Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday along with things from Black Friday are happening all weekend. This is a big weekend for retail shops, but also for all those who sell online too. If you are able to please be supportive of those who sell online. Visit, see what they have to offer, window shop online, look around and get some ideas, and you know.
Hey, how was Thanksgiving for ya'll? I know, some are still celebrating during the weekend, and many are dealing with left overs too. How them tummies feeling...LOL:)
I was just stopping by quickly to leave a small note here for now. I have a mess of items to organize that I pulled from the closet, and get them ready to list. If you want you can visit my LilacsNDreams Shoppe page where I show pictures, links to purchase, or I have been slowly adding in but it now buttons to purchase here too. I also have items listed with Ecrater, Etsy, and some items are going into Ebay with the holiday season.
Hope ya'll are enjoying your weekend, have some where to be, someone to be with, family, friends, travels, and etc....enjoy it all everyone. Thanks for visiting with LilacsNDreams today. Take care, and see you all again soon.
Happy Thanksgiving, Have Fun, Enjoy, and Be Safe!
Hello, and Welcome to LilacsNDreams everyone! Here it is the day before Thanksgiving. Many will have already been on the road traveling to some where, there will be some making preparations to leave tonight, others will be making all kinds of food and goodies.....Hmmm! Come tomorrow it will be a day of relaxation, spending time with family and friends, some will be doing volunteer work, and hopefully everyone will have some way of being able to celebrate this day, and giving thanks.
I have many things that I am thankful for, and the list could carry on. I am most thankful for my family, my friends, and that I woke up this morning to enjoy another beautiful day with others. I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving. Have much fun, enjoy the time, and please everyone be safe too. Thanks for visiting with LilacsNDreams. Take care, and see you again soon.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! ! ! !
LilacsNDreams Shoppe Page Being Updated on Blog
Hello, and Welcome everyone to LilacsNDreams! Shopping in stores, Online Shopping, Thrift Stores, and so on. We all enjoy shopping them, and we all enjoy bargains too. Online Shopping is a very hard business to deal with, takes a lot of work, a lot of time, and eventually over time depending on what your goals are things can be good for you too. Yes, having a brick and mortar store is also much work, and that I won't deny. But, there is a bit of difference from the physical to online as we learn over time too.
I am a slow bloomer I guess. I have done Online Sales since 2004 where I first started with Ebay. I enjoyed the hunting of products, finding good deals...some of them stayed home with Me:) But, I always enjoyed shopping, and digging for just the right items to be offered at Ebay to sell. Since then I have moved on. I still sell occasionally with Ebay, but I have moved more products over to Ecrater, Etsy, and some things with Artfire too. Lower fees, better sites, little bit more control of things you can do, and more opportunity as well. As I moved on I also had the need for something else I should be doing. I then got into repurposing, upcycling, recycling, and reusing items to make different pieces for the home. I adore vintage, glassware, pretty things, and have been enjoying what I have done so far with different pieces. I am selective with items found to use, and sometimes I think I am too selective. But, if I would be happy to have it used/displayed with my own home, then I feel it is ready to offer to others as well.
At some point I thought it would always be a great accomplishment if I could have my own website too. Whew! Has anyone ever really checked into those, what it takes, the cost of things, all the coding, the complications, the different hosts being offered, domains, shopping carts, etc, and etc. It can get really spendy. Well, I am one who has always tried to save a penny where I could, but still have the advantages of what some others might be offering too. I do have a website I have been working with slowly....very slowly really. I have enjoyed working so much with my blog, and what I can do with it. The more I learn, and teach myself the more I enjoy it. As many of you can see at the top I have tabs to different pages I have added with my blog. I did these pages in a way that we could all still interact on them, and that when I wanted to make changes, add things, remove things, and etc....that they would work for what I needed them to do. So, right now I am doing the best way I know to do things, what I have taught myself, and making things simple for everyone too.
As of today...still a working progress, and things will change as I move along with it. My secondary page to my blog that I focus with is my LilacsNDreams Shoppe. Here I have always shown pictures of items I am offering in my shops, and I leave clickable links for everyone to visit so that they can view more pictures, see more details, and so on. Wasn't trying to hide anything from anyone on this landing page of my blog, my main page here, but I also did not want this to become all about business with my blog either. That is where different pages I wanted were slowly added in for different interests, and to keep some things a bit separate from the next one as well.
