Lock me up! Cut my credit card!

Haven't gotten that far yet, but I borrowed a tools catalog from a friend once and I know what you're talking about.

I don't have my order from South Pacific yet and if they put the total in an email I must have missed it, but after the crystals and the Tierracast findings and some GF earring hooks and headpins I cringe thinking about next months bill. I'm just thinking "you can't sell what you don't have"

- and as you can't sell what you don't put 'out there' either I'll be taking pictures again today too, and hopefully also get some better ones of the Royal Poinciana seeds because yesterday the flash went off (it was dark pretty much the whole day, this happens in the tropics too) and the rulers have pretty bad reflections, but I needed those for scale. Current pictures are at

and (but no thumbnails yet, and as I said, I'm hoping to get better pictures today). How are you doing about putting things "out there"?

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Actually I sold my first charmn on ebay today! So now I am officially in business. The website is not up yet.

Every camera I have ever owned (50+) that has a flash the flash can be turned of. You could hold a piece of tissue paper in front of the flash to prevent the harsh reflections. Do you put your camera on a tripod? If so, use the self-timer for less vibrations. If not: put in on a tripod and use the self-timer. Just some tips from a "once local newspaper photographer turned a webbuilder starting beadshop-owner who started as a health-food-shop-keeper." I am almost fifty and wonder what I'll be when I grow up... Maybe I'll never grow up, that is nicer. Even nicer: my wife understands! She's a carreer-woman making everything I do as a house-man possible.

Bartje

funny but thanks for the tips grin

Actually, I'm trying to come up with a way of drilling 2 well-spaced holes and making spacer bars out of them (at least some) - that's why I asked about drill presses. I got better pictures but they aren't up yet, I'm also thinking about making ones with a center hole and ones with and off-center hole. They'll be about $0.15 with one hole and $0.25 with 2 holes, but I haven't started that yet.

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Well, I sold some my first jewelry in 2005 or so, and my first lb Job's Tears last Saturday (to a bead store owner. Last year I sold 35lb of those). - And I'm not registered for Ebay, believe it or not.

The camera is a hand-me-down from our college student daughter, I have no idea where the manual is and I don't own a tripod.

Thanks for the suggestion with the tissue paper, but for this time I took new pictures in daylight.

I'm doing this on the side to a full time job (software engineer, but by education I'm a physicist/astronomer) , 50 came and went in my case. My husband minds beads a lot less than he does lilikoi because beads don't go bad, don't smell, and as he put it "you can fit a large amount of value into a very small space". All the things I ordered so far (that I ordered new, not counting all my other bead stuffs) still fit into a normal size bucket. The same value in lilikoi (passion fruit, mostly yellow ones around here) would fill the back of my pickup truck and you'd be able to smell it from 100 feet. (Good thing about those is, though, that I don't have to look for a buyer. Same buyer almost 15 years, and she picks them up.)

I'm rather excited, my beads came (the malachite, pearls, etc., and some small stuff like little plastic baggies). I'll be counting crystals and things all weekend (hm. I was going to drill holes in Poinciana seeds too. My hands will get tired of doing one thing the whole time anyway. - and I probably have to work on a seed order for my other business as well. Make new business cards too. Never stops. If it keeps raining at least I won't have to make up my mind about whether to work in the yard)

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