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10 listings for me this week, and 2 counted towards the July challenge.
SWAMPED.
It’s not just a roller coaster of sales on Ebay for me…. Amazon has been squirrelly too. I have had 3 or 4 NO SALES days on Amazon this month and that NEVER happens. It’s literally been several years since I had a no sale day on Amazon, and yet, here we are.
Thought I’d be the first to report, for once.
42 listings for the week, and 14 counted towards the monthly challenge.
Can you believe there’s only one week left in July? This summer is flying by.
24 listings for the week. 14 counted towards the challenge.
We did a massive clean out of a hoarder estate sale yesterday and I am wiped. Over 160 boxes, a big uhaul truck, and we still weren’t able to get it all. Really cool old Victorian house with several stories and hidden little rooms. Piles of things everywhere. One room had mounds of cookbooks, at least 700-800 and one of my workers spent 3 hours packing them and still didn’t finish. I had a great team of 6 working their tails off and it still got the better of us…….but we were happy to get what we got and it will be fantastic for the Grange rummage sale.
One of these days things will slow down a little…….or is that wishful thinking?
Hope everyone has a great week ahead.
Welcome JaePete! I agree with the others how being part of this group is so motivating!
Julie- Do you watch Top Chef and did you watch the last season, filmed here in Portland? They did an episode at the Tillamook Cheese Factory that was so much fun. Their products are amazing….I also love their sour cream. We waited almost an hour in line for the waffle cones, but my nephew said it was worth it. 🙂
VT- I’d count the patterns….my take is a listing is a listing is a listing and there were no parameters put on the challenge. I’m certainly counting the vintage fabric I list. I think you should get credit for the patterns. BTW, your industriousness is inspiring!
Good on you JR and Amatino….your listings certainly put me to shame. Keep up the good work!
ONE listing for me last week. My 15-yr-old nephew from Seattle was visiting all week, and since I strive to be the coolest auntie on the planet we spent our time binge watching The Umbrella Academy, driving to Tillamook for their famous ice cream, and other assorted adventures. Who knows how much longer he’ll think I’m cool, so I have to take full advantage while it lasts.
He’s back in Seattle as of this morning, so it’s back to business for me.
Hope everyone has a great week ahead.
Happy July, y’all! Hope you had a fun 4th. We did a quick road trip down to Coos Bay to work on wedding details. We wanted to check out a possible wedding dinner venue and also a local bakery and talk to them about doing our wedding cake. The bakery and owner were absolutely lovely and we had the best time with her designing our perfect cake. The possible dinner venue? Not so much. The reviews online were quite good…and the photos of the place looked nice….there’s a tent structure beside the restaurant for outdoor dining, filled with hanging flower baskets, which looked very promising. We ate lunch there and were troubled by the constant road traffic noise, as the restaurant is on a busy street, as well as noticing other bothersome details. The service was non-existent the 2nd half of our meal, which was worrisome. BUT, worst of all, there was a large human HAIR in a piece of Charlie’s fish and chips. Stomach churning. NOPE. nope nope nope.
We mentioned all this to the bakery owner and she suggested another local seafood restaurant. We went to check it out and it’s charming! There’s a covered patio area that overlooks Charleston Bay and the staff was so friendly and helpful. It has an amazing vibe and we booked our dinner, and all is well in the world! There’s much relief in working out all these details.
And I did manage to get 42 listings up as well….this week will be much slower I suspect, as my 15-yr-old nephew is coming tomorrow for a visit with his auntie. And, 20 of the listings go towards the July challenge! Boom!
Hope everyone as a splendid first full week of July!
Well. Apparently yesterday we had the dubious honor of being the hottest place on the planet. That’s right, you’d be cooler in the Sahara desert. It’s been a challenge, to say the least. I’ve been spending 2 hours a day watering, trying to save our plants. Today’s going to be yet another scorcher and then we “cool down” to 95 or so for the rest of the week. Fortunately, we have AC, which many don’t in the PNW. Feeling pretty lucky about that. The silver lining for me is that I had scored a massive pile of fabric earlier last week and have been listing, listing, listing.
72 listings for me last week. None met the monthly challenge.
