So the April Flores shows are over.  Life around Eden Fantasys is getting back to normal.  The frenzy of putting together an event is fading.

And a frenzy it was!  Victoria seriously deserves some mad kudos for all the work she put into both shows; the venues were perfect, the artists amazing, the entertainment and fund raisers a rousing success.  You'd never have known the work that went into things behind the scenes and that, my friends, is the hallmark of a good event coordinator!  Look at all the love that went around in NY…  hugs and smiles galore!

In order: Carlos and Victoria, Carlos and Laurel, April and Fred, Carlos, April and Victoria, Carrie Ann and April, Carlos, April, Fred and Rufina

The Museum of Sex was a terrific venue for the New York show.  Not only did we have our exhibit of the April Flores pussies by 20 different artists, but we had three MoSex exhibits for guests to walk through — and it showed in the attendance.  We had folks from the Eden Fantasys community, the blogging and twitter community, a few of the artists themselves, Sex Work Awareness and ASC NY in attendance, as well.  And April and Carlos?  Totally down to earth and friendly with everyone.  It was incredible!

In order: Red Roulette, Carlos and April, Brooke from ASC NY who worked her butt off selling raffle tickets – very successfully, I might add!,  Red Roulette and Victoria, Audacia Ray and Molly Crabapple, George Pitts and April, Eli Livingston and Victoria, Urban Gypsy and Red Roulette

But this post was supposed to be about the dying down of frenzy and what's going on post Love Toy Art Show frenzy…

I'll post more pics and details later, I promise.  After all, we still have the Philly show to talk about!  And I have AWESOME pics of Gary singing and playing with Bitchslicer…

Until then…

Let's talk about EF, huh?  And SexIs.  And even Eden Cafe.

After a big event like this, all of us employees have to sort of resettle in to normal, every day life and work.  And in doing so we got to talking.  And wondering what you guys think of how we're doing and what we're doing.

And so the real purpose of this post is to find out.

And I would never ask you guys to just…  tell me.

Oh no.  It's in my generous nature to offer you a chance to WIN something for telling me.

So, yes, the real purpose of this post is to announce a contest.

Leave me a comment here and tell me what your favorite thing about Eden Cafe is.  Your favorite author or subject matter or even your favorite picture or contest.  Whatever it is about Eden Cafe that has you coming back and reading us.  It'll be worth a single entry if you do.

But if you want an extra entry, you can leave another comment.  Hell, leave two.  Let me know what you like best about SexIs and Eden Fantasys as a whole.  The reviews?  The forum?  The contributor page?  The rss feeds for forum posts?  The contests?  What SexIs author or topic?  The SexIs layout?  Do you love Dr. Dick or Kal Cobalt?  Tell me!  Like I said, it's another entry if you leave a comment about SexIs, a third if you leave a comment about EF.

And I'll even give you a bonus.  Tweet a link to your favorite EC post or SexIs article along with the hashtag #sharingmyfaves and you'll get another entry.  One tweet per person per day.  (It should look something like this "Synching Up Your Sexual Clocks http://bit.ly/D9oqV #sharingmyfaves "  Don't number your entries with things like "tweet one", etc.  Just a post title, link and hashtag.  Otherwise it looks way too spammy, folks.)

That's a whole lot of entries and a whole lot of possible ways to win.

Contest will go from today, October 27th thru Friday, November 6th.  That's ten days.  Any entries after midnight, eastern, on the sixth won't be counted.

Winner will be drawn using random.org so it's fair for everyone.  Anyone can enter, not just those in the U.S., though shipping of the gift card may not be possible to some problem areas in the Middle East, etc.

Oh. I didn't announce the prize, did I?

The winner gets a $100 Eden Fantasys gift card to use on whatever they choose from the site.

Now get commenting!  We're offering up the prize as encouragement to participate but, really, we want and need your feedback.  Giving you what you want to see is what makes us successful, right?  Right!

I'll leave you with some extra pics of the gift baskets we raffled off.

The Tantus gift basket and guest book, the winners with their baskets, Urban Gypsy signing the guest book next to the Topco gift basket