Nicola Ginzler

Senior Graphic Designer

Day: December 21, 2025

Transforming a vintage holiday kitty into Eights the Cat!

Two square vintage-style illustrations of a gray tabby kitten, sitting in a red Santa boot, side by side. Behind each kitten is holiday greenery. The kitten on the left has a small, unsmiling mouth and blue eyes, and is holding a card that says "From ME!" The kitten on the right has a larger, smiling mouth and yellow-green eyes, and is holding a card that says "Happy Holidays from Nicola & Eights"

This is the original image I bought from a vendor on Etsy. The kitten’s mouth is so small and sad—we can’t have that! Plus, although she’s gray like Eights, she has blue eyes to Eights’ light green. I liked this kitty’s smiling mouth much better, so I silhouetted and copied it. Here’s Her Royal Highness, […]

Happy Winter Solstice! (Northern Hemisphere)

Illustration of the Earth in space, orbiting around the sun, and showing the tilt of Earth's axis at the December and June solstices and the March and September equinoxes.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice: The winter solstice, or hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth‘s poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, and when the Sun is at its lowest arc in the sky.[1] In each polar region, there is continuous darkness or twilight around […]