Just added the DKNY Studded Suede Hobo handbag at Designer Purses. Stylish hobo style shoulder bag made of suede and fashionably embellished with studs and leather piping. Holds a wallet, cosmetic case and personal technology. Dimensions: 12" wide x 3" deep x 8" high.
I suppose its because I live out west, and my interest in the Civil War has always centered on the Western Campaign, that when I think of Civil War raiders and guerrilla fighters I tend to think of William Quantrill and Frank and Jesse James and all the bushwackers of Missouri and Kansas.
I really wasn't up on John S. Mosby until I got a request from a future customer to make up a clock featuring the man. Col. Mosby, known as "The Gray Ghost," commanded Mosby's Rangers of Virginia, who were more than a major thorn is the side of Union forces of the area.
This is my John S. Mosby Watch, available at my eBay store, All-4-Corners. I also have a John S Mosby Clock available with the same face design.
And remember, if there is a historic figure that you would like to see immortalized on a watch or clock feel free to drop me a line. I'm always taking suggestions.
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Earlier today I was thinking that I really should be following more eBay sellers on twitter, the point being that I just might glean a new idea now and then. One of the first ebaying twitterers that I came across was powersellingmom. Reviewing some of her tweets I found a link to something called the Auction Bump program. How about that, a brand new idea gleaned!
Auction Bump is pretty interesting...basically a widget that a webmaster would post on a site. The widget displays a grid of 25-50 thumbnails of current auctions. Click the thumbnail and you'll be taken to the auction. Bid on the auction and win, and the webmaster will collect some affiliate money. Really not much different than eBay's basic affiliate program except that the content of the widget is determined by individual eBay sellers who take the time to visit the websites and input the information into the Auction Bump widgets.
I was intrigued enough to give it a whirl, so I picked one of my current auction and entered it into about 20 different Auction Bump widgets on as many different websites. I'm interested in seeing if the auction sees an increase in hits, and also I want to check and see if Google picks up the link to my auction from these different widgets.
If there is any glaring problem with Auction Bump, its that the auction seller has to input the information into each individual widget. No, its not difficult or seriously time consuming, but we are all busy and taking a half hour to juice an auction better show a return.
If anybody else wants to give Auction Bump a go here is a list of about 30 websites where I found an operating Auction Bump widget. There may be more out there but I couldn't find 'em. Note to the Auction Bump folks, a concise directory would be nice. A bulk input device would be even better.
http://shareyourwares.kftbdesign.com/
http://www.ibitthesheriff.com/
http://www.wannabepulse.com/
http://myfatbelly.com/blog/auction-advertising/
http://www.show-your-auction.com/
http://www.bumphub.com/auctions/index.php
http://www.marvinjoe.com/
http://www.theirishshamrockcompany.com/
http://www.auctionpimpin.com/
http://www.showyourauctions.com/
http://www.inspiremeauctions.com/
http://www.auctionwonderland.com/
http://www.kalimarcum.com/
http://magiesplacesite.com/
http://www.sell-it4u.com/auctionbump.htm
http://www.auction-promotion.com/
http://www.wheresyourbid.com/
http://www.shawnsbidness.com/
http://www.ebwiz.com/auctions.php
http://www.dorkauctions.com/
http://www.dejacreations.com/
http://www.bumpyourauctionshere.com/ebaystorebump.htm
http://www.auctionewz.com/
http://www.storepromoter.info/
http://www.bumpauctions.com/
http://www.theshoppingbuzz.info/
http://powersellingmom.com/
I was writing a blog post earlier today on National Geographic's upcoming show, "Stonehenge Decoded" and also my Stonehenge Wristwatch on eBay. As I was writing the post I constantly misspelling the word Stonehenge, wanting instead to spell it Stonehedge or Stonehendge. I think its because my mind's ear hears a "d" somewhere in there, and demands that I acknowledge it.
I got to thinking that maybe I'm not the only one with this specific spelling problem. So I ran a few variations of the word through GTrends and found some interesting results. According to GTrends, if you scored number #1 in Google for the keyword "Stonehenge," you could expect about 7500 visitors a day. Not bad at all. If you scored #1 for the misspelled "Stonehedge," you'd do about 1,000 a day. That's pretty stout traffic for a misspelling. And if you went with "Stonehendge" (my favorite), you would still attract about 250 visitors a day.
Obviously, when it comes to Stonehenge/hedge/hendge there is a lot of traffic wandering lost. A smart marketer in that arena would try to find a way to round up the strays.
