Author: Farmer Jim

  • Bishamon Buddhist deity and a fishy Koinobori scale design

    Updating tags and description of old products can be boring, so I thought it time to add a Bishamon pattern and a Koinobori scale design. These are two traditional Japanese designs you find in different variations. First the Bishamon design. Its peculiar trianle patterns is said to be derived of the Buddhist deity, Bishamon. For…

  • SEO Zazzle Searching the marketplace

    Last week Zazzle posted an announcement on the forum about changes in searching the Zazzle marketplace for your products. They noticed a lot of designs of Zazzlers did not sell at all, for ages. So they decided that all products that didn’t had a sale or a view for the last six months won’t show…

  • Golden waves and a Zazzle Teddy Bear

    I haven’t added much new designs to my store lately, but I managed to add a kamon with golden waves and a Zazzle Teddy Bear. Most work I did last couple of months went into recycling old designs to new products. This is an easy way to boost the amout of products without spending too…

  • Wrapping my head around Zazzle wrapping paper

    Wrapping my head around Zazzle wrapping paper

    A product change started me to wrapping my head around Zazzle wrapping paper again. Update June 2021 TLDR; Zazzle has for quite some time the option to set the tile width in exact inches. That way you can always tile in the length of the wrapping paper without a seam. As long as you keep…

  • Haida Weeping Skull and other new stuff

    I’ve finally started making my own Haida Formline art, the first one is called the Haida Weeping Skull. Besides Haida art I made a series of new patterns. But first Haida Formline. Copying from the web and recreating copied designs isn’t very satisfying and therefor I decided to make my own Haida Formline designs. I…

  • Harry Potter Making Money Magically

    Harry Potter Making Money Magically

    For many years I always wanted to make a post about the Wizarding world of Harry Potter. I’ve read the books at least two times and I have seen the movies on multiple occasions. This blog needs more posts, posts of a more divers character. Lets start something lighthearted about magic. If you’ve read the…