Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope your holidays were joyous, and full of friends, family, and food.  In our family, my cousin became the first grandchild to get married.  It was a black-tie-optional New Year's evening, and I love his new bride.  Even though it was their big day, she was sweet enough to remember that January 1st is my dad's birthday, and at the reception gave HIM a card!

On the pathtag home front it is business as usual.  Owls have taken over a corner of ArtisticWhims, and don't feel like you have to wait for MidWest GeoBash to have one for yourself!

Happy Thanksgiving

I'm thankful for each and every one of you who makes this site a success!  Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving weekend!

Glitter

Glitter is officially on offer at Pathtags.com!  Its a once a year offer, and if you miss it now you'll have to either do without or wait until next year.  Any tags with glitter can ALWAYS be refilled with the same glitter, at any time of the year, so lock it in now!!   YAY GLITTER!  (I'm a bit of a Magpie with the shiny... but isn't that part of why we all love pathtags?)

Don't forget to check out the Holiday sale page.  I have Christmas, Hanukkah, and general wintery goodness.  I can make any tag anywhere on this site glittery, too!!!

Oh my goodness its getting busy!

Well I guess the title says it all.  Don't forget to order Christmas designs early (and often!) to have them approved and shipped in time for the holidays.  Remember as a freelance designer this helps pay the bills, but my day job is as a photographer, and the Christmas rush at work has officially begun!  Also, midterms...  Because if you're going to spend 5 years working as a photographer in a town with an amazing photography degree, you may as well take advantage of it.

With all that going on, Pathtag designing is always in full swing here, and I check email regularly.  Thank you everyone for making the "SOLD" page explode, and once I get some spare time I'll try to get that more organized.

PS-- The next big pre made set in design production is OWLS!  Also, I'd like to hear what yall think for potential holiday designs.  Feel free to leave responses and comments on this post.

My personal tags, and eBay

I hate posting anything but encouraging news,  new designs, etc, BUT...
It was brought to my attention that one of my personal tags, "CachingKitty & SisterElwood- RETIRED" (tag 12967) is currently up for auction on eBay, despite the profile very clearly stating that it is NOT to be sold, as well as a polite email sent to the seller reminding them of this fact and asking that it be voluntarily removed.  I am now asking all you kind pathtag-ers not to bid on it, and am currently working to have the listing removed, because as an artist I live by the saying "If you do not protect your intellectual artwork rights, you have no intellectual artwork".  While it may seem small to many, it is problems like these which impact working artists around the world, myself included.

Now let me be clear that I am referring to only my personal tags here, because as a customer you are free to do whatever you choose with the designs I create for you, outside of any agreement we have made.

Halloween and Glow Reminder

Just a reminder that while glow may be available from now through the end of October, you only have about a week to approve designs in time for Halloween!  (2 months and counting until the Christmas deadline. *hint*hint*)  Check out the "Holidays" page for a number of pre-made designs, and don't forget that PERSONALIZATION IS ALWAYS FREE!

Status updates on tags and pages

Thanks to everyone who took advantage of the $5 design discount.  I've updated the "Sold" page with several designs which have been claimed, as well as added new designs to their respective pages, so check them all out!  If there is anything you (any of you!) think should make a nice pre-made design  please feel free to suggest it, and remember I'm always happy to answer questions and negotiate prices.


PS- Halloween is coming up, so claim your designs now!
~ Laura

MWGB was a blast!

Dewy Decimal Cache

A bunch of us got together to have a cache-a-thon, and made it from south of Toledo, OH to just north of Monroe, MI.  In two days we put in about 22 hours, and although that means we missed a lot of the official events, we still had more fun than should be allowed.  We even managed to find a few specialty caches, like an earthcache that required us to dig for our own fossils, a webcam cache, and a dewy decimal cache!  Spending the day(s) caching with Vonnie (vonjoekasey), Nick (magtfplanner) and Jeff (inxplicablfate) were amazing and the real world just isn't as much fun!!

Old Fashioned Ladies

 A couple new designs are out!  Check the page "People and Childhood Classics" for a couple old fashioned ladies (thanks to the Periwinkles for inspiration) and also Elvis Presley!  The "SOLD" page has also been updated, and more are being created all the time!

Second Gift Certificate- Geognarles

Caching duo Geognarles was the lucky recipient of the second gift certificate, which was auctioned off at the MiGO Winter Social. In their newest tag Gnarles goes camping in the trailer! Look for them to order it soon, because its dang adorable and I bel!

First Gift Certificate Tag- Sally

Sally was one of two people at the MiGO (Michigan Geocaching Organization) Winter Social to win a design services gift certificate in the silent auction. She jumped on a design immediately, which takes after one of her favorite pictures and incorporates her love of a simple white background and bold text.

Winter Social Was A Hit!

Thanks to everyone who made the Winter Social a big success yesterday. Congratulations to GeoGnarles and Salplus2 who both won the gift certificates for design services!! I look forward to designing for both of you lovely ladies.
~Laura

MiGO Winter Social

Here in Michigan we're having our yearly MiGO (Michigan Geocaching Organization) winter social. This year it is being held in Flint, on February 19th. Among other things, the winter social includes a silent auction. This is one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for MiGO and they are looking for donations. So what does this have to do with this blog? Well I will be donating gift certificates for pathtag design services! They will be good for EITHER custom work OR pre-made designs with no charge from me except for two finished tags for the portfolio. Bid early, bid often!

Yay for comissions!

Hooraay! I was commissioned to create a Starsky & Hutch inspired pathtag yesterday. It turned out quite nicely, if I do say so myself. It is going to be a surprise from an artistically lacking husband to his wife, for her birthday. He and his daughter are reviewing the final product today and I'll know if any other changes need to be made. Now if I can sell a handful or two more I can afford to purchase another tag for myself. I already have too many to choose from anyway!

Speaking of which, after a lot of hullabaloo I finally received a blueprint on my first personal tag. I rejected it, but only for fairly minor changes like "fill the music note and fingernails in black" and "please change the collar color to light blue". I originally had the collar the same color as the background, red, and the blueprint made it look like the cat had a floaty head! Can't have that.

It's a nice day out so I'm going to see how the garden is doing. Hopefully the Lowe's clearance rack squash plant didn't die, but for 50 cents it wouldn't be a total loss. I wasn't planning on growing squash but if I get one mature edible from the plant then its more than paid for itself. I'll let yall know if it lives.