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I put all my filmmaker skills to work last night and put together a cool little commercial for my Designer Purses store on Zlio. I think it came out pretty nice. I'll place this on YouTube and all the many many video hosting sites and try to gain some traffic and backlinks for the store.
Added the Poesis Slouchy Tria to the store today. I think that is a very cool purse as the picture so clearly demonstrates. Also added three different classy styles of the Susan Nichole East/West Shoulder Bag. Very sweet.
If you were President what would you do to improve the country?Now that's kind of a wide open question, and really, the president isn't God and can't just wave his hand over all our problems and make them go away. But here was my answer to the question:
Kick the House of Representatives out of Washington, DC.That's what I would do. And I first started thinking that the House should stay home about 20 years ago, when telecommuting was new and untested. Today this is so do-able that I find it unbelievable that the idea hasn't entered into mainstream thought. Damn, its hard being visionary.Technorati Tags: house of representatives, politions, unresponsive government, telecommuting
All representatives should tele-commute from their offices in their districts. The technology is easy, even taking security into account. This would solve in great measure the disconnect of the people from their representatives.
Everyday, representatives should have to look their constituency in the eye...at the grocery store, at the gas station, at the doctor's office, etc.
Middle of a Friday afternoon and I have some twitter tweets to send. Making big deals doncha know.
So Twitter is down again today. Down on a Friday afternoon. How can that happen? How can Twitter allow that to happen?
Nothing to do but go play around. Kill some time in Paint Shop while Twitter gets its stuff together. Oh no, I must be too late. The Twitter bird is dead. Sweet little birdie crushed under a groaning userbase.
Can't wait to tweet about this.
Damn Twitter.
And added the Ellington Everyday Purse (pictured) that makes organizing everything so easy...under the front flap you find a zip pocket, clear card slot, pen slot, two expandable slip pockets, center slip pocket and eight card slots with a leather security snap-over tab.
I have some old prints depicting musicians of the Renaissance period that I've been looking to put to use, and have found that they work wonderfully on my metal cigarette cases. The art depicts Renaissance musicians playing the crumhorn, dulcian, lute and recorder. For those not familiar with early music, the lute is a stringed instrument, while the crumhorn, dulcian and recorder are all woodwinds. Pictured with this blogpost is the cigarette case with crumhorn player, but all are available at my eBay store, All-4-Corners.
I love Twitter. I have lots of plans for Twitter. But Twitter's downtime is seriously twitterpissin me off. And all the cute graphics in the world will not cheer me up.
One day I was wandering aimlessly around eBay, looking for something, and I found just that. It was a small painting of Lake San Cristobal, lovely little jewel of a lake in the San Juan Mountains of central Colorado.
The eBay seller was presenting it as being by an unknown artist named Ciaya Van Waning. Hmmm, Van Waning, that seems to ring a bell. As I was examining the eBay listing and looking at the pictured signature, I realized that it wasn't Ciaya...it was Clara.
So, this wonderful little painting wasn't by unknown artist Ciaya Van Waning, but instead was painted by virtually unknown artist Clara Van Waning.
Clara Van Waning is unknown in the art community, but readers of literature on the American West will recognize Clara as the artistic sister of Lyle Van Waning in "The Meadow," James Galvin's true life account of life in the lonely wilds of northern Colorado. Clara left the Neversummer Mountains and the ranch life, only to commit suicide.
So I have a wonderful little painting that I paid all of 8 dollars for...which is $2.50 more than Clara's handwritten price on the back. If Clara Van Waning had been famous in the art circles I could refer to some sort of catalogue of her works and maybe even find out when she painted Lake San Cristobal. But there is no record such as that. If there is someone out there with that knowledge hopefully they'll leave a comment to this blog post.
I've opened a storefront on ShopIt.com...named it Gangsterville. Gangsterville is full of gangster-related products...the John Dillinger Cigarette Case, The Bonnie & Clyde Wristwatch, the Al Capone Flip Top Lighter, and lots more gangster/mobster/bad guy stuff.
I'm not sure whether ShopIt.com is going to amount to much, but they do have some promising web2.0 qualities, plus a pretty neat Facebook application.
I've mounted a shopit.com widget for Gangsterville in the right column. Their widget is default to 380 width, but found that I could easily squeeze it down to 364 to fit my column.
This design actually began as an old 19th century colored engraving of the cannabis plant and all its parts. I gray-scaled the whole thing, made the background transparent, greened it back up, and then laid it over the deep purple background. The process worked very well, and I'll probably give some other botanical prints the same treatment.
Last week I blogged about a new project, to transform the design of the 1958 Edsel Teletouch transmission into a watch face design. Working with a black and white photo and a vague memory from a long-ago car show visit, I came up with a preliminary design and listed the watch on eBay.
