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Switch Witch 2016

Ok wish lists are hard! I will be pleased with just about anything that doesn't have cinnamon (burns my skin), but here is what I am lemming:   Decants of the following TALs:
Bright Fortune
showers of Gold
Fast Luck
Dixie Love
Hymn to Pan
Haitian Gambler
Friendship
Grief Water   Love and want, any amount:
Queen (the GC, just plain Queen)
TKO
Dorian (had a bottle and sold it, cuz I am dumb)
Morocco (same)
Scales of Deprivation   Motherhood 2016:
Calderium
Spider Witch
****Good Morning London**** (highest want)   Don't remember, probably tried but want to try again:
Dirty
Paramatman
Fallen
Hellfire
Deep in Earth
Sea of Glass
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My SwitchWitch FORTYTRICKS!

She "told" me who she was by sending 40 Twix bars! Nice reveal!   And thanks to her I have Ivanushka AND a bottle of Great Sword of War, and decants of the two phoenixes I had coveted, and impies, and Lush bubble bar, and a bunch of Villainess.... and books, and a tarot deck, and socks....just...   For anyone who is wondering, FORTYTRICKS is awesome and she spoiled me stooopid.
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The "long list" of GCs, or wishlist for swaps

Please nothing with cinnamon, I am seriously allergic to bpal cinnamon -- it burns me and leaves welts, and besides makes me cry cuz it smells so good but I cannot has. http://www.bpal.org/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/icon_smile.gif   DISO: Cafe Mille et Une Nuits, Templum Dei   I will always purchase or swap for Gypsy Queen, Minotaur, OISIN, or LA FEE VERTE   I tend to neglect GCs for some reason. I should not. I am interested in the following:   Bottles: LADON TOMBSTONE Morocco The Chicken-Legged Hut BURIAL Crossroads Blood Kiss Athens Pretty much anything from the Dragons series is a possibility       To try decants/imps: Alecto Blood Libertine To a Woman Mandrake Ouija Malice Sundew Hemlock DEATH CAP VAN VAN Al Azif Kumari Kandam Elixir: Bitch, Safari, Succor, Quietude Nanshe, Baku
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On LEs, GCs, and hoarding.

I just majorly destashed. I am keeping bottles of:   Blue Moon (x2), Minotaur, Death of Autumn (x2), Gypsy Queen, Tarot:Hierophant, Morocco*, Black Lace, Angeronalia, Thunder Moon, Centzon Tetotchtin, Velvet, Smut, Three Brides, Oisin. Also keeping my Holy Terror from Arcana, it is amazing how it smells like a roaring fireplace. (this does not include TAL of course, most of that is decant tho.)   I sold my backup bottles of all but my most favorites. I even sold my partial of Oisin, but at a waaaaay low cost $20 incl ship for 60%) to share the rare love. I am trying to enjoy what I have and not be so GRABHANDS!!!! about it all. I'm also trying to remember that I love a good number of scents, and if I run out and it was an LE there will be another love that comes along.   Perfume should not be stressful. Also, I am selling or swapping to get the funds for the new scents, that is how I do updates as I don't have a huge 'me spending' budget.   It occurs to me: I need to learn to love GCs more. I probably wear Morocco most of all.   Ordered Lupercalia scents, but only three and only one is actual Lupercalia -- Harikata (from the new Salon wing), Valentine of Rome, and the new GC Deep in Earth. I think I need to remember that I really some tried and tested GCs -- I never end up ordering bottles because I always gamble on an LE after raising paypal with a sale. I would wear the heck out of Dracul, Tombstone, or Great Sword, yet I don't have bottles. Silly!       *this is rapidly becoming one of my favorite scents, it is one of my top four easily and is often my go-to scent...
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more switchwitch help

Books: Reginald Hill Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries, books on the philosophy of housecleaning (I have a book called Home Comforts, it is my grail and I love stuff like that), books on art (doing -- visual journaling as art, ATC cards, DIY stuff; seeing -- voodoo arts in Haiti book, copies of magazine Juxtapoz or other in print art/painting mags), poetry (modern, not so much archaic, I prefer Barbara Ras over Emily Dickenson), books on running or training or traithalon and fitness for women, third wave feminist stuff   Music: I love indie stuff, dark stuff. I would love some more Rasputina, Black Kids, LADYTRON, Elvis Costello, THE THE (!!), 80s cheese pop (bring on the Madness and the Men Without Hats, oh yeah!), really I like a lot of stuff but am not big on fluff pop, e.g. American Idol winner-type songs/James Blunt/Train/etc., and really dislike country and rap. OH! I would love more Rammestein too. And more Kitaro, I only have Silk Road. Oh hell, if it isn't country or rap, I'll probably like it a lot.   Movies or DVDs I would love to have: 13/Tzameti, All About Eve, The Women, Event Horizon, actually I like a lot of movies that are scary (but not teen slasher films like Halloween, otherwise scary or even bloody is ok even to the point of 10000 corpses), anything with Bette Davis, almost any movie from 1930s-1950s but prefer they NOT have been colorized. I just saw Hitman and loved it and will need it on DVD when it comes out eventually. I like most movies really, and am getting a better appreciation for 'bad' movies with my husband now because he will watch literally anything. (he's a fan of Ready To Rumble, my people, and that is a BAD movie, can I get a witness?)   ETA: Got "Bottom" for Christmas from the husband, yay!
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Considering some TAL

