Faerie Dreams

Hmm. Not sure what I'm going to do with this journal, but we'll see. I may archive fic here or something.

Interesting to play with anyway.

So an online friend of mine has a contest going in her blog to win an autographed copy of Wicked Games by Jeri Smith-Ready. I've never read it, but it looks interesting, and my friend enjoyed it.

If you'd like to enter, go here.

Did a f'list update tonight. Pruned several people, added a couple. It was long overdue.

If you find that you can no longer see my non-public posts and would like to... contact me and we'll chat about it. The reasons behind unfriendings were varied... though I do promise no one is borne any ill-will.

Most of you have had the buckeye balls that I occasionally make and send out to people on my f-list who want them. For those of you who don't know what they are, look in my icon. They're chocolate and peanut butter balls that are made to look like the nuts of the buckeye tree.

Well, I've decided that this year I'm going to try selling some for the holiday season so people can give them as presents or bring them to parties or dinner or just give a little present to themselves.

I will charge $5 for a container of 9 (the size that I mailed out earlier this year) and $6.50 for a container of 12.

They'll come with the buckeyes in individual muffin cups so that they're easy to share.

This price is comparable to the price of mass-produced buckeye balls you can occasionally buy in stores, but mine are (in my opinion anyway), much better than the ones that are made by machines.

Unfortunately, if you're not local, I'll have to charge shipping too, but it will only be the exact cost of shipping. If you order one or two containers and live in the United States, it would be about $3.85 to send it Priority. Outside the US or more containers would obviously be more.

I can take checks, money orders, or paypal (no credit cards, though).

Orders would ship on or before December 10, so they should make it to you by Christmas even if you're overseas.

For an additional $1 I will gift wrap up to two packages and send it directly to the recipient with your name on it so you can send them to someone who doesn't live near you without paying shipping twice.

I need to have orders for at least 90 buckeyes if I'm going to do this, though, as my small batch makes about 100 and I don't need or want a ton of leftovers. If you're interested, comment here or email me at peppervl @livejournal .com (without the spaces, obviously).

I've made this post public so you can feel free to refer friends to it if you think they'd like some as well.

Today I got an email from someone who plays in an RPG with cruel_illusion. She wanted to send stuff to Destin, and another of Destin's friends had sent her my email and told her that I was organizing stuff for Destin.

So she's sending a package and some money for me to forward on to Destin...all the way from Germany.

Another person who only knows Destin through RPGs also sent me money.

And an LJ friend who doesn't know Destin at all except as a name that appears in my LJ sometimes sent me money to pass on to her as well.

This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

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And for those of you who know her or know people who know her...feel free to pass my email along or direct them to my LJ. I'm planning on sending more down to her, and then when it gets closer to Christmas, I'm probably going to try to organize something for then too.

Since several awesome people are pimping my efforts to help cruel_illusion recover from Katrina and to help her give her daughter a good birthday despite what just happened, I have made that post public so people can link to it.

I really appreciate the response. You guys are awesome.

My plan is to send out one money order/package on Tuesday or Wednesday so it will hopefully get there before Adara's birthday on Saturday the 10th, and then if there's more send out another one about a week after that.