Posts in Winter

April 21, 2013
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That sounds delicious!

If Spring would come I wouldn't be forced to sit here and email sell sheets to hundreds of newspapers around the country. 

I won't complain about the weather because that's about as interesting as listening to someone list their health problems. But I WILL say this:

If I lived in Hawaii, there'd be no Zeichen Press.

See, I can always find the blessing in disguise.

Oh fine, here's a new card — inspired by the endless Winter:

Posts in Winter

April 17, 2013
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The woman gazes through her window. A window covered in dog-drool, a window with a view of only one season: Winter. She stares, slack-jawed, at the slow parade of life.


There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call the Twilight Zone.

SERIOUSLY?!?

Posts in Winter

April 1, 2013
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Jen was part of a dangerous expedition

and I have been monitoring the terrain on our homebase. This could only be successful if I sat on a pizza box in the snow.

I'm sure my view was similar to Jen's so I question her need for the expedition.

New product was added to the shop and I can't help but wonder which cards will sell well... will they be sheep-related?:

Or not?

 

 

 

Posts in Winter

March 8, 2013
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That's the sound that March makes — that and a muffled sobbing. February triggers cabin fever but March in Minnesota is far more dangerous. 

Here's a story about March: One Christmas, Santa put a baby albino rabbit under the tree — so delightful! 

The little rabbit grew into a big rabbit and by the next Winter, our basement smelled like the bunny barn at the State Fair. With scraps of wood and a bale of hay, I built an outdoor rabbit hutch.

In a pinch, it could serve as a coffin for an adult man.

IN A PINCH.

By March it was buried under several feet of snow and I'd order my eldest to go spend time with the rabbit in the snow coffin. 

The moral of the story is: Get a dog.

And something about March creating crazy. Thank God I have an outlet for my March crazy:

Posts in Winter

February 21, 2013
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And it can be done from the comfort of your own home!

If you're like me (don't worry, you're not) you don't like to "leave" your house or "go" anywhere.

Don't worry!

World Domination will be yours as long as you have these three things:

1) Wi-Fi

2) Computer

3) Forever Lazy Suit

We just picked up a new rep for the Virginia and West Virginia territories (that's right, TERRITORIES. Like a gang.)

We are excited to welcome him aboard!

And we hope we don't scare him away with our love for Franimals and wine.

Posts in Winter

December 28, 2012
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I welcome the extra-ordinary. In fact, I am hyper-vigilant and ever-watchful for signs of miraculous happenings.

I ate two pounds of filet mignon on Christmas Eve and I'm pretty sure that was a miracle. It felt like a miracle — béarnaise sauce drizzled over huge hunks of very rare cow flesh doesn't happen every day.

I love Christmas Miracles, they are the most powerful kind of miracle — A change of heart is better than filet mignon and antlers growing out of a dog's head is, perhaps, the most miraculous of all.

Jen did say I couldn't make any more Christmas cards but I squeezed this one past her because she is a sucker for dogs and because I threw her computer in a snowbank.

 

Posts in Winter

December 23, 2012
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It's almost January and you know what that means: It's time to wash my Smart Wool socks. And celebrate Christmas.

Jen told me I can't write anymore Christmas or Chanukah cards. After I egged her face, I wrote a Get Well card:

 

Posts in Winter

December 17, 2012
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The Christmas Tree lot shack doubled as a meth-lab and while I admire ingenuity and entrepreneurship, I like my Holiday Traditions to be more "cozy-by-the-fire" and less "mix-up-a-batch-in-the-tub."

BUT THAT'S JUST ME.

The "lot" contained exactly eight trees but due to a Christmas Miracle, we found the perfect tree!

We only had to retie the tree back onto the car once. To be fair, cooking meth doesn't really prepare a person for handling Christmas Trees.

My Jewish friends don't have these stories and this saddens me, so I made them a card: