I am in “closing the store” mode.  It seems a bit surreal, but it is all good.  My brain has been going into overdrive thinking about all the fun new projects that I can now take on without worrying about the super high overhead that the store required.

What a relief to not have to come up with almost $7k in rent each month…not to mention insurance, phone, internet, employee expenses etc.  It is going to be a weight lifted for sure.

But in the meantime, don’t forget that tons of new items are being added to the store daily….keep coming in as you won’t want to miss out on the new treasures!

Check out this tiktok that we made about this painting that looks eerily like Tori Spelling.  It can now be found in our 50% off clearance annex.  Click here to watch the video.

Welcome to Lynn’s Latest #000051

Thursday, June 26th, 2025
Volume VI  Issue 000051

The design job that Susan and I are working on is going to be amazing!  Check out her vision board for the project.

AND don’t forget, we will still be doing design jobs long after the store is closed!

This past Friday, Indiana and Larissa came to Ventura for Indy to get her hair done.  They brought Larissa’s friend, Ty, with them.  Larissa used to babysit Ty back in Maryland where she grew up.  Ty lived across the street from her parents.  He now lives in Colorado, but came out to hang with the girls for a week.

How cute is Indiana getting her hair done at Tupelo Honey by Joey?

Here is the after….her hair looks so cute!

Time for an eBay score.  I LOVE this Polish pottery, but it really doesn’t sell for much on eBay.  That is why I was very pleasantly surprised when I sold this dinner plate for a best offer of $45 last week!

Click here to check out the listing.

In case you missed my last few emails, we will be closing the store.  We have given 90 days notice to the management company and our final day will be August 25th.  More details later in the ezine.

Store is 10% off.  No extra discount off of the 20% Annie Sloan sale and no extra discount off of the 50% off clearance room.

We are still taking in new consignments and have been getting in some GREAT stuff every day!  Don’t miss out on these last few months of shopping at Lynn’s.

Once Indiana’s hair was done, we all headed to Harbor Cove Cafe for an early dinner.  Thank you to Susan for working for me so that I could hang out with the kids!

The cocktails are super fun at this place and there is a server from Washington state who went to WWU (Western Washington University) in my hometown of Bellingham, WA.  Jenna is the best and she is now attending Pepperdine!  Too many coincidences.

Here we are at dinner. Thanks for taking the picture Jenna!

After dinner, we went back to our house and played Farkle.  Such a  fun dice game and Indiana won.  Probably because of my amazing advice that I gave her to “go for six of a kind.”.  It worked!

Then we all took the Cha on a walk.  So nice to have company on our nightly walk.

After our walk, the kids headed back to LA.  And I got back to work taking old inventory off of eBay and getting it priced and into the store.  We are putting some amazing dinner sets into the store at great prices.  Here is one that Susan priced for me on Wednesday.

I worked all day Saturday and then Sunday I picked up a console table in Ventura for our design job.  I also headed up to Carpinteria to get a super cute Williams Sonoma Rattan Chair and Ottoman for the same design job.

We will do our install on Tuesday, July 1st.  Super excited for this one!  But, can you believe it is July already?  Yikes!

Time for another eBay score before we get to the rest of my week.  LOL.  Always something going on…..

Love this little tiny figurine of “Pickles” that sold for a best offer of $112.  Yipppeeeee!  Check out the listing here.

We did a tiktok to show all the things that had sold in two days on eBay.  Pickles was one of those items.  You can watch it here.

Monday, I did Fit Buddha and Marc and I were “supposed” to go out for Martini Monday, but he had some things to take care of at the studio.

He sent me off to Lure and I ordered a martini and waited for him.   He text and said his workers hadn’t shown up yet and that he may have to take a rain check.  No worries!  But it is NOOOOOO fun drinking a martini alone!

On Monday afternoon, Mo arrived from the desert to help me move my older eBay inventory out of my house and into the store.  It has been quite the project!  Here is one of the shelves in my garage at home that is now empty!  Alleluia!

Monday night, I made the famous Dos Padres Taco Salad for dinner.  It was delicious and luckily, Jo Dallas had made some extra dressing when she was here recently and I didn’t have to do that part!

