We can talk about meatball club. We can share recipes & secrets. A meatball sub is great, but a meatball club is epic. (With a small shout out to the meatball melt.) Stack or you’re whack.
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You have to check out this design on TONS of STUFF at TeePublic & RedBubble. Get a T-shirt, a hat, a pink, a sticker, a magnet, an apron, a mug, a clock, socks… and you’re in the club. No questions asked. Maybe share some photos of your homemade meatball clubs.
I have only sold 7 of the books, but I was excited to get this finally accomplished, so I got some stuff…
Check it out, grab some & represent your favorite maze artist. 🤣 Drink from your matching coffee mug while you solve mazes.
Speaking of the latest maze book, the proof came the other day. It’s bigger & better than the last book. It looks great inside. It even includes the maze solutions. I ordered a handful to pop into some of those local little free library boxes so some people can maybe find some unexpected fun!
Thanks to everyone has bought one so far! Even if it’s not for you, I’d dig if you could even just share the link.
Well then, it’s finally here. I finished maze book number two! This one is better than the last one, I promise. The first was sort of a test run just to see how Amazon KDP works. I wholeheartedly appreciate everyone that bought that book, but this one just objectively looks better and much more time was put into its creation. It ought to be much more challenging and enjoyable, IMHO.
This book a collection of a bunch more larger mazes, and a few small ones that I have been drawing since late 2023. There’s no common theme other than most of the mazes have a silly vibe. A few have no vibe at all. There’s aliens, rodents, yard work, holiday stuff, rock n’ roll, a treasure map, food, retail aversion, gross stuff, & more.
You Can See Yourself Out: A Collection of Fun, Irreverent, Festive, & Wild Hand-Drawn Mazes (Front Cover)
I hope you consider picking up a copy for yourself, & maybe even one for a friend? If not, just sharing the link to someone who you think may enjoy it, or just sharing it in general would be awesome.
The link is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9Y7SFXS and I’d love if you could share it, review it, favorite it or save it to a list… anything to help even if you’re not interested in a purchase. You could give me a good (or terrible) review or add it to your list on GoodReads too, if that’s your thing.
I had fun making a collage with punk ‘zine vibes for the cover. I busted out the mixed media, printed on weird paper, got two cutting, ripping, & coffee staining… and unearthed the leopard & cheetah print tape.
All of the mazes were hand-drawn, scanned in, edited (& “solved”) in paint.NET, & put together with Open Office. I haven’t stepped into the world of digital drawing yet, and I like my free programs. Someday, I’ll probably dive into GIMP a little more.
I love drawing the mazes, and it’s a great creative outlet like blogging or making music or playing out live. I’m sitting on a pile of old ones that I can convert into a book… but I need to make sure they’re all solvable and do the solutions.
Some are too big to fit on my scanner, and scanning with my phone has less than desirable results… so I’m gonna have to go somewhere like a FedEx Office store and hope they can help before they all disappear. I have a problem picking up any notebook that catches my eye and is the right price, regardless of size & paper type. I like the feel & the calming of pen on paper.
Because I have been excited about this, and I made a small collage with leftover bits, I popped up some new merch designs in my TeePublic & RedBubble stores with that new collage & the book cover images. I do have some older designs there with a few of the mazes that are featured in this book too. If you have an account & follow me on either of those sites, it may help my stuff get seen a bit more. I’d appreciate any form of liking/sharing/tagging if you’re so inclined!
In fact, check out all these designs from or inspired by the book, you can get them on all kinds of merch at each store! (I ordered a sticker, a magnet, a coffee cup, & a hoodie so I’m already in the hole.)
So, Amazon has October Prime days now on the 11th, & 12th, and the behemoth has cleared the path for other online retailers to trudge along on their wake.
I don’t think my book will be on sale, but if you haven’t bought it yet… let a few brothers hold $5.99 and add it to your cart with all your other stuff! Jeff Bezos and I need your financial support. He needs to build space ships, and I need to pay medical bills and buy LEGO sets.
In slightly cooler news, TeePublic and RedBubble are offering site-wide sales:
TeePublic touts “up to 35%” on October 12th-15th & October 26th-29th.
RedBubble touts 20% on October 9th-14th & 30% off on October 23rd-27th.
If you have thought about grabbing some stuff from either one of my shops, now would be a great time. The T-shirts, stickers, and magnets are cool. I hope to order mores tuff to check out the quality. You can get wall art to clocks, to tote bags, to mugs, to shower curtains!
If you have not thought about it, now would be a great time to think about it.
They’re good gifts for people that have everything.
I recently published my first maze book (via Amazon KDP), have sold a few copies, and thought some people here may want to support a local artist. I’m already working on book № 2!
