Shopping for Leny: A quick guide

• Jewelry: It's a gift I can carry with me every day. I wear bracelets, necklaces, stud earrings (no dangle-y earrings), rings, and enamel pins. I like pieces that incorporate wood, semi-precious stones (eg: turquoise), and other things found in nature (fossils, shells, etc). My favourite motifs are things like keys, geometric shapes, feathers, trees, mountains, antlers, insect wings, and other natural elements. (A nice place to buy necklaces or bracelets from is The Giving Keys)
• Books: ask for a link to my current Indigo wishlist or ask me for specific titles.
• Tea: go to Bayswater Tea Company or a similar specialty tea shop and buy black, white, oolong, or green teas. My tastes tend towards Assams, Ceylons, Earl Grey, cream black teas, sencha, hojicha, and oolongs are typically my favourite.
• subscribe me to Harper's, Canadian Living, Bon Appetit, America’s Test Kitchen, Real Simple, Better Homes and Gardens, The Walrus, the Atlantic, or & Other Stories (for 4 or 6 books).
• Buy anything from this website, especially the Troubled Birds collection.
• Special Edition Jane Austen books (hardback or leather bound, often with embossed covers and watercolour dyed endpapers), or special edition classics, especially by Georgian and Victorian era authors or by American writers from roughly 1890-1950 are a pricier option, but one I will treasure.
• Other ideas: check this list! Look below for what I'm in need of these days.

Books

• Self Care Journal by Rachelle Abellar
• Urgent, Unheard Stories by Roxane Gay
• Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo, Third Edition

Cheap somethings and quick ideas

• bath oils or epsom salts
• dry shampoo from either L’Occitaine or Lush
• L’Occitaine shea or almond products (shower oil or body butter)
• Extra-dark chocolate, or dark chocolate with salt, caramel, chili peppers, peanut butter, or toffee
• From Purdy’s: what I really like is either their sugar-free peanut butter fingers or the salted caramels. I also like their seasonal tins which come pre-made with a variety of truffles
• I enjoycooking, gardening, home organizations and literary magazines
• Go for a hike or to get coffee (or both!)

Jewelry

• The Giving Keys Classic Necklace in silver (pick from these words: brave, let go)
• Check out: Blue Ruby (a Vancouver chain).
• Local Squamish jewelers

Cookware

• Kuhn Rikon Spill Stopper Pot Covers
• French-style rolling pin (just a wooden dowel with tapered ends)
• Pie bird
• Metal cooling racks for baked goods
• 9 inch cake pans (round) x3
• Zevro Ground Coffee Dispenser
• Minipresso on the go Espresso Machine
• Instant pot
• loaf tins, bundt pans, or springform pans
• Baking/ cookie sheets
• Large tea pot that holds 6-8 cups (Bayswater Tea Co. would be a good place to look)

House and Home

• Candles (beeswax or soy only, please)
• This shell wind-chime, must ship to America, unfortunately.
• Medium or smaller sized pots with no drainage holes for indoor plants (Winners/ Homesense and IKEA, or from artisans at farmers markets are great places to look)
• Plant stands from IKEA for indoors and outdoors
• Gardening tools like hand rakes and hand trowels
• Funky plants! (I would love: spider plants, fronded/ taller plants, larger succulents, hanging plants, pepperomia, dracaenas, aloe)

Clothes and Accessories

• Carharrt socks (from Mark’s Work Warehouse)
• The Bon Iver Tee from The Yellow Bird Project
• Space Babes Shirt
• Pew Pew Starwars Shirt
• Ambivalently Yours Tote
• Liberte Egalite Bisexualite Shirt

Prints

• Don't Look At Yourself Through Their Eyes Poster
• Close Noir print from Quibe on Society6 (would love this in an extra-large size)
• Kate Chopin print from Obvious State
• Langston Hughes print from Obvious State
• EM Forster print from Obvious State
• Walt Whitman print from Obvious State
• Philip K Dick print from Obvious State
• Emily Dickinson print from Obvious State
• Virginia Woolf print from Obvious State

Miscelaneous

• Monkii 360 System in Blue
• Monkii Isocore X
• MB2 Adventure Kit in Black
• A storable or compact treadmill off of this list
• Hug Sleep Sleep Pod in Large
• Tree Napper Weighted Blanket in Pomegranate, 25lb
• Manta Weighted Mask or Cooling Mask
• Manta Body Pillow or a pregnancy pillow from Bed Bath & Beyond
• Gravel Layover Blanket in Blue, while you're at it you could also order a carabiner
• Cat-in-the-bag Cozy Comfort Carrier in Cobalt, size small
• Free weights, medicine balls/ smash balls, or other exercise equipment that's easily stored
• Telescoping or Z-folding (compactable) trekking poles like the ones recommended in this list
• A better two or three person tent than my current one and one which is quite compact when stored
• 40mm circular knitting needles, or yarn and bamboo needles that are an appropriate size to knit with. I'd love a matching set of needles but that might be quite pricey.
• Cat toys (I like to buy from KONG or Yeowww! or other small, well made brands) or catnip, catnip seeds, cat grass seeds
• Various sizes of picture frames: ask me what I need
• A UV phone sanitizer as recommended by this list
• Lint Removal Bundle and/or Pet hair lint roller and/or Pet hair lint roller for clothing
• The BreatheCup
• The infinity puzzle
• Foreverspin tops in titanium, gold mirror, Damascus steel, rose gold plated, gold plated, magnesium, zirconium, bronze, nickel, black zirconium, humanium, M2 Steel Tungsten-Molybdenum, or Zinc. Also, a spinning base or a copper or stainless steel dock.
• Orbit Keys or Stick-on, in blacks, blues, or greys.
• The Family Arcana Deck by Jedediah Berry
• The Nimble Desk
• A Remarkable and/or a wool sleeve and/or Remarkable Marker Signature
• A Freewrite Traveller and/or a sleeve
• A new typewriter from this list