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.
Testing variations on a photo of tree bark (2026, June 2nd). I was thinking about uploading this or a shorter version to Etsy under my shop profile as an enticement for people to look at my designs. Also to Pinterest, if the video is short enough, and a higher resolution version into YouTube (as of June 28th, 2026, my previous art video about yellow flowers had had massive 7 views total – popularity eludes me.)
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
Decided instead to make an art video illustrating some variations in a theme, based on a photograph of some yellow flowers (looks like they are related to agaves or aloes) taken in Berkeley, CA, June 2nd, 2026. Just as a demonstration of the types of designs I have so far usually used for PlanktonPunkt Designs.
I am planning to make more of these, occasionally (the next one will probably be about tree bark), and post them here, Pinterest and/or YouTube.
My Friday on the first week of June was a series of side quests and grinding.
It began with Microsoft having blocked my (leisure) computer due to Trojan. Then I went back to sleep and overslept. My smart phone and work machines were OK, so I could check my morning non-leisure emails. Which included checking final details of a reimbursement which had to be finalized this week. And social media. And non-essential websites. I planned to drop my infected laptop (silenced, because the alarm was blaring whenever the lid was open) to a repair shop, go to check the amount to add into the reimbursement, visit a nearby internet cafe to finish the reimbursement, then go somewhere to continue my designs. I wanted to do gift mug designs.
Despite the late morning, after getting my first espresso and discovering that the computer repair shop was not open yet, I instead went to a two county trip to discover what more was owed to me in reimbursements. Less than 3 dollars on top of everything. I should have let it go. Also, the schedule was now too tight for me to do leisurely stint in an internet cafe. Because I had to update the reimbursement info via email and read an online form, I did not have time to do other things on this trip. Except to stop for espresso and donuts. The repair shop was open by the time I got back to my home county, I left my machine there, and then went to coffee shop to finish my reimbursement form. And do some writing. And to idle. At least the reimbursement thingy is done. I hoped (the following week I needed to sign up for a new payments platform to receive my payment…) And then the computer repairman phoned that the machine was ready.
He had had to eliminate a hacked browser. Which deleted, not only all my open tabs, but also my bookmarks. I don’t want my bookmarks into cloud. In any case, if I had not had time to read them before, I would not have time to read them now, either – all my time seem to go nowadays into mindless little tasks that multiply every single year as the digital task masters invent new things to do with our free time. And if there is time is left over after the ‘helpful’ modernization (all these fancy new apps, not to mention in general dumping the stuff that company workers used to do onto their hapless clients via AI – when phoning to a customer service line, I vastly prefer human call center workers, because they can comprehend the concept of a problem beyond a limited set of preprogrammed alternatives), this time will be further eaten by some regulatory requirement or paperwork or some such nonsense. But in any case, at least my machine was repaired fast, by a human, and I am too tired to care about my unread websites.
This round ended in the afternoon. I rested for a while, after which I spent time doing laundry and updating my product SEOs. That is a long grind. visiting a coffee shop for a while. After the coffee shop visit, before I had finished the SEO for the second listing of the day, I realized that I may need to update my mockups to be compliant with new New York advertisement code, since that applies to all online shops that (potentially) sell also in New York. Better to be safe than sorry, when it comes to the whimsical enforcement of opaque rules. Because of this extra work, I dislike New York government – IMHO it is worse than California government, and that is saying something. And now I am typing here, with dinner (a quick takeaway) waiting.
I thought I would be that day designing gift mugs but I was delayed again. Regardless, my SEOs are still probably a disaster (and I don’t know if my ongoing fiddling with them will help or worsen the situation.)
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.
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!
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