I posted this pic on her actual birthday so got to shout out “Happy Birthday”!  I bought her an egg coddler for her birthday because the “Dos Padres” taco salad recipe calls for a coddled egg in the dressing.  Weird, right?

Tuesday, Mo and I met Susan at the beach design house for final measurements and consult.

Here are Susan and myself chilling in the living room.  Can’t wait to show you the after photos!

Afterwards, Mo and I went to Dukes for lunch.

Then we worked at the store ending eBay listings for hours.  Exhausting!  Mo is such a great friend!

After that we had plans to meet Val, Peggy, Sandy, and Marian at Casa Bella for the Tuesday night $20 steak dinner special.  Super fun!

Wednesday we worked at the store and then did Fit Buddha at 5:30.  After Fit Buddha, it was the Saloon for Happy Hour and then line dancing with the Ventura Chamber of Commerce in downtown Ventura.  Super fun!

Just so you know…Mo really was in town, but she doesn’t like to be in photos :).

Check out one of our newest, coolest customers.  Sam came in with his parents last Thursday and bought some really cool art to decorate his room.

The classic line at the end just cracks me up…I say “Everyone wins when they shop at….” and he says “This Place”…..Hahaha!

Check out the Tiktok here.

Time for one more eBay score before we get to the new arrivals.  And there are soooooo many new arrivals.  I can’t believe how much cool stuff is coming in.

Before I share the eBay score, who brought this bench in?  No one can remember.  Ughhhhh.  I hate it when things don’t get a little tag on them to identify the consignor.

OK eBay score time!  This one is about an item that sold when we were in the process of closing my grandmother’s store after being open for 52 years.

I am really feeling all of the feels with another store closing.  BUT not until August 25th and we are still getting in so many amazing things!

Speaking of my world after the store, I am in desperate need of storage space for my eBay business.  Ideally, I need about a 20′ by 20′ space.

Does anyone have a barn, empty garage (I have had my entire eBay stock in a residential garage before), warehouse or other empty space for me to lease at a reasonable price?

I have been calling storage units, but they are like the worst salesmen in the entire world and try and keep you on the phone for hours.  I do NOT have that time.  Anyone out there have a great storage unit business that they would recommend?

Please spread the word.  Thanks!

Back to the store…..For my consignors, here is more info about the closing.

This has been an incredibly difficult decision for me. Here are the details of the closing process for my consignors.

Consignor Instructions

1.) If you have consigned items with us, you may pick them up or leave them with us to sell during the liquidation process at a discounted price.

You will still receive payment for these items.

2.) If it doesn’t sell during the next 90 days, we will donate it to one of the following local charities: Habitat for Humanity or The Boys and Girls Club.

3.) We will still be taking in new consignments during this process.

4.) For those of you with items that sold over a year ago, your consignor credit has been converted to store credit as per the contract.

5.) I will be writing the next consignor checks on Monday, June 30th. Until then, please feel free to use your consignor credit to shop in the store.

After, June 30th, we will go back to the traditional Wednesday check writing day.
An update on my nephew, Zach. He is currently in Quincy, CA. Where in the world is that Zach? It looks like he is getting closer to the California/Oregon border.

Here is a picture from Zach’s trek. So proud of this kid! Way to go Zach!

Things we need for the store…..

AND PLEASE NO CONSIGNMENTS ON WEDNESDAYS….this is our big furniture take in and catch up day.  THANK YOU!

Coffee Tables
Night Stands
End Tables
Rugs
Lamps…both table and floor
Nice Throw Pillows
Wicker/Baskets
Metalware
Woodenware
Garden
Outdoor
Dressers
Desks
Oil Paintings
And now what you have been waiting for….The new arrivals!

