Blog Entries

As I was Painting!

clownface — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Greetings from NC!

As It rained all day I decided to paint. I love to paint and I wish I had more time to do it!

As I was painting my 2 year came to me and ask if she could paint. Well you and I know at 2 yeards old it was gonna be a mess! But it is Daughter and Daddy time, So I agreed to let her paint!

As we painted we chated, it is a great way to learn more about each other, As I do this with my older boys also. Well today was not so messy, other then the pink and green pa [...]

Online Selling: Service With a Smile

jaye8698 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Have you had the pleasure of flying lately? What a joy. Spend hours trying to find a flight going where you need to go. Try to find a decent price. Find a decent price, only to have the airline tack on a mess of taxes and fees. Get to the airport two hours early. Line up like cattle headed for the slaughterhouse so a surly TSA worker can glare at your photo ID, make you remove your shoes and unload your pockets so you feel like you're about to enter prison. Wait around, wait around, dr [...]

Really Smart Deals!

clownface — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Hiya!

Really Smart deals is the Only Traffic Exchange for on line sellers!

No MLM, PTC, TEXT or other traffic exchanges aloud!

It is really cool, You get to see other sites, what others are selling and they look at your stuff also!

Over 1600 Members!

Just for the sellers, Any site you sell on can be added! This is a great site, I sold over 50.00 in Items. Yep they seen me there!

Thanks

Kenny Lessing Jr.

Join Here:

http://www.reallysm [...]

Another Online Selling & Buying Site?

jaye8698 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

I got a message on my other blog from one of the developers of a new online selling and trading site. I checked it out. It's very new, but it looks very interesting.

Check it out. This might end up being the alternative to eBay site.

I'm going to set up a booth there and see how it goes. I'll keep you posted.

http://www.bonanzle.com/

Profile URL

steveometer — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Now users can use a simple URL to point to their profile

my profile is steve-o-meter.com/steveometer

thehook would be steve-o-meter.com/thehook

The URL is displayed on the top of your profile to only you

try it and let me know

SoM

Hey! If You're AWOL

jaye8698 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Where have all our darlings gone? Buckies? Beads? QM? Chuckies?

Drop a line and let us know that you're alive and breathing. Okay?

SoM User Feed - Possible Release?

steveometer — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

I have recieved MANY PM's about the user feed, and it looks like we might have an arrangement with theoriginal financer who payed me to develop originally.

This plugin would be offered in one of two different ways:

As a Pay-Per-Download system. (moderate profit)As a Pay-Per-Use single and multisite liscence. (more profit)

Any money that comes in is split with the original financer of the project and used to buy custom written games for this site (maybe multi player [...]

My Turn: Christmas in July

luvyacards — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Well here we are just about mid-way thru July. Some people are already thinking of the up coming holiday season.

Do you take a yearly family photo or send out cards? Well with www.sendoutcards.com/luvyacards, there's an option where you can put your OWN photo on the front or(and) in the inside of your card. You can even place those little "bubble" captions on the picture when you think of something clever to say.

There are little videos you can watc [...]

eBay: Here's The Situation

jaye8698 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

One of the toughest concepts to grasp when writing fiction is, what exactly is a plot? I cringe when I hear a beginning writer say, "My novel is about World War II." Um, that's a documentary, not a novel. Setting and events are situations. Plot is how characters react and act, and feel about a situation.

Life is one big situation, too. New characters appear in the scene. Time passes. Things change. Success (or failure) in life, as in fiction, depends on how a person reacts [...]

Expanding Horizons

jaye8698 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Every once in a while I will sell, or attempt to sell, items on eBay for someone else. I charge a 40% commission to cover fees and my time. Before taking a consignment, I do the research to make sure the item is worth listing and is it possible to get a price the owner will be pleased with.

Sometimes it works out beautifully. A friend had a box full of jewelry she thought was junk since her mother had allowed kids to play dress-up with it for over 40 years. I handed her a check that mad [...]

