Good Afternoon, Good Evening and Good Night.

As you may have noticed I have been rather absent on TealTown lately. Mark and I have been working on a new idea and to be honest I have lost interest in the things I was posting here. This is why ahumanperson.tv was born. If you like any of these things ----> music/food/pop culture/social media/style/gaming, check it out.

Thank you if you ever read a single word I had to say, it was fun.

Samantha

One of my favorites back up in the shop

Pen Art Sampler

And we will do it again next year.

Last year Mark and I donated some of our shirts to a organization that would auction them off and use the money to help others. We really wanted to do it againt this year, but I could not remeber where to send it.

Yesterday I got an email from them asking if we would like to donate again. YES! I am really happy they got in contact with us. I printed a bunch of shirts last night and heat set them tonight, I'm gonna package em up and send them out tomorrow.


"Housing Works is renowned for addressing the needs of people living with AIDS that other organizations deem “to challenging to serve.” By offering a comprehensive array of health,
housing, AIDS prevention, legal and case management services, we help our clients to empower themselves and actively manage their HIV."

If you want to donate go to the Housing Works website. If you would like to read some stories of how they have helped people, go here.

Our new shirts

I really cant get in to American Apperals photos, but I do love their shirts and the many, many colors they come in. Here are the colors we decided on.

Coming soon.

The TealTown revamp is still in full force. There is a shipment of American Apparel shirts on its way and I already have three new designs Mark and I both really like. I can't wait to show them to you. But for now I will leave you with this.

TealTown UPDATE

I have decided I am going to revamp TealTown over the break. We need to clean the studio and the front room and get the organized so everything is exactly where we need it to be. Plus, we are now going to be printing on American Apparel shirts. Wooo! I started last night and cleaned out the studio. Well most of the studio. The closet is still a mess but I plan on getting that all done tonight. While cleaning last night I found a whole bunch of shirts we had printined in anticipation of either wearing them or selling them and now we have so many shirts we dont need anymore. So TealTown is having its first sale. I documented all of the shirts, bags and scarves I found last night and posted the to the shop at a discounted price.

Update

Not really. We ran out of transparencies to print out our designs on and can't make anything new until we get some of those. Sooooo, I don't know when that will be.

We went home today to pick up my car. Dad apparently worked on it a bunch because it is driving way better than it has in a couple of years. We also had a lovely meal with Donna and Jim at PENN STATION.


Oh. Also. When Mark and I went to Kroger yesterday to pick up some apples and caramel a bat was flying around in the store. I noticed it when it almost ran in to my head. We watched it fly up and down the frozen isles and then around in the pharmacy section. When it flew past the registers employees noticed and sent a guy with a plastic bag and a broom after it. That is the last we saw of it.

Newest TealTown Desgin. Now we just need to get it printed on something.

A fresh new look, for some fresh tees

TealTown's newest model, Annie, was kind enough to let me take a bunch of pictures of her today even though it was way to hot outside to take pictures and we were all feeling nasty before we even started. And then to top it off none of us had any cash for after photoshoot Coop's Snow Cones. I think the pictures turned out pretty sweet. And the shop is well on it way to being close to looking how I want it to.

Make Over

Today I sent out a survey to Tealtown's biggest fans, our family! I asked if they preferred our shop photos to be outside with some fancy background, or just a white wall with the focus on our t-shirts. Not only did all of them get back to me super fast, they all unanimously agreed that the fancy outside ones make for a more interesting shop.

So I guess what I will be doing this weekend.

Thank you to everyone who responded! I really didn't know which way to go and your opinions really helped.

Our first big idea

Mark and I got another order for some chandelier curtains a couple weeks ago and we have yet to send them out. There are a couple reasons for this

1. Every place we have gone to find white curtains has been sold out of white curtains and only white curtains. Who knew that white curtains were so popular? We sure didn't when we came up with this awesome idea of screen printing curtains. But be warned white and natural colored curtains are no where to be found when you need them.

2. Getting that huge chandelier printed on anything is a big, big pain in the butt. So much so that the red pair of curtains I bought specifically to print the chandelier on is hanging in our front room chandelierless. They look O.K. right now, but I do have to admit they would look awesome if with a big white chandelier silhouette on them. I like things to look awesome, but what we would have to do to make them look awesome sucks so much I have neglected to make my living room look awesome.

So. Yesterday we finally found white curtains. Today we are going to print them. I am going to be stressed out through the whole process, but I am going to suppress it because Mark will have completely lost his mind the second he sees the white curtains stretched out and ironed waiting to have him smear black paint expertly all over them. BUT DONT MESS IT UP! And yes he is going to be the one doing the smearing cause I can't handle that kind of stress so I am going turn on some George Michael and pretend like, heey time to party! A screen printing party! Yay! After all that I will heat set them and we will mail them out proud to be sending out another awesome looking pair of TealTown curtains and continue ignoring the painfully blank red curtains we have to walk by to head out to the post office.

