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?
New 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.
The Irish department in the gift shop features
a D-30 photograph I took in Dublin at Trinity
College. Outside the new library building
is a fascinating modern sculpture called
'Sphere within Sphere'. As you can see, it speaks of technology,
precision, gold, decay and so much more.
I think it makes a great t-shirt.
The 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.
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
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.
