Full Moon, first sale(s?)

I. Feeling October

I went to a collage-making meet-up last night, at the invitation of an old friend, Morgan. The theme was joy, but that wasn't my vibe. It was a full moon, I'd found a Halloween black-cat shirt at the thrift store, and I was feeling the season.
The door to other worlds is opening soon...
The child doesn't hesitate to climb over the doorsill.

I'd brought along cards of my Typewriter and "Dept of Do Your Damn Work" prints to give away to the five others. I didn't know most of them.
One artist wanted extras, and said she'd swap a pair of Kamala Harris earrings she makes. She sells them for $35, and with the proceeds buy fresh food for the Democratic Party's site where she volunteers daily, where they live on fast food and plastic-wrapped snacks.

This is my first sale (barter) of prints! I was so pleased. I don't wear earrings, but these are very Maura, and it's her birthday soon---perfect. She can wear them to vote in three weeks.
(And, you know, it's great when people objectively like your art, strangers, beyond friends and family who may like your work partly because they see you in it.)

II. Feeling Swedish?

And... a POSSIBLE sale?
In the morning, bink and I had gone to the Swedish Insitute--a museum complex whose café makes the BEST cardamom rolls. Sitting with bink, I'd spread out the cards I'd brought for that evening, and I was signing their backs.
A woman came along and asked if she could see.

"Sure," I said, "and please take one if you like. I'm giving them away at a meeting later."

She took a "Do Your Damn Work" card and said she'd put it up in her office--she is the buyer for the gift shop there!
"Would you consider doing a Swedish-themed card for us?" she said.

What?!? Would I?
Cuh-RAY-zee.... Yes!
I have little feel for Swedish things. I like IKEA, does that count? (It kind of does.)
Because I'm mostly designing text, I looked up "funny Swedish sayings" and immediately saw and loved,
THERE'S NO COW ON THE ICE.
'Det är ingen ko på isen' --meaning, No worries.

Design issues arise.
I could print just the English, but for the Swedish shop, bilingual seems better. Must mess around and see.
The short version would fit better:
ingen ko på isen
no cow on the ice
[no worries]

Anyway, I'd genuinely enjoy making and having these cards even if the buyer doesn't want them, so I'm going to go ahead.