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Our etsy shop is finally open! Hooray! Please come on by and visit us. In the next few weeks we’ll be updating the photos (cause they could be better) and adding new products. We’ll also feature some items that we will be selling at the San Diego Comic Con. More on that later 
Thank you to everyone who has been so supportive and encouraging as we embark on this new endeavor. Love you all!
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I finally got around to making my first gocco print. I was actually a little nervous right before I made my first master screen.
I had been wanting to purchase a Print Gocco for awhile now but for one reason or another I never got around to it. Until one day my best friend got engaged and as a matron of honor, I would plan a shower for her. We are throwing a Tea Party shower for her, loosely and tastefully based on Alice in Wonderland. We are having it outside in a garden/backyard. I wanted to make her invitations unique and special, since paper and design is something we both love and appreciate. I thought the gocco would be perfect for what I had in mind.
But never having owned it or even known someone who owned it, I needed to do a trial run first. It took me some time to figure out which one of my sketches to use because i was being cheap. Yes I said it, cheap… with myself. I just didn’t want to waste the screen and the bulbs even though I knew that would be inevitable. So after thinking about it for I don’t know how many days, I decided to make a 2 screen print of this Jellyfish I had drawn to make into a plush pillow. I wasted one screen adn 2 bulbs. I think one of the bulbs didn’t work therefore not producing enough heat to make the screen. Does anyone know if you can reflash a screen that has already been flashed?
I definitely learned a lot from this first printing and I really enjoyed the process. I still need to learn more about multiple screen prints before I can be satisfied with the results but I am please with this first effort. What do you think of my little Jellyfish?
My best friend is getting married this year and all manner of activities are planned, including a bridal shower of course. I am fortunate enough to be in charge of the invitations and the general decorations. The theme is an Alice in Wonderland Tea Party. I am planning of using my new Gocco to print the invites and have been working on the design for the past week and a half. It’s not quite done but I thought I’d put it up and see what comments came back. I
Hooray. My gocco printer arrived last week from the wonderful people at Northwood Studios. I spoke to Judy who was very kind and helpful. I have been pining away for one for months now but finally decided to buy it to make some things for my best friend’s wedding.
I have yet to use it though. It’s been so hectic last week and I feel kinda spent this week. I have finished the preliminary sketches for a print I’m planning to make for the favors at the bridal shower. Hopefully I can scan it in soon and photoshop the text in and make a master screen by the end of the week. Will post results when I do. Wish me luck.
