Luckily, I stumbled upon this site while researching obscure patron saints for a novel. As a Catholic and former Liturgy Lady, I hooted with delight at these most worthy saints. As an artist, I am blown away by your work and resume. You are an amazing talent, m'dear. Keep it up--and more saintworks, please!

I had visited your site a few years ago, I can't remember how I landed here for the first time, but today I was surfing the internet and remembered that I refered at this site many times while having amusing talks with others designers I know but no one knew about this Saints or this site. I live in Mexico City, and as you should know, most of the people are Catholics, but none of us could feel offensive this creative work you've developed, despite of that, I feel is a recognition of the religious icons that we believe in, so... now I can say that I am devoted to St. Anxieté, none other Saint could understand better my own Anxieté, in fact, I've remember her when i've found myself chasing the King of Fedex!! many times, when the clock is marking 5:55 p.m.!!

Green, I am a close friend of some of your friends in Milwaukee. Remember Cathy Watson and Patti Shotola? They are both friends of mine. I have seen your very large 60's painting that Patti Shotola has. Cathy just talked to Mike (from the Shaggs) he lives in the City. Mike is comming to Milwaukee in the next month and the group is getting together for lunch. Patti just got married for the 1st time. Patti is still sewing shirts for men mostly. She was in the womans clothing business for a few years. Making those outragious designs. I had lunc with Cathy and she gave me your post card that is how I arrived here. Hope this note gets to you. Love your work it is so colorful. I am an artist as well , painting.

Lynn, I clicked on your profile today to add you as one of the users that I link to on my profile page, and noticed that you had a website up. I’m glad I clicked on it too, because I would’ve missed your extremely charming site. One of the first things that I was searching for, was a picture (I usually like to get a visual cue of a person so that I can place him or her with his or her name [might be in relation to my being bipolar, but anyway]), I’m glad that you posted it up. And I loved all the cartoon images in your Highlight series, and that DVD cover of Cast Away, not to mention the Italian Postcard—that seemed like it would’ve taken a long time?

You seem to be an extremely talented Art Director! (So talented in fact that you enticed me to actually register and post, something which I _never_ do for some odd reason, again something to do with my bipolar disorder, but anyhoo. You rock, and that’s what counts!

As head of production for an advertising agency in Boston for 9 years - and co-owner of a graphics production studio in Cambridge for the 9 years before that - I LOVE THIS! :-) It's funny, clever, and nicely presented.
    I'm now in Vermont working with book production so as the years and technology have evolved so have I ... and you're still uniquely hysterical.
    So nice to find/share with other crazies!

The text typesetting is kind of pedestrian (excessive letter-spacing,
obliques instead of italics, double-hyphens instead of em-dashes),
but it's still delightful.

How funny was that! As a Catholic, I was doing a search on patron saints to find a medal for my husband before he leaves for Iraq for 6 months... and as a graphic designer, I of course had to look at your site - I was pleasantly surprised and am impressed by the genius of the idea! Thanks for a laugh, I'll look forward to seeing updates and additions in the future!

:) Colleen

A day looking for life and times of saints to get some artwork and paintbrushes moving...what a blessed and bloody relief to stumble upon this site! I have sipped at the holy lake of inspiration and will journey to the shed now to commune with my canvas.
I wish you were my friend - I am quite prepared to get rid of at least 5 for your company. They're only Australians and at todays exchange rate I can only get one US or a Brit for 5 of them.
love
fifi
western australia

Lynn, the saints are so great, please expand the list!

Can I see a bigger picture of you :D

I LOVE your patron saints! But you also have an impressive client list as well as an amazing variety in your design styles.

From hereon out, anyone who links to spam will be immediately banned from my site. Period. So please stop. Thank you.

Very very good site! I like it! I just wanted to pass on a note to let you know what a great job you have done with this site..Thanks!

Edited by author 11-24-2005 08:01 PM
Hi everybody.

