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Hokay.. I changed the Secret Keeper mug and the Sushi Cat mug designs to have the images on both the front and the back of the mugs. There are two sizes of mug: 8oz. and 11oz. (at least I think the large is 11oz.)
I made the designs on photoshop, printed them out on paper and then wrapped the actual size print around a real mug to see how well it fits. The designs for the Secret Keeper and the Sushi Cat should now be well positioned.The brown scratching dragon design is still questionable though. I need to work on it.
I am rounding up some large images we have of various Windstones. These are high resolution enough to make posters and calendars and stuff like that. I’ll be getting these items up this week, as time permits. Ha ha.
(I started with the mugs just to get the store open.)dragonmedley wrote:Have you made any progress in deciding what the new color was going to be? Will you know before the tan and black mother and chicks are up for sale? Can you show us?
Planning for my wallet here 😀 I am getting close to a color, I’ll photo it today and post it. It is a wolf looking one. I can’t decide if the tan color should be soft, or bright chestnut like the “nyalah” one.. I kinda prefer it soft myself, but many people liked the brighter “nyalah” one. (If you don’t know what I am refering to, the pics of these old test colors are in my gallery, on here, under “staff gallery”) I am having trouble with the female, because I didn’t plan her feather pattern to match the male’s very well. She will look different, even with the same coloring, because her chest area is so broad.
I had some pearl griffin chicks test-painted last week. The sitting griffin chicks are cast and ready to paint. We’ll do a batch in Pearl next.
We are still having casting issues with the crouching one, though.frozendragon wrote:drag0nfeathers wrote:OH YEA! Poad skibbies, bloomers, knickers, undies, or as my mother called them… fudgies =D
EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW 😯
lolpoad fudgies…
mimitrek wrote:Melody wrote:Here is the link to the “Windstone Stuff” store on Cafe’ Press:
http://www.cafepress.com/windstonestuff
I’ve got three coffee mugs in it.Wow, that was quick! I wanted to check with you on a few things:
Quote:1) The image on the mug looks like its all squished to the left. Is it actually centered on the side which faces you (if the handle is to the left)?
The pictures of the mugs don’t look very good. I ordered one of those mugs, so I’ll see for myself how it looks when I get it. I think that it is just how the image looks in the store.. but why don’t you wait till I get one to check, to be sure the image isn’t squished.
Quote:2) Is the image only on one side or on both sides? In the picture it looks like its only on one side.
The image is just on one side, away from the drinker if they are right handed. Should I put them on both sides? I can do that. I was going to do some wrap around designs too.
Quote:3) If its only on one side, it looks like the image would be on the side which is not facing you if you’re right handed. Is that the way it supposed to be?
Yes.
I am open to any suggestions you have! I don’t know what I am doing. I’m proud of myself for even getting those things up!Greater Basilisk wrote:A Windstone store! Awesome! Will these pieces be Direct Sales or will your retailers be able to sell them too?
You purchase these things directly from the “Windstone Stuff” store on the Cafe’ Press website.
Here is the link to the “Windstone Stuff” store on Cafe’ Press:
http://www.cafepress.com/windstonestuff
I’ve got three coffee mugs in it. Hey, that took me all day! ( Notice the very cool drop shadow on the sushi-cat mug! That took three people about an hour to do by itself.)Also notice the impressive typo in the store description. You should always spell your company’s name wrong.I got a Cafe’ Press store set up! I have two coffee mugs with images of dragons on them in it! (This took me all day to accomplish, even with help from very kind people.)
Here is the link:
http://www.cafepress.com/windstonestuff
I’ll add other items when I can dig up some good pics that are large enough, and of high enough resolution to make nice larger images.I showed this agreent to John, and he thinks it is all ok. So I will start putting the “Windstone Stuff” store together. Cool! Poad underwear!
emerald212 wrote:Oh really?! That’s good to know. I don’t remember reading that. Hmm… I may have to look into this again. I don’t want my husband’s Fairy Fossil designs ripped off either. I’ve had the store up for a while (meaning, years) and never had trouble with them though. I’ll have to look into it.
