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I have news!

I have been very busy today. First this is my latest silly play time. Please meet Garden party. My newest lip balm holder. I will be listing this in my Etsy shop this evening. The big news though is this. I just opened my new store on Zibbet. I have been looking at it for a while and it is very much like Etsy but there is no listing fee. You just pay a percentage of your sale. I like that. Any way I have been looking at it and looking at it. This morning I decided to give it a try. What do I have to lose. Any way, I opened it and got a few items up for sale just to get me started. Now I had just said to myself, okay after what you accomplished today you can take a break this weekend. Then I realized, after what I have just done.....now I have to work harder and bead for two! Good thing I love what I do. So I have asked my webmaster to make another change on my website to add the new address but here it is if you would like to check it out:

www.zibbet.com/debsparkles

A quick update.

When I showed you my new bag, Bloomin Berries I had decided to try it on Ebay because my Etsy sales are so very slow and I need a paycheck. Next time I say that please reach out and slap me. I left Ebay because fee's were getting ridiculous and while I was selling almost every item I put up, I never made more than what I listed as my starting bid. Well, I put my bag up there for a 5 day auction, incurring over 60cents in fees, 5 day's later had 10 views as compared to the 40 and 50 I used to get and today, the end of the auction, got that little note" Sorry , your item did not sell". I learned my lesson , I remember why I left, I love my Etsy, some day someone will need aAmulet bag to hold their MP3 player and give mine a lovely home. That's it, happy Friday everyone!

Art on the Streets

One of the things I love about living in Saratoga Springs is that during the warm spring and summer months you can walk down Broadway which is our main street or through the park and see artists of many mediums set up at a card table working and you stop and watch them and admire what they do, speak with them , learn a bit about them and why they love what they do. Just something I get alot of enjoyment out of. Saratoga Springs is very art oriented and something that isn't just for the tourist season but for those of us who live here which is important because there are many drawbacks to living here including the horrible winter weather so I love being able to show you all the good things. I will probably do alot of it this summer.

Art on the Streets

I'm keeping my promise

It is finished, ready to post and I just love it. I truly love these tiny little glass teardrop beads and sometimes I have fun playing with branch fringing. So this one is set, my pictures are done and I have made up my mind to try it on Ebay and if it does not sell, I put it over into Etsy where it will probably sit until Holiday shopping time comes along. I am going to work double time over the next few day's, I keep looking at Zibbett.com. They don't charge a fee for posting your work, they charge a percentage of what you sell. Can't hurt to try it out a bit and see what happens. It is a beautiful Sunday and I am feeling motivated.

No Beading for me

I was hoping to show you my finished bag by today but that wasn't in the cards. I have been outside for 2 day's helping my son. I have a very large shed. This past winter the snow and ice were so bad it caved the roof in. I live in the city so that is not allowed so the shed had to come down. No one showed up to help so I have been carting peices of aluminum to his truck as he pulls it down panel by panel. Emptying the shed out was a major ordeal. My son took a truck load of stuff to his house, besides his motorcycle, which really upsets him, he lives in a trailer park, no security, no place for a shed, all he can do is use a bike lock and a tarp to keep it safe. My front porch is loaded with stuff that needs to make it's way to my cellar, that should be fun because my cellar is loaded , well during this of course we had a lot of clean up in the yard to do and I ended deciding to send a lot of stuff to the dump or donate depending on what it was and after all this, we had to move my fence. The shed blocked one side of my yard and the fencing extended from that to keep my backyard secure so my big dog does not go strolling downtown. Taking down the shed left a gaping hole so we had to rearrange the posts to fill in so she couldn't get lose. As much as I hate to admit it, after two day's of work like this, when it started raining around 4:00 I was overjoyed! My son went to help someone else out and I came in the house, took 3 aspirin with a glass of iced tea, scrubbed some dirt off my arms and legs and took a long nap. Maybe tomorrow night I can get a picture of Bloomin Berries up here for you. Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.