densitychica's Threadless Blog

Pups in the Park

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:26:06 -0600

Once a month or so we take Matt's dogs out and about, Cheesequake Park or the local one in our neighborhood. They have fun and we laugh at them. Good times for all.

First Score Results

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:04:59 -0600

Okay. So I'm not riding some high horse about my design and I think I should safely be allowed to say I enjoy my design without seeming like a pompous horse's ass. However, I recently received the average score of my first design and find that I apparently underwhelm quite a few people out there.

First Reaction:"Ah gee, that sure was a let down"
Second Reaction: "My design rocks! Who are they to give me a 1.83?"
Third Reaction:"Well, it is sorta my first design and...well, lots of the greats here on Threadless didn't get printed until their 20th or 30th sub... Flying Mouse was declined 100 times! (or so it appears according to his "I've been printed" vs "Submissions" lists.)
Final Reaction:"I guess I have some work to do and I really should get on that. Golly, I love art."

All in all, I need some sleep (spent the entire night in the emergency room due to a boyfriend's gastritis) and perhaps a bubble bath.

Pizza Faced Bully

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:57:56 -0600

Thought I'd share an interesting request from Wade, the 3 year old I nanny, yesterday during coloring time. As is tradition the last few weeks, he can request a custom coloring page from me of anything he wants. Usually it's the typical dinosaur, robot, ninja turtle, etc. However, yesterday he requested a "Pizza Faced Bully". Unsure of what that was I just went at it and he was mystified at the results.

Phew....iPhone, you scared me.

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:45:33 -0600

I just had to report on a terrifying ordeal involving my only child aside from my camera, my iPhone. I was trying to record, via TapeMe App, a very funny giggle from one of my little ones (I'm a nanny) and my phone crashed. While this isn't uncommon, when I rebooted there was a message in the slider saying "Slide for Emergency" in several languages and symbol indicating the phone needed some iTunes juices.

After reading a forum online that scared the bejeezus out of me (saying that I now had an iBrick that was worthless and it had somehow become unlocked and no longer with AT&T) I took a chance and went with the screen's diagnostics by plugging it into my laptop.

iTunes opened and charged it, did some Genius Playlist mumbo jumbo and everything's right as rain....hopefully. We shall see.

Firstees

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:50:56 -0600

Alright, so following in NomadSlim's footsteps and the Bestee Theme, I'm wondering what shirt it was that got everyone hooked on Threadless. I shall begin with the first shirt I purchased (although I had been a member before, I'd never been roused enough to purchase, I guess....now I'm poor because all I do is where these shirts):

Get to reminiscing, folks!

Likenesses to real/famous/etc folks on shirts, help!

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:31:35 -0600

So I'm a little confused about the famous face rules here. I remember reading as some point (maybe it was in the Democracy challenge) that likenesses are allowed or something of that nature...HOWEVER. I have seen a few products around the site that have some pretty famous faces (Calling Home and Dark Side of the GardenAmazon Addiction . Also the amazingly wonderful sub Spork long and Prosper ).

How is the level of likeness decided as printable vs legally unprintable? I have several ideas that this would help either cultivate or eliminate. Thanks!

The Waiting Game: Part 1 (Hopefully There Are Other Parts to Report)

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:03:25 -0600

Ahhh....so I finally submitted a real design (by my standards, not the first design I submitted to see what the process was like, which consisted of morphing a Photoshop custom shape and calling it my own...sad). Now it begins. Waiting for that email that can make and break a day. The last time I did this I wasn't even convinced it was a good design and I still felt let down for some reason when I got the "Your design was declined because it needs some work" email from the Threadless.

It's the kind of waiting that I hate. The results end up in an email, so that means I'm aimlessly clicking around my computer hoping to here the "ding" alert from mail and find a happy message. And if I'm out the house I'm clinging to my phone and constantly distracted from conversations wondering if that last vibration was it.

We shall see, we shall see....

On the Road Again

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:39:55 -0600

Okay, so I definitely fell off the wagon a while ago and lost all connection here. But, I recently ordered around 20 shirts and can't wait to post photos of them. I also completely stopped designing (not that I'd even begun or ever posted a design EVER), but now I'm serious. I've decided to present myself with the ultimate treat if I ever get chosen for print: a trip to Chicago to go to the store!!

I've never been to Chicago and I've alllllways wanted to go, so this will be the ultimate dangling carrot in front of my computer screen. I hope I can actually achieve this as most of it relies on folks besides myself. Now....for that creating a fabulous design bit....I've got some work to do.

Try, Try, Again....or even once

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:41:06 -0500

So I've pretty much avoided (worst word to use) posting a design because I was overwhelmed with the printing options and figuring out how to showcase the design using the Kit from the site. SO, I think I'm going to do is submit a design that I don't think is especially amazing, just so I can put some feelers out on how to use the kit, good ways to present, and just DO IT for God's sake!! The hope is that I become addicted to the process and start submitting on a regular basis.

Am I Missing Something?

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:02:46 -0500

Is there a way to "wishlist" tshirts/prints that you wanna buy later on? Aside from bookmarking them within Safari/Mozilla? Am I completely missing this feature on the page somewhere? Help.