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In honor of expensive house repairs, a giveaway!

After quite a few years of procrastinating about it, we’re finally in the process of having central air conditioning installed in our home. This is in part to keep me slightly less cranky and more comfortable when the heat of summer kicks in. Though most years I’ve toughed it out, that’s probably not great for the baby, and I think

sythyry should be spared any extra crankiness beyond the required. In addition, this adds ductwork and improved circulation to the house, which will with any luck improve the air filtration and circulation, making my dust and mold allergies less problematic, and also giving the Moth a better shot at not developing same allergies.

In order to allow the nice contractor-people to do this,

sythyry had to unload all of the things that were in the attic, so things could be installed up there. We have many many things. We have my wedding dress, in a big old box. We have a guitar I haven’t played since high school. We’ve got cookpots and cutlery and clothing that doesn’t fit. We’ve got a big container of herkimer diamonds, dug out of the ground in upstate New York many years ago.

And we have pottery. A lot of pottery. Some of you may not be aware that

sythyry, among his myriad other talents, is a skilled and prolific amateur potter, and has been for nearly two decades. Some of it gets used or displayed in our house, and a lot of it goes on to friends and relatives as gifts. But a lot of just never quite finds a home, and has ended up in storage. Our attic is getting kind of full, and we still need to put away quite a bit of the stuff that’s currently in the arts-and-crafts-room-that’s-becoming-a-nursery. In addition, most of this pottery is stuff that ranges from perfectly good to rather wonderful, and I kind of think it’s a shame to leave it gathering dust any more. So we’re going to have a pottery giveaway!

Here are the rules.

If you want a piece of pottery, tell me as a comment here or by email (beetiger@LJ). Feel free to express a preference for item type --- we have mostly mugs, bowls, dragons, and one of a kind weirdnesses – but ultimately we’ll choose the piece we think you’ll like best.

You may either collect your pottery from us at Anthrocon, if you will be there, or I will send it to you via US Mail, in which case I will need your address. US or Canada please, just because postage costs can get ridiculous otherwise, sorry.

You must offer us something in return. This need not be a physical item – emailed art or stories, really good secret family recipes, offers of backrubs, dinner invitations, promises to update our website, etc. are all acceptable as well. If you would like to offer something physical, I will send you an address or connect with you at Anthrocon. We will send you the pottery as soon as we hear from you, not wait for your return gift; we trust you all to make good on your promises.

Please make your requests as soon as possible and no later than July 8.

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1: If you want a piece of pottery, tell me as a comment here or by email (beetiger@LJ). Feel free to express a preference for item type --- we have mostly mugs, bowls, dragons, and one of a kind weirdnesses – but ultimately we’ll choose the piece we think you’ll like best.

Yes Please! I have a fondness for bowls and assymetrical shapes. If it can hold liquid, I tend to like it over something flat even if it is just a tiny, tiny condiment saucer he was using as a glaze test. Currently, our (Paka and my) plates are black, glasses cobalt blue and other various things tend to be black, cobalt blue or a deep forest green. Anything you think will compliment that would be lovely. My only real request is that whatever comes my way is functional. After 6 years of unloading family crap I have a very shaker outlook on objects of art.
Paka will likely ask for himself.

2: You may either collect your pottery from us at Anthrocon, if you will be there, or I will send it to you via US Mail, in which case I will need your address. US or Canada please, just because postage costs can get ridiculous otherwise, sorry.
Let me email that to you, where I will also ask about paying for postage.

3: You must offer us something in return. This need not be a physical item – emailed art or stories, really good secret family recipes, offers of backrubs, dinner invitations, promises to update our website, etc. are all acceptable as well. If you would like to offer something physical, I will send you an address or connect with you at Anthrocon. We will send you the pottery as soon as we hear from you, not wait for your return gift; we trust you all to make good on your promises.
I geek basic HTML skills. I machine sew. I winkle obscure information out of the internet for fun. I draft celtic knotwork if you want pretties to use in specific shapes or sizes (drawn is easiest). I have read so many fairy tales, childrens caution stories, urban myths, folklore etc. that I can mangle or fake on the themes with relative ease for you (just keep reminding me). I can be given a very short list of ingredients and can pull at least one, usually a lot more, meal ideas of that list or avoiding anythin on that list. I have my Gramma's 4 ingredient hot fudge recipe. I have minor herb and stone lore. If none of this appeals, do you have an idea of what you want?

