Not quite long enough to be a ramble, but I did want to catch everyone up.
Our internet at home went out a week ago today. We finally got it back yesterday, while we were still waiting for the technician to visit. That visit was scheduled for today. It just came back on by itself. Don't know why, but I'll take it.
I hate using my phone for much more than short messages. I have Fat Thumb Syndrome, which when combined with the Autocorrect Blues, leads to the dreaded Irritable Eddies. I curse too much as it is, folks. I don't need to create situations which will call for more cursing.
This outage also happened to hit when I had no time to drag my butt and the laptop to a spot with WiFi. Sometimes, it is what it is.
Thankfully, I had several "silly season" posts already scheduled. I've started writing those as I think of them and scheduling several of them throughout each week, about a month ahead of time. That way, if something happens on this end, like an outage, you still get your dose of Eddie that makes you wonder why you keep coming back to this here blog.
It also gives me room to write the longer posts, which then either get slotted in the empty days or replace one of the "silly season" posts, which then goes back into rotation. (That's why you keep seeing that close up shot of a very handsome fellow popping up from time to time. Be glad that didn't come all in one week.)
One casualty of the outage was my pre-Free Comic Book day post, which was supposed to go last Friday. I was still wrapping it up when we lost the internet. Since it's too dated now to use, I'll just have to set it aside. Sigh!
Since I also had to miss Mother's Day on Sunday, here's a late shout out to all you Mothers and Grandmothers and Other Significant Female Presences!
I'll do a proper ramble on Monday, and, if I have time (and the damn weather cooperates), I'll share some finds tomorrow.
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
Friday, April 08, 2016
Some Updates
First off, I'd like to thank everyone for hanging with this blog through the silly season of this past week. I'll go ahead and warn you that there will be some more of the same coming up in the weeks to come, but hopefully not as constant. There's something wrong with my head in that I kind of like doing that sort of stuff, but it also buys me some time to get some longer pieces written (or, as in the case of this week, work the booth every day). It's not easy being me, but, apparently. someone has to do it.
We interrupt this update to being you a picture of a cute blue birdhouse.
That little "thank you" you're hearing right now is coming from your soul.
Sunday, in the Mazda post, I promised cuteness and awesomeness in the Monday Rambles post, but there was no post on Monday. (Boo, me!) Let me make up for the lapse now. Also, let me assure you that there will be a Ramble this coming Monday. I'm not sharing everything in this update to make sure it happens. Sneaky me.
Anyway, as to cuteness and awesomeness, prepare to be blown away. I hereby present:
There was a lot more of each, but I think you get the idea. The most unique church sale in town happened last week. It's not one of my gold standards, but it is one of my favorites. One of the churches in town also sponsors a Japanese church, and that Japanese church has a fund-raiser sale every year. It's a really fun event, complete with food, music and cultural demonstrations. Also, great stuff for sale at great prices.
It can be a really good source for manga and anime, both untranslated and translated, which is one of the reasons I like to go. Another is the availability of really cool imported toys (like the above) at not imported prices. It was well worth going.
I've been doing more diving into the renovation dumpsters up and down the street. Well, except for the one that is too tall to get into. I mentioned this mirror before, but I wanted to share a pic after I got it cleaned up. It's a beauty.
It's also quite heavy. And was found at the bottom of the hill. The cool, heavy stuff is always at the bottom of the hill. The dumpster was full, but this mirror was laid neatly on top, as if the demo folks wanted someone to find and take it home. Glad to accommodate.
I found these counterweights at the same house on the way to the bus yesterday. I also seem to have a knack for finding awkward heavy things when I am on the way to catch the bus. All I had to try and carry them in was a plastic leopard print bag. If you can't be practical, be fabulous!
As I mentioned above, I have been working pretty much non-stop for the past week re-doing the booths. After seven days, four of which were entire days, I am still not done. I needed a break, however, so I stayed home today.
Here's a preview. More pics to come when I'm done. In the back on the right, you can see the new Wall of Canisters that I created! It's been an exhausting week, but I've had some interesting meetings with some of my regular customers. I'll write more about that on Monday.
A little girl of about eight or nine pointed to this Raggedy Ann doll and yelled: "Hey Mom! Look at this clown!" What are they teaching kids these days?
More to come!
Until then:
We interrupt this update to being you a picture of a cute blue birdhouse.
That little "thank you" you're hearing right now is coming from your soul.
Sunday, in the Mazda post, I promised cuteness and awesomeness in the Monday Rambles post, but there was no post on Monday. (Boo, me!) Let me make up for the lapse now. Also, let me assure you that there will be a Ramble this coming Monday. I'm not sharing everything in this update to make sure it happens. Sneaky me.
Anyway, as to cuteness and awesomeness, prepare to be blown away. I hereby present:
KAWAII
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| The idea is get you to look up nerdy Japanese terms. |
KAIJU AND SENTAI (AND MECHA)
SUMO BUTT
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| This whole set folds up into its own little carrying case |
It can be a really good source for manga and anime, both untranslated and translated, which is one of the reasons I like to go. Another is the availability of really cool imported toys (like the above) at not imported prices. It was well worth going.
I've been doing more diving into the renovation dumpsters up and down the street. Well, except for the one that is too tall to get into. I mentioned this mirror before, but I wanted to share a pic after I got it cleaned up. It's a beauty.
It's also quite heavy. And was found at the bottom of the hill. The cool, heavy stuff is always at the bottom of the hill. The dumpster was full, but this mirror was laid neatly on top, as if the demo folks wanted someone to find and take it home. Glad to accommodate.
I found these counterweights at the same house on the way to the bus yesterday. I also seem to have a knack for finding awkward heavy things when I am on the way to catch the bus. All I had to try and carry them in was a plastic leopard print bag. If you can't be practical, be fabulous!
As I mentioned above, I have been working pretty much non-stop for the past week re-doing the booths. After seven days, four of which were entire days, I am still not done. I needed a break, however, so I stayed home today.
Here's a preview. More pics to come when I'm done. In the back on the right, you can see the new Wall of Canisters that I created! It's been an exhausting week, but I've had some interesting meetings with some of my regular customers. I'll write more about that on Monday.
A little girl of about eight or nine pointed to this Raggedy Ann doll and yelled: "Hey Mom! Look at this clown!" What are they teaching kids these days?
More to come!
Until then:
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
2015-2016 Rambles
It is said that there are only two things in life that are certain. Those would be death and taxes. When it comes to this blog, however, there are at least three certainties.
1. At least half the photos will be crap.
2. The blogger will never be very good at his job.
3. Whenever you read that posting will resume "tomorrow," then you can expect at least another two weeks (or more) before a post finally appears.
Is anyone even still out there?
