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AD: Bead auctions ending tonight & my weekend

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! I had a pretty good one. Got a number of things done around the house and got to go to a wonderful art festival for a few hours yesterday and chat with some artists whose work I've admired for a while now. I must make myself go to things like that more often! I don't do it enough! I'm actually very shy around people I don't know, so just striking up a conversation with a complete stranger is totally not normal for me. So I forced myself out of my comfort zone yesterday and I'm so glad I did! One of the artists wants to use some of my PMC charms in her assemblage pieces and will give me credit on the back of the artwork!!!!! WOW!!! And she lives in the same town I do...only a few miles away...so she's going to give me a call when she's ready for some. She also wants one of my PMC charm bracelets. Woo hoo! If your curious about her work, here's her website. I just LOVE her work and she's such a sweetie!!!

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Well I have two auctions ending tonight. Right now, neither of them have bids so it's your chance to get a really good deal on these cool new pieces. Call to my Heart
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Falling Rain
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And here's a link to all my auctions in case you'd like to see all the beads up for auction this week.
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Hugs to all! Paulette

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Paulette Insall
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Reply to
Kalera Stratton

Hey girl! It's probably is a combination of your being high and her site being a bit tricky to navigate...although maybe a little more on the being high side. ;)

Thanks so much hon! I think they're pretty sweet too and I'm really flabbergasted that they didn't sell...neither of the two ending tonight have bids at the moment either. Nope I won't be relisting them, so they will most likely be going to the bead show with me unless someone buys them off of me at the art show (or wants to trade me for some of their fabulous original art) I'm going to be checking out in a few weeks.

I actually was kind of using eBay as a gauge to whether or not it was worthwhile to use eBay anymore for my beads. I'm thinking that from now on, I'll just be putting them up on the website at full retail. It will leave me much more time to pursue some other areas I have interest in like collage, illustration, and mixed media art and I can use all that money I was wasting on eBay listing fees on more art supplies instead. :D

Hope you feel better soon hon! Once you do, we have to get together for dinner okay?

Hugs, Paulette

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Paulette Insall

I hear you about eBay... it takes so much time and energy, and once you get off eBay it's hard to make yourself go back on! Also, I've noticed that unless you kind of have to put the same styles up over and over again before the new ones start selling, and who has the attention-span for that?

I love that you're pursuing other media, and I'm having flashes of envy! I think that's my next step after I heal up, with the house squared away. I really want to reduce expenses and free up time to experiment and play... silversmithing, photography, and oil painting are all things that have called me but which I've never been able to explore.

My goal for the next year is to simplify my life as much as I can! And having dinner with you is totally on my list of "fun things to do"!

Reply to
Kalera Stratton

OMTP -- I'm with Kalera. I LOVE the new direction your beads are taking -- the off-mandrel stuff is STUNNING in the >>>KLUNK! show with you this fall?

Reply to
Dr. Sooz

Great beads Paulette, unfortunately I didn't get to this post until 9/30/06! So I missed out on them. One suggestion, if you're going to list at eBay or anywhere else at auction, give us more notice than "ending tonight"!

Have you tried JustBeads.com? It's a smaller venue, lampwork beads do really well and you can relist for free.

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Vibrant Jewels

Hi Karleen. Thanks so much for compliment and the suggestions. I actually did post about these auctions here four days before they ended and then again the day that they were going to end. Maybe things were all messed up on Google for everyone trying to access newsgroups at the time. Who knows? And I have tried JustBeads on occasion, but I haven't stuck with it. Didn't have much luck there. I have never seen many people do well there with higher end focals. I've just gotten kind of disheartened with the whole auction format thing.

Thanks again! :)

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Paulette Insall

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