I used Aunt Caroline's Money Bag and saved a TON that same day, the only day I annointed with it. It was great. I have also had some good luck with others, but I don't seem to get much from Perpetuum Bonum? Maybe I am not using it with enough regularity.   I am considering a decant of Aunt Caroline's Money Draw. I wonder if I could swap for one, it is almost never up on the forum.   For future TAL purchasing/my records To get in bottle: Milk and Honey, Aunt Caroline's Money Draw (prob, if decant works like Bag did!), Charisma? (if it smells better than Brass Balls, which I got rid of my bottle because it stank SO bad I could not bear it, it was nauseating to me), Crown of Success To get more decants of: Hand of Hermes, STFU, Flying Devil, Fiery Wall, Determination   Conjure bag -- wish there were more reviews. Maybe prosperity one, Hand of Hermes? Wish there was a protection and uncrossing one.
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book stuff for my switchwitch

Hello Witchy! You asked, so I answer!   Anyhow, the "type" of books I like?   1. I was really into mysteries but it is hard to find ones that I either haven't read or that I would like. I do the patricia cornwall ones (Kay Scarpettas) and I haven't read the most recent. I have read maybe 1/3 of the Reginald Hill books, and some of the Nora Bonesteel books. 2. I am interested in reading more mysteries by someone I forgot who (ACK!) but the main character is an Irish woman lawyer in the middle ages. I know, I know, how impossible is that? 3. I liked the first Bolyn book and would read others by Phillippa Gregory. I guess now that I think of it I am a sucker for authors who have a series. 4. I loved American Gods! Am interested in other books by him but I don't know if I am so interested in the Good Omens funny ones, but I could give it a go. 5. I love books on homemaking. I try my butt off, and am not always great at this, but I enjoy trying and do love to read new tips and such. Not at this point so much the basic "organizing for dummies" books, or "Don Haslett" cleaning books, but like the ones on my amazon list, one is on kaboodle too. I also love write-in books (notebooks, registers, etc.) for organization/record keeping. 6. Self-help books on emotion and money, fear of money, prosperity etc. I suck at money. Sometimes it feels like money only comes and visits me briefly before it flies off to the pockets of more capable folks. 7. REALLY interested in books on visual journaling or ATC making. Prob visual journaling is the better of the two if possible 8. Sometimes essay books. I think Neil Gaiman has one but I forget what it is called. Also, memoirs by feisty interesting women. 9. Books (beyond the basics tho) on training/fitness/running for women (these are harder to buy for me though. Right now I am looking at ones on sports psychology, performance and the mind, 'zen' running -- tho this might be bunk, etc.)     It is late, I can't think of more right now but lord, I can always find stuff in a bookstore so I am SURE it would be fine whatever I get.
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Current obsessions, wishes, yucks

I hoard/utterly LOVE and have in 5ml (but if you want to swap with me, I'll likely take more!):   DEATH of AUTUMN, Spirits of the Dead, Minotaur, Oisin, Gypsy Queen   GC loves: Morocco, Dracul*, Great Sword of War*, Black Forest   I am fascinated by in theory but have not yet tried:   Brown Jenkins, Hunter Moon, Voodoo Queen, Plunder, Great Whore of Babylon, Two Monsters, Eshe, Gennivre, Wezawine/Hold, El Amor et La Muerte, Green Phoenix, Mechanical Phoenix, Ivanushka, Shivering Boy, Christmas Rose* (for sentimental reasons want bottle even unsniffed)   I *DETESTED*:   Storyville (earwax!), Corazon (bile), Kingsport (underside of a dock), Monsterbait: Closet (cough syrup and metal), MB: Bloody Mary (cough syrup and feet), Zarita the Doll Girl (burning Barbie doll)     *eventually to be a bottle buy
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