Originally Posted By chickendumpling The one thing I really want for Christmas is..... World peace. What do you realllllly want for Christmas? I mean it. I mean throw all practicality and selflessness out the window and indulge your imagine. Tell what you really, really want for Christmas. My grandmother's weakness is jewelry. Diamonds and gold in particular. If she doesn't think anyone is going to get her any for Christmas, she goes and buys it for herself. One year she even went so far as to wrap it and put it under the tree with a gift card saying it was from Santa. That woman cracks me up! So what are you secretly hoping for this Christmas?
Originally Posted By chickendumpling (oops. Forgot to say that guys are welcome to post here too. I would love to hear what *they* think women really want for Christmas.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle After struggling to write a Christmas list, now that everyone I know has already bought their presents I've thought of hundreds more things to ask for that will now have to wait for my birthday. I didn't give anyone my Amazon wish list details - which I only realised on Tuesday when I used my friend's wish list to buy her a DVD she wasn't expecting! See, if SHE had MY wish list address she could've done the same for me! Oh, and I want diamond earrings. And membership in the Disney Vacation Club. And world peace.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Well World Peace of course After that I'd like my wedding ring reset or whatever that would technically be called. My rings were remade for our 10th anniversary, we added another smallish diamond and our childrens birthstones. We have now been married 33 years and our oldest DD's birthstone fell out (never found) about 5 years ago. We tried to have it replaced but evidently the whole thing has to be redone because of wear or some such thing. Anywho, I'd like it all redone and the kids stones put on another ring or necklace. So, yes, I too want diamonds and gold There just never seemed to be a good time to pay for it, first it was 5 sets of braces or some such thing then 4X4 years of college tuition and now I'm back in a ME mode Hey, chickie, maybe it's a grandma thing, yes, that is it, once you are a grandma, it's all about the jewelry! and World Peace Oh, by the way, DH is fully aware of this since it's been discussed since the birthstone diamond fell out He'll probably go with me to the jewelers and then sit outside checking scores and email on his cell phone while I make the decisions on the ring, I will be so surprised when I see what I got!! LOL!!
Originally Posted By Ursula <a href="http://tinyurl.com/27wstb" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/27wstb</a> And I'm not even a grandma.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS Urs, Just drop a couple of those zeros and I can afford to buy that for you Xmas. $240 isn't really that expensive. I'm just saying. FOr Christmas this year I would love the best daughter in the whole world. Oh, yeah, already got that. So, then, I guess I would love a trip to WDW. Um, oh yeah, already got that this year, too. Um..Ok, I would like family who love to spend time with me and who are there for me when I need help once in awhile. What? Oh yeah, I already have that, too. Ok, ok, ok. Let me think. Oh, how about an PAP for DL? Shoot, have that, too. Hmm. I guess I don't really need anything but a rich husband who insists that I quit my job, takes me traveling around the world, buys me a sporty new Porsche that I can admire in our 8 car garage because I have that Ambercrombie and Fitch model chauffeuring me around to go shopping. Don't worry, sis, I'll have Carter stop by your house on the way to Tiffany's.
Originally Posted By beamerdog World Peace No Hunger in the world No childhood disease And, of course: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/296jmj" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/296jmj</a> I tried these on in the Las Vegas store. There was no one else in the store and I got to talking with the salesman about designing jewelry and using pearls in mixed media. After a while of looking at fabulous jewelry thru the glass, he insisted that I start to try on some necklaces (even when I told him that most of the merchandise was way out of my league). I swear that mikimoto pearls of this quality shine from within like diamonds. Talk about nacre - wow. That store had some HUGE pearls you can't find on their website.
Originally Posted By beamerdog Dangit, I missed seeing this: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/27la4y" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/27la4y</a> Okay, I'll stop now.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Keep the ideas coming ladies. For our annivesary I got my wife a heart pendant with the kids' birthstones and some other trinkets in it. She love it. But, now I have to come up with something even more creative for X-mas. Does it ever end?
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains wahooskipper - how about a really nice charm bracelet - you could get a new charm each holiday...
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon beamerdog...I like your style! Beautiful pearls! No, seriously...I'd like world peace (You can never have too much world peace!)LOL A new car! Maybe a mini Cooper. Or some alternative fuel sporty type car. Or an all expense paid trip to the Disney parks of the world. At least a week in each one. Oh, and the assurance that my job would still be here when I got back!
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Originally Posted By chickendumpling Oh, these are great ideas! Amazedncal, your ring sounds lovely - and so sentimental. I love that sort of thing. I hope this is the year you get it! Ursula and beamerdog, I love your style. Those necklaces are just GORGEOUS. *sigh* If only. When DH and I went to San Francisco last year we went to Tiffany's and oh my. I never really considered myself one for jewelry but I was just gaga in there. I wanted to try everything on, just feel it on my skin. *sigh* Haunts, very good point @ having everything that's *really* important - a good family and a trip to a Disney park. I like your other ideas too though! And no, wahooskipper, sorry buddy but it doesn't ever end. The pendant does sound nice though. I really like the charm bracelet idea. Maybe you could get her a charm of Italy. That she let you go just really impressed me. That's a wonderful woman you've got there. Tink, a mini Cooper sounds fun! Watch, now Shiva is gonna go buy you a little toy mini Cooper as a stocking stuffer. Maybe if you're lucky you'll get one of those that has the super fast "pull-back" action! LOL. A friend of mine actually did buy his wife a mini Cooper. It was adorable. Sadly, she messed up her back and she wasn't able to get in and out of the Cooper so easily anymore and so they decided to sell it and she's back to driving her rig. Trippy, you shop at Overstock.com (aka "The Big O")? Who knew!
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <<And Chickendumpling, I adore your gran.>> Forgot to say thanks. You two would get along famously!
Originally Posted By chickendumpling I've been daydreaming a little today about how I would answer this question and I keep coming back to one thing. A ring. I don't even know how to describe it but a girl in my french class in college had it and to this day it is one of the most beautiful rings I have ever seen. She was from France (talk about an EASY A! LOL!) and it had been her great grandmother's ring. It was gold, kind of tightly braided gold on the edges but the middle section was very wide and the gold was fine and like a loosely twisted lattice. Weaved in between the lattice were the most beautiful round cut clear stones. It's been so long now that I don't remember if they were all diamonds or a mix. I seem to remember them being very pale clear colors. So, apart from world peace (and harsher punishment for parole violators) I would love an indulgence like that ring someday.
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Originally Posted By LVBelle Sleep. Seriously. I haven't slept through the night in a year and a half. Thankfully, the kid seems to be getting a little better at sleeping through the night but I'm still in the stage where I wake up and worry that he hasn't fussed because he's not breathing. But since that may not happen for a while, I'd be happy with something sparkly. I'd also LOVE a new camera but the ones I want are way too expensive! Maybe next year!
Originally Posted By tiggerdis_ Hmmm.... I'm have a few different wishes this year. I would like a quilted vest, white please in M I saw the most beautiful Christmas candle holders, I need those too. My dishes and glasses are piece meal, I need a new set of those too, but please don't actually buy them, because I would like to pick them out myself, so a gift card would be great. I would like a new winter coat. But mostly, I would like to know that all the children in my school will have food on their tables. I can't quite make the leap to world peace just yet. That's not too depressing is it? It's not meant to be.
Originally Posted By Labuda A cure for Lou Gehrig's Disease. World Peace would be nice, true, but I'm trying to be realistic - I trust science more than I do the ability of people to put aside their differences.
