Hi! Thanks for visiting my store! I've been selling on eBay over a year now & it all started because of my Mom, who passed away in 2002. She left me with boxes filled with collectible items, sewing notions & even sewing machines (she had 3!) It's taking awhile to go through everything, but I'm getting there. As I find items I don't have room for (our house is rather small) or can't use, I'm listing on Ebay, either at auction or in my store.

I'm 57, married to the same wonderful man for over 37 years now, and although we've never had kids, I have 2 silly dogs, Fox & JoJo, and 3 crazy cats, Hercules, Shadow & Baby Peach. I'm also an artist & have been all my life - well, since 3 yrs, anyway, when according to Mom, I was caught drawing on the walls with my crayons. She encouraged me through the years in my art. I've worked as a graphic artist to print shops & weekly newspapers. I do illustrations in black & white & color, also portraits, landscapes, still life, etc. in watercolor and oils & small to medium signs. I'm skilled in layout & design, and find it miraculous that what we used to do in the print shop in town I'm able to do on my computer in half the time! (Just discovered computers 7 years ago!)

I'm also trying to clear out a lot of my own personal stuff, which I've accumulated in the last 40 years, (dating myself here!) Between my husband and myself, we've managed to make our house into a library. There are books everywhere, lots are even still packed in boxes since we moved out here in '92. ("Out here" means in the middle of the East Texas Piney Woods). I've only just scratched the surface there, but I'm finding a lot of books with duplicate copies & some we'll never read again & a few that friends & family gave us that we probably wouldn't have bought to read ourselves! Plus, there are some great antiques & collectibles in great condition that I don't have a place for, so look for anything and everything in my listings in the coming months. I've also recently begun selling on a commission basis for other folks! I love it!

My goal is to be a really good Ebay Seller & with the help of good customers like you, I hope to be successful. I'll try my best to always describe my items accurately, and find the cheapest way possible to ship them to you. On breakable items, I try to package these as carefully as possible & charge $3 or less S&H fee for these, but on smaller, or less fragile items, or if you order more than one item from me my fees go down considerably cause shipping items together can save quite a bit on shipping costs. Since we're 14 miles from Tyler, the largest town around here, gas can get expensive, plus the cost of packaging supplies, so I have to charge some kind of shipping & handling fee. I love being part of the whole Ebay experience. It really IS true you can find anything on Ebay! It's great being a part of the Ebay community.

Stop in anytime & browse my store! If you ever have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me: mcdowell48@juno.com anytime. I look forward to hearing from you.

Linda K. (gutzy48)

I ship worlwide, too, & will find the most reasonable shipping rates I can for you.