As always, I sincerely appreciate your posts, comments, questions and support. Unfortunately, people have recently been abusing this guestbook, however. It's rude & it needs to END. So, for the last time, if you include a link to a spam site anywhere within your post, it will be deleted immediately. Please don't waste people's time (including your own)... this forum is not going to generate any business for your scams.

Thanks.

Mr. Garrett,

     My daughter found your website this evening and is so excited to see the Paul Bunyan and Disney Dragon Sets. Please tell me they are available for purchase. I know it probably sounds strange but she is a Paul Bunyan fanatic. She is currently writing a screen play that she hopes to make into a movie one day when she works for Disney. Would you be so kind as to answer our e mail? I hope something can be worked out so I can buy those two sets for her. My e mail address is marie1465@centurytel.net. Thank you in advance for your consideration. She is also an artist and she loved your work on your site. Thank you again.

Marie and Alexandra Bryant

Very nice and useful site. Thanks!

Thanks for all of the nice messages from all around the world! It's very cool. I sincerely appreciate the support & compliments.

And I love looking at your websites, just as long as you don't link to a site that is actually not your "website" but rather a scam trying to get people to buy prescription drugs. I will delete your post immediately if you link to spam.

Good job! Welcom to my site: [URL=http://uyamba.da.ru]Uyamba[/URL].
Uyamba

Very good! I like this site!..Thanks!

  Yo no sé nada de diseño gráfico, pero te pasaste, este cotorreo está de lo mas chistoso. Saludos a mi hermana! (Es una mexicanada mandar saludos, pero pus que fregados, ARRIBA MÉXICO!!! [Eso también es una mexicanada])

Good work! I like it! Thanks!

Very good site! I like it! I just wanted to pass on a note to let you know what a great job you have done with this site..Thanks!

Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Que interesante este resumen y mas aun el contacto entre uds.me alegra mucho RR

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I'm in California. I moved from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay area about 6 months ago.

You can e-mail me personally instead of writing on this forum, just use the lynn@lynnster.com address and I will write you back.

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Thank you. I didn't paint the images, though... I created them on the computer in Photoshop. I used royalty free images of old paintings and mixed them with photographs and computer illustration.

You can send your images to my e-mail address at lynn@lynnster.com . I&#B9;d love to see them.

It's very wonderful that you are so close to your brother, Ana Maria. :)
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I like your jazz music too. You are very talentive. Raul and I make music too. I have a few ideas that I ended up recording with piano and another I made with the multitrack recorder, a capella. It is amazing how the more you pray, the more arts come to your hand. May I ask you in which country you live?

Well, you are a great painter. I would like to show you two of my sculptures, but I can't see a link to attach images in your website. Raul is my only brother. I got a great deal of a brother.

Hi Ana Maria. Raul has written me a few times over the last year, he is a wonderful artist.

Please understand that my saints are not official saints of the Catholic church, I created them myself. I am Catholic myself, but I love art history and over the years I have studied real saints quite a bit (obviously). Still, you can feel free pray to these saints all you like... it's definitely worked for me throughout the last few years.

Thanks again for the support.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I am Ana Maria Ravines, sister of the artist who posted below.

(Hi, Raulito...!)

Ana Maria

I am very thankful to have found this web page, through my brother, who paints icons in Venezuela. I paint too, and it is interesting to see that there are nowadays Patron Saints for the designers. Although I grew up in a Catholic school, I never knew of those. Thanks again for your wonderful influences.

