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            05/10/2012

Hello there everyone!!! 

I know that it has been a WHILE since my last photo update and for that I do apologize.. 
I have become extremely busy in this past month and honestly I do not see me becoming any less busy any time soon.  
I started up a new business.
 In addition to my photography business (which is doing rather well), I recently started up an eBay business (and I'm doing unbelievably well with it, thankfully!!) 

For quite a while now my husband and I have been buying antiques, collectibles and other unique items and reselling them at Flea Markets and also selling them to collectors/resellers etc.    We had talked about opening up an eBay store but we had a LOT  of preparing beforehand if we were going to be doing this..  So for the past 6+ years we have been going through or items, organizing them, researching information about them, finding out their values, etc.  We already had a significant number of items between us before we started purchasing more because we are both  collectors ourselves.  We love history and antiques, collectible items of all types and anything unique/different that catches our eye.  

We had talked about selling some of our things, so like I said we did just that at flea markets and to collectors.  We started doing this about 4 years ago.  We were making good money with that and decided to start buying items that we liked and knew we could sell for a profit..  That is when we started "picking" for profits. 
 Picking is when you go around and literally "pick" through peoples stuff and offer to buy certain items (with their consent beforehand of coarse!).  We introduce ourselves and tell them what we do and what items we might be interested in buying (to give them an idea) and with their 'okay' and their guidance we take a look at what they have.  If we see an item that we like or an item that we know we could sell for a profit and we offer to buy the item for a reasonable price.  

  For a couple years now we have also been selling items for people who want to get rid of things and/or just make some extra cash.  However, since we started up our eBay business we have acquired a lot more people/clients who give us their items to sell for them, and we keep an agreed on percentage.  

In those 6+ years of preparing we have become so incredibly knowledgeable with valuable items of all ages and types.  We can walk into a room (my husband and I) and we both immediately spot the same items in the same order as each other and we both make comments on the items at the same time, it's pretty funny.  While researching items and information we always inform the other about any new or interesting information that we come across... which I KNOW is why we do this.  A lot of clients who we're selling items for laugh because maybe John will have been at their home the day prior and he will have remarked on 5 items and said, "wow, Jessica is going to love this!", and when I go into their home those same 5 items that he spoke about are the 5 items that I say, "Wow!! Look at this!!"  (seriously, not even kidding.. it happens EVERY time! haha!) 

But yes, we're very very experienced and we know our stuff.  We're amazing at what we do and we get items sold - and fast.  I'm so glad that we're finally doing this!

  Sooo you can understand why I've been so busy.. (I haven't updated this in almost a month), and we finally started selling on eBay about a month ago!

I have been constantly taking photos of new items, researching items, listing them, receiving tons of new items to sell for clients, shipping items out, etc..  and honestly it is a never ending process.  I'm working very very hard but hard work always pays off and we're doing very well with it.  I am very thankful for this.

Wow, I certainly typed a lot for just a, "sorry I haven't updated, I've been busy with my new eBay business" lol!... but yeah, I wanted to explain what it is that I'm doing and why I've been so busy just so you all know why I haven't been on and why I won't be posting as much as I'd like.. but I will try!

I do miss you all and I will be checking in on all of your photostreams now and from time to time in between posts.. so no worries I'm still here! 

I really miss posting... I'll try to post more often when I get a little extra time.
I sure hope that everyone is doing well!  :)

Taken in: United States / New Jersey / Smithville (show map)

Taken on: May 10, 2012

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Camera: Nikon D5000, f/5.3, 1/1000 sec, 46mm (=69mm), ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

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Aperture:	f/5.3
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Focal Length:	46mm (35mm equivalent: 69mm)
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Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
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Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
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