PlanktonPunkt Designs failed the July 4th sale because of my bureaucratic error, so I’d like to apologize the inconvenience to any US person who were disappointed about the lack of access last weekend.
My shop on Etsy is back on, with 25% sale within United States extended to July 16th as a minor compensation for the inconvenience.
This 4th of July is 250th Anniversary for USA, so I though to set up a sale for my US customers.
Traditional mathematics may not recognize 250% price cut, but lil’ PlanktonPunkt has a solution: 10 days x 25% sale sums to 250?
Starting July 4th and ending July 13th, for ten days total, a sale of 25% on all items in PlanktonPunkt Designs shops in Printify pop-up shop and in Etsy, valid within United States of America.
Happy Birthday USA!
Click the pic to go to PlanktonPunkt Designs Printify pop-up shop.
Been busy with PlanktonPunkt Designs, trying to optimize my tags for Etsy (and Amazon) SEOs. That is surprisingly heavy work with uncertain results, but obviously my previous tags did not work since almost nobody visited my listings.
While searching for words people might be interested in, I noticed eucalyptus having sufficient number of fans to show up in searches. Also, insulated coffee mugs. So I made eucalyptus art. And recycled my design onto multiple items, including insulated coffee mugs.
While working on that, my print provider advertised a multi-item listing for themed items and of course I had to try it. Long story short, I now have a 5-item listing of desk mats (three sizes), a spiral notebook, mobile phone stand, a black ceramic mug (two sizes) and a black insulated mug, all with maximalist eclectic Summer Eucalyptus art based on a photo of an eucalyptus blooming in California summer. At least I hope it qualifies as maximalist and eclectic, but I could not define the style any better. At least I like the image, so there is that.
I have posted the multi-item listing on Etsy, and it is now available for US customers. I don’t dare to even contemplate Amazon, and I have not yet explored the multi-item option (if any) for Printify pop-up store.
Mockup of Summer Eucalyptus Desk mat, 16″ x 32″ version, 3mm thick neoprene
Information about this got into my feed some time ago and I got interested, and this morning I started looking for info about the June 10th 2026 deadline for filing an abatement for interest and late payment penalties (part I of the text behind this link.)
I am not a tax expert but I thought I should post the links here in case it is of interest or use to someone else. Even though the filing deadline, according to the articles, is already next week.
Update: Looks like the deadline is July 10th, 2026. My bad. Or a benign Mandela Effect affecting the texts on different sites? (Much, much more likely, my bad.)
Some subset of my print on demand items are now on sale also in Amazon USA (sorry, still no overseas selling.) My Amazon listings mainly limited to enamel mugs and ruled-line notebooks, but there are a couple of other items like mobile phone stands.
Since there is no shop as such and I don’t know how to search PlanktonPunkt Designs on Amazon (and therefore suspect that no one else even bothers to try), I’ll be posting every now and then links to individual products. Technically, those should be searchable, but I think their commercial presence will be drowned like a mosquito whine on hurricane. Nevertheless, I’ll try not to bore you too much with crass commercialism but to keep it light among my postings.
Full Speed Snail! Enamel Camping Cup, 12oz capacity, stainless steel with enamel coating, $13.90 + taxes + shipping (within USA) – click on a picture for an Amazon link
And a Full Speed Snail! Mobile Display Stand for hands-free browsing of mobile phone videos, while enjoying coffee from Full Speed Snail! coffee mug. The stand has two piece construction, so it carries easily in handbag or back bag and be disassembled and assembled on a desk or coffee shop table or a horizontal surface on airport as needed. $10.00 + taxes + shipping within USA. Click the photo to see the product in Amazon.
If you don’t like Amazon, the same products are available in my Printify Pop-up Store, and in addition, there are Full Speed! Snail Vinyl Bumper Stickers for the enjoyment of the driver behind you. Or to slap it onto your laptop or luggage to make it different among all the identical black, gray and white laptops and suitcases. Note: if you are putting the sticker on a work laptop, make sure your boss / corporation has a sense of humor or that you are already working for yourself.
7.5″ x 3.75″ (left) and 11″ x 3″ (right) variants available, vinyl stickers with UV-resistant plastic and weather tolerant glue. $8.44 or $9.16 + taxes + shipping within USA. Click on image for a link to the product in my Printify Pop-Up store
And if you feel like traveling at your leisurely pace but not marking your suitcase permanently, there is a Full Speed Snail! Acrylic Luggage Tag with Business Card Insert to announce that Gung Ho! (or not) attitude to the rest of the world (or airport lounge). Nobody else is likely to have the same tag, so your gray or black suitcase will be recognizable among the 112 others in the airport carousel, even when you are jet lagged. You can also write your name and address onto a business card on the back of the tag for the airline to hunt down your lost luggage and ship it to you a couple of months after the vacation or work trip.
2.4″ x 4″ with leather strap to tie it into your luggage, $16.00 + taxes and shipping within USA, click the image to get to PlanktonPunkt Pop-up Store , the tag can be used also outside the USA – Bon Voyage!
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
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