It's that time of year again...Autumn is here and the Winter Solstice is coming, and with it, a slew of holidays that involve gift giving. Think ahead, shop with the small business person here in the U.S.A., and shop with a Kossack! There is still time to order something custom made for a special person in your life. That is why there will be a series of Kos Katalogue shop diaries next week, even though the election is not yet behind us. There will be no formal blogathon in respect of the election diaries (we will do that later) -- but by the time the election is done, it may be too late to get something made specially for you. And hey, people need something lighter to think about while dealing with heavier issues -- hence some shopping diaries!
The Kos Katalogue Holiday Mothership master list has been posted. Please be sure to hot list it so that all the shops are at your fingertips, all through the season. This master list will be kept updated.
If you have a Kos Katalogue shop, you are invited to post a diary next week featuring your wares and telling us something about you. Mettle fatique and I are going to try to organize a list of these diaries to help shoppers to make your information more accessible to buyers. With that in mind, here are a few guidelines for your diary:
1. In your first paragraph, put:
- The name of your business
- the bare url for it (even if the url is your dk page)
- the categories your shop is listed under for the items featured in your diary (this might be all of them or some)
- if you wish your shop to be listed in mettle fatique's geographic locator Kos Katalogue list, put your exact or approximate location within your State (this is optional)
- give a short description of your goods or services
- use the rest of your diary to tell us all about what you do and show pictures and buying links!
2. Make sure you put "Kos Katalogue" in your diary title AND in your tags
3. Please include JekyllnHyde's diary template at the foot of your diary. You will find the code for it here. Here is what it looks like:
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Kos Katalogue: October 2014
The Holiday Season is almost here! Please consider buying your holiday or celebration gifts for friends and family from the Kos Katalogue.
Kos Katalogue is an online catalog of businesses owned by people who cherish and promote liberal values. Handmade or original gifts include pet supplies; fine art; quilts; jewelry; children's department; arts and crafts; stationery; books; clothing; craft supplies; electronics; food and drink; household sundries; yarn, knitting, crochet, and weaving; freelance services; software and webdesign; sporting goods; and music.
Below are four examples of these handmade or original gifts. Thanks for your support.
Community Quilt Project David M Bowman Studio
Wings: Hands on Silver Laughing Coyote Woodworks
Please remember to republish these diaries to your Daily Kos Groups. You can also follow all postings by clicking this link for the Kos Katalogue Group. Then, click 'Follow' and that will make all postings show up in 'My Stream' of your Daily Kos page.
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If you are a shopper, you can help by:
- following Kos Katalogue and rec'ing and tipping each diary as it is posted
- shopping!
- posting JekyllnHyde's template for comments in any social diaries or open threads next week. The code for the template is here. Here is what it looks like:
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Kos Katalogue: October 2014
The Holiday Season is almost here! Please consider buying your holiday or celebration gifts for friends and family from the Kos Katalogue.
Kos Katalogue is an online catalog of businesses owned by people who cherish and promote liberal values. Handmade or original gifts include pet supplies; fine art; quilts; jewelry; children's department; arts and crafts; stationery; books; clothing; craft supplies; electronics; food and drink; household sundries; yarn, knitting, crochet, and weaving; freelance services; software and webdesign; sporting goods; and music.
Please remember to republish these diaries to your Daily Kos Groups. You can also follow all postings by clicking this link for the Kos Katalogue Group. Then, click 'Follow' and that will make all postings show up in 'My Stream' of your Daily Kos page.
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- Also, you can put a link to the Kos Katalogue mothership in your sig line!
Welcome to the Kitchen Table. Please make yourself comfortable, share your day and weekend plans and any interesting menus! Also, please share your Kos Katalogue shopping experiences, we would love to hear them!
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share part of the evening around a virtual kitchen table with kossacks who are caring and supportive of one another. So bring your stories, jokes, photos, funny pics, music, and interesting videos, as well as links—including quotations—to diaries, news stories, and books that you think this community would appreciate. Readers may notice that most who post diaries and comments in this series already know one another to some degree, but newcomers should not feel excluded. We welcome guests at our kitchen table, and hope to make some new friends as well.
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