The Never Ending Sunday Night.

Like I told you, we had some extended family stay over at my house Saturday and Sunday, but their presence was not the only mission I had this weekend.  I had something much more anti-social to accomplish.

You see, Heather peer pressured me out of a potential Disneyland trip we were offered with our aunts and uncle and cousins (we would have had to pay for ourselves. lol with what?) I thought it was going to be ok not going, but than sweet Hedgie turned around and informed me that she would be going on a trip to Disneyland with her friends. Needless to say, I felt betrayed.

Still, she told her friends that she would make matching t-shirts for them all with the iron-on vinyl my mom has. But, when it comes to crafting and random helpful projects, I take after my mom - I just can't keep my fingers out of everything. I told Heather I would help her make the shirts by Monday. But, I just downloaded a trial of Adobe Illustrated and Photoshop onto my computer, and my mom was not here to tell me how to do it - so I quickly became over excited and cocky. Instead of six matching shirts with Disneyland and a nickname written on it, I made six individual designs based of each of her fiends favorite rides. I was ready to take on the world.

But, by Sunday afternoon, I only had two of the designed down, and I had not even thought about writing out the nicknames or anything. So all of that day was spent making the shirts. And I mean all of Sunday. After we ran away form my second cousins, the three of us hid in our parents room and got to work. We had to set up the machine to cut the designed out two at a time while I tried to finished the rest of them on my lap top. There were quite a few user-errors in setting it up, and the amount of detail in the cuts made the process slow going. Once they were cut out, we had to pick out the extra vinyl off the design and than iron them onto the shirts. We cut out "Disneyland," the ride design, and a nickname for each shirt, and had to iron them all on individually. Rachel faded out early, and Heather lasted until she realized she only had two hours to sleep before she had to wake up.

By the time I finished ironing the last shirt, and stood up get into my parents bed and pass out, I saw that there was already light pouring in through the window. I did not go to sleep until 7:00 am. I got to say, It may be a new record for me (not counting total all-nighters). Conciqently, Monday did not feel like a real day, and I am still struggling to resent my inner clock. I only got about four hours of sleep, and here I am writing this post at 3:30 in the morning, but over all I think it was worth it. All her friends seemed to really love the shirts, and I felt pretty good about them too.

The Disneyland shirts I designed for my sister

I really enjoyed making them, and it really helped me see what I can create with digital media. My parents already want me to make some for our family for went we going to Disneyland next.

Fair-faring, friends! 

(The designs in this post are based off of other Disney art, but they should be considered my own designs when reposting. If you really  feel the need to post them somewhere - please notify me, and give me the proper credit. These images are not up for commercial use by anyone other than myself. Thank you!)