[MR] Holiday Faire Gift Basket Collection Event

[Sharon Henderson]

Greetings, gentle Cousins!

Tomorrow is Holiday Faire, as you probably all know by now.  :)  As Gift
Basket Coordinator to Their Royal Majesties, I come before you to humbly beg
your assistance.

Donations to the Gift Basket collection are desperately solicited.  By the
gracious permission of the folks running Holiday Faire, I will have a table
set up for collection of items to include in Gift Baskets.  These go
sometimes to in-Atlantia recipients, but also to out-Kingdom
recipients--giving us a unique and wonderful chance to show the generosity
and creativity of Fair Atlantia's greatest asset: her citizenry!  At the
moment the cupboards are bear, and heavy gifting season is upon us, so I beg
you to be generous.  Come by on Saturday; drop off a donation, making
certain your non-SCA name and contact info are featured on all items.  Items
can be (but are not limited to):

telephone calling cards
thank-you notes with a medieval look
rolls of stamps
lengths of trim
beads
fabrics
pouches
pottery
military-related items (archer's gloves? a chain-mail repair kit?)
garb items
food items (please list all ingredients in case of allergies)
jewelry items
Anything spiff that you can imagine!
Baskets to contain same
Pretty cloths to line or cover baskets

Some of these items go toward making someone's life as a royal or a landed
Baron/ess easier and less expensive; others go toward just showing off how
cool our artisans are and how inventive their minds.  You will be assured of
the gratitude of their majesties, and that of my own humble self.  :)

At Holiday Faire, there will be an additional twist: a basket collection and
an A&S competition all in one!  Think of it as a way to practice entry and
documentation....  :)  If you just want to donate something, by all means
bring it by.  If it is something you have made, and you would like people to
let you know what they think, the means will exist to display the items with
rudimentary documentation (or without, just explain what it is).  I will
have a box available along with voting slips, and at the end of the day, the
artisans/donators receiving the most votes for items will receive a spiffy
prize--and I do mean spiffy.  It will be on display at the table, so come on
by to see what it is!  (and of course to vote for your favourite item on the
donations display table!)

So come to Holiday Faire for a fun day of shopping and fellowship--and
please donate to the Kingdom Gift basket collection!

In Service to Atlantia and Their Majesties,
Meli ferch Iasper
Gift Basket Coordinator