I've been having a great time vending at the Bellingham Farmers Market! I'm at the Wednesday market in Fairhaven, noon to 5 pm. Local customers can now either shop in person or order online and pick up your pads at the market.

Here's my booth: Isn't it cute?

The response has been overwhelmingly positive for the most part, and I've even won over a few brave new converts! A lot of people can't figure out what the heck I'm selling, though. So far I've been asked if they are:

wallets
baby shoes
slippers
shoe insoles
cell phone pouches
pot holders
eyeglass cases

For the last couple weeks, I've been lucky to have a spot next to Sip-T Tea Company. Those ladies make some wonderful tea! They've also given me a lot of great advice and helped me to settle into the market.

Towels for the Gulf Coast Animals

Yesterday I sent off a box of towels for Project 8's handmade towel drive. The towels will go to the IMMS to clean oil off of sea animals. At first I thought it was a strange stipulation that the towels have to be handmade. It seemed like any towels would do in such an emergency, and the animals are not likely to notice that the towels are handmade. But the Project 8 site said that the towels didn't have to be anything fancy. I had some cotton materials that I couldn't use for pads, so I made towels and sent them.

If you happen to have any cotton materials to spare, it doesn't take much more than to cut them down to hand towel size, pink or serge the edges and box them up. The deadline for the towel drive is July 3.