08/11/2026
Today's project while I'm on house arrent with Karma's big baby belly ❤️🐾❤️
Trying some projects to donate to Rescue Garage in North Port. They are such a wonderful rescue, fantastic hard working volunteers, that made the tough decisions that rescuers face. I've always been involved in rescue, until recently. Life is different now and I'm not able to do all the things I did in the past... but my heart still pulls me to contribute in ways I can, when I can.
Still planning to make gifts for our Chimera families and when I can get things right, will offer sales with shipping on occasion.
Here's what I'm working with. I bought a specialized printer for submimation to be able to make the tote bags and other gifts for our puppy families. It can be tricky tho. The computer image colors are not the same as the colors on the printed project. There's differences between materials too, plastic fabric, metal, ect. These metal wind spinners are printing the most detailed and vibrant, compared to the tough to work with fabric. I love it! I'm still not getting the colors that I expect tho. The first one I did with the underwater Chimera Shih Tzu came out really vibrant blue, but my teals- my FAVORITE color living here with the most incredible water color - my teals are just not printing as vibrant or true to color. Hmm. Not a big deal, I still think they're really pretty! I just want to be sure if I offer for sale, that I have time (which includes time that's low enough in body pain), consistent, and that I can produce what the person is expecting. Because for me, just starting, I have no idea how one will come out vs the next 🤣🤣 Its fine for gifts, but I wouldn't want to disappoint anyone.
Here's some pics of this print and ofcourse I chose the brightest scorching sun of the day that washes out the color in the photos 🙄 here's outside, in shade, in sun, different color backgrounds, inside.
You can see how blue it comes out on the printer. Then we use a heat machine to transfer the ink to the product- very different color! Not as blue as the ink looks on the page and not as vibrant teal as the computer screen.
Ofcourse my printer is also giving me trouble today 🤬 but its fun and will hopefully make someone happy when they receive the gifts! Helps me through the pain and gives me something to do that feels useful. FINALLY a week I don't have to spend hours on the road driving to appts for the family, but now I'm stuck watching Karma like a pot of boiling water 🤣
I have LOTS of fun ideas for Shih Tzu designs, if I can just get them to work lol
