Chris keeps asking me why I'm going to such great lengths on preparations for Alt Summit. He's very supportive; buying me more decal material when I mess up the one sheet I have, meeting with one of my friends to pick up the surprise for this year's business card (still not done) and feeding kids while I'm sewing and lettering like a maniac.
As I was planning my outfits, I decided I needed to do another printed shirt as a "resume" of what I can do (
see last year's). I was trying to come up with something cheeky like "this is what a calligrapher looks like". Alas pretty words, not clever ones, are my expertise. So I opted for a simple "Letter Lover" in the shape of a heart. A nod to
Megan's brilliant heart sweater.
I struggled to figure out if I should go with a black decal or go blingy with a shimmery metallic. The metallic won out.
I'm loving the mixed metallics trend I've seen pop up here and there, so I decided I need to roll with that next week. This will be part of my Wednesday outfits at Alt Summit. I can't wait to go! Oh wait! I can! There's so much to do! I haven't even started printing my business cards (letterpress plates coming tomorrow!).
Yesterday, I designed and finished this shirt, sewed another shirt and tie dye skinny jeans from scratch. All that's left are cards, signage, one shirt and two skirts! Totally doable in 7 days.
As I was working on the design for this sweatshirt, I was thinking about the actual time it takes me to write a post like this. Just an FYI (since we're all about blogging and prep work at the moment), here's the breakdown:
- drafting and designing the decal: 90 minutes
- cutting and ironing: 30 minutes
- minor fixes to the fit of the sweatshirt: 5 minutes
- hair, make-up and styling: 60 minutes
- shooting and editing photos: 30 minutes
- writing the post: 30 minutes
That's just over 4 hours for one of my smaller posts (no tutorials included). I'd like to get faster in these processes, but I don't know how much faster I could really get sometimes. Blogging just takes a lot of time. I still love it anyway.
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