Brain Overexposure

Margaret Here. It amazes me sometimes how what I think would be a great idea, turns out looking like crap. For example. We are having a family reunion the weekend of June 26th. It has been a year in the making. My Aunt Margaret has gone crazy. Each of my grandmother's sibling's families has a certain colored shirt they are suppose to wear. We are blue, after many, MANY changes in colors. Anyway, I thought I would break in my new screen printing machine and have a picture of my beloved grandmother on our shirts, there are only 6 of us, how awesome would we be?! I had my cousin Dan, take a picture of her and convert it for me, and I was thrilled. And then I put it on a shirt...and man...it was ugly. Bad. Horrible. Hubby said it was the creepiest thing he had seen. My Dad even called me to tell me how bad it was. Seriously, in my head, this shirt was awesome. We would have been the envy of the reunion. Why didn't my idea work?!!

And then I had a brilliant idea, of turning a Tinkerbell ribbon pattern, into a girl dressed up in Red, White and Blue for The 4th Of July. How bad could that be? Once again, it looked better in my head. Melissa and I sat there trying to figure out, what it was about it, that was so...off. I still don't like it. Not going to make those or sell them.

And then there is the Uncle Sam that I wanted to make. I did a FANTASTIC job on the Leprechaun I had made back in March. My sister stole the last one I had, and she won't give him back. So I thought,why not make Uncle Sam for the 4th?! I even found awesome little hats. And, don't you know...I don't like him. I think it is his coat. I don't know if I should just drop the idea and work on it for next year, or what.

This week, I have 8 shirts to make, on that screen printing machine that I just can't get going, and I am nervous about how they are going to turn out. So far, nothing is going my way, and that is really bothering me. Wish me luck.