Exactly how much straw can a camel carry anyway?

Last week I was shopping around for prices to have band T-shirts printed. We had earned money from our last show to pay for some shirts to sell at shows. The company that had printed shirts for us in the past had raised their prices and so I got a few quotes from different companies. I never did find a price I liked and was kind of stressing about it when I decided that just like they say, "if you want it done right (or for the right price) you have to do it yourself?

That decision was all that it took, I have spent the last week working out how I need to do it, what I need to do, and what I need to buy to make it happen. I ordered all of the materials to get started last Thursday and it was all on my doorstep on Tuesday. Talk about service, I was really impressed!

So now it starts, I turned my basement storage room into a dark room so that I can properly prepare the screens, and because of the mess I will probably print in the garage.

As with most things, all it takes is some initiative and will to make things happen. Just in spreading the word between friends and family, I have already gained a couple of investors of people that are also interested in this type of art and a couple of customers that currently have someone else print all of their shirts and would rather give me their business, all before ever printing a single shirt. Some of you might laugh about that and say that I am being premature, but I am fully confident in my tenacity. I know that now that I have started this, it will become something that I do just like it happened when I started doing tattoos.

Oh and just to let you know how serious I am about this, I have already given this little printing adventure a name. Icarus Ink Screenprinting! This weekend I will be breaking in the new equipment that I bought and doing the maiden voyage, will it be Disaster or Success? I will let you know how things go after the print! WISH ME LUCK