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Kind Hearts and Coronets

Each year someone discovers my Valentine Shmalentine tees and adds them to a Valentines Day gift guide, or features them in some other way. Yesterday it was Simo Media’s Craftsyble site, where the ironically romantic looking anti-Valentines Day tee was featured among some lovely handcrafted pro-Valentines Day gifts from bath items to jewelry (classic, [...]

Gushing Over This Beer

It isn’t every day one gets to go to a luxury hotel where the concierge is expecting you to pick up hand-crafted beer that has been personally delivered from half-way around the world, but I have that kind of glam life.

OK, maybe not so much, but lucky, lucky me, I got to taste [...]

Bungle in the Jungle and Maybe Win Some Animal Tees!

Tees in  Pod have created a dictionary, if you will, of animal design t-shirts from A-Z, and two of my designs are featured! Two!

Let me first say I’m enjoying all the designs (I especially like Detour’s Easter Island rabbits, Saga’s Sun Horse Moon Horse and Lady Umbrella’s owl); the Tees-in-a-Pod folks did a [...]

Photos from the Jewish Food Festival

I’m always thinking of ways to improve my booth display. Sometimes at shows I don’t have time to do everything I want, but this time I was pleased with the result. I tested a new bamboo+strapping type of rigging to display t-shirts. It needs some fine-tuning but all in all I really like it [...]

Doggy Crossbones is Here

Doggy Crossbones is here! After years of requests to offer a canine version of my popular Kitty Crossbones design, I’m pleased to introduce this super-cute design to the Rotem Gear shop. So far there are three variations: classic, plaid and Hawaiian, with more planned for the future.

These are especially [...]

Valentine Shmalentine Tees on TV-ShmeeVee!

I’ve been a bad, bad blogger. It’s been such a busy beginning of the year, including an awesome trip to New Mexico for the annual meeting of Edible Communities, for whom I do design work. But more about that later! (along with some great photos of snow and chilies.)

For today, I have to [...]

Survival of the Twittest

So they say Twitter can lead to business.  Anyone who leaps into Twitter hoping to market by blasting folks with the awesomeness of their junk is in for a surprise — whatever those smarmy marketing articles told you, it’s not true.

What Twitter is about building relationships. It’s like being [...]

Meerkat Sighting!

Apparently I have to give meerkats their own blog category., as meerkats have been coming at me from different directions.

This is one of the cutest, funniest things I’ve seen on esty in a long time. It’s already sold out so I’ve linked to the shop::

The crafter behind this shop in fact [...]

Going Renegade

The Renegade Craft Fair has been a well-known in the indie craft circle for years, but since it was held only in Brooklyn and Chicago, I had to rely on stories and YouTube to get a sense of it. No more! Renegade  expanded this year to Los Angeles and San Francisco, and [...]

Limited Edition Artisan Scarves Now on Etsy!

This past winter I made some fabulous silk-screened scarves to sell at some exclusive holiday boutiques and they’ve been a hit since then. So I have decided to offer them online as well and put them on Etsy. Check them out!!

The scarves are made of silky 100% pima cotton [...]