Complex Ambigrams
Some of my recent ambigram orders have been 'big' ones, pretty complex designs.

Noson Family Ambigram


The names are ~ Noson (the dad), Thamires, Thaney, Lucas, Celia, Sammy, Thammy (and Noson again). With so many names I am suprised I got this to work out at all! His original idea, to get the shorter versions of the names, would have probably worked out better, but he wanted the longer names.

I was pleased to come up with this new diamond style design, a way to arrange short names together with long ones. Not that I'm expecting another 7 or 8 name diamond, but I get plenty of 3-4 name diamonds that read the same upside down.

Another solution was adding embellishments
in the corners of the usual squared diamond design ~





And there was also this fun design, which a lot of you will appreciate ~

"Knit" & "Purl" Ambigram


Later on I will make a new version of this design to make prints (or print on something). I am thinking and Old English font, no cables, but perhaps the addition of some knitting needles crossing through the ball of yarn.



This week has been another slow one, and it looks like next week will be as well! I'm not
sure where this sudden lull came from, I could barely keep up with the orders coming in the few weeks beforehand. I do need to really focus and use this time to start work on some of the side projects I've been planning. Then when orders pick-up, perhaps I will be able to fund them and get things rolling!


I was able to finish up one thing that desparately needed to be done. A while back I bought tiffanyharvey.com (the name, and new hosting space) so that I could move everything over from phunkymonkeythreads.com, (where everything was actually hosted). It was pretty confusing and tacky when someone would get ahold of an un-masked link of the Word Illusion site, and suddenly you see phunkymonkeythreads.com/ambigrams/custom_orders.... And with the closing of PM it was definitely time to move the files to a more sensible domain.

I was motivated in the beginning, the ambigrams and recipe book got moved over to the new space right away. Then I took my time plodding through the numerous files in the patchwork galleries. Last week I finally sat down and moved over all of those last lingering pages, and even slapped together a pretty bad front page for anyone visiting the main domain. This will be a great help for friends and family, who can now just go to tiffanyharvey.com (easy for them to remember!) and find all of my links in one spot.

Check one thing off the list.
A million more to go!