Anyway, I have now started to add buy it now buttons to items I am showing on my Shoppe page. No shopping cart yet, it is all a working progress for me. Learning, trying things out, and looking at shopping carts as well. Paypal offers them, and there are others that also offer them for sites as well. But, for me it is a start, a working progress. So, when you get a chance hop on over to see what I have done so far with my LilacsNDreams Shoppe page. If you have any ideas please share them as I am still learning, and many others are also learning as well. Some day (one of my goals) I am hoping to mostly be selling from my Blog/Website, and not having to deal with the extra shops, rules, glitches, and etc. Anyway, till then....have a look, and I hope you enjoy what I have started with so far.
Take care everyone, and thanks so much for visiting with LilacsNDreams. I know I generally don't post on Tuesdays, and this comes a little later in the morning than what I schedule, but hope it finds you all doing well. I am sure the rush is on in preparations for the holiday, travel, and etc. Be safe everyone, and enjoy!:) See you again soon.
Thanksgiving Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Welcome to LilacsNDreams, and hope everyone had a great weekend! Things are moving faster, and this week is already Thanksgiving. Where did November go to? So many things to do, shopping to be done, food preparations to be making for Thanksgiving, etc. Not only Thanksgiving this week, but to also start preparing for Christmas which will quickly be here too.
Not only is everyone getting ready for Thanksgiving with Family, Friends, or however it is being spent, but there is also Black Friday to consider right after this. In fact, not even the next day, but some start things at midnight, and I heard of 1 place that was doing something at 8 p.m. Thursday night too. How fun, and exciting. Yet, it is also sad too. We push the holidays, gotten caught up with the rush of things that we have forgotten to truly acknowledge the holidays we are celebrating.
So, how many have plans for Black Friday? Whether you do sales online, or you are attending the sales yourself, it is a big day. The rush of people going into stores, some will be at the stores extremely early to wait for them to open, things will get hectic, and yes people will also be pushing & shoving to get some where. You will see some rude people during this time too. After we have Black Friday then there will be Cyber Monday too. I know there are people who do online sales that are also gearing up for this event as well. Pictures, listings, tagging, titles, keywords, and etc. All the preparations being made during this time for these events.
How many will be attending different stores on these events? If you are selling online, or have a physical store are you prepared for them as well? You know I have never participated with a Black Friday yet, and not quite sure if I will be doing it yet this year either. Hope everyone is getting prepared for those times, but also don't forget to celebrate Thanksgiving Day with others too.
Thanks for visiting with LilacsNDreams everyone. Have a wonderful day, and a beautiful week! Take care, and see you again soon.
Am I a Hoarder, or Am I a Collector?
Welcome to LilacsNDreams everyone! How many of you feel you are hoarders? Are you accumulating too many things? When is it that you cross the line from collecting, and become a hoarder?
Ever ask yourself this question "Am I a hoarder?" because you are worried with all the things you have collected from Estate Sales, Yard Sales, Thrift Stores, and over time they start to accumulate. I like to comment sometimes with different places that I am not a hoarder, but a collector of treasures. Sometimes I will also comment how I am a keeper of treasures too. Well, it works for me, and sometimes takes away that guilt of having to many things sitting here.
Have you ever watched that show Hoarders? Now, that gets to be some really scary stuff. I can honestly say I am not that bad, or have not gone that far. I am thankful to be able to draw the line at a certain point, and stop before it gets that far.
Hoarders are compulsive collectors who save almost anything that they convinced themselves have some value: newspapers, books, containers of things, animals, clothing, and a little bit of everything. Now, they shouldn't be confused with collectors of glassware, salt and pepper shakers, memorabilia, and so on. Collectors aquire things to show them off, and with hoarders they are not collecting to have that collection be a part of their persona.
I like pretty things, I like glassware, I like things old, and with some pieces I see possibilities too. My dining room table is half full of items that need to be cleaned, repurposed, maybe pictured for listings, and etc. My kitchen counter top has a bottle of mod podge, some ribbon, sponge applicators, and my scale to weigh shipments for postage. I do have a craft room upstairs that needs to be organized, but that is due to some house remodeling that has finally been completed too. It is not difficult to use rooms in the house, or walk through them. I am not getting myself stressed over my collections....just items I need to get completed...LOL:)
Everyone gets overwhelmed in one way, or another. We don't all take care of our homes like they use to do some 25 years ago. Don't worry, we are not alone everyone. About 50 to 70 percent of us have the issue that we suffer from "too much stuff" So, solving some of our clutter problems is actually a good thing really when you think of it. Being a hoarder can be a bigger problem.
