Remember when shabby meant inexpensive or something given to you by your mother to use in your playhouse? Now you practically have to have a degree to know what is shabby and what is just junk. People are fickle, aren't they? I am tempted to say that the whole shabby community is really like the popular girls "click" at high school. Try as you may, one can not simply throw some dishes on a table and call it shabby. There is a fine line between shabby and shoddy I have found by trial and error. Likewise, too much perfection will also push it from shabby to another piece to add to the seller's personal collection. I have found that even if it is not too shabby, shoddy or perfect, it still will not sell. Which brings me back to the "click" thing again. Don't get me wrong, once your in, your hooked, but be prepared to spend a lot of cash and kiss a lot of butt, before seeing a return on your buck-LOL.
I am one of the oh so many, who said "I could throw some plates on some furniture and sell it on ebay". It is not as easy as that. Even if you buy the precut china tiles, it is only by trial and error before you realize that you are going to have to spend some more money for tools, and some time to try to get the proper instructions before spending more time to ask the right people the right questions when things go wrong, thnen spend more money for better tools, a better camera, and then some more time on learning to take pictures that are even remotely similar to the item in "person", and then some more money for fees, improperly calculated shipping fees, shipping boxes and materials, and if you use paypal, double the shipping fees for a couple of days before they remove the hold on your funds.
In retrospect, I think it would have been more inexpensive to have just paid the couple hundred dollars on ebay for a mosaic done by someone else. But could I have bought the stress released while working on my mosaic items? Not on your life, I am a an addict for mosaics. I love it and I believe that is the only reason anyone should do broken china mosaics.
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