Brian left early this morning, he’s making a delivery to Tehachapi. He’s designed a better way of doing something that’s already out there and this is the second one he’s sold. It’s a niche market, but he’s hoping he can make a go of it. What he’s always done for a living is starting to take a toll on him. It’s very physical work.
So, I’ve got the day to myself. And a busy day it will be.
First off, I know many of you are familiar with the fact that every October, we go to Disneyland for my birthday. And that I make shirts and pinwheels for us all to wear on one of the days. I got last of the DVDs sent off for years 2008 and 2009 on the eighth, then started on the shirt design. The front of the shirt is always the same. A big pinwheel with the words “Experience a Pinwheel Moment”. One year I used some glitter spray on the pinwheel, that was fun. Last year I used fabric paint and made them very shiny. This year I’m going to see how some of the new media (for my heat press) I bought earlier this year will look as cool as I think it will.
The back of the shirt is what changes each year. I like the idea of people standing behind us being able to figure out why we’ve got these pinwheels on our heads. Back in 1999, we were standing in line for the newly opened Roger Rabbit’s Car Tune Spin when one of our party wondered out loud if we had to double up in the cars. Since it was a new ride and the long was incredibly long, we pointed out that they most likely wouldn’t let us go singly. Which is when she uttered the words “Yeah, but how will they know we’re together?”, which I always felt was the defining pinwheel moment.
For most of the years, there was some sort of cat on the back and the date. Last year I made up a little story about the first pinwheel moment. This year I came up with another idea, sort of like a little graphical story. It was a scathingly brilliant idea. I got head shots from everyone (I can’t go into too much detail because they haven’t seen the finished product, won’t until next month). I bought a year’s license over at http://www.befunky.com and went to work. I'll show you what I came up with for me (if you're a facebook friend, you'll recognize this as my new avatar).
I have all of the front and back transfers printed and I hope to get all of the shirts printed today (I would have started yesterday, but when I compared my stock to what sizes were needed Wednesday night, I came up short. I ordered the shirts early Thursday with the guarantee they’d be here by eleven yesterday morning. Four thirty yesterday afternoon, UPS shows up with my shirts. Oh, well, I won’t complain, shipping was free. ) I have to use my Silhouette to cut out the special media, then start using my heat press tape to put each piece where it belongs, the cover the entire transfer with the teflon sheet and press again. I’m planning on having all the media in place by the end of the day so I can start pressing tomorrow early.
Once the shirts are done, I’ll make the buttons with our names. That shouldn’t really take to much time.
So, that’s just one thing I have planned for today. One of the other things is when we sold my mom’s place, we put part of the money in a 25 month CD, which matures today. I have ten days to do something with the money or it gets rolled over. At a whopping 1% annually. Our credit card interest is much higher than that, so I’m going to have it put into my checking account and pay off the credit cards. Which should save us a couple hundred bucks in interest each month (not having a steady income has taken a toll on our finances, we’ve fallen back on the credit cards on more than one occasion).
As soon as the cats have been fed (Miss E, Oliver, Benny, Mickey, Kirby and Sebby all get Fancy Feast, one at a time, in my bathroom), I’ll take a shower, get to the bank (I called on the CD this morning, was told I could do it over the phone, but it would take a couple of days; if I did it at a branch office, I’d have immediate access to the funds; I want these credit cards paid off by the end of this month, I don’t want to wait). While the cats are eating, I’ll start doing the cutouts of the media.
Like I said, it’s going to be a busy weekend.
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