ! I seriously like trees and nature looking things! I decorated my living room with earth tone colors and leaf deco

Raffle Song

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

It's my favorite..... if it's wood, wood-like, or metal, I'm pretty much in. Your living room sounds fantastic!

manaNinjahttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/manaNinja•11 yr. ago

I'm not entering, but I really wanted to point out that Tentacle Pirate Ship Attack Bookend you have on your list is frigging awesome :D

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

IKNOWRITE? So much of his metalwork is just so wonderful. I recommend going through and just looking at all the different designs he has... so much fun. And I have so many books....

alydianhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/alydian•11 yr. ago

I love the Firefly lip balm on your Etsy list!

Here's my favorite song about giving.

The heart that gives, gathers. - Tao Te Ching

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

I like your quote.

I hate that I am apparently the most gullible of all the gullible people.

I love that so far you're the only one that's done that to me.

I'm excited about those lip balms too! So many of them are just so interesting!

alydianhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/alydian•11 yr. ago

Thank you! I felt kind of bad, but I was hoping your enjoy it.

LadyOopshttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/LadyOops•11 yr. ago

ooh I love looking at peoples list,

we both like lush and firebox. I added a bunch of FictitiousFragrances wax tarts from etsy to my list from yours. I love good smells. Great find!

song lyric.. oh you got what i need

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

I am really hoping RedditGifts does another Good Smells exchange... I have got that one down in spades. I'm really excited about those tarts, they just sound so good!

LadyOopshttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/LadyOops•11 yr. ago

i missed that exchange

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

Me too, I'm so jealous. Things that smell awesome are one of my absolute favorite things ever.

Pinalope4Realhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/Pinalope4Real•11 yr. ago

You have some wonderful things on your lists. I have poached, this from your list, as I am planning on re-doing my front gardens to attract even more butterflies and hummingbirds.

Lyric...? I want you, to want ME!!!!! :-p

Thanks for the contest.

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

Not a problem! I like this contest... I might do it again in the future, it's fun to find things I like and share them!

It's so dangerous for me to look up seeds and flower things.... I end up adding about 40gillion. I really do want to get a butterfly garden going - as many bugs as I can house, I'm for.

Except roaches. Never, not even once.

Pinalope4Realhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/Pinalope4Real•11 yr. ago

Hahaha not many people want roaches around, or stink bugs! Or ticks! I'll stick with pollenating critters. :-D

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

UGGGGH ticks are the WORST. That is one thing I really can't deal with.

I have a very bad habit of getting breakfast to take to work, then never getting a chance to eat it. One day I said "OK, after this surgery I am DEFINITELY going to eat my chicken mini biscuits!"

And about 3 minutes later a nurse came in to show me a picture.... of the giant roach that had crawled in to the slightly opened box and set up camp on top of my biscuits......

No food for me that day.

Pinalope4Realhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/Pinalope4Real•11 yr. ago

OMG that is horrible! I would have nightmares for months after that!

KristinOhhhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/KristinOhh•11 yr. ago

I pick the Etsy GingerZAP shop. They're really neat abstracts. I've seen stuff like this before and it's super cute. I'd totally love a custom Yoshi one. :3

ANY WAY YOU WANT IT, THAT'S THE WAY YOU NEED IT. ANY WAY YOU WANT IT. i think those are the lyrics... haha

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

Great art AND great music! I really do love her prints... and I like the way she renames everything to avoid issues with those pesky copyright laws =)

KristinOhhhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/KristinOhh•11 yr. ago

tehe

carissalfhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/carissalf•11 yr. ago

I am absolutely in love with this mug. Alice in Wonderland is one of my absolute favorites of all time.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

-Pablo Picasso

Thanks so much for the contest!

suckinonmytittieshttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/suckinonmytitties•11 yr. ago

Oh my gosh I am in LOVE with this bee hotel on your etsy list. I've never seen that shop before but I'm actually a beekeeper and I've always wanted something like this to help out the native bees in my area! I have an area of flowers that native bees in my area pollinate and hanging this nearby would be so perfect.

YOU. YOU'VE GOT WHAT I NEED. BUT YOU SAY HE'S JUST A FRIEND, YOU SAY HE'S JUST A FRIEND. OH BABY YOUUUU!