Daniel Idont know how answer you ,but you make me happy with this information I dont know to much about this , but thanks ,Im Peruvian and I live in Venezuela and work painted religius images my Inglish is no so good but I trie thanks other time bless you RR

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Hi, I am a graphic designer and Catholic seminarian studing for the Roman Catholic preisthood. I wanted to let you know that there are patron saints for artists as well ad greeting card creators. There are a few different patron saints of artist, so choose your pick. St. Fra Angelico, he was a renaissance artist whose works decorate part of the Vatican. There is also St. Catherine of Bologna, she created illuminated manuscripts and icons. As well as there is a tradition that St. Luke the Apostle was also a painter and has been held as a spiritual inspiration for those who paint. I have included a link below for more information on patron saints. http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints

God doesn't choose the qualified he qualifies the chosen.
http://www.crucedesign.com

I had a lot of fun reading and watch your saint and patrons. WOW Renee
http://poetryblurrs.blogspot.com/

Yep Steve, my shop is a Cafe Press shop. Thing is... 2004-2005 I became so busy with work and traveling up and down the coast of California that I haven't had time to breathe. Wanted to expand the site but I have been like a chicken with my head cut off for most of the year. Kinda felt like I could only do so much at one time and if I did more designs for this site they would've had to be very, very rushed which is not my style. This site has been a labor of love, not the kind of thing I want to work on half-assed.

Anyhow, life is starting to settle down a little now, and I just set up my fancy new digital studio last week... so I'll start responding to people's requests soon. ;)

And to all of you who've written me, posted feedback, put this site on your blog or e-mailed it to your friends and coworkers... to all of you who have supported this site so much... I thank you with all of my heart. I've sincerely appreciated it far more than you know.

Hope you're having a great summer!

Lynn

Saw the t-shirt requests -- Lynn, have you seen cafepress.com? They make it easy to put together a shop.

Excelsior! Are there the individual saints available for desktop art? You are an inspiration. Go forth and prosper.

great idea! great design! great execution! thanks for a good laugh....i've forwarded your site to other designer friends too. we designers of the east coast salute you!

Nice one, but i think you should focus on improving a little bit and putting new content. Ohterwise i always encourage such ideas.

your designs are marvelous. PLEASE do a t-shirt. *PLEASE*

Delicious! Marvelous!
PLEASE do a tshirt with all of the saints named on it so I can buy many. Truly inspired. Thank you.

It is midnight and I have an illustration to do and to mail tomorrow - I mean, today. And, instead of working, I was looking for a mysterious saint Velastuto (personal research - no, you don't know who he is), and your website appeared to my eyes and ears! I falled on my knees and prayed. Nothing bad can happen now.
You and your work are really nice.
Just a little prayer to Saint Coffee, and -I'll come back.

Praise be! Love the Saints and your illustrations! It's so nice to become familiar with the divine forces that I suspected were out there all along. Would you consider offering coffee mugs? I would love to have a relic involved with my critical caffiene delivery system-- They'd make great gifts for my design friends!

I love your work! St. Patone is my new personal patron saint! It's amazing how she fits my life. Are you sure you don't know me?? I'll be requesting gifts from your site for my birthday this year!

One of the miracles of the web is the corners it reaches... looking for design-intervention, here in New Zealand, I came across your site... for the last few years I've always done wee 'shout-out' whispers of gratitude to the 'Design Gods' when a glitch has been caught before going to client or print. So your Saintly site fully impressed and made humourous sense. (notable work too)

Ka pai, tino pai! (awesome - well done!)

Ms. Garrett:

I am amazed, enthralled, laughing my ass off, awed, and just plain tickled by the Patron Saints of Graphic Design...

I really do wish that the retail side of the sainthood included portraits (suitable for framing, of course - and even might include an appropriate relic as part of the manuscript). Also, I'd like to see an assortment of cards instead of sets of a single design...

Please consider my prayers and respond in your own miraculous way... to prismprinting@optonline.net if not by vision...

Bill

Edited by author 03-08-2005 11:06 PM
Actually Julian, I'm NOT a web designer so it's funny that you would say that. For the past 15 years, I have work entirely in print design and lynnster.com is the only website I've ever created. This url is a home for my portfolio and resume... the Patron Saints began on the side as a goofy little art project that ended up becoming popular. That said, the saints have actually brought far more people to hire me for graphic design because they showcase my photoshop and copywriting skills (and my sense of humor) far better than any Disney packaging or corporate brochure ever would.

