Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was a American painter who was instrumental to the development of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. He developed his own style of abstract expressionism which He grew up in the Bay Area and graduated from both Stanford and UC Berkeley. After serving in the US Marine Corp during WWII, he enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts to study abstract painting, where he later became faculty. He also taught at UCLA. His influences included Henri Matisse, Clifford Style, Willem de Kooning, and Edward Hopper. His Ocean Park Series earned him worldwide acclaim. Diebenkorn is Annie's favorite painter and this book would be cherished in our home!

We're looking to upgrade from our stick blender to something more reliable and higher volume, so that we can make one smoothie each morning for both of us instead of two separate ones.

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A couple who backpacks together stays together :) We nearly froze during our last backpacking trip to Montana! Our defective sleeping bags were returned, so we'd love to purchase replacements.

We are mourning the the death of our tent after two nights of rain during last summer's backpacking trip. It was a well-made Eureka A frame, which is no longer available. Luckily we came across Lightheart Gear, a one-woman company whose founder is an expert seamstress! This tent has a simple design and is hand sewn in North Carolina using ultralight water-proof materials. We would love to replace our existing tent with this one!

We would love to create some efficient storage space in our little apartment. Here's a link to the PAX storage closet we'd like to buy once we are back in San Francisco (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S39025716/). These gift cards will be a huge help to us!

We're going to do a swim with giant manta rays on our honeymoon on the Big Island of Hawaii! We're really excited about it. Here's a video from the bottom of their boat: https://youtu.be/3v3Q7iZsB8c

We're renting a GoPro for our honeymoon which we can take underwater for our snorkeling trips with manta rays and dolphins. https://youtu.be/LcjyNa2OVoE

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Flora Grubb Gardens is a beautiful nursery/garden in the middle of the industrial Bayview district in San Francisco. We visit often to enjoy the greenery and to decompress from work. Since we have few plants at home, we would love to create some more "green space" on our balcony, which is currently empty. These gift certs would help tremendously!

We love to cook, but our chef's knife is bent and a replacement would be so helpful! We'd love to have a straight chef's knife for the future.

We're trying to eat healthier, which means more veggies. Never thought we'd notice a difference, but having a sharp, good-quality knife is really helpful! This veggie knife would prevent sore fingers while chopping those rock hard yams!

We love camping and backpacking. For our honeymoon on the Big Island of Hawaii, we are planning to visit Volcanoes National Park. This pass would not only help us on our honeymoon, it would help us on future backpacking adventures. It covers entry for up to 4 adults and one vehicle...we'd love to have some friends and family join us!

For our honeymoon on the Big Island of Hawaii, we would love the opportunity to go snorkeling and swimming with Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins. The Kona Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii is one of the few places in the world so accessible to watching dolphins in the wild. Uniquely adapted to their environment, dolphins are one of the most intelligent marine mammals.

No question about it, this is a toy. Hopefully we can have some fun and get some cool shots with its video camera when we travel.

We would love to expore the Channel Islands by kayak off the coast of Santa Barbara. Channel Islands Outfitters provides tours, kayak rental, and ferry transportation. There are dolphins in the summer!

This is a beautiful ficus tree that we have been eyeing for months (the photo doesn't do it justice)! Would be such a treat to bring it home. Research has shown that being around plants can improve memory performance and attention span by up to 20% (Sewatch, U of Michigan). This beautiful ficus tree could help us become less forgetful and more alert :) We found it at Flora Grubb gardens in San Francisco (www.floragrubb.com).

REI has been great for all of our camping needs. Not only do they have great sales on outdoor and camping gear, they also have a good selection of athletic shoes. We would put these gift cards towards a much needed pair of new running shoes.

We are specifically in need of a duvet cover that will fit a 90x96 duvet. This is way harder to find than it should be...

This new restaurant is the latest from the owners of State Bird Provisions, one of our favorite restaurants in SF.

We love the Zoo in Santa Barbara, and suggest you check it out if you have time on your visit. This gift will let us go there for a year, as well as give us reciprocal benefits to visit other zoos. Yes, we visited the local zoos on our last trips to Houston, Philadelphia, and Vienna!