Apparently the theme of 2023 is "Letting Go."
My tolerance for bullshit and learning new things has apparently decreased. I was going to link to the aforeseen hoodie up here, but now, when I try to visit my Spring store, it says the connection is not safe. What the holy fuck? So, yeah, my urge to do this either on Zazzle or elsewhere is waning.
The fact that the Zazzle folks can't seem to use one or two reliable printers for their POD apparel peeves me greatly because the shirt quality itself is great.
I made this:
And what I received was this (minus the lil fuzzies and hair - which just naturally occur here):
I made this:
And got three different versions of this:
And NONE of them utilizing the shade of red found in the original design. I did everything I was supposed to do, design wise, as far as file type, image size, resolution, flattening, etc. I know they had the capability to at least get CLOSE, since one of them was acceptable, but no. Just no.
I just cannot.
Black and white and words, fine. Intricate, textured, or colorful designs, nope. I ain't doin' it ... (like she said ...)
Meanwhile, last night in the back yard ...
Clearly, I do not have a camera capable of taking night pictures of any worth, but this was the second night of dueling speeders ... that long white-ish line in the top middle is web ... THAT is the strength and size of web we're dealing with in not one, but apx 15 locations around the back yard. The lack of feathered friends caused by the arrival of rodentia has really increased the speeder population. We also had a not-ton of dirt delivered earlier in the summer to cover up foundation (don't ask, I can't explain the real reason) ... and I'm thinking that import brought along with it a whole new population of yet-to-be-hatched speeders.
Back to letting go - when you let go, or at least take a break, it makes it EXPONENTIALLY easier to let go of things that no longer serve you. I broke open the art puter last night, and realized that some of the designs I'd made over the past couple months really and truly SUCKED and were NOT me. Not at all. I won't say I wasted time working on them because it revealed that I am not doing the arts to fit in, or follow trends, or hit the big time. I am making things that I LIKE and that maybe others will be able to use. Some are gross. Some are gorgeous. To each their own. So, I spent some time eliminating the extraneous designs that I just did not have the heart to continue working on. Off they went.
Google took one of my morning-walk photos and did this to it:
I wish the sky had been that blue. I wish we had blue skies today. Instead it's more mid- to late October gray, windy, and COLD. We've bypassed Autumnal coolness right into DAMN IT, Winter is Coming! Next week, supposedly, it'll be in the 90s again. Gotta love Ohellio.
We're in a bit of a show hole at the moment. We finished Frasier and nothing has been the same. Once a week, we watch Reservation Dogs. We've tried a few shows that just downright sucked, so we shut them off before we even finished the first episodes. We watched something called Platonic, I think, with Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. Not a word I use often, but "Meh ..." TV just kind of SUCKS.
Really. I just have very little tolerance for any of it anymore.
Really don't have a whole lot more to report. Very uneventful kind of week. I do have something new to show you, but I haven't taken pictures yet, so you'll just have to wait. :P
Have a great day!
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