eBay My World: laurakatesnamesake( 6299)

Im only 5'2 and I love chocolate. My constant companion is my blue weimaraner, Belle. My off ebay job title is Interior Design Associate, which sounds better than Second Opinion Giver and Extra Pair of Eyes and Legs.

My specialties are Civil War era cartes de visite, or CDVs, and tintypes. I've been selling my in-laws' china, which is a lot harder to pack than antique photos.

CDV and tintype albums, J Jill clothes, Johnson Brothers Historic America China, and most gifts.

Antique photographs, sculptures of hands.

English

Sewing and embroidery, playing with my photos, reading, walking.

John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet, Disfarmer, The Wheel of Fortune by Susan Howatch, anything and everything by Jane Austen.

Palm Beach Story, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, Sullivan's Travels, Brother, Where Art Thou, and I have to include Gone With the Wind and all Buster Keaton movies

Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, Shooter Jennings, Gershwin

Project Runway, Survivor, Amazing Race

I've been selling photographs on ebay for five years. I never knew there were other people who loved them as much as I do, and ebay opened up a new world for me.

Paypal, checks, money orders.

For US buyers, CDVs and tintypes are placed in an archival sleeve and sandwiched between layers of cardboard in bubble envelopes. For international buyers, I still use cardboard, but mail by Air Letter Post in a plain envelope.

If you have a problem, contact me.

My email address is lauraolmstead@earthlink.net