Archivio di novembre 2011
Nextlola’s pocket notebooks
After days and days spent fighting against sheets of paper, staples machine and a paper trimmer, here’s the new handmade Zoo pocket notebooks. They got a Nextlola’s illustration as cover, 48 blank pages, 2 staples and measure approximately 10,5×14,5 cm.
They look cool but the home-cut almost sent me into an insane asylum…millimetric precision is not of the Zoo-world, sigh!
Win a little Monster Contest
I am trying to learn more about how a blog works, I’ve already added an email subscription widget (it works!) and a widget to show the followers of the blog (probably me and other 2-3 geek cats around the world).
To tempt you to become a follower I decided to call the first Zoo-contest.
The first one of you who’ll become a follower will receive as prize (punishment?) little Pepe directly home for one week!!
He’s already boxed and ready to be dispatched.
…save all the delicate stuff, he’s an hurricane (I warned you).
[Of course he won't go anywhere but his Zoo-home...he's my baby-boy, and the world is not ready yet for such a menace]
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And the winner is…Garci from USA ( thank you Garci!).
Somebody to love
Twenty years later… and I still love you.
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Appreciation day
What a nice day!
This morning I switched on my computer and I found the appreciation comments of two of my buyers that were waiting for me, this is the moment when finally all the efforts make sense…well, I don’t dislike the moment I earn money either 
Thank you Sofia and Nicoletta.
White rabbit syndrome
Sunday morning, time for work…my White Rabbit Syndrome is getting worst day after day.
I can’t open my eyes at morning and the “feeling late” is already there waiting for me!
The courier that was supposed to come within Friday morning to take the bad printed mousepads (just 20 on 26!) didn’t come, the email I was supposed to receive within Thursday to replace a bad printed planner and three notebooks didn’t arrive…more complaints to do tomorrow, a lot of extra stress to menage.
Especially because I already have myself many things to do before the end of the month…it took me one week to make a picture to show all the Christmas postcards available in my shops, that’s not good at all!
So it’s better to use my spare time to recover all the works I left behind…”time is precious I know”.
Exactly my cup of tea
Finally I can hold in my hands some of the gadgets I have worked on these months, they look great. I am not sure I’ll be able to sale them in my online shops as I suppose that the shipping costs will be too high, but here’s some pictures for you.
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- Audrey Hepburn’s mug
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- The Addams Zoo’s mug
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- Spring in Japan’s mug
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- Valentine’s mug
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- In the mood for being the Beatles’ mug
Zoo-mugs: behind the scene
Guess who was the photo shooting director?
A white Christmas
The last of my Christmas postcards design is arrived today, it’s finally time to add it to the listing pictures in my shops. So this year you can choose among 6 different illustrated postcards…or to have all six, of course!
Now that the gadgets orders has been sent I have a bit of time to update my: website and Facebooks pages and Flickr and blog…I’m also trying to understand how the RSS feed story works. I would like to offer an email subscriptions, so I am surfing the internet to understand how. A blog is still a big mystery to me.
[20.15] I am not sure it will work, but I just added a widget on the right side of the blog that allows you to subscribe for receiving an email everytime I write a new post. To subscribe it’s easy and very quick…so, that’s all folks!
Christmas tags
This year will be possible to add a warm fun touch to your Christmas gifts using four different Zoo-tags.
They measure about 5×7 cm (2×2,8 inches). The front is glossy, the rear part is white and writeable.
In my shops you can find stocks of ten, but I’ll be glad to make custom stocks (for example, if you need 13 you have just to ask).
It’s amazing for me how my Zoo is developed in just one year, especially when I hold in my hands a finish product or a new gadget.
More gadgets will be available soon.
Sometimes I wonder how great it would be if one day I’ll be able to produce plushies inspired to my pets, and see babies love them as I love the real ones. 
Anticipation… new Christmas postcard
Today the new printed Christmas postcards are arrived, this time it’s up to Alice and Arturo to bring your warm wishes around the world.
They are looking forward Santa Claus to come… they are so thrilled that I wondering what they could have asked to him in their last present wish list.