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[Missy8964]

I just opened up an account with CafePress which will offer chinchilla greeting cards, bumper stickers, clothes, etc. with really cute pictures on them.  I mainly set up the account because a few people have asked about greeting cards with the famous birthday picture 

I think that Hallmark's version of the card does not do the picture justice!  It took 80 shots before I got the perfect photo, and Hallmark just cropped out Newie's tail and shrunk down my hard work to a size you can barely see!

So anyway, my store is www.cafepress.com/chinsinhats       I chose cafepress because I've heard many good things about them, including fast shipping, good customer service and high quality stuff.  I'm still in the process of cleaning up the photos, but I have a few good ones ready for shirts.  The birthday card is finished and ready if anyone is still interested in that.

All my graphics (the completed ones anyway) are very high quality; they don't look like cookie cut-outs of chinchillas, they still look fuzzy around the edges and they still have whiskers.  However, the backgrounds are transparent so it doesn't look like a photo pasted onto a shirt.  I can do custom photos, custom captions, whatever you want, just let me know.  Or if you like one of my photos, let me know so I can prioritize the list of photos I need to clean up. My uncle is a professional graphic designer, so I learned from the best.

I tried to keep the prices down - I only make like 50 cents per item, but I enjoy what I do and I want everyone to share the joy that I feel when I see my wonderful pets.  All proceeds will be going toward my vet school fund! (I want to be a small animal specialist).

So check out my store  www.cafepress.com/chinsinhats     and feel free to contact me about anything.

[Beth]

Your site is great, and all of your stuff is so cute!! 

I had an idea that you may or may not like, but I figured I'd tell you anyway.  Maybe you could have an option of customers sending in their own chin pics that you could put on your merchandise?  You could probably charge more $ for it, too.

How do other folks feel about this (please reply)?

Anyway, just a suggestion.  Best of luck with everything!

[Missy8964]

Oh, absolutely.  Thats a great idea.  If anyone would like to send me photos of their chinchillas to be touched up for printing on shirts, cards, whatever, just let me know.  You can see some of my graphics work (everything is slowly getting updated, lol) at www.cafepress.com/chinsinhats.   
Thanks for the suggestion Beth 

Best,
Missy