Advent 2023 - Day 13

[wiseheart]

... also known as St. Lucia's Day. On which I finally went to the hairdresser and achieved a halfways civilized look: very important, so that I won't scare away potential customers on the fair tomorrow.

Other than that, I'm getting seriously organized. Six boxes of Christmas cookies have already gone off to their recipients, two more are waiting to get picked up, and I expect another two empty boxes to come my way tomorrow, so that they can be filled. Add the plates I'll gift upon our neighbours, and soon the balcony will be a lot emptier.

Mum helped me to count and list the change I'm gonna take with me to the fair tomorrow. I need a lot of coin and small sheets (is paper money called sheets in English???) because kids have the tendency to buy something for fifty bucks or so and want to pay with a thousander... if I'm lucky. I had some last year who had a ten thousander with them; okay, those were the parents, but I still had to scratch together the change I had to give them back. *sigh*

In the last moment I decided to take the finger puppet Wichtel with me to the fair as well. I had no time to make the Wichteltür and the tiny post boxes for them, the whole set of which I intended to give friends and family with small children as a gift, so I'll do it next year and sew new gnomes.

TBH, I'm very excited about the fair tomorrow and hope that all will go smoothly. This is the event in my life each year, and since the concert won't be held on Saturday, the most Christmassy thing I'll get, so I hope by God that nothing happens to hinder me. *fingers crossed*

Comments

[bk_forever]

We call paper money notes, as in a five pound note. Collectively they might be referred to as banknotes.

You're a very busy bee!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! Now if I could only keep that in mind! *g*

[bk_forever]

Fingers crossed!

[meathiel]

I hope you'll sell all your stuff tomorrow! :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So do I! It is all for charity, after all... and selling stuff is great fun. :)

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Will you take a picture at the fair, of the goodies you are selling? I know, I'm nosy again...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I don't dare to take the iPad mini out of the house because I fear it won't be willing to reconnect to the Internet when I get home. But one of the colleagues will do the official photographing and promised me to take a few good pictures, so I can show Mum what my stall looked like. I'll then post the pics to Pinterest, as always, and link it here.

You can view a great deal of photos from previous fairs here (https://hu.pinterest.com/ekunster/charity-fairs-christmas-2015-2022/).

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

Brits call paper money notes, Americans call paper money bills.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I see. Thank you.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Good luck! In English individual paper money is referred to as notes, like a five dollar note.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'll try to keep that in mind. There are certain words that I keep forgetting again and again, no matter what. *sigh* My brain is getting older, too.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Good luck!!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I have fingers crossed for you, too. I hear you regarding having enough change. When I did craft fairs it was always a big worry, particularly at the beginning of the day.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've been collecting change for months. We even asked the postwoman when she brought Mum's pension to give us a certain amount of it in coins. *g*