I am going in on all the images that I have in all my shops to improve the tags and key words for each image. Large job but it is a very important part of what I am trying to accomplish. I just feel that after reading further that I can improve the images actually be found on Google by doing a deeper and clearer job. The images now on Snowman Pastiche have be added to and the products have been better identified. The same goes for the Let It Snow shop. All apparel, shoes, cards, and gift items are clearly noted.

This gift, a mousepad with snowman and penguins, is identified with Mary Parker and with The Edith Collection among other tags to make it easier to find.


So these fun Christmas Characters re-created by Mary Parker are among many others I am taking from The Edith Collection and adding to the shops for Christmas gifts and fun stuff. The Holiday Shoes are in all my shops and will be more extensively covered as I cross like them with the images in Christmas Depot. That job is underway and will require much more reading.

Tags: Zazzle galleries, Snowman Pastiche, Let It Snow, snowman, apparel, keds shoes

I have taken the time to work on this site and to try to build it as I would like to have it seen. My limited knowledge about any of this is most restrictive; however,I can say that I am slowing pulling it together. The pages which I have improved and added are sections for Fruit and Flora, Wild, Rustic Lodge, and the very large Mary Parker Portfolio. Adding the pages and putting the material on them is becoming more flexible. I have to say over and over that RapidWeaver is the most wonderful thing around. The entire process has been made possible only because this software is so GREAT.

I have had the idea that if I took some of the new products that I am selling on line and placed them in the sidebar in relative locations that it might look interesting. That is the direction that I am heading toward now. Trying to communicate with this site will grow more functional, I am sure, as I progress in the understanding of all of it.

Tags: Mary Parker, Fruit and Flora, Wild, Rustic Lodge, Let it Snow, Santa, Snowmen

South American Llama design created for apparel, paper products, gifts and ceramics. I love brilliant color. I love it to use when I am painting and building designs. This design was built to say, ‘Hello Llama’, and it does just that with color. The use of the llama as a design element was selected only because of the animals uniqueness. This design is one of the new selections in WILD and it has everything available to support it.

I am working on the shop WILD today and will be reorganizing and addling images and products to it . The new works will be featuring animals and tribal designs from many far away places.

WILD LLAMA

WILD LLAMA APPAREL

Tags: llama,Wild, bright color,apparel,cards, gifts, south american animal

My cool little shops are lighting up and making progress! I have been busy trying to improve this site so that I could better explain the portfolio and the use of the designs that I have made. The Christmas images are all designs which I built for the Mary Parker Christmas Portfolio. I created a blog on those images on blogger, CHRISTMAS PIZZAZZ, and I have not yet found the magic formula for getting it all seen on Google. I will keep building and adding images and reading. One day it will work as I would like it to and it will be another ‘mountain’ I will have climbed.

The cards are doing well in all the shops. I have not learned how to link to the products in my CafePress shop, CHRISTMAS DEPOT, but I hope to learn how shortly. Meanwhile, it is a cool shop that is doing well and has a lot of different looks.

Tags: Christmas,Edith, Mary Parker, just loveable

I am trying to work on the pages of this site and although RapidWeaver is the most wonderful thing that has happened to me and the computer, I have MUCH to learn about the simplest thing. I am trying to create pages which will reflect the type of images that my catalogs are composed of rather than placing all those designs into albums as I though I would do in the beginning. This too may change but for the present I believe that it will be a cleaner page if I handle it this way. The first new page will be FRUIT & FLORA and I am placing a montage on the page and then some of the various images from the collections in that catalog to give a feel for the way that catalog flows and how it will be used.

The shop, a la Mode, will be the one which takes this type of material for product. The everyday images that follow fashion trend. That is such a wide swath it won’t be very definitive.

FRUIT & FLORA

This is the montage which I have put together to represent the images from this catalog.

Tags: upgrading site, new pages, fruit and flora, a la mode shop

This is my image. I created it. I drew it. I painted it with gouache. I used pen and ink on it. I put it in my portfolio, MARY PARKER CHRISTMAS PORTFOLIO. It belongs to THE EDITH COLLECTION, INC. My company. The design number is CH454. It was licensed to good manufacturers in the late 90s for pillows, in the 2000s for gift bags and then for cards. This image below is now being used by me, the owner and holder of the copyright, to use as I see fit. I am using it to create products with print on demand companies, CafePress and Zazzle. I did not give permission to any other company at any other time to use on plates . That usage which I have talked about in the last blog entry is THEFT.

