well good morning YouTube on that the owner of a screen printing business located in Houston
welcome to to a vlog about our lives a starving artist well the first thing I'm doing is taking
out the trash but I'm gonna take this time to kind of reflect on how to change where it's
been going because you'll see me doing a bunch of work today but it's just not enough to really
support all three of us so we've been having to cut Michele's hours back money has been tight
we have a six color job on the press I stopped it yesterday kind of prematurely I'm just not
thrilled how this print is coming out it looks fine but the thing is I want this this brain
to be a little a little more green and it has green and yellow in there I think we just have
too much black and I'm gonna try and lighten some of this up I did run off I don't know
maybe a dozen before I stop I know the client will be fine with us doing that so I hope but
I just want to make sure I do the best I can and then with these things we also got to do
the gold print down the sleeves and neck tacks and all that when you get that finished this
week there's a contract job and then we got some safety vests to do hopefully I can get as much of
this done today I doubt I'll finish it up today because we don't have sleep outs we're just bad
boys so I got to do it on this guy and it goes pretty slow No and they decided to buy a used
oven that's Shannon the shop gnome she showed up one day on her floor mat or and never left
we've still got the gallon they're looking to buy one or they already bought one no they're looking
to buy you wants to use gentlemen up like well you should mention the Chamblin is our automatic
press out in the shop yeah well you might have a new buyer patiently waiting let's just say I'm
patiently waiting I'm not a high Apollo say hi to Apollo these are shop security and sometimes
it scares off clients give me that client shirt it's really not a quiet fit a mess up shirt which
sometimes they're pretty good at it what is on the docket today I gather do we do that black screens
I'm going to do that first and then be the email these tracking numbers out to 151 we appreciate
your order and I didn't record any of that or take any pictures for Instagram need to get on it
be better about this stuff I love sometimes it's hard doing both these things at once if you feel
our with your drinking I got my piece of film coming out the Epson 1430 police we thought ro
is hitting it over what are you doing now why aren't you working says connected to printer
finally sometimes these things are a little stubborn and they lose their connection so got
that sorted out hopefully hopefully nothing else comes up to that everything else just goes smooth
got my black film all ready to go hopefully this will work better and I just got finished striking
out some ink I'll this screen putting it back into this black bucket over here because I had
the screen fill sitting up because I'm just trying to rock and roll with things and yeah it's just me
you don't have anyone following up behind me so let's go ahead and get this screen exposed that
way we have a better chance of this thing drying within the next hour because this weather sucks
now we wait
looks like the lights highway working one less thing to have to worry about for the
day but I'm gonna take this screen and set it outside that way you can
who's Hardin and hopefully dry a little faster a little just said
Michelle do you want to say hi to YouTube you're completely blurred out Michelle what are you
working on Michelle's our newest addition she works part-time at painting with the twist gets
a crapload of tattoos and likes who she calls the boy his name's Harry so one of the fun parts
of my day is running errands occasionally which takes me away from production and I write Shannon
why not say hi to the interwebs anyway I'm gonna run and get gloves and stuff I'll be
back and then we'll Princeton sweatshirt exciting something you normally just don't really see word
that I don't show with the amount of errands a owner of a screen print shop who got a run and
when you're doing production it doesn't help so I'm working on training Michelle
okay no pink mail today yes I've got three runs to make I need to run by the bank because ADP
we're no longer using them at the moment because it costs a lot of money to use them and we owe
them a little bit of money which sucks so we have to get caught up with that before
we can continue using it so paying the show out with the check but that's all right things will
get back to normal I gotta go and get some gloves money's been tight and even getting
necessities like gloves and supplies man those few hundred dollars can really Oh have we've
been juggling stuff we've been juggling stuff all right I'm good old loads I'm gonna run in
and grab some gloves real quick normally I carry my phone with me to do this parts and
stuff but hey I'm just gonna bring the camera in and hopefully not getting any questions
always have a hard time finally damn gloves they're probably back that way haters all
right so I get these venom steel gloves because we can reuse them multiple times they don't tend
to break as fast as those blue gloves juice Oh leave a link down where you find these it's gonna
have a load these hold up really well like what I'm going to do this year is try and keep every
single paper receipt possible but I tend to suck on that because I'll leave it in my pants and then
they get washed on to the next stop which is my favorite the banks because I love spending money
when money is tight last stop Chase Bank let's spend that money hard I got my checks let's get
back to the shop finally whose sex machine is right I'm back at the shop screen is nice and
dry I'm gonna tape this thing up and toss it on press and see if it made it neat better let's do
it it's better take off wipe nice check it forget it all the fisa eat them like my pants and shoes
sorry I had to snack on something real quick I haven't eaten anything
today I was good now that that's out the way let's get back to it
did use working that instant come by supposed to register anything up to that
much happier with the results of having pulled that black back let's go ahead and
take this off and see what it does during the run they're gonna be fine hopefully
the
I know my hair probably looks fantastic doesn't it Shannon but you got everything warmed up
got my shirts here and we're ready to start printing let's go out and do this what's so funny
using some web spray only they leaned down a little skirt some
redefine some weaponry like this but I know what a quarter helps let's get out
okay the program out here let's talk in here booth loud out there between
the compressor and Michelle doing her thing on the power washer follows taking him and
out by the way this has been his toy for a while it is a Bella campus triflin normally
he chews the thing right up so great quality good job Bella canvas we're moving on to the
t-shirts in order for me to do those t-shirts I have to replace the pallet tape on the press
because it is just loaded up with crepes so I'm gonna go ahead and do that sheriff
we got the front of this order all taken care of really kind of doing some screen prep so we
do these these sleeves this whole stack of greens that were here Michelle went ahead
and took care of so now waiting for this thing to dry the the screens shelves working on some
mock-ups shin and Apollo they're being cut for that day here's the lovely pile I got some more
things I got to do check for Michelle there's some other administrative stuff I need to do
but I can't think of it for the life of me what it is I know what it is I need to take
a picture and put some stuff up on Instagram I've recorded a handful things so I'm gonna toss those
up on Instagram if you're not following us on Instagram be sure to go check us out follow us
I'll show you some of the inside things in a shop as much as possible let's go ahead
and take that picture yes work it work it yeah now I need to go over the Instagram to copy my
text real quick and post up my two photos he's working on what today face sheriff no [ __ ] I
should probably turn this off well I think that's about it for this vlog it's a close of time it's
closing time and I'm gonna pick things back up tomorrow but let's go tell everybody they
did a good job I just want to tell everybody that they'll did a great job Shannon you did
you did okay you did a great job Apollo you did about as much work as shin and didn't I'm
just kidding well that concludes today's vlog if anything you got from this it is not easy owning
your own business however money's gonna come and go right now we're working on making that
money come back in and just keep at it really I mean that's that's what I've done this isn't
the first time that things have been slow and money's been tight but things always turn around
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