eBay's Excellent Global Shipping Program vs Postal Service

So glad for having migrated the remainder of my business items to eBay.
You can find me under Spectrenoir, just click this link.

eBay allows up to 12 photos per item and also their listings do rank a lot higher.

Many good reasons for having done so!

The above shown Global Shipping Program from eBay is one of the BEST reasons!
Click on the pink link to find out more...

In August I had a German customer that purchased off my website.

This 925/1000 Giovanni Raspini Silver Key Ring in its signature blue box.

The shipping via regular Postal Service was $ 40.95
SHOCKING for 1.60 oz...
Not in a parcel but in a Tyvek envelope.

Tracking was a horror...
From us it went to Orlando, then to Miami!
Back up to West Palm Beach, Florida
To Louisville, Kentucky
To Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
AND BACK TO Louisville again!!!
And AGAIN to Philadelphia...
From there it crossed the Ocean, to Cologne, on to Frankfurt and finally to its destination!

This Antique German REPOUSSE Silver Angels Napkin or Card Holder did travel far better!

For only US $ 17.51 it went with FedEx to Japan!

Needless to say that the weight of this parcel was about 4 x that of the silver key ring!
Yet very economically!
Of course, it is because of the Global Power of eBay as they find the BEST option available.

Glad for having found this option and also excellent tracking, easy from your account with one click.

Wishing you a happy Autumn or Spring if you are at the Southern Hemisphere!

Thanks for your visit.

Tea with Turmeric Coconut Flour Muffin

Yes, baking Muffins from Coconut Flour makes for a delicious result!

Found the recipe on line one day: Turmeric Coconut Flour Muffin Recipe and had to try it.
Here shown on the tennis tray with teacup, see below post.

I will give you the recipe below...

Ingredients

6 large eggs

½ cup unsweetened coconut milk

⅓ cup maple syrup

1 t vanilla extract

1 cup coconut flour

½ t baking soda

2 t turmeric

½ t ginger powder

pinch of salt and pepper

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Prepare a muffin tin with 8 muffin liners.

In a large mixing bowl, add eggs, milk, maple syrup, and vanilla extract. Mix until it's well combined and the eggs begin to bubble.

In a small bowl, sift together coconut flour, baking soda, turmeric, ginger powder, pepper, and salt.

Slowly stir the dry ingredients into the wet ones, until the batter is smooth and thick.

Transfer the batter to a prepared muffin tin, dividing the batter evenly.

Bake for 25 minutes, until slightly browned around the edges.

Remove muffins from the oven, and transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Working with coconut meal is something else!

It can absorb so much liquid - surprisingly!

But in the end, the result is good and turmeric is so healthy as an anti inflammatory ingredient.

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{My 2nd Most Popular All Time Post} | previous post by me showing the tennis tray with teacup by Royal Albert Princess Anne.

I'll Be Darned - I DID IT

We ALL have such projects, tiny and larger ones, that we put off till...

Well, when it rains or when it is a cold winter day?

Nonsense - we MUST just attack them - any time.

This project was laying there since winter...

Yes, I'm honest!

Another hole in one of my favorite house socks for winter!

BUT, I did purchase this antique sock darner from one of our Church ladies that went to heaven... A couple of years ago that is.

Beautiful and practical, that is IF you use it.

Smart ladies that used to work with such an egg shaped sock darner a lot.

Holding on to its sterling silver handle.

Well, I'm sort of old fashioned I guess...

Having such a French antique silver needle case with roses (got another one like this for my baby sister), I was ready to start.

Oh, I still kept some yarn from hand knitted socks for Pieter, done by Pieter's Mom!

Yes, we owe a lot to our Moms as I did watch my Mom many times as a little girl when she was darning socks.

See, a nice hole in my heel!

This is not about dragging my feet... It lay there since winter and now I had to DO it.

That's how Mom showed me, weaving from one end to the other...

Than weaving through from the other end...

Oh, I know mine doesn't look as neat as Mom's used to; she was a MASTER darner!

BUT the hole is filled in!

Once more I can enjoy my favorite BLOOMIES from Bloomingdales.

Grabbed them up once in a sale and I've loved them!

Haha, our kittens loved to attack those pompons!

So, I'm ready for the cold weather for wearing my house socks!

Do you darn?...

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