About us:

Ellen & Jorgen

Welcome to our shop

PhotoGallery
It was questions from American visitors to our photo gallery that got us to evaluate Cafepress in the first place. They asked about buying our stock photo on mugs and .... alas the Norwegian custom rules made it hard/expencive to send anything out of Norway and we had to say no to the first request we got.

Then we 'found' Cafepress
Cafepress y use sublimation print and we saw that this would be a nice alternative for us to offer our photo to the international market without us having to deal with shipping and customs. They offered us a shop front and lots of products we could offer to our customers, they do all the customer support, manufacturing  and ... so we uploaded our first photo to Cafepress in January 2005 and sent the customer her link to the products in e-mail so she could evaluate the photo on different products and buy if she liked the way it looked.

We Now got 3 Cafepress Shops
After the first custom photo order we got another request - Uff da!
Could I create something with the word Uff Da!
After doing a bit of research I found that many Norwegian-Americans got fond memories of Uff da - and that many wanted to buy gift items for their friends and family with the Norwegian expression Uff da on them.

The Uff da collection grew - then I added our Flag Collection and soon our shop turned out to sell very well.

Shop # 2 - PreggoPrincess
While creating the Uff da and the Norwegian themed gift items I got ideas for lots of different pregnancy related designs. They just had to live on my computer becauce they did not belong among the Norwegian themed gifts. When I got about 50 of them ready I had to open our second shop :-)

Shop # 3 - Festivity shop
After uploading to shop #1 and 2 I got a lot of Birhday themed designs that did not fit into any of the two shops.
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The little red mark close to Tromsø is where we live. You can find photos from our neighbourhood if you look at Photo from Troms

Our Cafepress shops KAOS Norway - Norwegian Themed Gifts and Shirts PreggoPrincess - Maternity shirts and gifts Festivity Shop - Birthday party shirts - Pub and Party shirts

Internet gave us the possibility to read information and stay updated on both hobbies and work without having to leave home, and at the same time earn some extra money because we could reach a larger amount of people who found our homepage than with traditional marketing . 
It also gives us an opportunity to meet many new people – if anyone feels like writing to us – please do so. E-mail

On our homepage you will find a Photo Gallery with a widespread collection of photos from Norway.

http://www.kaosdesign.no/photogallery