Milk, Milk, Milk for the morning cake!

So I have been thinking a lot about silkscreening, I have some totes I want to print designs on for summer shows….I decided to make up a small screen using my gocco (the whole instant gratification gets me every time) I then cut off the plastic film, cover the cardboard with packing tape and use a small squeegee for the ink.
I sometimes think that maybe I am just not made to silkscreen. I am messy, I am impatient, and sometimes the little errors bother me too much. As you can tell from the photo, all the practice prints have flaws, some pretty big ones. I can’t even imagine trying to register and make several colors. Just thinking about it causes my head to explode. A good friend our ours actually teaches print making at a local university….I am sure he would be shamed to see my set up when I go to print (I hang my head in shame Brett!)

I’m not throwing the idea out the window, I still hope to make the totes. Its just the idea of making the screen that is holding me back. I feel like its such a win/lose situation, nothing is as dismaying as taking all the time to make a screen, and to have part of your image wash out during cleaning. Or maybe even worse to have the parts that are supposed to wash out, not. Oh screen printing, how you haunt me!



Its hard to stay sad though when your wearing a pair of new shoes that would make Minnie Mouse jealous! I found these babies for $3 in a closeout shop. Let’s here it for big feet!! Size ten!

I also wanted to share a recipe I read about in a kid’s magazine while waiting in the dentist office last week. You mix one 15 oz can of pure pumpkin with one box of chocolate cake mix. Do not add anything else in, just the pumkin. Once baked you can sprinkle with powered sugar, and there is just a hint of pumpkin. Ours came out like this and even my picky “I hate pumpkin” ten year old liked them.