Saturday, October 12, 2013

Halloween, scary movies and greeting cards

Hello friends and Zazzlers!

A couple of weeks I watched a movie called The host. I kind of liked it. The host is about a monster that emerges from Seoul's Han River to attack people. He takes a little girl with him to an underground passage. Her family joins efforts to save her. I was positivelly impressed with this corean movie! Actually the story is good and characters are fine too. Usually I do not watch movies with monsters, zombies or supernatural forces. It's not that I am easilly scared. I even like to jump on my seat once or twice!But I do prefer other well written stories with some quality suspense and less horror scenes. Many recent horror movies are over what I consider acceptable. Too much blood, too much of everything but a good story.As the movies are one important source to the collective imaginary Halloween imagery is now probably more horrifying than it was some years ago. And maybe some monsters are really too scary to the little ones!Probably some parents find motifs to worry about it, things are different than they were when they were children.

When I think about it it's a bit strange that people enjoy Halloween because bottom line it celebrates the mistery of death. Death is the unknown. For some it's the end and that's it. For others it's another beginning. Some are at ease with it, some fear it. But I don't consider it a pleasant subject! And what's so funny about being scared afterall? No one like's to be scared for real. Maybe liking Halloween or liking scary movies is all about the same reason. People enjoy the emotional response to it. It's a question of adrenaline and hormones, not a rational thing.This is kind of a game where you can try a bit of danger but you know that you're safe. For children it can be a great way of growing up. As they play dressed in costumes they manipulate the monsters and ghosts faith and they overcome their fear of it! Some kids not not dress in scary costumes, some pick other characters. I guess they can feel like an actress or actor for a day. A hero maybe! With adults is the same.It's just a way to escape routine and drop inhibitions.

One part of celebrating Halloween is sending greeting cards. Many of us use email and e-cards and mobile phone text messaging to send greetings. But Halloween Greeting Cards are very popular.

Here's a sample of some of the best Halloween Greeting Cards I found available from Zazzle stores. Some are funny, some are scary.Some are created with digital, some are pencil and ink. But I like them all. Take a look and enjoy the art and talent of Zazzle designers and illustrators! Best WITCHES to you! 

Happy Halloween Greeting Cards
Happy Halloween Greeting Cards by thefightingcock
Look at more Halloween Cards at zazzle
"Skeleton Magic" Greeting Card
"Skeleton Magic" Greeting Card by strangeling
Check out other note cards online at Zazzle.
Black Spider Greeting Card
Black Spider Greeting Card by CreatureCreations
Look at other Halloween Cards at zazzle.com
Prickly Pumpkin-card
Prickly Pumpkin-card by 5150TwinArt
Design unique personalized note cards from zazzle.com.
Oh, Snap Skeleton Greeting Card
Oh, Snap Skeleton Greeting Card by pinkinkart
Browse more Dog bite Cards at Zazzle
The Great Pumpkin Greeting Card
The Great Pumpkin Greeting Card by DocWyatt
Add your photos and text to blank greeting cards at Zazzle
Vintage Halloween Collage Card
Vintage Halloween Collage Card by Sandyspider
Shop for more greeting cards online at Zazzle.
Halloween Witch Cards
Halloween Witch Cards by forbes1954
Shop for a greeting card on zazzle.com

DIY sweet and colorful Halloween cookies!


 Hello friends and Zazzlers! 

I found these great Halloween cookies tutorials and could not resist sharing it! The cookies  are so funny and cute that's almost a shame to eat it! The good thing is that we can allways hit the kitchen and bake and decorate some more. That is if we have enough talent! Check these three suggestions. 

1. Jack Skellington Jack O’Lanterns - Amber, from Sweetambs, is the artist responsible for this colorful and sweet creation, they are really edible works of art!

2. Another talent in making and decorating cookies can be found at Klickitat Street. Click and explore Sarah Trefny's realm of sweet creativity!

3. If you want more inspiration on how to create some awesome cookies you can also visit The sweet adventures of Sugarbelle where you can watch a step-by-step tutorial on making Eyeball Cookies! Callye Alvarado has some fabulous creations in her site. Trick or cookie?! 

The colors of Halloween and a new Zazzle store

Photo by marykbaird

Halloween: it's an holiday observed on October 31, the eve of All Saints' Day. Its pagan origins can be traced to the Celtic festival of Samhain. This Festival was celebrated in ancient England and Ireland to mark the beginning of the Celtic new year. 
The colors of Halloween are warm, bright, fun and spooky! The color symbolism makes us associate black with death, night, witches, black cats, bats, vampires. The color orange makes us think about pumpkins, jack o' lanterns and Autumn. In the Autumn the leaves on trees change to warm colors like red, orange, brown, and yellow.The color purple is about the supernatural and mysticism. Green and red are also prominent in modern Halloween images and products. Green is about monsters and goblins and red is about blood and evil. 

The credit for beginning the holiday as a festival of harvest was given to the Celtics. Golden and orange are colors that can easily be associated with harvest culture. The celebration of death and supernatural was central to this ancient Festival. The black color is often associated with absence of light or darkness. Samhain was an after sunset celebration. This is a possible explanation for the origin of Halloween colors. For more information about Halloween read this article by Rick Branch and James Walker or Google it!

