OK, I've done this for 3 days. I'm melting glass. I'm loving it. I don't have a lot of time, but thought I'd stop in and post a "wanted" post. Hoping there might be someone who bought all the torch, kiln, tools, glass and so forth, decided to take up - oh- bowling or something instead and now wants to just get rid of all the stuff to clear out the space.
Mary Ann
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Whoops, sorry, don't know what happened to my response. Here it is again, I hope.
Hi Christy, You might want to post this on the Wet Canvus forum or the ISGB. There might not be anyone who has everything you need, but many times members sell off duplicate tools, or ones they find they don't use. There is also a section in both of those forums for buying and selling surplus materials and tools.
If you get multiple replies I'll take some glass and tools :)
You'd think it was just a joke, but this sort of thing *does* actually happen. My partner bought the entire contents of a screen-printing shop that had gone out of business -- on eBay! It still wasn't "cheap", objectively speaking, but he paid about 1/8 what all that stuff would have cost otherwise, even after weeding out the complete junk.
Celine
Thanks - I checked, but didn't post. It's a good thought.
Email me with your address, I got good response I'll forward to you, but I need a kiln!
I absolutely believe this type of thing happens! People buy stuff all the time and change their minds. My mottos in life - It could happen. It could work. Life is good. Get in the right lane if you want to go slow.
- It could work.
and change their minds.<
Absolutely! We got an incredible deal on 2000 pounds of stained glass (most in full sheets) because someone had planned on going into stained glass in a HUUUUUUUUUGE way and then changed his mind. Luckily for us he was local and wanted to sell it all to one person badly enough that he even moved it into our house for us!
Carol in SLC
me too me too me too! But I'm not totally ready yet. Glass bead making class is all next weekend... then I will know for sure if I want to do that. My problem... I want to do it all. I want to make glass beads, I want to make pendants, beads and clasps with PMC and metalworking, I want to do wirework stuff, and I want to design jewelry. How do you narrow it all down to one thing? Or is it possible to do it all (yet do it all well)??
:) Pam
It's probably pretty easy to find, as long as you ask the right people. The most likely scenerio I see is not that people quit, but that they die. Think about it -- when I croak, what will Bob and Manda want to do with all the beads? They hate them, so one or the other taking up the hobby is out of the question. When I told Bob was the beads were _really_ worth, his idea of throwing them all away evaporated.
His ideal would be to sell the whole lot on Ebay and buy himself a cat with the proceeds. (I've never wanted a cat, and he figures ditching my beads to get a cat would be justice). Manda, OTOH, knows how much the beads are worth financially and emotionally, so she wants to split them between Shirley, Sooz, Deirdre and Tink. At that point, she feels they'll get the most benefit out of my materials. All the cheap stuff is still being winnowed out, and won't be considered part of the permanent collection.
Manda is determined that my mother gets no finished pieces at all. None, never, ever, ever (I'm typing as she dictates). Never, ever, ever, inifinity. Even the yucky pieces that I don't like, Omi can't have those either. Nice people and friends will get their share of beaded jewelry, and all the valuable stuff will go to the charity auction..
Manda wants to know if the people designated to get the beads would be happy, and wants to know if they'd thank her. I told her that all I want to know is if they send her things to put in my food to speed up the bead distribution process.
Kathy N-V
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Kathy - you make me laugh! How do I contact the bereft families ? I check the paper and google search FOR SALE:
thing? Or is it possible to do it all (yet do it all well)??<
Cloning ;-)
-- KarenK Desert Dreamer Designs
Too bad you didn't catch me about 2 yrs ago. I sold a minor burner and about 15 lbs or Moretti glass for what I had paid for all of it 3 years earlier! The burner was still like new. Why? Because I found out I liked boro better! So I bought a major burner and dumped all else......... Maybe you'll find someone in my situation.......
If there is anyone in St. Louis that is in the market for a small kiln, I have one I would like to sell. I forget what it's called. It's the kind with a flap-like door for preheating mandrels and annealing beads. Can also fuse small pieces (8x8?) and has a collar to make it taller for fusing or slumping slightly larger pieces. I don't want to go to the trouble of having to ship it. Too much work. If interested, please reply by e-mail. Barbara Dream Master
"We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make." Mary Chapin Carpenter
Oy. This is one of the reasons I'm actually sitting down and entering the damn inventory -- so that if anything were to happen to me, my partner would stand a chance of being able to liquidate it for something like its actual worth. Of course, the primary reason is so that *I* can figure out how much something actually cost me, so I can price it more accurately! But ye ghods, it's a pain in the tuchus to do...
Celine
How's the software working out for you?
Oh Kathy and Manda, what a pair you are. Thinking things like that.
To make Manda happy tell her I would be honoured to have some beads but It is more than likely that my beads will be disposed of before anything happens to you. I am much older than you for a start.
Any way lets not think of such things. LOL Love Shirley
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Tell Manda if I got ONE!!! thing (and what we discussed Kathy, about your "trip" to the Bay Area), I would be ETERNALLY grateful!!! I am in AWE of your jewelry, Kathy.
Tell Manda if I got none, then :-pbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpb!!!!! and ickyickyickypetwangzooomboingum (okay,the closest I can remember to that line...)
The beads would be *VERY* happy among people who love them, because they would carry the love of the person who carried them for the longest time. Stones carry vibes. And Kathy, with your love that you share, that eminates from you, even through the internet lines...how could they *NOT* hold your vibes, even if they sat in a dusty box up in the attic.
Also tell Manda that she should go through, select jewelry and beads (especially lampwork, etc), even a small amount. How many times do you hear on here "My mom did this when I was x years old, and now I wish I had her beads from then". When she's 30, she can toss them. But tell her to keep them at least that long, so she can tell!
Mary
and of course, since that "cheap" stuff is unwanted, I would be *glad* to take it off your hands...
Mary
I always suggest that people check with the local rock clubs for alot of equipment since that is a dieing group and usually there are widows widowers there with equipment or at least the group knows who has what left over. It's usually a pretty tight group of people that have know each other for years and really like to help each other and look forward to new people. Our art canter has a large number of elderly and someone is always letting the center know of pre sale sales for members.
Check the art centers, parks and rec, senior gathering things, bead shops etc.
Susan W
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