Yellow Arm Chair….mcm style….$179.50

Pottery Barn Buchanan Sofa $2495.00

Pier One Console $495.00

Drake Dining Table Two-Tone Distressed White and Mahogany $695.00

Black Outdoor Folding Set $195.00

French Skinny Console Table $135.00

Shabby Chic Console Table $135.00

Round Dark Wood End Table $69.50

White Bar Stool $49.50 each – 2 in stock

White wood desk chair $149.50

Western Electric Framed Navy Bomber $45.00

Colorful Wall Art Venice Canals Boats $29.50

London to Paris Express Framed Train $95.00

Ocean Seascape $165.00

Painting of Morro Rock $165.00

Patriotic Labrador Pillow $38.50

Euro Air France Framed Airplane Art $145.00

Needlepoint Framed Lady Unicorn $49.50

Madonna in Rose Garden Lochner $29.50

Row Boat on the Beach Canvas Art work $69.50

Urban Trends Wooden Lantern $39.95 each – 6 in stock

Victorian Wallpaper Stamp $29.50

Garden Art Bust Cement $24.50

Elephant Outdoor Garden Seat $245.00

Rebecca Sue Assorted Napkin Rings $19.95 – 16 in stock

Assorted World Market Pillow $14.37 each – 2 in stock

Metal Wall Art Decor $29.95

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

From left to right…Whale, Indiana, me, Val, Sandy, Susan, Cindy and Tina.

eBay with Heart & Design with Heart……Lynn

Past Newsletters can be found on my blog. 

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

Super fun week and not too much drama!  Alleluia!  This week was all about a special graduation, goodbye to one of our favorite restaurants and seeing good friends and family members.

Also, Susan and I got a super fun new design job!  LOVE this new project!  Here is a tiktok showing the new beach cottage that we are going to have ready to go by July 4th.  The race is on!

Click here to watch the Tiktok.  For some reason when you click on my tiktok links, the sound is turned off and you have to turn it on.  Ughhh.  Anyone know how to fix that?

Welcome to Lynn’s Latest #000050

Thursday, June 19th, 2025
Volume VI  Issue 000050

Thank you to everyone who watched Houston’s YouTube video.  He is getting such great views and comments.  Even though he did something extremely stupid, he was able to turn it in to a beautiful film.  If you missed watching it, here is the link.

The first 60 seconds of his film (and you know he really wants to be a film maker and not a lawyer) went viral on TikTok and ironically enough, I just got this text from Val.  Her son in law, JD, is in a mountain bike group and apparently the video was shared with the entire group.  Sooooo cool!

Please share this video and help us make it go viral and save him from Law School…just kidding.  After his “adventure” or as I would call it “near death experience”, I asked him how it compared to Law School as we were sitting in the line at “In and Out Burger”.

He said “Law School is a piece of cake compared to what I just went through.”  FYI, In and Out Burger cost me $37.  Priceless!

Here are the spoils sitting on his lap in my car…Cha Cha was drooling.  LOL.

Just in……Bev Helton, who has been a long time ezine reader and Queen’s Court member, just posted this comment about Houston’s video.  She is from Mt. Vernon, WA and over the years has become like family.   This comment was soooooo sweet….I just had to share.

In case you missed my last few emails, we will be closing the store.  We have given 90 days notice to the management company and our final day will be August 25th.  More details later in the ezine.

Store is 10% off.  No extra discount off of the 20% Annie Sloan sale and no extra discount off of the 50% off clearance room.

We are still taking in new consignments and have been getting in some GREAT stuff every day!  Don’t miss out on these last few months of shopping at Lynn’s.

Time for an eBay score…don’t you think?  Mo found this set of stainless flatware out in Palm Desert and can you even believe how much these 3 forks sold for?  Seriously?

I took a best offer of $135.  Nice!  Click here to see the actual listing. 

OK, thank you for letting me share (again) about Houston.  I think I am done for a while.  LOL.  Now it is time to get back to my life….hahaha.

Last Thursday night, I was invited to my friend Marc’s Daughter Shanti’s graduation.  How sweet was that?  It was held in Ojai outside at Nordoff High School.  Super beautiful night and such an amazing ceremony.

Let me elaborate.  I typically don’t like a graduation ceremony unless it is one of my kids.  Can you relate?  Of course you can!

But this one was awesome!  Only about 130 kids were graduating and there were 4 singers and I loved the song choices.  The ceremony was literally over in 60 minutes…WHAT?

Well, during the ceremony Shanti sang the first song, “Journey to the Past” and she is just so incredibly talented.

Then the other three gals sang “Vienna”, “My Way” and then “Landslide”.  Such amazing songs!