Most of the people who are commenting on my actual graphic design are those who took a minute to look at my portfolio. Check it out and you will see more graphic design than anyone ever needs to look at in one sitting.

I see web design. I see amusing illustrations. Wheres the graphic design part?

Brilliant site. I just loved it.

www.envisionyourfuture.com

Wow, Thanks!!! ;)

I am a graphic designer in Palm Springs, CA. I absolutely loved your Patron Saints of Graphic Design page and have shared it with friends. I also am impressed with your clean, sensitive yet bold approach to design. Hats off from one designer to another! Cheers!

creative, amazing and ironic! finally we have something to pray for. all those nights lost on projects. well done!

Inspirational!
designers and poets are loners always following thier
muse,your web site has been quite enlightening.This
really takes me back to my upbringing,Father Peacock
and the nuns,Wow!

I happened upon your Patron Saints of Graphic Design--thanks for the delightful humor. As a lifelong practicing Catholic (and nun for nearly 40 years), I think you should know a literary predecessor: SAINT FIDGETA AND OTHER PARODIES by John Bellairs. Parody is a wonderful way of balancing the tendency of religious pontificating!

I guess it would only take one to know one!
Thanks for making this a great site for designers and non-alike.

Funny, (trans)substantial, and, well, executed. The holy trinity. Bless.

I stumbled upon the Saints byway of Downey Plumbing Heating & Air Conditioning: www.downeyplumbing.com

It was devine intervention.

Beautiful and fun work! My friends will enjoy the inspiration and prosper from the Saints blessings.

frenchcori@yahoo.com

Edited by author 01-08-2005 12:04 AM
Finally St-Concepta...you've come to light!
I'd love to see an adaptation of William Langlands' Piers the Plowman.

Wow.
We need a PSofGD calendar! Candles! T-shirts!

Write me if you get it together:

mbriggs@hrc.utah.edu

Beautiful job!

I actually worked with some of those saints. Their relics are still in my office lying next to my MAC to remind me of days gone bye.

That spring still flows...of JD.

Very funny stuff-and a WHOLE lotta work even if it was done on a computer!! Me-I am a "digital stripper" now (gone are the days of shooting pasteups in darkrooms). Now I "strip" jobs with Preps imposition software. Could it be that there is a patron saint of stripping out there? Having worked in printing for almost 24 years I can relate! Thanks for the laughs!!

Sainte Anxiété est de loin ma préférée ( = is my favourite by far)

well done !

a frenchie poping up from nowhere

http://arthies.free.fr/

Happy New Year.
Yours is a stunning site.
Clever, beautiful... brilliant.
Just like I would have done. Had I the Muse.
The clients have no f...ing idea of X-Acto or Pantone, but they will still be intrigued. So nice that intelligence is still rampant in our diddy-fart, new age, policitically correct, watch your ass, keep a low profile then stab 'em the back, current social matrix.

Edited by author 12-31-2004 05:35 PM
Hi there Pepper. To find out more about how the saints page was created, you can scroll down their about page for more information. In the meantime, here's a paragraph from it:

As many of my friends know, I obsessed over the artwork for weeks to make the series as beautiful as I could. I began with mostly black & white archival images of Saints, which I altered, retouched & colorized in Photoshop, collaging in modern elements here & there to add to the story (For example, Saint Pixela was playing an organ in front of a curtain, not sitting at a computer & working on the Sistine Chapel).So to answer the most frequently asked question: the Saints portraits are not oil paintings, they are original digital photocollages comprised of retouched & altered scans, photos & royalty free art. They exist due to the magic of Photoshop, my friends. Blessed be Saint Pixela!

These are absolutely brilliant! I hope this website is proving a good marketing tool for you. Did you paint them from scratch or find portraits you could doctor? Either way, it's delightful work. Copy is great, too. After years of designing in theatre, I can certainly relate to these characters. They speak to anybody in deadline-ridden artwork - now that SHOULD be an oxymoron: deadline and artwork. Sigh, wish it was.

