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It is AUGUST……and time for another challenge! This month the challenge is all about textiles. Anything finished and made of fabric. Clothing, bed linens, kitchen linens, home decor items, if it’s primarily made of fabric it counts. Anything yarn related counts too…..knitted finished items. And just for the heck of it we’ll count crocheted items as well.
What doesn’t count? Fabric pieces, yarn to be knitted, crochet thread. Finished items only, please.
Points awarded for the most items listed for the month…first, second and third place.
Let the listing begin!
8 for Monday Madness. Thanks for the nudge Amatino… I don’t usually list on Mondays but I like getting a jump start on the week!
43 new listings for me and 11 of those were Christmas. That brings my total for the Christmas challenge to 28 so far, with the hope to do a few more this week.
Welcome back Amatino! If nobody else has an idea for the August challenge I’d like to float one out there…..how about a textile challenge? Clothes, linens and the like. Finished items, not fabric. I personally have a bunch in my death pile that I need a nudge with….what do you think? Or if there’s another challenge out there we could use this one on a future month?
50 listings for me last week and 1 was Christmas, so my Christmas listings are now 17 for the month so far. I hope to do more this week.
Amatino, those placemats are gorgeous. I can see why they took so long, but they’ll be cherished for years to come.
Sharyn,
Good question. For purposes of the challenge I would not consider general Christian or Jewish items as part of the challenge. Or items that COULD be used for Christmas, but don’t have a Christmas theme. For example, I’ve been listing Christmas fabric, but it all has Santas and snowflakes and snowmen and reindeer and so forth. I also have some red and green taffeta and gingham, but I won’t be counting those because while they can be used for making Christmas items, they can be used for non-Christmas purposes too. I wouldn’t count a piece of fabric that has deer on it, unless they are reindeer, and so forth. Anything nativity related counts. Hope that makes sense.
35 new listings for me this week. Slowly starting to get back to normal (however you define normal-ha!) and 16 of those listings were Christmas.
Charlie and I are moving into an antique mall space this week and that’s going to take quite a bit of my time and (still low) energy. It’s one of the top 3 vintage malls in the Portland area, with a long waiting list so I feel really lucky to have this opportunity. We’re not doing our usual outdoor vintage shows this Summer so I’m happy to have a place to land some of this vintage goodness I have on hand.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Thanks y’all for the good wishes. It’s been two steps forward and one step back with the pneumonia and my doc told me today to expect to have it take a month to feel 100% again.
I vote yes on listing Chanukah items as part of the Christmas challenge. Way to go Julie B! I can only dream of breaking the 1,000 active listing barrier. If things just wouldn’t keep selling when we list them! 🙂
I hear ya on the not sleeping well ChristineR. We are living in such turbulent times right now. I’m right there with you. It’s okay to have lazy days though…we need mental health days as part of taking care of ourselves.
8 listings for the week and none were Christmas. YET. Boy howdy do I have a lot of Christmas to list so stay tuned.
Glad to hear that you are on the mend, Amatino and getting back to work. You certainly have had a rough go of it. You always maintain your sense of humor though and that says a lot. 🙂
Thanks Amatino…feeling a bit better every day. Tidying up notes: you gave me 3 points for the June challenge and I should only get one, and it appears that the personal challenge hasn’t clicked over into week 26?
Sorry for not posting the Christmas in July challenge yesterday. I’ve had a persistent cough which was getting worse so spent the afternoon in urgent care. Good news: they did a covid check and I’m negative. Bad news: I was diagnosed with walking pneumonia. We caught it early so I should be fine in a couple of days, with lots of meds and rest. I turned off my 4 shops, but will do some listing here and there.
Christmas in July challenge is pretty simple. List as many Christmas items as possible. They can be any type of merchandise, as long as they have a Christmas theme. Fabric, ugly Christmas sweaters, decor, ornaments, cds, whatever you have that relates to Christmas. The person who lists the most for the month gets three points, the person who lists the 2nd most for the month gets 2 points and everyone else who lists any Christmas at all gets a participation point. Get as much listed as you can….you’ll be happy you did. Christmas sells all year long!
22 for me, including 10 in a death pile box. Clunky awkward things that I have been procrastinating on forever, so your double dog dare did the trick Amatino. One death pile box listed…..check.
I’ll post the Christmas in July challenge tomorrow. Hope everyone has a great week.
Another tumultuous week. 18 listings done. Didn’t even glance at the death pile box.
Another stressful drama-filled week but I did do 18 listings, which is an improvement over the previous week and plan to be back to normal numbers this week….hitting my goal of 40. Haven’t touched my June challenge death pile box yet so sure am glad we have a whole month for the challenge. I think my mistake was being overly uppish on getting 4 death pile boxes done for the month. Ha! Double Ha!
Amatino, my poor cherie, sending you all good wishes for better days ahead.
Thanks Sharyn…and my mom sends thanks too.
I couldn’t NOT intervene, if you know what I mean. My brothers and I were ON IT, once we figured out what was going on. What a sad and horrifying mess.
Thanks for the laugh!! I needed that this morning. 🙂
It was a huge family drama week for me…some great (a landmark birthday for my mom which was celebrated in great style) and some very bad (an elder abuse intervention for another family member) and it took up the majority of my time.
12 listings for me and not even an attempt to tackle the death pile box. Oh how such great plans are laid to waste. This week WILL be better.
