January 29, 2013

Lovely Necklace Collection you can buy online




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Hello, again my friends, Zazzlers and occasional visitors!


I was here thinking to myself what gift would I like to get from Zazzle store for Valentine's Day and after giving it some thought my choice would be a necklace, what else? It's a pretty and feminine gift that we can keep close to our hearts. These necklaces arrive in a special black felt bag that is perfect for gifting.


I picked a lot of pendants that make a good gift for Valentine's Day as you will see in this post. I am particularly fond of Vintage images and paintings from painters like Klimt or Klee. I also like the kaleidoscope designs or mandalas, I think they work so well in necklaces. Flowers and the color red are also timeless and ideal for the theme of love and passion!


I picked lots of different types of necklaces from Zazzle talented artists. Some are really pretty. Usually, I don't get gifts on Valentine's Day...it's not a tradition among Portuguese. At least not of my age. But today I am sending this link to my guy! Maybe I get lucky this time! I will let you know!


Funky Psychedelic Necklace






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LOVE Square Necklace
LOVE Square Necklace by JuJuGarden
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Cherry Heart Necklace
Cherry Heart Necklace by KirstenEdwards
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Bite me necklace
Bite me necklace by Hipster_Farms
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Red Rose Necklace
Red Rose Necklace by Visages
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Together Necklace
Together Necklace by madotta
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LOVE PENDANTS
LOVE PENDANTS by lostlit
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Round Pendant Necklace
Round Pendant Necklace by karenbjones
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Your hugs are my favorite pendant
Your hugs are my favorite pendant by FamilyCares
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I love you necklace
I love you necklace by abstractdesigns
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Love Jewelry
Love Jewelry by NJHeart
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Giraffes in Love Necklace
Giraffes in Love Necklace by lesrubadesigns
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Photo Heart Medium Gold Finish Necklace
Photo Heart Medium Gold Finish Necklace by all_items
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The Kiss, 1907-08 Necklaces
The Kiss, 1907-08 Necklaces by bridgemanart
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Vintage Paris | Pink Necklace
Vintage Paris | Pink Necklace by DulceDahlia
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Ballerina Shoes Custom Jewelry
Ballerina Shoes Custom Jewelry by danceweartshirts
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Where to find t-shirt design inspiration? Part 2/2

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Hello Zazzlers and friends!

Here's another post about sites where you can find t-shirts, lots of t-shirts. Sharing the second part of this big list I researched. It might be useful. You can find some inspiration for your designs in it, or you can get to study some different t-shirt business models if you're planning to open a t-shirt store. Or find stores that will do the printing for you. Or maybe you can find that t-shirt you were just looking for.

Today's list has t-shirt sites that also run t-shirt design competitions. Why not give it a try? I am not earning anything from these links but I also added a list of affiliate programs you can join so you can make money selling t-shirts even if you don't care to design it. When checking a t-shirt site look if they have an affiliate program. Many do have one.

After all this work I don't know if I am more or less motivated to design t-shirts for Zazzle than I was when I started! One thing I am sure: T-shirts seem to be a terrific business for many. Some of these sites are running for many years. So...have a look yourself.

 More places to buy t-shirts online



Headlineshirts - At Headline Shirts, they are obsessed with making intelligently funny tees and apparel. You'll find smart, great-looking stuff that you won't find anywhere else.

Customizedgirl - Use their design center to add your own text, art, and images to hundreds of styles: from t-shirts, to tank tops, to hoodies, to bags, to just about anything. You can start designing on a blank item, or you can customize one of the designs.

6dollarshirts - on the internet will you find such a large variety of quality printed t-shirts at such a ridiculously low price...

RiptappREL - Artists and designers can submit their designs through an agreement. Tees and more items available.

noisebot - An amazing selection of funny t-shirts at affordable low prices.

Nerdyshirts - NerdyShirts is an online retailer of t-shirts from your favorite movies, cartoons, video games, comic books

Lastexittonowhere - A small collective of like-minded film enthusiasts, designers, illustrators, screenprinters and photographers that collaborate to create unique T-shirts that pay homage to the most memorable places, companies, and corporations in cinema history.