But, let me digress and I am so sorry, but this is back to Houston.  When he was about 2 1/2 years old, he was sitting in the back of my BMW as I was driving to Costco while pregnant with Indiana.

I was singing my lungs out to “Landslide” and this tiny little voice starts singing along….”I’m getting older too.”

It totally touched me and I NEVER forgot that moment.  So, here I am sitting in the shadow of the Ojai Mountains that almost killed my son and hearing this song.  I was totally crying.  It broke me.  Here is my text to Houston aka Goose.

OK, here is a photo of Shanti and I after the ceremony.  What a great kid!  So proud of her.

After the ceremony, we headed up to the Kettles house for a party.  Super fun and yes, I did uber to graduation so that I could have a martini at the after party.

They live so far up in the hills that I didn’t know if I could get an uber home.  So around 11 pm, I called one and didn’t know if they could find me.  LOL.  But, I had three super sweet men walk me out to find the uber and Marc even sent me home with a roadie of chardonnay.  LOVE my friends!

What a funny photo!

Time for another eBay score before we get to the rest of my week.  LOL.  Always something going on in my life.  Right?

This is an oldie but a goodie!  I bought this little bird for $2 back in 2004 and you will not believe what it sold for!  LOVE THIS STORY!

Here is a link to a current auction listing for an AE Elmer Crowell.  And my goodness…be on the lookout for this one!

So, my grandfather’s name was Elmer.  What a strange old school name and I would like to share another story that showcases my wonderful grandfather.  He passed away when I was 12 years old and in 6th grade.  He passed from complications of Alzheimers.

Here is the Washington State Pennant that I sold on eBay back in 2002.

Oh My, I am only to Friday.  Yikes!  This may be another long email.

On Friday night, I met my really great friend, Janette, for Happy Hour.  LOL.  Hence, the reason for my ezine title.  Graduations, Good Byes and Good Friends.  Well, we haven’t gotten to the Good Byes yet…have we?

AND, if you need a spray tan…no one better than Janette…In funny news, my mom’s cousin Gwen (who lives in Palm Springs) posted on my story and said “Is that a Kardashian?”  Oh my goodness!

Back to the store. On Saturday morning, I headed out to source more art.  Why?  Because Kevin and I completely redid 3 vignettes with new artwork and we sold tooooooo much.  LOL…I do love selling things, but it also ruins my displays.  HAHAHAHA.

OK, let me digress.  Back to my grandma and Cheryl Leaf Antiques.  One of her very best customers, Billie Ershig, came in the store one day and said to me (as a young person)…”I don’t think your grandma really likes to sell anything”.

I had to pause and think about that, because she really didn’t care if she sold anything.  She loved everything in her store and had hand picked it.  She didn’t need the money so that put her in a very interesting position…am I right?

One of  her favorite sayings was “I have never regretted anything that I have bought, but regretted many things that I have sold.”

So, back to present day.  I brought in so much cool new art that Kevin and I redid three more vignettes this past Saturday.

Check them out!

I worked at the store on both Saturday & Sunday and then I had fun plans on Monday.

After Fit Buddha, I grabbed Cha Cha and headed into LA to the girl’s new apartment.  The plan was to take Indiana, Larissa and Emma to Tony P’s for one last meal before they close and then head into West Hollywood for Larissa’s Fringe play.  We LOVE Tony P’s and they close for good on June 28th.

As I was reading the article about Tony P’s closing, I realized that the owners had started out with a restaurant in Santa Monica named Teasers that we used to go to all the time!

I loved that place as well and it was encouraged to design and color dollar bills and then the restaurant put them all over the walls and the ceiling.  It was a fun place!

Larissa, Indy and I arrived at Tony P’s at around 4 pm.  We had driven separately because Larissa needed to leave early for her call before the show.

Emma was supposed to be there shortly after us, but she got caught up on a work call.  We waited and waited for Emma to order, and then decided Larissa had better order.

Then about 20 minutes later, Indiana and I decided we had better order.  I had a question about the menu, so just Indy ordered.  It was getting weird!

Our waitress finally came back about 20 minutes later with the answer to my question and I finally ordered.

Then Emma shows up another 20 minutes later and she orders.  What a shit show!  We all got our food at different times.   I said “This is the worst progressive dinner I have ever been to.”  Hahaha.

