Yes, now it's Year of the Hare, but why don't you make every year to be Year of the Rare? YOU are RARE! Or, "you are unique, like everybody else [get it? :) ]. YOU have a rare/unique set of qualities (and defects, I might specify) - why shouldn't YOU express yourself by designing FREE OF CHARGE? Look at my tiger stamps. You, too, can do something like that, or better! :)

Year of the Hare ( more correct than Year of the Rabbit, they say)

Why don't you make every year to be Year of the RARE creator/designer (that's YOU!)?

"Tu, soltanto tu..."

:)

Designing such personalized stamps is a lot of fun!

I also put them for sale (minimum quantity is a sheet of 20 stamps, per Zazzle policy) in my Public Gallery at Zazzle (they ship only to US addresses).

I also put them for sale individually, not in sheets of 20, at http://www.delcampe.net/stores/dorinco.

Today I am shipping ("Dude, where's my SHIP?") 9 of the above tiger personalized stamps to a collector in Germany. 

He paid at delcampe $5 apiece, plus a combined $5 for shipping, delcampe fees and PayPal fees. Total $50.

A week ago, I have shipped a set of ALL 11 different tiger personalized stamps to a collector/dealer in the Russian Federation. 

Total 11x$5 +$5= $60. Plus $12 Registered Mail fee, per USPS. Final amount = $72.

DID YOU KNOW that there are more US$ billionaires in Moscow than in any other city in the world?

Billionaires from around the world, bored out of your mind...you're welcome to splurge on my stupid little stamp designs...:) :)

What's in it for you, if you are a regular Joe or Jane, working your ass off at the daily grind, living your life of quiet desperation? [Welcome to the Club!]

As I said, ANYBODY in the world can design in 200+ lines of products at Zazzle, not just stamps.

FREE.

Then put them for sale.

Then, if anything sells, you'll get a modest royalty.

But it may add up, if you're wildly successful [lasciate ogni speranza...but you never know, until you try :) ]

I have occasionally created other items, besides stamps.

Take a look, if you don't believe me :) ( see the Dubya T-shirt, the giant panda poster, etc.):

See my store at Zazzle

http://www.delcampe.net/stores/dorinco

I'll say it again, to make it clear for everybody:

I spoke on the phone 1-888-8ZAZZLE (1-888-892-9953)with Jillina @zazzle, and she checked with her supervisor.

Zazzle stamps can ONLY be shipped to an US address!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The best procedure is this:

1) you can design zazzle personalized stamps by registering at zazzle.com (the main US website of Zazzle), regardless of where in the world you reside.

Put them in the Public Gallery so you can receive royalty payments (thru PayPal or check) from Zazzle, should your products find buyers!

2) you can order zazzle stamps ONLY from zazzle.com (not the regional zazzle portals!), regardless of where in the world is your billing address associated with your credit card.

3) you can ONLY receive those stamps at an address in USA! So you better get a partner/friend in USA! :)

Y, as in Year of the RARE "YOU"

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Dorin COJOCARIU (USA) - Postage Stamp from Zazzle.com

My new design, finally approved today, after being initially rejected because I had written in it the words "with or without the rules of FIP CfM".
No abbreviations are allowed, but I had explained in the product description screen that:
FIP = International Philatelic Federation
CfM = Commission for Maximaphily.

The Zazzle Content Review Team also said:
"Please feel free to resubmit your design. Also, please remove the phrase "with or without the rules of FIP CfM", as it may be construed as protesting a set of rules."


OK...so I changed "with or without the rules of FIP CfM" with "traditional or non-traditional".


Because I define non-traditional not as anti-traditional, but as freestyle. 
You are free to follow, or not, any rule, including those of the "traditional school of maximaphily".
There!
Everybody's happy now!
:)...



Dorin COJOCARIU (USA) Postage Stamp from Zazzle.com

The Product Description box, at zazzle.com, says:

"Dorin COJOCARIU (USA). 

World-renowned philatelist, maximaphilist. 

See, I don't pretend that I am World-class...:) .

Born and raised in Transylvania, Romania. 

Advanced designer of personalized philatelic, deltiologic, marcophilic, scrapbooking and mail-art items.

Global promoter of philately, in general, and of maximaphily (traditional and non-traditional), in particular.

Please visit my blog http://dorincard.blogspot.com.

Design by zazzle.com/dorinco*/ (that is my Public Gallery at zazzle)."

I added the above text here, for the search engines - they cannot grasp the text from the image, I guess.

I also had to answer to Zazzle that the person in the photo is me, that I own the photo, and that I am not a celebrity :) .

In my opinion, "world-renowned" (a rather quantitative statement) only means that there are friends, partners and strangers here and there, around the world, who have interacted with me in a philatelic sense. :)

I did not categorize myself as "world-class" - that's a qualitative statement.

See how much text I was able to squeeze into a stamp?

Such a design involved a few tips and tricks that I learned by myself at Zazzle.

LEARNING, by Du Ying. [get it? :) ]

Infographic Of The Day: The Alchemy Behind Facebook And YouTube | Co.Design. Also, did you know that youtube.com is the #2 search engine, behind google.com? Also, I show you the UGC in a dam project, when you leave it to beaver. Maxicard from USA

Please read: Infographic Of The Day: The Alchemy Behind Facebook And YouTube | Co.Design

Here I show you the UGC (user-generated content) in a DAM project, when you leave it to Bieber beaver. 

The user of the beaver-built dam is the beaver (and its fellows).

The content of that dam is comprised of chewed-up logs.

The beaver generates the content when he...logs in.

Maxicard from USA.