Not closing a /i tag right before talking about html.
embarressing irony, that.
(and I just realized I don't have a good shy/bashful/embarressed icon)

*laugh* S'okay. We'd like to take you up on your sewing skills. Make us something for Mothra -- a little cap or a stuffed thing. Or make me a big single piece of cloth with elastic wraparound kind of a skirt, something that'll be comfy in late pregnancy (I'm just over 5 feet tall.)

Don't worry about postage, as you'll need to send us something as well! If materials turn out to be a money issue for you, let me know.

Thanks!

What colors do you like?
Along the rainbow spectrum?
Along the intensity spectrum (from clear to saturated)?
White filled, true, earhtily browned, blackened etc.?

For example, I prefer outer edges (red/orange, blue/purple) saturated, true or blackened. Hence the cobalt blue glassware :D

And may I please know what colors you want for Mothra too.

I like colors on the earth-water spectrum: brown-green-blue-purple, mostly bright, true colors, intense rather than pastel. Then again, I also like festive tye-dye kinds of stuff.

Mothra hasn't expressed any preferences yet, but I think the room coloration's going to end up either mint green or robin's egg blue. I like pastels on little people. Then again, if he ends up with wild leopard print, I'll be amused.

I would very much like a piece of pottery, preferably a mug.

In return, I offer the two of you an evening of dinner and scrabble.

That's a deal. We'll contact you off-journal to look at dates, and bring your mug to dinner!

Ooh! Pottery! In order of your raised bullet-point items:

I'd love something! I have a slight preference for the functional, but non-functional things are also exceedingly wonderful; I attact great sentimental value to things that come to me from other people, and move heaven and earth to find ways to appreciate them (just ask the three friends I drafted into moving the excessively heavy desk that once belonged to my late grandfather; I would not budge on my continued ownership and use of it.) I'm sure you know me well enough to pick.
Anthrocon is fine, or if it's easier, when I'm next vehicularly enabled I could pass your way; I'm down by there often enough on flimsy excuses.
Well, lets see. I've got the spreadsheets tempralisis and I built, but they're really more his work than mine - and I really should have given them to you already, so it's no fair using them as a trade. I suppose if someone else wants to trade some webdesign, I could perhaps trade maintenance on the WT site, especially if it's built using something like PHPNuke or PostNuke or Everything or one of the other content-management systems out there. On the other hand, I suspect other offers of that will come from more qualified people than me. I can offer programming, but it's slow and needs to take a backseat to other programming in my schedule... I could offer shiny written-up versions of Freshman Disorientation and (if I can repair it) Harmonic Convergence - but I'd prefer it if I get to run them for you at some point before I go handing the packets off; I hate giving people the scripts for games till they've played them once. Alternately, you could ask for something entirely different from me, and I'd likely say yes if it's within my abilities.
Hope this was soon enough.

So, anyhow. I think this is a wonderful offer, and I only hope whatever I end up giving you is worth it; I'm most enamored with the coolness of tangible things made by people I know, so I'll try extra-hard to give something neat back.

We will bring you your piece to Anthrocon, unless you end up here before that.

I could offer shiny written-up versions of Freshman Disorientation and (if I can repair it) Harmonic Convergence - but I'd prefer it if I get to run them for you at some point before I go handing the packets off.

You're planning to run at Anthrocon, right? I've asked Sue to slot you for Saturday afternoon, so I hope so. :) Shine up whichever of the modules you intend to run there. Bard at least is planning to come play in your session, and I will too if time allows. You can hand the module off to us after the session.

Oops, that last comment was actually me. Darned logins!

For a moment there, I thought Sythyry hirself might be in attendance, which would be quite a thing to see ... :)_

I am not a master-costumer, and constuming can only go so far, but I will do at least a couple simple things.

I would love to have a dragon of any type. Would a cross stitched birth sampler for Mothra be an appropriate payment? I can't afford to get it framed, but I would love to do one for him. Or any other type of cross stitch piece you might like...