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

My boyfriend wants to get in to bee keeping, but I haven't actually put the necessary effort in to finding out our zoning regulations. It would help SO much with my gardening though... and adding that to the organic garden + chicken raising would push my hippie cred through the roof! ;)

I do so love bees though, I am way more in to providing stylish lodging for them than I ever thought I would be.

suckinonmytittieshttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/suckinonmytitties•11 yr. ago

That is some serious hippie cred! I also have an organic garden but no chickens! If you do start beekeeping and ever need any help or advice PM me! Also look to see if you have any local beekeeping clubs in your area :)

ps you should check out my etsy list because we have really similiar tastes and I think you would like some of the stuff I have on mine! I love sharing shops and ideas and I'm getting so many from this contest!

Angstwomanhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/Angstwoman•11 yr. ago

Since I'm from MPLS, the Sherlock's Study wax melts caught my eye! I have never seen these ones before!

"And it hit me, Minnesota is dope. If only simply not for what we have...but what we don't" -Atmosphere

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

The description of the smell is so exciting, I am almost unsure if I want to get them. What if it was disappointing? How could I deal with it??!??

Buuuut I really want them really bad ;)

Angstwomanhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/Angstwoman•11 yr. ago

Try them out and report back! I'm curious as well!

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

Maybe we'll both find out!

Angstwomanhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/Angstwoman•11 yr. ago

Mayyybe! Either way, If you get them, let me know! I am kind of a wax melt addict. My boyfriend is always asking me to shut off the burners, ha!

Angstwomanhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/Angstwoman•11 yr. ago

You first! ;P

jevausiehttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/jevausie•11 yr. ago

Ooh I love this contest! Thanks! :D

So it appears we have similar taste in a lot of things, including books! 7th Tower series & Bartimaeus FTW! But I was most thrilled by the plants & gardening stuff. I added the Aqua Terrarium to my Etsy registry as it's super cool but I'm afraid my cats would try to kill it, lol. I also tried to add some of the seeds you had, but one was unavailable, so you may notice I added several different tomato & pepper seed varieties from the same vendor!

On Amazon, I added the hinterland tomato seeds from your Amazon wishlist to my "Want < Wallet" wishlist, and perhaps the coolest one individual item was the survival seed vault which I added to my default "WANT!!!" list! I always love heirloom veggies & tomatoes are my very favourite plants, plus it's cool to see how they came in so many shapes & colours before becoming overly GMO.

Honestly, if I won, I'd love to have just some different types of new seeds. Not just saying this for the contest but I genuinely did think that one seed shop on Etsy was super awesome! Purple tomatillo? Sweet chocolate bell pepper?!?! LEMON CUCUMBER?! What! I definitely have a new source for gifts for my mommy, thanks a lot! :D I'd love any more gardening or even book / other stuff recommendations you have and can throw some your way as well! I'm genuinely super excited about maybe trying those plants haha, especially in the new planter my momma got me!

My raffle phrase lyrics for you? Hmm... how about-- no, that song's already taken! Well, I could use--- nope, that one too! Well then I guess you get this one! "Baaaaaby, I need your lovin'! Got to have all your lovin'"!

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

Tomatoes and peppers are my absolute favorites.... they're one of the few plants I get yearly success with. Also, my boyfriend, his family and all his friends are serious heat-fiends, so new peppers are always in demand. I'm really in to the terrariums and aquariums now! I didn't know that about me =)

This is why I love sharing! YAAAY!

Also: True fact - as a kid my dad told us that he used to be a member of the Five Tops.... but then he got kicked out due to racism. My dad is..... definitely a dad.

jevausiehttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/jevausie•11 yr. ago

Yayyyy! I like spicy food but I'm a complete pansy about it, so I'm a little unsure how much garden space / effort I'd want to put into planting hot peppers, but tomatoes are the best! I might look into some slightly less-hot peppers, though!

Here' s a recommendation for you if you haven't already seen it: this website sells ghost chili pepper seeds, as does this one! Those are known to be some of THE hottest peppers in the world, & these are the only legitimate sources I've seen selling them (the one on amazon is apparently actually habanero seeds). If you're looking to try new tomatoes, I recommend black krim tomatoes or Cherokee purple tomatoes, both of which I successfully grew last year! Mine were definitely not your standard red fruits, either.

Hehe... your dad sounds fun. Hooray for dad jokes!

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

Oooh, those two tomatoes are standards in my garden! That being said, I've rarely gotten any fruit off them. This year I planted early and gave them TONS of space. I got a packet of seeds with Black Sea tomatoes or some such from someone a few weeks ago.... sadly I am blanking on who! I'm really excited about letting a few of those sprout out and seeing how it goes though.

