Here’s a nifty little widget I’ve just come across. It lets me put one whole section of our Funky Olive Shop right here in a blog posting. Now how cool is that? I’ve put in one of my favorite designs for the little ones at Christmas time, saying they don’t need Santa, because they’ve got their Grandparents — Nana, Papa, Grammy, Grampy, etc., and it’s available on bibs, onesies, t-shirts, baseball shirts, sweatshirts and even mugs, so they can enjoy their cookies and milk while thinking of their cherished grandparent!
So how this little widget works, is that you see those little arrows in the bottom right corner there? Well, you can scroll through the different products with either those arrows, or the little scroll bar. If you see something you like, you simply click on the black info button and it will open a new window to that particular product in my shop. I think this is way cool, and gosh darn it, it’s darned cute too!
I’ve made a pact with myself that I need to get some things done. I’ve been slacking off way too much lately, and it’s time to put that laziness aside. One of the things that Mr. Funky and I decided was that we have to add at minimum two new designs to our shop, The Funky Olive, every single day. So I’ve been busy loading up some new stuff. Christmas is fast approaching, and we want our shop to be able to offer more to our clients. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the newest additions…
So first up we have the cleanest dirty shirt you could wear. This shirt looks to be splattered with a little mustard, some ketchup, a bit of grape jelly, and someone must have ate my last chocolate bar and wiped their mucky hands on it too!
Then we thought we’d holla at cha boy. Cuz, well, ya gotta holla!
And for those fans of “Twilight“, we did up a design with the lion and the lamb. This pillow would make a nice gift for an Edward and Bella fan, don’t you think?
I’ll share more as we get more designs up. Until then, holla at cha boy!
I’ve just checked and my little wonder plugin Askimet seems to be doing his job. He’s managed to nab three spammy comments. YAY! I feel my sanity slowly coming back to me. What a wonderful feeling! I think Askimet is my new hero! Well, maybe, but I’ve always been a sucker for a Working Class Hero though.
Did you know that there are only 44 days until Christmas? That should be just enough time to make up for all the naughty things you may have done this past year. But think now, do you know what is considered naughty, and what isn’t? Of anyone we’ve asked, nobody really seems to have an answer, so we have to ask Santa to please… define naughty!
naugh·ty:(nô’te) pronunciation adj., -ti·er, -ti·est. 1. Behaving disobediently or mischievously: a naughty child. 2. Indecent; improper: a naughty wink. 3. Archaic. Wicked; immoral.
Hmm, we’re still a little confused here. Looking at that definition it seems like naughty can be quite fun, actually. So we made up this innocent little design for our Funky Olive Shop and it’s kind of wicked looking in it’s own festive way for the holidays with the Santa hat. It also appears to be turning out to be quite the hit for Christmas this year, being one of our best sellers for the past week or so, especially in this long sleeved dark shirt version.
One thing that has always intrigued me in urban areas — well, really in all areas, is the colorful paint can art sprawled on walls, signs, mail boxes etc around town. It’s really quite a problem here in our city, as most of it isn’t the cool art that people don’t mind seeing, but rather a lot of gang tagging. But one day this past summer, Mr Funky and I were out near the canal walking our old black lab Brutus (laid to rest October 1, 2008), and we came upon this tunnel that was not only flooded from all the rain we had been receiving, but it was also flooded with all of this wonderful colorful artwork. I was so glad I had my camera to snap up some shots of it! I think the Jerk with a Camera dude would be impressed with me for being shutter ready that day! Both sides of the tunnel were painted, and I’ve used parts of each of them to make some really funky Flip Minos in The Funky Olive Shop.
Graffiti Flip Mino
Is that not a wickedly cool looking piece of video producing technology or what? These little ultra slim pocket-sized Flip Video Mino camcorders has a handy USB arm that flips out and hooks up to your PC or Mac which charges the built-in rechargeable Lithium Ion battery, and lets you use its built-in software to easily view, edit, and upload video and photos to favorite sharing sites. They record 60 minutes of VGA-quality video, perfect for youtubing, facebook and myspace. And with a price of only $179.99, they’re sure to be flipping about under many trees this year for Christmas!
Well here we go again. The old blog is amongst the missing, so we’ll start fresh and keep fingers crossed that this one doesn’t get lost in space with the old one.
Olivia here, chief designer, author, CEO, marketing genius and all around do-flunky for The Funky Olive. Oh, and I wash the windows and scrub the toilets too! Yep, I’m an all around talented gal! There’s not too much I don’t do, when it comes to creating. I’ve got my own set of power tools, three wicked sewing machines, a shitload of fabric stash, paints, canvases, two computers (the laptop is specifically for designing new graphics for the shop and for when I go on holidays back home to visit the family every summer) I’ve got paper and rubber stamps and all that fun kind of stuff up the yingyang for when I feel like paper crafting, as well as beads, bobbles, wire and findings for when I feel the urge to create a new piece of jewelry. I guess it could be that I was born under the astrological sign of Cancer, and us crabby people are also creative crafty people. Mr Funky Olive tolerates it without much comment, other than the odd, “more fabric?”, or “another craft?”. So what if he has no space in the house to call his own! He has full control of the TV remote, and what more could a guy ask for anyway?
So now I’ve got this new blog in the airways, I’m going to step out for a bit and do some work, but I’ll be back… if I can find the in door again!
