Dear Gentle Reader (LOL)…guess what series I am watching?

I have been very vigilant about sending out an email every Thursday with new arrivals and then trying to write a long ezine once a month.  The long ezines take me a looooooong time.  I am asking for your input and advice.

Here is what I am thinking.  I will continue to send out an email every Thursday that will ALWAYS include new arrivals, but going forward those will now be called…Lynn’s Latest ezine.  That way I can put the recent shenanigans in each week and add some eBay scores without having to write a tome at the end of each month.

I am testing it with you this week.  Please let me know your thoughts!  They are much appreciated and as always I thank you for taking the time to read these!  AND I think I am going to start numbering them differently.  Instead of this one being #00006…I think it will just be issue #107 or however many I have written since back in 2020.

Welcome to Lynn’s Latest #00006

Thursday, August 1st, 2024
Volume V  Issue 00006

Sendia and I just redid the Yellow and Black &White Vignettes.  The yellow one turned out super cute!

I had a fun weekend. I worked on Saturday and then on Sunday, we went up to Ojai to see the musical “Into the Woods” directed by Douglas Ladnier. He is extremely talented and in addition to directing he also played Prince Charming.

Here we are at lunch before the show. From left to right. Sendia, Peggy, me, Marian and Sandy.

The show was fantastic!  It has three more runs this weekend.  Here is a link to purchase tickets.  And we got a pic with Douglas afterwards.

Then on Monday, I headed up to Carp to spend the day on the beach with Val and her family.  They rented a beach front condo for a week.  Soooooo much fun!

Here I am with Val and her daughter Summer. Love these people!

Then on Tuesday, Susan and I met with our newest design client.  Such a beautiful house right on the beach.  Can’t wait to show you the before and after photos!

If you want to learn more about this fun design service, please click here.

Last week we sold a Christmas item on eBay. Yes, it is true…there is such a thing as Christmas in July! I bought this brooch Christmas Tree Art piece for $20 at a garage sale and just sold it for $215. Yippeee Skipppy!

Check out the listing here.

I went to the fair last night with Sandy and saw the “I love the 1990’s” concert with Vanilla Ice, Tone Loc, the Sugarhill gang etc.  So much fun!  I will share more photos next week. Here we are arriving to the fair!

And in more fun news the Palm Desert Girls are on their way to town.  It’s a Girls Weekend & The Girls are Back in Town!   On the docket, another night at the fair to see Dustin Lynch!  We might see some of you there!

This picture is from one of our annual trips up to see my mom in Bellingham.  From left to right Candy, me, my mom, Mo and Kel.

Now for some new arrivals and we got some great things this week!

Shell Beachy Chest $165.00

Asian Garden Seat Red Black $65.00

Framed White Shadow Box with Shells $49.50

Accent Chair Madison Park Elle Button Tufted Beige $195.00

Wood Dining Chair Modway Bodie Natural $95.00 each – 3 in stock

Round White Tulip Table 125.00

Yellow and Black Abstract – 2 in stock – $75.00 each

Vinyl Record Clock $34.50

Whimsical Metal Garden Sheep $65.00

Tray End Tables with Removeable Tray – 2 in stock – $165.00 each

Terracotta Jug With Handle Urban Trends Blue Tones $19.95

Patio Club Chairs With Cushions Rst Brands Deco Brown/Black $295.00 each – 2 in stock

Large Silver Glitzy Leaning Mirror $195.00

Accent Chair Kegan Berry $195.00

Mexican Punched Tin and Tile Mirror $95.00

Hand Painted Terra Cotta Square Pot $16.80 each – 2 in stock

Marilyn Monroe Doll In Pink Dress $125.00

Thanks for all of your support these past six months!  We appreciate all of you…our consignors, customers, family and friends!

Come and see us soon!  Weds to Sat 11 to 5 and Sun 11-3.  From left to right, Whale, Indiana, me, Val, Sandy, Susan, Cindy and Tina.

Thanks for reading my ezines!  I appreciate it….as always!

eBay with Heart, Design with Heart & Dress with Heart………Lynn

BTW, we now have a blog on the website where you can read all of our past newsletter
Link to Blog.

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Last Thursday I got into my SUV to drive to the store and it started, but then shut off.  After three tries, I gave up and called AAA.  Had it towed to my Mercedes Mechanic and he called me Friday morning to say that it was fine and that he couldn’t access any of the codes.  He thought it may be an anti theft thing.

So I picked it up and as I was driving away it just stopped and turned off.  Did that twice, but I was able to get it to another one of my mechanics.  It has been there since Friday and I have called three times and have heard nothing back.  Ughhhhh!  I need my car!

The evening before my car wouldn’t work, I played trivia at Peirano’s with Susan, Sendia and some other ladies.  It was super fun and we won!

Then Friday night I was invited to a Bingo party with 15 other ladies.  Oh My!  They take their bingo super seriously, but there was a cocktail drink machine (like a Keurig)…it was hysterical.  I had a lo cal cosmo!

