#vss365 #prompt 12-26-21 to 1-1-2022

Some day I’ll figure out how to make the jump links work to take you directly to the #vss365 responses. Again, apparently, this is not one of those days. Grrr-rrrr-rrr)

LET’S GET STARTED!

The Thought / Motto for This Week

This Quote Is Not Just for #vss365 #prompts!

The principle is the same, whether you’re writing a business plan, an autobiography, a training manual, or poetry.

You Can Do It, Too

Imagine …

From

mugs to shower curtains,

notebooks to yoga mats,

phone covers to beach towels,

t-shirts to greeting cards,

posters to puzzles,

all of them make wonderful small to large gifts for ourselves, family, friends, co-workers, events, and promotions.

Since I don’t have your book cover,

I’m using mine to give you some examples.

Note: Pixels auto-selects the background colors, but you can change it and the image sizes.

It’s a Family Affair for a Book Signing or Gallery Exhibition

Keeping All My Supplies Together,

Including My Laptop and Apparel,

Now, I can “lug all my writing stuff around with ease.”

I put all my writing stuff into a tote bag of the same style, so I can find everything fast and get to work! If I want to include my large laptop in the collection of tools, I use a “weekender” tote bag.

Over 500 Designs on Tote Bags & Pouches

These are mine; think of what you could create!

Check out my links for ideas!

Notice how the size of the image and the color of the background can be changed to match or to mix.

• Here is a link where you can find all my current weekender tote bags in Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels.  
• The smaller tote bags also are available here.  I put pens, pencils, sticky notes, page tabs, etc. in one of the zip carry-all pouches.
• Here is a link where you can find all the zipping carry pouches in Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels. 
• If I want to give items as gifts, I add a matching greeting card. Here is your link for Greeting Cards.

Inexpensive Gifts and  Promo Items for Your Book. Save on Your Purchases While Earning a Small Commission

You can save money when you buy your own products at wholesale while potentially increasing sales of all your art, books, and services as people start to follow you. In addition, you might generate a small income from the items you feature on Pixels. It gives you a small commission for those sales.

Think of how you can put your art, logo, book covers, or a personal photo on these items listed below.

• For example, you could pair a copy of your book with a coffee mug, spiral notebook, t-shirt or sweatshirt, and a  tote bag – all of which have your book cover image – in gifts to loved ones.
• Even your gift card can match!
• If you just need a small gift, give only the cup with a greeting card.

How Else Could This Help You?

For Others as Gifts and/or Promotional Items

These items make great, inexpensive gifts for

• family
• friends
• co-workers
• “secret Santas”
• people in shelters, medical, or other care facilities

and for

• regular event promotional gifts
• raffles,
• swag bags
• place settings, etc.
  

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For Your Personal Use – Getting Organized

Are you feeling scattered?

Do you have “stuff” “everywhere?”

Pixels products also are useful in helping you get organized easily

~ especially if you are the author of multiple works

~ or if you are reading multiple works.

Keep your device and book, coffee cup, and spiral notebook, along with a pad of sticky notes, pens, pencils, and bookmarks in one place. Even your Lucky Shirt” will fit.

On the other hand, imagine that you can find what you want readily from among mixed and scattered items – simply at a glance – based on the image of the book cover (for example) that you see before you.

Writing about Equal Rights Issues?

#vss365 Tips

A Side Bar to Help With Time Management

I have a different-cover notebook (from my Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels Products collections) for each kind of writing project, so I can find them fast without looking inside to know which topic is in those notes!

The Organizing Principle

This uses the same principle as color-coding file folders and labels to promote efficiency and save time. (You don’t have to use my goodies, of course, but thank you if you do!)

The cover clues me as to what’s in each. For example, “quotes,” or “research snippets about an XYZ subject” or “#vss365 #prompt,” “notes for a winter sports documentary,” “romance novel concepts,” or “WIP#3,” etc.

Using different subject matter notebooks was a tip for aging minds.

Of Course, You Could Have One for #vss365 #prompts!

Here is a link where you can find all the (over 500 designs and counting) on spiral notebooks available in my Collections of Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels Products.

To help me get into the mood for writing,

I often match my notebooks with mugs and tote bags, but look at all the other possibilities.

Fine Art America / Pixels Keeps Adding Goodies!