If you look back over the last few years of this blog, you'll find that I inevitably seem to flake out right around the holidays and totally disappear. Sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, life just overwhelms me and the blog suffers. Interestingly, I don't really do that much holiday celebrating any more. The only gifts to get are for Keith, my brother and Keith's mom. We haven't decorated or done any baking since my mother first got sick. If anyone ever gets a Christmas card for me, guard it like a double-bag collector's item, because that sucker is a rarity for sure! Yet, despite all of this, the end of the year seems to swallow me up like a black hole.
I know my prolonged absence made some of you worry, and I am sorry for that, but deeply touched at the same time. You all are just so sweet and I am lucky to have each of you in my life. I owe several of you emails, blog comments, and post catch ups. I'll get to it, hopefully soon. If I don't, know that I do think about you all a lot. I had no idea that this little blog would bring so many great people into my life.
Speaking of being in touch, any of you that have my mailing address, please contact me by email. After years of declining service, we finally did away with the PO Box. If you want it, I'll be glad to give you the home address.
Okay, so where to begin?
Let's start with this. He always makes people smile.
Keith's mother gave him that quilt for Christmas. One of his aunts made it for a fund-raiser at one of the churches that his mom attends and she ended up winning it. It's really pretty, and Chiquito just loves it! He's claimed it as his own.
In other Chiquito news, Keith relented and made me a 2016 Chiquito calendar. I'll get the Jan and Feb pics up soon. Well, before March, at least. He told me to warn you all that this one might be the last one. He thinks that you're going to find pic after pic of Chiquito to be "repetitive." I told him he didn't know you all.
Speaking of Christmas, I also got this,which of course I love! Two more pairs of socks came with it!
I get tons of compliments when I wear it! He also made me a Kosh calendar, but it makes me kinda sad, so I keep it stashed on my desk. I had asked him to make me a memory book of Kosh pics, like he did for our other kitties who have passed on, but he hasn't had a chance to track down all the pics yet. The calendar was to hold me over until he could.
Something we did not realize about having a Christmas Eve anniversary is that it is awfully hard to find a place to go for dinner. We finally got a corrected copy of our marriage license, so Keith is not the officiating judge any more. He had a couple of our wedding pics blown up and printed out on canvas for me. We're doing some rearranging at the house, so they'll probably go in the bedroom, when it's done.
The other day, while I was searching for a clean pair of jeans, I came across this:
That's the 70's Batman comic logo, by the way. I had forgotten I had that one. Finding made me remember that I also have a shirt with the TV show logo on it, which I now have to find. I have a nerdrobe and didn't even know it!
Ignore my hair in that pic, please. I'm growing it out in hopes of finally having the ponytail I've always dreamed of. I've tried it before, but always got frustrated when I got to this shaggy, unmanageable state. The top and sides aren't long enough to pull back yet, and it's driving me nuts. I'm determined to see it through this time. I think it's a midlife crisis thing. I'm also pondering bleaching it totally white and piercing my nose.
This happened a couple of weeks ago.
It was really the first bad weather of the winter for us and wasn't nearly as bad as it got in other places, but it was enough. The streets in front of and behind our house are kind of major ones, and traffic was crawling along them for a couple of days afterwards. The Peddlers Mall was closed for a day and a half. Sales sucked all freaking week long. Chiquito told me that the best thing to do was stay in, drink hot chocolate, eat popcorn and take naps, so I did. He was right.
Speaking of the booth, some of you all want new pics, but it's going to be a while. Things are a bit rough in all my spaces right now. December was an excellent month for me, but January sucked. My total sales were the lowest they've been in a long while. Bad weather was part of it, but the rest of it was mainly my fault. For some reason (winter blahs?), I just could not seem to pull it together, get the Christmas out, restock everything, and tidy it all up.
Usually, I leave the Christmas in through the first week in January, then spend the next week clearing it all out and redoing everything. Those first two weeks are usually a little slow anyway, and that gives me time to get the booth ready for the end of the month, when the early early birds have gotten their tax refunds.
I could not seem to get moving this year. Part of it was that I decided to leave some bits of Christmas scattered around my spaces. I marked everything that had been through more than two seasons down and shoved them on a couple of bottom shelves. It's out of the way. It fills shelves people don't access a lot, so the booth looks fuller. It also gives the adventurous folks (and holiday lovers) some bargains to hunt for,
I also left all my holiday glasses and dishes on another bottom shelf. I'm down to very few of them, and they've sold year round for me before. The books and music I worked into the book booth. None of that took very long. The hold up came when I decided that I should make a year round vintage Christmas section.
I had already pulled everything, and it was piled in carts. All I needed to do was clear a shelf for it and sort through it. That became the hold up. Three different attempts to designate an existing shelf totally failed. I ended up heading to Sorrow Mountain in hunt for a new shelf, rearranging things a bit, then making my vintage Christmas section. It took forever, as the snow happened in the middle of all this. The result was I had carts of stuff and empty boxes cluttering my booth and scaring off customers.
Sometimes, it's really obvious that I do not have a clue what I am doing.
Three days in, however, and February seems to be doing much better for me. I'm thinking that tax money is trickling in, finally. Thanks to taxes, February and March can be good months.
To switch to a better note, my scans are coming back clear! The treatments continue, of course, but the docs (and me) are really pleased with the results. I'm on the same drug that Jimmy Carter is getting, by the way. I've been referring to it as "the presidential treatment." I'll have what the President is having, please. I'll be due for another scan in a month or so.
It's a bit of a busy week here. I'm benignly neglecting the booth, because it's junk set out weekend in our neighborhood. The winter set out is always a little iffy, but the weather is supposed to be mild all week, so the pickings might be pretty good. I've got a bit of cabin fever, so I am raring to go hunting.
I've also got stuff that needs to go out to the curb. I have two bookshelves that are seriously falling apart and need to go. I have replacements on Sorrow Mountain, of course. I've been putting off dealing with these for a while, partly because I'm convinced that it's only the weight of the stuff on them that is holding them together and upright. Seriously, they're that far gone. I'm afraid it's going to be like playing Jenga on a large scale. One wrong move and I'm buried in books.
At least this time, if you don't hear from me for a while, you'll know what happened.
Let's close out with a backlog of fortune cookie wisdom.
I got all excited at the last one from Po! I never got a fortune from a Teletubby before! Po! Po! Po! Then I realized that it was the Kung Fu Panda dude, which makes more sense from a fortune cookie perspective. Personally, I think what the world needs right now is Teletubby fortune cookies.
1. At least half the photos will be crap.
2. The blogger will never be very good at his job.
3. Whenever you read that posting will resume "tomorrow," then you can expect at least another two weeks (or more) before a post finally appears.
Is anyone even still out there?
If you look back over the last few years of this blog, you'll find that I inevitably seem to flake out right around the holidays and totally disappear. Sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, life just overwhelms me and the blog suffers. Interestingly, I don't really do that much holiday celebrating any more. The only gifts to get are for Keith, my brother and Keith's mom. We haven't decorated or done any baking since my mother first got sick. If anyone ever gets a Christmas card for me, guard it like a double-bag collector's item, because that sucker is a rarity for sure! Yet, despite all of this, the end of the year seems to swallow me up like a black hole.
