25% Off Tee Shirts

The tee shirts at Zazzle are pretty awesome! You can customize the design of the shirt for men, women, and children! They have a wide range of colors and sizes and today they are 25% off with code WEARURHEARTS

Pink Graffiti Elephant Tee

Dress in style with this tee shirt featuring a photo I took of local Portland graffiti. This photo was taken on Belmont Street, off of the side of a building. I like that the elephant is pink and black on a gray background. I further processed the shot in Photoshop giving it a grunge quality, black texture with some vignetting. It's a solid photo in that it has something of an HDR look to it; it's bright and vibrant - just a fun piece of art.

Japanese Lucky Cat Tee

Have fun wearing this tee shirt featuring a photo I took of a Japanese Lucky Cat, or Maneki Neko. It is also known as Lucky Cat, Cat Swipe, Money cat, or Fortune Cat and is sometimes mistaken as Chinese Lucky Cat. In processing the photo, I saturated the colors and added some glow highlights. I hope you love the colors in this photo as much as I do!

Old Radio Tee

This women's tee was shot using a lomo effect with a vignette, hence it looks uneven on this shirt. But it's really just the effect I was after when I took this photo of an old radio in my dad's barn. I'd say this little vintage baby is from the seventies? 70's? However you spell it, it made rock n roll, baby, rock n roll!

Zazzle Sale!

Zazzle has a coupon page! And since Zazzle is almost always running a special, it gets updated a lot. Right now I'm super excited that they have canvas on sale at 60% off again. I've blogged before that I love putting my prints on canvas; the colors are always so nice and a lot of my work looks even better with the added texture.

Olympia Graffiti Stretched Canvas

I put up two new pieces of graffiti this week. This first one was shot in downtown Olympia, Washington. Downtown you'll find most of the backs of buildings and alleys are covered in paint, and some of it is good. I liked this particular shot because of all the bright colors in it and the heavy saturation of green, red, blue, pink, and black colors.

Pink Graffiti Elephant

This Pink Graffiti Elephant is definitely a favorite. I like elephants, I like pink, and I like this photo. There's some black spray paint writing in the photo. I think it says, "I could use a drink" but I'm not positive. Anyway, this was shot in Portland, Oregon on Belmont Street.

So make sure you stop by mollymortphotography and check the rest of my canvas prints, I have a little of everything represented and you're sure to find something!

What I used to do...

I used to work as a mortician. I mostly worked with families, but I trained to work with the deceased as well. I'd always been interested in the funeral industry and that interest spawned a collection of embalming tools. It's gotten to be an expensive hobby and some items have become rare in the market place. In collecting, I was fortunate enough to gain two embalming kits, both span from the 1900's to the 1960's. And let me tell you, everything is in these kits. I have hand pumps, suture needles, aspirators, scalpels, makeup, eye caps - it's a long list. So anyway, knowing there's an interest in these items, I photographed most of them and added the work to my Zazzle site under "The Mortuary." It gets a lot of hits, but of course, I could use more.

Funeral Director Calendar

I love this funeral director, mortician style calendar. Each month has a different photograph and the US holidays are listed in it. A friend suggested that next year I add captions explaining what the tools are and for 2013, I will do that. I forgot to consider the purpose of some of these items isn't obvious.

Embalming Fluid iPad Case

This iPad case has been really popular. It's from an old bottle of embalming fluid.

Suture Needle Postcard

This card has been super popular too. It's a collection of suture needles and tiny aspirating needles.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to shooting some photos for next years calendar and adding captions. I came up with this idea a little late in the year and had low sales on it. The goal is to move up production on it this year and sell the heck out of them. I have the market cornered on mortician tools!

So, if you haven't stopped by my shop, please do: mollymortphotography @ Zazzle. I've worked very hard on making it look cool and I've put a lot of heart into my designs.

Oh! And! Here's a code good for 30% off a calendar (hint hint): ALLCALENDARS

Canvas Sale & More!

I've been busy this past week putting new items up on Zazzle.  I'm currently at 72 designs on around 900 products. Alas, I'm still a small fish in a big, big sea. But I want to make sure everything is up to par, and one of my favorite things that I like to be careful about is what I put on canvas. I've ordered a number of my photographs on canvas for art shows and the results I get from Zazzle are always perfect. Good, quality craftsmanship on ready to hang pieces. Even better? Right now, through Thursday, January 12 they are having 60% off on canvas prints. In case you don't know, that is one HUGE savings.

Vintage Radio

At the moment, this old radio is one of my favorite pieces. I shot the photo aiming for a pinhole effect, there's vignetting on the edges, an effect I'm fond of. There are some spiderwebs, bird poop (gross, right?), and the thing is dirty as all hell. I don't even know if it works. But, it is a cool looking, old yellow radio and it prints beautifully.

Flower - Macro Poppy

I just ordered this one the beginning of the year, it's going in art show I'm doing in April. Maybe you've heard of it? Arts Walk in Olympia, Washington? Should be fun. At any rate, I shot this photo with a Raynox 250 lens. It's a super up close, not exactly true macro photo, and the depth of field is shallow, but what a wonderful photo. The red is so vibrant and the green stem is detailed with little pricklers (is that even a word??) - it's absolutely gorgeous.

United States Flag

My last choice for this blog is this canvas piece, United States Flag. While I haven't ordered this on canvas, I have ordered it on postcards and again, beautiful work from Zazzle. This is a field flag at a VA hospital in Michigan. The sky was really whited out the day I took this, so I just let it be, but I added the grunge to it to give it some texture and it turned out awesome. If you're a patriotic person, or a fan of Americana in general, this would be a nice canvas piece to display in your home.

Again, 60% off canvas prints, at Zazzle, sale good through Thursday, 1/12.

And you'll need this code: 60CANVASDEAL

Thank you for your business!

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