In any event, it wasn’t the best experience so makes the closing more palatable.

The girls were drinking Long Island Ice Teas….LOL.  Then we headed out to see Larissa’s show in Hollywood.  It was really awesome and we took a fun pic with everyone after.

That whole crew went out drinking in Hollywood after the show and I exited stage left to go back to the girl’s apartment and check on Cha Cha.

Their roommate, Jill, has a black tuxedo cat named “Piano Man” and Cha Cha has been dying to hang out with him.  So Jill and I poured glasses of wine and sat on the floor and let them get to know one another.

Cha Cha was soooooo good and they literally stared at each other for about an hour.  Check out a little TikTok video I took of them here.

The next morning, Indiana and I went to breakfast at the cutest place in Culver City, S&W Country Diner.  That is Michelle the owner behind us.

And then I hit the road back to Ventura arriving just in time for our design consult.  Whew!

Really neat quote was on our dining table.  I am excited for my “new” future, but will definitely need a new map!

Speaking of my world after the store, I am in desperate need of storage space for my eBay business.  Ideally, I need about a 20′ by 20′ space.

Does anyone have a barn, empty garage (I have had my entire eBay stock in a residential garage before), warehouse or other empty space for me to lease at a reasonable price?

I have been calling storage units, but they are like the worst salesmen in the entire world and try and keep you on the phone for hours.  I do NOT have that time.  Anyone out there have a great storage unit business that they would recommend?

Please spread the word.  Thanks!

Wednesday night, after Fit Buddha with Sandy we met up with Sendia and Kelly V (One of our favorite customers) to go line dancing!  Crazy huh?

We had a drink, went dancing and then had ice cream…super fun!  Here is the drink photo….

Here are our feet before we went line dancing….so funny…Sandy and I in our Fit Buddha foot wear.

Then we all got ice cream cones and we all chose Rocky Road-hysterical…That picture wouldn’t load….sorry!

Back to the store…..For my consignors, here is more info about the closing.

This has been an incredibly difficult decision for me. Here are the details of the closing process for my consignors.

Consignor Instructions

1.) If you have consigned items with us, you may pick them up or leave them with us to sell during the liquidation process at a discounted price.

You will still receive payment for these items.

2.) If it doesn’t sell during the next 90 days, we will donate it to one of the following local charities: Habitat for Humanity or The Boys and Girls Club.

3.) We will still be taking in new consignments during this process.

4.) For those of you with items that sold over a year ago, your consignor credit has been converted to store credit as per the contract.

5.) I will be writing the next consignor checks on Monday, June 30th. Until then, please feel free to use your consignor credit to shop in the store.

After, June 30th, we will go back to the traditional Wednesday check writing day.
An update on my nephew, Zach. He is currently in Tahoe City, CA. I LOVE that he shared his location with me so that I can check up on him. He has gone over 1,000 miles and has about 1,600 miles to go. I asked him how he is feeling and he said “Better than ever”.

Here is a picture from Zach’s trek. He was at the top of Mt. Whitney at Sunrise. Way to go Zach!

Things we need for the store…..

AND PLEASE NO CONSIGNMENTS ON WEDNESDAYS….this is our big furniture take in and catch up day.  THANK YOU!

Coffee Tables
Night Stands
End Tables
Rugs
Lamps…both table and floor
Nice Throw Pillows
Wicker/Baskets
Metalware
Woodenware
Garden
Outdoor
Dressers
Desks
Oil Paintings

AND what we need for new design job….
Bench to go with table
Drop Leaf Table
Rectangle Smaller Dining Table
Beachy Decor
Arm Chair that Makes into Bed
Anything Rattan

As I was wrapping up this newsletter, I walked out into the store to see two HUGE holes on my recently redone walls.  I will be sourcing more artwork to redo those walls AGAIN.  This is getting comical!

And now what you have been waiting for….The new arrivals!