I know my prolonged absence made some of you worry, and I am sorry for that, but deeply touched at the same time. You all are just so sweet and I am lucky to have each of you in my life. I owe several of you emails, blog comments, and post catch ups. I'll get to it, hopefully soon. If I don't, know that I do think about you all a lot. I had no idea that this little blog would bring so many great people into my life.
Speaking of being in touch, any of you that have my mailing address, please contact me by email. After years of declining service, we finally did away with the PO Box. If you want it, I'll be glad to give you the home address.
Okay, so where to begin?
Let's start with this. He always makes people smile.
Keith's mother gave him that quilt for Christmas. One of his aunts made it for a fund-raiser at one of the churches that his mom attends and she ended up winning it. It's really pretty, and Chiquito just loves it! He's claimed it as his own.
In other Chiquito news, Keith relented and made me a 2016 Chiquito calendar. I'll get the Jan and Feb pics up soon. Well, before March, at least. He told me to warn you all that this one might be the last one. He thinks that you're going to find pic after pic of Chiquito to be "repetitive." I told him he didn't know you all.
Speaking of Christmas, I also got this,which of course I love! Two more pairs of socks came with it!
I get tons of compliments when I wear it! He also made me a Kosh calendar, but it makes me kinda sad, so I keep it stashed on my desk. I had asked him to make me a memory book of Kosh pics, like he did for our other kitties who have passed on, but he hasn't had a chance to track down all the pics yet. The calendar was to hold me over until he could.
Something we did not realize about having a Christmas Eve anniversary is that it is awfully hard to find a place to go for dinner. We finally got a corrected copy of our marriage license, so Keith is not the officiating judge any more. He had a couple of our wedding pics blown up and printed out on canvas for me. We're doing some rearranging at the house, so they'll probably go in the bedroom, when it's done.
The other day, while I was searching for a clean pair of jeans, I came across this:
That's the 70's Batman comic logo, by the way. I had forgotten I had that one. Finding made me remember that I also have a shirt with the TV show logo on it, which I now have to find. I have a nerdrobe and didn't even know it!
Ignore my hair in that pic, please. I'm growing it out in hopes of finally having the ponytail I've always dreamed of. I've tried it before, but always got frustrated when I got to this shaggy, unmanageable state. The top and sides aren't long enough to pull back yet, and it's driving me nuts. I'm determined to see it through this time. I think it's a midlife crisis thing. I'm also pondering bleaching it totally white and piercing my nose.
This happened a couple of weeks ago.
It was really the first bad weather of the winter for us and wasn't nearly as bad as it got in other places, but it was enough. The streets in front of and behind our house are kind of major ones, and traffic was crawling along them for a couple of days afterwards. The Peddlers Mall was closed for a day and a half. Sales sucked all freaking week long. Chiquito told me that the best thing to do was stay in, drink hot chocolate, eat popcorn and take naps, so I did. He was right.
Speaking of the booth, some of you all want new pics, but it's going to be a while. Things are a bit rough in all my spaces right now. December was an excellent month for me, but January sucked. My total sales were the lowest they've been in a long while. Bad weather was part of it, but the rest of it was mainly my fault. For some reason (winter blahs?), I just could not seem to pull it together, get the Christmas out, restock everything, and tidy it all up.
Usually, I leave the Christmas in through the first week in January, then spend the next week clearing it all out and redoing everything. Those first two weeks are usually a little slow anyway, and that gives me time to get the booth ready for the end of the month, when the early early birds have gotten their tax refunds.
I could not seem to get moving this year. Part of it was that I decided to leave some bits of Christmas scattered around my spaces. I marked everything that had been through more than two seasons down and shoved them on a couple of bottom shelves. It's out of the way. It fills shelves people don't access a lot, so the booth looks fuller. It also gives the adventurous folks (and holiday lovers) some bargains to hunt for,
I also left all my holiday glasses and dishes on another bottom shelf. I'm down to very few of them, and they've sold year round for me before. The books and music I worked into the book booth. None of that took very long. The hold up came when I decided that I should make a year round vintage Christmas section.
I had already pulled everything, and it was piled in carts. All I needed to do was clear a shelf for it and sort through it. That became the hold up. Three different attempts to designate an existing shelf totally failed. I ended up heading to Sorrow Mountain in hunt for a new shelf, rearranging things a bit, then making my vintage Christmas section. It took forever, as the snow happened in the middle of all this. The result was I had carts of stuff and empty boxes cluttering my booth and scaring off customers.
Sometimes, it's really obvious that I do not have a clue what I am doing.
Three days in, however, and February seems to be doing much better for me. I'm thinking that tax money is trickling in, finally. Thanks to taxes, February and March can be good months.
To switch to a better note, my scans are coming back clear! The treatments continue, of course, but the docs (and me) are really pleased with the results. I'm on the same drug that Jimmy Carter is getting, by the way. I've been referring to it as "the presidential treatment." I'll have what the President is having, please. I'll be due for another scan in a month or so.
It's a bit of a busy week here. I'm benignly neglecting the booth, because it's junk set out weekend in our neighborhood. The winter set out is always a little iffy, but the weather is supposed to be mild all week, so the pickings might be pretty good. I've got a bit of cabin fever, so I am raring to go hunting.
I've also got stuff that needs to go out to the curb. I have two bookshelves that are seriously falling apart and need to go. I have replacements on Sorrow Mountain, of course. I've been putting off dealing with these for a while, partly because I'm convinced that it's only the weight of the stuff on them that is holding them together and upright. Seriously, they're that far gone. I'm afraid it's going to be like playing Jenga on a large scale. One wrong move and I'm buried in books.
At least this time, if you don't hear from me for a while, you'll know what happened.
Let's close out with a backlog of fortune cookie wisdom.
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| I certainly try to do this one. |
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| Well, thank you! |
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| I was sure this meant I had the winning Power Ball ticket. Alas! |
I got all excited at the last one from Po! I never got a fortune from a Teletubby before! Po! Po! Po! Then I realized that it was the Kung Fu Panda dude, which makes more sense from a fortune cookie perspective. Personally, I think what the world needs right now is Teletubby fortune cookies.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Stumbling In
Eddie-tor's Note: Post title is a reference/homage to this. Another good Retro Y'all song taken by another post. Dang! Also, proof positive that I can find a YouTube video for just about everything. What can I say? It's a gift. And a curse. Also, is that not the cheesiest performance of any song ever?
Thanks for being patient with my little leave of absence these past few days. I hope I didn't worry anyone too much. I'm doing fine, if (as always) a little tired. Or a lot tired.
