I'm sort of getting into crochet, and I recall one or two of you periodically saying you have Too Much Yarn. I'm not after anything in particular, just something a bit more tasteful than the lurid acrylic I presently have* - acrylic gives me squickies anyway, texture-wise - I'll work out what I want to make as I go along :) Anyone want to offload yarn, in exchange for Suitable Amounts Of Money Or Cute Stuff I've Made?


* bought red/blue/green for when I was keeping a segregated kosher kitchen. Now it's all dairy, I don't need it. But it's lurid. Especially the green.

Combination of me being in a Box Painting Phase and being fed up with cardboard boxes of teabags getting crushed in the cupboard: me painting tea boxes, and doing an extra set because why not. Clicky pictures for biggers.

So these are dear little wooden boxes, shiny green/blue/purple on the outside with classy cream accents if I do say it myself. Gloss black on the inside. Each box contains 10 teabags - of course you don't have to use them for teabags, but they're quite cute that way. Black-Tea-And-Mint, Blueberry, and Blackcurrant-Ginseng-And-Vanilla, if you were wondering. Green, blue, and purple, see.

Each box has a window in the lid. Behind the window I wrote the flavour of the tea inside, but you can take that out and replace it with something else if you feel like it, as per picture, or just have the window look right through to the contents of the box.

Charity auction is for the set of three.

Since we're between Purim and Pesach, the charities I'm choosing are Save Darfur, City Harvest, National Coalition for the Homeless, and Free the Slaves. Auction ends Friday March 20th. Winner donates auction amount to one of these (or equivalent, I am quite reasonable) and forwards me the receipt; when I get the receipt from your donation, I send you your boxes.

I've got a few others I'll probably put up in the same way sometime before Pesach, depending how this one goes.

bidding at eBay

I save up photo editing and do it all in a bunch, which is why these sorts of posts come in clusters. Call me a bad blogger if you like.

You might remember the post about the Nail-Varnish Inspired Peacock Tzedakah Box. I don't much like wearing bright nail varnish (that's nail polish for those who say it that way), but it's shiny and sparkly and hard to resist when you walk past it on your way to the toilet paper and it twinkles invitingly at you. This time it was a bluey-purply one called something like Mysterious Lagoon.

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