Posts Tagged ‘books’

23 Shopping Days Till Christmas

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

This is what is happening at our bookstore at the Lake City,Florida Flea Market on Brandford Hwy and 90. we are a couple of miles off of I-75 if you are visiting or staying over night on Saturdays and Sundays at one of our Motels or campgrounds come see us.Contact 386-965-6706 Open 6:30 am to 3:00 pm

  I am looking for Fantasy books and plastic shopping bags.  I have just acquired a selection of John McDonald books.. I know they are older than I would normally  have … I am bringing my LeapPad selection back for the holidays.. machines and books.. New this week we will have a special bookcase for magazines. They have been 50 cent we are going down to 25 cents.  We have a large section come check us out.

This is the last few days for Waiting for Agnes. I will be taking this book off line on Friday. I have 6 so get it while you can.  www.readerwave.ecrater.com  or www.ebay.comis where you will find this book..I will ship out with in 24 hrs..unless you order on weekend then it will be longer as post office will be closed. Those of you looking for Bolita Sam you can contact author Joe Bullard at ybullard@comcast.com  to buy this book… He wrote both Waiting for Agnes and Bolita Sam. You can get both books signed by author.

Looking for Shot glasses go to www.shotglassheaven.com Looking for dolls in there boxes contact me at readerwave@bellsouth.net to see if I might have what you are looking for… Have many. All in good to great condition.

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Whats in a Title

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Its Sunday again.. Had a really good day at Flea Market yesterday.. I also spent a lot of time figuring ways to make it easier to close down in a few weeks… I don’t have a truck so will be using two cars and going back and forth to home.  I think one thing that will help is a sale on my hard covers on the one big table… So today I will clean out the items I don’t want to sale and put them away. Or bring them home… I have been bringing home under stock and odd things. I am bringing home all tapes today so if you want music or talking books today is your last chance. There are 6 weekends till we close… Then 4 or 5 till we open again.. In that time we are closed I will be checking out more stock.. So if you are in the Lake City Area and come to my store right me a email or post a message here if you have a certain author you want when we come back.

This week I am going to be getting birthday gifts out to the grands.. Two birthdays coming up and then in three weeks from theirs three more… Then we go into November and Grandpa and Aunt Shari… Wow Then December brings Aunt Nancy and Christmas… Think I can send them all a used book … LOL…

I put a nother Leap Pad on the website.. its got three books with it… check it out www.readerwave.ecrater.com  you can also find dolls, baby cradle its an antique. stuffed animals… check it out… Shot glasses are at www.shotglassheave.ecrater.com 

Of course you can find Waiting for Agnes at  www.readerwave.ecrater.com www.ebay.com www.amazon.com 

Have a great Sunday see you next time.

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Kitchen Sink Not Here

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

I sat here and just wrote a note to my fav author.. Debbie Macomber. It was not to tell her how much I enjoyed her latest book “Hannah’s List”.  Which I did…It was a complaint about not being able to make comments on her blog.. See I love making comments sometimes they are crazy and know one understands but me but they let you know that I read and liked or did not like your blog… I use to always make comments on her blog.. But for the past year I haven’t been able to use it and can’t get it figured out.I hope someone on her staff will get this figured out… Faster than FB does there problems… There are so many slow downs and not now things happening on FB that its a shame.. I guess the people who are not playing anymore need to clean out there farms and get off it might free up space for everyone else.

My online store is getting more things today.. I found some Leap Pad books and cartridges yesterday and took pictures. started to enter and the computer was so slow that I gave up… Today I want to do my junk box.. Come see these things in the next few days… Tell your friends..

Tonight I am going to see local author Joe Bullard introduce his newest book “Bolita Sam” at our local Lake City,Fl library.  I am the only seller of his books both “Waiting for Agnes” and his new one,”Bolita Sam”. I offer signed copies. I use to offer autographed and dated But that is hard to do when you want a date that is so close to when you bought it.. Some times I am out of town or he is so we need to keep lots of copies on hand and can’t always get together. So we decide to offer signed copies. There are people out there selling copies but they are used.. So watch what you buy. I think I would rather have a new one than a used one for the same price.  Some of the books sell for more than others as the company handling wants more money.. Amazon charges more handling fee than eBay or eCRATER.  I went up in price this year by $1.oo as the supplies went up. Thanks all 300 plus of you who have bought Agnes from over 20 countries… That is so hard for me to believe till I go back and look at the sales slips.. When I have “Bolita Sam” on line for sale I will email each and everyone of you to let you personally know ..If you have read Agnes please write a comment here and let us know what you thought of the book. Hubby just brought me the newspaper there is an article today about the signing tonight. I hope all the locals to LC will come out to hear him… and Meet the Author  his next book is about the Ruby McCollum Story..

