How can I subscribe to your blog?
Click on “subscribe to this blog’s rss feed” at the bottom of a post. It’s below some Google ads. This will put Hippie Chick Diaries on your header and when you click on it you get a pull down menu with our ten most recent posts. But it won’t notify you via email of new posts. To get email notification, I’m told you have to install some rss thingy to your email program. We’re still checking out if that’s the easiest way. I’ll update soon.
How can I comment on your posts?
It’s subtle, but there’s an “add a comment” option at the bottom of each post, below the line that says, “subscribe to this blog’s rss feed” and below a thin gray line.
Why don’t you sell your wonderful Heathcote Earthings wares online?
We tried. We sell over a thousand different items in our booth. We found that representing it online was beyond our modest staff of three, well, really just me and two Heathcoters who cheer me on. We didn’t have staff to fill those orders and keeping two inventories, one available for mailing out and one packed for shows, was unrealistic. We started a webstore anyway, spent hundreds of hours on photography, etc., and passed out thousands of coupons at festivals. We found that, although festival goers constantly ask at the booth for this service, it wasn’t our festival friends who were buying the occasional necklace from our store, but random folks on the internet, at the rate of about one order a month after all that work. Sorry, market research has spoken!
Will you ever sell products online?
Yes! We have plans for a Hippie Chick Diaries store with a smaller line of eco-friendly notions. Stay tuned! In the meantime, we care about you connecting with products we find worthwhile. You will find we freely link to these vendors in our posts. We hope you will support them directly!
Can I come to where you live and buy something?
Ye…No. Again, as you can gather from Hippie Chick Diaries, Heathcote Earthings is a small part of a larger sustainability education project. When we’re not at a festival, we’re working on other aspects of that project (workshops, writing, facilitating, etc.,) and the inventory is packed away and inaccessible. Calm down, people. It’s just stuff. See it as an invitation to ask yourself if you really need/want that thing. Maybe the answer is yes. If you want to hold out for supporting your local festival merchant, we’ll see you at our next show. If not, you might search for your desired item online. We won’t be offended. We support our suppliers and think you should, too!