This time of the year is a time of change. The silly season ends and people get ready to take life more seriously.I allways feel sad that I have to say good bye to the good weather and to summer late afternoons in the beach. Autumn is a time to restart with the old routines and even to start new projects. And so did I. I had a rough year. One of the consequenses of it was months without creating new products for my old Zazzle store. 

Finally it's time for a comeback and I decided to open a new Zazzle store. This is the blog for that store. As you may already know by know this Zazzle store is called No Boring White. It wasn't easy to find a name! I created the store in February but the opening was constantly delayed until now. It has been almost two weeks since I started and it has not been easy to pick up the old routines and face all the changes that Zazzle undergo in recent months. I feel rusty and all I see ahead it's lots and lots of work and maybe little return. As some of you know all my designs and illustrations are created by myself. Like many other fellow Zazzlers I do not use clipart or any other graphic artists work. The creative process is slow and not easy. The next step will be to upload and tag all the work. This is time consuming and boring. After that comes promotion of the store and products. It's a never ending job! 

So why creating a new store? Why not stick to the ones I already have, Papelustro and A Portuguese Love? My idea is to keep A Portuguese Love for Portuguese theme related products only. I also have some hope that this store boosts my creativity in a different way that A Portuguese Love or Papelustro could not. And it will be easy to markett the products if I keep it separate. But starting again almost from zero it has been complicated. On the other hand it has been good to get back in touch with some fellow Zazzlers. I cherish the support they gave me in the past and the recent warm welcomes. And for now that's it! I invite you all to follow me on this new adventure. Welcome to No Boring White!


Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The store will open soon! Read about Zazzle guarantee!


Hello friends and Zazzlers
My new Zazzle store will be open soon!
Until then, Happy Zazzling!


Welcome to the blog of  No Boring White Zazzle Store! The products presented on this blog are all for sale. (Some are created by Associate Zazzle Stores, not me. If you buy one of these I'll earn a small percentage.)

You can access to No Boring White Love Store clicking on this link or the link in the above bar, any product/link on the blog posts, or any product/link presented on the flash widgets available on your right.

How can you buy a product from No Boring White  Store or Associate?

1. If it's your first time on Zazzle, you will have to register. It's a simple process. Then, when you find the product you wish to buy, you must click on top of it and you'll get something like this:


You can check product details for more information. Then you must click the button Add to Cart. After, if you have a Promo Code/Gift Certificate you must enter it. Then Proceed to chekout and enter Shipping address. It's pretty easy.

2. BUT! You may want to customize the product you're about to buy. Look at the blue button on the mousepad. It says CUSTOMIZE. This means you can introduce some elements or change some elements previously arranged by me. If that's the case you must click on the blue button to customize your product. This is what you'll see next:


As you can see the area on your right is now showing what we call the Zazzle tool. What can you do with it? Depending on the options made available to you by the product creator you’ll be able to:

- Remove Text and/or Images from the design
- Alter the image size/orientation/placement (using controls provided in the design tool)
- Alter the text size/orientation/placement/color/font
- Change the layering of design elements (adjusting which are "in-front of" or "behind" other elements)
- Add Text and/or images not included in the original design

 In this section you can also determine the style of the product and color of the product you want to buy if there are several styles available.

I used the Zazzle tool to write "I am a good rooster". Have a look!




3.You can access to No Boring White Zazzle store  by clicking on this linked text or by clicking on the link beneath the heather. If you click on top of a product created by me and posted on any blog post you will be redirectioned to the store. The flash widget on your right is also clickable and it will take you there.

4. YOUR COUNTRY AND CURRENCY INTERFACE – No Boring White Zazzle store  is Zazzle.com and this means american currency and english language. But you can browse the Store under a different country language and currency, maybe even your own.

On the Store page, look down and search for the flag of the country of your preference: UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Germany, Japan, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium. 

5. Some things make shopping on Zazzle even more enjoyable. These things are:

 VOLUME AND BULK DISCOUNTS ZAZZLE OFFERS ON EACH PRODUCT LINE!
You don't have to buy multiples of the same items to receive a quantity discount. Example: you'll receive a quantity discount on any order of a quantity of different design bags!

 COUPON DISCOUNTS - Coupon Codes means you can buy more for less! Visit the Coupon Center when you’re placing an order to check if there is a discount for the product you want.

TURNAROUND TIME FOR ZAZZLE ORDERS - If you are wondering how long it will take for your product to be produced.


6.Some other things will make you feel at home when shopping at Zazzle. These things are:

ZAZZLE PROMISE/ SHOPPING GUARANTEE / RETURN POLICY

ZAZZLE PRIVACY POLICY

ZAZZLE CUSTOMER SUPPORT VIA EMAIL

ZAZZLE CUSTOMER SUPPORT : 1-888-8ZAZZLE (or 408-983-2800)

                    Hours: Mon - Fri: 6am - 8pm PST (9am - 11pm EST)

OVERSEAS SHIPPING OPTIONS AND RATES

7. Zazzle currently accept VisaMasterCardAmerican Express, and PayPal, as well as Zazzle earnings and gift certificates as payment.

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