GlobalThreadColective - A place where people can view artwork originating from different countries and customize it on different cuts of apparel for sale.

80stees - It's the prime destination for pop culture tribes everywhere to come together and share their geekery!

Uberprints - A one-stop shop for personalized clothing, UberPrints.com has been voted the best online provider of customized apparel.

Theteeparty - It specializes in artsy, cute and funny t-shirts.

Splitreason - online store for geeks and gamers with a strong focus on products that embody a high-tech lifestyle and passion for retro nostalgia. You can submit designs.

ooshirts - Nicely discounted t-shirt printing for customers.

indieshirts - All designs are created in-house and originated from random quotes and scribbles on pieces of paper.

designashirt - Custom t-shirts for everyone.

Teenormous - Shop 146,414 shirts in our powerful t-shirt shopping engine.

Teefury - All tees here are super limited-edition, being sold for only 24-48 hours or until sold out, whichever happens first. After the sale period, the t-shirt is removed never to be made available for sale again.


What about selling tshirts and entering t-shirt design contests?

DesignByHumans - DBH is an ongoing t-shirt design competition and community where

artists and t-shirt lovers can create, buy, and talk about art and t-shirts.

MonsieurPoulet - French site with ongoing contests and seasonal ones. Designers will win "2 euros par exemplaire vendu. Chaque dessin est édité entre 100 et 1000 exemplaires. "

Pampling - T-shirt design contest winners can win till 2500 euros.

Soupup - Brazilian site. There's a prize of 1600 reais for winning design.

Threadless - Pick a design challenge to submit to. The Threadless challenge is their big, ongoing, challenge. All the rest have themes, timelines, and different stuff up for grabs.

99designs - Post a contest, review the designs and pick a winner, it's that easy.

DesignCrowd - Instantly hire thousands of quality designers from around the world - an affordable way to get better, more creative ideas. The best part? You select the best design!

And a last one - TPOSTMAG - T-post is the world's first wearable magazine. It's a streetwear brand heavily influenced by what's happening around us, combining written stories with the best street culture medium ever invented, the graphic T-shirt.

What about reading about t-shirt culture?

http://t-shirts.alltop.com/ - The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, “What’s happening?” in “all the topics” that interest you. You may wonder how Alltop is different from a search engine. A search engine is good to answer a question like, “How many people live in China?” However, it has a much harder time answering the question, “What’s happening in China?” That’s the kind of question that we answer.

http://compete-tee-tion.com/ - Welcome to Compete-tee-tion! This site tracks all the biggest news in the t-shirt design competition world, from reviews of new releases to information on new contest opportunities.



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The Independente - A luxury hostel in Lisbon


Just read about this special hostel called The Independente at The Guardian. It's in Lisbon, our capital. It has a different concept in hospitality. You can check photos of The Independente here. And there's a blog here. The Guardian asked Kash Bhattacharya, who is currently backpacking around Europe and blogging, to find some really nice luxury hostels in Europe and, surprise, surprise, this one made to the list!

"90 beds spread across 11 dorms with its impressive floor to ceiling heights as well as the abundant size that all rooms boast offer guests the opportunity to enjoy a private lounge within every room where they can relax and share stories and experiences with fellow travelers in unique and inviting comfort. Four very special suites, with private balconies which overlook the Tagus River, where guests can enjoy their breakfast free of charge, compliment the accommodation options offered and will surely embellish your stay with us in one of the world’s oldest cities."
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Another big wave for Garrett McNamara!

There's a lot of excitment going on about Nazaré beach and its big waves and Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara. You have to be amazed by this guy's courage. Just watch this TheGuardian video. But to have a deeper insight about Nazaré and the all scenario, take some time and watch the video Surf no Canhão de Nazaré above.

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Garrett McNamara surfed another big wave in Nazaré (Portugal)!


