After several months without a shop on ebay I have decided to re-open a store and get stuck in. To be honest, this is mainly due to my son ( have you read my other posts? I must have mentioned him before.) he has decided to clear out yet more of his over-large CD collection and guess where he came to get him the best value. Well... have you ever tried to get a decent price from a dealer for a bulk sale. So dear old dad (moi!) has agreed to try and raise a few pennies from the good folks who shop at ebay.

In all fairness, this does give me a kick up the proverbial to start selling my artwork again. Nothing in the old shop yet, but I will be stocking with a range of paintings and aceo collages, CD's, books and other saleable items as they become available.

I'm Baaaack......

Just want to say that I have reached 500 feedback yesterday (actually 501); I know that you can see it just above this post but I wanted to SHOUT IT OUT ALOUD.

Lots of CD's going for next to nothing, get in and bag a bargain, when they're gone they're gone.

I also have 12 inch vinyl on offer for the collectors amongs us.

And not to forget my aceo paintings, inexpensive and collectable works of art - start your own collection today

Thats enough of the adverts.

Please visit my new web site http://www.squidoo.com/artyfax/ which is attempting the task of putting ACEO's in front of new, potential customers and hopefully driving them to ebay. I would be particularly grateful for any comments about the site. It is one in a series which can all be accessed from this URL

John

Well there am I setting up a strategy for my ebay shop once I clear out all the peripheral sruff that I have been selling, and what happens?

My son has come to me with another five dozen CD's which he wants me to sell - too much like hard work for him to do it for himself; modern youth heh! AND my wife has been going through her wardrobe - for the summer - and decided that she is able to part with a number of items of clothing, "you might as well put this on ebay!". I could scream............................! Anyway, mine not to reason why but just to get on with it.

Meanwhile here's a video on You Tube you might be interested to view. The soundtrack is actually something I knocked up using a piece of software called SFacid which uses samples to provide music tracks,

A portfolio of portrait and life sketches

Next post will definately be the next instalment of my strategy and planning for my ebay shop, despite the above setbacks.

Just a little advertising for the ACEO UK Group and their restarted, theme week competition. Each month, the first sunday of the month the group posts ACEO paintings on a themed subject which has been voted for by the members. The first competition last month was on the subject of FOOLS. This month the subject is flowers, if you search ebay with the tags: aceo uk flowers you will find all the enties.

entries may be identified with this banner, but it is optional.

My own entry for the competition is (with a little artist's licence) entitled BEARING FLOWERS