Dear Santa

Dear Santa,
I would say I’ve been a good girl this year, but that’s really your job to decide. I hope I’m on the nice list because I have a long list of wishes (even though my friends and family leave me wanting for nothing.)

I would like an android phone because the camera is way better than my iphone. And a new digital camera for home. Or can you just hire me a professional photographer? I wish I never post a blurry, dark photo again. Until this wish is granted, thanks for putting up with my photography skills.

Some more Australian Scent all natural, so pure you could eat it, healthy, eco-friendly bar soap would be nice. I wish I could remember what my favorite flavor is.

I’d like oysters on Christmas Eve. And more oyster farmers. Oyster beds keep the water clean.

I’d like a fuel efficient, safe, reliable vehicle to get back and forth to Brooklyn. Or at least a repair bill on my Outback that I can manage. Vanna White doesn’t do so well in the snow.

I would like an open bar holiday party for me and my flea friends. Oh wait! I already have that. Thanks Eric!

I wouldn’t mind some organic, fair-traded chocolate in my stocking.

I wish everybody had friends like Amy. And I wish everybody could see Amy’s collection of vintage bar glasses. Amazing.

I wish every little boy and girl got a bunch of appliances from the thrift store for Christmas, and a bunch of tools to take them apart and rebuild them. Now THAT’S an educational toy.

Could you give everybody on your list the gift of understanding HANDMADE? Jessica DeCarlo is a true silversmith and her work CANNOT be compared to any other retail jewelry.

I don’t need a new card case. The one I bought from City Bitz 4 years ago has outlived 12 purses.

I would like a winter CSA for Christmas so I don’t have to buy vegetables from all over the planet.

I wish for an employee who will work for me for a whole year.

I wish it was already Saturday night so Ms. Papushka and I could be clinking glasses over how many vintage Gucci purses and dinosaur earrings we sold.

I wish I knew who was on your naughty list. I think this world needs greater transparency of naughty lists. The naughty kids shouldn’t even get lumps of coal because we really don’t need to be promoting the coal industry. And I think the naughty kids have more than their fair share of everything anyway.

I wish that owls will never ever ever go out of style. I think Athena, the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, was the first hipster to rock an owl.

I wish for repeat customers! I love my customers!

I wish that for the future people can just talk about the holidays, Christmas, the shopping season, whatever it is that we’re doing right now, without having to trip over their words and worry about offending people. To my Non-Christian readers, I hope you don’t mind me talking about Christmas. Santa, please find a way for me, and the rest of the world, to just get around this issue for good. By the way, I’m a devout Flea Marketist. Every Sunday.

I wish that every girl who walks into George and Rafael’s booth and boutique spends as much money on jewelry as she spent on her purse.

Can I have more customers like Annie Jackson? Please? Can Annie Jackson have more customers like Annie Jackson?

I wish people didn’t hate on vintage fur. The damage has been done. You might as well look glamorous. Just avoid buying new things with fur on them.

I wish people would call Russell for flea market deliveries! 917 645 3381. Fast, friendly, reliable, affordable.

I wish that nobody was ever lonely on the holidays.

I wish I sell all my vintage Christmas Cards. That would be a recycling accomplishment.

I wish that my customers could figure out who to pay at the flea market. My signs that say, “Turn around and shout, ‘Susan,’” aren’t enough. Thanks Alphaville for handling the overflow!

I wish I could hang out with the Val from King’s County Salvage more. All day every day at work isn’t enough.

I wish they made more costume jewelry in Rhode Island again. There used to be tons of great jobs in Rhode Island, and a beautiful product to be proud of.

I wish Angela Spencer of Angela Spencer’s Irresistible Stuff (ASIS) has a better 2012 than 2011.

Santa, can you make it so my friends make more money than me at the Flea this December? I know, that’s going to be REALLY tough, but see what you can do :P

I wish that all my customers will sing, “I don’t care if it rains of freezes, long as I got my plastic Jesus,” when they see the pop up book nativity scene with the plastic baby Jesus in my booth, or any other plastic religious item ever.

My final wish, Santa, and, I know this has been a tall order… I wish for less plastic this Christmas. Less credit card debt for everybody, more real, more homegrown, more family, more recycled, more songs… more, “Plastic Jesus,” less plastic, Santa.