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My early night last night turned into rather a late one. I slept quite a while this morning though.

I've come downstairs now because I'm irrevocably awake and I want to let Sleeping Beauty catch some more Zs.

One of the sofa cushions slipped away in the night and now my back is very sore indeed. I will do my exercises, which will help, and try to not really carry anything.

Lurgy so far feels much better but I still have a nasty cough. Also, I haven't tried to do anything remotely strenuous; I'll see what happens when I go for a bit of a walk later, before deciding whether I'm fit to go gallivanting about. I don't want to end up feeling ill when I'm teaching tomorrow.

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I dreamed about PDAs last night. This is getting silly.

Advice wanted

So.

I'm going to go back to making stuff and selling it online, because, well, I need to either pay less rent or earn more money and the former would involve moving which is SO not an option right now.

When I was doing this a few years ago it was mostly selling hairfalls on eBay.

I like making hairfalls, I like getting paid for it, but I don't like selling things on eBay.

I'm thinking about whether Etsy might be a better place for some of my things, particularly as I'd also like to experiment with making and selling things other than hairfalls. Do any of you have experience with this? Is it better or worse than eBay, in terms of faff? Is there enough UK market for it to be worthwhile?

Other selling ideas include:
-hanging some stuff on the wall at the Pembury Tavern.
-pimping stuff on this journal more, and various LJ communities as well
-maybe various craft shows/market stalls, but I'd need a lot of stock and I'd need some help because I can't really carry stuff.

Any other suggestions?

I want to avoid taking on too much commission-based stuff, because my health is quite patchy at the moment and I am already behind on that, and it's really embarrassing (not to mention really unprofessional) when I screw up.

leg rests

Some quick arithmetic tells me that for a leg rest to put my legs at the osteopath-recommended angle, I'm going to need a cushion 17 inches thick, or a little thicker. That's about 43cm. Most leg wedge pillows on sale that I've looked at only go up to 10" or 12" thick, which is not going to be enough; I'd be willing to try 16" on the grounds that I could just put an ordinary pillow on top if need be, but a shortfall of 5" is too much to bother paying for a thing.

So, I'm back to "make your own" or "find an appropriate beanbag or inflatable" at this point.

If anyone is getting rid of any sofa cushions do let me know...