Twisted Thursday

    What a difference a week can make! I'm going to start with the gardens. I got the cages for the tomatoes, all twelve plants are flowering. I also put in place the trellis for the wax beans, I should have done them a little different but it is working out just fine. There is enough beans already for harvesting for tonight's dinner. We had some really bad storms roll through here and the high winds was almost ended all of my corn, but with some quick thinking and a spool of binder twine I was able to tie them up and all is well. 

    Well I'm still on my "hiatus" from thrifting. Taking time to redo the ibchilly Facebook group page. Added more descriptions and titles to the photos so my items can show up in searches. I found this new app that can take four of my pictures in a cute layout and then send them to Instagram and Twitter. Liking that! 

    Since sales are always at their lowest point for me from Memorial Day to Labor Day I have to really work hard at doing all social media stuff. Even though I have been buying and mostly selling on eBay for the past 16 years, this last two years I have really been pushing to make it a full time income. And in wanting a full time income I knew that the next step was reaching out with social media. Within the last two weeks Pinterest and Twitter have both grown another 200 followers each, Instagram jumped up to 88. And the Facebook "ibchilly" group added only one new person. Hence all the work I have done there. 

    So, as many of you have guessed, no big secret, I go resale hopping(yes hopping) and flip items on eBay for a profit. Or at least that's the goal. So from this day forward I'm going to share with all of you little tips to help you. 

TIP: By no means is eBay a get rich road. Thank you for reading. Please post a "HI" to me! That is all, ibchilly   

  

Ice Tea and Sun!

It is so hard to stay focus on working when the weather is so nice. Not that I'm wishing for cold rainy days. But the sun keeps calling my name. So I have to answer it by going outside and basking in it.

Here is a peek at all the gardens. Can't believe that there are wax beans already!! The tomatoes are starting to flower. Going tonight to get cages for the tomatoes and trellis for the beans, should have done this sooner. I might have to learn how to can this year, but I won't. I will be sharing with the neighbors!

So now onto how I make other peoples day a little brighter. I claimed to be taking a hiatus from thrift shopping for the next couple of weeks to I can focus on other things, but I know I'm just fooling myself! I love the trill of finding great items. Going through racks after racks, from one store to the next. Looking like a crazy person. So guarantee there will be new listing going up on Monday.

See I spend my whole weekend shopping, like a crazy person. We, Husband and I, usually hit up 5 stores locally and if time and money allows there are about another dozen or so that we can do. After all the shopping is done, it is prep time. Taking tags off of items, Giving them another inspection, looking for damage. Then the washing/cleaning, quick iron if needed. Pictures. Researching and listing. After the listings are done all the social media works cites are updated. Finger cross that everything sells quickly. That is the cliff notes to ibchilly.

Well that is all there is for today.

Over The Moon

Well it's been awhile. But here we go. Just over two weeks ago the lady that worked for me doing all my social media, quit. Left me high and dry out of the blue. So after changing all my passwords I had to do a self taught crash course. The work that she did do was great and really helped me a lot. She will be missed.

Moving on! My gardens are doing great! Corn plants are several feet tall. Wax beans are starting to flower. And Tomatoes are filling out. I just love going outside everyday to water and pull weeds. My only wish is that I could have more room for more fresh yummy veggies.

Now on to work. In four months since being on Twitter it has grown up to 3.5k followers. Pinterest is up to 310 people. In the two months that I have been on Instagram, it has been the slowest in growth with a low count of 78 followers. I started a Facebook group last month called "ibchilly" so far has 88 people. All slowly growing.

All the social media groups have really help with my sales! I always want more! So please stop by  http://stores.ebay.com/LemonCrave and buy! There are hundreds of items. My favorite items to find are Anthropologie, Chico's, CAbi and regulars like Ann Taylor Loft, Ralph Lauren and Quacker Factory. In the men's department Tommy Bahama, J. Crew and all thing Disney. If your into vintage items and love Hawaii, go see all the vintage Hawaii Postcards for the early 50's. I also have several dolls from the 70's.

If your not into vintage items that's okay. But you can't pass on cake. I have a lot of great Wilton cake pans and chocolate candy molds. Also Ralph Lauren tablecloths and napkins.

So if none of that is your cup of tea and your looking for that special steaming hot cup of coffee, Go check out all the cool mugs that would look great in your hand.

That is all folks. ibchilly

Wax beans! 

 Pepper!

 Tomatoes!

 Corn!

 Kinetic Wind Mill!