NATE

dansko professional clogs 10.5-11.
Chef knife 8-10" (wosthof gpII or solicut or kershaw shun)
wireless router
sonicare electric toothbrush
the reach of a chef: beyond the kitchen, Michael Ruhlman
fuzzy house shoes
hooded sweatshirts
All surprises are welcome

KATHY

Stock pot (large enough to cook crab legs)

Gift Certificates:
LL Bean
Eddie Bauer
JC Penneys
Pier 1

Long, warm ski socks - not wool - found in outdoor stores or ski shop

black ski pants (sz 10)

DENNIS

Dennis

Moccasin-style slippers w/cloth lining (no fleece lining) sz. L

CDs:
anything by Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, or other similiar artists

Books:
by Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris (I'm not certain what the titles
are).....OR Inside the Emerald City (???) Not sure re: the title - but its about
the CPAs "administration" of post-invasion Iraq

Surprise me!

BRIAN

Gift Certificate to Best Buy

In dash Car Radio (Example)
Kenwood - 50W x 4 CD Deck with MP3 Playback
link
Need to be sure it fits 1999 Mitsubishi Diamante, 4dr Sedan (only trim option)

External Hard Drive (Example)
Maxtor - OneTouch 4 Mini 120GB External Hard Drive
link
(Not really picky on this…just something to back up files. I guess read user reviews.)

Call my wife. She knows all the stuff that I need that wouldn’t necessarily make it on this list.

RORY

1. Suprise me

2. a donation to heifer.org or go to the giving tree at the strongsville mall and help a kid out

3. a gift certificate to chipolte

4. An Ohio State sweatshirt

KAREN

Here's my list:

1. Anything from the Heifer catalog at www.heifer.org/catalog or make
a donation to your favorite charity in my name.

2. Good workout music. Maybe you have some CDs that you can burn.

3. CD: Music for the Silences to Come by Dan Ar Braz (available on
amazon).

3. DVD: Blue Man Group - The Complex Rock Tour (available on amazon).

4. Book: The Organic Life: confessions of an Urban Homesteader by
Joan Dye Gussow (also available on amazon).

5. A very small house plant.

6. Surprise me.

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Medina.

ANITA

DVD: Harry Potter The Order of the Phoenix; The Polar Express

Gift Certificate to Joann Fabric

Accessories for sewing machine BROTHER INOVIS 4000 D
The can be purchased at Barnes Sewing Center at 24355 Lorain Road in North Olmstead
Pre wound Bobbins - white
Brother Embroidery Thread Package
Embroidery Frame 4 X 4
Embroidery Frame 5 X 7

JIM

DVD The Bourne Ultimatum; Redacted; In the Valley of Elah

CD: Instant Karma-the Campaign to Save Darfur

Books: Any good civil war or world war II novels

DEE DEE

Home Made gifts are very APPRECIATED and Welcome, especially cd's with good, fun, diverse music for my iPod for working out

Houseplants

Bubble Bath, Vitabath Green

Barefoot Contessa Cookbooks

Cross Country Ski Gloves
Cycling Gloves

NORM

CD's--
John Fogerty, "Revival"
Diana Krall, "Very Best Of"
Amy Winehouse

Carpenter Gloves (without fingers)

Unusual Garden Seeds (for vegetables, like heirloom tomatoes)
A Grow Light (for starting seeds indoors)

Books--good fiction, almost any genre, NO neo-conservative, right wing, religious stuff (although knowing one's opponents...)

KEVIN

-Hugo Boss cologne

-House of Blues Sweatshirt (XL)

-Bottle of port (Warre's Optima is usual but open to try something new)

-Eric Clapton's Crossroads 2007 Guitar Festival at: link

-Cleveland Browns long sleeve T (XL) at: link

Merry Christmas & see you in a couple of weeks.

By Special Request

One future gift exchange participant prepares to devour another:


If anyone else has pictures to post, just e-mail them to me.

SARAH

Books:
Atlas of Human Anatomy by Frank Netter - any hardcover edition
Anatomy Trains by Thomas Myers
Healing with Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford
Verses by Ani Difranco
any good novels for pleasure reading

gift certificates for Itunes or American Apparel or
Dillards

For kitchen: a cast iron pot
a cast iron pan

Cuddl Duds long sleeve shirts (thermal under wear) size L
Aveda products, esp. "love" scent pure-fume oil

MERLE

Here's my list:

To make it easy for hopefully the internet shopper, I have a Wish List on Amazon.Com. Click here.

If you don't want to do that, a gift certificate to any of the following would be greatly appreciated as I find significant joy in the after-Christmas sales:

Macys, Dillards, Kohls or Trader Joes

And of course it goes without saying that I am always open to a good bottle of wine.

Merry Christmas!

CAREY

VIDEO GAMES:
New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS Lite

BOOKS:
My Sister's Keeper - A Novel (Jodi Picoult)
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (AJ Jacobs)
Kitchen Confidential (Anthony Bourdain)
Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House (Valerie Plame Wilson)

MUSIC:
ITunes Gift Certificate

GIFT CERTIFICATES:
Starbucks
Pier One

MATTHEW

Some suggestions (or surprise me):

Dali Cologne for men by Salvadore Dali (I can only find this on-line)

gift subscription to Lapham’s Quarterly link

The complete New Yorker on DVD-ROM link

The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons link

book: Brian Windhorst and Terry Pluto, LeBron James and the Re-Making of the Cleveland Cavaliers, ISBN No. 1598510282 link

book: Matt Taibbi, Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire, ISBN10: 0802170412 link

iTunes gift certificate

HELEN

For the computer savvy shoppers

Japanese Bird Bells
Item #197647
from redenvelope.com link

Peace Necklace
Item #16021
from uncommongoods.com link



For old-fashioned shoppers:

Recipe organizer

Fragrances: Tresor body crème
Pablo Picasso Cologne

Sweat Pants and Sweat Shirts Size L or 12/14

VIKKI

a panini maker (with a stainless steel finish, if you have to choose)

a bread machine

by marion nestle, "what to eat"

from the body shop, hemp hand lotion in the largest possible tube

gift cards to starbucks, crate & barrel, or garnet hill

JESSIE

Here's my list--

Any of the following books:
"Local Flavors" by Deborah Madison
"How to Grow More Vegetables (than you ever thought possible)" by John Jeavons
"All New Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholomew
or if you have a favorite gardening book you would like to share, that would also be great!

House Plants, but especially any Christmas Cactus

A gift certificate to a local gardening center

The board game "Sequence" (at KMart and Amazon.com)

Cast Iron cookware (like a Dutch Oven would rock)
or, surprise me!