To keep current and creative, Pixels added face masks once the pandemic started, and – later – puzzles – and, recently, holiday ornaments. Love it!

Easy Peasy

All you do is supply the image (which you own or for which you have usage rights). Pixels handles everything else (the financial transactions, manufacturing, and shipping.) It’s a great deal!

Separate Blog  and Web Page So You Can Find Info About This Without Searching Here In the Future

Again, I’ve created an entire blog post for artists and authors on this subject so that I could describe it less here. It’s not quite finished, but Click Here to go to that educational piece about how you can do this, too. Alternatively, Click Here to see my web page for more ideas (not just for authors) and instructions about how to do this. or let me know if you want me to conduct a “walk-through” class about signing up and uploading your images.

Below, I’ll provide a list of the many and varied products to help you decide whether to try doing this.

THE POINT of Putting Your Stuff on Pixels

I’m sprinkling many examples while spending time and space on this now to show you that it might be both fun and worth it for YOU to do something similar with your own photos.

Again, as of this writing and without my advertising, over 156,000 people have viewed my site! (BTW: I forget to ask people to like, comment, and follow me on my many websites! Please follow me here and there if you visit.) Again, this could work for you, too.

I’d love for you to buy some of my offerings – even as a “thank you” for teaching you this. However, if you participate with your own images, it could be a way in which to attract new customers to your work.

To truly class up your act with a professional theme, you also could combine the images with my presentation infographics for speakers and events, but that is an entirely different subject covered FAR below.)

Now, Drum Roll, Please ~ The List of Pixels Goodies

When you click on each link, you can see all of my over 500 images in each category on each item of merchandise. These items are the same items your images will go onto when you participate in Fine Arts of  America / Pixels.

Nancy’s Novelty Photos

Are Available on All the Following Merchandise

Yours will be too if you decide to do this!

• wall art (prints)
  • canvas, metal, acrylic, wood, framed
  • posters, tapestries
• home decor
  • bath towels, hand towels, shower curtains, duvet covers, fleece blankets, throw pillows
• t-shirts, tank tops, and sweatshirts for people of all ages, including infants
  • • Men’s t-shirts
    • Men’s tank tops
    • Women’s t-shirts
    • Women’s tank tops
    • Sweatshirts
    • Kids t-shirts
    • Baby Onesies
• coffee mugs(2 sizes)
• face masks
• beach towels (rectangular and round)
• yoga mats
• tote bags, weekender tote bags, and  carry-all pouches
• iPhone covers, Galaxy phone cases, and portable battery chargers
• jigsaw puzzles
• spiral notebooks
• greeting cards
• stickers
• holiday ornaments

OK, that’s enough about photos on Pixels for now!

The Benefits of Participating and

How Daily #vss365 #prompts Work

Just scroll fast to This Week’s #vss365 Samples if you already know how #vss365 #prompts work.

#vss365 #prompts Start on Twitter

Let’s start with giving credit to the founders of these great brain-teasing exercises. This clip is from their Twitter account.

#VSS365 (Official Account)

@vss365official

Official information account for the #vss365 prompt. A daily word game to feed the creative muse inside all of us. Admins:   @ArthurUnkTweets and @cely717.

They choose ever-changing leaders to lead us by giving us a mind-exercising word #prompt that we are to use in creating poetry or prose.

The prompts get our creative juices flowing and help us start each day with something delicious and new to contemplate.

It is also a great way to keep your brain active and healthy.

So, I hope more of you will join us in the

• #vss365 (which means ‘very short stories – 365 days a year’)
• #prompt(the word you use when you create a Twitter-sized response in poetry or prose) 

challenges on Twitter!

• You can write something humorous, elegant, scary, or abstruse. We don’t do porn or hatred, but, except for that, whatever you want to do will work! So, get your coffee and join us!
• People don’t usually do this, but you may submit more than one entry per #prompt word.
• Adding photos is not a requirement. However, I love color and images, so I usually choose to use them, unless no photo could depict what I wrote (like on esoteric and spiritual topics).
• I don’t know about you, but I rarely have more than 5 – 10 minutes to do almost anything. Unfortunately, that includes finding the day’s prompt, thinking of a response, and finding the corresponding image I want to use, PLUS posting. Therefore, comma, as I would say, it’s okay to go back later and refine the work to make it better – particularly, if you plan to publish it. I have done that with a few of the things I post here.