i cut my hours back at work to 32 hours because i needed the extra day to rest......so tuesday i am taking over the three shelves at the antique mall i rented. hopefully it won't be wasted time and money. i had a full showcase last time i was there and made money but burned out. maybe three shelves won't be too much of a drag and i can get rid of some of the stuff around here.

anyone out there besides shelly, pat, and myself?

lil, I am computer illiterate so am not sure what you are asking. I have my own wifi here at my house. I think I pay 50 or 60 a month for it...........more than I was comfortable with but I finally broke down and got it. I live out in the middle of nowhere so my choices for hooking up with internet are limited. it is a satellite dish through dish network and I paid an extra 50 when they put it in so I don't have to plug my computer in to it......so it is truly wireless I guess.

we could do a question a day...........would anyone be interested in something like that? does anyone else have any ideas of what might make people more interested in reading/posting on the board?

katie, looks victorian to me too

shelly, gloria vanderbilt did/does use the swan logo on jewelry as sell as swarovski using an almost identical one. for the M or W, you might try illusion jewels, i can't think of anyone who used that mark right now.

have been working 7 days a week and 10 hrs a day..........except for sunday when i only work 6 or 7 hours. i am way too old to keep this up much longer, i said i would do this instead of part time until they found someone else to fill the position and they are not even looking. (sigh) they did hire someone to help me and she is 25 years younger but has only half the energy and drive that i do. so on top of the days and hours i have to listen to her complain about how tired she is. 🙁

hi to everyone else, too! hope you are all well and staying warm.

i am back on ebay with a store, TenDogNight, and made 3 small sales the first 3 days. i have a ton more inexpensive stuff to list but of course had a computer/camera problem and am waiting for an external floppy drive for the laptop to arrive. i am encouraged by the sales......small sales are better than no sales. i am doing free shipping but i marked the prices up to cover it............i am going to wait a couple of months and then see if selling on ebay is equal to or more profitable than a rl store. i would be interested in hearing on here from all of the rest of you as to what sites if any you are having sales on. 🙂

i bought some jewels today for the first time in a long time. a miracle brooch that i think is a kilt pin, two lucite bracelets..........one with rhinestones and the other in clear with big yellow dots in it. i am hoping to sell them (rotflmao!)

leon, i am so sorry for your loss. you and your princess will be in my thoughts.

we actually had a day and a half of rain.....it was wonderful. hope we get more soon.

leon, i did find a mark on one of my little silver colored trays.....it is oneida so probably plated. and i took pics of the other one but am having trouble with the computer that has a floppy drive in it so can't get them loaded to imageevent.

i have three little girls staying here.......9-12 yrs. old........and they are keeping me busy. they are a big help in cleaning the garage and trying to make sense of all the 'treasures' i have stored out there.......the garage sale pile is enormous already and we are only half way through. cecelia, your sale sounds like it was a winner..........a short and sweet sale venue like that is great, i dread having two or three days of sitting around hoping someone will come by and buy something. 🙁

still in the triple digits here every day........actual temps of 101-105 normal now, heat index higher. trying to keep my trees and shrubs alive..........amazingly, the tomato plants are still alive even without being watered.

josef had angioplasty yesterday morning......they put in three stints. he went home today and is feeling sleepy but good and says he is not struggling to get oxygen now. before he felt like he couldn't breathe.......the three places they put in the stints were 90% blocked so his body wasn't getting the oxygen it needed.

me being cut down to two afternoons a week is a pain in the pocketbook, but good because the heat was starting to take a toll on me. i am going to have two young girls 11 and 12 staying with me for a week and they are excited about getting the garage stuff ready for a garage sale......i am excited about them getting it done and over with. 🙂 i think i will set them up with boxes of stuff and price labels, then come inside and clear out some stuff in here to put in the sale too. there is going to be a storage auction half a block up the street the middle of this month.....and that should be a good time to set out a garage sale with tables where they can be seen from the auction site.

hope everyone is staying cool, leon.....great buy on the s&p set! sorry sales are so bad, i had hopes that with this heat people would be online buying stuff because they were bored.

pawdee, glad to hear you and the princess are starting to get better.........seems like the two of you have had enough sickness and accidents to last you for awhile!

back to triple digits in temps here.........i have given up trying to save the plants i planted this year and just trying to save the trees and big bushes like lilacs and hydrangeas now. we are losing plants like crazy in the greenhouses and shaded sales areas now at work. i am down to two days a week of working there.......no one is buying plants for their gardens because it is a waste of money, no crops are surviving in the fields even with irrigating.....no crops, no fresh produce to sell, no need for jo to be there as much. and working out in the heat for 3-4 hours each afternoon was starting to get to me, i'm getting too old for that.

i had my first root canal today. 🙁 and my fiance is in the hospital for a cat scan tomorrow and they try to finally find out what is wrong with his back. they found that his t cells are not elevated so that takes away some of the worry about the spot they found on his liver (?). he is having so many health problems right now that i am getting the organs confused. they are shelving treatment of his gall bladder until they get the back problem diagnosed. then i go to the ortho dr. in a couple of weeks about the knee i fell on and damaged last year......the mri showed bone spurs, swelling, arthritis, and 'loose objects'. but no explanation of what 'loose objects' are..........when i hear that phrase i visualize nuts, bolts, coins, etc. floating around in there, lol.

i hope that the rest of you are doing well........bee? leforme? amber? mim?

waving at marson~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

where is pawdee?? hope he and mrs. p are ok!

infamousyeti......i was looking at your wirewrapping and noticed your name is amelie......are you the same amelie who used to chat on ebay's jewelry board? you were newly married at the time and had a job as (i think) a personal assistant or something like that to some hollywood agents?

leon, if you haven't already found out, i think you email has been hijacked. 🙁

hope everyone is well and happy!