Another business idea...

coming up next... 2nd Project:

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Your Logo on your shirt...

Still in progress...stay tuned :)

Free Rice!!!

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Just sharing this great site... Just play the vocabulary game at FreeRice.com

The sites' intent is to help the people living in poverty. They'll be donating 20 grains of rice for every word you get right through the UN World Food Program (WFP).

What's cool is, as you play the game, you'll learn new words to add to your "wordbank"; Words that you have never consciously used before will begin to pop into your head while you are speaking or writing. You will feel yourself using and knowing more words. And realize that you've helped someone... not too hard right??

Check out their FAQ :)

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Fun Tag!

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I have randomly selected other bloggers below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to add your link in the end of the list and tag other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding Tag others . This is the easy way and the fastest way to

1. Make your Authority Technorati explode.

2. Increase your Google Page Rank fast.

3. Get more traffic to your blog.

4. Makes more new friends.

5. Build your community

Rules :

1. Start copy from “Begin Copy” until “End Copy” to your blog. (for bloggers paste on the "compose" not the "edit html" part in posting blogs so it will be linked automatically).

2. Put your own blog name and link.

3. Tag your friends as much as you can.

1. Picturing of Life 2. Juliana’s Site,a 3. Hazel-My Life, My Hope, My Future. 4. Jeanne-The Callalily Space 5.My Family is my Life 6. The Simple Life of a Baghag 7. On A Wonderful Day Like Today 8. House Everything, a 9. The Creativity in Me 10. Travel and Photography 11. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 12. Nora’s Notes 13. Noras Family Treasures 14. Fil-Oz Blog 15. What A World 16. More on Health 17. Everyday Life 18.Pinaywifespeaks 19. Pinaywife Atbp. 20. Laugh Out Loud 21. Life’s Lessons 22. Kerslyn’s Comfort Zone23. Borski and Nai 24. M A R I K I T, 25. Jan April, 26. Random Thoughts 27.the long journey of my life 28. Life's Journey, 29. Wonderful Life, 30. Gen's Palace, 31. Moments I Treasure, 32. Trails N Life, 33. Life Has Began, 34. Simply Amazing, 35. Amazing Life, 36 Sorrounded Everything, 37. Alot To Offer, 38. Travel Blog, 39. Fascinating Life, 40. Blogger Spider Man, 41. Creative in Me 42. Little Peanut 43. Me and Mine 44. Sugar Magnolias-45. Clark & Butchay's Blog 46. Me, Myself and I ; 47. coffeenchoclate; 48 Lisgold;49. A Piece of Idea 50. StupidWise 51. WriteShy 52. Foods Galore 53. Simply Pets 54. A Day to Savor and Relish 55. Simply SEO 56. Celebrity Smash 57. Simply Blogging 58. Simplycatsy Blogs. 59. Nookie's mind 60. Pinoyvibes

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1st project: your name on your shirt

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Materials needed:

1. Silkscreen (100 mesh)

2. squeegee

3. silkscreen paint (there are many types available in the market; embossed, ordinary, superwhite, etc.,)
4. green film (old school) or photo emulsion (is what I suggest)
5. artwork (a computerized print of your name for a start)
6. technical pen (.05) 7. t-shirt 8. oh! before I forget, you also need a plastic spreader (to coat your screen with the emulsion)
7. a lamp or the sun (as an alternative)

Other odds...

2" Masking tape to seal the inside of the frame and screen. To prevent leaks around the edges.
teaspoon for dipping ink and emulsion.
newspapers or scrap paper for "trial prints"
A damp rag and dry rag to clean your hands if you get them in the ink.
Dish detergent for washing ink from screen.
a soft toothbrush as well, for cleaning the screen with stubborn paint
water sprayer (like the one they use in beauty parlors)
Sink area where you won't get into too much trouble if you spray some water about!
a stencil remover
a clear flat glass (to firmly hold the artwork on the screen when you're exposing it to the light)

Preparation:

1. Coat the screen by first pouring an ample amount of emulsion on one end of the plastic spreader. Spread it evenly and thinly on the front-side of the screen (t-shirt side or top side)

2. Drying the coated screen ( In an area AWAY FROM LIGHT AND HEAT, set the screen to dry horizontally, bottom side down (or squeegee side)

3. Artwork should be transferred to acetate (by photocopying) this is also called "POSITIVE"
>> make sure the artwork on the acetate would look the same as your original print-out.
>> if you place the acetate below a light bulb and you could see a light passing through the artwork, use the technical pen to darken the fonts very carefully ( because the final outcome of your t-shirt design would depend on your artwork)

EXPOSURE TIME

4. It takes about 1 hour to expose a screen with a normal 300 watt bulb separated by 17 inches, so it is not necessary to work in a "dark room". However, sunlight is much richer in UV, and normally I expose the screen on an afternoon (about 12p.m.) in just (exactly) 30 seconds.