Photo source - Facebook

I was just going to sleep when I saw this amazing photo and had to blog about it. It seems that Garrett McNamara has surfed a monster wave in Nazaré beach AGAIN and may have beaten his previous world record. This man is just incredible. Garrett McNamara has already surfed what is considered to be the biggest wave ever in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal, during the ZON North Canyon Project 2011. Now McNamara returned to Nazaré and it may have surfed another huge one on 28th January, yesterday. In this photo that was captured by portuguese photographer called Tó Mané, Garrett McNamara is seen riding a big, big wave, maybe a 100-foot wave. Garrett McNamara traveled from Hawaii and hit the water with Kealii Mamala,Kamaki Worthington and Hugo Vau, as support team on the jet ski. This is McNamara blog, keep checking it for further news.

Read about previous McNamara record here!
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January 28, 2013

Where to find the best t-shirts online? Part 1/2


Hello Zazzlers and friends!

I hardly have any t-shirts for sale on my Zazzle stores. I am afraid of t-shirts, I confess! I keep comfortable when creating for paper. But textile creation is hard on me. As I see it, doing graphic design and doing graphic design specifically for t-shirt printing are two totally different things. I'm used to paper. I'm used to creating logos and handouts and postcards and posters. I feel comfortable with paper but not with textile design. It's something that people will wear. It's scary! But every now and then I think about creating some really cool t-shirts. I did some research into the existing t-shirt fashion online market. There's a huge t-shirt online market! After a close look at hundreds of tees, its trends, designs, colors, I don't know if there is anything else to write or draw or paint about on a t-shirt! So, here's the first post about some t-shirts blogs and sites I found. Let's take a look!

Blogs about tshirts to browse

best-tshirts-ever - Powered by Tshirts. Lots of news about the t-shirt world.If you are a T-Shirt designer looking for additional exposure, having your designs featured on Best T-Shirts Ever is an awesome method of getting t-shirt lovers looking at your tees! Due to demand they now request a small one-time payment to write feature reviews.

cooltshirtdesign - The new online T-Shirt design resource showcasing all things cool in the world of T-Shirts. Designers, stores, and trends.

troundup - T-shirt roundups, reviews and more.

Hideyourarms - T-shirt and hoodie blog founded in January 2006 which aims to provide news, deals, coupons, and competitions from around the indie clothing industry and beyond. The site aims to showcase the best creative talent in the t-shirt world, whilst having a bit of fun in the process with more mainstream pop culture designs as well.

Teehunter - It hunts down the best t-shirt designs out there, showcasing brands and artists and growing the tee culture on the web. A community of tee enthusiasts and t-shirt lovers.

Teereviewer - It shows reviews of t-shirts and t-shirt stores. Also the t-shirt industry in general and sometimes comment on current topics…if they relate to t-shirts.

Shirtguru - It features daily updated t-shirts from sites like uneetee, Shirt.woot, DesignByHumans, Threadless and others.

Coloroverload - A blog by clothing line owner that has been in and around the t-shirt industry for years and have a passion for everything tee related.


Places to shop for tshirts online

8Ball - Thousands of unique t-shirts, with more designs being added all the time, and you won’t find any of them on the high street. From pop culture to politics, from geek life to thug life, from retro to sci-fi.

ImaginaryFoundation - The Imaginary Foundation is a think tank from Switzerland that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination. 

FabNob - Australian online t-shirt boutique.

YoungLoversLabel - They say they are for lovers and dreamers and they create t-shirts!

Shirtcity - It allows you to open a store.

WireandTwine - A curious place, all of their products are designed and produced by hand.

Glennz - Glenn Jones is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand. Good designs here.

Iloveyourshirt - T-shirts, news, and reviews.

Fibers - They say they are crazy about self-expression and strive to create an experience for customers which offers the ultimate in product customization. You can open a store.

Outprintclothing - They work closely with artists, authors, and publishers to license the content that ends up in their collections. Each product is treated to feel soft and worn like a well-read book.

Spreadshirt - Creative platform for custom t-shirts and custom clothing. You can explore our easy to use T-Shirt Designer and make your own t-shirt or other personalized clothing products to spread your unique message. You can open a store.