I usually buy ghost peppers from a farmer's market that sells plants, but last year they just never produced. Amended my soil, but I'd rather grow my own than wait around for them to have some. :)

jevausiehttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/jevausie•11 yr. ago

Ooh I'll have to look into Black Sea! My Cherokee Purple was very fruitful, & the Black Krim produced a few really good ones but I lost a lot due to the skin splitting :(

The links I gave you are for seeds for the ghost peppers so you can grow your own! :)

dizzyvonbluehttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/dizzyvonblue•11 yr. ago

Not entering, but both the bee homes on your Etsy list are great. Preserving the bee population is important, dire to be honest. You should gift those!

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

Here's hoping! I am going to do my darndest to raffle randomly instead of playing favorites... but probably going to try to get my boyfriend to pitch in on a runner-up or two. I want one but I actually don't know if we have mason bees here, and as much as I want to protect bees, I don't want to introduce them to this area if they aren't native. I need to see if I can find some other bee friendly habitats!

Aerys1http://www.wlsearch.com/u/Aerys1•11 yr. ago

you have some nice things it was hard to choose but the gardening stuff go tmy eye the most and then i saw this and it looks so awesome! and its full of tasty food seeds <3 and its honestly neat i've never seen anything like it!

I wanttttt you to want me! ha

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

I do so love that seed kit... I've gotten a few of those packets individually and growing heirloom seeds is so neat!

Aerys1http://www.wlsearch.com/u/Aerys1•11 yr. ago

So true! it looks very awesome for sure!

RumpleAndBellehttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/RumpleAndBelle•11 yr. ago

Thank you for getting that song stuck in my head! I love that seed starter green house on your wishlist, I think it would be quite helpful for growing plants. I've always wanted to start my own garden, I recently started growing flowers but would like to start on veggies as well. Sadly the one on your wishlist doesn't seem to be avalible but there are others such as this and this which are green houses also. (Can't add anything to my wl until I get home, my work computer hates amazon). For a song lyric? "You want thingamabobs? I've got twenty! But who cares? No big deal" :) I am sure that will be stuck in my head most of the day now as well. Lol Thank you for the contest.

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

I ain't gon' do you wrong.... cuz I don't wanna. ;)

I am so very hopeful that my veggies do well this year.... last year was a bust but we're trying new and exciting things in the world of plants this year, so here's hoping!

GreatCatchhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/GreatCatch•11 yr. ago

If you could give a gift to me

To hold to my soul dear

I'd love to see you smile upon my face,

Without a fear

And when you've smiled your fear away

There's something more you'd bring

The gift of gifts, remembering

How I first learned to sing...

Beauty And The Beast - A Gift To You (Beauty And The Beast - One Magical)

The terrarium is so cute, but something up my alley even more is the colored vellum. I didn't know it came in colors and you get many bright colors in that pack.

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

Is that from the musical? Because my immediate reaction was "BLASPHEMER! There is no Beauty and the Beast song unknown to me!"

I am in love with the colored vellum... I started papercrafting and it's a pain in the butt to go out and pick it up every single time I start a new project!

GreatCatchhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/GreatCatch•11 yr. ago

Google is responsible, not me ;)

It seems to be from a BatB read-along book called "One Magical Christmas".

youredepressedhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/youredepressed•11 yr. ago

Oh lordy! I love the Book Cellar melts and the Your Father Smelt of Elderberries roll on on your Etsy WL!!! So much awesome!

But I want more than a touch, I want you to reach me, And show me all the things no one else can see.

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

Ooh, I haven't listened to that song in a long time. Good call!

I'm a sucker for good smells and I looove Frostbeard. I have Headmaster's Office, it's a very good one!

blaaaaaarghhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/blaaaaaargh•11 yr. ago

THIS! Oh my, I love it. It's beautiful. I've added it to my Etsy list! I'm addicted to mugs. I adore them.

Give it to me baby, uh huh, uh huh!

Thanks for the contest!

raitaiOPhttp://www.wlsearch.com/u/raitai•11 yr. ago

Isn't it gorgeous? I actually don't like mugs all that much, I always feel like I have too many, but that one was just too much awesome to be left out. It's a lot of things I didn't know I'd want, put into a thing I now want so bad. =)