It's an annual tradition: Elizabeth Barrette and John Scalzi post "Winterfaire" posts where their readers offer writing, artwork, and craftwork for sale in December, thus allowing readers to buy unique gift items that are handmade by e-friends.
In the interest of promoting friendship and conversation among readers, this web site will now follow suit. The body of this post is about stuff you can buy from me. The comments section are for readers to post links about stuff you can buy from them. That's for handmade, artisanal wares only. No commercial links on this page. If you want to post a commercial link, you can pay to place one in a separate post. Please describe your original, unique books, poems, calligraphies, fruitcakes, socks, sculptures, metalwork, paintings, baskets, quilts, or whatever else, the standard price, any discounts you offer, and your site.
Posts here will get hundreds or thousands of views...mostly from hackers and/or relatives of mine who never buy anything online. But you never know. As you share this post and your comment with people you know, readership will expand. I am totally cool with readers wanting to buy Elizabeth Barrette's poems or Pbird's socks instead of mine. May cross-pollination of all readers' blogs flow!
Check out the blogs that set the example and, if you're selling stuff, by all means post links there too:
My wares:
Sponsor a Post: This web site has two ongoing series you can sponsor for $5 per post. There are a total of ten frugal living posts and an as yet undetermined total of moth posts. Eight moth stories and one frugal article have been funded during the past week and will be appearing on a weekly basis. You can propose more topics for more posts or series you'd like to sponsor, too!
Buy a Blog Post: Here or on your site--your choice. "Bloggy" posts that ramble about a general topic that supports a product cost $5. "Sciency" posts that contain serious research about a topic that supports a product or organization, as in the butterfly posts here, and can be SEO in a way that will put your page at the top of search results if you have the credentials, cost $25. (They can be about topics other than butterflies! I've sold "sciency" posts about home improvement and decor, cars, food, history, language, college scholarships, even real estate in towns where I don't live, if people were paying.) We reserve the right not to support products, in which case you will not be asked to send payments.
Buy a Poem: Limericks and quatrains, $5. Longer, more elaborate pieces of Bad Poetry (TM), prices are negotiable.
Buy an E-Book: You keep all rights and may publish it as your own work, with or without revisions, for prices starting at $300 for fiction. Prices for nonfiction are negotiable based on the length of the book and amount of research involved. Cutting-edge research at university libraries costs $150 per day (drivers must eat).
American Butterflies Daybook: PDF version features full-page, full-color photos for every week of 2024. Print to use the pages as organizers in a three-ring binder, or order an editable version to type in appointments and deadlines right on your computer. PDF costs $10. Printed versions unfortunately cost more. If you specify a State you'll get butterflies found in your State; otherwise you'll get butterflies found in Virginia. Daybooks are not sold on Zazzle.
American Butterflies Almanac: PDF version features a butterfly for every day of 2024 plus standard almanac information for the day--tides, astronomy, holidays, history, quotes--and space for you to add your own daily reminders. Cost to create the PDF is $300. If this amount is received by mid-December, the PDF will be created by the first of January and sold for $50 per copy in January, discounted afterward, and any profits can be returned to funders. If the full amount is not received by the 15th of December, 2023, the Almanac will not be created for 2024 but the option of creating one for 2025 will remain open. If people send contributions toward the creation of the Almanac for 2024 but the contributions received do not fund the Almanac, contributions will be applicable to other purchases in December or may be held for a possible 2025 Almanac.
Hand Knits: I still sell these things in real life. It's harder to sell them online without a digital camera so I've all but given up trying. However, digital photos, mostly very low-quality, are scattered around this web site and can be mail-ordered from the site. Click on the "Greensleeves Knitting" label to see posts with photos, and/or visit https://ko-fi.com/album/Knitting-in-Progress-Album-I2I22R5AU to see some new samples you can still have knitted to the size and/or finished in the way you want.
Buy a Dish Rag: $10 gets one unique, handknitted cotton dishrag/ $15 gets three. Send mailing address and choice of color(s).
For all knits to order, you will be invited to choose colors from manufacturers' selections of yarns available to me. If you make or sell special yarns you'd like to see used, please e-mail to discuss the discounted price for me to knit with your yarn!
Buy Placemats or Coasters: $15 gets 2 color-matched placemats or 4 color-matched coasters, each unique, hand knitted in acrylic. Add $10 for another 2 placemats or 4 coasters.
Buy a Baby Blanket: $40 gets one baby (or small animal) size acrylic blanket approximately 36" x 36". Send address and choice of colors. Allow 2 weeks for knitting time.
Buy a Blanket: $100 gets a unique, handknitted acrylic blanket approximately 36-40" x 72" (couch or single bed size) OR cotton afghan approximately 40" x 50" (child's or wheelchair size). Send address and choice of colors. Allow 4 weeks for knitting time.
Buy a Window Insulator Curtain: Choice of cotton or acrylic fabric knitted to the dimensions of your window and folded around insulating material. Wash and reuse it year after year to save hundreds of dollars on heating bills. Prices and knitting time depend on size and number. Send measurements of windows to be insulated, address, and color choices. Prices are proportionate to prices for blankets.
Buy a Used or New Book Reviewed Here: You can still order books that don't have Bookshop links here if you want to, though you're still basically paying me to order them from Amazon for you, which makes sense for local lurkers but not so much for online readers. It made sense when this web site was an Amazon Associate; Amazon chose to change that.. Still, it's a legitimate paid job and I'll do it if you pay for it. You should be able to use BOOKSHOP links to order new books online through this site in the way the Amazon links were supposed to work, in the past. Buying Bookshop books here should still direct a small part of your payments to this web site.
Buy a Book with a Matching Fashion Doll: If a book cover or illustration portrays a person, you may order a doll dressed in a matching hand-knitted costume, shipped with the book, for $10.
And of course you can always buy my visual designs on Zazzle.
Should be the place to find all your Fix Facts First, Cheering Cardinals, Tortie Face, Land Is Not For Sale, Save the Butterflies, Glyphosate-Free New Year, and related printable merchandise. (When I tested the link, Zazzle was pushing for more collections. Other stores have ten! Well, we'll see what ideas the new year brings. I'm still working slowly on the perfect State postcards for the Glyphosate-Free New Year collection. Alabama is already available--they should appear in alphabetical order.
Everything you buy from my Zazzle store currently directs profits to the Save the Butterflies campaign at USPIRG. This web site receives no funds from Zazzle. For those who'd prefer to support a more "conservative" cause, although I think saving wildlife is conservative, all you have to do is organize a right-wing campaign that approaches banning toxic sprays that destroy butterfly habitat in a conservative way--I'll do a collection for that cause too!)
HOW TO PAY
By far the best method is to send a US postal money order payable to Boxholder (Priscilla King), PO Box 322, Gate City, VA 24251-0322.
If unable to send a postal money order, please e-mail the address at the bottom of the screen for current information about mailing bank cheques. This information may change.
We look forward to working with Paypal again when Paypal has been prevented by law from dipping into customers' accounts with its purported attempts to enforce the law. We look forward to a federal law requiring online payment services to process payments honestly and impartially, with no prejudice for or against any kind of business and no access to any information beyond the addresses between which payments are transferred. Until that happens, don't even ask about online payments. This web site does not and will not support attempts on the part of money-handling services to play at law enforcement as a pretext for robbing their customers.
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