Cabinet 3-Shelf Wooden Frame Curio Acme Dresden Bone White $995.00

Wood and Metal End Table $89.50

Nightstands Hooker Furniture Flourish Accent Chest Distressed Pink $395.00 each – 2 in stock

Blue And Wood Nt Stand $195.00

Blue and wood Dresser $495.00

Retro Dinette Metal Table $245.00

Side Table Weaverly Mirrored Rectangle Distressed Brown $125.00

White Table $65.00

Oatmeal Swivel Rocker w Ottoman $495.00

Sofa Santorine Sleeper Leather Ocean (Blue) $595.00

White Mid Century Rocking Chair $145.00

Maroon Vinyl & Metal Chair $49.50 each – 5 in stock

Ottoman Kimiko Tufted Black $69.50

6 Panel Room Divider Homcom Natural $125.00

Headboard Andmakers Genoa Gunmetal Gray Wood $295.00

Watercolor Scene in Green Frame $39.50 each – 3 in stock

Boat Down River Art in Black Frame $28.50

Metal Bottle Red Wine Wall Art $69.50

Rustic Horse Table Lamp $95.00

Dark wood Tray With Claw Handles $69.50

Nieves coorful glazed mexican planter on feet $69.50

Nieves small mexican glazed floral half pot $29.50

Nieves colorful glazed ceramic pot $69.50

Yellow multi color glazed frog $21.50

Leslie Fay Vintage Cream / Brown Large Striped Blouse $22.80 

Orange Flamingo Tropical Long Kimono $24.50

Large Green Glass Spain Bowl $49.50

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

From left to right…Whale, Indiana, me, Val, Sandy, Susan, Cindy and Tina.

eBay with Heart & Design with Heart……Lynn

Past Newsletters can be found on my blog. 

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

Grateful for “a little bit” of a less stressful week.  And I say “a little bit” because Houston decided to go back up the mountain to retrieve his bike.  OMG.

He arrived in Ojai at 5 am on Saturday morning and text me that he was starting the ascent.  As you can guess, I did not sleep much after that.

Here is a video that he posted to youtube about the entire adventure….not sure if I should call it an adventure or “fool’s folly”.  But here we are.

Click here to watch it.  But, let me warn you….it was very hard to watch as his mom.

Welcome to Lynn’s Latest #000049

Thursday, June 12th, 2025
Volume VI  Issue 000049

I did watch the entire video and bawled my eyes out.

Just an FYI, Houston is very passionate about film making.  He would make that his priority and career (Plan A), but knows that he needs a Plan B.  Law School and being a Lawyer is Plan B.  Proud of my kid for following his passion, but also being pragmatic.

Here are some of the comments he received on youtube.

So many of you came in the store and asked about Houston and I am forever grateful for your care and concern!  He did make it down in one piece.  Praise the LORD!  But at the store on Saturday at about 4 pm, I got this message on my phone….freaked me the heck out.

And, he had also listed his ex-girlfriend (Emma) whom I LOVE as another emergency contact…so she text me as well. What a shit show!

I immediately called him and THANK GOD he answered and said he was fine, but had just crashed.  OMG.  I can’t take much more of this Goosie!

He did make it down and called me from his (Papa’s) car and said his entire body was cramping.  I offered to drive up to Ojai to get him, but he thought he would be OK to drive to the house….which he did.

Because of all of your concern, I did post this on Instagram and Facebook to let you know he was OK.

We ended up getting Panda Express take out and watching Mission Impossible Saturday night.   Houston did spend the night.  Time with my kids is priceless!  Especially after all of these CRAZY experiences.

Oh, by the way, my kid reposted my story with such a funny note….”Interesting Picture choice MOM”.

Well, the picture was one that I captured from his story, so it was YOUR interesting picture choice Houston.  LOL.

In case you missed my last few emails, we will be closing the store.  We have given 90 days notice to the management company and our final day will be August 25th.  More details later in the ezine.

Store is 10% off.  No extra discount off of the 20% Annie Sloan sale and no extra discount off of the 50% off clearance room.

We are still taking in new consignments and have been getting in some GREAT stuff every day!  Don’t miss out on these last few months of shopping at Lynn’s.

Time for an eBay score…don’t you think?  This is one that I shared in the last ezine and was hoping it would sell for $300 to $400.  It only sold for $273 and I REALLY should not say that, because $273 is amazing for a $5 investment.  Right?

Click here to see the actual listing. 

