The Gift Shop

I'm experimenting with the departments below - they are hosted on CafePress who will ship anywhere in the world from their base in California. This shopping area is just getting started, your support is most welcome - thank-you! You are also most welcome to visit the Phipps family shop, where Susanna sells pens and we all sell unwanted books & gadgets!

It features gift items created using my own original artwork, gathered from my photography while travelling. The original artwork is also available as prints and posters, please contact me if you would like to obtain one of these.

When I started this, CafePress used Java but they have now gone to the Dark Side so I'm looking for an alternative vendor; any suggestions?


PhotoHaikuNew to the shop, a photo and haiku combined to make beautiful gifts. The photo was a leaf clinging to a rock under a waterfall at Big Sur in California. It spoke of gentle but tenacious resistance and of the beauty that comes from strong character. It's available on a mug and a travel cup.

Purple Flower PowerThe power of a simple photograph is often surprising - this, amazingly, is just a photo of a thistle! This design makes a striking t-shirt, mug, mousemat or bag. It's based on a photograph taken in an English hedgerow in Summer 2001 using a Canon D-30 and built-in flash - the white 'fluff' is the pollen loaded on the flower. Visit my Purple Flower Power department to see the whole range of items available.

Aim High, the Sky's the Limit!
The soaring free spirit of the "Aim High" hawk (photo taken in Hong Kong, again with the D-30) makes a great mousemat and more. See this and the other items in the Aim High department

The Provocative Bag
And last, but not least, is the Provocative Slogan department. If you were at JavaOne in 1997, you'll remember that a forklift dumped thousands of t-shirts outside Bill Gates' keynote in the Moscone Center bearing the slogan "In a world without fences, who needs Gates". Now, of course, I could never reveal who coined that slogan (eh, Allan?), but you can now get one of those t-shirts as well as two other slogans (this time by me) that have so far not made it big but are waiting for their day.



Or if you'd like to support the upkeep of the Webmink web site but don't want to buy anything, please click the button above to use PayPal - any US $ amount accepted gratefully.

Thistle Logo - Click here to reload site

Support This Site