Thank you for a rich chuckle. We are NOT alone!!

Pepper

Edited by author 12-30-2004 10:32 AM
Lynnster: Thanks so much for an incredible site! As a good catholic boy, I spent time studying the lives of Saints when I was young. I often found them quite facinating. As an adult Graphic Artist, I can certainly relate to your Patron Saints of Graphic Artists, especially St. Pantone. You're right...the wool on that lamb is the perfect shade :-) Ten years ago, I would have been a pal to St. Exacto, but have generally retired my exacto-knife since my computer. (I always loved to Spray mount back then, and am fascinated by the image of spray-mounted farm animals!! WOW!) In the days ahead, as I am challenged by my boss to "just be creative!" I will revisit these patron saints for inspiration and a good chuckle. Thanks for brightening my day. Your work is really quite amazing! p.s. I'm sending this link on to 2 of my sisters across the country who are also graphic artists. I'm sure they'll enjoy it. - Bob

Womanfriend, this is the funniest site ever. Not only because I'm a practically twelve-steppin' recovering Catholic, but because I spent years as an advertising junkmail copywriter and had to deal extensively with graphic designers (oy!) and often even acting as one myself. I was there when they actually used spray mount and exacto knives! (Now it's pretty much all computer.) A suggested demon might be The Devil of Changes. If I walked up to a pasteup artist and said we have to change this layout, I was lucky to leave with only singed eyebrows. (Once, a copy block had been pasted in upside down, and when I brought it back, the pasteup person snarled and ripped it out of my hands as if I had done it!) All this of course translates into the alleged accuracy of the computer Photoshop age, so that doesn't replace the need for the Patron Saints!!! (I call upon St. Typo if there are tybos in this, but hey! I wrote junkmail!)

Thank you... I'm sending this link to many...

Edited by author 12-29-2004 08:51 AM
Wow! Thanks for all of the lovely words of support! ;)

So I see you all are still pushing me to do more stuff. Good. I've felt horribly guilty for not doing more on this site as I'd promised... I've been commuting to the Bay area for work since June so I've just been incredibly distracted. I'm officially moving there now though (the movers deliver my stuff to my new place on January 3rd) so I'll finally have all of my belongings & computer equipment by my side.

Keep the feedback coming! It's great! I'm thrilled to hear that people are continuing to be entertained by the saints... once I get unpacked & settled in, I'll try to start planning what to do next. Keep nagging me! ;)

P.S. - FYI, there are mousepads and journals & stuff on the Cafe Press site. Maybe I need to reorganize the site a bit so they're easier to find...

Bless you, a fine job.

Surely there must be a dark side to Graphic Design - perhaps we'll see the demons next?

this is by far one of the very best sites i have ever seen. your execution is extremely creative and original.

thank you!

have a blessed new years!

Oh those are just great, I think you need a series like the Inspiration series.

Your Saints are absolutely delightful. It was just what I needed after a hectic couple of hours winterdriving... Thank you for being you and bringing this on the internet.....
More Please!!!!!!!

Terrific! A total treat. I agree with the other suggestions that you expand your offerings. The saints will bless you for it and reward you with orders!

I have bookmarked your site and will pass it along to all and sundry.

Happy New Year

Helen

Fantastic. So very well done, and such great humor. I shall double bookmark this one.

Suggest you make more cafepress products though - journals, prints, postcards, mousepads, tshirts would all be great with those images! even the bags - I'd carry arund one of those any day. and one on one of the lunch boxes? how could any graphic designer resist taking his lunch to work in one? more! more!

what's your next project?

happy new year -
Angela

This is a great site! I really love your work. As a graphic designer myself, although Jewish, I really got a kick out of your saints.

Oh you are such a naughty one!

  You've gone and let the cat out of the bag! If you aren't careful you'll put us school psychologists out of business. Of courswe all knew aboutv the secret - have you ever meat a shrink who wasn't a nerd AND/OR Freak?