We did get a group photo on Jill’s Deck.  What a beautiful evening and super fun bunch of ladies.  I even won a few games :).

Without a car I wasn’t able to do much over the weekend, but did manage to make it to Fit Buddha on Monday.  Thank Goodness!  And then Marc, Sandy and I went to Martini Monday at Aloha Steakhouse.  Fun day!

In store news, our alley got paved!  It is a Christmas Miracle.

Susan and I just got our 4th design client.  Sooooo exciting!  We will be heading out for the initial consult next Tuesday.

 If you want to learn more about this fun design service, please click here.

We need some specific items for the store.

Here is what we need…..

TABLE LAMPS….the store needs a ton of these!

Coffee Tables–Light & Dark Wood
End Tables-Light & Dark Wood
Book Cases
Shelves
Rugs

Now for some new arrivals and we got some great things this week!

Pescara 70″ Velvet Loveseat Silver/White/Gold $995.00

Leather Sofa Oakland 86.5” Brown Hue/Walnut $995.00

Power Cordless Sofa Parker Living Madison Fabric Grey $595.00

Name Brand Couch Beige/Grey $395.00

Amazing Queen Headboard…..$595

Upholstered Headboard Ashdale Patina Wood Patina/Beige Queen $295.00

Chaise Lounge Deance Upholstered Linen/Oak (Neutral Color) $495.00

Psara Console Table Mirror/Glass $395.00

Lounge Chair Hadler 30.75” Genuine Top Grain Leather Black $595.00

Cocktail Table Lexington Tatum Square Taupe $495.00

Pescara Side Table Gold/White $195.00

Nightstand Osp Home Furnishings Stonebrook Canyon Oak $125.00

Indra 2-Drawer Nightstand Natural $135.00

Asian Altar Table $495.00

Asian Shelving Unit Etagere $1295.00

Rustic End Table $79.50

Painted Desk $125.00

Mermaid $395.00

John Wayne Framed Poster $75.00

Pescara Coffee Table Gold/White $295.00

Artmax Console Table Gold/Black $495.00

Accent Chair….$295

Large Louis XV Style Limoges  Porcelain Lidded Urn $495.00

Vintage Italian Hand Painted Oval Wall Plaque $175.00

18″ Italian Sunflower Platter $275.00

21″ Italian Wall Platter $225.00

Thanks for all of your support these past six months!  We appreciate all of you…our consignors, customers, family and friends!

Come and see us soon!  Weds to Sat 11 to 5 and Sun 11-3.  From left to right, Sandy, Joanne, Marc, me, Audrey and Val.

Thanks for reading my ezines!  I appreciate it….as always!

eBay with Heart, Design with Heart & Dress with Heart………Lynn

BTW, we now have a blog on the website where you can read all of our past newsletter
Link to Blog.

P.S.  If you have a friend who wants to sign up for this newsletter.

Last Thursday I was flying up to Bellingham to help my mom and I was pleasantly surprised to find a Tapa Restaurant at LAX in the satellite where Allegiant flies from.  It was great timing because Houston, Emma, Alec and another friend are walking the Camino in Spain this month.  The tapas were good at LAX, not as great as Madrid though.

Here are Houston and Emma out and about in that great city.  I lived in Madrid for six months on the USC Spain Semester and miss it!

I arrived to my mom’s house around 9 pm, just in time to see the sunset.  We are going to miss her house when it sells.

The next day was go time.  Met with my mom’s realtor at 9 am and we loaded up 4 metal shelves to go to Teresa Meur’s storage units for the estate sale.  We had moved all of my mom’s eBay clothing to the storage units last month and I had thought all of the rest of her 6,000 eBay items would have already been moved, but NO….ugh!  Here is the first truck load.

I actually had to drive this truck with the trailer (not my best look) and at the first stop sign I text Jen (the realtor) and said is your speedometer broken?  She wrote back hahahaha….it is in kilometers because it is a Canadian truck.

I thought it was very strange that she could bring that car over the border and license it in Washington state without switching out the Instrument cluster.

I know this because I bought a BMW in Canada and had to prove that I would be changing out the instrument cluster.  Here is that story #23 from my 1st 100 Best Book.

What is even more interesting about this story is that I was talking to one of my best friends Jo Dallas about it and her husband Jon worked at the border in intelligence.  I said to Jo, “Wouldn’t it be crazy if I got Jon when I drive it over?” and she said “No way, he doesn’t ever man the border crossing”.

Well, the joke was on her because I did get Jon Dallas as my border crossing agent….he was filling in for someone who had to use the bathroom.  It was sooooo funny!  But he didn’t give me a break on duty.  Darn!

Later that day, I took my mom to an appointment with her new doctor and once we got home we loaded the truck and trailer full of eBay stuff.  Load #2 Friday evening.  Ughhhh.

That night my mom and I sorted through more clothing and books trying to get her house empty enough to stage and sell.  Trust me this has been a long process…we started on this back in May.  Here is what the garage looked like after we took that eBay load.  Still pretty full!

