40% Off Texifornia Pillows

Check out these fun pillows with my photos and designs. You can use coupon code ZPILLOWFIGHT for 40% off pillows at my Texifornia Zazzle Shop or any of my other Zazzle shops through Oct. 1...AND the same coupon code gets you get 20% off NEARLY everything else in my shops (everything save stamps and a few of my posters--which have a lesser discount).



Can't be combined with other offers, including bulk discounts.

New Postcard! (And 50% off ALL Postcards TODAY)

All postcards at my Zazzle Shop are 50% off TODAY with coupon code POSTCARDDEAL. And, I have a two new postcard designs to share--one with the Waco Suspension Bridge and Texas Longhorn Sculpture, and another of the cowboy sculpture (both part of the "Branding the Brazos" series by Robert Summers).  This coupon above good at my other Zazzle shops too.

Waco Suspension Bridge by Texifornia

My Texas Scribbleprint Notebook Got the Zazzle Today's Best Award!!

Woo hoo! My Texas Scribbleprints notebook I designed got the Todays Best award at Zazzle yesterday! That means it was featured on the front page of Zazzle and everything! Pretty cool!

Texas Scribbleprint by Texifornia

Oh, and there's a sale in the Texifornia Souvenir shop today! Though the notebooks aren't on sale today you can use coupon code ZCYBERMONDAY through November 29 for the following deals at my Zazzle Shop:

30% Off Ornaments

$5 Off T-shirts

$3 Off Mugs

PLUS Free Shipping if Your Order is Over $50

Sale at the Texifornia Souvenir Shop!

Get 25% off at the Texifornia Shop at Zazzle with coupon code GIFTERDEAL25 through Oct 23!

Souvenir Spotlight - Texas Heat Wave

My mom thought I should make a I Survived the 2011 Texas Heat Wave shirt with one of my Scribbleprints designs, and I thought that was a great idea! I even made some buttons and mousepads and other stuff to!

You can find buy my Texas Heat Wave products at my CafePress and Zazzle souvenir shops (Hint, for plain white t-shirts the CafePress value tee is your best bargain! ) I'll be adding designs with just the Texas scribbleprint soon, and if you like those wild scribbbles I have more here.

Souvenir Spotlight - Etsy Finds!

Found these great state love decor items on Etsy.

I Heart California Print by Parada Creations

(also available in yellow, blue, and coral red)

I Heart Texas

(also available in red and blue)

Heart Strings Map by Felix Street Studio

You can put the hearts in whatever states you want!

Wouldn't this be a cool gift for a Texifornian?

Just had to share those!

Souvenir Saturday - Texas Turkey

Thanksgiving is coming up, so how about some good Ole' Texas Turkey!

Texas Turkey by artmuvz_animals

Hmmm...not exactly type of Texas Turkey you were thinking of?

Ok, what about this?

Turkey, TX City Limits Sign by city_limits

That's still not it?

OK, here we go...

The Texas Outfitters "Rio GrandeTurkey" by thetexasoutfitters
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There, that's Texas Turkey!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Souvenir Saturday - Autumn Colors

For this week's Souvenir Saturday how about some fall color!

Texas thanksgiving wishes foliage border by studioportosabbia
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California autumn leaves thanksgiving by studioportosabbia
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Souvenir Saturday - Buttons

Yes, yes...I haven't done a Souvenir Saturday in forever. Thought I'd share some fun Texas and California flair I found on Etsy and Zazzle. I found the button above at Pumpkin Bear. It's her homage to Texas, where she went to college and says she got into mucho mischief.

I found the button's below at Parsnip and Pear. They have nifty map buttons for various California and Texas cites.

And here's some of my favorites from Zazzle....

Texas Vintage Travel Poster by TheVintageVamp

I really liked this Texas button.  It's actually a Vintage drawing SMOOSHED,
which I would have never known if I hadn't explored TheVintageVamp and found
the original.  I think the resized button above came out with a fun
cartoonish look, in stead of looking distorted.

And now for some California buttons...

So•Cal Life - Distressed by AmericanVeritas


Just love it!

California Roots by California_Roots

And here's one I could wear to brag on my
Calfiornia upbringing. 

Do you have a California or Texas product you'ld like to see featured here? Leave a comment with a link below and I'll consider it for a future Souvenir Saturday.