Truth is, low energy combined with a bad writer's block kept me away last week. I started writing last Monday's Ramble and it STUNK! And I couldn't seem to fix it or get it together, so I decided to take an impromptu break for a few days.
I think I'm past it now. We'll see, I guess. I hope to be back in the groove by the end of the week. I'll do a catch up ramble at some point.
Onward and upward!
PS The Gorilla sold!
Thanks for being patient with my little leave of absence these past few days. I hope I didn't worry anyone too much. I'm doing fine, if (as always) a little tired. Or a lot tired.
Truth is, low energy combined with a bad writer's block kept me away last week. I started writing last Monday's Ramble and it STUNK! And I couldn't seem to fix it or get it together, so I decided to take an impromptu break for a few days.
I think I'm past it now. We'll see, I guess. I hope to be back in the groove by the end of the week. I'll do a catch up ramble at some point.
Onward and upward!
PS The Gorilla sold!
Friday, June 12, 2015
Where have you been, young man?
I just love it when you all call me "young." Tee hee!
Yes, I am aware I have been absent for way too long after our return from San Francisco. No, that absence wasn't exactly planned. Have you ever heard about needing a vacation to recover from your vacation? That's almost, kinda what happened to me. But, not exactly.
So, let's run down the past week and a half.
TUESDAY (JUNE 2): We got back, early in the morning. Slept in the next day. Keith started taking on a cold on the trip back and woke up feeling poorly. We ran by the Peddlers Mall to check out the booth, which was such a mess that I didn't even want to deal with it. (I was still really tired.) By the time we got home, I was starting to feel poorly.
WEDNESDAY (JUNE 3): I stayed in a tried to kick the cold, without much luck.
THURSDAY (JUNE 4): Ditto. And ditto on the luck, too.
FRIDAY (JUNE 5): Junk set out weekend in our neighborhood started, and I stayed in. I am such a baby when I have a cold. Cancer? I can manage that. A cold? I need to take to my sick chamber for a week and moan and snuffle and stuff.
SATURDAY (JUNE 6): Stayed in. No yard sales for me!
SUNDAY (JUNE 7): Stayed in during the day, but ventured out in the evening to check out the junk piles. Made a few finds. Went back to bed.
MONDAY (JUNE 8): Woke up feeling better. Decided it was time to get to the booth, after hitting a few junk piles first. The pickings turned out to be so very good that I ended up spending most of the day combing the neighborhood, going through people's trash. This is such a glamorous profession.
TUESDAY (JUNE 9): Treatment day! Went to the cancer center for number 4, then home to bed, as the post-infusion fatigue set in.
WEDNESDAY (JUNE 10): The combination of the post-treatment tiredness and the resurgence of the blasted cold kept me in.
THURSDAY (JUNE 11): Felt much better, so finally got to the booth. It was not pretty. It still isn't. Sigh.
I'm feeling a good deal better today. The cold seems to finally be receding. I'm down to a residual cough. Keith is better as well. Just in time, too. The biggest church sale of the year is tomorrow, along with the neighborhood that surrounds the church. I'll for sure have a Mazda shot for Sunday, as this sale last year was the birth of the Mazda shot.
I know I still have a lot of San Francisco stories, pics, and finds to share with you all. I'm going to do my best to get caught up with all of that next week, including emails and blog comments. I just wanted to let you all know that everything is okay on this end.
Hope everyone out there is doing well.
Yes, I am aware I have been absent for way too long after our return from San Francisco. No, that absence wasn't exactly planned. Have you ever heard about needing a vacation to recover from your vacation? That's almost, kinda what happened to me. But, not exactly.
So, let's run down the past week and a half.
TUESDAY (JUNE 2): We got back, early in the morning. Slept in the next day. Keith started taking on a cold on the trip back and woke up feeling poorly. We ran by the Peddlers Mall to check out the booth, which was such a mess that I didn't even want to deal with it. (I was still really tired.) By the time we got home, I was starting to feel poorly.
WEDNESDAY (JUNE 3): I stayed in a tried to kick the cold, without much luck.
THURSDAY (JUNE 4): Ditto. And ditto on the luck, too.
FRIDAY (JUNE 5): Junk set out weekend in our neighborhood started, and I stayed in. I am such a baby when I have a cold. Cancer? I can manage that. A cold? I need to take to my sick chamber for a week and moan and snuffle and stuff.
SATURDAY (JUNE 6): Stayed in. No yard sales for me!
SUNDAY (JUNE 7): Stayed in during the day, but ventured out in the evening to check out the junk piles. Made a few finds. Went back to bed.
MONDAY (JUNE 8): Woke up feeling better. Decided it was time to get to the booth, after hitting a few junk piles first. The pickings turned out to be so very good that I ended up spending most of the day combing the neighborhood, going through people's trash. This is such a glamorous profession.
TUESDAY (JUNE 9): Treatment day! Went to the cancer center for number 4, then home to bed, as the post-infusion fatigue set in.
WEDNESDAY (JUNE 10): The combination of the post-treatment tiredness and the resurgence of the blasted cold kept me in.
THURSDAY (JUNE 11): Felt much better, so finally got to the booth. It was not pretty. It still isn't. Sigh.
I'm feeling a good deal better today. The cold seems to finally be receding. I'm down to a residual cough. Keith is better as well. Just in time, too. The biggest church sale of the year is tomorrow, along with the neighborhood that surrounds the church. I'll for sure have a Mazda shot for Sunday, as this sale last year was the birth of the Mazda shot.
I know I still have a lot of San Francisco stories, pics, and finds to share with you all. I'm going to do my best to get caught up with all of that next week, including emails and blog comments. I just wanted to let you all know that everything is okay on this end.
Hope everyone out there is doing well.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
This is most likely the only post for this week, so read it carefully and treasure it always
Happy...uhm...Thursday!
It's been a bit of a hectic and busy week or so around these parts, hence the lack of posts. My brother was here last week, and I've been spending this week getting ready for something special. More on that in a minute.
Before I get into the post, I do want to assure everyone that I am okay and things are going pretty well. I didn't mean to worry anyone with the lack of content here.
I had a wonderful visit with my brother last week. We just kind of hung out and ate and talked and stuff we never really get to do any more. It was so nice to see him and just sit and talk for hours. I am planning on making a visit down to see him in the fall.
We did a little junking together. He's an eBay seller, so he's always on the hint. I took him to the Peddlers Mall, plus the Goodwill and the Saint Vincent de Paul that are across the road. He loved the thrift stores and made several good buys there. The Peddlers Mall overwhelmed him with its size, complexity and selection, but he really liked it too. There's nothing to compare with it where he lives, except for a couple of antique malls that never get a lot of traffic.
He also said that he liked my booths, which meant a lot to me.
Keith took some pics, but has not had time to download them off his camera yet. He's getting ready for the special thing too. When the pics are downloaded, I'll post one or two here. In the meantime, just imagine two devastatingly handsome dudes with a family resemblance.
