Blogging

I always start blogs and never write in them, or stop writing in them after awhile. But I thought I'd give it another try. I've been partly motivated to start another blog by the fact that we are going to have a new addition to our family in about 6 months, and I thought this would be a good place to update the progress of that to family and friends. We are very excited, and just officially announced it to our Chattanooga friends last Saturday. We had a "Spring Harvest Celebration" to celebrate local food and Kyle's beautiful garden... but actually our main reason for the party was to announce that we're going to be having a baby. It was very fun, and worth the wait even though I complained about it (Kyle was the one who really wanted to make it into a big announcement). I am not so good at waiting and being patient.

I am in the process of boycotting ebay and trying to figure out whether I should go back to selling on ebay or try selling my dolls at another online auction site, or at an antique co-op. I may have to go back to ebay I realize... but I am at least going to try out one or two of the other sites. I just think ebay and paypal combined take way too much money. It ends up being something like 12% of what I sell something for, when I consider ebay and paypal's fees. Of course, there may not be anywhere better.. there are less expensive sites but they probably don't get near the amount of traffic, so I won't sell things for as much as I would be able to on ebay. So it's kind of a catch 22. But... right now I'm planning to focus on getting ready for a yard sale, to sell alot of the dolls that aren't really worth selling online. So hopefully that will go well.