With the cold wind blasting outside and heavy showers intermittently, it was a day for staying in..even if the sun did try and shine briefly as if to tempt me out...before the next shower!!
Today's job was mostly listing things on fleabay....writing and researching carefully then trying not to make mistakes as I post it!! More tomorrow too as it is a reduced fees weekend.
One small sale to post tomorrow too as incentive!!
Pretty things..but I will be glad to see them gone!!
Not an easy day, still tired after yesterday. The shortening days are no help atall.
Ebaying starts again, with all the money from past sales spent!
Starting with a decent sale sent off today, and then the job of photographing, researching and listing...to start with little bits and bobs to revive the system and hope for the special reduced selling fees offers!!!
Pirate is stressing...another eight days until his specialist nurse phones him...it's a job to keep him positive and he is beginning to lose more hair..I am sure that is as much stress as age and health.
It was get down to it and list bits on eBay today, plus packing yesterday's sale.
The research is enjoyable if time consuming....
I am gradually restocking my Etsy shop and the number of visitors and views has increased.
It is very tempting just to get everything on in one foul swoop.....but that wouldn't work!!
So just one reposting every coup!e of days, and meanwhile work on new drawings and blocks.
I have in mind one view from our village, across a friend's farm, and across to Goat Fell on Arran....I have a few photographs of it, but I need just the right angle..
I think with making local images I can't use too much artistic licence and it must be totally recognisable
One wash done and dried before we went out, and the car delivered to our local village garage.
As the weather is was still warm and dry, out on our bikes to post the latest eBay sale and test ride his new bike.
A few teething problems but nothing insurmountable and nothing to stop our ride.
A detour on the way home to check a length of hedge on a quiet road that usually yields a good haul of brambles. Not ready yet! A meander through the lanes until we found a good patch of brambles, yielding a pound and a half plus a good amount of rosehips.
Two boxes fit neatly in my pannier bag.
Lunch done and pirate has put his feet up for a siesta.
The car's brakes are good again and we have a quote to clean and stone proof the underside. That can wait until next month and hopefully we can sell enough bike bits to fund that! It should keep the car going well for another couple of years at least.
Now the next batch of washing is ready to go on the line, and the weather still looks good for drying. We have a thunderstorms weather warning, but no sign of them yet.
Two jobs to do, list more on eBay and sow some vege seeds!
It sounds like a busy busy day, but it is surprising how much you can achieve at a steady pace.
As grandma said "the hurried I go, the behinder I get"!!
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