And thus most social media was conquered!
A few days ago I got a message from the nice folks over at zazzle.com. I've seen this mail before, "Your item has been sold". Yeah, yeah, give it a rest already, I know I only sold one t-shirt. And that was to a friend who was being kind. "Curse you, zazzle!", I think and promptly proceed to their page to edit my account settings and stop all this once an for all. Imagine my surprise when the "Royalties" section opens up and I see that the messages were, in fact, informing me of different purchases by different people! I was overjoyed, to say the least. Even now, two days later, I still can't stop smiling when I think of it.
Somewhere out there there is a little piece of my design being shared and enjoyed... Does it get better than that?
Riding this emotional high, I decided to finally open up my pages. Thinking about it and planning and just doing nothing was left behind.'About' sections updated, ID images cleaned up and sorted, banners adjusted, I took a deep breath and clicked...
Twitter is a bit of a sore spot for me. Why? My Chrome doesn't like it. Most online advice says to erase your cookies, but that won't help if there are no cookies to be found. The page would become red, I would be informed that my certificate was all wrong and all I could do was turn back. But where one browser fails, another will pull through. Faithful old FireFox to the rescue! In a few short clicks, my Twitter was updated and running. All that remains is to find some good accounts to follow and connect with friends.
The Facebook page has a somewhat unfortunate history. I had a spare account and started making the page with that one. When that account got shut down, the yet unpublished page was lost somewhere in the ether, taking the domain name with it. Writing to Facebook's help center provided no help. I still feel wonky about using zeros instead of Os. Hopefully, people will still manage to find it and not think badly of the shop just because of a bit of 133t speak :)
My friends have been very supportive of this endeavor, giving little mentions and liking the page. Thanks, guys!
My friends have been very supportive of this endeavor, giving little mentions and liking the page. Thanks, guys!
The Zazzle page has been in operation for quite a while now. I had this little hamster design and I felt it would make a good t-shirt, so I posted it, never really expecting it to amount to much. Seems other folks thought differently and bought that same design.
When you stop by the page, make sure to go to the "Hamster Rainbow" link on the left hand side of the screen. There are many colourful little guys available there. I didn't want to post them all on the front page because even hamster cuteness can be overwhelming in those numbers. The available colours are: aquamarine, blue, brown, cyan, green, grey, lime, original (orange), pink, purple, red and yellow.
The page will go under reconstruction to match the other pages some time before Xmas.
About 7 years ago I was pointed in the direction of deviantArt, to a friend's gallery. Some 3 minutes later, after I'd figured out what the page was about, I was signing up for an account. My old page is very close to my heart, it shows how I've learned and grown, practiced different media, sucked and rocked all the same. If you wish to visit it, here's a link.
The current page, though sparse in content, has more finished works that were done with more care and attention to detail, not in a rush to just post something!
Oh my dear Etsy, how my heart longs for the day when you and I will join together. Alas, our love will have to wait for me to get a credit card and PayPal account.
It is unfortunate when you are a struggling student with no regular source of income and hence no way of getting your mits on a credit card of your very own. Local policies are very strict on this count, so there is no way around it. What's more, in each and every bank I've been to, online transactions with anybody except the bank itself were highly discouraged, followed by hushed warnings of "It's unsafe...".
For now the Etsy shop is open but sadly vacant, devoid of all possibilities for growth and joy until I can hitch a ride on one of my friends' accounts... with their knowledge, of course ;)
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