From Trash to Cash: the £100 to 10K Dribble thread

shell06

Thanks hunni appreciated.

Cagneuk - I make nappy cakes Have decided not to sell on ebay though unless i can fined lovely bits to make a unique on as it is saturated with them. I do have one up my sleeve that is on there by one seller at the mo at a whooping £60 only costs about £7 to make lol x

wayne1983

And ive started making a website, even if im finding hard not been great with that stuff!:o:rotfl:

2cats1kid

Got 5 watchers across 2 of the items I listed yesterday, nothing on the last one, but I put it on a 10 day listing so there's time yet.

Made some more stuff last night and I lurve them - they are my favourite yet! I need to finish them off before I can list them, and I need my craft order to come before I can finish them off as I'm out of gold eyelets, so I'm restless and wanting to get on with them! They are rich red/blue/purple/gold and pretty lush if I do say so myself. I'm getting a lot slicker at making them too, which is nice.

Not really sure what I'm aiming to do today as I slept too long last night and I'm muzzy headed. Might just potter around and sort the house out a bit as I've been neglecting the cleaning and tidying.

On the subject of cute animals, I like pigs too and have a soft spot for donkeys.

Didn't find any batting, but did find some material which might be some use to somebody. munchki, I have about a metre of camoflage material that might do a nice boys quillow - it's a heavyweight cotton though (think cargo pants/combat trousers) so I don't know if it's suitable. Up for grabs, but munchki has first dibs on it.

moneymabel

Glad you're feeling better today Nat :-)
Well done on doing your site Wayne!
Hi Cagne-yeah I can't keep up with these ones that dribble all through the night lol! i'm getting old cant stay awake past 10 :-)

2 cats...what on earth is batting??!!

2cats1kid

Trying to work out costs using that formula that someone posted yesterday. Is the 30% on top 30% of everything, so (time + (material costs x 2)) x 1.3? Or is it 30% of one or the other (time or materialsx2).

If it's 30% on top of everything then if I include the 20p listing fee for Folksy/Misi then I'd be looking at about £7 per pendant. Does that sound ok?

TBH I was keeping prices down as I was looking on this as a way of clearing my stash mountain, so any materials I used that I had already were sunk costs, i.e. zero in my costing spreadsheet, so the £5 was reasonable. If I'm going to do this going forward even just as a bit of fun/pin money then I'd need to cost it out properly and I'd need to go to £7. (Don't worry I'll do you guys original prices LOL).

2cats1kid

moneymabel wrote: »

Glad you're feeling better today Nat :-)
Well done on doing your site Wayne!
Hi Cagne-yeah I can't keep up with these ones that dribble all through the night lol! i'm getting old cant stay awake past 10 :-)

2 cats...what on earth is batting??!!

Batting is like wadding stuff like you make quilts squodgy with. I guess it's what munchki uses to make her pillows pillowy LOL. I had some from a brief flirtation with fabric art (can you tell I've tried most things at one time or another?) but it was quite thin so probably not suitable, and I think I must have slung it anyway.

jo70mo

that price still sounds reasonable 2cats. Really love your stuff. Wish I could buy it sooner rather than later.
Jo x

jo70mo

Still not looked at Ambers website as using Dh's work lappy while he is on hol. not sure it would look good on his browsing history!!!!

moneymabel

£7 sounds fine 2cats. Ahhh i see what batting is now...sqodgy's a great word!

I work mine out time + materials X 2 (you could add listing fees after this)

MummyandPaige

oh, I was wodering the same thing! In that case, I brought 6 snow blankets from Wilkos for 75p each, 2m x 0.5m. Was going to turn them into blankets ad cot bumpers, but would be willing to share, is that the stuff? It says snow blankets, but I swear it is just wadding?

Was also thinking of trying the fabric art, found a cracking pair of curtains in the Charity shop for £2, they are covered in fish and mermaids, thought I would give it a go with them to start with. Am I barking up the wrong tree? ever done anything like this before, always wanted to but never got round to it!

Edit: Prat! googled Fabric art, I am soo not that clever, think I meant something else! You find a nice fabric square with a picture on it, put some wadding behind it and sew over some of the lines on the picture and hang it on the wall, anyone know what the hell I am going on about???