5. But while you're learning the process, try it your way first. Estimate the exposure time. The emulsion will probably come with some instructions. (Remember that exposure time is inversely proportional to lamp wattage and is proportional to the square of the distance between the lamp and the screen.)

6. Lay the silk screen, under the lamp. Lay the artwork, centered and face down, on the silk screen. carefully place the glass over all this to hold the artwork in place firmly against the screen. It might be necessary to put a flat surface, like a large book under the screen to keep everyting firmly together.

7. turn on the lamp (time this carefully, record it if you need to, as you light need to repeat this with more or lesser time)

8. Turn off the lamp

9. Go to the sink and wash the screen with the water sprayer. You'll notice that the artwork will wash-out. To check, hold the screen up toward a lamp and look thru it. Check the whole artwork! If some areas do not seem to clear properly, then use the soft toothbrush, but not vigorously.

If the time estimate was right, we're just about done... set the screen aside to dry.

If not, mop all the moisture off the screen and use the stencil remover to remove any of the emulsion that is left. Set it aside to dry. Adjust your time estimate, and start over with step 1.

10. Now we're ready to start...

PRINTING

1. Put ink across one end of the screen, about the width of the squeegie.

2. Place the t-shirt under the screen.

3. Use the squeegie to gather a part of the ink and to spread it across the screen (flood stroke)

4. Then, firmly stroke the squeegie across the screen again to press the ink through the screen onto the t-shirt.

5. Carefully remove the t-shirt from beneath the screen. Watch out! The ink will dry in the screen within about a minute, so you gotta keep printing or wash the ink out of the screen.

6. Check out your very first t-shirt printing project.

HAVE FUN!!

Be Creative!

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one of my passions...arts

Being an artist led me to some of my great adventures in life...

I remember in grade school, I was often included to represent our school (Malate Catholic School) in on-the-spot poster making contests competing almost all the schools in the NCR area.

After high school, I got myself into an un-official" tattoo business; I say "un-official" because I never intended it to become one; I first earned money when my uncle (a Philippine team Wrestling Team member) asked me to come with him at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium (where Wrestling Association of the Philippines is located). He told me his co-members wants to have my "obra-maestra" permanently on their skin.

BTW, they got enticed by the repair I've done on my uncles' "bilibid" like tattoo (it was a Philippine Marine Logo (an eagle with an anchor in the background). The repair I did was turning the eagle into a wild cat or "musang" (in Filipino); but it was never finished as it requires a lot of work; the original tattoo was a thick (marker pen thick) which is very hard to cover; However, with patience from me and my uncle (I know the process is very painful); the unfinished wildcat artwork is more noticeable than the old eagle.

Then a little later than that, when I was with a band, we're looking for "old school" t-shirt logos (we're talking about voltes five, superman, mazinger Z, mekanda, transformers, and other justice league hero logos), but coudn't find any.

So we ended up creating our own (during that time, we don't have the privilege of using the net to copy the logos); just sketching down what we could remember and print it on our shirts.

My childhood bestfriend (kababata), his name is "King"; realized we could make a living out of this talents/ideas we have. during that time, I was more into shirt printing (commercially) and freehand drawing, and mural painting (not to mention of course, my drum playing); he's into learning to use the "airbrush".

He enticed me to put up a business (specifically a t-shirt printing business with "Airbrush" as our main medium). But as we're preparing for the venture, we were told that the idea is already in operation at the SM Sta. Mesa); we went there to see it ourselves and to our dismay...

But it didn't stop us to pursue our love for the craft. Some years after, he's into advertising (he does photography, graphic designing).

I'm still engaged in the business and managed to get projects from government institutions and private companies (school P.E. shirts/ROTC, company give-aways, etc.,), election paraphernalia; I experienced earning big bucks ranging from 5k to 300k per project.

I can say this is a good business.. a really good business.. all you need to do is don't stop being creative.