Photo Gift Ideas : Photojojo.com

So I decided to be as corny as possible and send christmas cards with my face plastered on them. I was thinking of using this photo... not sure if I can see any reason not to do that but... In my search for the best place to make a photo card II ran across Photojojo which to my pleasant surprise was packed full of awesome photo-related crafts projects and guides to taking pictures and buying gifts.

Oh and they have a little store too.

I tried the mailable photo frame and was very happy with it. It's a cheap and cute way to mail off a photo with a message, and I might use them for my christmas card so that my family is forced to have them out when I come over to their house! Below is the example of the photo mailer/frame.

Custom T-Shirts (and others): Zazzle.com

So, Zazzle has been around for years and years; I think I first ordered from them during sophomore year of college, so it must have been about six or seven (christ, am I that old?) years ago. What's cool about Zazzle is that you can submit your own t-shirt designs, and they will print it for you quite reasonably. I made a t-shirt with the image below (which I made in the gimp in about ten minutes), and I got the thing printed for $19.95. Not bad! What's cool is, if someone else buys one of your designs, you get 10% of the proceeds. (I'm not linking to mine because I don't want to make money off of this blog).


The shirt looked great, because the image I submited was huge (2200x2300) with a large dpi (144). Getting images that size is tricky, because no web images are that size. I made shirt of an image that was only 705x680 72 dpi (a largish web image) and the shirt came out terrible and pixelated. The last comment I have is that the shirts don't last terribly long, because the image kind of flakes off after about 10 washes.

I also made a shirt off of this Indian Oil Corportation logo

Threadless is having a sale, just in time for Christmas

In June, I posted about the t-shirt site Threadless. I guess winter time is not the time for t-shirts, because they are having a sale, most of the t-shirts are only $10.

Since I lasted posted about them, they added two awesome features. First, the stockchart. Before, it was a bit of a chore to check whether they had the shirt you wanted in your size, but now you can check by size, which is great. The second feature is the Present feature, where you can the vague personality of the person you are shopping for.

I bought a hoodie version of the image at the right for $35, and I reckon it'll make a good christmas present for someone who I hope doesn't read this blog. I bought this one for myself, because I think it's adorable, and I'm not nearly as, um, large, um, as the model they have choosen. Lastly, I bought this "motovino" for my girlfriend.