Back in the Day

I miss the good 'ol days of eBay auctions. Back when auctions were auctions. The very fist week I listed stuff about six-and-a-half years ago, I sold $770 in miscellaneous stuff. I thought I had died and went to heaven! Stay at home with my kid. Run around to sales and auctions while she was in school, picking up all sorts of neat stuff at great prices. Then list it on eBay and watch the money roll in. How cool was that?

I had this fun software which made a "cha-ching" sound every time I received a bid on something. It was awesome. I would list stuff and then sit around and "refresh" all day just to hear that sound. Made me feel like I was actually doing something.

"Back in the day", if you wanted to keep track of stuff you possibly wanted to own from eBay listings, you had to bid. That was prior to sniping software and the "watch it" feature. Bidders actually did what bidders are supposed to do... bid on stuff!!

Now you get "watchers". Watchers are really just bidder-wannabes. They watch. And watch and watch and watch. They never actually bid. But oh, how they love to watch! If a seller is really lucky, they will, from time to time, get a last minute sniper. Snipers are bidders who bid on stuff at the last possible second, hopfully for the opening bid. They use special software to do this.

I've always been in favor of the proposed "continuous auction". I think that's what it's called. The gist of it is that an auction will stay open as long as there are bids. The auction has a scheduled close, but if a bid is received within the last 15 minutes of the auction, the clock is reset for an additional 15 minutes. If another bid comes in after 10 or 12 minutes, the clock is reset for another 15 minutes. The auction ends only when there has been no bids received for 15 minutes.

This type of auction is much more like a live auction in that the winner is truly the high bidder. With eBay, whoever has the fastest computer wins. Kinda like a cowboy showdown... the fastest gun wins the shootout.

Anyway, I listed an auction last night starting at .57 cents with a Buy It Now of $8.99. I was hoping it might force someone to either BID or BUY. If you place a bid on an auction that has the BIN feature, it removes the Buy It Now. If you choose to use the BIN feature, it removes the bidding feature and the auction closes out early. As it turns out, it did work. Someone purchased the card using the Buy It Now feature, and purchased another card as well. Yeah!

Since it worked yesterday, I decided to try it again. The angel card shown here has a starting price of .37 cents or Buy It Now for $6.99 on eBay. Bid or Buy?

ACEO ATC Listings on eBay

Newly listed ACEO/ATC/Art Cards on eBay... please take a look!

Posting Consistency

Once again it's been a while since I've written, but I am going to try to be more consistent with my postings. Like, maybe once every three to four months, but on a REGULAR basis... (just kidding)! How 'bout at least once a week? I should be able to keep that up, huh? It amazes me all those who have the tenacity to post every single day! How do you all do it? It seems my life is so topsy-turvy and crazy that I never have a day or week that's the same, so consistency becomes difficult. I know part of that is having a sixteen year old who is constantly on the go and running here and there; either borrowing my car, or needing me to take her somewhere and then go and pick her back up... Gotta get that girl 'o mine a CAR!! Which means I need to sell some ART! ;)

Speaking of selling art, I just listed a couple of things on eBay this evening. An ACEO/ATC art card with an oriental geisha lady, and a mixed-media ZNE collage... kind of a Parisian chic and shabby style.

Art on the Internet

It's been a while since I've written, so sorry about that. But I have a good excuse, 'cause I've been a busy girl! I've been listing my art on a new site called Etsy. This is a site for handcrafted items only, so it is a haven for all you artists out there! I actually opened my shop back in March, but never got anything listed. So the past couple of weeks I've been trying to list stuff about every day or every other day. Although I haven't sold anything yet, the traffic seems to be good.


Here's photos of some of the things I have listed, but there's lots more! Please check out it out, and if you are so inclined, you're more than welcome to make a purchase! ;)


It's really amazing what the internet has done to revolutionize the art world. There are so many opportunities these days to get your work out there so others can actually see it! Only just a few years ago artists had to rely solely on galleries and getting their work accepted into shows... and then there's still the problem of getting people to actually attend the show or gallery (another subject, another day!).

I know I'm kind of in the dark ages where computers are concerned, but I'm trying to learn. This whole blogging stuff seems to have really taken off and it's so exciting to see how artists are using it to showcase their work. I would LOVE to be able to create an awesome looking blog like so many that are out there!! So if you're computer savy and would like to help an internet-challenged fellow artist, please post or email me with some suggestions or how to's! I desperately need help!

Little Red Riding Hood ACEO ATC

Every year my daughter and all of her friends have a Halloween costume party. This year she went as Little Red Riding Hood and looked so cute! Although she's 16, she still loves to play dress-up and wear costumes whenever she gets an opportunity, like Halloween, performing in show choir, or plays and musicals. My wonderful hubby is an accomplished professional photographer and is always shooting photos of his youngest... which is good because she never stops posing! The resulting photo inspired me to paint this ACEO art card. Painted on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico Hot Press paper with Winsor & Newton artist watercolors, ink and a bit of acrylic. It's currently listed on eBay.

A New Beginning

How exciting to be creating the first page of my new blog! I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing... or even why I'm here. But somehow I've managed to find my way this far, so I will continue. Actually, I have nothing of importance to say right now, nor do I have any thought provoking comments to make. Just glad to jump into the untested waters of blogdom and will try to slosh my way through...