If you find reading my blog a touchier sorry I don’t profess to be a great English Major.. I am very bad with grammar and spelling.. I try to fix what I can and hope you will get over your cringe real soon. I just write this blog for the love of saying what I think and feel and letting you know about my stores www.readerwave.com will take you to everything except www.amazon.com I have not put pictures up on here lately as something is wrong with this part.. Have not had time to get with daughter who fixes these things for me … you might know her as weatherangel on twitter.. She has a very demanding job, and she and her partner are the creators of Hurricane and Traveler’s Quest  Then there are my three lovely grandchildren who started school yesterday and you know them on facebook as Ginny and Elizabeth. Ginny is a senior this year. Lizzy will be next year.. (yes I did say three one is not on FB) Yet  As you can see I start on one subject and go on to many more with out a breath… LOL…One of my grandsons just joined FB and asked me to be on with him.. I was quite honored… Grandma Dona as these boys call me… Loves them very much.. I want to go south for birthdays but the closing of my book store is around the same time so will go the week after.. And this will be the first time in a long time that we will be around for Ginny’s She turns 18 this year… Wow where did the time go.. I have a picture I have been looking for to put a then and now… I just have not found it.. has to be in boxes in garage… I will get to it before the year is over. I promise…Oh I mentioned the closing of book store don’t get excited.. We will close every year for a month while the fair is in town .As we are at the fair grounds.. This will give me time to plan and create.. Hubby has made me 8 more book shelves 6 of them will replace the one long one I have in the middle of my store as its falling apart and I will have an extension on both sides To make more room . Both the mystery suspense and the historical romance need more room.. I am hoping this will free up one book case on the back to make more romance back there. When all the other book cases and books come home to be stored in the garage hubby will put backs on the others.. I am always hearing books fall down the back of the shelves as book cases are not up tight to the wall. I will be adding more space to the store so bring in your friends and tell them we will have more books than ever.. I will have a per. sale table for children’s and Harlequin so I don’t have to take it up and down every week.. Let me tell you after being out in the heat or cold all day the last thing you want to do on Sunday afternoon is take down and put up a new sale.

On my www.readerwave.ecrater.comsight i also sell doll, books, LeapPad machines and books, I have an antique cradle,lots of odds and ends including my JDS Box (Junk)postcards.. and will be adding more and more… at www.shotglassheaven I will be adding a few each week as I have so many and get tired of looking at them all at one time… so have decide to do a little of each thing so I won’t get tired..

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Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Hubby came in as I was starting this couple of hours ago and mentioned a yard sale .. Well you don’t have to say the word twice .. I stopped writing my blog of one sentence and off we went.  Well if you know me … I had a lot of things to do first.. dress,eat,etc… We just got back.. as empty handed as we left except for a sprite we got at the S&S on the way home.. it was a pit stop… I can’t go in and not get something I feel guilty.  Well tomorrow will be better and Saturday I might send Hubby to a promising one.  I have 8 new book cases in my garage.. three on each side to replace the one big one that is falling apart, and two small ones to put at the ends of that one to put ends on them and not waist space..I want to have three spaces when we open back up in November. Remember we close for the Fair to come Our last day for a month with be October 10th. I will have all my under stock out by then. except what I will need to fill in.  Tuesday local author Joe Bullard will be at the central library downtown Lake City with his new book “Bolita Sam” remember his first book “Waiting for Agnes” is still on sale … at www.readerwave.ecrater.com  www.amazon.com  and www.ebay.com   and you can get to most from www.readerwave.com   Another sight I have is my shot glass store at www.shotglassheaven.ecrater.co  and you can also reach it at www.readerwave.com   readerwave.co  used to be just a book store now I have added a few other things but not the kitchen sink… I have doll’s, LeapPad, Books, stuffed animals, pillows, music box and more all the time. any questions about my sights email me at readerwave@bellsouth.net  Have a great rest of the week… Remember say prayers for my son-in-law going though some medical things right now.