We also exchanged junk gift boxes. Mine had a Hummel Madonna in it, which is something I have always wanted for my collection.
We spent a lot of time talking about how to kick our respective endeavors up to the next level. I think we need to move to the same city and throw our lots in together.
Saturday was about beating the rain for the yard sales. We didn't do very well at it, because we got started very late that morning. It was already sprinkling at the first sale we went too. We managed to fill Mazda with the first three sales, so we had to unload at the house.
After that, we stuck with the indoor church sales on the list. There were three of those. By the time we got to the second one, it was pouring. The rain and the rush kind of killed the Mazda shot potential for the day. Many of the large items have already sold, but here's a shot of the smalls. See if you can find Waldo.
Just kidding. He's not there. But you might find Jack Kennedy and Jar Jar Binks instead. The spirit of my grandmother took that pic, which explains why the top row is cut off. I grew up believing that my grandfather didn't really have a head, since it was always cut off in photos.
This has been the most frustrating month for booth sales. I'm selling every day, including some large items, but just not enough. I've kind of structured myself price-wise to sell lots of small, under five buck, flea market style items every day. The furniture, large stuff, and higher-priced smalls are the gravy that pushes a day from good to fantastic when the totals come in. Since the higher-priced stuff doesn't always sell, that still gives me a chance at a good day on the smaller, cheaper stuff every day.
Except that here lately, the smaller, cheaper stuff has not been selling as well. That almost never happens! I've been selling shelves like mad again, but I only sell about half the typical cheap stuff, which drives my total down. It's an odd kind of doldrum. I am so far off target for the month, I don't know if I will ever catch up. At least, I am still selling something every day.
Tuesday was treatment number three. I was scheduled early, so I was in and out before noon, which was nice. It's getting to where the longest part of the day is waiting for the labs so the clinic can order the drug from the pharmacy. The infusion takes no time at all. After my next infusion, I'll have a scan, so we can finally see if this is working or not.
I've been rushing around a lot this week trying to get things done because we are going on vacation Saturday. We're flying to San Francisco until June 1! I'm pretty excited, as we've not been to SF in over ten years. We used to go all the time, so I'm interested to see how things have changed.
We've got someone to take care of Chiquito and make sure that the bathroom faucet gets turned on for him. We don't leave until 4:00 in the afternoon on Saturday, so I am trying to convince Keith that there's enough time for a yard sale or two, if there are any in our neighborhood.
I still have a lot to do before we leave. Laundry and packing for one. Or is that two? I also need to get a prescription refilled before we leave. I am trying really hard to get everything in the house that needs to be priced taken care of, so I don't have to deal with it when I get back. Doing the comic books just about wore Chiquito out.
Tomorrow is booth day. I'm gonna cram it full of stuff and pray that it holds until I get back. I'm also going to try and sweet talk the manager into making sure that stuff isn't sitting on the floor while I'm gone.
I'd like to clean off this desk, as it is giving me a nervous break down, but I don't know that I'll get to it. I also have to convince Keith that going to thrift stores is a thing real people do when they are on vacation. He's afraid that I'll buy an armoire and try to sneak it in my carry on bag. Silly man. Doesn't he know that's what UPS is for? I'll just price it and have that sucker shipped right to the store!
On that note, I gotta run. I need to get more price tags and Goodwill has been calling my name all week long. I need to see what that's about. I'm planning some short, silly posts while I'm gone. And maybe one long one. I might do a Monday Rambles, but I'm not sure about that. I'll be posting pics to Facebook, so you can check out what I've been up to there, if you want.
Just so you don't forget what I look like:
It's been a bit of a hectic and busy week or so around these parts, hence the lack of posts. My brother was here last week, and I've been spending this week getting ready for something special. More on that in a minute.
Before I get into the post, I do want to assure everyone that I am okay and things are going pretty well. I didn't mean to worry anyone with the lack of content here.
I had a wonderful visit with my brother last week. We just kind of hung out and ate and talked and stuff we never really get to do any more. It was so nice to see him and just sit and talk for hours. I am planning on making a visit down to see him in the fall.
We did a little junking together. He's an eBay seller, so he's always on the hint. I took him to the Peddlers Mall, plus the Goodwill and the Saint Vincent de Paul that are across the road. He loved the thrift stores and made several good buys there. The Peddlers Mall overwhelmed him with its size, complexity and selection, but he really liked it too. There's nothing to compare with it where he lives, except for a couple of antique malls that never get a lot of traffic.
He also said that he liked my booths, which meant a lot to me.
Keith took some pics, but has not had time to download them off his camera yet. He's getting ready for the special thing too. When the pics are downloaded, I'll post one or two here. In the meantime, just imagine two devastatingly handsome dudes with a family resemblance.
We also exchanged junk gift boxes. Mine had a Hummel Madonna in it, which is something I have always wanted for my collection.
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| Our Lady of the Dusty Knick Knack Shelf |
We spent a lot of time talking about how to kick our respective endeavors up to the next level. I think we need to move to the same city and throw our lots in together.
Saturday was about beating the rain for the yard sales. We didn't do very well at it, because we got started very late that morning. It was already sprinkling at the first sale we went too. We managed to fill Mazda with the first three sales, so we had to unload at the house.
After that, we stuck with the indoor church sales on the list. There were three of those. By the time we got to the second one, it was pouring. The rain and the rush kind of killed the Mazda shot potential for the day. Many of the large items have already sold, but here's a shot of the smalls. See if you can find Waldo.
Just kidding. He's not there. But you might find Jack Kennedy and Jar Jar Binks instead. The spirit of my grandmother took that pic, which explains why the top row is cut off. I grew up believing that my grandfather didn't really have a head, since it was always cut off in photos.
This has been the most frustrating month for booth sales. I'm selling every day, including some large items, but just not enough. I've kind of structured myself price-wise to sell lots of small, under five buck, flea market style items every day. The furniture, large stuff, and higher-priced smalls are the gravy that pushes a day from good to fantastic when the totals come in. Since the higher-priced stuff doesn't always sell, that still gives me a chance at a good day on the smaller, cheaper stuff every day.
Except that here lately, the smaller, cheaper stuff has not been selling as well. That almost never happens! I've been selling shelves like mad again, but I only sell about half the typical cheap stuff, which drives my total down. It's an odd kind of doldrum. I am so far off target for the month, I don't know if I will ever catch up. At least, I am still selling something every day.
Tuesday was treatment number three. I was scheduled early, so I was in and out before noon, which was nice. It's getting to where the longest part of the day is waiting for the labs so the clinic can order the drug from the pharmacy. The infusion takes no time at all. After my next infusion, I'll have a scan, so we can finally see if this is working or not.
I've been rushing around a lot this week trying to get things done because we are going on vacation Saturday. We're flying to San Francisco until June 1! I'm pretty excited, as we've not been to SF in over ten years. We used to go all the time, so I'm interested to see how things have changed.
