2nd Post, finally.....

...i know, i know.... what can i say, progress can be slow sometimes. there's been a lack of blogging because i've been trying to get a few things off the ground. let's get to it!

March 7-9 Ink Machine will be attending the Regina Tattoo Convention. Danny's fairly booked up from what i know, i have time available if anyone's interested in getting tattooed. Email me. i also hope to have a handful of goodies at our booth. stop by and visit us!

i've had quite a few emails wondering when the skateboards will be ready. the simple answer is, i don't know. i wish i did....

the long answer is it should have been done by now. i have the art done, made the mock ups on the blanks, took the art in to be scanned, and emailed them to Olive Skateboards, who was going to do the printing, to get a final quote and finish up the process....and that's the last i've heard from them. i've emailed them, asking them to tell me if what i wanted was not possible, or if they were no longer interested in working on the project.... Nothing. so i guess it's kinda on hold until i can find a new printer interested on working on the project.

T-Shirts are one the way. the shirts are paid for and should be delivered in 3-4 days. i picked up the screens the other day from Stanley's Screen Printing. great people over there. super helpful, super friendly, and they have 2 shop cats. Awesome!

they did a great job on the screens. being in a screen printing supply store gets me all giddy. i love screen printing. it's what i wanted to do before i discovered tattooing. can't wait to get those shirts and go to work on them!

i also picked up supplies to print vinyl stickers, something i've never tired until the other day. WAY harder than printing shirts, i did not expect it to be so different..... i'd say i got about 20 good stickers printed, and maybe 50 that were a nightmare. although it was a bit of a disaster, it was a learning experience, and i'm excited to have another go at it this week. the main let down, the clean up was way harder, longer, and messier than when printing shirts. ugghhh....

well, i guess that wasn't the main let down with sticker printing day. what looked like a minor slip has ended up putting Teagan in bed, drugged up on pain killers the last 2-3 days, having strained her back. how? carrying the box of ink and solvent for printing from Stanley's to the car, slipping on some ice. the trooper took one for the team and didn't go down, saving the box of supplies, but wrenched her back good in the process. needless to say, i feel horrible about the whole thing....

if you missed it, last week, i updated some new tattoo photos on both my site as well as the Ink Machine site. i've got a few more done projects photographed, just waiting to be photoshoped together. hopefully get to that this week.....

no photos this post, i didn't feel like putting off this updating thing any longer. maybe tomorrow i'll try to do a photo post. besides, I kinda feel like maybe i jinxed the skateboard thing by showing it off before it was set in stone. like saying "shut out" out loud in the third period when your up 3-0......

3rd post will be sooner than later, promise!

---shawn---