Small Talk 6 - Shirts I've Read and Loved

I was busy setting up a garage sale when the last Small Talk 6 was put up, but I'll have to crash this party late because I simply can't miss this one. You see, I sell T-Shirts through CafePress and Zazzle and Printfection, and when I'm not busy on my own shops I love browsing other's to see all the pretty and witty designs. So, since this IS Texifornia I'm sharing my 6 favorite Texas and California shirt slogans...and even THAT was hard to narrow down to 6!.


1.  My favorite T-Shirt ever is....

Ski Texas T-Shirt by the Online Paper Airplane Museum
...and yeah, my love of it has as much to do with the picture as the slogan.

2.   You've probably heard of the Slogan "Don't Mess With Texas" --well, there are so many good parodies of that it was hard to choose.  Here's one of my faves...

If you can't read that, it says

"Go ahead...it's pretty messed up anyway."

This shirt is by Americasaurus. 

3. And here's another...

Don't Mess with China...It's like Texas, only you really can't mess with it.
  by mathcaddy

4.  You may have seen shirts with the slogan "Keep Austin Weird" before (which, by the way, I love).  But even better still is this Lubbock Parody....

Keep Lubbock Flat

5.  Ok, time for some California tees already!   Here's one that makes me laugh (if someone reads this long in the future, this was from the age of Arnold):

 My Govenor Can Beat Up Your Govenor

by The Tee Garden

6.  And this one is perfectly Texifornian... 

I don't care how they do it here...I'm from California.

This one is by one of my favorite Celtic artists,

VoxFox, who has shops through CafePress and Zazzle. 

Only the CafePress shop has this design, which is a bit

out of character from his intricately drawn artwork.

There's versions for other states too, including Texas. 

 So there you have it...my 6 favorite Texas/California Slogans (for now...I'm bound to find more).  If you have a blog you can post your own Small Talk 6 and leave a link on MomDot. If you don't have a blog, feel free to  join in by posting your 6 in a comment below!

The CafePress shirt images are used without permission in the hopes that these artists would want me to use them to promote their shirts--but if anyone does not want these images posted on this blog, please let me know and I'll take them down right away.  The Zazzle t-shirts are linked through the Zazzle Affiliate program.  It's easier to link them that way, but I can also earn money if you buy them through my links (which I don't mind a bit either).  

Souvenir Saturday - My Five Favorite Flowers

I've decided to mix my Souvenir Saturday today with a meme called Small Talk 6. Their topic of the week is your 6 favorite flowers, and since I was doing flowers for Souvenir Saturday this month, I thought, how perfect! Of course, not all of my favorite flowers come from Texas or California, so this will be slightly off the normal topic, but still fun!

Lisianthus
I discovered this one when I worked at a nursery in California.

Lisianthus Blossom by moonrisings
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Queen Anne's Lace
I fell in love with this flower visiting my grandma in New England as a little girl. I also love the poem by that name by William Carlos Williams.

Queen Anne's Lace 1 (Wild Carrot) by LivingNature
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Columbine

These flowers decorated the edges of trails I went hiking on as a child in Sequoia National Forest.  I thought they looked like shooting stars.

Red Columbine 09 by TPossum
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Foxglove
Another beauty I found while working at a nursery.

foxgloves by Jack_of_Arts
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Morning Glory
I love these because I can actually grow them, and because of their lovely flowers and vining vining leaves!

Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Birthday Card by patsarts
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Mexican Evening Primrose
My favorite Texas wildflower, which I've waxed on about enough already here.

Oenothera speciosa - Pink Evening Primrose Photo by citrine_dreams
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Souvenir Saturday - California Poppies

Every Saturday, ok...almost every Saturday (alright, alright...on an occasional Saturday) I feature stuff I find with a California or Texas theme. For the last few times the theme has been Texas flowers, so I thought it was time to feature some California beauties...namely, the ever photogenic California Poppy!

California Poppy by bubbleblue
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Isn't she lovely?

California Poppies Postcard by WanderLinArts

Hello Poppies Buttons by wingedturtle

They're even lovelier when they're together!

Poppies in Perspective by Bugmaster

I loved seeing them covering the hillsides when we would go on roadtrips...they'd make the hills look like someone had splashed them with orange paint.

Orange Poppies and Lupine by dma847
More Nature Posters

They look pretty combined with other flowers too! This looks like bluebonnets, but it's actually Lupine, a related flower (bluebonnets are in the Lupine family too...but there grow taller and a little less thick, at least the ones I remember).