That's a deal! Cross stitch is fun stuff that neither of us does at all. We'll gladly frame it ourselves.

(Smile) I'll send you the address here.

1. If you want a piece of pottery, tell me as a comment here or by email (beetiger@LJ). Feel free to express a preference for item type --- we have mostly mugs, bowls, dragons, and one of a kind weirdnesses – but ultimately we’ll choose the piece we think you’ll like best.
I'd love a dragon to add to my figurine collection or to decorate my dorm with. Or any other wierdness that you think would add to dorm decor.

2. You may either collect your pottery from us at Anthrocon, if you will be there, or I will send it to you via US Mail, in which case I will need your address. US or Canada please, just because postage costs can get ridiculous otherwise, sorry.
I don't know if I'll be at Anthrocon or not....I'm going to try to get the time off, but I might not be able to. If not, you can send it to me or I'll probably see you around Christmas/Chanukah/Winter Solstice time. :-)

3. You must offer us something in return. This need not be a physical item – emailed art or stories, really good secret family recipes, offers of backrubs, dinner invitations, promises to update our website, etc. are all acceptable as well. If you would like to offer something physical, I will send you an address or connect with you at Anthrocon. We will send you the pottery as soon as we hear from you, not wait for your return gift; we trust you all to make good on your promises.
Let's see....I can sew, cross-stitch, and knit. I like cooking and could offer home-made jams and such. I'm good with fairytales and folklore. And I definitely offer my babysitting services if I'm ever in the area and you need a night off. I'm also a decent musician on piano, penny-whistle, and harmonica if there are any pieces you'd like recorded--I don't compose my own stuff, but I could do a Tape/CD of well known lullabyes.

I'm also a decent musician on piano, penny-whistle, and harmonica if there are any pieces you'd like recorded--I don't compose my own stuff, but I could do a Tape/CD of well known lullabyes.

Ooh, this! We definitely want Mothra growing up knowing that music and art and writing are things everyday people do, not just something that the big pros do while the rest of us gawk. A homemade tape of lullbyes would be wonderful!

We'll mail you something sculptural that's guaranteed to garner you raves or confused stares in your room. :) Send a good mailing addy.

Great!! :-) Are there any lullabyes that you're fond of and definitely want to hear? Or any foreign lullabyes (Spanish, French, Japanese, etc.)?

We'll trust your choices, thanks! If you happen to dig up any Welsh ones, I think Bard would be especially into that, but don't fuss much over that.

sythyry's selection, if there is anything that has a) octopuses or squids b) snakes c) bats or d) weasels or otters on it, I would be forever grateful.

2. You may either collect your pottery from us at Anthrocon, if you will be there, or I will send it to you via US Mail, in which case I will need your address. US or Canada please, just because postage costs can get ridiculous otherwise, sorry.

I am going to see if I can send what you chose via a person to Anthrocon.

3. You must offer us something in return. This need not be a physical item – emailed art or stories, really good secret family recipes, offers of backrubs, dinner invitations, promises to update our website, etc. are all acceptable as well. If you would like to offer something physical, I will send you an address or connect with you at Anthrocon. We will send you the pottery as soon as we hear from you, not wait for your return gift; we trust you all to make good on your promises.

Please select one or more of the following
1) A recipe for creating my homemade chocolate truffles
2) A silly short story with illustrations for Mothra on the subject of your choice (I can provide a laminated hardcopy if I can find a place to laminate)
3) A lot of magnets of animal paws and funny animal faces. I've got a load of these from the last con I was at and have a variety of species to choose from. They're nice but I plan to have new designs for next year so I'm 'liquidating' them. If this interests you I'll send you a list of colours/species. Select some or all of your choice, that'd be a few dozen magnets.
4) Custom magnets (done on inkjet magnet paper w/ my really fabulous inkjet) of the subject of your choice. Might I recommend a magnetic pictureframe to put on your fridge? It can have all manner of oddities around the persons contained within
5) A one page 'manuscript' poem done in honeem Notarotarewab (a conlang of mine) and English. I promise great amusement and elegance. Again, subject your choice.
6) Art of some sort or another of the visual or written kind otherwise not mentioned above.

