In honor of expensive house repairs, a giveaway!

[beetiger]

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.

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.


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.


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.


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

Comments

Yes please

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

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?

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

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)

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

*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!

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

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.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

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.