Thanks Sue,

I had been wondering about summer fairs and Christmas fairs.  I know what you mean about shops and promises.

I think I will explore the sites and see how I get on.  I will let you know if they are successful as both look good.  Especially lov.li

This does have some UK registered sellers, including a Leicester based jewellry designer.

I seem to be on a roll at the moment and have three new dolls, a dragon and a mermaid in production, plus plans for a major project.

All the best,
Charlotte

Thanks,  the blue dragon is very definitely a he and is now living happily with my nephew Tom.  He is a big fan of Cressida Cowell's "How to train your dragon" books; so I thought he should have one of his own to train.

The red one was made for my kids, their favourite book is George and the Dragon by Chris Wormell, we have performed the story for John's class. 

I seem to have an affinity for dragons.  The new one will be an ice dragon.  I will post a picture when he is finished, he is in the early layering stage at the moment, I have just fixed on his spinal fins and am trying to decide whether he should have wings. 

Looking forward to seeing your latest.
Charlotte

Thanks for these, I shall investigate.

I think you are right, wings are a must.  He will look undressed with out them.

Charlotte

Wll, I just looked at your gallery and you should be able to sell your fine work easily.  Those are very nice!

Here's how eBay works.

They charge you to list your item for up to 10 days. There is a listing fee and a final sales price commission. Paypal, a subsidiary of eBay, can handle the transactions for you. However, they charge a commission too!

Therefor, eBay charges

A listing fee (front end fee)
A commission
A money transfer fee (back end)

The listing fee is determined by what your starting price is. The higher the starting price, the higher the fee.

You can list with a reserve price. If your price is not met, you are not obligated to sell. However, you are charged for setting that reserve price, plus the commission.

You can list with a Buy it Now price. The fee for this is even higher!

If your item does not sell within 10 days, you can kiss your listing fee goodbye. You get charged this for each item, whether they sell or not. This gets VERY expensive to list items for ONLY 10 days!


My recommendation. Sell at a local street fair! eBay is a very expensive way to sell! Think of this... if you had a store full of items, could you afford to spend 6% every ten days on all those items just to show 'em to the public?

Well, logging on to etsy was easy, logging on to paypal was another matter.  Oh well we live and learn.

Long time no hear.  It's nice to have you back.

You could say that, it turns out to be one of the slowest and most obtuse websites I have ever tried to use (I include the Inland Revenue in that  :evil: ).  Having said that their customer service people are very good.

I think I now have an active account with which to take in payment.  Now I just have to try and persuade people to buy my wares.

What have you been doing in the mean time?

Quite slowly, I finally got my ice dragon marionette finished and have also got on quite far with my pirate marionette.  Things then came to a full stop with two ill children, who felt I would be neglected if they didn't share their germs with me.

That effectively put the whole family out of commission for about 3 weeks.
I am back on a roll again and am ready to put together the final stage of my raven sculpture.

I am hoping to get my etsy shop up and running properly as well as I need to start generating some income prior to starting my teacher training in September. 

How are your projects going?  I gather that Sue (Snoozy...) has been working away prior to the UK festival season and poor Lengo has been ill.  So the forum has been a lonely place for a while.  It's nice to have everyone back again.

Have fun and sell well from the stall.  I hope the weather holds out.  I will let you all know how successful etsy is.