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Souviner Saturday - Bluebonnets

The bluebonnets have been blooming...though they've started to fade now. Always beautiful!

Here's some bluebonnet photography I found on Zazzle.

Bluebonnets and Barn by providencephoto
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Texas Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrush by theviewuphere
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LadyBug on Bluebonnet Postcard by susankphotos
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Primrose Discovery

Guess what I found in my yard?

Well, yes, I often find that cutiepie in my yard,
but I meant the flowers.

I was so excited when they came up, because Mexican Evening Primrose is my favorite Texas wildflower. And no, I didn't plant these (at least not that I can remember). When we moved into our house last May, the yard was nicely mowed, so even if these beauties had still been around, I wouldn't have known...but they are here now, in both my front and back yard! Yeah!

My first experience with these beauties was when I was working at a nursery in California. We got some of these pink pretties in, and another lady who worked there who had lived in Texas started laughing. "I can't believe they're selling these!" she said. "They're weeds in Texas."

"Some pretty weed," I thought.

But I didn't know the half of it. Not until I saw them overflowing the median on I-20, waving in the wind like a frothy pink sea. It took my breath away...even more so than the bluebonnets did, gorgeous as they are.

Wish I had a picture of that! But here are some primrose posters and postcards I found on Zazzle.

I thought this one was appropriate for this blog, with the lone California Poppy...

California Poppy & Mexican Primrose by sunrisern

And here's a lovely close up...

Pink Evening Primrose by tshirtdujour

I like how this last one shows the primrose buds. Beautiful!

Oenothera speciosa - Pink Evening Primrose Photo by citrine_dreams
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So, what's your favorite wildflower?

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Souvenir Saturday - The Force is Strong With Ya'll

The week before last we put on a Star Wars party for my son, so when I stumbled on the following T-shirt, well I had my Souvenir Saturday theme.

AFF 08 design by AustinFanForce

(On the back it says "May the Force Be With Ya'll")

OK, there's not a hugh amount ofTexas/California related Star Wars Souvenirs out there, but I did one for California too. Love this:

You can find these stickers (and shirt and more with this design) at CafePress.

(Yeah, I know it's not Saturday yet...but this was actually written before last Saturday. And to keep it from being forgotten again I'm posting it "early"...or late, however you want to look at it.)

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Souvenir Saturdays - Snow Gear for 2010

I haven't done a "Souvenir Saturday" for a while, so I thought I'd dedicate this one to...

Texas Snow by chlywi

Texas snow is usually RARE and BARE.

If you wanted to ski in Texas it might look something like this...

Ski Texas T-Shirt by the Online Paper Airplane Museum

But several times this year there was enough snow to make people actually bring out their sleds, skis and snowboards they usually keep only for trips to other states.

We even got SNOW ON CHRISTMAS in

much of the state!

Hmm...wonder if we'll get snow on Easter like we did several years back...

Snowy Bluebonnet - magnet by Horseshoes3

Weren't those bluebonnets pretty in the snow?

Bluebonnets in Snow - bag by Horseshoes3

Gotta love Texas weather!

(OK, maybe not. But it does bring surprises doesn't it!)

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Souvenir Saturdays - Giveaways for Homesick Texifornians

I'm posting Souvenir Saturdays a day early today! Might be adding more to this tomorrow though!

I have been riding the magic carpet at One World One Heart the last couple of days, visiting all sorts of interesting blogs, and entering fun giveaways for some unique stuff.

I'm giving away winner's choice of either iced tea from Bush's Chicken or a postcard from Texas. I thought that would be nice for a visitor wanting a taste of Texas, or a homesick Texan wanting a taste of home. Along my travels I've found some other giveaways that Texifornian's might enjoy:

If you're missing the beaches of California or Texas, wearing a tiny capsule of treasures from the ocean might remind you of home.

Or you might enjoy flipping through the pages of 16 x Mom, a true story of a woman who raised her 16 children in the heart of San Jose, California which chronicles over 100 years of California history.

And, who wouldn't enjoy some Cowgirl Chocholate?...cowgirls are definitely a part of both Texas and California history and lore, and chocolate is always a good treatment for homesickness (IMHO). On my regular travels (not through One World One Heart), I found several blogs giving Cowgirl Chocholates away...

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