Not Computer Savvy...

luvyacards — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

...and i do believe it's hurting my businesses.

I tried setting up the RSS feed but can't seem to do that. Someone even brought it to my attention and gave me the error message, like I know what it means let alone what to do with it.

Then I tried the cafepress.com/luvyacards. I don't even know if everyone knows the items are there. I myself wouldn't mind having some of our t-shirts. I'd also like to know if you can add words to the pictu [...]

Artist of the Day: Longmire

jaye8698 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Okay, I can't begin to explain why I think this guy is so wonderful. I'll let you decide for yourself.

http://www.worldoflongmire.com/features/romance_novels/

Vote for your favorite!

It's The Little Things...

1ATIME2REMEMBER — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Some say it's the little things in life that leave the greatest impact on us...

The other day my dog (positioned on her front porch guard) started barking her more ferocious bark. It was a bark to alert me that a stranger had crossed the line and was probably encroaching onto our property. I went out to examine the situation and found our newest, young neighbor lad cutting across our yard from his garage (in the back) to our front sidewalk with a bunch of plastic square [...]

A Few Things You Might Not Know About the USPS

jaye8698 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

I mail enough packages that I'm on first-name basis with the folks at my local post office. I mail big things and little things. I've shipped items to Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, China, Brazil, and almost every country in Europe. The United States Postal Service has treated me very, very well. After mailing thousands of packages, I've learned a thing or two.

Shipping Times: First Class, First Class Parcel and Priority Shipping take about the same amount of ti [...]

Worldwide

luvyacards — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Just a quick little blog, if it's allowed. Did you know that with the sendoutcards system you can mail worldwide without the hassle? Yep it's true. In fact I just had my first Germany customer. Now if I was shipping other items worldwide I might not want to ship to certain places. But for the most part, letters do reach their destinations unlike packages. If you look at the package deals at the site /luvyacards, don't freak about the amounts.&nb [...]

No New In This Zoo

jaye8698 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

A great thing happened last month. My son got married. We all went to Vegas, partied hard, enjoyed a swift but memorable ceremony, drank too much, ate too much, and I have a beloved new daughter-in-law. An awful thing happened, too. Apparently the mother of the groom is supposed to look like a grown-up. I had to go clothes shopping.

I hate shopping for new clothes. I hate entering the store to be faced by racks and racks of colors, fabrics, style and fashion displayed to tempt me. No ma [...]

Dave Barry - humor columnist

thehook — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald. Below is an excerpt from an article he wrote for the Miami Herald after his brother was diagnosed with colon cancer. This diagnosis prodded Dave into having a long overdue colonoscopy himself.

I received the excerpt in an email yesterday and it is just TOO funny not to pass on. It may be a little too graphic for some...I'm sure I'll hear about it if it is...but it's not vulgar and it really i [...]

Artist of the Day: Etsy Studio 12 12

thehook — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

I ran across this artist today as I was perusing new listings on etsy.

Her work is really clean...not a lot of fuss...yet such an excellent portrayal of the animal.

Her little brown dachshund looks just like my Harley right after he's tinkled on the floor...obviously, that's why he doesn't get in much trouble.

Have fun!

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5033529

eBay: Let's Make a Deal!

jaye8698 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Every so often on eBay I lose my mind and do a Buy It Now with a Best Offer option. I made a very successful sale one time doing that. Notice, one time.

Every other time it's made me hate myself in the morning.

I know the formula: seller wants the most money, buyer wants to pay the least money, and the two shall meet somewhere in the middle. There's no reason to beat up either side for trying to get the best deal. It's nothing personal.

And yet...

Want to d [...]

Collecting-Greeting Cards

luvyacards — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100

Who doesn't like collecting things? Some of us collect more than one item at the same time. Collecting greeting cards is just as popular. Remember pop up cards, one with glitter, moving parts on them? They use to be the norm. Then ecards became popular and just like the, "video killed the radio star" so to the REAL greeting cards.

Then the baby boomers became adults and started remembering the greeting cards they use to send or receive.& [...]