It's The Holiday Season

I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving.  We all have so much to be grateful for, especially when we remember what amazing, children of Divine Love we are.

When last we wrote, I said I would most likely be posting more frequently only to find I gave myself a week away from my computer as a vacation and gift to myself.  I know!  The world didn't blow up or anything like that while I was away.  Just another thing to be grateful for.

Even though my design this week is inspired by the holiday season and it is available in t-shirt form and many other forms, AND this is a blog about designing t-shirts, I chose to display my design for this week on an ornament (available by clicking here).

"Joy to the world", "Peace on Earth" and "Goodwill to all" are my desires for this planet and the universe during the holiday season.  As I mentioned before, inspiration is always available.

@bryanbrinkman also appears to be in the holiday spirit with his current submission to #DesignAShirtAWeek, snowflake.



TTFN!  As always, live creative and prosper.

P.S.  TTFN - ta ta for now

Christmas Is Coming

With less than two weeks to Thanksgiving, you know it is just a hop, skip and a jump before Christmas is not only coming...it's here.

This just may mean I will be putting out a few more blog posts than my weekly fare, 'cuz we do have some great designs here that would make great, unique gifts for someone on your holiday list.

Here's something else you may consider as a gift and then you have it out there for others to possibly buy, as well.

For example, my mommy had a coffee mug my brother gave her years ago that had a design whose gist was, "I love my mommy."  Said mug broke and I'm just guessing by her request, so did a little piece of my mommy's heart.  At least enough for her to mention it and mention if I found one to let her know.

Sometimes I think she forgets what her own daughter does and that's okay.  She's entitled.  Still, the lightbulb went off and I thought, "Why...I'll create a design inspired by her request and then get her that mug."  So, I did.  Before I display the design on a kids onesie (the mug photo doesn't show the design very well), I just want to make it a bit more clear that as a designer someone you intend to give a gift to may feel it is the ultimate gift that you have designed something in their honor.

Or maybe they aren't the least bit artistic, but have an idea and would love for you to come up with a design especially for them.  Variations on those themes.

Okay, so here is the design:

Please click here, to purchase items with the above design.

Here's @bryanbrinkman's 11th design.  I didn't get it at first, until seeing he refers to it as his "knife shirt".  The shirt reads, "cut ya later".  Enjoy.

Below is my official Holiday Design.  Enjoy!


That's all for this week.  Happy designing.  And as always, live creative and prosper.

BTW:  Marilyn Sane is still the hot T pick at MySoti for the past week.  Way to go!

Where the heck do I find inspiration?

Inspiration is everywhere.

I write another blog, CaliforniVacation: SoCal Style.  In looking over some of my past posts, I realized I mention parking in just about every article.  Hmmm!  Inspiration.

In yet another blog I write, Six Degrees of Separation: YouTube Style, (see, I told you this was a shameless shillin' blog) all I have to do is input a word or two in the search box.  Voila!  Many videos to choose from.  Many related videos to choose from.  Many bytes of data begging me to design something.

Or take @bryanbrinkman's current design for #DesignAShirtAWeek on Twitter.  A play on the "t" in t-shirt was all the inspiration he needed to come up with an illustration, a work of art, worthy of gracing a t-shirt anyone would be honored to wear.

See for yourself.



I stuck with the cute for the kids theme this week.  Christmas is coming.  I'm just sayin'!

Okay, sometimes a person has to go to plan B.  I would have loved to insert a MySoti for the following two designs and for some reason I was being denied.  Maybe a blessing in disguise.  This way I showcase my Cafepress shop, which includes so many more items one may buy with the design.  Plus, their infant body suit is only $11.99 while MySoti's is $7 more.  I'm just sayin'!

If you were born to kiss your mommy:

If you were born to kiss your daddy:

Who were you born 2 kiss?

Mmmmwwwwaaaahhhhhhh!

Mahalo!  Aloha!

Where the Wild Things Are

I love checking to see what @bryanbrinkman has created each week for his #DesignAShirtAWeek submission to the cause.

This week's submission is as creative and imaginative as all of @bryanbrinkman's designs have been to date, as you are about to view here:



His unipighorse, by some, might be "pooh pooh'd" since in our current reality there would appear to be no such thing as a unipighorse.  I would argue, "what is real in the realm of imagination and drawing?"  What if Maurice Sendak had felt that way and never wrote and created the "wild things" in his widely celebrated work, "Where the Wild Things Are"?

So this week I am just saying to feel free to let your self be unlimited with your creations and designs.  Let the wild things out...you know...as long as they aren't going to harm someone else.

Lest you think I forgot, I haven't.  Below is my submission for this week.



I went for the cute factor this week.  What's more cute than paws and babies?

Lastly, for the third week in a row the Marilyn Slade t-shirt is MySoti's sales topper.  Way to go!

Oh wait!  Now really lastly, as always, please consider this blog an open invite to share your designs or tips and the like.  We love hearing from you.

Happy Halloween and All Saints Day to all the sinners and saints alike.