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My online life is almost 100% my work. Someone once said, "Do what you love and you will never work another day in your life." So, I guess I do not really work after all. I do promote my shops because a girl has to eat and this is how I make my living. I have many shops, with many different themes. I mostly create images using flags of different countries. It is a lot of fun to get paid for doing what you love. These are the shops with the flags: ink.flagnation.com, zaz.flagnation.com, ameriwear.flagnation.com, skreen.flagnation.com, print.flagnation.com, spread.flagnation.com.
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Oxi Day

Oxi Day, spelled “Ohi” or “Ochi”, and pronounced “oy-hee”, means “no” in Greek. It celebrates October 28, 1940 when the Greek Prime Minister, Ioannis Metaxas, said “NO!!!” to Benito Mussolini’s ultimatum that Greece allow Axis forces to occupy specific Greek territory. This marks the beginning of World War II for the Greek people, who really were a bit upset about the thought of being invaded.

So, every year, on October 28, Greeks everywhere celebrate. My own grandfather, who came to the USA in 1912 and was long an American citizen in 1940, always celebrated Oxi Day with his friends. Think of it as Cinco de Mayo for the Greeks, but with baklava instead of chirros.

Most of my flag design shops have an extensive section with Greek designs. Here are links to them:

skreened.com/flagnation/category/greece
www.cafepress.com/ameriwear/364342
www.zazzle.com/flagnation/gifts?cg=196024209630404159
ink.flagnation.com/Shop/Greece.11630/#.UGYLrJg730Q
www.printfection.com/flagnation/Greece/_s_510487

And here is a sample of one design from each shop:

From Flagnation at Printfection

Aluminum water bottle with the Greek Flag and the name

From Flagnation at Skreened

Light blue tee with picture of Greek Flag angel with brown hair on front and back of tee.

From Flagnation at Zazzle

Picture of blue trucker hat with images including flags of USA and Greece. Reads,

From Flagnation at INKtastic

Picture of blue hooded swaetshirt with a waving Greek flag and wavy lettering reads,

From AmeriWear’s Flags-of-Nations at CafePress
Dark blue apron with Flag of Greece adn the word

And remember, only 30 more shopping days until Oxi Day!

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Yes, I’m Italian. What the heck is ‘calm’?

Funny design shows Flag of Italy or Italian Flag and reads, “Yes, I’m Italian. What the heck is ‘calm’?”

Available from several print-on-demand places, here is one design available at skreen.flagnation.com and it look like this:

Moving to CafePress and the shop located at cafepress.com/ameriwear, we find the same image in white lettering on a fun dark blue b-b-q apron.

Moving along to Inktastic.com, and the shop located at ink.flagnation.com, we find a bright green safety shirt with the “Italian Calm” image.

Saftey Shirt with Italian Calm image in Grey letters

Next we have a red toddler tee with the same design. Of course your Italian toddler is uncalm! What ELSE would he or she be! Visit the entire shop at spread.flagnation.com Lovely and fun design seen here below on image of the toddler tee itself. Click on it to see all the information.

Image of red Toddler tee with 'Italian Calm' design.

That’s all for now folks. Just another design from Flagnation or Flags-of-nations, specializing in designs with an ethic theme, using flags of various countries, sometimes with humor (humour of you speak British), but always intended to be respectful.

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Austrian Stuff!

Austria is the country of the waltz and the Danube River, amoung other things. And today we will visit several designs in at several PODs used in my “flagnation” shops.

The first is found at ameriwear.flagnation.com:

This humorous design is intended for Americans of Austrian ancestry and reads, “Assembled in the USA using Austrian parts”. It shows the flags of both the United States and Austria. Great fun for any patriotic holiday, both in America and Austria.

The second features a futball or soccer ball in the shape of the Austrian Flag, and has the word “AUSTRIA” above in German, to read,”OSTERREICH”. This is available at zaz.flagnation.com

Our third Austrian Flag design reads, “I left my heart in Austria” and would be perfect for a traveler, a cultural devotee, or a person of Austrian ancestry. Here is shows on a long-sleeved raglan for ladies from ink.flagnation.com

Our last image is a simple Austrian flag with the word “AUSTRIA” below in the colors of the flag. A fun design for any traveler, descendant or cultural devotee. It is available at skreen.flagnation.com

That’s all for now, folks!

POD Designers Guild Posts

POD Designers Guild

In the coming months and years, the POD Designers Guild hopes to bring you an easy way to connect with a large number of print-on-demand artists.

Print-on-demand is the simple process whereby a company allows a designer to sell their work on a variety of products for profit.

In the past, if an artist wanted to sell their work on T-shirts, note cards, or whatever, they had to invest thousands of dollars in blank products, get them printed and store them until they sold. With print-on-demand, the designer only needs to open an account, upload their artwork, and choose which products to sell, after they design the look and feel of their online shop. All PODs work this way, but they are all different, too.

Each POD will have different criteria for different things. For example, some will want the design one size, another POD will want it slightly larger or smaller. Some PODs require that you manually size everything to fit each product, others have fancy-schmancy computer stuff to do it. Designers just follow the rules for the ones they use.

Because PODs have different products, it can, often, be difficult for a buyer to find the item they really want. The POD Designers Guild will endeavor to help you find the right POD for your particular need of the moment, as well as help you find the right design, and/or designer for a ready made or custom made artwork.

Example?  Your niece has a baby girl and you want something lovely  and unique. The largest selection of baby clothes is at Inkstatic.com, and again, in browsing our designers you find the perfect gift for your newst family member.

A few months later, your daughter’s birthday is just around the corner. She loves athletics and you’ve put together a few trinkets of memories and you’d love to have a box for them to give her. Few PODs carry those, but CafePress.com does and by browsing our artists you find the design and product that is just perfect.

And, lastly, from CafePress, you find this:

Many of our designers can and will create specific for you as well. Check all our members out!

The POD Designers Guild is brand new. As we grow in membership and following, we endeavor to help buyers find the right product for the right occasion, as well as the right design.