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I'm back at eBay, listing small paintings in auction!

In 2005, I spent the year learning to paint in oil (after 30 years of painting in pastel) by painting 5 paintings a week and listing them on eBay. It was a very effective as a learning method and I had a blast with every aspect of selling through eBay. I'm still kicking myself for stopping at the end of that year. But I'm starting up again. I know it will take months to build up my credibility by having something listed all the time... but I'm determined to pay that price. There may be quite…

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Posted by Susan Carlin on June 1st, 2008 at 7:11pm — 1 Comment (Add)
 

November 3

I can't believe I've already blown it. How did I miss posting on Nov. 2? I'm going to say it's because I was busy writing my novel for National Novel Writing Month. Yeah. That's it. I'm only 1600 words behind, or so.

A murder mystery, this time. Heaven help me.

And can you believe for all my associations with November 1st, it took me until late that evening to remember NaNoWriMo??? I signed in at NaNoWriMo somewhere around 11 p.m. that night and started writing. Only got 4 or 50…

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Posted by Susan Carlin on November 3rd, 2007 at 10:58pm — No Comments (Add)
 

November 1st

I have a couple of associations with this date. My sister's first girlfriend's birthday was on this date. I imagine it still is. Also, my sister and I created a woman's calendar in 1978 and Patty did a wonderful drawing which was at the November 1 square, of woman's spirit rising out of her body. Another association is one with all the other first days of a month. My daughter and I always say, "White Rabbit, White Rabbit," as a beckoning of good luck for the month the first thing in the morni…

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Posted by Susan Carlin on November 1st, 2007 at 12:00pm — No Comments (Add)