  I've passed it on to several school psych friends and will probably send it off to NASP (Nat. Assoc of School Psychologists) but you may fine the NASP big wigs sending the guys in the funny suits (not the white suited ones - the ones with the fedora hats and swarthy features) out to silence you.

  I will also share it with my Special Ed Nerds after Xmas break - I'm very interested in how it will be recieved.

  T.C. Tindall, Ed.D. (table between D and E)

  PS any comments on the old "Tracking" system. A's were college bound, B's were Jill and Joe everybody and C's were the dummies and the smart asses (funny that no matter how smart or talented we were the table D's were almost always C tracked - usually for "bad attitudes")

yes, please please please do posters!

I had no idea that I and several coworkers had been canonized!

Very funny site! My compliments.

Edited by author 12-07-2004 05:49 AM
I must admit this site made my last few days.
I am really impressed by this great conceptual work and atmosphere created to surround all of the Saints.
I would love to hang them in my room. Is there any possibility to be able to buy printouts? I just dream to see all of them (100×70) hanged in beautiful canvas just around my working place.
Really inspirational and deeply thoughtful.
I envy u such brilliant idea:D

EDIT: Pleasem inform me (siara@3cube.pl) if you plan to allow us to buy printouts of them - I can assure u I will be the first to get the full set.
I think that I found my inspirational idols. Please...

I work for the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in a retreat ministry, and a large part of my job is graphics work. I LOVE THIS! I sent it to all the other graphics folks here who are pulling out their hair getting ready for a large assembly of the sisters next week, and we all got a great laugh out of it. Thanks!

Edited by author 11-30-2004 08:10 PM
Thanks for the support everyone! Welcome!

And dear Mary, I've e-mailed their url to you many times. They have never moved. They are still at http://www.lynnster.com/saints.html. You really do need to bookmark them this time please!

Where are the Patron Saints??
Mary

What a wonderful site! Thanks for the laugh and the beautiful "icons."

This is great :) I think it's the best portfolio item someone could have! I'd give you a job anytime.
However, I think the shop is missing an item.. the official St. Anxieté coffee mug. :)
Congratulations!

You've made my day!
I came to work in a funk, so I started to read the latest HOW zine to find inspiration and the first article that attracted my attention was about your site. I am now rendering a big smile!!
So that you know about the miracles these saints are granting.

PS..
I am also a catholic school alumni.

Brilliant! As a Catholic school girl myself I find these inspirational.

I have printed them ALL and I can assure they will adorn my department with pride and pleasure.

Edited by author 11-04-2004 01:14 PM
Hey there, Mary!

Here's the saints website... It will soon be moved to ThePatronSaints.com, but for the moment they're still living in their original home.

Oh, and I prefer "incredibly silly yet ultra brilliant" to "corny." ;)

I think is was beautiful pictures and something corny about the nicknamed Saints. It was funny!
Thanks for answering!
Mary

;)

Lynn

P.S. - Mary, I'm not sure which pictures you're asking about. e-mail me back & let me know.

Thanks for the encouragement I appreciate it!!

Where are your pictures of the saints?
Mary

Edited by author 11-01-2004 11:20 AM
Ok, so I know I know I've lagged. I said I'd get newer stuff up before november... and, ummm... I just realized it's november. The day job has taken my energy for a while, I'm working on 3 kid's books for Klutz and they're all due this month! Anyhoooo, the HOW Magazine article is out now (page 12! Check it out!!!!) and so I need to get off my rear on this, though.

So, posters and t-shirts will be done soon. And I will take requests for other items. I'll start concentrating on it. Pinkie swear.

Hang in there Sophia. Trust me, I FEEL YOUR PAIN. I've definitely been where you are.

