Addicted To Zazzle

So five days ago I quit smoking, cold turkey from my pack a day habit, and things are going really well! Every time I feel the urge to go outside and pollute the air I avoid thinking about it and block it from my mind. The house is spotless because I'm trying to keep busy, I'm not overly grouchy which is a freaking miracle! There's just one thing I'm having trouble with - my concentration is shot. I know what I want to design, I get started and then I lose my way. I don't even know how it happens, I just forget what the big picture is! Eventually I managed to pull an image together and I'm so glad I didn't give up and decide it was going to be too hard today because this image turned out to be very beautiful and I'm really happy with it! You can see the hearts image below. In the mean time I have been reading this HILARIOUS blog  page about quitting smoking, I just  can't get enough of it! It is all so insanely true and he holds nothing, and I mean n...

Usually, I make a little bit here and a little bit there on Zazzle, a magnet here, a mug there, just enough to keep me encouraged and enough to notice I am making a little more each month than I did the last as I add more designs to all the products. Well a couple of weeks ago while trying a new angle on titles, tags and descriptions I thought maybe I needed to cut down on the amount and type of products I post on because at this point I have been overwhelmed with needing to change them all to suit the product, the target audience and the occasion. I wasn't sure if all this extra work was going to pay off when I could be adding hundreds of new products. I'm so glad I didn't do a cull because when I looked at my earnings this morning I had made $28 commission on a couple of packs of personalized napkins I had made in the last week, and it was one of the products I was considering culling in the name of laziness! I had also sold a couple of mugs as the day went on. So the mos...

You may not know yet but I am super excited to let you all know that Zazzle is now selling FABRIC!!! I am super excited because about a year ago I was making pram liners, I often couldn't find what the customers requested in the local shops so I began thinking about designing my own fabric to make the liners with as well as selling them on eBay and Etsy, and being able to sell on the site would have been ideal as well. So off I went on a quest to find this magical place where I would be able to place my designs up for sale and buy as well as sell my fabric and make beautiful pram liners. I found Spoonflower, and it was the only place which did all these things which I needed. So I jumped on the band wagon made an account! I soon found it wasn't going to be easy to just place an image up for sale, there were a few hoops I had to jump through to get my designs up for sale. You can make a Spoonflower account - easy! You can upload an image and see it on the fabric - easy! You ca...

I haven't had time to post in the last few days as I've had a rent inspection clean to attend to, and between three boys and a husband who are like tornadoes inside the home and especially with my middle child who loves lego (all over the house), my youngest son discovering he loves to dig the dirt out of the garden beds and get himself black from head to toe then make a trail of black marks on the way to the shower, the big clean and trying to maintain the big clean, trying to design and add images to Zazzle and play with the titles tags and descriptions, things have been non stop around here and I have neglected my blog. So I'm happy to say the rent inspection is now over, and the result? Perfect! So working with the square templates has been blissful! Everything fits where it is supposed to fit and it's really just a matter of uploading my images onto quick create and then off I go! So here are a couple of designs I have worked on the last couple of days. P...