When I discovered Pinterest in 2014 I found myself trapped in Cyberspace for a whole week. All my other work stood still. The ideas that came past my screen no matter what I typed in totally blew me away. Later when I become a graphic designer for Print on demand websites I started using Pinterest…
Most people will think about books, but today almost every product imaginable can be purchased one item at the time, like with a book. Decor, Footwear Clothes, Wall art and more… Being a self-taught graphic designer, I started off by designing my own book cover that was published in 2001. Seventeen years later the opportunities…
I wish I knew! I like to create artworks for shirts, but is it trendy? It all depends which market we design for, and since I’m more European – being Dutch in origin but living in Cape Town, my taste and what I feel looks nice on a T-shirt or on other products is probably…
On the internet these days how often do we have to prove just that? That we are Human! What would our great great grandparents say if they knew, but then the Internet would have been an unknown concept let alone computers. As I was writing my End of Times blog I was inspired to created…
My creative time designing images for T-shirts to be sold on Amazon has now shifted me to working with themes. In the Merch by Amazon Facebook groups people often mention to work with themes, but I had not followed that system before now. Now that I’m allowed to upload 10 designs each day, which I…
I cannot remember when I discovered Pinterest, but I do know that I was hooked for a whole week. Any person that is addicted visually, meaning they love images about almost any topic, they will love Pinterest. Today I have well over 200 boards, but two weeks ago I felt the need to update the…
I would never have believed that one day I would join the local shop chains who have begun to advertise gifts for Mothers’ day, but here I am today, doing the same thing. Zazzle, being my largest shop so far, I’ve created some adverts from my latest designs. When it is mother’s day? In the…
The theme of my product designs was inspired by our world in Spring (in the northern hemisphere) and Easter everywhere else. I had not been back to Polyvore for a while, having had several computer problems, but the happy spring image below when clicked on takes you to my Polyvore site. I have added the…
I was wondering about that because when I lived in Holland during the sixties I had never heard of Valentine’s Day! Today because of my POD online shops The day of romance is an important event. These days Valentine is celebrated in many more countries around the world, although it is not a public holiday…
When we moved into our new home years ago I planted lots of sunflower seeds because there was no garden as of yet.These seeds all blossomed and suddenly our rather bare garden was decorated with sunflowers. When we moved into our home in Clovelly – Western Cape in 2005 we just lacked money to buy…
Shopping for gifts 