Houston left early Sunday and I had plans to attend a funeral/wake/celebration of life with Sandy.  It was held at the White House Beach Club here in Ventura.  I loved the memorial card because it was a pack of seeds to scatter along the next winding road in “Loving Memory”.

After the celebration of life, Sandy and I headed to Tony’s to see a band and grab some pizza.

I paid for my food with cash and I got my change in cash.  What freaked me out was that one of the dollars I got in change said “RAY LYNNE”….what the heck?

Raylynne was Johnny’s (the man who’s celebration of life we just attended) granddaughter’s name.  I was FREAKED out.  And she called him “Papa”…just like my kids called my dad “Papa”.  Oh my goodness…the circle of life…right?

On Monday, I did Fit Buddha (and it was super difficult) and finally had a Martini Monday with Marc. Haven’t seen him in forever! We had a lovely time and it is so great to catch up…we have known each other since we were 18. Crazy, right?

Time for another eBay score before we get to the rest of my week.  LOL.  Always something going on in my life.  Right?

It cracks me up because when y’all come in the store you say “How can you keep up with this…you must be exhausted?” and it doesn’t phase me…I have always been this social.

I look back on my calendars from when I had just graduated USC and EVERY single night I had plans…it was just normal to me and not out of the ordinary.  Maybe someday I will slow down…but NOT today!

OK, back to an eBay score.   Check out the listing here. 

This is a salad fork (just one) that I sold for over $150…..What?

Here is a short TikTok that I did about this one fork.  LOL.  I am having so much fun with TikTok.  I hope you decide to follow along!  We have about 1292 followers so far.  LOL…that is pretty specific.  Thanks!

Here is a link to watch it.

So, do you see those AMAZING pink flowers in that last photo?  My friend Laurie Weiner came in to the store to bring me flowers, give me a hug and tell me she is sorry that the store is closing.  So sweet!

She is Pink Porch Ventura on Instagram and I have been following her from day one.  Such a Sweetheart and I am proud to call her a friend.  Thank you!

Tuesday, Sendia invited me over for a Taco Bar Lunch.  She really went all out and it was delicious.  So great to catch up since she no longer works at the store.

Sendia was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer this past month and just went through a successful surgery.  Please pray for her.  AND if you want to support her we are all planning to attend The Dodgers Game on Wednesday, September 17th.  If we get enough participation we may rent a party bus!  Although, that may be really expensive…we will see.

Here is a link to purchase tickets so that we can all sit together.  tinyurl.com/Sendia7

When did Dodger’s tickets get so expensive?  $66…but anything for Sendia!

Here is a pic of us with Sendia at a recent country concert!  From Left to Right, Sendia, Sandy, me and Val.  She always has the brightest smile and greatest attitude!

This past Saturday, we redid three of the vignette’s with new artwork & Kevin’s help and they turned out great!  Here is the before in the Green Vignette.

Here is the after.  I am going to miss this fun part!  But, I was thinking maybe I will get a booth in one of the antique malls (like in Summerland) so that I can still decorate.

Here is the after in the Black and White Room.

Here is the after in the Beachy Turquoise room.

Speaking of plans for after the store, I am in desperate need of storage space for my eBay business.  Ideally, I need about a 20′ by 20′ space.

Does anyone have a barn, empty garage (I have had my entire eBay stock in a residential garage before), warehouse or other empty space for me to lease at a reasonable price?

Please spread the word.  Thanks!

Time for an eBay score!  We LOVE selling Men’s Tshirts on eBay.  We pick them up for $1 to $2 and they can sell for a lot.  Especially vintage rock bands and unique ones.

Check out this Ketel One Vodka tshirt that I just sold for a best offer of $40.  Crazy right?  And then it wasn’t in the bin where it was supposed to be.  Ughhhh….I hate it when that happens, but luckily Brittany found it!  Way to go!

Check out the listing here.

Wednesday night, I left the store at 3:30 and headed into Pasadena to meet up with my sorority sisters.  Annie is out from New York and I hadn’t seen her in 8 years.  Super fun!

There were about 10 of us at dinner and I will share a pic of all of us soon!

Back to the store…..For my consignors, here is more info about the closing.

This has been an incredibly difficult decision for me.  Here are the details of the closing process for my consignors.