Back to School Essentials for Boys and Girls

This week I have been designing fashion T-shirts and other school essentials for my Zazzle collection. I teamed up with a friend of mine at Sandyspiders Gifts to create unique clothing and back-to-school supplies for this collection.

If you are someone who prefers to buy your school-aged kids products that were designed by an artist instead of being mass-produced at a big box store then you will love this collection.

Here are a few cute and unique shirts for wearing to school, other activities, or sports. These shirts come in a variety of colors, fabrics, and styles. You can shop for short sleeves, long sleeves, sleeveless, sweatshirts, or hoodies. 

The designs are transferable to any shirt that you prefer. Plus all shirts and other products can be customized by adding your own photograph or text. So you can buy the product as shown or create your own.

Add Your Own Text What Kid's Dk T-Shirt Would Say

by funnyjokes

The back-to-school collection features novelty shirts for teachers, girls, and boys. Also backpacks, socks, and other grade and high school essentials such as notebooks, binders, stickers, rulers, and more.

Favorite Summer Black Dress

When it comes to putting together outfits for summer I always look for casual and easy-care black dresses. I shop for cotton blends that are wash and wear and for styles that can be worn casually or can be dressed up, Warm-season black dresses are a must-have for every woman’s wardrobe because the color coordinates well with other colors and the little black dress never goes out of style.

Basic tank dress with yellow sunflower accessories

My favorite styles are the tank because you can wear it with sneakers or flip flops or dress it up with your jewelry and a fashion bag. 

This style of dress is perfect when the days are hot. Add a fashion tote bag and you are ready for shopping, going to the beach, or sightseeing while on vacation

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Retro Style Sunflower Home Decor

When it is time to decorate for the spring and summer season I tend to decorate with flowers that I grow in my cutting garden. The home always feels warm and cozy when there is a vase of black-eyed Susans and sunflowers on the table. I also like to accent my home's décor with yellow and white sunflower accessories; tablecloths, coffee mugs,  plates, and throw pillows are a few decorations that will add ambiance to the home.

This week while going through a trunk in the attic I came across a sunflower cluster bouquet that was painted 35 years ago. The paper was discolored due to the age and the floral still life had not been completed. It was one of those paint-by-number drawings that I enjoyed doing when I was younger.

The still-life picture was not completed, the vase and table had no color, but I thought the flower cluster would look nice on home décor products.

The arrangement in the painting had yellow sunflowers with green leaves, orange coneflowers, and touches of blue. I thought I would scan it to make it digital then edit it on Photoshop to restore it. After hours of editing, I decided it was ready to be uploaded to Zazzle where I could design a few of the home products.

The retro-style home decor turned out better than I had hoped. I like the look of the unfinished sunflower bouquet. I also like the areas where the paint bled.

If you like retro-style floral patterns that will look fabulous in a Country or Cottage style home then you will love the sunflower throw pillows, tablecloth, and bathroom accessories (see below)

This tablecloth is so pretty for a special occasion or every day. I can visualize the kitchen table with this yellow floral and white cloth and a centerpiece of flowers.

White Table Cloth with Yellow Sunflowers - Floral

This paper plate was designed to go with the tablecloth. The text is for Mother’s Day however you can personalize the text or remove it.

 Paper Plate with Retro Yellow Flowers

Yellow Sunflowers and Polka dot  Paper Plate

by Susang6

Accent your sofa or your bed with pretty yellow and white sunflower throw pillows. Personalize with your own text or edit this template to remove the text. The choice is yours. Add a few solid color pillows to your pillow décor.

Yellow Polka Dot and Sunflowers Love Nana Throw Pillow

Accent Pillows that will go with Sunflowers

Moss Green Linen Like Throw Pillow

Yellow Linen-Like Throw Pillow

Do you decorate your home with the color yellow?

Fashion Hoodies for Everyone

Hoodies are a trendy fashion because they are comfortable and look good with leggings and jeans. Men, women, and children wear hoodies during the cool season as an upper layer or they wear them over a t-shirt when the weather is not too cold. 

You can wear a hoodie for a casual look or dress them up with your accessories.

Black hoodie with tree design

Red Rose Hoodie for Valentine's Day by sgolis

Instead of wearing a sweater, one will take along a hoodie to wear when it is windy or the weather is cool to cold. They are perfect for travel, taking out on the water when you go sailing.

A hoodie is a sweatshirt with a hood. Fashion hoodies are available in pullovers or zip-ups and come in a variety of colors, neutrals, dark and some come in pastel colors for early spring fashion looks. You can shop for a classic hoodie with no artwork or for a designer look.

The feature of the fashion hoodie is the look and being able to wear it casually or dressy. Dress up the hoodie by coordinating it with trendy leggings and fashion accessories. Such as the black pullover hoodie with a red heart design worn with red and black pattern leggings and black accessories. A fabulous outfit for Valentine's Day and beyond

The benefit is comfort and easy wash and wear care. Zazzle hoodies are a cozy blend of polyester and cotton fleece. These easy-care hoodies need no ironing but I do recommend that you refrain from drying them on high heat and that you remove them from the dryer when the hoodie is slightly damp, shake them, and put them on a hanger.  *Colors of the design do not fade as long as you refrain from washing in hot water and drying in a hot heat dryer.

