Selling Disney pins

I’ve made a new website to sell my collection of over 1,500 Disney pins. (OK, I know that’s a crazy amount of pins. That’s why I’m selling them.) The site loads too slowly sometimes. I dunno why.

I’m calling the site Okey Dokey Goodies. It’s at http://okeydokeygoodies.com/ . So far, I’ve only managed to list a little over 100 of my pins. (I load them too slowly. I do know why.)

Hooray for ZenCart, free shopping cart software. Hooray for PayPal, not free but not evil.

Perhaps not-hooray for Google AdWords. I used a Google coupon to create an AdWords account for Okey Dokey Goodies, but I don’t see my site pop up when I google the key words I signed up for (e.g., “buy Disney pins”). Hmmmm.

Disney Bicycle Pin Update: 23 Pins

I now have twenty-three Disney pins that feature bicycles. (One depicts an exercise bicycle, and another shows just the front of a bike attached to a float, but I’m counting both.)

No tricycles. No electric bikes. No motorcycles. Those don’t count.

To view a picture of the pins, see http://carolynhill.com/disneypins.htm

Disney Bicycle Pins Update: 18 Pins

An update: I now have eighteen Disney pins that feature bicycles.

Summer is ending

I don’t want to go back to school yet!

Relevant pin, PinPics 14716:

Soap pin

I like pins that look like real things. Check this out:

On the bottom is a box of soap I got when I stayed at the Disneyland Hotel many years ago. On the top is a pin that looks very much like that box of soap. That tickles my fancy!

I dunno why I like these kind of pins, but decades ago I used to draw carefully realistic pen-and-ink renderings of stuff like soy sauce bottles and glue containers, so common objects in art have always fascinated me.

The pin’s PinPics number is 35454. It’s part of a set–and, yes, I have other pins in that set: the toothpaste pin, and the shampoo pin.

Picking up

Picking up where I left off, do you remember the final entry in my archived blog? About that Disney pin that I was lusting after but couldn’t find: Goofy huffing and puffing up and down the mountains in the Tour de France?

Remember me moaning and groaning because I couldn’t find one of them–not one, nada, not even one?

I ended up with three. (How? An eBay shipping mishap and trading confusion.) Anyway, I gave one pin away, put one up for trade, and hung on to the third.

Several months later, and not only do I have that Goofy pin, but I’ve collected over nine hundred and fifty Disney pins.

Yep, I said “950.” And “over.”

OK, I know it’s crazy. But they’re so SHINY. (Magpie brain.)

Sixteen of my pins depict bikes. Here’s one of the latest:

What with the Olympics going on right now, maybe you’ll get a kick out of the pin. That’s Goofy, Donald, and Mickey racing bikes in the 2004 Olympics. On Pin Pics, it’s Pin 31254.

Pin Pics is cool. It’s a website that lists and describes most of the known Disney pins. As of this moment, there are over 62,500 pins listed. (See? My 950-pin collection isn’t quite so strange now, is it? Well, yes, OK, it’s still strange. But not as strange as it could be. Or not as strange as it’s going to get.) People who collect Disney pins use Pin Pics as a reference or go to the site to trade pins with one another via mail, because Pin Pics maintains a database of everyone’s collection and what pins each person wants and is willing to trade.

And now you’re all caught up, at least on that story.