We've got someone to take care of Chiquito and make sure that the bathroom faucet gets turned on for him. We don't leave until 4:00 in the afternoon on Saturday, so I am trying to convince Keith that there's enough time for a yard sale or two, if there are any in our neighborhood.
I still have a lot to do before we leave. Laundry and packing for one. Or is that two? I also need to get a prescription refilled before we leave. I am trying really hard to get everything in the house that needs to be priced taken care of, so I don't have to deal with it when I get back. Doing the comic books just about wore Chiquito out.
Tomorrow is booth day. I'm gonna cram it full of stuff and pray that it holds until I get back. I'm also going to try and sweet talk the manager into making sure that stuff isn't sitting on the floor while I'm gone.
I'd like to clean off this desk, as it is giving me a nervous break down, but I don't know that I'll get to it. I also have to convince Keith that going to thrift stores is a thing real people do when they are on vacation. He's afraid that I'll buy an armoire and try to sneak it in my carry on bag. Silly man. Doesn't he know that's what UPS is for? I'll just price it and have that sucker shipped right to the store!
On that note, I gotta run. I need to get more price tags and Goodwill has been calling my name all week long. I need to see what that's about. I'm planning some short, silly posts while I'm gone. And maybe one long one. I might do a Monday Rambles, but I'm not sure about that. I'll be posting pics to Facebook, so you can check out what I've been up to there, if you want.
Just so you don't forget what I look like:
Monday, January 12, 2015
New Year Monday Rambles
Happy New Year to all my friends and followers and family and cats and junkers and on like that!
I know the year started almost (gulp!) two weeks ago, but I still get to say it to you if I haven't said it so far. And I haven't...because...well...I've been a baaaad blogger again! And I was on such a roll too. Sigh!
I do hope that 2015 so far is being good to you and your family and that lots of good things come your way this year. I've got to catch up on my blog-reading too, so I am out of the loop on your exploits at the moment. Expect a flurry of comments to come from me by the end of the week.
I've had a plethora of problems, some technological, some physical, some boothological, that have kept me off the blog for a while. I've been updating Facebook regularly, since I can do that from the phone, so you can always follow me there for pithy little doses of me. Let me also say that none of the physical problems are serious--just more of the damn fatigue that brings me down.
Since we haven't touched base since the holidays, I hope that you all had a good Christmas and that Santa brought you lots of good junk. I hope your family times together were happy and healthy.
Here's some brief updates for me, to bring everyone up to speed. I'll be writing more about a lot of these in the days to come:
We had a wonderful Christmas in Chicago!
I GOT MARRIED! (Pictures to come. I promise.)
My PC died. Then my laptop apparently decided to do the same.
I finished my last round of this cancer treatment on January 6. I get a scan on the 26th, and then back to the docs on the 27th to review and discuss next steps. I have to pick up the stuff for my last round of belly shots (BAM!) tomorrow.
I had a major booth triumph!
And am in the midst of a major booth tragedy! (much, much more on this to come)
I got told by a customer that the reason I have cancer is because my books are priced too high. (Yes, I will be sharing that whole story.)
And I had a miserable estate sale experience over the weekend in a house full of the most awesome things.
I'm working on the new PC right now, which still has some setting up to do yet. I have not added Dropbox yet, so I can't get to the majority of my pics, including the wedding pics. I also have some wonderful shots of that cat that, of course, I'm going to be sharing.
So that's the nutshell! I am alive and somewhat hale and hearty (if you don't count the cancer). Thanks so much to those of you who have dropped me such sweet emails to check on me. And special thanks to Shara and Janet for the unexpected and extra-nice Christmas cards they sent. I got them out of the mail right before we left for Chicago and they really made my week!
See you all again very soon! (Promise!)
I know the year started almost (gulp!) two weeks ago, but I still get to say it to you if I haven't said it so far. And I haven't...because...well...I've been a baaaad blogger again! And I was on such a roll too. Sigh!
I do hope that 2015 so far is being good to you and your family and that lots of good things come your way this year. I've got to catch up on my blog-reading too, so I am out of the loop on your exploits at the moment. Expect a flurry of comments to come from me by the end of the week.
I've had a plethora of problems, some technological, some physical, some boothological, that have kept me off the blog for a while. I've been updating Facebook regularly, since I can do that from the phone, so you can always follow me there for pithy little doses of me. Let me also say that none of the physical problems are serious--just more of the damn fatigue that brings me down.
Since we haven't touched base since the holidays, I hope that you all had a good Christmas and that Santa brought you lots of good junk. I hope your family times together were happy and healthy.
Here's some brief updates for me, to bring everyone up to speed. I'll be writing more about a lot of these in the days to come:
We had a wonderful Christmas in Chicago!
I GOT MARRIED! (Pictures to come. I promise.)
My PC died. Then my laptop apparently decided to do the same.
I finished my last round of this cancer treatment on January 6. I get a scan on the 26th, and then back to the docs on the 27th to review and discuss next steps. I have to pick up the stuff for my last round of belly shots (BAM!) tomorrow.
I had a major booth triumph!
And am in the midst of a major booth tragedy! (much, much more on this to come)
I got told by a customer that the reason I have cancer is because my books are priced too high. (Yes, I will be sharing that whole story.)
And I had a miserable estate sale experience over the weekend in a house full of the most awesome things.
I'm working on the new PC right now, which still has some setting up to do yet. I have not added Dropbox yet, so I can't get to the majority of my pics, including the wedding pics. I also have some wonderful shots of that cat that, of course, I'm going to be sharing.
So that's the nutshell! I am alive and somewhat hale and hearty (if you don't count the cancer). Thanks so much to those of you who have dropped me such sweet emails to check on me. And special thanks to Shara and Janet for the unexpected and extra-nice Christmas cards they sent. I got them out of the mail right before we left for Chicago and they really made my week!
See you all again very soon! (Promise!)
Sunday, November 09, 2014
Checkmate! (Finds Catch-Up Vol II)
A little while ago, I found a box of odd little stoneware pieces at a sale. There were a bunch of them in a box marked "Two dollars for all."
The dude running the sale told me that they were part of a custom, artisan-crafted chess set, but that he had lost several of the pieces. Since they would be impossible to replace, he was selling the rest off to get rid of them.
I thought they were both interesting and unique, the two main things I look for when I am out trolling for merch, so I bought the box. I thought that they were quirky enough to sell as individual pieces for people who like interesting accessories and decor.
After sorting and cleaning them out, I realized that there were four pawns missing. Additionally, two other pieces were damaged, sadly including one of the queens.
I've priced them as individual stoneware peices, with no mention of the chess set. So far, they're selling pretty well. I've made the two bucks back and then some.
Sometimes this junking thing is about having the vision to see beyond what something is to what else it could be, then helping others to see it too. I will eventually work a few of the pawns into my religious item section, because they look like cool little chalices. The bishops I will add to my adult novelties section.
