hippopottermiss on Zazzle

and soon on Spoonflower too

First of all I'd like to say how sad I am to hear of the sudden death of Helena
She made very varied and beautiful fractals and I will miss her works coming into my inbox and her comments on my work too.
Here are some of my favourites from her gallery:





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Traditional-Art-Only recently held a Group Avatar Contest. Congrats
I personally think this was an excellent choice too, so congratulations!

A round of applause to all the winners

and a few works from each of their galleries:

The winner *C-Jaguar07 who is new to DA. Welcome and I hope you enjoy it here.


2nd Place: :thumb183454958: by ~j1mmyj6zz
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3rd Place: by ~genzm


3rd Place: :thumb184736055: by *ART-fromthe-HEART
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3rd Place: by *WendyMitch



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I have a new project on the go. I bought myself a small second hand graphics tablet so of course it needed trying out The result is an 8 inch repeating square of hippos. It comes in four different colourways and I have combined them here all in one square

I'm putting it on Spoonflower to sell it as fabric and have also used it on several different things in my brand new Zazzle shop. So far it is on mouse pads, and cases for iPhones & iPads. www.zazzle.fr/hippopottermiss*
That link will give you my French Zazzle shop so if you can't cope with the language it is available in all Zazzle online stores worldwide. This link will get you into my shop on US Zazzle:
www.zazzle.com/laughing_hippos…

I have uploaded the four colour variations, warm, cool, bright, and pastel, to Spoonflower, and ordered my test swatches to check that it prints well before it goes public. This is a square cut to show you the different colours. Here there is a tiled version of it so you can see how well it repeats. Actually I really like all the colourways put together like that. Maybe I should offer that version for sale too

A tiled version of all four colourways of my new hippo fabric is in my scraps so that you can see how well it repeats:

I spent ages adjusting things to get it how I wanted but I thoroughly enjoyed doing it. Actually I rather like thie four colourways in one - maybe I should offer that version for sale too



For those of you who missed the DA chat room session about setting up your own business ^MyntKat has done a news  article on it here fav.me/n136689 There is lots of good advice to anyone wanting to set up their own craft business.

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I don't often have the time to reply to everyone who likes my work. I do really appreciate every favourite or comment you leave, there just isn't time to do everything. I prefer to spend my available time looking at all your wonderful galleries and adding things of yours that I like to my favourites, or featuring them here. I apologise if I didn't have time to visit you this time round.
Please accept my thanks here

My DDs
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Featured as a Daily Deviant on 30th November 2008 dailydeviants.deviantart.com/j…

"Welcome to the Zoo" - my interview for the Artisan Craft Club news.deviantart.com/article/63…

Winner of the "Nature" competition run by
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Winner of the "Sea Secrets" competition run by

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