I am in no way suggesting that Cafe Press isn’t an honest, upright company. I have never heard of them abusing any copyrights.. it is just that agreeing to a vauguely worded (subject to change at anytime)license to a company, like Cafe Press, might somehow cause legal issues when other companies DO rip you off.I need to check with the lawyer, or the psuedo-lawyer(John) first.
Here is the text that concerns me most:
CafePress.com reserves the right to add, delete and/or modify any of the terms and conditions contained in this TOS(Terms of Service), at any time and in its sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on the CafePress.com Web Site. In the event of substantive changes to this TOS, you may be notified by email. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to not use the Web Site and the CafePress.com Service. Your continued use of the CafePress.com Web Site following posting of a change notice or new TOS on the CafePress.com Web Site will constitute binding acceptance of the changestarbreeze wrote:I hope she tells us…
You make it sound as if I plan these things. I don’t. I usually don’t know what they are gonna be till I paint them.
Dragon Master wrote:how will we know when we can order these items? Will we be able to order them thru this sight? Black mugs with SK’s sounds nice
I was going to post a link to the shop here, but after reading the “terms of service” cafe press has, I chickened out on this. It sounds as if they have rights to your designs! It probably just means that you are giving them the license to use your designs on their stuff, which you would have to allow them to, of course, but there is a clause about them being able to change this agreement at any time!
.. so we are back to Lawyer land again. This is why we never accomplish anything.Okay, I opened a store on Cafe’ press. It is called “Windstone stuff”. So far this morning I have gotten ONE coffee mug design uploaded. I hope it will go quicker when I learn how to do this..took me all morning to sort it out!
I’ll need to get, or take, larger, better photos of the sculptures to do a calendar, poster (they have those?) or shirts with them. Most of the images we have are sized for web gallery use or Ebay, so the res. and size need to be greater. I spent all morning trying to get an image cut out of a photo to make a mug wihtout the square format. It looks good, however is a great big pain-in-the-butt to do, so I think we gotta just enjoy the square block images on the coffee mugs! Most of the Metallic dragons look best against black anyway. I wish there was a black mug! There are black tee shirts, but again, the design needs to be messed with to get them to look right. I’ll be working on this in the future, unless I can get someone else to do it for meeee.. Chessie.emerald212 wrote:Women’s tees – v-neck, tank, t-shirt
Probably men’s too, to make it fair
Coffee mugs and travel mugs
Sweatshirts
Calendars
Large, unframed prints (like posters)
unframed tiles, like coastersThey have all that stuff??
Zelda wrote:Hello! Just this morning I decided to do a little dusting, and ran my Windstones under a quick sprinkle of water to get them clean. I was darn near horrified to find that the eggshell paint on my gargolingus started to blister and flake off! I quickly patted it dry, but as it has dried, more paint has started to peel away from the piece. Help!
Have you ever run across this problem with your other gargolingi or egg pieces, and do you have any repair ideas? Thanks in advance!
NO! I’ve never had this happen to an indoor piece. From all the tests weve done, the paint is water resistant. The gypsum underneath is suseptable to acids however, such as acid rain, and I suppose acid tap water, but it should not happen that fast! Did you buy this piece new? -or was it “used”?
I could send you some of the stain we use and some finish, but it may be tricky to repair the damage invisibly. Fortunately he is a gargoyle, and they aren’t too picky about their appearance, being kinda weathered looking anyway.SPark wrote:I don’t suppose you could let us know what color of Secret Keeper we’re going to see next? I know you’d mentioned there being another batch of ten… those aren’t going to be all the same color, I assume, so what colors will there be?
I’ve got about eight that are already painted black.. so I’ve gotta paint them a metallic color. I haven’t decided. Gold? Autumn leaf? or a plain old retired color, like Rainbow or Peacock?…or maybe Black Rainbow? (that’s like the Black Emerald, but rainbow colors)
