There's a buyer for everything on eBay. A guy sold his ex-wife's wedding gown on eBay by modeling it himself, it was an ugly picture but he sold it anyway. Another guy sold a very old, dirty bra that fell out of his attic when he was remodeling his dining room. My brother sells the seeds to a non-native, invasive species, noxious weed because it has pretty red flowers on it and he gets $3 for 50 seeds. And he's making money! Ditto what toxcrusadr says, put your little scraps into reasonable lots and sell them. Somewhere in the world right now someone is saying to himself, 'Gee, I wish I had just a couple pieces of walnut to repair that. (or build that, or decorate that)' Cheryl

:D Not as many as I will have come spring! Let's see, up until now I had Stella de Oro, H. Fulva 'Europe', a yellow NOID much like Stella but different shade of yellow & bloom time, 5 surprise NOIDs from a local AHS sale- non of which have bloomed yet, a red NOID that hasn't bloomed in several years, then last fall I planted Breathless Beauty from WalMart and Wineberry Candy from a plant exchange here on the forums. Now I have ~100 seedlings started, another couple hundred seeds coming, and 32 ordered for spring so far. Not too bad for the first few months of a new addiction. I'd say from reading the rest of these posts that I've been fairly disciplined- though a good deal of that has to do with not much land to plant them on and being addicted to other plants too (OGR for example).

I would suggest the Nazli Gelin Book 2 Garden Party that has two patterns that could be adapted for wedding dresses. One is shown in beige or ivory and has a lot of open space; the other is a white tunic with a scoop neck, short sleeves, plain bodice with a natural waist, and then a skirt part in a vertical herringbone pattern. The skirt could be made any length desired, and beading around the neckline and sleeve edge would be darling. The book is available from Universal Yarn Company and can be found through "Google" on the internet.

I've been an eBay user since the days of money orders for payment! I've had probably 3 bad sellers in that time. The first, sold me a Lego toy that arrived with multiple missing pieces. When I complained, he explained that he worked at Toys R Us and that his manager had written it out of stock and given it to him and he didn't know. Really? A manager wrote out of stock a perfectly good toy at Christmas? I got a refund and returned it to him. The second time was for a VERY expensive jar of face moisturizer. It didn't come and didn't come, I kept contacting seller, she said she would not ship until she had been paid by PayPal (where I had used AmEx) and that they had not yet paid her. Turns out, she didn't have the mdse - she was "hoping to get it soon". Got a full refund from PayPal. Third was a real mess. The seller was selling a very large Irish damask tablecloth, described as being in "flawless, perfect" condition. It's very hard size to find and would fit my VERY wide (56" wide!) DR table. It needed laundering so I asked her if she would ship it directly to a specialty laundry I use in Wisconsin. It's a laundry for very fragile and special heirloom linens. It's owned by Leron, the heirloom linen company, and I've used them for years. They do beautiful hand mending on old, fragile linen, everything is ironed by hand on huge tables with irons with cords that go to the ceiling. It is then rolled with acid free tissue and put on a roller and wrapped and sent to me UPS. Yes, it DOES cost a fortune - about $135 including the over-size shipping due to the size of the roller. She agreed to do this. A week later, I got an email from the manager of the laundry. They hand check every single inch of every cloth they launder, BEFORE ever laundering it. They found multiple small holes, some about the size of a dime. She said they could easily hand mend them and they would not be terribly noticeable due to location and blending into the chrysanthemum damask pattern. She gave me a price - think it was about $50. I emailed the seller and forwarded the email from the laundry. She immediately accused the laundry of causing this damage. All they did was unpack the cloth and inspect it!. The laundry manager emailed her and explained their process and sent her photos of the damage to the cloth. She continued to claim it was done by them. I filed a claim with both PayPal and eBay. She won. Apparently, when anything is not shipped DIRECTLY to the buyer, the seller is not considered responsible if it arrives damaged. Heck, I've bought many a present for a grandchild and had it shipped directly to the child's parent - why pay shipping twice! I had no idea, but now I do and will never do it again. They woman was a crook. The laundry felt so badly that they did not charge me for the repairs - felt I'd been robbed. The cloth is quite useable - I would have bought it with the holes (for less money!) and had them mend it, as it's such a difficult size to find. But I certainly learned something about shipping to a 3rd party.