eBay My World: 2-lhasa-apsos( 229)

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I received my first piece of chintz as a wedding gift 44 years ago. As years went on, it was the only wedding gift that endured. It was a Royal Winton Summertime cream and sugar. I didn't appreciate it back then but I did think it was pretty.

I eventually gave it to my daughter to put on her cup and saucer rack as a keepsake. Years later I read an article about chintz and called my daughter telling her, I think this article is about the kind of china that sugar and creamer is. Well, my fire was ignited, and I found eBay, and I have been buying chintz ever since. It has taken me a while to find out what I really like, and in the meantime I have bought many beautiful things that really don't make my heart sing. I am now going to sell the things that don't make my heart sing to people whose hearts do sing out when they see it. I have mainly chintz cups and saucers, tea plates and cake plates. I may sell some other things if I see something I think someone else might like, which does happen, but I have found just putting one item on to sell a bit confusing, so I hope the rest of this is easier. I tried to open a shop, but after five hours, my husband and I just quit.

I have had to decide what I really like, and during a time when I didn't buy any chintz at all, I decided that what I really loved was Royal Winton English Rose. It touches my heart and doesn't come along all that often, until now that is. I have also come to love James Kent Hydrangea (White). I have just gotten two large plates, a cake plate and a serving plate to display together, alike but disimilar, and a very unfamiliar large coffee can and saucer in Hydrangea. Additionally, I am bidding on two butter pats in Hydrangea, but who knows. I probably won't bid on much more Hydrangea. I will just buy my English Rose with an occasional purchase off the path. The other item I purchase is LaMer Creme de LaMer for my face and also the Creme de LaMer lotion and the scrub. They are very expensive, and I am able to save only a few dollars on eBay now because so many people know it's on there and I am bidding against so many people each time. It's getting so you could just call the store

As in the paragraph above, I collect chintz, mostly in the Royal Winton English Rose pattern, but I have lots more which I am going to sell. I have a small collection of demitasse cups and saucers, which I will not sell. I love those little guys and my husband, who is a cabinetmaker, is making me a cup and saucer rack the right size for demitasse to fit into. My grandmother had a ceramic rooster collection, and my mother gave me one of my grandmother's roosters and I have started my own collection. I have gotten them from various places, two on eBay, one at Hallmark, 3 sets of salt and pepper shakers, etc. I remarried 15 years ago, and my gynecologist, of all people, gave me a redwood rolling pin carved out of one piece of cherry wood made at Berea College in Berea, KY. A doctor I used to work for once gave me a cherry wood bowl made at the Berea College. Kids work in this workshop to help towards fees for their tuition and books. Well, this rolling pin started me collecting. I ha

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My hobbies, I guess you would say, are eBay, cross stitching, and sewing. My hands have hurt so badly from my fibromyalgia that the cross stitching and sewing have been sidelined for a while. I love to read a really good book, although I don't have a favorite author. I have chronic fatigue syndrome, so I tend to get tired and try to go to sleep when I read. However I just spent a week at the beach with my husband and my daughter who brought her two children from Indiana and I read a whole book during that week!!!!

I still remember how Roots made me feel ~ great book. John Grisham's A Time To Kill is wonderful. I read it when it first came out and no one I knew had read it. I think it has such a wonderful message for all of us. Tuesday's With Morrey ~ Wonderful book. The Bridges of Madison County (and I remember how let down I was when I found out it wasn't a true story). Cane River, a true story about one woman's family in New Orleans when white French men had families with black women, gave them nice homes to live it, etc., until it was time for them to marry into proper society at which time even their children could not address them in public. There are pictures of her family members ~ very interesting and sad, and I don't remember the author because I lent the book to a friend, but it is on Oprah's book list. The Color Purple, I read so long ago. On my vacation to the beach I read, The Pilot's Wife

Oh, this is hard. However, because I have a crush on Sam Elliott, and I have his autograph on my refrigerator door which I got when he came into town to see his mother and take her to dinner and I saw him in the restaurant, I will say that the movie that first comes to my mind is, The Quick and The Dead. Not the one with Sharon Stone in it, although that is a good movie too. Sam's movie is much older and is even hard to rent, but it is worth it. Again, I loved A Time To Kill ~ it was well done. Last night we watched the original 1947 movie, The Deacon's Wife, where Cary Grant is an angel, David Niven in the Deacon and (I can't remember the woman's name)

Elton John, Dixie Chicks, Michael McDonald. I don't listen to much music anymore, sadly

Above you will see a sweet picture of my little granddaughter Summer Celeste Prince who turned 3 on September 18, 2007. I don't get to see her and her brother, Gage, who is 7, and just started first grade because their Mom and Dad moved to Indiana from California a year ago. A plane ticket to Indianapolis is pretty spendy, over $700 for both my husband and I, so our trip to the beach just a couple of weeks ago was the first time I had seen them since Summer's last birthday last year. We hope to be able to go there for Christmas this year. My daughter is precious and priceless to me. My sister used to tell me that Dayna was born with common sense, something I was not, and more than a few times I have needed guidance from Dayna's common sense in my life. She is a true Angel in my life and I know God gave her to me because he knew I would need someone especially special. Dayna doesn't care for my chintz, but Summer is a ruffley girley girl so she will save my chintz for Summer.

I was born in Portland, Oregon and except for 3-1/2 years in southern California where my first husband got lost somewhere, at which time I came back home, I have always lived in Portland. My backyard is beautiful, has beautiful breezes blowing through it. If it gets too hot for a few days, it finally rains, and vice versa. My husband and I went to the same high school, although he was two years behind me and I didn't know him, and I tell him I wouldn't have had anything to do with him back then anyway because he rode a motorcycle and smoked cigarettes ~ not my type. I have 1 daughter and 1 son and 7 grandchildren. My mother's family was mainly Swedish, although my great-grandmother at the age of 103 when my great-uncle was taking her to a nursing center because he couldn't take care of her anymore, decided to tell him that she was really Italian and was adopted by a Swedish family. She was kind of dark????

I would like to have payment either with PayPal or with Money Orders.

As I am just starting out, I would like to take the packed boxes to the post office to see what the postage is and then add a little for handling, i.e. box, bubble wrap, tape, peanuts, etc.

If I have wrapped an item carefully, but it breaks in transit, I will not be held responsible for the postal services rough handling. If you do not like a piece you have received, please return within 7 days (you pay the shipping) in the same condition in which I sent it to you and I will reimburse you what you paid for it, minus the shipping.

You may contact me by e.mail at hisdarliin@yahoo.com