Ways to fail to flatter an artisan ...
When attempting to flatter an artisan:
- soliciting items for an A&S display at the event an artisan can't attend is flattering.
- failing to acknowledge receipt of said items until explicitly asked ... is less flattering.
- failing to return the items, or even get them in the mail, four weeks after the event is over ... is not flattering.
- implying that it's the artisan's responsibility to, in essence, hunt you down and pester you until you have put the items back in the mail (which in the US can be done by buying a shipping label at usps.com, and then placing the package in your mailbox as outgoing mail) ... is priceless.
For bonus points, ship it back to the wrong address and then make the artisan responsible for figuring out where the package went. Even though the artisan included her address on the shipping label, in the note that went with the items (which was of course immediately discarded because it couldn't possibly be important), and in an email to the recipient flatterer.
In other words; this is why I can no longer share my weavings for A&S display at any event I am not personally attending.