Today's project is a new trombone player t-shirt for my Cafepress store, RetroRanger. I like to make trombone shirts, because the trombones, along with the tubas, are truly ground-zero for band room chic.
Your Girlfriend Loves My Bone. That is funny. I know band room funny, I know band bus funny, I know band camp funny, and that's funny. If you don't find this shirt funny than you are A) not marching band material, and B) probably losing your girlfriend to the trombone player.
Available at RetroRanger and nowhere else, the Your Girlfriend Loves My Bone t-shirt. Also look for the Your Girlfriend Loves My Tuba t-shirt. Rawk on righteous low brass dudes.
The watches I sell, at least the ones with flexible metal bands, are designed to fit an 8 inch wrist. I guess someone somewhere has determined that that is a normal wrist. I know to fit my watches to my wrist I need to remove a link. And I'm sure many others need to make an adjustment or two. So what follows are some basic instructions on how to add or remove a link from a metal watchband. By the way loyal shoppers, if you find that you need an additional link to resize a band on a watch you bought from me just let me know and I'll ship you a couple.
How to remove/add links to the flexible watchbands on the watches that I sell in my eBay store, All-4-Corners.
Remove plastic protective coating from band
The first four links on either side of the watch case are permanent and can't be removed. The 5th and 6th links on either side are removable and this is where all the adjusting action takes place. This is clearly illustrated in my 3rd-grade-level diagram.
The clasp link and link on either side of it are removable, but that's not where you'd want to remove or add anything.
To remove a link: using a sharp object push one of the removable pins most the way through...until the band separates at that point. No need to push it all the way out. Sometimes there is an arrow on the backside of the band which indicates which way the pin should travel, but not always. If you find that the pin won't budge, try going the other direction. Do the same for the link you want to remove, this time totally removing the pin as well. With the excess link removed you can rejoin the band. Sometimes the pin can be a mother bear to get back in, but it will jiggle back into place eventually.
To add a link, the process is about the same...push the pin through, insert link, push pin back in.
On my watches, each link adds about 3/8 an inch to band length. If you need to add two or more links I suggest you evenly space them on each side of the clasp in order to keep clasp centered.
There is a tool for easily pushing the pins out. Its cheap and comes in handy if you're doing the operation a lot and can save you some bloodloss from pushing the sharp object through your thumb. Been there, done that. Here's one on Amazon that comes highly recommended watch link remover
Today's project, colorize a team photo of the 1898 University of California baseball nine.
I've had this team photo of the Cal baseball team for sometime, salvaged from the 1900 Blue and Gold, the Cal yearbook. The team went 6 and 6 that year, with wins over such west coast powerhouses as Fireman's Fund and Alumni. In the true test of season success, the Cal nine won 1 of 3 against Stanford. The colors are conjecture on my part, but I think blue and gold seems like a reasonable combination.
This will find a home on a cigarette case in the near future, possible some other products.
One of my series of Charles Darwin Quote T-Shirts
Darwin on Survival Light T-Shirt
Today's project, transmogorify the Edsel Teletouch transmission into a watchface design. The Teletouch transmission was Edsel's push-button transmission that was mounted right in the middle of the steering column, where the horn should oughta be.
Here's what I came up with. I'm thinking that it looks pretty sharp, though I'm not sure that I got all the colors correct.
Feedback from Edsel owners and fans and those in the know always welcome. The Edsel Teletouch Watch available only at my eBay store, All-4-Corners.
I knew a girl who kept a giant jar full of condoms. It was kinda like those giant jars people would fill up with matchbooks, except it was condoms. She was a fun girl, as you might imagine.
Giant jars of condoms send a message that a respectable girl might not want sent. No, a nice girl might want to go with something more...hmmm...more sedate? More dignified? Less Whorish?
Just uploaded to eBay is a new item we're offering...the Romeo & Juliet Condom Caddy. You see, Romeo and Juliet loved each other so much that they always used protection. Good kids, just misunderstood.
This metal case is actually designed as a cigarette case, but let's be real, there are a lot more people having sex than smoking. In fact, if it weren't for after-sex smoking the cigarette companies would go out of business. So I've re-purposed this case as a condom caddy. The artwork is from Sir Frank Dicksee's 1884 painting of Romeo and Juliet on their wedding night. I thought this painting was appropriate for a condom caddy for a number of reasons...the most important being that the dude's name was Dicksee.
So here it is...the Romeo & Juliet Condom Caddy...don't leave home without it. Available at my eBay store and nowhere else.
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