BustedTees - Since 2004 BustedTees has been one of the web's leading Internet based t-shirt brands.

Snorgtees - It's specialized in pop-culture inspired, random, and all around funny t-shirt designs.

Palmercash - Their clothes have been worn by the famous to the infamous. They've been worn on dozens of movies and television shows and featured in countless magazines from Italian Vogue and French Elle to Maxim and Rolling Stone. Simple and classic apparel for men and women to wear.

Don't miss next post where I'll be writing about more places to search for incredible t-shirts, maybe open a t-shirt store or enter a t-shirt design contest online.

Inspiration?

Mental Floss - Looking for an eclectic mix of quirky, intelligent products? This is for knowledge junkie, from history buffs to bookworms to math geeks!
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My sketchbook has arrived to Brooklyn Art Library!





Just got an email from Sketchbook Project 2013!!!


Dear Belinha Fernandes,

Thanks for sending in your project for SBP 2013! We just wanted to let you know that your project has now been cataloged into the Brooklyn Art Library! It can be found on the shelves with a call number of 193.96-7. If you've already chosen to get your project digitized, you'll receive another email once it's been scanned into the Digital Library. Please stay tuned for more details about the project.

Sincerely,The Art House Crew
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January 22, 2013

Software to enhance your creativity



Hello Zazzlers and friends.

Today I bring you a list of programs you can use to pursue your creative endeavors. Some are free to use, others will have some limitations but still, you can download it and give it a try. I'll be updating this list as I can.

1. Adobe Creative Suite - This is a very good software even if an old version. You can use it to make your first contact with Adobe. You'll find Photoshop, Illustrator, and all the other programs like InDesign.

2. Inkscape - Draw freely - Inkscape 0.48.4 is out. Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. Inkscape is used for creating vector drawings, such as laying out a poster or creating a fancy logo, whereas bitmap editors are for working on raster images, such as touching up a photograph. In many projects, you would need to use both Inkscape and a bitmap editor (such as GIMP or Photoshop.)

Inkscape provides source tarballs for Linux (binary packages are offered by the distributor), packages for Windows XP/Vista/7 (fully self-contained installer), and Mac OS X (DMG). Inkscape is successfully used on FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems. Note that Windows 98/ME and 2000 is no longer supported.



3. GIMP - GNU Image Manipulating Program - GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. As an example, for digital painting, Gimp has painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc, sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing,, extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool and it supports custom brushes and patterns.

Supported Platforms

GNU/Linux (i386, PPC)
Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista)
Mac OS X
Sun OpenSolaris
FreeBSD






4. Free Serif Software - For Design Graphics you choose Draw Plus Starter Edition. It's an accurate vector drawing program, with a realistic brush, pen, and pencil tools, also has text on a path. It has blend modes for advanced artistic effects and it's compatible with graphics tablets.

DrawPlus Starter Edition System Specs
Pentium PC with mouse
Microsoft Windows® 8, 7, Vista, or XP (32-bit) operating system
512MB RAM
250MB free hard disk space
1024 x 600 monitor resolution









5.JTL Ultimate Paint - It's a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing, and manipulation. t has a flexible brush handling method which encourages creative drawing. You can also retouch and enhance photos using a comprehensive set of built-in tools and plug-ins. Features include resizing, rotating, flood filling, text operations and a lot more.




6. Paint.Net - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo special effects and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool, new for 3.0, has been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for zooming, and a Recolor tool.



7. Blender - Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite. It's used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. Download it here and check all its potential at this gallery.



8. Terragen 2 - The free version may only be used for non-commercial purposes but I am listing it also because I find it pretty amazing. You can create the most realistic images possible without taking a photograph. This software is a powerful solution for rendering and animating realistic natural environments. Create entire worlds from your imagination, or import real world terrain datasets and use Terragen 2 to create the most realistic visualizations possible. You control the weather, landscape, rivers, lakes and oceans, suns, moons and stars. With Terragen 2 you have complete control over the shader networks used for terrains, textures, micropolygon displacements, clouds and object distributions. You can reorganize the planetary shading pipeline to suit your goals. Place grass and trees wherever you want, as well as other objects in OBJ format that you can model in third-party software. Check the potential of Terragen at the gallery, here.





