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I see the dry British humour (slightly grisly) is alive and well! 😀
Which reminds me: my order of British bacon is in. I get to collect it tomorrow!
Spreadsheet updated. Well done, Sharyn, a good win this week. JB had an Honorable Mention, being last year’s winner. Link to spreadsheet added, as I haven’t given the link in a while.
Good news on the resolution and good luck on the move, VT.
Sharyn, that’s funny. Himself’s mother seems to have a similar problem, she’s constantly buying him shirts! Fortunately he’s really hard on his clothes, so although she’s still outpacing him, it’s barely! I’m really looking forward to how you fare with your #6 challenge. You’ve set some restrictive parameters there, I think. I shan’t ask you to share your BOLO, but I would love to know how many you come up with!
My #6 is Challenger’s Choice. I choose to continue with any of the months I missed and see if I can catch up.
Wow, VL, that sounds like fantastic fun! Wish I could be there, but I will add it to my bucket list!
We finally have a week where the temps are barely going to hit triple digits. Most of the week is only in the high 90s, so it’s cooler than it has been for weeks! We’re desperate for rain, but the cooler temps mean that more work can be done outdoors. I have some furniture that needs refurb, but I may wait for the thermometer to lower another 10 degrees before I go that far outside! LOL. For now, it means I can spend some time sorting things on my deck.
Wishing you all great listings!
Retro, they don’t “do” egg cups in the States. 😀
I had get mine especially sent over from the UK. I had a breakfast event here, and nobody had a clue what to do with the breakfast! When I pull out my egg cups, I have to demonstrate how to eat a breakfast of boiled eggs and soldiers. It reminds me of that scene in Tarzan… LOL
New month, new challenge!
Thanks for sharing the info, Julie! I’d love to know how to pull up those stats! Did Pierce say anything about what to do with stale listings? Also, did he mention any pros and cons of mobile vs desktop! And what social media did he suggest?
Huh! I’ve also heard that pasting titles into the description was the way to go, but I stopped doing it a while ago when I moved to using the bullet system instead of writing a novel. I’ve heard that more sales go through mobile than desktop, and I’ve noticed that the descriptions are very hard to find on mobile.
Are the next 2 sessions follow up sessions? As in you do the suggested “homework” from this session and they tell you how much it makes changes to your store?
Wow, VL. What an experience! Glad you got some great stuff. I know your Dad has been going through some rough times, is this move going to be good for him! And yet another move in our little miniverse! LOL.
Sending best wishes for his move and your continued unpacking and sorting.
Wow, this is a first! Both of the two highest numbers listed were logged by last year’s winners, so they’re blued out with an honorable mention. And the next highest number was a tie between Sharyn and VT! Well done on a great week with some terrific numbers, everyone!
My Show went both terrific and terrible! Terrific, because we had a great show and everyone had a marvelous time. Terrible because I managed to flub my solo so badly that an audience member came up to me afterwards and told me that it was obvious that I’d messed up and they could see my humiliation! (Seriously? He thought that was a good thing to tell me?) But… he was somewhat right. I spent an extraordinary amount of time with my veil like this:
Practically the only resemblance between what I did and the original choreography was the music! 😀
However, I was frustrated, but not humiliated. I still completed the entire choreography, the audience got a chuckle, it looked interesting – instead of pretty and ethereal, but hey, interesting is still good, right? I’m way too old and experienced at public performances to be humiliated any more. I’ve made so many errors and had so many things go wrong, as I’ve been performing since I was 5 years old, both in dance and theater. I just shrug it off as another fun event! LOL
On the home front, we’re still working on the extension. On Saturday we started at 6:30AM, had a break mid-afternoon, then continued from 5PM until 9:30PM. Yesterday we worked until nearly 10PM. I’m SO over this right now! Hint, if you’re considering renovations: don’t save money on contractors, fire them, and have to do the work yourself! It will be great when it’s done, though. Only 15 weeks to wait for windows! Yay?
Thanks for all the compliments, much appreciated! Still sewing like crazy and only 2 days until The Big Day, so things are a teeny bit chaotic! I have 4 costumes this year and, to save time, I’ve decided I’m going to pin belts into place and just work on bras/tops which are more of a fit fiasco if you get them wrong. The next show is on August 21st, so I will have time to finish up where necessary. I’m also seriously considering making myself a bra and skirt from scratch for the 4th costume which has not yet been started. Yep. Nobody has ever called me stupid, but crazy is very common!
It must be a year for moving. I went to help my daughter move in March, then VL moved, and now VT is moving. Anyone else planning a move soon? LOL. After all the work we’ve been doing on our house, I will hiss, spit, and scratch if anyone even suggests it! 😀
Well done, ChristineR, you chalked up yet another win for this week!
Wishing you all a great week, everyone!
Congrats, ChristineR, yet another win for you this week! Yay! Keep it up!
Good for you, Sharyn. Hope it works for you. I think RA depends a lot of what you buy. The most successful RA I ever had was NIB curtains. I paid a dollar for each pack, bought out about half of all the clearance stock, and sold most of them for about $14. Unfortunately, all my other RA attempts have been flops. Now I know to buy out the entire clearance stock! LOL
Actually, now that I think about it, I’ve had good luck with curtains whenever I list them. The trick, however, is to hang them for photos. For the NIB, I took a close up photo of the picture of the hanging curtain and used that as my main photo. For the old ones, I take down the curtains in my spare room and hang one panel there.
VL, photos or it doesn’t exist! 😉 We are so excited for you!
Our Full Dress Rehearsal is on Thursday and we had our 3rd and final sewing party on Sunday. Most of the Babes are now clothed, with the Advanced ladies just finishing off their final pieces. As I was sewing for one of the Babes who does not, my costume is still a WIP and I might not have it ready for Thursday, but I’m lucky that I have enough experience to rummage in the Costume Closet last minute and pull off whatever I throw together. That has saved my bacon a number of times! This time, though, I still have a full week until the Show and I’m further along than I ever was before, so I will probably be in a mostly complete costume in time. I’m also seriously considering voting myself out of dancing a couple numbers. It is a Student Showcase, after all, and I’m not a student. Now that the Babes are more confident in themselves, they don’t need me as much as they used to. Any of the Advanced Troupe numbers, there are so few of us that I will be missed, but the mass choreos won’t be affected by my absence. I dance in the back mostly, specifically to not draw attention. That reduces the number of costumes I must have. Phew! 😀
Here are the pantaloons we’ve worked on for 2 weeks (yes, even mine are finished!) Almost 5 yards of fabric in each pair, 2.5 yards PER LEG!
Congratulations on getting back to listing, JR. As a reward, you won the week! 😀 Great that you have listing help! Photography is my Kryptonite.
Add your 72 to last week’s total, Sharyn.
Welcome back, VT. Glad you had a good vacay. Good luck with your challenge.
Okay folks! Welcome to the first week of the 2nd half of the year. Remember that it’s July already and in six short weeks, folks will be going back to school. Start rummaging for all your BTS goodies and get those listings up!
Happy 4th, y’all!
