Quick News reg Vinted

 I have moved all the 2nd hand clothing back to eBay, I just get more traffic over there and I refuse to pay to bump post back up to the top for people to see it.

Also I will reduce my t-shirt collection. I did get out of hand 😮😂😋 

It will include original Star Wars t-shirts I hardly wore if at all. I just need to figure out the best way to take the photos and where. At the moment it can be bright one minute and the next it goes dark again. I was thinking the bathroom because of the white tiles and the bright LED ceiling light. 

And the other thing is how to display them. Coat hanger? On a rod? Lying flat?

Seriously, it's driving me crazy

This way just looks sad if you ask me.

Now the question do I have a rod that's not a broom stick? 😬😄

Rain proofing shipping labels

 First of I am adding more and more of my knitting tools. Some of it is already listed so please check it out. I have shedloads and it will be new and vintage stuff I have collected or came from job lots I had bought. They are all going cheap.

Secondly I would make other eBay Sellers aware of an issue with shipping labels.

I had a buyer messaging me and asking me where her order was. So I checked and the tracking only had the pick up from my place. Now I never had anything like it happening before. I spoke to the regular postie and she said she will get back to me. The next day she said she spoke to the postie who picked it up that day that is was raining and the label got wet when transporting it from the van to the office.

I also had a message from the buyer again saying it had now finally arrived and she sent me a photo of the label. I blacked out the address but it looked about the same as the rest.

Address barely readable QR code and barcode unscannable. An absolute mess.

Postie told me that this is a pretty common occurrence and it makes their job really hard. If it was possible for me to waterproof at least the address, QR and barcode. I said no problem, I can do that.

So I bought this clear tape. It's wide enough to cover both.

LINK

I only just bought a new box of labels A4 with 4 and I didn't want to throw them away but use up and once I am done with those I will buy a thermal printer and waterproof thermal labels. I had a look around and I think I will consider this printer. If I am lucky the labels might last until Black Friday.

Printer

Labels

This will fix the issue forever, reduce the ink I have to purchase and the labels are about the same price.

Update on eBay yarn sale

 I have come to the conclusion to stop kidding myself. I decided to reduce my yarn to 2 boxes of sock yarn and that's that. And after sorting through the lot and even discovering another stash in my wooden box (completely forgot about that one) I am now to literally down 2 boxes of sock yarn. YAY!

I am sure after a couple more years of stuffing my face with collagen (I think it's already working) my joints might have recovered enough to be able to knit sock. At the moment all I'm doing is fixing the ones that got wholes in strange places.

Over the past few days I have already listed a lot of sock yarn and I have more to list. I still have Lang Yarn to list and a massive amount of Sirdar yarn. I really have my fingers crossed people will buy my yarn quickly because one corner of my bedroom is filled with storage boxes and shopping bag full of yarn.

After I have listed all the yarn I will turn to the gadgets and the pattern books. I have plenty of sets of interchangeable knitting needles. I will keep one set, the one's I like the most but the rest can go. Including some special knitting needles. I have also a bunch of cheap bamboo needles that can go cheaply. I have also a set of single pointed needles that need to go. I have hardly used those in the first place. Once you get used to interchangeable needles single pointed feel weird. Most of my sets aren't just the basic sizes they came with. I bought all the in between sizes too. I also have some vintage tool some collector might be interested and lots of buttons old and new.

Then the rest of the pattern books. After that I can finally take time to look at for how much I'm going to sell my beaded jewellery. I don't want to make money with them. Just to cover my costs and so I can finance my other hobbies, but I don't want to sell them too cheaply either.

Next months I will list the rest of my electronic stuff I still have lying around. Some of it I have already sold last week. And we really need to go through our storage locker. See what can be sold and what we can give away to charity.

So that's all the updates so far. Like I said I feel better since I have been taking Mobu's Bovine Collagen for about 3 months now. My nails look better and especially my knees have hardly ached recently. So I keep going and hope it will restore the connective tissue in my hands as well. I do feel a difference. Maybe not today because I was lifting boxes with fabric yesterday and believe me that stuff is heavy.

So I hope, despite the shit that's going on around the world, you all keep crafting, or reading/writing, listening or making music. Remember Earth without art is just Eh!

Happy Yule and a few Updates

 First of Happy Yule or whichever Festivities you are celebrating or not!

OK, to the updates.

I have closed the Folksy store again. Eight months and all I sold was one job lot of yarn, had two items wish listed and that was that. Not worth the hassle.

Everything handmade is back on eBay.

January I will list more yarn I still have kept in case my hand will improve. Well, it hasn't. Every time I do something or move my wrist, the pain is rather bad and I really don't want to make it any worse again by starting knitting again. 

It's going to be mainly Alpaca mix yarns, lots of Lang Yarn, including the knitting pattern books and some more sock yarn. I will still hold back with some of the sock yarn. I hope a couple of years more not knitting I might be able to knit socks again. But lots slower.

I wish you all peaceful festivities and a much better 2026