Gift Ideas for Girlfriend. or Wife. or Both

But, I repeat, don't have a girlfriend and wife with birthdays on the same day. That would be stupid.

Hey, just made a page on my savant7 site highlighting some Gift Ideas For Girlfriend that you can find at my eBay store, All-4-Corners. Lots of my items are historical in nature, or guy-stuff like gangsters and tractors and trains. But I've got a lot of girly stuff too, so check out the Gift Ideas for Girlfriend and make her the happiest woman in the world.

New Shirt Shop on Zazzle

I've been on the fence about Zazzle.com for some time. I know it can't hurt to put some of my designs up on Zazzle and maybe get some sales, but does the Zazzle traffic justify the effort. Well, I was checking some POD traffic numbers today and decided that Zazzle really has proven that it is here for the long run and the visitor numbers are getting quite strong. Certainly as good as Cafepress's numbers a few years ago when I first started with them.
So I've decided to build out a Zazzle store...and stock it with some of my Cafepress designs. At least my successful design. Hell, the hard work is already done. All that's necessary is learning the Zazzle interface. And learning is a good thing, right.
Please visit my new Zazzle shop. I call it Cool Tee Shirts and it's the greatest t-shirt shop in the world, hyperbolically speaking.

Here's to the Dogs of Law Enforcement

I am really enjoying the K9 Cops on Animal Planet! In case you haven't seen it yet, K9 Cops follows the police dogs of the St. Paul Police Department as they go about their rounds. Lots of chasing of perps and taking them to the ground...Do Not Fight The Dog...dumbass.
In honor of those hard working police dogs we've created the Seek Dope shirt. Seek Dope is the command the handler will give the dog to initiate a drug search. I think it makes for a pretty cool shirt. The Seek Dope K9 Shirt is available at RetroRanger.

California Highway Webcams

Just an experiment, posting the url to a Caltrans webcam to see if I can easily post them to a blog and have them still update. Here ya go, Mt Hebron webcam on Highway 97 in Siskiyou county:




And here's a link back to the Caltrans Webcam Page to check and see if the image has updated.

update: yep, seems to work. I have a purpose for this I think.

Ruppert Brewing Lager Bier Shirt

Been scanning and refining some old beer advertisements from the 1890s and putting them on t-shirts over at RetroRanger. This is the Ruppert's Brewery shirt, featuring an ad for Ruppert's Lager Bier. Jacob Ruppert Brewery was Manhattan's largest brewery of the early 1900s, even owned the Yankees for a while. It was Jacob Ruppert that built Yankee Stadium...which really could have been called, "The House That Beer Built." Check out the Ruppert shirt and other vintage brewery shirt designs at RetroRanger.

Maxfield Parrish Art on Cigarette Cases

Spent the afternoon adapting some classic Maxfield Parrish art to fit on the metal cigarette cases that I sell on eBay. I took three of my favorites of Maxfield Parrish art prints...Daybreak, Ecstasy, and Morning...and cropped and trimmed and adjusted until they fit.
If you're a fan of Maxfield Parrish art you'll want to check them out...here's a link to the Parrish cases and well as other Art Nouveau Designs.
Below is "Daybreak" on one of my cigarette cases. Where else you gonna find something that sweet for 15 bucks?

Donut Hearts Hot Dog Shirt

Love is a wonderful thing. Even love between consenting food items, such as love between donuts and hot dogs. This is the new Donut Heart Hot Dog Shirt available at RetroRanger.

Links for the Record

Some Savant7 links for the record:
Art Nouveau Mucha Gift Ideas
Classic Car Gifts
Cool Trombone Shirts
Historical and Personality Watches
Historical Tractor Watches
Metal Business Card Cases
Metal Cigarette Cases
Thank You Gift Ideas

Acupuncturist Business Card Case

Just uploaded to my eBay store, All-4-Corners, is this Acupuncturist Business Card Case.
Pretty cool case, solid aluminum and decorated with an 11th-Century Chinese drawing of important acupuncture points. The art is sealed to the case with some really hard enamel. The case holds up to 14 business cards.

Wheelie Stingray Bike Shirt

I had this cool silhouette graphic of an old school stingray bicycle. Hmmm, how could this work on a shirt. Oh, I got it! and here it is...the Yes Wheelie Shirt now available on RetroRanger, my Cafepress store.

Decorative Metal Cigarette Cases on eBay

Built a webpage to display some of the decorative metal cigarette cases that I have for sale at my eBay store, All-4-Corners. These little metal boxes are great for all kinds of stuff, not just holding smokes.