The first book is packed with easy-to-solve mazes, and I think it would be enjoyable for kids as well as adults.
I had my youngest drop a copy in one of those free little library boxes nearby over last weekend. Hopefully someone out there locally picked it up & is enjoying it already!
I also put together some designs to be printed on merchandise, and I’m trying two different shops online right now. I’ll be uploading more themed designs as soon as I complete work on my 2nd maze book.
I have sold a few T-shirts, and bought some stickers and a magnet for myself. Between the two shops you can get everything from coffee mugs and pillows to shower curtains or clocks featuring my designs.
Check out my first #maze book! this was a test run, I plan to do more. can you spare $6 to help fund some art? If not, it’s cool… maybe just share the link? https://wp.me/pwqzc-3ba I am super excited to get this out there. How do you share a damn link on here?
“Tone wood is so important in guitars.” Except when it’s not.
I get, it makes a difference. It even makes an audible difference (to some people). It doesn’t make thatbig of a difference with gain cranked and balls to the wall.
I saw this the other day at the Giant Eagle in Bridgeville. It blew my mind. All of the stickers/magnets were on the driver’s side of the vehicle… there were none on the back or the other side. I had to take some photos.
Is this what happened when Pimp My Ride went off of the air?
I tried to get a few angles…
Is this what happened when Pimp My Ride went off of the air?
The Stickermobile! There are refridgerator magnet letters up there…
The Stickermobile! There’s a baby on board? And a Pomeranian?
The Stickermobile! Total devotion to every team ever!
The Stickermobile! Black and Gold! Or Blue & Gold! Or Anything & Gold! Go Gold!
What exactly is going on here?
Insanity. You get all that? Let’s analyze some of these stickers and magnets, ignoring the fact that they’re all on one side of the vehicle. Here we go…
What exactly is going on here?
I’ll try to tackle these dozen highlights one at a time:
Support BP Music, NC State, and they love their dog. Call me sexist, but I’m assuming this is a woman’s car. She loves her dog. BP is Bethel Park, right? A lot of colleges are represented on this car.
Here we have some refrigerator magnet letters, a penguins sticker, and something unidentifiable. We can only guess as to what GH, VA, & UP mean. Go Home? Virginia? UP what? Why are the letters faded to clear? Did they start out clear, or did UV rays suck out all the pigment?
Here we have two giant Penguin bottle-cap refrigerator magnets, which can only mean twice the support for your hockey team and twice the alcohol problem.
She really loves her dog. She doesn’t love her van. Magnets get tiny rocks stuck behind them, and they scratch the paint on your car. Paint also discolors behind them.
Here we have the troop support ribbon, a probably non licensed Steelers football, and a pink Baby on Board sign. I say if you have a troop support ribbon on your car with any other ribbons… it negates the gravity of your sentiment. There’s another ribbon somewhere among all this chaos. By buying generic “go black and gold” sticker, you are stealing money from the poor underprivileged team that you support. If your car looks like with all the stickers, I hope you didn’t tattoo one side of the baby you supposedly have on board.
It wouldn’t shock me if this dog was in that van.
West Virginia and Penn State on the same vehicle? Pitt is in there too. You are a rather conflicted individual… assuring you’re going to get keyed no matter what school you visit. I bet college kids love getting picked up in this van. Also, you love your Pomeranian a little too much. You’re not into bestiality, are you? I sure hope you didn’t dye it purple. Wait. Is Baby the dog?
Here’s that devotion to Pitt, a faded Pens sticker, a blue Steelers football, a Penn State paw, and a secret coded message with the ‘fridge magnets. JFLE S ON. What is Jfle on? Crack?
Only the best fans have super faded stickers. Was this a Steelers one, or one for one of the colleges… or high school?
XK? XK.
A Steelers cap, but there’s only one. Not as devoted as the Pens? You only drink half as much during football? There’s something unidentifiable, an M (I think), and something saying something about how you roll. I think we know how you roll.
Protesting construction in Pittsburgh? That’s actually funny. Perhaps the construction workers would be amused by it when you pass… if they could pick it out of the madness. This ribbon apparently supports ninjas.
So, what’s your take? What is this all about? Is it a statement? Is it kitsch? Is it art? Is it madness? Is it super fandom? Is it hoarding? Is is someone who is banned from putting magnets on the refrigerator at home or a girl that was ever allowed to hang teen heart-throb photos on the wall while growing up? Is it covering bird poop? Is it a message for the aliens when they finally arrive? Hoarders: Sticker And Magnets Edition? Where is your OBX-like “PGH”, “N@”, “N’at” or “Yinz” sticker?
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