9. Sculptris - Sculptris is an elegant, powerful and yet easy to use 3D sculpting software, allowing the artist in you to simply focus on creating amazing 3D artwork. Gone are the technical and often tedious constraints typically associated with digital art.
If you're new to the world of digital sculpting, Sculptris is the ideal ground on which to get started. If on the other hand you're experienced in CG, what you will find in Sculptris is a blazingly fast way to realize your concepts. It's intuitive, fun and user-friendly, so you can focus as an artist on pure creativity. Check the gallery here and be amazed by Sculptris. (This one I wanna try!!)



10. Sumopaint - It features many of the same tools, but Sumo Paint is geared towards illustration, where other software such as Photoshop is more suited for heavy image editing. The app has the web's most versatile collection of image editing features blurring the line between desktop applications like Photoshop or Gimp. Watch it in action on this video.
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Romantic Valentine's Greeting Cards you can buy online!



This design is one of the most popular Portuguese folk-art patterns. Today we can find it in clothes, shoes, objects. The sweetheart’s favors or Sweethearts´ handkerchiefs, - also known as Love handkerchiefs -are a Portuguese tradition. It dates may be from the 17th century. They have a symbolic function - the conquest of a man's love.

These squares are made of linen or cotton and have embroidered messages dedicated by a young woman to the man she is in love with. She then sent it to the man and, if her love was returned, he would use the handkerchief in public. In case he didn´t, the romantic dream was over. Often these handkerchiefs have language mistakes and rhyme. Designs include blackberry vines, bouquets, flowers, hearts, and keys to open hearts, butterflies, doves, religious symbols, etc. Linen is embroidered in cross stitch, in running and stem stitches.

This design is ideal for romantic persons or any romantic celebration or sweet moment, for example, Valentine’s Day.


This post was refreshed in 2015
Floral and hearts greeting card
Floral and hearts greeting card by aportugueselove
Check out other note cards online at Zazzle.

You may want to check these two links with lots ofValentine Greeting Cards!

Valentine's Day Cards
and a contemporary Portuguese Love Story
Valentine's Day Cards
and a medieval Portuguese Love Story


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MOBA - Art too bad to be ignored!




I am not kidding. I find this Museum amusing and interesting. It's about creativity, it's about people who challenged themselves and expressed what they saw or feel through the means of color. It's not fine art, that is for sure. But who hasn't seen art in a gallery and wonder why someone called art that particular piece? Nowadays it's sometimes difficult to have a clear perception of what is art and what's not! So, why shouldn't these masterpieces be treasured?

MOBA isn't a Portuguese Museum but sometimes I also blog about things other than Portuguese. The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition, and celebration of bad art in all its forms.

The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is a community-based, private institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition, and celebration of bad art in all its forms and in all its glory. MOBA was founded in the fall of 1993 and presented its first show in March 1994. The response was overwhelming. Since then, MOBA's collection and ambitions have grown exponentially. Initially, MOBA was housed in the basement of a private home in Boston. This meager exhibition space limited the museum to be a regional cultural resource for the New England area.

MOBA's bad art collection at the following links:

portraiture
Artists who make it into the MOBA portraiture collection are often visited by a unique, possibly extraterrestrial muse.

landscape
Are those ice creams or mountains?

unseen forces
It is not an easy thing to struggle against mighty forces like the giant orange cat consuming humankind.

unlikely landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes
The Artistic License is available to one and all.

in the nood
Warning: contains nudity

blue people
We can tell much about an artist by their choice of skin tones.

poor traits
The human (or canine) condition, brought forth into the spotlight.

here the symbols crash
A celebration of the obscure. Cunning artistry hides as well as reveals.

recent acquisitions
Fresh new talent is discovered, sometimes quite by accident
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January 21, 2013

Video: Can money buy happiness?

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