About 30 years ago, when I was in my early teens, I got a brass incense burner and a pack of green incense cones. I don't remember if I bought it when we went into Chinatown or if my dad bought it for me as a holiday gift. But that was the beginning of me burning incense in my youth. After several years of use, the incense burner broke; ( Read more... )

Ew. Just because I have to share the pain. These came up when I did a search for pirate boots.

The horror. They look more like overgrown, mutant hooves than platform shoes.

10.75" heel. *cringe*

Regarding your web form for email contact: If you're going to impose a character limit on the content, that's fine. But how about letting the person know what it *is*, instead of only telling them that "message contains too many characters" after they've typed up a detailed note regarding copyright infringement of your photos appearing on ebay? ( Read more... )

....mine. Bidding actually didn't go any higher after I'd looked at it initially - it was at $38.50 with four bids. $44.26 with shipping.

Come over here and stop me from bidding on what is the prettiest lampwork bead I've ever seen.

I'm guessing the final price will probably be over $50. For one bead. (I don't think it's overpriced; I'm sure the artist put a lot of work into it.)

Trying very hard to resist the temptation. :-P

The scrub pants arrived on my doorstep this afternoon! :) They *do* fit over the splint in fact, for a "small", they're quite a bit larger than I expected. I'm almost hoping they shrink a bit. Right now they're in the wash. I don't normally wash new stuff before wearing it, but there was a warning about the dye bleeding, and they were a bit ( Read more... )

Gmail was kind enough to stick the following phishy email in my Spam folder:

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Wow, that was fast, it's only Wednesday! The gems were shipped Priority Mail ( Read more... )

I just splurged and bought four of these. :) One each, of opals, emeralds, sapphires, and amethyst.

I ~think~ "unsearched" means "uncleaned/uncut/unfinished", IOW, "in the rough from the mine", but they'll still be cool to have.

Not that I have any idea what I'll do with them...yet.

Edit: 12:36pm "Unsearched" apparently means "we promise we ( Read more... )

$18+ to ship a punchdown tool from CA to NY...UPS *ground*?!?!?

I won't be bidding on *this*.