My mom has a storage room behind her garage that was full of eBay items as well.  Sigh.  Luckily, Teresa had emptied that out for us!  yay!  Here is what it looked like empty and the intention was to paint it and add flooring so that her 2 BR 2 BA house would now be a 3 BR 2 BA.

There are 4 other homes listed for sale on her street.  Supply is high and so far no demand.  None of the homes even have an offer.  Fingers crossed that hers sells and we can get her down here soon!

Here is an after/work in progress photo of that extra bedroom.  It turned out great!

The next morning, Saturday, the little boys were coming up to go through their mom’s stuff.  It was going to be a tough day.

Well, they didn’t arrive until 12:30 and by then we had another load almost ready to go.  So they helped us finish it off and we headed into Bellingham to Bakerview Storage.

Here is my mom sitting in Teresa’s biggest storage unit as the boys and I unload.  There will be some amazing estate sales here in the next month.  For my Bellingham people, I will let you know the dates and times.

We got back to my mom’s house at about 2:30 and had 3 hours to go through my sister’s stuff before our dinner reservation at 6pm.  We had 4 huge totes full of paperwork.  At first, Kai, didn’t want anything to do with it.  He was petting the golden retriever Earl who was there with his owner to work on my mom’s house.

I can totally understand how hard this must be for these boys.  We did find some love letters to my sister from a guy we had never heard of so I text her best friend Shauna and said “Who is Chad Morris…we found a bunch of love letters?”

Shauna wrote back…”We grew up with him and he was super cute.  Kiki never mentioned the letters to me…that is hilarious…she would love this.”

At this point we were all giggling and Kai joined in the fun.  Even though it was hard, there was something so comforting about them getting to know their mom when she was closer to their ages.

Here are a few throwback photos that we came across.  This is Kiki with my dog, Buffy, who she would show at the fair when I was away in college.

Then here I am with Lee & Kiki (brother and sister) at her wedding to Chris Thompson….she was only married once and did not marry the boy’s dad.

We had the wedding reception on my mom’s deck on 37th Street in Bellingham and we were singing “Delta Dawn” for karaoke.  OMG…how fierce are we?  LOL.

The boys are going to have to come back to my mom’s house several more times to go through all the paperwork.  It was bittersweet, fun, sad and touching.  I look forward to spending more time with my sister’s thoughts, letters and ephemera.

That night we met one of my best friends from high school, Kathy Rutan, for dinner at Anthony’s.  Our fav!

And during dinner we were telling Kathy about my mom’s new doctor…who isn’t an MD, but a PA for 30 years.  Kathy looked at us and said “I have the same doctor…Rob”.  OMG!  Such a small world…right?

Also during dinner, Kathy told my nephews that she had just seen a meme where all young teenage boy’s hair looks like Alpacas. LOL…TRUE!

I left Bellingham on Sunday after another full morning of loading another truck and sorting stuff.  Here is the garage when we were done!  I must admit that I was happy to get out of dodge!

I arrived at LAX at 5:30 pm and Indiana picked me up. Thanks honey!   We went out to dinner at Tony P’s in the Marina and then I got in an uber home.  LONG weekend!  But lots done and fingers crossed my mom’s house sells immediately!

Nice to be back home with Cha Cha & Carlos and back manning the store.  We sold a lot this past week so lots of holes to fill in.  We sold the yellow sofa in the front window so here is a before shot of our new front window.

Here it is after Susan worked her magic with Kevin’s help.  Don’t forget about our design services and that we can do this for you…in your home, office, beach house, boat or RV.  Not sure about the RV…..LOL…but let us try!

Susan and I just got our 4th design project today!  Yaya!    If you want to learn more about this fun design service, please click here.

We need some specific items for the store.

Here is what we need…..

TABLE LAMPS….the store needs a ton of these!

Coffee Tables–Light & Dark Wood
End Tables-Light & Dark Wood
Book Cases
Shelves
Rugs

Since my mom’s house goes on the market this morning…here is the flyer if you know of anyone interested.

Now for some new arrivals and we got some great things this week!

Niko Lift Top Desk Natural Black $295.00

Bamboo Chair and Foot Stool $245.00

Outdoor Boho Chair $42.50

Bar Stool Swivels 2 in stock – $34.50 each

Screen Beachy $75.00

Luna 30” Fabric Upholstered Bar Stool Grey/Black 2 in stock – $95.00 each

Rattan Screen $95.00

Lawyers bookcase $150.00

Chess Checker Painted Small Table $145.00

Blue Drinking Glass $6.50 each – 48 in stock

Black & White Felicity womens cowboy boot $45.00

Thanks for all of your support these past six months!  We appreciate all of you…our consignors, customers, family and friends!

Come and see us soon!  Weds to Sat 11 to 5 and Sun 11-3.  From left to right, Sandy, Joanne, Marc, me, Audrey and Val.

Thanks for reading my ezines!  I appreciate it….as always!

eBay with Heart, Design with Heart & Dress with Heart………Lynn

BTW, we now have a blog on the website where you can read all of our past newsletter
Link to Blog.

P.S.  If you have a friend who wants to sign up for this newsletter.