a.m. Life progress

Many have asked me where I am at in my clothing line. I'm excited and encouraged as people are keeping tabs. So far, I have the equipment needed, the legal paperwork needed, some infant shirts ready to print on, a professional plastisol printer lined up, and most of the art work done for a first run of shirts. I need to do some finishing touches on the art work, and plan to send it in early this week. The turn around time to get them printed on plastisol is about 2 weeks because the company I've chosen has a high demand for these types of prints.

What is plastisol, you ask? Plastisol heat transfering is the method I've chosen to print my shirts. I chose it for many reasons, but ultimately it takes up less space, makes less of a mess, and frees me up to do the drawing and dying of my shirts more than screen printing. It is paper that artwork is printed on by a screen printer. The artwork is then transferred onto a shirt, or anything flat, by using a heat press using high heat and pressure. The quality of the print is the same as screen printing.

In the line up for my first run of shirts: Cownose Ray, Snook, Crawfish, Redfish, and one other (maybe blue crab).

Though I have only infant shirts, I do plan on ordering bigger sizes. If any of you want a shirt for an older kid, please let me know and I can get it for you. My plan is to have some ready to sell at the end of the month!

Thank you all for your encouragement. I've been having a lot of fun making this official!!! Still in the works are a website, marketing, and ordering larger sizes, bibs, and blankets! Also, a few adult shirt designs are in the making.

Rolling into month 4!!!

August 3rd marks month 4 for our little buddy! It's amazing how much he continues to grow and his personality starts to show itself. He cracks me up sometimes. Last week he started making some kind of noise in the back of his mouth somewhat between a gurgle and a hiss...if you can imagine that! When I made the noise back, he laughed and repeated it to me. This game has not stopped!!! Today I put him in the baby einstein play center (whatever it's called). He loved it, turning himself around to explore every toy around him. It is so exciting to see him figure stuff out and grow as a little boy!

a. m. Life is moving along. This week I'm sending of some of the artwork to get printed and I hope to print some shirts by the end of a couple of weeks. It's been an up and down process as I figure out the ins and outs of business and clothing. I spend a lot of time researching and reading at t-shirtforums.com. Once I get some shirts printed, I'll open up a store on hyenacart.com as well as begin working on a site of my own. Scrounge up the change
from the couch cusions so that you can buy a t-shirt for your favorite little ones! I'll also have some adult shirts soon.