I have in my “possession” — you should pardon the expression — a stack of 450 year old drawings that I did a while back. They were stashed away in a box that I knew would get to me when I arrived in this century, and sure enough, it did. I have the box in hand, and much thanks to the person who found it for me and sent it to me.

I’ve had the images scanned in, and I’ve massaged EACH of the images into a set of about a dozen different sizes and shapes, that fit into various items in the CAFEPRESS pantheon of wondrous goodies on my various shops on said website.

It’s been over five hours since I started a page — the first of many Dutch landscape pages — with ONE image, which requires 12 variants of the same image in order to properly fit all the items offered by CAFEPRESS, all of which are made by different manufacturers with totally differing standards of measure.

I don’t always perform all the operations to make an image fit exactly. If it looks wrong, and you really want it, I’ll try to fix it, but that’s an hour or more out of my busy schedule, and I have a LOT of Healing Operations to conduct every day. Continue reading →