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I must admit that I am not good at taking photos. All of you are very kind and have never complained to me about that, but recently when I tried to take photos of those small furnitures and clothing, I just think my photos SUCK! I can't pick up the light right with my poor Canon. The LCD display shows up the photos great on the camera, but when I download them to the computer, they all become quite dark, and cannot be helped by image editor. I even bought those natural light lamps and test all the illumination in my room. Yet with heavy snow and cloudy days in Canada, I simply do not have the luxury of taking great photo with the beautiful sunlight. Let me see if I can come up with better studio setting, and I do hope to list those wonderful little objects soon.

My eBay store is closed for this week so that I could concentrate on preparing all new listings for year 2008. I will be selling the rest of my Barbie collection I think... Well, I always feel like keeping some, and clearing away my Barbie dolls is always a mission impossible it seems.

I am also adding new categories such as miniature toys and doll outfits.

I am a bit hesitated to sell my boxed dolls though, as they did not do very well last year. It seems to me eBayers would like to buy deboxed items to save on shipping rather than a boxed doll. I am OK with that, but I really need to put away those space monsters (i.e. the boxed dolls)!

Let me see what other excuse I could come up with to do another big promotion again. The Christmas and New Year promotions were a lot of fun for both me and my customers. I am glad that I could make that happen. That just cleared away 60% of my 2007 stock. What a record!

Wow, I haven't updated this blog for quite a while. How is everyone doing? Christmas is coming and I finally get some time to sort out my desk and dolls. Today I have posted a few listings which should show up tomorrow. This time I have offered Barbie dolls, Ken dolls, a Barbie dog and even a Skipper Velma. I still have many dolls to sell from my personal collection, and just now do I realize I really have too many dolls! I found many Kelly dolls and friends recently, and I don't even display any Kelly dolls usually! What was I thinking when I bought them? However, they are very cute and are great companion to Barbie dolls. I will post them this week as soon as I get the photos ready.

Last week was a busy week for shipping out all the Pullip and Namu dolls. I want my customers to get them as soon as possible, so whenever I saw the payment was made, I printed the shipping labels and packaged each doll and drove right to the post office. Today I am starting to see positive feedback from them. That is really good news! I feel so happy about this.

Right now I am having a week of vacation, and I have planned to sell more Barbie dolls. I threw away a dozen of them just today because I don't want to waste time cleaning or fixing them. Before I bought these dolls for their clothing, but now I am selling them nude, so I must be careful not to disappoint my customers. Nude dolls just get nothing to hide with!

I am working slowly inspecting, photographing, and listing these Barbie dolls. I have 3 cases of nude Barbie dolls to sell, and I don't know when I would start with the boxed ones yet. Hopefully I can get them all listed by Christmas time. That is the peak season for online shopping -- according to my personal experience. :)

I am working slowly on the new listings as I am busy packaging the paid items. I am further hindered by hand sore from my golfing class yesterday. :p I know I need more exercise, but wait until I get all the selling Pullip dolls packed and gone.

It's fun to take out these decade-old dolls and give them some new looks. I straightened the hair of 2 of them today, but I don't think I should do that to every doll coz some collectors might still want them as original as possible.

And tomorrow is the big day for a few of my first listings. I am not trying to make money here, but at least I hope I don't lose too much money on shipping for I charge only a nominal fee as I hope to attract more buyers with a lower shipping and starting price. Anyway, we will see.

Finally, and I mean it with every syllable, I FINALLY put up my Barbie dolls for sale! I have been very lazy organizing my Barbie dolls in the past few years, and they pile up boxes after boxes on top of each other. I bought them mainly for their outfits, and now I am selling them nude and hopefully someone would give them a new home. It isn't really easy for me to remember which nude doll is which because I have 300 of them... Imagine naming and remembering all your children's name if you have 300 of them. :p It feels good to know them all again for I need to write up their descriptions in the auction. At least I didn't let my dolls go nameless even though I didn't give them any clothes to wear.

It took me several days to prepare the My Scene listings and I'm glad they are finally done. When I post the listings to eBay, a strange thing happen: I saw my listings immediately in my eBay Store! We all know eBay takes at least some hours to update the server, so we never get our listings up immediately. Oh well, that was just a minute of luck I guess, as later on all those listings disappeared from my store. The total number of listings dropped. I wasn't dreaming, but still I need to wait.

And then I think to myself: do nude dolls have anything to do with the Mature Audience rules on eBay? Were these listings taken off because they need to be screened? I am obviously thinking too much, as we all NEED to know how our dolls look like in and out when we are buying from online auctions. So I guess everyone has to be tolerant with the dolls being too sexy on eBay. Have fun guys and girls!

I love the Taeyang dolls a lot @_@, but they have to go or I might be burried alive in an earthquake one day! That may be a bit exaggerating, but last night when I was reaching out for some doll stuff on the shelves, I fell backwards but luckily was caught by some empty storage boxes behind me. On second thought, maybe I should loose some weight also. Haha...