Interesting thought of being a hoarder, and seeing it in a more positive way. So, while you think you might be a hoarder don't worry. You are not a true full pledged hoarder till the house is too full to walk through, it has become stressful for you, and in some cases how they are sanitary issues too. Take a deep breath, smile, and remember as I do "Just a collector/keeper of treasures"
Thanks for sharing your time with LilacsNDreams today everyone. Sorry this is coming out to you all a little later today. Hope you enjoyed, and if you have any experience with hoarding please share with us. Take care, and see you all again soon.
Washi Tape Used For Crafts Organizing Creating, and More. This is something that is new to me, and like me you might be asking what is it? Washi Tape is like duct tape, strong as duct tape in some cases, is functional as well as pretty, and is desirable by many who are learning of it.
It does feel like masking tape, but is very very pretty. It is made of a paper, and not as delicate as you would expect. What is really neat that every where I look you can see how it comes in many patterns, many designs, and many colors too.
If you check out Pinterest, and enter Washi Tape you will be quite shocked with all the projects that people have shared with using this. It is wonderful for everyday, and decorative use.
There are many ways to consider in using this tape which would include wrapping gifts. Use wrapping paper, and treat the washi tape as ribbon. You can keep organized with it. In your books, and such it can be used the same way as a highlighter. Use it in scrapbooking, tags, making flowers, use it on your walls for design, and to decorate. I seen samples of it being used on vases, notebooks, and computers too. Many uses for it.
The cost of a roll of Washi Tape will vary depending on the quality, and the design. In general it can run about $5 a roll.
This is a picture that I found at Curbly showing a few ways of how the tape was used. Many many ways to consider, and what fun it could be too!
One of the reasons for this post today is because I recently had won a giveaway for this Washi Tape. It looks like I won about 10 rolls, and tags if I remember correctly. I was shocked, surprised, but also excited too. This will be something else for me to play with, and experiment with as well. I had won this give away when I happen to hop over to read a posting over at My Repurposed Life. Very informative place in showing many DIY projects, and a place to learn a little bit from too. Anyway, I stepped into a giveaway there, left a comment with my email address as instructed, and thought nothing more of it. I never win anything. I was soon notified how I had won on the giveaway, and was I excited! Great way for me to get some product to work with, and experiment with too.
So, have any of you used this Washi Tape? If so, what have you done with it, and how did you like it? I know it is not something that is brand new, has been around for about a couple of years or so, but I still had not heard of it till recently. Now, I am seeing many talk about it frequently too. Would love to hear from you about any experience you have had, or share what you have done too.
Thanks so much for sharing your time with LilacsNDreams everyone. Glad to have you, and hope to see you again soon. Take care everyone.
Veterans Day 2012, Thank You to All That Have Given
Welcome to LilacsNDreams today, and during the weekend everyone! I generally don't post through out the weekend as everyone is busy with their own thing, doing things that have waited to do all week, and etc. But, tomorrow is Veterans Day which is a significant time for our country, for our freedoms, and observing those who have served and are serving too.
I found a few things to share with you from a National Geographic site on the internet talking about Veterans Day.
With events across the country, people in the United States gathered
today to honor the millions of men and women who have served or are
serving in the nation's armed forces.
Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day, and the date was chosen for its symbolic significance. "November 11 was intended to observe the 11th hour of the 11th day of
the 11th month, which marked the armistice of World War I,"
The first Armistice Day in the U.S. occurred on November 11, 1919,
when President Woodrow Wilson declared that "to us in America, the
reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with lots of pride in the
heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude
for the victory. ... "
Armistice Day was declared a legal holiday
by Congress nearly 20 years later. In 1954 the name was changed to
Veterans Day, following a national campaign to have the day honor all
veterans, not just those who served in World War I.
Something as simple as finding one veteran and saying thank you, it doesn't just
light up their life, but it's amazing how good you feel when you see
their reaction.
By many it is believed that
Veterans Day is "a day to teach young people about the sacrifices made
by their fathers and grandfathers, uncles and neighbors, and mothers
and grandmothers."
"It's about making sure that when the children
of today hear the history lessons and traditions of our great country,
they know that it would not be possible without veterans."
This is a time for all of to remember, and to be thankful for today.
This was found at a National Geographic News site upon internet research with Veterans Day. I hope everyone is enjoying this weekend, and on Sunday that you take a moment to remember our veterans for what they have done, remembering those who are still serving our country for Us, and don't forget to say Hi to a veteran if you see one too.
Thanks for sharing your time at LilacsNDreams. See you all again soon. Have a wonderful weekend, and Happy Veterans Day!
