TIP FOR SHIPPING ART, etc, various things, home...
Don't buy from multiple areas and ship your items together thinking you'll save money if ART is involved. Someone put our art purchases in the same box as mugs (one was really, really heavy) and other sundries, and during shipping, they banged up the art. Signed art... from the Art Festival in February. Just terrible... damaged, might as well be crumpled up newspaper.
The party who took our items to ship it from us was maybe new to shipping?
Anyway, if you buy art from a stand during a festival, fill out the paperwork and get it shipped from that stand. It's a bit of a time consuming pain, but it beats carrying it around with you, getting the proper things all together, etc... just pay and get it done at the point of sale if it's valuable and/or heavy.
Lesson learned the hard way :-(