Amatino, you are a force to be reckoned with and I have no doubt you will meet these current challenges with fortitude and your wicked sense of humor. Hoping both you and JR are feeling better really really soon.
Julie, I had a brick and mortar shop for 13 years–2004 to 2017 and I would have LOVED to have a vintage cash register on site. It would have added so much to the vibe!
Here’s wishing everyone has a safe and fun 4th of July!
Some of y’all get up way too early (grin), but then I’ve always been a night owl. I get my best work done sometimes late at night.
33 listings for me this week, which I am happy with because my beloved niece is visiting and I am greatly distracted, but in a very good way. None of my listings fit any of the challenges going on right now.
She leaves on Thursday so this week might be slower too….we’ll see.
I won a unicorn at auction this week and I couldn’t be more excited. Not a real unicorn of course, but something that’s been haunting me for a long time. 10 years ago I went on a trip through the south with my mom and my niece and we stopped in an antique mall somewhere in rural Alabama. I fell in love with, of all things, a vintage cash register there. It was expensive and heavy and would have cost a fortune to ship it back home so I left it behind and to this day I think about that cash register from time to time. I’ve never seen another like it. Last weekend there was a local online auction and lo and behold they were selling the most beautiful antique cash register, with a sticker on the bottom with the original sale date-1919. Can you imagine? AND I WON IT! and didn’t pay a fortune for it! I am over the moon, and it already has been put in a place of honor in my studio. I know it’s a silly thing to get so excited about….but I don’t care.
Hope you start feeling better JR and hope everyone has a great week!
Ack! I forgot to post yesterday! The day just got away from me, but then last week did too. You ever have weeks where you can’t exactly pinpoint why you are so busy, you just are? That was last week for me.
26 listings and none met the June challenge. I already listed 10 items for this week so it certainly will be a better listing week for me….or should be, I don’t want to jinx it! Ha!
Hope y’all have a good week.
I listed 47 items this week. All were from a big box that’s been sitting in my garage for the last 9 years. Felt good to get a death pile box gone, even though it’s not part of the challenge! I did gather up 3 boxes of items to donate and they are sitting in the car waiting to be driven there tomorrow, so that counts towards the other part of the challenge, I hope.
We’ve been working on getting the wedding invites ready to mail. Charlie and I screen printed our wedding motto WHERE THERE IS TEA THERE IS LOVE onto white flour sack tea towels. I found “Wedding Breakfast” tea from Fortnum & Mason and that will go into the invite parcel as well. We’re having our wedding party at the most fantastic tea shop in the Portland area, so everything is tea related. After all, we’ll be honeymooning in England next May!
On a more somber note, I’ve also been dealing with elder abuse issues with my dad, again. We thought we had resolved it last summer but it’s reared it’s ugly head again. It’s messy and ugly and not an easy thing to fix but my brothers and I are determined to make whatever time he has left the best possible. It’s depressing.
Sharyn, you certainly had a challenging week before last. I’m impressed by your organizing skills though. I could take some lessons from you! VT I sure hope you have recovered from your root canal and are feeling better than ever. That stuff is never fun. Julie, I am envious of your vacation! All those beaches! I have been to Key West and loved it, but not the other places you mentioned. Mixing research and travelling sounds like the perfect vacation. Amatino, more sweet fur baby pics anytime you feel like it. It makes us smile! Toffee is adorable.
I hope everyone has a great week ahead!
I’m usually not the first to post but I guess everyone is out enjoying the holiday, I hope!
65 listings for the week, and 17 were for the May challenge.
Love the dog pictures Amatino! (and the couch)
17 listings for me this week. I need to snap out of my listing doldrums! I have great stuff to list…..
I agree with Sharyn, Amatino. I love seeing your fur babies in the shed. But I can appreciate how hard you worked to organize and clean it up! Great job! Especially when fighting the druthers. I know how that goes all too well.
It’s the last week of the month…let’s make it a great one!
It’s a beachy time of year apparently, as I just got back from spending a long weekend at the beach, the glorious Cannon Beach, this time. Hope you have a wonderful time Julie!
VT, so glad your husband is doing well.
25 listings for me this week (none for the May challenge), but I did some fun picking and have lots of interesting things to list, so hope to add to my “seasonal” count this coming week.