Here are a few fashion hoodies that I designed and other finds from zazzle.com

Safari Life Hoodie

Unicorn Flowery Super Cute Girly Hoodie

by Flissitations

Love Soccer - I Play Like A Girl - Pink Hoodie

by DesignsbyDonnaSiggy

Hoodie with Melville School logo

by MelvillePTG

Kids tennis clothing | Custom childrens hoodie

by imagewear

Happy Garden Flowers Summer White Hoodie

by Susang6

Blackbird Perched on Branch / Bird lover Blue Hoodie

by Susang6

Fish Tales Fisherman T-Shirt, Black T-Shirt

by Susang6

Vail Vibrant Logo Hoodie

by highaltitudes

Valentine Red Heart Sweatshirt

by Susang6

Valentines’ Day Clothing for Everyone

Dressing up for Valentine’s Day is fun for kids and adults. Children and teens will wear a t-shirt, leggings, and red accessories to school or to parties. Women will wear a heart pattern shirt or red dress and men will dress for the holiday by wearing a patterned tie or casual shirt. 

Overall kids and adults have fun on Valentine's Day when they wear a festive holiday pattern or other red clothing.

Sweet Heart Candy Pattern Valentines' Day Tie

by Susang6

Here is a casual outfit that I created from a red heart collage. The design features a large red heart on a smaller heart background.  You can wear the tee with a festive holiday pattern legging, jeans, or whatever you like.

Happy Valentine's Day by Sgolis featuring red heart clothing and accessories

On Valentines Day children will exchange cards, attend parties and teens may go to a dance. Adults usually spend time with their special someone and celebrate the love that they feel for each other. Everyone who celebrates the holiday will dress up in some form of Valentine’s Day clothing.

Red is the primary color for Valentine's Day and is symbolized by love, hearts, and roses.

Do you wear the color red on Valentine's Day?

Redo Bathroom with Botanical Accessories

An easy way to redo your bathroom is to accessorize it with botanical accessories. You can choose from a variety of floral prints and all will complement a neutral, cream, white or light beige bathroom beautifully. Even if you have a green accent wall most flowers look fabulous with the color green.

Purple Iris Botanical - Floral Gifts
by Photo Gifts By Sgolis

I like to redo my bathroom in late winter because the floral products make the room feel warm and cheerful. When you redo your bathroom with a botanical shower curtain, towels, bath mat, and other accessories you will bring the garden indoors. As a rule, when the crocus starts to bloom in the gardens I will redo my bathroom with spring flowers. Tulips, daffodils, and irises are a few of my favorites and all look fabulous when they are printed onto bathroom accessories with coordinating towels.

Shop for this purple Iris flower towel set here 

Here is a set that I created from a photograph of purple irises blooming in a lush green meadow.

Bathroom Redo - Purple Iris Botanicals by Sgolis featuring a flower stem

Shop for a variety of Iris-designed floral pattern cards and gifts. Find products for your home decorations, gift cards, clothing, and more.

Irises * Floral Gifts
by Photo Gifts by Sgolis

Know that you can buy this botanical bath set or you can design your own flower pattern bathroom set. Then redo your bathroom for spring and summer.

Cute Baby Valentines Day T-Shirts

Shopping for a baby’s first Valentines Day t-shirt is easy when you shop online at Zazzle.com. The made by Zazzle baby shirts are as cute as they can be and the basic styles are quality made, There/s a variety of styles and colors to choose from, a shirt that is just right for your baby boy or girl.

Here is a fashion baby outfit idea

Valentine's Day Teddy Bear Fashion by Sgolis 

There is a new baby in our family and I plan to shop online and then ship directly to my niece instead of having the baby gift sent to me first. I have narrowed it down to a few cute baby shirts for Valentine's Day. All are a classic style and they will coordinate well with jeans or other bottoms for baby and these tops can be worn for everyday or dressed up.

Know that I did shop at the mall and found that there were not many Valentine's designs for babies. boy or girl. The ones that I did find were cute, Disney has a cute Minnie Mouse tee for baby, but other than that, the pickings for Valentine shirts for a baby were not many at the mall, and none offered to add your own words like the shirts made at Zazzle.

Here are my top picks.

Cute Baby' First Valentines' Day Monogram T-Shirt

by Susang6

Mommy's Little Valentine. Infant Gift T-Shirts

by oldandclassic

Mickey Mouse LOVE | Valentine's Day Baby T-Shirt

by MickeyAndFriends

valentine_hearts baby T-Shirt

by CaringHearts

My 1st Valentine's Day (boy) Infant T-Shirt

by MindDesignGrafx

Valentine's Day Train T-Shirt for Baby Boy

by Susang6

Print on Demand Fashion Design at Zazzle

For the last nine years, I have been designing fashion for him, her, and kids at Zazzle.com. I like that every product that I design is a work of art and is one of a kind. This means it is made by Zazzle, and you will never see it in the mall. 

If you are someone who likes unique fashion then know that you can buy the design as shown or you can choose to upload your own artwork, graphics, or photographs to create your own fashion look.

This fashion set features leather-look leggings and black zebra-printed accessories that I created at my Photo Gifts by Sgolis store.

Animal Print Fashion Set by Sgolis

Over the years I have bought many artwork t-shirts from Zazzle and find that the quality does differ from product style, there is finer cotton that feels like silk on your skin that is perfect for warm weather and there are other t-shirt styles that are made with heavier cotton which is best used for cooler weather. 

The sweatshirts and hoodies are super as they have a smooth outer layer with a fleece-like texture close to your skin.

I find that the artwork when applied to the quality cotton and blended polyester fabrics at Zazzle is reproduced beautifully. Zazzle does not mass produce their products, instead, they print the product only when it is bought. So when you buy any product on the website a skilled worker will create your product. They will ensure that your fashion product will have a high-resolution digital quality image that does not fade even after several cold water washes with air fluff drying and hung up on a hanger to dry all the way.

Know that I design fashion for men women and children at Zazzle and I am also a customer who shops at other designer stores. I like that the products I buy are works of art. If you have not shopped for print-on-demand fashion at Zazzle, then I would recommend that you check them out.

Fashion for Children

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