I found that taking my time with the listings, getting a couple of GOOD scans, and listing some of the more intersting projects and articles resulted in final bids that were 2-3x higher than the bids on less well-described magazines of the same issue. I wrote a brief "oh WOW" paragraph for the most interesting article ... in one it was how to cover your parlor floor with cheap cloth and keep the bugs out ... :) My listing triumph was selling a 1960s cookbook for $20 where the highest previous sales price was under $6 ... a good description made it sound as good as it really was. Make sure you mention WHAT Needlecrafts are in each magazine ... you can set up a template and minimize the effort, but make sure your listing mentions each of the crafts. "Irish Lace", BTW, is crochet. PROVIDED that you aren't selling last June's "O" magazines, individual sales can be more money.

"Dancing with the vacuum" - I love that! Do ya think that will make it easier to drag it out?? Calliope, hey, they paint quilt blocks on barns, why not chicken coops, too? I've been working on that UFO I dragged out of the closet, long abandoned and completely forgotten. I've finished zig-zagging the elements that were already on it, now I've got to come up with some flowers, fruits and birds to put on it. At least I have inside hobbies to work on during this tropical depression lurking out in the gulf, I offered to teach hubby to sew, he declined. He's out on the front porch staring at the grass that is already out of control and will be up to his eyeballs before it dries out enough for him to mow. He might have to get the bush-hog out when it finally stops raining around here. Our seasonal pond is filling up fast, and the dog delights in galloping through it over and over, yesterday I guess her collar got so wet it stretched and she lost it, tag and all. We'll probably find it after we buy her another one. We tried to get her to tell us where she lost it, she won't.

Middle of the month update: Bind CharmayneÂs quilt Quilt baby quilt One more BD block - working on Backing on MartyÂs quilt Stay with those ties! Two Borders on 36 Scrappy Squares/QST Four more diaper burp cloths Decided 8 was enough Yellow/WOW HST border on Yellow Ribbon Tree How's the binding coming along, Calliope? Sue, We all know you're not a slacker! If organizing the sewing room takes all summer.....who cares? Take your time and do it the way you want it.....and when you want to. @:) equilter, I like how the red stands out as hearts. LindaTG, Yardwork? In this heat? Even DH isn't staying out for very long at a time. Our heat index was 113 yesterday and already 108 today. Just going to the mailbox or out to the freezer in the pumproom was draining. It made me lethargic just thinking about it! LOL Hope you weren't affected by the quake last night. Keep on going, girls, every little bit gets us closer to the finish line. @:) SharonG/FL

I'm thinking about sitting down and starting to resew the pinwheel blocks. As you can tell, I'm still by the computer and not by the sewing machine! Dan, I just picked up the house 2 weekends ago and put all my quilty stuff where it should be. But, I need to do it again! I have some fabrics that found me since then and I need to put them away. My sewing area is looking more picked up since I finished the quilting part of a current project, so it is off the table. It is a wedding quilt. I have another one to do. I'm dragging my feet on it because the color pallets for both of these wedding quilts is similar - tan, brown, gray, gray-blue, blue. I must confess they just don't stir me. Has anyone seen some great ideas for using that color scheme? Karlene