Two whole days to clean up my photos and put them here Albums . What a frustratingly slow process that was, but wow,..it is so great having them organised at long last.

You might also notice that this blog has had a bit of a thrashing with the virtual broomstick. I’m still working on it,..so things will keep changing for another day or so. So what do you think so far?

My website, blog, ebay, etsy, artfire, photos and internet life in general is such a mess that I’m confused…so I can only imagine it would make no sense to anyone else.

So,.. you know when you’re doing a big clean out?,.. and the very things you are trying to organise get into a waaaaaaaay bigger mess during process than what they were to start with??, and you begin to panic a bit because you think you’ll never regain any sort of organisation back???… well…that’s what it’s going to be like in my internet sites for the next little while.

I’m going to throw all of my internet sites into a huge pile in the middle of my desktop…mix ‘em all up,..make some smart changes and toss out a lot of uneccessary and defunct content. I’m aiming to once-and-for-all declutter and simplify my internet sites and the management of those to create a more steamlined presence on the net that makes much more sense and will be easier for me to maintain.

Here goes……Wish me luck!

Hi everyone, I have found the need to take a step back and seriously re-think about the direction I want to go with my lampwork beads and where to offer them for sale. I was selling my beads on ebay for a few months and while some beads went for prices that I could live with and would make it worthwhile continuing to make them, sadly,..most beads went for very little and so I couldn’t help but question over and over whether to continue selling on ebay.

To be honest, I think it would be foolish to continue spending so many hours at the expense of neglecting my family and home,…making, cleaning, photographing, listing, doing after auction admin, packing and shipping etc,.. for 8 auctions per week,.. when many auctions bring sales of $4-$6. It’s a huge amount of work and time and I could be spending my time more wisely. In fact…. as silly as it sounds,.. I would be better off not listing on ebay at all,..(saving a full day and night of work on Fridays),..and posting on my blog to give away free beads to the first 8 people who reply.

I’m not naive in thinking that my beads are that great that they should fetch huge dollars. I think they are nice enough to be worth more than ebay bargain hunters are willing to pay though,..and for the time invested in them, it certainly would be nice to at least make it worth my while doing them.

So,.. I really needed to take a break,.. step away from it for a bit and re-think what I am doing. I am still thinking,.. and working on a couple of projects that need a few more elements piece together before I can see if they are the way I want to go with my beadmaking. I should know the answer to that hopefully this week or next when I receive some tools that I have had custom made for one particular project. I am very excited about the ideas I have, and apart from selling a few random beads now and then on ebay again…I think my main outlet for these items will be in my Artfire shop and possibly Etsy shop also.

I can’t wait for the postman to deliver my parcels this week,.. I have some serious torch sessions I want to do.

..because I’m off on vacation to Darwin on Tues Whoot!. I’m only missing one week and I’ve scheduled more .99c auctions to start on Sat PDT July 11/Sun AEST July 12 as I’ll be back home in time for end of auction.

Just want to apologise for the random weird looking email or two you may have recently received from my blog if you subscribe. I’ve been trying to learn about Twitter because I keep hearing about it all the time and didn’t have a clue what it was.

So I signed up and later added a twitter plugin to the blog. Now, because they are linked,.. if I blog….it tweets,…. and if I tweet…it posts to my blog ,lol (I have changed the setting to stop that happening now tho).

Today… I got a first hand look at how interlinked everything is on the net these days. I listed Gizby ‘Pete’ on Artfire, checked the listing and saw a ‘Tweet this Item’ button and thought wow.. wanna see how this works,… expecting to see a little twitter about it but not anything else. Well..I got a popup to enter my Twitter username and password…. and when got in,.. there was a post with ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’ (I never actually wrote that) and a tinyURL thingy in it and all I needed to do was press the ‘update’ button (twitter’s submit button).

Next thing I know,.. I am receiving an email from my blog with Gimme Gimme Gimme and the shortened URL and so anyone who subscribes to my blog would have also gotten this nonsense email,…sorry. This is when I found out that the tweets went to my blog and on to my subscribers… Whooops silly me, and sorry about that.

Hmm I’m not sure about twitter yet.

with the look of my blog…. and I just have to change it again LOLOL. well at least is is starting to look like it ties in with everthing else.