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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

What are you reading? Are you sure it will be something you must have your friend read…Even if they don’t like the same kind of books you do. Or it would be like my friend who does not like to read at all.  I am always telling her about a book or my book store and she is so nice she listens and tells me all the right things. The key word here is listens…. We should be listening to each other even if we are not so keen on the subject matter.. I have learned over the years how to be a listener. I am the biggest talker or was… I have learned how to sit and be quite and be by myself… Can you do that.. I learned this from a great man. Yap the same great man I wrote about last year.He is still here doing great things.. This summer he drove me to NY State to bury my parents.. Now he has been out in the garage for over a week building me a sewing machine cabinet.  Its looking so nice. And I am being so nice to him I let him take me to dinner last night..I would let him take me to the post office to mail books but I have not sold any in a couple of days… It started off so nice we went three days in a row… Waiting for Agnes is waiting over here in a corner to be put in a bag to be mailed all over the place… We have shipped all over the US, Canada, England, Sweden, Lots of different places we can do it again.. You can order it at www.amazon.com www.readerwave.ecrater.co  www.ebay.com  And I have shot glasses for sale at www.shotglassheaven.com  I might not have this one shot pictured I picked just a picture out of the many I have. I have so many more to list  and I have been putting it off.. I will get to it some day.

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Whats in this blog……………..

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

on our vacation this balloon landed and took off again by our hotel

I sold two book in two days this is wonderful. One here in Florida the other in Sweden. I mailed one yesterday and the other today.  Will be going to yard sales this morning. Can’t wait love doing this.. Have to go back to the library and Wal-Mart to return books.. I have read this series and had forgotten. And it was just this winter.

I wrote out my news letter for the Flea Market. mentioned that I am putting the sale table out first Saturday in August.  I wish I had room and money to expand would make it a every week thing for both Children’s books and Harlequin/Silhouette.  I have some Condensed books, customer was asking for them a while ago and found some and they have not been back.. Also some large print. had a good week… Found more Nora Roberts. I am getting a lot of trade these days.. So I have not been able to get under my counters and put it out no room.. I did trade on my hardcover table took some off and put others out. Going to put away biography this week so I have room for some other things that sell better..   I am collecting strawberry boxes.. I can fit 28 books nicely and I can read the titles on them nicely. They will be great for when I have to move the book store in October because of the fair.  I wish the Flea Market was open Thursday though Sunday that would be great.Of course there are people who work those days and can’t come But there are allot of us who are retired and could come. Something to think about.

Don’t forget Waiting for Agnes is for sale on line  by local author Joe Bullard at www.amazon.com www.ebay.com  www.readerwave.ecrater.com  I can offer different prices at each one as it cost me different at each one..  and you can find me here.. write all question to me here or readerwave@bellsouth.net

Some habits are so hard to brake. I wrote on FB yesterday that I would not be back on it or play on FV till Monday as its so slow… Took me 25 mins to harvest crops yesterday. Well I found myself getting on this morning just habit. Well after waiting 5 mins to get something done I got right back out. Time for the company to hire some help and get out of the garage. I know they must be making some money as people are buying things for there stores or farms as they can’t wait while they earn this farm cash.

 

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Beautiful Library in Upstate NY

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Yesterday was a wow day.. I lost something and someone found and returned..I went to one of my places to find books and a customer was there and shared his loot.. found 4 grocery brown bags full.. Went some other places and found more.. Nothing that anyone asked for just some that are needed to replace some others.. Going to bookstore today and get what I can that people are looking for. I hate to do it this way but I have steady customers who are looking and I want to keep them coming… The good buys I got this week will off set the book store buys as they cost me a more than I sell for… I have had to go up in price in some things as I get more, I would never up price of something I already had… Unless the whole store was going up like if I had my rent made higher.  If you live in the Lake City,Florida area and are looking for a place to donate book and just don’t want to throw them away give me a shout. write to me here…Anything I can’t use in my store I will pass on to an agency looking for donations. I will have Childrens and Harliquin back in late August or early September.. So keep checking back. I am running low on them and have to re stock…. Have a great day.

Remember I am back to selling Waiting for Agnes. online  www.amazon.com www.ebay.com  www.readerwave.ecrater.com

And my shot glasses at www.shotglassheaven.com

Library Sale I found while on vacation in Argyle,NY was looking for yard sales on the 3rd.