(Suitable pause)
No. I do not really have an adult novelties selection!
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| Aren't they cute? Those little cup things are the pawns. |
I thought they were both interesting and unique, the two main things I look for when I am out trolling for merch, so I bought the box. I thought that they were quirky enough to sell as individual pieces for people who like interesting accessories and decor.
After sorting and cleaning them out, I realized that there were four pawns missing. Additionally, two other pieces were damaged, sadly including one of the queens.
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| The bishops look kind of...well..phallic. (Someone had to say it!) |
I've priced them as individual stoneware peices, with no mention of the chess set. So far, they're selling pretty well. I've made the two bucks back and then some.
Sometimes this junking thing is about having the vision to see beyond what something is to what else it could be, then helping others to see it too. I will eventually work a few of the pawns into my religious item section, because they look like cool little chalices. The bishops I will add to my adult novelties section.
(Suitable pause)
No. I do not really have an adult novelties selection!
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Finds Catch Up (Vol I)
Here's an unused Mazda shot from a couple of weeks ago. Yes, I bought another school desk. It's kind of an addiction. Most of the pics to follow are actually from last Saturday's rounds.
I forgot to take a Mazda shot on Saturday, but here is everything unloaded at the new booth, waiting for placement.
Well, everything except for that ratty footstool on the left. That's not mine. I also got some great deals on small handmade furniture pieces.
That's three small benches/tables made from reclaimed/repurposed wood. Tee lady I bought them from said her brother had made them. The thing on top is a step stool that I so helpfully turned the wrong way. Doh! It's actually two step stools that the maker then joined together with a piece of wood across the top of both. It's awesome!
I bought these cool decorative plates at the American Legion sale with the DING! They're really heavy. I think they might be pewter.
They have these Germanic/Nordic designs on them. Cool!
Cute Syroco bookends. The little boy is playing with a pig!
I bought four of these awesome wood bowls with hammered metal edging. They're sitting on the double step stool.
Bowling league score pins from the 60's and 70's. I love these things!
Cast iron ashtray from Reading, PA with a cute Amish dude on it. It's marked "Dale Craft" on the bottom. I need to look that up.
Gavel noisemaker. It really is quite loud, as long as you don't smash your thumb of whack yourself in the head. Then you're the loud one.
This corkscrew/bottle opener set may be the cutest thing I've gotten in a while. Anyone know anything more about them?
One of my best finds last weekend was this antique folding table. It's got some condition issues, but someone will love it, eventually. In the meantime, it's a great display piece and I need more of those.
This is the back. It's all wood, except for four little door hinges that connect the legs to the top. All of the mechanics that hold the legs upright when they are folded out is wooden.
The top. This thing has been well-used and is loaded with character and patina. It's also very sturdy.
The wood tongue that holds the legs up fits into this groove. It's really awesome!
Well, everything except for that ratty footstool on the left. That's not mine. I also got some great deals on small handmade furniture pieces.
That's three small benches/tables made from reclaimed/repurposed wood. Tee lady I bought them from said her brother had made them. The thing on top is a step stool that I so helpfully turned the wrong way. Doh! It's actually two step stools that the maker then joined together with a piece of wood across the top of both. It's awesome!
I bought these cool decorative plates at the American Legion sale with the DING! They're really heavy. I think they might be pewter.
They have these Germanic/Nordic designs on them. Cool!
Cute Syroco bookends. The little boy is playing with a pig!
I bought four of these awesome wood bowls with hammered metal edging. They're sitting on the double step stool.
Cast iron ashtray from Reading, PA with a cute Amish dude on it. It's marked "Dale Craft" on the bottom. I need to look that up.
Gavel noisemaker. It really is quite loud, as long as you don't smash your thumb of whack yourself in the head. Then you're the loud one.
This corkscrew/bottle opener set may be the cutest thing I've gotten in a while. Anyone know anything more about them?
One of my best finds last weekend was this antique folding table. It's got some condition issues, but someone will love it, eventually. In the meantime, it's a great display piece and I need more of those.
This is the back. It's all wood, except for four little door hinges that connect the legs to the top. All of the mechanics that hold the legs upright when they are folded out is wooden.
The top. This thing has been well-used and is loaded with character and patina. It's also very sturdy.
The wood tongue that holds the legs up fits into this groove. It's really awesome!
Friday, May 30, 2014
I am in the land of the living
My dog/house sitting ventures usually take me off the grid for a few days, so I apologize. I've been house-sitting for various folks for nearly two decades now. Usually, it's folks who don't like leaving their pets alone and pay for someone to stay with them. A lot of times their animals needs meds or have special feeding times or need lots of walks or some other special need. They tend to prefer having their babies at home, rather than in a kennel, because it's less stressful on the pet.
Most of my clients have moved away over the years, so I'm down to this one, and I go over their a couple of times a year. When I started, she had an aging dog who has since passed on. Shortly after that, she took in her father's cocker spaniel, who is blind and deaf. (I stayed at her house for a couple of months a few years ago while her father was in the final stages of cancer.)
It's always fun to stay over there. It's kind of like a mini-vacation. I tend to get a lot of relaxing done, because I'm not surrounded by things that need doing around here. I watch movies and read comics. And nap. A lot.
One thing I don't get done is a lot of online things, like blogging. In the past, I have had little to no wireless access there. I did discover that the internet access there at the house has been upgraded, but I didn't realize it until my last afternoon there. I could have been keeping up with things! Next time, I'll know.
Anyway, that's where I've been this time. I'll try to get things up to snuff around here over the next week. After I finish dealing with my own clingy kitties, of course. They get really needy when I come back after being gone for a while!
Most of my clients have moved away over the years, so I'm down to this one, and I go over their a couple of times a year. When I started, she had an aging dog who has since passed on. Shortly after that, she took in her father's cocker spaniel, who is blind and deaf. (I stayed at her house for a couple of months a few years ago while her father was in the final stages of cancer.)
It's always fun to stay over there. It's kind of like a mini-vacation. I tend to get a lot of relaxing done, because I'm not surrounded by things that need doing around here. I watch movies and read comics. And nap. A lot.
One thing I don't get done is a lot of online things, like blogging. In the past, I have had little to no wireless access there. I did discover that the internet access there at the house has been upgraded, but I didn't realize it until my last afternoon there. I could have been keeping up with things! Next time, I'll know.
Anyway, that's where I've been this time. I'll try to get things up to snuff around here over the next week. After I finish dealing with my own clingy kitties, of course. They get really needy when I come back after being gone for a while!