It'll take time, but if you don't keep plugging away you'll never get anywhere. If I'd let myself give up design when I wanted to, I'd probably still be a waitress. So, chin up. ;)

This is conceptaully and aesthetically stunning...oh and FUN! It is inspiring for me to see a talented designer working on theor own fun projects. I am a recent graduate in graphic design and it makes me happy to see someone succeeding in the field, when I can't even get my foot in the door right now. I hope to be at this level in recent years to come.

Beautiful site, wonderful concept. T-shirts, please, as soon as you can!

Thanks for the support, everybody! It's very appreciated. ;)

FYI, I will have small posters and other stuff available eventually... before november. I've just been so busy & exhausted from my day job lately that instead of dutifully working on adding things to this site in the evenings I've been falling asleep on the couch with my clothes on... how incredibly pathetic! I'll get to it though... promise.

Glad to get in tune w/your site. You are well- named, for it derives from Melinda or Honey or Sweet, and your site is.
FYI, San Ramon Nonatus is also the patron saint of the unborn, or those "ripped untimely from the womb" à la MacBeth's foe.
Now with your artisitic sense, I'd love to see your image of St. Fiacre (patron of gardeners) whose attributes are: Benedictine robe, shovel, and carrying a seed box.
Good to have levity on the internet. Edward Connors

Hello Lynn, Thanks for the clever, funny dip into an alternate hagiography! You make the saints laugh, too!

Hilarious! I love it... i think im a combo of St Anxieté & St Pixela

thanks for the laffs Lynn!

Paul

www.paulshipper.com

Your site is beautiful. Are you offering posters with the Saints descriptions for our caves? I mean cubes? These would be awesome to hang on our walls!

Edited by author 08-24-2004 01:10 AM
Well stefanie, if I was gonna do the saints I just wanted to do them well I guess. I was a hermit for about 3 solid weeks to create them, but they were very worth every ounce of the effort.

Best of luck with transcending your next evolution of expression... whatever it may be! Thanks for stopping by!!! ;)

Lynn

inspirational!
as an independent creative ready to transcend to the next evolution of expression, i'm motivated by your level of immersion in your interest. Thank you, and best wishes for your success. Stefanie

Thank you for alleviating some of the headaches my boss is giving me about our website

this so rocks! we'll have to name you "saint swank!"

Glad you've enjoyed it, Lao Shi & Heather!

:)

Great stuff !!!!!
I'm writting from China, I've been working here for a while and A friend emailed you site. LOVE it keep it up made my day
jim ( lao shi)

Edited by author 08-10-2004 11:56 AM
Finally, Saints for the Others to Worship.

Edited by author 08-04-2004 06:14 PM
Happy happy joy joy!

It's been confirmed by a reliable source that the December issue of HOW Magazine (available on store shelves in early November!) will be very Saints-friendly!

Here's the word: "The December issue will probably mail out around Nov. 1. Your saints are the leading story in our Design Stuff section. (And don't worry, we wouldn't write anything nasty about such a fun concept.) :) "

Yay!

Edited by author 07-30-2004 06:48 PM
Here we go again. Some people do not pay attention. I won't use names, but I'm REALLY hoping you know who you are and will pay attention now since this is the FOURTH time I've tried to get this message to you!

Once again dear friends, IF YOU ARE GETTING THESE MESSAGES VIA E-MAIL (and there are 13 of you that are) & DO NOT WANT THEM, you are getting them SOLELY because you decided to click on the yellow box on the QuickTopic feedback page that says "subscribe". What you subscribed to was only the guestbook ITSELF, NOT the Saints mailing list!!! After clicking on that link & entering your info, QuickTopic now e-mails you every time someone writes a comment in here. This has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with me, nor does this have anything to do with the Saints, it is purely a function of QuickTopic.com's bulletin board interface.

I beg of you, if you don't want these e-mails, PLEASE take yourself off of the list the same way you put yourself on it. Please refrain from writing me e-mails telling me how I'm taking up too much of your time & interrupting your workflow or something. Do not curse the Saints... we're not involved... I haven't sent out a Saints e-mail in over two months! Truth is, I don't have time to repeatedly sit here trying to help you fix something I have nothing to do with & then have you write me again with more complaints after not listening.

