Becky

This is an updated gift list as of March, 2025. Stared are most wanted

Most Wanted

Classes

• Clown Classes: at Grease Paint Alley Clowns
• Tightwire (Tight Rope Walking) Classes: at Roc City Circus School
• Parkour Lessons: at Rochester Parkour***
• Items for a Clown Costume

Raised Bed Gardening

• Wood: Home Depot gift cards to buy more wood to make more raised beds***
• Soil: Bags of Raised Bed Soil Mix, or money eg Ace Hardware gift cards to buy soil

Kitchen

• 'Trust your Gut not the Recipe' Art Print from Nourishing Notes**
• Ikea Kallax 1-Shelf Inserts

Shoes and Clothes:

• Thread: Gift cards to Maiwa to choose linen thread in whatever color I need next

• Shoe Care: Gift Cards to Sofia Shoe Services and/or Redwing Shoes
• Maverick's Shoe laces
• Mending Services:
  • Julie Zaichuk-Ryan of South Atlantic Stitching Company **
  • Old Flame Mending
  • Little Cliff Mending

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 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
  • Wood: Home Depot gift cards to buy more wood to make more raised beds***
  • Soil Amendments:
  • Soil: Bags of Raised Bed Soil Mix, or money eg Ace Hardware gift cards to buy soil***
  • Seeds: I have an abundance of seeds at the moment. Thanks everyone!

Cleaning

• 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
  • Suay LA
  • Green Matters Studio
  • Hanoux
• 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 Linens: our set is called "Marin" from Crate and Barrel**
• 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!

Living Room

• Pair of Sunflower Pillowcases: two 26x26 square "Stillwater Floral" shams from School House in the Juniper green colorway

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)***
• 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:

1. The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora
2. Children’s National, workplace of Dr Packer who invented the treatment that saved Tom’s life
3. Organizations that rescue cats, especially those with FIV and/or FeLV:
   1. Hearthside Cats in Geneseo, NY , where we adopted Chase
   2. RocKats, which does TNVR with urban community cats (like Steve!)
   3. Barn Cat Outreach, which finds loving homes for harder-to-adopt cats
   4. Felines and Canines in Chicago, where we adopted Fievel and Aesop