4. Please make your requests as soon as possible and no later than July 8.

I will.. I mean, I did!

I *know* there is stuff in there with snakes. We'll find you something perfect!

As for the tradeback, so many marvelous ideas! Since we're kind of trading our overstock, sending back overstock seems fair, so send a box o'magnets if that works for you. You can choose for us.

If you *want* to do new creative work on our behalf, we'd love the "translated" conlang poem idea. We can never get enough amusement and elegance.

I would very much like to give a home to one of your pottery pieces. What a cool idea of a give away to your friends!

Whatever you choose to send will be fine--I love surprises!

You'll have to send by mail; I'm not getting to AC this time around. Will send addy later in an email.

In return, I will send you a cloth doll and the future promise of Mothra's first halloween costume.

Yay! We definitely will love having one of your dolls.

Mmmm, pottery. :) Are these water tight pieces of pottery? If so, I'm always looking for anything that would be good to disguise small ugly green plastic plant pots.

If not, anything of your choice. :) I'd be willing to trade you some prints at Anthrocon. :)

Thanks for the offer!

This is a frequent use of pottery in our house. The pottery is definitely water-tight, though sometimes Bard does make flowerpots with drainage to avoid mold at the bottom.

We'll do the trade at Anthrocon for some prints. Pick me out what you think we'd like best!

Ooo! Me! I want a bowl. Or a dragon. Or a weird oddity. One of those. In roughly that order.

I'll send you an email with my address in it, as I won't be at Anthrocon.

I can do art-type stuff, if either of you have a subject you'd like me to draw.

Many bowls do we have! One for you!

For us: Please illustrate something or someone that appeals to you from the people and events at

sythyry.

I would love to have a piece of pottery. Either a bowl or some other type of "one of a kind weirdness".

I won't be going to AC, so it will have to be mailed. I'll e-mail you my address.

I'm not artistic, but I can cook, so I'll send some of my "secret recipes" your way. ;) Or if you have any special requests or favors you want, I'll gladly fill them. :)

We'd love some of your recipes. Send your addy along with them. ;)

I likes me some dragons, yes I dooooo
I have not much talent, yes it's truuuuuue
But I will write a poem or a story just for youuuuuu
And Mothra.

"Baby's First (Post-natal) Visit to Cambridge"?

This is a deal. Are you in Cambridge this summer, i.e. shall I bring the draggie next time I come, or shall I mail it to you somewhere (in which case send your addy to beetiger@LJ)?

I'm in Cambridge, so let me know when you'll be around!

So, if you have any dragon type things, my husband has a thing for dragons. And it's his birthday coming up. And we're going to be at Anthrocon.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure what I can give you in return. I don't draw, I don't cook particularly well.

I play games, I write smut (mostly kinky), I have kids and am willing to babysit infinks. I'm up at all hours, and I'm willing to give free advice about kids and relationships to anyone who thinks it's worth something.

For smut references, see www.cleansheets.com and look for the author Alex M. Quinlan.

I'm guessing I'll have to say "oh well, would have been nice." :)

The point is not for us to collect great stuff, it's to give away pottery while having it feel more like barter than mooching.

Unneeded gaming materials, interesting smut not generally available, and leftover infant stuff you have in the attic somewhere are all appropriate trades.

I'd love one of the chalices, if there are any left to be had. If not, then surprise me. :)

I'll make you a baby blanket--from a simple idea that my roommate uses all the time, I'll send you the instructions, as well. What colors would you like? It's made using two large pieces of fleece, we usually do one solid color and maybe find a matching patterned one to go with.

You're on. I think the main colors we are thinking about are pastel blues and greens, and gold, but anything that inspires you is fine.

Send your addy to beetiger @ LJ.

Wow, somehow I missed this orininally. I'd love a piece of pottery... anything remotely foxish? If not, no big deal, just pick out something for me. As far as that goes, I'll pick it up at AC... as I will be there. And in return, how about some of my favorite recipes? I'm no artist... though I am writting some music now.... working on an album and an idea for charity auction donations....

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