Offered: Farmer's Market Care Package; Story/Fic Postcards
Offer 1: Farmer's Market Care Package
I adore buying things from farmer's markets and going to all sorts of different farmer's markets. Over the next month or so I will have the opportunity to go to several different ones including my local one in central Illinois, one in Northern Illinois, one in Southern Wisconsin and one in Canada (because this is how I spend my time when I'm bored, I might even hit up some in Iowa, or get my friend to if she comes to visit) I'm offering to collect of mix of localy made non-perishables and other custom items from these different markets and send them. Additionally, if you're an Illini fan or would like things from Chicago or Toronto I can include some items representative of those, although it'd be primarily farmer's market items. We can talk about your preferences and I'll try and choose the things I think you'll like best =D
Package could potentially include:
- homemade candy
- local honey and/or preserves and/or nut butters
- english toffee
- homemade breads (there is this guy who calls himself The Muffin Man. I have to stop at his stall every week or my life is not complete. My current favourite is his chocolate banana bread with chocolate chips and sour cherries, it's amazing)
- herbs
- angel food cake (another stall has something like 20 different flavors of angel food cake)
- amusing local t-shirt
- jewelry
- stationary
- finds from the other farmer's markets. Since I haven't visited them either it'll be a surprise to me too!
Contact: MaiaRose [at] gmail [dot] com or LJ comments
Delivery: Depends on the weather and what kind of things you'd like. Definitely after mid August since that will be when my Canada trip is, but if you choose things that are non-melty I'd say I could ship it Sept 1 (which is right after the Sweet Corn Festival. Could pick up a few things there too)
Minimum Bid: $25
Buy It Now: $60
Offer #2: Story/Fic Postcards
I love all the offers for letters and penpals so I thought I would make my own. Every month for a year I'd send a postcard (or some kind of funky card, or a letter) with a story (original or fanfic or both, there's 12 of them so you can pick and choose) similar to the format of Waterstone's What's Your Story contest where the story will fit on the card.
I'm open to writing gen, slash, het, and femslash, incest pairings and most anything else, but know I am awful at smut. I like to write humor and angst and h/c and AUs and crossovers and fluff and crack. I'd hash out the details about what fandoms and prompts etc you'd like at the beginning and then what you get each month will be a bit of a surprise chosen from what we discussed.
I'm familiar with a huge number of fandoms and I'm willing to become familiar with book and tv and movie fandoms just to write your stories. I've included some of the major ones in the tags, but it's by no means exclusive. The only thing is I'm not familiar with a lot of anime and comics and it would take a long time to get caught up on those enough to write them well. But especially with the books and movies I'm always looking for new ones to read/watch so that would be no problem.
Contact: MaiaRose [at] gmail [dot] com or LJ comments
Delivery: First one will be sent in the first week of August (and it may include guest writers XD) and then all subsequent ones should be sent out the first week of every month until you've received 12.
Minimum Bid: $5
I adore buying things from farmer's markets and going to all sorts of different farmer's markets. Over the next month or so I will have the opportunity to go to several different ones including my local one in central Illinois, one in Northern Illinois, one in Southern Wisconsin and one in Canada (because this is how I spend my time when I'm bored, I might even hit up some in Iowa, or get my friend to if she comes to visit) I'm offering to collect of mix of localy made non-perishables and other custom items from these different markets and send them. Additionally, if you're an Illini fan or would like things from Chicago or Toronto I can include some items representative of those, although it'd be primarily farmer's market items. We can talk about your preferences and I'll try and choose the things I think you'll like best =D
Package could potentially include:
- homemade candy
- local honey and/or preserves and/or nut butters
- english toffee
- homemade breads (there is this guy who calls himself The Muffin Man. I have to stop at his stall every week or my life is not complete. My current favourite is his chocolate banana bread with chocolate chips and sour cherries, it's amazing)
- herbs
- angel food cake (another stall has something like 20 different flavors of angel food cake)
- amusing local t-shirt
- jewelry
- stationary
- finds from the other farmer's markets. Since I haven't visited them either it'll be a surprise to me too!
Contact: MaiaRose [at] gmail [dot] com or LJ comments
Delivery: Depends on the weather and what kind of things you'd like. Definitely after mid August since that will be when my Canada trip is, but if you choose things that are non-melty I'd say I could ship it Sept 1 (which is right after the Sweet Corn Festival. Could pick up a few things there too)
Minimum Bid: $25
Buy It Now: $60
Offer #2: Story/Fic Postcards
I love all the offers for letters and penpals so I thought I would make my own. Every month for a year I'd send a postcard (or some kind of funky card, or a letter) with a story (original or fanfic or both, there's 12 of them so you can pick and choose) similar to the format of Waterstone's What's Your Story contest where the story will fit on the card.
I'm open to writing gen, slash, het, and femslash, incest pairings and most anything else, but know I am awful at smut. I like to write humor and angst and h/c and AUs and crossovers and fluff and crack. I'd hash out the details about what fandoms and prompts etc you'd like at the beginning and then what you get each month will be a bit of a surprise chosen from what we discussed.
I'm familiar with a huge number of fandoms and I'm willing to become familiar with book and tv and movie fandoms just to write your stories. I've included some of the major ones in the tags, but it's by no means exclusive. The only thing is I'm not familiar with a lot of anime and comics and it would take a long time to get caught up on those enough to write them well. But especially with the books and movies I'm always looking for new ones to read/watch so that would be no problem.
Contact: MaiaRose [at] gmail [dot] com or LJ comments
Delivery: First one will be sent in the first week of August (and it may include guest writers XD) and then all subsequent ones should be sent out the first week of every month until you've received 12.
Minimum Bid: $5