Am I right? Should I make a couple of t-shirts anyway? A few people have suggested it but may also have not though about the sudden tit reference once it is written across your chest. What say you?

Thank you for making this about boobs.

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I made two: a star trek Federation symbol on a black tank top for Jack and a stencil of a forklift that says DAVE under it, also for Jack. I’m so jealous of the Federation symbol I am going to make myself one and one for Badger too.

I just read in a silkscreen book that you can use freezer paper as an indirect stencil with a screen. Which is great as it makes your freezer paper stencil capable of being reused. The book didn’t say how to do it exactly. I think I would use spray adhesive on the freezer paper to stick it to the screen.

I am so fired for procrastinating right now. I spent all night not doing what I should have been doing. No worries, I will pay pay pay for in the next few days.

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Every time I buy something handmade that comes with super nice packaging I just wonder how much extra time and money people spent on that part of their business.

At the grocery store this afternoon I noticed that Rosie’s Chicken has started prepackaging their chicken breasts without styrofoam in just some plastic wrapping. That’s great, although I usually buy mine from the butcher in paper anyway, but when I do buy prepackaged I will def buy the ones with less packaging.

I’ve decided to not get business cards made this year and instead I am going to print (silk screen or stamp I haven’t decided) onto the scads and scads of cardboard packaging that I recycle. Don’t worry, I’ll save the tampax box ones for YOU.

Last year I almost spent way too much time making bags and envelopes out of those cardboard boxes but then decided that it would be WAY too much time and energy.

Oh wait, I actually bought the Moon Cup last time I was at Berkeley bowl so I guess there won’t be any tampax cards. I love the new Berkeley Bowl! Its so nice and spacious! I still get lost though and have not memorized the layout. The other day I went all through getting produce and then realized that all the organic produce is in a whole other produce section… GRrreat. thanks for telling me!

I did already order some stickers but I was thinking I might sell those nice ones (for cheap) and then silk screen or ink jet print some free ones onto the 45 tons of old sticker paper that I have collected over the years. I mean, it was a bigass deal back in the day when I could afford a stack of decent thick sticker paper and I have not yet let go of quite a bit of it. Maybe I will see if someone I know has a round die cut punch I could borrow. Anyone?

Back to the moon cup… The one I purchased had minimal packaging, just a cardboard box (perfect for business cards!). Some of the other ones had this horrible packaging that had a plastic window so that you could see the actual product. It seems like that might be a good idea until you are standing there with it, in public, in your hand thinking about how everyone seeing you standing there holding it will now immediately think of you shoving it into your vagina. “How will she get that HUGE thing in there”, I could hear them wondering and I quickly put it back.

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I wrote up a bunch of notes on that previous silk screen post and it is GONE! I must have not hit publish?

I went out and bought a couple of Dover clip art books. They are mostly royalty/copyright free images and they come in high res on CDs. Handy! That’s where I got the Narwhal image and then I messed with it in Photoshop and added the text and printed it out on my ink jet printer. I printed out a few other images as well, the sugar maple seed sketch and my old gas mask girl image.

I ran all over the fucking universe trying to get transparencies made. I so fucking hate FEDEX copy shops. I shoot lasers directly from my eyeballs into the hateful soul of that place. All of them. I mean, Kinkos was bad enough once you could no longer steal copied form them by banging the key on the ground to set it back to like 5 copies but this new fedex shit is srsly awful. Neither fedex place could manage to do what I needed so in a desperate fit I went to staples which was another hell on earth.

Apparently the trick with transparencies or acetate as some might say is that you need to make sure they do it on a color copier and not a b/w one. Whatever.

So I burn my first screen with like 3 transparencies sandwiched together and when I went to rinse it off a bunch of the emulsion peeled off as well. So I reclaimed that screen and started over with my second one. For the second one I just oiled my print out. So take your print out, and smear vegetable oil all over it until it is saturated, both sides and then burn your screen. I made the second screen with the sugar maple and the narwhal. It came out pretty well but also had a bi of the emulsion peel off and a few pinholes so I used a brush to put some screen filler over those areas.

I used water based ink to print the shirts and on some test fabrics and papers.

The next class is in a few weeks and I will do a Thank You For Not Being Perky stencil, maybe to be used for a few t-shirts. I WISH I could find my damn resale license. Maybe they’ll resend it to me if I call them…

I’m also working on a cute Oakland/ Pacific Pipe rail road image.

Silk screening makes me feel mad with power.

Some online resources (to be updated):
Silk screen printing instructions

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