What's up everybody its met with Mikey Designs and what we're going to start
doing is video logs or vlogs of what it's like owning your own screen
printing business and working from home so but before we get started I'm going
to make some coffee that coffee cup right there is about as manly as we get
you know we got some coffee made it's time for the daily commute to work
time to open up the shop I don't know what the hell's been going on but here
in Houston we don't really experience a whole lot
of this so this does not make it easy for us to screen print shirts kind of
makes it a little bit of a pain in the butt all right now that we're all
finished washing out screens and my hands are absolutely freezing I'm going
inside and I'm gonna get some separations done
that's good now it's that time of day for me to dive into some emails do some
separations and to have a top secret meeting with the shop Nome is very top
secret stuff we might tell you about it in the future but maybe not but anyways
here we go
alright now that we're all finished with doing separations it's time to print
some film this can take a while
go a little Epson gout Welsh in and shop gnomes it there's the top of her head oh
yes let's see hey what do you know we've got ourselves the package pal there we
go we have some fresh cotton to rub our
hands over and print on so we have some shirts we need to heat press today and
get out to one of our clients for their birthday events we're gonna get this
heat press today and and and meld out and here's the designs that custom
designs that we did for a client I'll show you real quick how we heat press
these things so I just realized that our client originally ordered three shirts
they changed their order to four shirts and I only plotted out three kind of
slip my mind but hey that happened so back to the office to plot out some more
vinyl and do some weeding but the stairs we go to the office to do get some good
exercise doing this time to boot the old Macintosh up as in PC mode so ignore
plotting because the plotting software is only available for PC
okay so we have all of our vinyl plotted out we did and I've already did a couple
shirts but it's going to show you for demonstration sync we're gonna do this
one shirt and after this we're gonna do the infant shirt we're gonna go shut
these things off so we're just kind of centering it up and make sure
everything's nice and centered put it about three fingers down from the top
there we go put our Teflon sheet on and then we're gonna press this
well 15 seconds the guy that's cold
over it up I feel like I feel like rocky this stuff on forgotten flip-flops on
your flip flops yeah so there we go that's how you press the shirt I'm gonna
do another shirt real quick and we'll be right back tiny t-shirt and behind the
scenes will I've been working on production Shannon has been working on
quotes time to see things stuff these bad boys in here make it work alrighty
got uh shirts all packed up shipping label ready to go time to drop these bad
boys off yeah so this is my life at the moment yeah
I do that a few hundred times so we're running around and now the cars
leak a little bit oil have no idea why 28 degrees outside
now I'm looking into that
hopefully
well I'm outing about miles we'll grab some groceries yeah
what's this thing wrong okay so we are finally back from running errands going
to the grocery stores that just did not want to have to have to get back out
into that weather it's been a crazy day I'm gonna get back to it
got some invoicing and quotes this in the clients had a couple of phone calls
that that we took care of today and we're gonna exceed a client's
expectation here tomorrow or we're gonna go to them they need like two shirts
done we're gonna bring our eat press with them they're not close to us but
we're exceeding her expectations and that will potentially land us them as a
client with another school and schools tend to be one of our biggest clients in
place the hugest orders so let's you know how that turns out and so I'm going
to get back to invoicing quoting mock-ups and we'll end up doing some
Instagram stuff and then we're gonna set up the press to print a six color job so
this just in we got a client that needs just a real quick change to some of our
artwork they're pretty happy with it they need a couple logos change not
going to zoom in too much because I don't want to give away who some of our
clients are but I'll give you just kind of an overall general view so here's
what we're dealing with and this is a custom design that I did myself in house
trying to get this thing to focus just right
but the two little logos this logo here and that logo they kind of were combine
them in the same area so I'm gonna go ahead and do that and send that off okay
guys so we sent our mock-up out and now it's time to register a six color job I
I mean only I'm holding a phone as a camera but it's gonna be a long day all
right so we're done putting the pallet tape onto the palette now it's time to
start setting up these screens
alright so the shop gnome and I are going to start running off some t-shirts
on this six color design and I don't have a camera holder this is my iPhone
that I'm using and we'll be right back so last but not least coded some screens
time to put this last one in the rack this will be for job tomorrow first
thing tomorrow gonna expose these screens and this is due for a client so
we got to get this one finished tomorrow tomorrow's Wednesday they need it
Thursday let's get it done Wednesday I think that would be best and then back
up the office to do some more admin stuff so pretty much wraps up our day
it's been a long day it's been a little weird with the weather but I hope you
guys learn something got a little insight as to what it's like running
your own screen printing business from home and our goal this year is to get
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