TealTown Annoucment

After months and months of nothing, Mark and I have finally gotten a new design up.




We are both pretty partial to it. Everyone else has said they like it, but we havent gotten the "ooohhh I want one" that usally comes when my family sees a new shirt. Maybe this one is a little to hipster for them.

A Little Media Attention

Check out who was caught smooshing it up with President Hodge on the front page of Friday's Miami Student.

A Day Off

I did nothing today. By that I mean I did nothing I should have done and a bunch that I have wanted to do for a while. Mark and I slept in. We cleaned the house, which has been neglected for some time. Living in a dirty house makes me feel crazy, even when I am not home because I can always hear it calling to me. I have not had time to do much cleaning, or blog posting, so it was nice to be able to do that today. Annnnd..... are you ready for this?

WE PICKED OUT OUR WEDDING PICTURES!

I think it helped that we waited so long, but it was still really hard deciding between images. I can't wait to see what Jen is going to do with the albums.

I also finally got around to making a promotional something for TealTown. Back when I made our business cards I wanted to make something but I had a lack of inspiration so I let it wait hoping that a great idea would fall in to my lap. Then I found this site a couple days ago ala Jennifer Pebbles. It is full of great idea's for scrap booking, card making, all kinds of fun projects. It is also a great place to get idea's for fun and fancy layouts.

Here is a sneak peak....

With our collective forces we form a vortex of creativity.

We needed a way to display out shirts at the craft show. Kendra and I came up with the brilliant idea of vintage suit cases a couple months ago, and over spring break Mark and I found some, she found some, and Donna gave us some. We had plenty amazing looking suit cases.... on the outside. On the inside they were covered with fabric, most of which has been water damaged over the years. And all of them smelled like... old.

Easter Sunday we had another brilliant idea.


Rip out the fabric and cover the insides with something pretty. This is the one we did on Sunday using Donna's collection of beautiful card stock. The other ones Mark and I did at home were covered in Comic books, maps, and old Playboy adds. All of them looked amazing by themselves, and with our shirts tumbling out of them.

Unfortunately when we got to the show we soon realized that we were not going to be able to use them how we wanted. The wind was too strong and kept snapping them shut. The only one that worked was the broken one. They did create a lovely wind barrier though. For the most part they kept our shirts on the tables.

It didn't turn out exactly how we had expected, but they did look great and were a big help. Plus it was a lot of fun pasting everything to them.

Etsy Encounters

Did I tell you that we met Marissa Bowers at The Oxford Craft Affair? We'll we did she is a lovely person who has some amazing art. Her business card is a piece of art in itself. Make sure to go check out her shop!

Since we last spoke, in list format

- Spring Break ended and we left Sunny 70 degree Dallas to land in gray snowy Columbus.

- Donna made us a yummy, yummy Easter lunch.

- Mark, Kendra, and I made some vintage suit cases even more beautiful. Pictures coming soon...hopefully.

- TealTown sold it's 100th item, a You Deserve Pie poster! Mark shipped it off to Texas today!

- We went to our first ever Craft show. You can read all about it over at Mark's blog, 8ounce.

- The stress of the final five weeks of the semester smacked me in the face Saturday. Mark declared Sunday as "Don't e'ff with Sam day".

Some new photos, and new faces over at Teal Town Ink

Before Adam and Kendra had to leave we got one quick photo shoot in.

Spring Break 08

Mark and I both bought A Wreck This Journal created by the oh so talented Keri Smith a couple days before we left for Texas. This is my documentation of time passing on the flight down to the Lone Star State.


Now we are here and the weather is a bit rainy today so we are taking advantage of the free internet at Hastings and uploading our new product pictures we got to take before Adam and Kendra had to fly back to crappy Cleveland.

Sometimes she reminds me why I love her so.

Last weekend Mark printed some t-shirts for Emma to sell at the school's Third Grade Bazaar. They let all of the third graders bring in their goods and give them fake money to spend. At the end of the year they can buy things like Red's tickets or a 50 pound Hersey Bar if they choose to save up. Haley sold baked goods and homemade crayons when she did it. I told Emma to let me know how much the shirts went for. Here is the email I received tonight.....

Dear Mrs. Roberts,

The bird t-shirt sold for $300.

And the you deserve pie sold for $400.Thats a lot

Te wearied (the weird) thing is there was only 3 bids for each.

Oh! My friend wants a pine apple t-shirt if that is not to much trouble.

Almost sprig break! Hows mark. Love you.

Love,

Emma