Monday, January 09, 2012
Recuperating Monday Rambles
Well, I've still got a bit of a cough and a lot of snot. (How can one average-sized head hold so much mucus?) But I seem to be well on the road to recovery. The cough is worse when I lay down at night, so I'm still taking NyQuil in the evening, which I don't like. It makes me kind of groggy the next day. I'd like to get back to just sleeping normally, but that may be a few days yet. I've been taking Mucinex during the day, which certainly helps with the cough, but it's had the odd effect keeping me awake at night. So, I'm actually a groggy insomniac!
Chiquito has the adorable little "Ack!" sound he makes when he wants attention. I just got two of them from him. I think I'm being neglectful....
I guess the goal for this week is catch-up, since I'm now waaaaaay behind! I like to let my Christmas stuff sell through the end of the year, and then spend the first week of the year packing it up and freshening with new stock. It's also my time to majorly clean and rearrange. Traditionally, in the indoor vendor mall business, the middle of January through the middle of April is the busiest sales time of the year because people get their tax refunds and come looking for the bargains. You really do have to be prepared to do well at this time of the year. Last year was the first time I really put any effort into it, and it paid off big time for me. So, it really kind of screws me up to have missed three days out of last week due to illness.
I did spend several hours there Saturday and made some progress, but I'm nowhere near where I want to be just yet. It'll take most of this week to get caught up, since the part-time job is starting back this morning. Fortunately, they've redone the hours a bit, so I'll have most Fridays off, but still get the same amount of hours. So, I'll head there this morning, do my thing, then head to the mall for the rest of the day. A junkman's work is never done!
One of the things I have to do this afternoon is move some shelving from another booth to my area. I bought a couple of shelves that were part of a booth vacated by an exiting vendor. They're screwed into the walls that they built in their booth. If you build walls or fixtures, you can leave them when you exit the booth, and the mall will try to sell them for you. They had a good price on the walls and everything, but I don't really need or want the walls, so I checked and they sold me the just the shelves. Now, I'm not the most handy person, but I do think I can manage to get them unscrewed and moved without any major problems.
I'm going to use one of them for an endcap on my existing row of shelves. I'll move my small, but growing, selection of household doodads and small electronics onto it. Then, I'll take the freed up half-shelf that they're crowded on right now and move it over to my religion section to free up some space there and replace a pair of unsightly milk crates, which are getting on my nerves and proving woefully inadequate to the task at hand. I'll take those over into my book booth and use them to help organize some magazines that used to belong to my mother. I just put them out on Saturday and don't really like the stacks. Once the magazines have sold, I'll put the milk crates back under one of my tables until I need them again. (The mags are really only temporarily there. In a few weeks, I'm going to recycle whatever is left of them, I only put them out on a lark. There was a stack of them left from when my brother and I finished going through Mom's things, and I thought "What the hell? I'll try to sell a few.")
The other shelf I'll use to replace a baker's rack that I took over to YesterNook on Sunday to fill in a spot left by a large piece of furniture that sold. I'll put the things that were on the baker's rack on it. Currently, they're temporarily residing on a neat wheeled shelf I got off a departing vendor a couple of weeks ago. Once it's cleared off, I'm going to roll it over to the spot left by the half-shelf in the paragraph above. That will create another endcap effect at the end of my other row of shelves, which will nicely mirror and complement the other newly-created endcap, which it will face across the entrance to my booth area. I'm going to move my Pyrex, Fire King, and other Anchor-Hocking stuff onto it, and then redo my kitchen and glassware shelves with new stuff.
Whew! You gotta have some sense of vision and some kind of a plan to do this. The end result will make my space look totally new, in time for the tax-time shopping rush!
I've still got more I wanna say, but I'm exhausted after typing up everything I've got to do. Come back tomorrow for more! And get well wishes to my pal, Roger Green, who shared his own health news in my comments last week.
Chiquito has the adorable little "Ack!" sound he makes when he wants attention. I just got two of them from him. I think I'm being neglectful....
I guess the goal for this week is catch-up, since I'm now waaaaaay behind! I like to let my Christmas stuff sell through the end of the year, and then spend the first week of the year packing it up and freshening with new stock. It's also my time to majorly clean and rearrange. Traditionally, in the indoor vendor mall business, the middle of January through the middle of April is the busiest sales time of the year because people get their tax refunds and come looking for the bargains. You really do have to be prepared to do well at this time of the year. Last year was the first time I really put any effort into it, and it paid off big time for me. So, it really kind of screws me up to have missed three days out of last week due to illness.
I did spend several hours there Saturday and made some progress, but I'm nowhere near where I want to be just yet. It'll take most of this week to get caught up, since the part-time job is starting back this morning. Fortunately, they've redone the hours a bit, so I'll have most Fridays off, but still get the same amount of hours. So, I'll head there this morning, do my thing, then head to the mall for the rest of the day. A junkman's work is never done!
One of the things I have to do this afternoon is move some shelving from another booth to my area. I bought a couple of shelves that were part of a booth vacated by an exiting vendor. They're screwed into the walls that they built in their booth. If you build walls or fixtures, you can leave them when you exit the booth, and the mall will try to sell them for you. They had a good price on the walls and everything, but I don't really need or want the walls, so I checked and they sold me the just the shelves. Now, I'm not the most handy person, but I do think I can manage to get them unscrewed and moved without any major problems.
I'm going to use one of them for an endcap on my existing row of shelves. I'll move my small, but growing, selection of household doodads and small electronics onto it. Then, I'll take the freed up half-shelf that they're crowded on right now and move it over to my religion section to free up some space there and replace a pair of unsightly milk crates, which are getting on my nerves and proving woefully inadequate to the task at hand. I'll take those over into my book booth and use them to help organize some magazines that used to belong to my mother. I just put them out on Saturday and don't really like the stacks. Once the magazines have sold, I'll put the milk crates back under one of my tables until I need them again. (The mags are really only temporarily there. In a few weeks, I'm going to recycle whatever is left of them, I only put them out on a lark. There was a stack of them left from when my brother and I finished going through Mom's things, and I thought "What the hell? I'll try to sell a few.")
The other shelf I'll use to replace a baker's rack that I took over to YesterNook on Sunday to fill in a spot left by a large piece of furniture that sold. I'll put the things that were on the baker's rack on it. Currently, they're temporarily residing on a neat wheeled shelf I got off a departing vendor a couple of weeks ago. Once it's cleared off, I'm going to roll it over to the spot left by the half-shelf in the paragraph above. That will create another endcap effect at the end of my other row of shelves, which will nicely mirror and complement the other newly-created endcap, which it will face across the entrance to my booth area. I'm going to move my Pyrex, Fire King, and other Anchor-Hocking stuff onto it, and then redo my kitchen and glassware shelves with new stuff.
Whew! You gotta have some sense of vision and some kind of a plan to do this. The end result will make my space look totally new, in time for the tax-time shopping rush!
I've still got more I wanna say, but I'm exhausted after typing up everything I've got to do. Come back tomorrow for more! And get well wishes to my pal, Roger Green, who shared his own health news in my comments last week.
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