http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog Winged Turtle Creations art, photography, and design shop blog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:34:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My first quick attempt at an advertisement. A quick animation short--sea turtle swimming in the waves, comes to a beach, sees a guy carrying a plastic bag. Guy loves the turtle, turtle is mad because of the plastic bag. Guy goes away and comes back wearing / ... http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog/?p=237 Custom binders are a new item here at Winged Turtle, courtesy of Zazzle.  The binders are 3-ring Avery vinyl binders--hold 8.5x11 paper size--that come in 3 sizes, 1-inch, 1.5-inch, and 2-inch.   There are about 180 now available with my usual art and designs--sea turtle binders, animal art binders, floral ... http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog/?p=228 Wall calendars are nice, but it's also great to just have a little calendar that you can keep in your wallet, or use as a bookmark, or whatever...a calendar that's close at hand.  Or a poster calendar that shows you the whole year at once, so you never forget to ... http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog/?p=201 Now available at the WInged Turtle Shop -- through Zazzle-- is a whole line of stationery products for personal and business use.  First, there's stationery--5.5 by 8.5 in multiple paper types including linen and recycled--in many styles, blank and customizable with your title/ subtitle, lined and unlined. Second, there ... http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog/?p=185 I love Halloween -- it's the holiday nearest my birthday, so it's a bit odd that I'd never designed anything "Halloween centric" before now...although I don't tend to do many "holiday specific" designs here (I do a lot more for my Jewish art site, particularly Chanukah).  So this year I ... http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog/?p=180 Finally back...have been spending so much time adding new stuff and updating the site (again) that I haven't had time to update.  Will get back into regular updates now. First, there's been an update to the Winged Turtle Shop...Zazzle products have been given "top billing" so to speak...all links for designs ... http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog/?p=176 Three new environmental designs were added to the Earth Shop at Winged Turtle.  I started with a daisy-like flower design and added different text/ design elements. First was "Floral Grow Green", with text "Grow Green" and multiple muli-colored flowers. A bright, colorful design.  It can be found at the Earth Shop ... http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog/?p=156 I've put up a few new designs recently. The first set are new animal art designs; a fish design and two variations on a cute cartoon cat design. Silly Cat The first design is "Silly Cat", which is a cute, fun purple cartoon cat with big eyes and a ... http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog/?p=141 I spent the weekend mostly designing more shoes at Zazzle.  I now have 280 shoes there-- a few kids' shoes, but mainly adult laceup/ mini slipon/ slipons. My Midnight Sun shoes received a Today's Best at Zazzle on July 3rd for the Midnight Sun Mini Slipons. The design has a circular ... http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog/?p=138 A busy holiday weekend has gotten me a bit behind in posting, but last week I started experimenting with "re - designing" products at Zazzle; that is, finding new uses for products.  I designed a number of "notes cards"; postcards with the image on both sides and an area on ... http://www.wingedturtle.com/blog/?p=134