My Debt Diary, the ramblings of JCD

JCD_Capulet

Hiya
I'm ok hon, getting better. Had a good time with my BF on saturday into sunday and that's helped so much. Got some things photographed today and I'll be putting them up on ebay tomorow, even my taxidermy

Hope everyone is ok out there xx

JCD_Capulet

I think I can now call myself........A PAID TAXIDERMIST! WOOO!
Ok I'm still decades away from being a master, but I'm celebrating with a coffee (as per usual) the very first sale of my own taxidermy. I am over the moon. Not because it raised some funds, but because it was on a five day buy it now and four hours after I listed it, IT SOLD! Over the moon that someone wanted my creation. So happy

That's all from me just now.
got more crafting to do tomorow, so early bed tonight (shock bloomin' horror )

G'night y'all xx

hypno06

Excellent!! Is it something you will be able to repeat fairly soon, or are they very time consuming?

walter1970

Hi there JCD. My first post and first visit since June 2006. Wow!! Your diary really touches me, altho I wont have time to read all the posts...! I do hope you look after yourself. What's ur username on Ebay? I would like to have a look at your listings. It is nice to come back to this site to see what's going on...! I also have a wealthy mate in Glasgow...I'll see if he has anything going on there...but in the meantime do take care. Walt xx

JCD_Capulet

hypno06 wrote: »

Excellent!! Is it something you will be able to repeat fairly soon, or are they very time consuming?

I have another up for sale at the moment, the very first one I worked on. I'll be continually working on things (as far as cashflow will allow) for practice sake, and if/when I'm ready to part with them, onto ebay they'll go.

Today I bought some chicks, two hamsters and a guinea pig to work on soon. I can't wait to move up to bigger things.

**I'd like to point out to anyone reading this, I don't harm animals, I buy them in from pet shops. They're sold frozen as snake food**

OH! Hypno, I forgot to mention. DF died this week

walter1970 wrote: »

Hi there JCD. My first post and first visit since June 2006. Wow!! Your diary really touches me, altho I wont have time to read all the posts...! I do hope you look after yourself. What's ur username on Ebay? I would like to have a look at your listings. It is nice to come back to this site to see what's going on...! I also have a wealthy mate in Glasgow...I'll see if he has anything going on there...but in the meantime do take care. Walt xx

Wow, Walter! I feel kind of honoured that your first post in months was in my diary. Thanks for stopping in. Don't worry, I'll keep myself well enough to carry on. I'll not post a link to ebay, but if you'd like to have a look my user name is **((removed to keep my DFW diary off search engines))**
Take care, and I hope to see you posting more! x

JCD_Capulet

I have five people watching my rat auction (with one hundred viewings) and one person watching a jewellery auction. Ebay is going a bit slowly. I've spent the best part of the entire day working on another rodent (large hamster) and I must say, the anatomy of thoose little guys is pretty facinating! Anyway, she's finished and posed waiting to dry out. Depending on how she turns out, I might put her on ebay...maybe.

When I went to the pet place to buy more snake food, the chap there was lovley. He let me traul through the bags of stock letting me choose the critters I could work with. When I enquired about guinea pigs, he told me that he had one spare. The woman who ordered it in didn't realise that it was too big for her snake, so he sold it to me for £2. Brilliant. So the next project (after another hammy) is either going to be the pig, or a stoat/mink that my supplier in Wales is sending me (for free) to practice on.

Ive got the housing and council tax benefit sorted again, and I'm now paying a couple of quid extra each week to the rent arrears. Doing ok with the power repayments and aside from that I'm just muddling along.

That's all from me for now xx

skint_spice

Hi Joanne, I had a wee look and expected to be freaked out (not my kinda thing at all) but he's really cute! looks like he's pointing or something.
Hope all goes well for you, just off to sort out some more ebaying myself.

hypno06

Sorry to read about DF. Still, at least you gave him extra time he would not otherwise have had.

Good to read that you have a good source of working materials. I really hope it all goes well xxx

JCD_Capulet

skint_spice wrote: »

Hi Joanne, I had a wee look and expected to be freaked out (not my kinda thing at all) but he's really cute! looks like he's pointing or something.
Hope all goes well for you, just off to sort out some more ebaying myself.

Thanks hon The taxidermy style I want to get into is really more 'natural' than 'horror' or anything like that. Igor just happened to dry out like that because I had him standing on the inside of a cup lol. I will have more going up for sale as I get better at it, and with each little project sold 70% of the cash goes to bills and 30% to more supplies.
Good luck with your ebaying! *waves lucky ebay selling wand for SS* xx

hypno06 wrote: »

Sorry to read about DF. Still, at least you gave him extra time he would not otherwise have had.

Good to read that you have a good source of working materials. I really hope it all goes well xxx

It was sad when I found DF, but you're right, I'm sure I gave him extra time. Thanks hon My hobbying is really helping me with stress and keeping my mind on things I like. And with having made a friend in my taxidermy supplies guy, I feel like there's no limits to what I could achieve with this.
I see the ski fund has come along quite a bit since I was last (regularly) active, how's things going over there in Hypnoland? xx

hypno06

Things are ok, I have a new job that I hope to start any time now - will certainly take some of the financial stress off me but it is the most challenging job I will ever have done! Still, pretty excited about that.

The children have been off for their first stint of training and had a ball. They can't wait to go back again, and I hope I raise the money in time for them to be able to do so.

And slowly, I am getting on top of things, and finding my way forward.....oh, and I am not letting you down on the coffee drinking front either