Day 12 - Bubble Bath

Bubble Bath was one of the first Zachary Bear® designs that I remember seeing from Lori. This design is copyright 1983 so it among her first creations. Lori first started selling her art at places like the Park Avenue Festival in Rochester and art shows in the local malls. At that time she had a black and white outline printed on art paper that she would add water color to. These pictures were matted and framed to a finished size of 11 inches x 17 inches.

When she brought Bubble Bath to me we started making full color prints in three sizes. These sizes framed out to 5"x7", 8"x10" and 11"x14" in gold metal or wood frames. In the early days of Zachary Bear® Lori's father-in-law Don Aman would hand cut all the mats. Today would have been Don Aman's birthday, a great day to mention him in the blog. Lori's husband Bill carries on this tradition of hand cutting all the mats for the Zachary Bear® prints. He learned from the best...

Today you can still buy this print in three sizes through the Zachary Bear Store and Studio in Webster, New York. It makes a cute addition to a bathroom and may be personalized in the white space below the wood tub. You may have it personalized with an individual or family name (ie. Jane's Bathroom or The Smith Family). Over the years we have added many products to the line of gifts that we print in Webster. We can print this design on a ceramic coffee, a mouse pad, shirts and many other products. We have also made our designs available at Zazzle and CafePress.

This is day 12 of the New Year and my second day of intentional blogging. One design down and 287 to go in 353 days to go. Click below to start following our journey through 2010.

So, what do I do when I am not blogging? Yesterday I added new Kaleidoscope designs to our Zazzle site and scanned new dog designs by Lori. As of this morning there are 9 new dog cards available at Zachary Bear's Store at Greeting Card Universe and more in the pipeline. I have added the Bubble Bath design today so that will be available in a few days.

Peace,
Ed