A few months ago our Guild demonstrated lace at a large tourist shopping centre in Cape Town. A young Hawaiian girl working as an au pair for an American couple visited the demonstration and said she was getting married in March 2005 and would love a lace garter for her wedding. One of the lacemakers - not me I am not quite that daft - offered to make her a garter and the two of them exchanged addresses etc. Elsabe then proceeded to make this beautiful Bucks garter but also started thinking along the lines of getting some monetary return for the Guild. So I bravely offered to do the negotiating. I wrote a long letter to this girl explaining the effort that went into making the lace etc etc and that Elsabe has now donated the garter to the Guild and the cost would be 50 USD. I got a very panicky e-mail back to ask if she must now pay the 50USD and the Guild gets to keep the garter!!! Talking about crossed wires. I then wrote back to make myself more clear and then started to panic that she might throw the garter away at the wedding and fortunately she understood that explanation! The garter has gone off and we are waiting with bated breath to see if the money appears! Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.
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