Looks like people do not want any. I had some for sale on consignment since September 2025 in two shops and only 3 of 12 in one of them sold. I will be getting a payment for the three and the unsold items back. I’ll discover what happens with the other shop on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, I need to figure out what to do with the 9 and the rest of the unsold stock. Rather demoralizing, but a learning experience, I suppose.
150-pieces, a winter forest in Finland
If anybody is interested in 150-piece tube puzzles, those are available as print-on-demand in CreateJigsawPuzzles.com, link in the banner.
Hello, again! I have not abandoned my blog, just neglected it.
Here is a photo I took last week’s Saturday, while walking in Berkeley. Juxtaposition of red and yellow leaves and palms in sunlight at the beginning of winter (for me, the winter months are December, January and February)
Today was the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. It was raining. I am still trying to decide which photos to use where, but I think these leaves on the ground have seasonal color.
December 21st, Berkeley, CA
Merry Christmas!
Maybe I should make colorized versions of these photos and post them as jigsaw puzzles?
And yet again I am testing if a promotion or sale would bring my first online customer in (ordering products myself does not count.) This time Black Friday Weekend Sale of PlanktonPunkt Designs items on my sales channels in Etsy (25% off) and in Printify (most items 25% off – those where the profit margins were under 25% were not eligible.) Unfortunately, for bureaucracy reasons, in United States only 😦
The sale will run through Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, the First Sunday of Advent and Cyber Monday.
I had an internal debate over Thanksgiving Thursday and earlier but then thought that people should concentrate on Thanksgiving – commercialism can wait until the Black Friday (I may be an antiquated fossil on this.) I also had an internal debate over having a sale the First Sunday of Advent, which traditionally has been a church holiday and a Sunday to the boot, but then I remembered how I had enjoyed the Christmas shopping on advent Sundays over the years, so why not?
So, everybody in United States, regardless of creed, welcome for the sale, links to the sales channels are above!
Time flies when you are busy, and I realized that the SIngles Day is just behind the corner and my online sales channels were totally unprepared. More importantly, tomorrow is Veterans Day in United States, so to celebrate the Veterans Day and to have a Singles Day sale, I have 11% off my listings on 11/11/2025, both in Printify and on Etsy (the sale on Printify might run to 12th, I was not sure about the settings.)
The links to my sales channels are above in the banner (sorry, still only selling within USA, to avoid bureaucratic entanglements…) 😦
Maple laptop sleeve, one of the many designs available online on my sales channels
A short, promotional YouTube video that doubles as a commercial.
If you are bored with the selection available in local shops but do not want to pay for specialty sodas, you can always mix juice concentrate into carbonated water. Additionally, this does not require any complicated equipment so it will work in economic crises (such as we are currently living) and more advanced SHTF circumstances.
This is an ad video to my Etsy listing for Spring Blooms, Autumn Colors Ceramic Mug, also available in my Printify store. (In both shops for US only, sorry. The regulatory complexity for international trade is too much for me to handle.)
I have removed my shop link to eBay from the header, because I do not have an active account in eBay any more.
I will need to find another eCommerce platform to support my sales, but meanwhile, my PlanktonPunkt Designs link to CreateJigsawPuzzles is still active for jigsaw puzzles, and Etsy and Printify shops are still open for other print on demand products.
Apologies to all who may have been planning on buying from PlanktonPunkt Designs from eBay.
I have now began Survival September 2025 sale in my print on demand shops.
My Etsy store is running for US customers a 20% off sale for all items I have uploaded so far until the end of this National Preparedness month in the USA.
I am currently updating the prices of my eBay items (those need to be updated manually each and some include shipping while others do not.)
After that I try to do something to my items in Amazon, and then to those in Printify pop-up store.
All the shops except my Amazon sales channel (which is still just in its beginnings) are listed in the banner, or you can click the highlighted links in the text.
I will be adding more items to my shops as the month progresses.
And while I am setting up the Survival September 2025 sales in this side of the Pacific, I am also uploading more jigsaw puzzle designs, especially for tube puzzles, onto my shop space in CreateJigsawPuzzles market place.
Be like a weed, dare to thrive. Also, be prepared.
I have decided to start a Survival September 2025 campaign in my on-line POD stores (though probably not in CreateJigsawPuzzles.)
My first design theme was the hardy little Cladonia cup lichen, because I think they are photogenically cute and because they survive the Finnish winter despite being small and cute.
Shameless commercial exploitation of cup lichen and National Preparedness Day.
When it comes to POD business, I have had to adapt and learn fast during the past few weeks and months, but I now think that the focus of my non-jigsaw puzzle stores will be the urban, educated and international professional who nevertheless is alarmed at the direction the world is going, economic, cultural and ecological axes. Someone like me. How many we are and does anyone find my stores (links in the top of this site), is anyone’s guess.
This person, usually traveling a lot within and between continents for work and fun and therefore keeps only minimal apartment, but nevertheless wants to be prepared on the emergencies specific for their circumstances, probably needs lightweight but stylish travel and tech accessories and home decor that does not take too much space. Colorful and / or complex nature or garden based designs balance the dullness of the concrete jungle on-the-go and brighten the home base during a break from hectic life.
With such lifestyle, preparedness does not mean homesteading in a remote bunker hoarding spam and ammo. It means being flexible and able to travel at a moment’s notice, though the home apartment may have micropreps like cash, backup power pack, good first aid kit, and food and drink for a couple of weeks in case of a natural or governmental disaster.
As for my theme, this year has been tough, but I hope to keep going next month, too. Then I learned that September is the National Preparedness Month in USA. Additionally, this September 2025 we have survived over halfway through the 2020s, despite all the calamities that are still befalling around the world, and that is an accomplishment.
There are many governmental and non-governmental websites promoting this (some examples linked in this paragraph and more can be found by searching the Internet using National Preparedness Month as a search term. Disclaimer: None of the agencies or organizations linked here are sponsoring or endorsing me, nor am I their official partner, representative or otherwise connected with them – I just thought people might be interested in the National Preparedness Month.)
Having checked the National Preparedness Month content online, I felt frivolous about my crass Survival September 2025 commercial promotion, but then I remembered that people are commercializing also Christmas and Halloween which to me are actual holy days, and decided to keep on it. I may get booed or even reviled, but even if people buy nothing but get inspired to increase their preparedness, that is important.(By the way, I think most important part of preparedness is the attitude, closely followed by skills – gear can be helpful but without the first two, it will only be a talisman, an emotional support blanket.) As part of my Survival September 2025, I try to post every now and then about prepping for urban international professional (though I think most of us already know the relevant tricks, or at least most of them.)
Meanwhile, to all the people who have survived so far, you are Doing Good, Keep Going! Hopefully to the end of the 2020s and long after that!.
If you have any ideas or opinions on this, or any other content in my shop(s), please comment – feedback from public is always important help for a hermit like me to understand how people actually think.
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