Thanks!

To whoever bought a greeting card of "Look What I Found!"

I also forgot to thank the person who bought an iPhone Case/Skin of "Vikings on the Rampage!" back in March. That really made my day too! I believe you bought the first phone case from me ever! 

After selling the iPhone case, I ended up getting paid by Redbubble.  So that of course meant a Minifig shopping spree!  I ended up buying five minifigs from Bricklink; so far my Banshee and Arctic Explorer came in.  I'm still waiting on a Specter, a Faun, and a Zombie Pirate.  :) 

Thanks!

A big thank you to whoever bought a greeting card of "V is for..." :)

Pay Day!

Today I got paid by Redbubble!  

So that of course meant I went shopping for minifigs.  :)  I haven't been on Brick Link in awhile, nor have I bought any Legos (with the exception of a few Collectible Minifigs at Chapters over the last few months).  So I decided to get some minifigs from Series 12 and 13.  There were a lot of fun ones, but I decided to just get the 9 I really, really liked.  

So expect more pictures once they arrive!  :)

Thanks!

Thanks to whoever bought a greeting card of "Prehistoric Valentine's."  :)

Stickers!

Last year, I made some of my Lego pictures available as stickers.  Well, last night I sold some!  A big thank you to whoever bought stickers of "Bumblebee Lady in the Flowers"!  :)

Fixing Up My Redbubble

One of my goals for the year was to fix up my Redbubble page.  I wasn't really thinking of doing that right away, but after selling those iPhone cases the other day, I sort of got motivated to work on this.  

A big decision I made was to remove all the non-Lego pictures from Redbubble.  As much as I love all of those pictures, I've never sold a single one on there since joining the site in 2010.  The only things that have ever moved have been Lego pictures.  So with a heavy heart, I took all of those pictures off of my profile.

I then went through and added a few more Lego pictures, then created some new collections (the only one that remained basically the same was "Phone Cases").  In the end I decided on "Fantasy," "Holidays," "Winter" and "Summer."  Not everything fit into these categories,but I felt they worked best to show off my photos at this time.  

So that's about all I've got in me for tonight.  I'll probably leave the layout of my profile like this for now, and see how it goes. :)

Another Case!

Looks like I sold another iPhone case - thank you to whoever bought it!  :)

An Update and some Thank Yous

I know it's been awhile.  I've been pretty busy for the last while because I moved into my own place.  I also got a cat, who is a sweetheart but we've had some issues with scratching and food.  So in the middle of all this, I haven't taken many pictures lately (except for those related to my move and Merlin).

But during this time, I've actually made a couple of sales on Redbubble.  So a big thank you to the people who bought greeting cards and prints from me.  :)

Uploaded to Flickr!

It's actually been about a month since I've been on Flickr.  I had several pictures (from camp and from around my yard) to upload but just didn't get around to it.  I finally wandered back to Flickr yesterday, uploading "Japanese Doll" (pictured).  At that time I got caught up with most of my friends, too.  Then today I finished getting caught up with friends and uploaded another 17 pictures.  I'm glad I finally got all these pics off of my camera - and now it's definitely time to take more!!!

Phone Cases!

As I mentioned on August 3rd, some of my pictures on Redbubble look awesome as phone cases.  So to show that off, I created a new collection featuring all of those pictures!

The collection is a fun mish-mash of my photos.  There are Lego pictures (which make some very fun cases!), flower pictures (which make for some very pretty cases), animal pictures, and even some landscapes (like this fun picture of Duluth, Minnesota's Aerial Lift Bridge).  But not everything I have available on Redbubble is available as a case - some pictures just didn't look good, so they didn't make the cut.  And one picture, "The Crystal King's Closeup," looks fine as an iPhone case, but terrible as a Samsung case (so it's only available for iPhones). 

After making the new collection, I ended up removing my old Animals collection, combining it with the Miscellaneous one.  I like that there are only five collections on my profile page so it doesn't look too busy.  The new collection is now at the top of the page, giving it center stage to the other collections. 

Spider in the Rosebush

I've always loved this picture. We used to have a rosebush in our front garden, and these really cool white spiders lived on it.  They were white with a little bit of pink, helping them blend in on the roses.

After updating Redbubble and playing with all the new options, I thought this picture would make a really deadly phone case.  And boy was I right!  I cut out the house in the background, focussing on the spider and the flower; it looks awesome!

I'm also trying something different with this image - it's not available as a print because I'm not really a fan of the house in the background.  I did make it available as a tote bag and throw pillow though because I was able to focus more on the spider and the rose.

