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Three more items for Halloween listed yesterday. Had more to do but also had a month end project that HAD to be finished by last night. That’s what I get for being the Queen of Procrastination. So seven Halloween items in total for the month.
Littlebluehouse you are SO right…the week goes by before you know it! Best intentions and all….
But I did finish binge watching Tiger King last night, so there’s that. Have to have priorities, right? 🙂
43 listings for me, which includes 3 Halloween items. I have more lined up and hope to get to them today or tomorrow, before the month ends. That brings my Halloween total to 4 so far.
Amatino, I am loving all the pics of the cabin. It looks amazing and I can only imagine how much you are going to enjoy it! Please do share pictures when you have the sewing area set up. I have a sewing desk in a corner of my office-studio and right now it’s buried behind a couple of stacks of things to list…oh the death piles, or shall we say buried treasure piles. I am rather glad I have them now, since I won’t be scavenging for quite some time it seems. I agree with you VT, it certainly is a silver lining.
Sure hope you continue to feel better Jen.
If you have any fabric, patterns or crafty items to list…do it now. I am selling fabric like crazy. I had one woman on Thursday buy 13 pieces! If they can’t get to the fabric store now due to all the restrictions, all the better opportunity for us! My sales have been much more sluggish in other categories but I’m still glad they keep coming in, even in lesser amounts.
I listed 42 items last week, one was a Halloween item. I have several more lined up and WILL get to them this week, since it’s the last week of the March challenge.
Wishing everyone a good week ahead.
So sorry to hear about your performance being shut down, Amatino. It has to be extremely disappointing, after all the hard work. And VT your trip being thwarted must have been very frustrating too. I made the very difficult decision last week to cancel my Spring show. This is our 25th year and I was planning a big celebration, which will be postponed until the Fall show in October. It was pointed out to me that I’ve been fortunate in not having to cancel a show in 25 years, and I am trying to maintain that glass half full mindset. My customers have been tremendously supportive and appreciative of the fact that I am keeping their health and safety foremost in my decision. Who knows, perhaps by October they’ll be back and buying even more in their gratitude. It does however, mean a blow to my income. A rather big one, but we’ll all weather this storm.
We are doing the social distancing now and hunkering down to only go out for essential errands. There’s been one death already just a few miles from here and more cases every day. My mom is at high risk for severe danger from the covid-19, due to her age and lung issues. So no more scavenging or sourcing for now. This is when I am glad that I have quite the death pile. I have PLENTY to keep me busy and many projects I can now tackle.
I didn’t get to the Halloween items this past week but have them lined up to list and will do so this week. I listed 50 items last week and hope to keep listing listing listing.
Onward and upwards!
Wowza Amatino, congrats! You’ll get the sewing done, you always do, but in the meantime you got so much listed…I can’t wait to see what you get accomplished once you are moved into the cabin completely.
46 for me. I had 2 Halloween items lined up but just couldn’t get to them. Good thing we have all month for that challenge. Can I make a suggestion for the July challenge? Christmas in July? It’s not real original but I know I could use the kick in the pants to get Christmas listed in the summer. I always have the best intentions, but I never seem to get to all the fantastic vintage Christmas I have to list.
The Christmas death pile keeps growing and growing.The two other problem children I have are linens and clothing. My death piles for both of those keep growing too. They just aren’t as easy to list as other things so I keep putting them off.
VT, so sorry to hear about your cat passing. I know all too well how painful it is to lose a beloved cat. Sending you a big hug from Oregon.
I listed 60 items this week. That includes 15 green items. My total for the February challenge is 32 green items, including 2 that are St Pat’s. That was a fun challenge. I am psyched to do Halloween…good one Amatino! I always have the best intentions with my seasonal items but most of the time they don’t get listed when they should. And they sell all year long so I have no excuse. I listed a Christmas item last week and it sold 3 days later. I got rid of the 3 wedding dresses, yesterday, so it was just under the wire for the January challenge. But the important thing is that they are GONE. They had the big bulky skirts/petticoats so they took up soooo much space. Nice to have that corner back! I’m digging these monthly challenges so far…adds to the fun.
Hope everyone has a great week ahead.
22 for me this week but the escape to the beach house was much needed. 15 of those listings were GREEN, including one St Patricks item, so I feel pretty good about the February challenge. My total for February is 17 now and I have a few more to do before the end of the month. I haven’t donated the wedding dresses though so that’ll have to happen this week, for the January challenge.
Hope everyone has a great week ahead…let’s finish February strong!
63 for me this week. A nice solid week…feels good and I got caught up finally with my goal. No green listings this week but I already have several lined up for this upcoming week so should have better green numbers to report next week.
Libby I sure am glad I don’t feel the urge to compete and put up the amazing numbers you are getting done. You are a listing rock star!
I’m going to my dad’s beach house in Southern Oregon on Friday for the weekend, so I’ll have to hustle and get all my listing done before then.
45 for me this week. Two are part of the “green” February challenge. It’ll be fun to see how that challenge shapes up for all of us. I still haven’t donated the wedding dresses (January challenge) but hopefully that happens in the next week or two.
Hope everyone has a good week ahead.
20 for me this week. I was at the Gift Market in Vegas most of the week so I am okay with that number. I have some catching up to do and plan to do that this week.
New Trends seen at market….Lemons for spring and Llamas for Christmas. Lemons and llamas.
Amatino…so fun to see a picture of you!
I’m in on the extra challenge. I have three vintage wedding dresses that I have been sitting on (well not literally) since I used them in a Winter Wedding theme in my show in the fall of 2018. I keep thinking I am going to get them listed because they are all gorgeous….one is a designer dress from the early 1990s that originally sold for over 6 grand. The other two are from the 1970s and really lovely. But none of them sold at the show and they take up a LOT of space because they are all full skirted with petticoats. I’m going to donate them to a local thrift shop that does mostly higher end clothing. I love this particular thrift shop because the proceeds go towards helping local veterans who are struggling financially. The thrift shop helps towards their electricity bills and so forth. It’s a great cause.
Out they go in the next couple of weeks. Thanks VT for the nudge!
and here’s the prize…….. 🙂
Libby I think I need to transfer the title of “Listing Machine” over to you. Good going! This year I am going to concentrate on that 2020 listing goal and not worry about winning weeks. If I can hit 40 a week or average that for the year I will be thrilled. I also really need to work on my death pile.
Thanks VT and Amatino for your kind words. Much quieter week. I’m truly looking forward to getting away for five days next week….it will be a great break and really needed.
