To be getting a press! And 8 color press at that!
It needs a little cleaning, and a few updates, but it is already in perfect working order. (I just want to get stronger springs.)
M and I came up with a label name a while back, and we have been using it for a tag design for the few shirt orders that we have done thus far...
B&McGee. It works so perfectly. I'm B, he's McGee, its rhymey and fun. We pick the press up tomorrow after I get off work, my bosses are selling it to me, they don't need it at our new shop we just moved into. So it will be finding a home at M and my's home. There are going to be so many fun projects that I can do now! So many shirts I can print, designs I can print on my clothing I make, posters I can do... The possibilities are endless. What's even more funny to me about all of this, is just yesterday I was planning a budget in my head to get a press, and a flash unit, and everything else I would need, and along comes this awesome opportunity to purchase this press, with a flash built onto it, and a few screens (thrown in for free) for about 850 dollars LESS than I was budgeting in my head!
So pretty soon, I should be posting my designs, clothing, shirts, posters, stationery, whatever I feel like makings up, and soon after that...
I'm going to try to get stuff sold. Because this is the stuff I want to be doing. Designing for myself, selling my work, and finally feeling like I didn't waste a ton of money on the ridiculously expensive, but oh so valuable because I have some amazing skills to put to use, art school education.
Now if only a letterpress could just fall into my lap....
P.S. my new glasses came in the mail today, and the neighborhood kitty that I had been missing (and just thought about how much I missed it this morning) came to see me. Apparently I just need to think about the things that I need/want to see and they come to me. It's like I have magic.
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