One of the downsides to shipping breakables is sourcing enough packing materials. My profit margins are so small that any expense I can avoid is helpful. Someone posted on Facebook marketplace free moving boxes and packing paper. The boxes go quickly if free as people do resell them. I just took a chance and ask only for the paper. The person who picked up the boxes didn't want the paper, so I was in luck to get the paper. It totally filled up my car (I drive a very big car) and then my studio. I think it will last me at least a month which is super! It was also a good day thrifting as I found things at all the place I stopped at and that's a very rarely happens! Now the task of selling everything.
I'm in a dilemma if I should go down to the Carmel House for a week. I really don't want to have to pack up my car (I do that almost everyday) so I can keep on working but it's such a pain to haul all my stuff around. It's not good to take a break from my auction schedule as I now have some followers. The thrift stores down in Carmel aren't good for resellers so I can't be sourcing while there. So what would you do?
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
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