So here we go AGAIN...TO GET OFF OF THIS LIST, click on the yellow box above just as you did before (or click here) and UNSUBSCRIBE YOURSELF. I'm NOT doing it for you!

To subscribe to the official Patron Saints mailing list on the other hand, just e-mail me. You will NOT get spam, the e-mails are infrequent (fewer than if you subscribe to this guestbook, that's for sure!) & will only be sent out when there's actual news going on with our saintly friends.

As always, bless you all for your support. Sorry if I sounded a little cranky above. People who complain more than once & still refuse to listen just annoy me sometimes. I'm human. Fancy that.

xoxoxox. Lynn

Edited by author 07-30-2004 03:32 PM
Why thank you, dear Gary. Bless you. Never before have I felt so complimented whilst simultaneously being called insane. ;)

And after a sad attempt to give up caffeine for a few weeks, I sincerely thank you for your wishes of "much coffee." I am now happily back on my intravenous latte feed! Yay! Oh, how I missed you, my dear friend coffee...

L

I nominate W. Lynn Garrett (hereafter known as Saint Lynnster) as the new Patron Saint of HTML. Take your place in history Lynn. Maybe you could be the first Cyber Saint! I loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, this project, however, I think you may be partially insane. Not to worry though, it comes with the territiory! I wish you much coffee!

Yep Susan, I did actually know that trivia. Y'see... Mike was my favorite Monkee... in no small part because he was the only independently wealthy one *and* the only one who actually was musical enough to write songs. Plus the goofy hat looked kinda good on him. ;)

Dearest W. Lynn,
Delightful site. Also, you neglect to mention under patron saint Typo that he resides at the right hand of Mike Nesmith's mother. Yes, Mr. Nesmith made his money NOT by being the most adorable Monkee...nor from making the first music video (Elephant Parts) but by inheriting his mother's estate. His mother? She Who Invented Liquid Paper. I am not making this up. This is a real true fact. You see kids, you can make a bundle in this business.

;) You're very welcome. Thanks for writing, it made my day.

Lynn, thank you, thank you, thank you! My good friend Robin sent this to me and our small design department laughed until we cried on a hot Phoenix Friday afternoon. St. Exacto is my patron saint! When I cut my finger years ago, our supervisor made me wear a chain link glove! hahaha! Thank you my friend!

Edited by author 07-08-2004 11:47 AM
Thanks Robin!

FYI...
To those of you who have clicked the yellow box above that says "subscribe"... I just want to be sure you know that DOESN'T mean you've subscribed to the Patron Saints mailing list. What you're subscribing to is only the guestbook itself... QuickTopic will now e-mail you every time someone writes a comment in here.

To subscribe to the official Patron Saints mailing list, just e-mail me. I promise that you will not get spam, the e-mails are infrequent (fewer than if you subscribe to this guestbook, that's for sure!) & will only be sent out when there's actual news going on with our saintly friends.

Bless you all for your support. xoxoxox. Lynn

Oh my god, Lynn! This is a great site! Our art department was rolling! I'm sending the link to all my designer friends. Thanks for giving us some laughter on an otherwise boring day! -R

Thanks PZ & Mrs. K. ;)

Lynn

p.s. - For those of you who were asking, Cafe Press has coasters back in stock & this week I'll be working on art for some new products. Yes, I know... finally.

A friend of mine just sent this to me and I thought it was brilliant and hilarious.

All the recipients I sent it to loved it, too! B R A V O !

PZ

I enjoy a lot the material of the Saints. I put candles to the St. Exacto for the several times I was close to lose fingers... Good job Lynn. Caracas/Venezuela

Thanks Carol! I'm happy to have helped. ;)

Candles & saints medals will be on the way in the future, but I probably won't be able to concentrate on that until fall. I'm so busy with work right now that the Cafe Press has just been convenie