Explored!

So it finally happened - I made it into Flickr's Explore pages!  And even more exciting, it's happened three times so far!


The first one was "3 Blooms - March 15 2014 2," a picture I took of my mom's orchid blooming.  This one made it to #79 on the March 15th Explore page.  It has over 9000 views, beating out "Blurry Sasha" (my reigning champion since 2010) by about 1000 views.


The second one was "Tink, Day 4."  That one climbed to #110on May 22nd, 2014.  It's currently got just over 6000 views, about 2000 less than "Blurry Sasha."


Finally was "New Camera!"  I really don't know why everyone was excited about this one, but it climbed to #6 on July 29th, 2014.  It's actually got over 20,000 views right now, beating out "Blurry Sasha" by about 11,000 views!

Redbubble Updated with Cool New Things!

So it's been awhile since I updated my Redbubble site.  In fact, the last time I updated it was when I last posted here.  But I was clearing out some of my emails, when I came across a Redbubble newsletter that had this article.  Realizing I haven't actually gone to Redbubble in months, I decided to look at my profile and see if I could use some of their tips to improve it.

I started out by hiding a bunch of pictures.  Most of them were Lego ones that haven't gotten many views.  I did end up keeping a few on there that had less than my arbitrary view count to stay, just because I liked them.  When that was done, I hid a bunch of other pictures, too; ones that I decided for one reason or another don't need to be there.

It was around this point that I rewrote my bio and decided to upload a few flower pictures I took with my new camera (oh yeah, I got a new camera!)  I chose a couple of flower pictures with ants in them based off of my newly rewritten bio.  And that was when I first noticed that my pictures were able to go onto the new Redbubble throw pillows and iPhone cases.  I didn't think some of my older pictures (ie the ones taken with my Canon PowerShot S3 IS) were capable of being on the new throw pillows and stuff.  But I figured out how to actually get them there.  Around that time, I also decided to drop my prices.  I've been putting a 50% markup on all my pictures since I started on Redbubble.  As per their tips, they suggested that I rethink the price; I decided to go with their suggested 20%, just to see how that goes.

So for the next hour or two, I was changing all my prices, and reuploading pictures so they could be on throw pillows and stuff.   I played around with everything, trying to make all the pictures look good on whatever I'm offering them on now.  If they didn't look good, I didn't enable whatever it was as a buying option (so, for example, if something didn't look good as an iPad case, it is not offered as an iPad case). 

So now I have a smaller selection of pictures available to buy as a greater number of things.  And everything looks gorgeous!  (Doing this really made me want an iPhone - some of my pics look absolutely fantastic as phone cases!) 

Red Bubble Updated!

Today I decided it was high time to update my Red Bubble site.  Apparently I haven't added anything new to Red Bubble since July 2013!  I uploaded 16 new Lego pictures, 11 of which were from my Minifigure Alphabet.  Enjoy!  :)

A Thank You and a Quick Update

First, a big thank you to whoever bought a copy of "Some Fishing Action."  :)

Second, I just added a few new Lego pics to my Red Bubble Site.  They were taken during a picture taking adventure for Father's Day and then out at camp.  Of course, all of these and more are on my Flickr site as well, so take a look if you have a moment.  :)

Another Thanks

This one goes out to whomever bought a copy of "Some Fishing Action" back a few weeks ago.  I've been meaning to say thanks since you bought it, but have been pretty busy.  So I apologize for my lateness, but thank you so much; your support means a lot to me!  :)

Thanks! :)

Just wanted to send a quick thanks to whomever bought a copy of "Out for a Ski" this morning.  You definitely made my day!  :)

Thanks! :)

Thank you so much to whoever just bought a greeting card of "Out for a Ski!"  :)

"Fairy in the Flowers" now on Red Bubble!

Recently I took a fun picture of my fairy minifig hanging out in a gerber daisy.  While I posted two different versions of the same picture (you can find the other one here), I liked this one a lot better (it's currently my laptop's background!)  I liked it so much that I decided to share it on Red Bubble, too. 

When I first tried shooting this picture, I didn't have a very good background.  Luckily I thought to use the poinsettia we had this Christmas; both the foreground leaf and the leaf behind the right gerber flower belong to the poinsettia.  To finish the shot off, I backlit the fairy using a flashlight hidden behind the leaves. 

You can find "Fairy in the Flowers" for sale on Red Bubble, along with some of my other Lego pictures.

Another Big Thank You...

...to whomever also bought a copy of "Some Fishing Action" on Red Bubble!  :)