We love you Mr Baxter

There's a new kid in Redbubble Town.

His name is Rupert Baxter (but you may call him Mr Baxter), and I was first introduced to him via a "You've made a sale ..." email around March this year.

His title at that time was "Chief Officer of Giving You Good News"

Then a receipt appeared signed "Mr Baxter - Head of Numbers"

We knew very little about him at that time and then suddenly he appeared "front of house" his watch list containing only Jo O'Brien and his one piece of art being a tshirt proclaiming his relationship status (I must confess I'm a tad sceptical)












When Redbubble put him in charge of the Friday's Buyer's Booth winners, he became "Mr Baxter – Superintendent of Spotting Good Pictorial Efforts". Catching his eye and receiving one of these little suckers will earn you a RB Voucher!






Wednesday's "Picture of the Week" efforts are signed "Mr Baxter – Executive Officer of Writing Fine Words About Fine Pictures" festooned thus earning the recipient a Redbubble voucher.





It's little wonder that Boxter er, Baxter is gaining quite a following!


So if you want to keep the good news flowing - and have a giggle to boot, you could do far worse than adding Mr Baxter to your Redbubble watchlist by clicking on his picture below;











Or indeed follow his trail of good news all the way to Twitter - and follow him there .....







As usual, all pictures in this post are links - so click away!

The Joys of Social Networking (Part Deux)

While doing some housekeeping on here today, I was quite surprised to find that I have had a presence on Facebook for a year, and the big excitement at that time was that I had created a Tizme.

So, since then .....

Well - Mr Facebook has sold himself and become a squillionaire at some ridiculously young age - another fine case of "why didn't I think of that?" and the thing that is Facebook has just got bigger and bigger.

Amazingly, of the people that I grew up with, the only people I know on there are my mum (seriously), my cousin who is a few years younger than me and one bloke that I went to primary school with. I don't know what the issue is with the friends of my youth - perhaps they're too busy having real lives or maybe they're a little a-feared of the techolojony??

Me, I love it ... mostly as a promotional tool for my tshirts and photographs, but also because it sorta fits in with my preferred level of correspondence .... "Hi! ... you're still alive then" ..... nice puppy/kitten/kid ..... "How drunk were you??" .... and "You're going on holidays again??

In that time, I've started two groups - one for my "art" and one for old scholars of my primary school which was bulldozed a few years ago. That's where I found the bloke who was in my class, all the others in the group are mere babes in arms!

I've created an application - "Send a Cathie Tee" which would be a great tool if I could just work out how to put an actual link to the real tshirt - so if people liked it heaps, they may be inspired to buy a real one ..... a dismal failure ... I feel like the guys who invented WD39 and 6-UP!

Today I created a Cathie Tranent "Page" so that people could become fans, well probably more so I could get a much better interface for showing photos and I now have 5 fans! (even if one's me and one is me mum ...)

All this social networking is a wonderful thing, but I do wonder sometimes how much more time I would have for making art if I wasn't so busy talking about it?? ;P

Drawing Day 2008

June 7th is Drawing Day 2008!!

I'm gonna have a go ... should be interesting.

The Redbubble Drawing Day group is here.

Go to it folks!!





Well, thanks to my lovely Wacom tablet, here he is!!




And here he is again - on a tshirt .....



Even Connor had a go!! Entitled Man walking a creature!!