drawers/drawers

If there is a something hideous around, sometimes I just spray paint it a color in hopes of improving it. This does not necessarily work on all surfaces however, particularly if that surface is a reject from some kind of country mystique collection from the early 90s. I could make the mint-green checkerboard and pink peonies on this dresser go away with a coat of plum, but the flower pattern that adorned the top was raised, and it remained to make my paint job look pretty fucking terrible. Until I just decided to even things out by tracing the four lonely flowers with sharpies, and continuing the pattern all over the dresser. Like I just know how many toothpicks there are.

The insides got the red treatment:

I put a monster on the back, so I could have the satisfaction of trapping it against the wall. It definitely resembles a wild thing. Monsters all be wantin to wear the same outfit.

So, I sell a few t-shirts through a site called redbubble.com. It's not anything like a profitable venture since I'm going through a middleman that I think is based in England; but it's a good bookmark until I release my first impending, independent tee line. It'll likely be a collaborative effort, so stay tuned for that.

The designs on redbubble are freaking random. That's because for the most part, the only things I end up making for t-shirt designs are either esoteric images that make me titter, or requests I get from friends wanting to sport a certain something. Surprisingly, the appeal is more universal than I thought. Particularly my design Karl's Animal which has, for some reason, become the most popular of my redbubble wearables.

Not many besides those who follow the adventures of Karl Pilkington will know his reasons behind creating this staring, feathered oddity of an animal. But he was right about one thing: the owl head looks nice to humans. It also looks nice on humans; a perfect example of which is my new friend Ashley, whose fiery, ginger glamour is giving my shirt FEVER.

I met Ashley through the infinite networking prowess of my friend Shonna, and I came to adore her very quickly. She's a fancy, real-life blogger whose adventures you can view here and get obsessed with. After spying on her infinitely excellent example of what proper bloggers do, I was inspired to emulate her and resuscitate my own flaccid web log. Shut up! Even the road to hell is paved with good intentions! Plus, I need somewhere to post these pictures of her making my shirt awesome.

Yes, this lady is a tall drink of lovely, but don't worry. Randomness looks good on everybody! Work it, hermano!

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