Library Sale I found while on vacation in Argyle,NY was looking for yard sales on the 3rd.

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Monday

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Another week… having company next week and allot of doctor visits this week… Will be very busy… My hubby is building me a shelf for my store.. I keep finding places to put them.. and thanks to a customer we have come up with a way to make the new one he is going to build for the center.  It was an idea a customer said I had wasted space at one end.. this can be attached to the other ones and will help them stand..I will not be buying books outright from anyone for now.. I have to many… I know I have ones that customers want and I can’t get to them.  When we come back in October from the fair I think I am going to move the mystery,suspense to the front and put historical in the back.  The next few months are going to be very hot so I am going to be taking it easy .. You will find me sitting under my the fan that is over my head.. I am so lucky. I am looking for a way to keep my head cool… My blood pressure goes up when I start getting red in the face… I need a hat that is an ice pack… LOL… can’t you see me with an old fashion ice pack and a ribbon around it and tied at my chin….  I like funny hats its an attention getter… My mother could wear just about anything…  I have so much hair that hats make me hotter so I try to wear something cool… Most of the time.. my knit hat has to go for the summer its holds in the heat… I am thinking of a straw hat and putting a removable towel band in side that I can take out and wash… I will work on that idea this week.. I have a towel that was going into hubby’s rag bin may be it won’t … I am going to stop putting added pressure on myself to get my shot glasses and dolls listed at eBay and ecrater as I think about it then I don’t do anything.. One day I will just start and I will contact you by this blog for a few days or weeks to let you know that its happening… I have been reading a little more lately… it relaxes me… I started picking up around the house as we have a new house cleaner coming this week … And she should be able to clean and not have to pick up things.  We are waiting on two pieces of furniture still.. one bed… and the cabinet for my sewing machine.

My blog is flip floppy I know… I have so much to say and so little time… I have a phone call to make for a friend to a relatives of hers.. about some surgery she is having and I have already had… I will do that first. Already called in meds… have to find out about my referrals for doctor… Then I think my phone calls will be done..well time to get started… see you all soon… Don’t forget Waiting for Agnes is still for sale for a little while I only have 6 left … Author is on vacation till further notice.   www.ebay.com www.amazon.com  www.readerwave.ecrater.com

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Thursday means Surviver

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Surviver  who will make it thought tonight’s game… Now this is a strange way to make a day you say… Some times when you retire that’s what you have to remember your days by.  Today I go to the doctor for the next shot in my knee, only 4 more to go counting today.Going to a new store we found to look for books… Hope to find some of the authors you all love.. James Patterson(tried one of his books this week I got to 5 chapter and gave up..) to much killing for me .. I want soft stuff to read.. maybe someone is mad at someone but its everyday life… some hurting and killing but not allot of blood and guts..I will keep these authors on hand for you but I don’t have to read them. I am reading a Fern Michaels that I picked up at the store this week.  I am hoping to find some westerns this week..

For those of you waiting for shot glasses and dolls to be put in my store I am sorry I have not been able to get started.. I have a road block in my mind.. I will get going soon.. bare with me please…

Remember we have a book on line Waiting for Agnes by local author Joe Bullard. Find in at www.readerwave.com www.readerwave.ecrater.com www.ebay.com www.amazon.com

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Washington’s Birthday

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

DSCN1015I am so sad.. I had planned all these things to do in my head… Small town got in the way again.. LOL.  Our Bargin store is closed on Mondays, I think the Post Office and Banks are closed today. Where I get my hair cut is closed on Mondays..and that also means more Copys of Waiting for Agnes will have to wait till tomorrow as its Monday day off…

Book Store at Flee Market went very well I had lots of new customers and lots of repeats with trades.. And this reminds me I need to make a new sign for the new books.. People are trying to use them with trades and thats a no no… Or i just might take a loss and put them in with the other books and use that book case for other things i need that will end up bringing me more money as I am sitting on the new ones.. Have not sold one… I am in the thinking stage of this one. Feed back would be nice..

I am looking for Christian Romance and Westerns.. for local Lake City People I will contact you and we will deal… Sorry to anyone who is looking for my online store I don’t have one anymore. I am doing so well at the flee market that I don’t sell any thing but my local author book Waiting for Agnes… and you can find that at www.readerwave.ecrater.com or www.ebay.com

Have a great day. tell someone you love them.. or like them alot.

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