This weekend Sarah and I tried our luck with craft fairing. Our luck, well, it turns out our luck was not that good. But the fair was set up weird and revolved around a raffle. And we all know that people, when given the chance of buying something or winning something for free, will always wait around to see if they got the free stuff, thus we (and all the other vendors) made very little money.

But we’ve looked into more fairs, sans raffles, for December.

We did make some friends. And learned way more about people than ever needed. Like when my mom stopped by our table to chat us up, some woman came over and starting chatting her up. They were talking about how they have matching breast cancer bracelets. And somehow, through the natural course of conversation, they started talking about colonoscopies. Obviously. The woman said she was not interested in watching hers performed because (AND I QUOTE) “Once you’ve seen one orifice in your body, you’ve seen them all.”

Apparently this woman is friendly with mirrors. And her own body.

Happy monday everyone!

In other news, I am all set up with my holiday cards and if you want, you can have your VERY OWN.

I think that you should buy them. Here’s why:

1) Mom’s and Grandmother’s think they’re “oohh, very beautiful”. Dad’s think they’re “neat”. At least in my family.

2) There are 15 cards and matching envelopes in a pack. Send them to your friends! Your family! That weird roommate you had in college who always smelled like cheese! (or maybe that was just mine…)

3) They were printed with environmentally friendly soy and vegetable inks! YAY!

4) Why go to a crowded store during the holiday season (gross) when you can buy online and have them delivered to your doorstep (YES!)?

5) Your purchase is, in part, a charitable donation (because I never shut up about how much I love The Jimmy Fund I am donating 10% of what I make in online sales as a gift to the Jimmy Fund at the end of the year.)

They are $20 for a box (for those of you lacking in the math department, that’s only $1.33 per card. My calculator told me so.) BUT that gets you 15 cards, free shipping, and you can feel good about the whole charity thing.

I am selling single cards too if you can’t commit to the whole box. $2.50 a pop. Same deal.

Also, since the holiday season is upon us and Fussy has another person donating a 12 x 18 framed print for NaBloPoMo, I’ll let the random winner of my prize choose either the 12 x 18 print I already said I’d donate as a prize OR instead the lucky winner can have TWO boxes of my holiday cards so that they can spread the holiday cheer to 30 friends and family.

Check ‘em out and buy ‘em here.

Photograph taken in Boston from the Charles River Esplanade (Pops Goes the 4th, anyone?) with Memorial Drive in the background.