THIS IS ONE OF THE IMAGES WHICH A COMPANY CALLED ROYAL NORFOLK HAS STOLEN FOR ITS OWN PERSONAL GAIN.

Tags: santa image Mary Parker card

This is a regular happening. What is? Having your images ripped off and reproduced in China and sold to manufacturers around the world. Oh, yes, did I mention that when that happens there is nothing of consequence that you can do to prevent the theft from occurring?
I have had this happen more times than I can count. I have had companies who are in the US and were using the images. Some were companies ‘unaware’, others I had to go to court and demand settlement. Others it was simply a fox chase. You spend loads of money and time bleeding trying to stop the theft to no avail. Yes, there are laws. Very funny and sad. I learned to just keep going and try to build images faster that the Chinese could rip them off. That too was a joke. A major portion of the United States manufacturing is done in China and when you license an image to a good manufacturer and he goes to China to get the job done, the design is lost out the back door.

Posting this to let others know that this is theft. I did not license these designs to any manufacturer to use on plates.








This image below is one I will be using to build products on CHRISTMAS DEPOT, CHRISTMAS CARDS and THE SANTA SHOP this week. This was how I made a living and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to show others what happens to work you build with your hands in good faith. Oh, Mary Parker is the name under which I built all my Christmas images. This company 3 Peas in a Pod is actively selling work which is illegal.

Tags: rip off images mary parker santa, theft China manufacturer

Mary Parker Christmas designs are selling in the Zazzle galleries. SNOWMAN PASTICHE which is my Zazzle gallery for just Snowman images is perking up a bit! The truly cool Keds shoes, which I love to edit my designs for, are always a great purchase because they are fun and so cool for the Holidays. You know that I coordinate all the products to match. So when you get a pair of shoes, you could also get a matching tote bag, or a greeting card.
SHOES FOR CHRISTMAS FUN!

GREETING CARD

Tags: keds shoes, Christmas Pastiche, images, Zazzle, Mary Parker, Edith Collection

I have prepared 17 new images and put them into CHRISTMAS DEPOT. They look great. The problem was in trying to come up with the correct margin of bleed for the designs so that when I use a structured border it would not be lost in the process. I think that now I can go forward with that under control. The images are mixed with snowmen, Santas and a teddy bear or two.

These same images are to be placed on my other shops: CHRISTMAS CARDS, THE SANTA SHOP, and SNOWMAN PASTICHE. At the moment, however, Zazzle seems to be working on their platform (?) because the site is not responding to the process. I am sure it will be nice when it is finished but to just ‘encounter’ the mess when you are trying to accomplish a task, it is frustrating and discouraging. It has been changing things around for quite sometime. The flash panels they have, which are ever so great, would not load for nearly a month. So, I am building successfully at CafePress.

I have become a member of their Affiliate Program which is connected to Commission Junction and I am hoping to place my work out there for some active company to pick up. Just another hook in the water. And another area I will have the challenge of learning. I do feel that if I can get some companies who do a lot of this type of thing that the images I have and will be able to place in the Christmas Depot will generate some type of income. I am hoping to have this thing moving for Christmas 2009. Sounds reasonable.

Today after the mess at Zazzle I think that I will try to build a Squidoo lens for these images. I just want to create one that is alive and when I think about it carefully, I believe that I could better approach the idea if I think of it like presenting my work at Surtex. The presentation was done with 5 catalogs and 22 feet of art display. All of that was carefully divided into collections and collections into categories and categories into the 5 different catalogs: Christmas, Halloween, Rustic Lodge, Fall Harvest, Everyday. Oh yes, the leftovers were also accumulating into extra catalogs: Teddy Bears, Farm, Wildlife, Primitive and Tribal Design. So there your go, how to do all this. Go nuts thinking about it. Right. And even the Christmas, back where we started, is divided into many parts.

Anyway, all that matters is that I come up with a way of presenting the images I am currently working on in a fresh and alive manner for a Squidoo lens!

Tags: Christmas card images

This is a major attitude adjustment for me and all I can say about it is that I am truly trying. It feels more like Lilliputian strings of control rather than actual ‘need’ to make this site visible. But here goes....
I have the Twitter installed. Another string to tie me up. Well, it is.
I also have been working on my next 20 images to go in the card store. Need to get these done as soon as possible.I reached the 17th image but not 20. And tomorrow I will put them into the shop.

Tags: setting up twitter, learning how, attitude adjustment