Still in production.

Now that the summer semester is getting so close to being over, I am beginning to panic. We have just over two weeks left! How is it that I began work three weeks early and I feel as if the class just started? I did not do a great job this semester planning my weekly to-do lists. The list looked so small and easy, but everything is taking so long. Just producing the pieces would have probably been fine, but what I did not realize is that gathering all of the items I need to produce the pieces is what would take so long.

I took 2 or 3 trips to crafts stores looking for items and just now found a couple. I also went on a hunt for plastic baggies for my grow kits, Matt just directed me to a website where I can find them. I need 3, lowest quantity is 1,000. Anyone need baggies?

I was hoping to have all of the pieces completed by this week and be onto working out the ideas for photographing my work for the book. I wanted to have two weeks for this so I could get ideas, sketch them out and then have a game plan for a day of shooting. I have not had time to get ideas down yet. Yikes.

Time-wise I am fine. I have three weeks off in between semesters and that is more than enough time to get everything done. I just REALLY wanted a break this semester because the fall is going to kick my ass. But I can’t complain, I have less than a year before school is done and when that day comes I will be sad to see it go.

Now off to listen to my running mix and bust out work!

Asparagus line T-station takeover.

Carrot Line T-station takeover.

Blueberry Line T-station takeover. (Getting re-done)

T-station common area directional ads.

Help yourself veggie plants, for part of the Promote program.

Back from vacation and back into work

Awesome week! I love seeing everything come together. Every time I finish a piece or get something in the mail that I have ordered, is a step closer to seeing what has been in my head these past couple years. It is so worth all of the time spent pulling this all together.

When I finished the produce and shopping bags, I was so excited I wanted to start using them. I am just worried I will mess them up before I get them photographed. The menu I had printed on wood, came out perfect too. I forgot to put a white ink layer behind the artwork, which keeps it from blending into the wood, but I am glad I didn’t do it. It blends in the perfect amount and really fits my branding well. I also decided that instead of nailing the changeable menu to the board, I will print them on wood and hang them from hook screws. It is going to be so much better than the paper. I’m really good at spending money on prints I can’t afford. Oops.

After I got a typewriter from my husband for a birthday gift I decided to use actual typewritten letter instead of the typeface. I did a test and the letters fill in and smudge too much. So I am ordering new ribbon and hoping to get the letters cleaned out, so they punch clearer. Fingers crossed.

I also got my final round of the first set of sketches from my illustrator, Joe (he rocks). They came out fantastic and it is so nice to see the building all drawn up. Every trip I make down to City Hall now is making me wish I could see City Farm there instead. The details Joe added and the ideas he had for the space, were awesome. I can’t wait to get them water colored in.

I was away on vacation last week, so I assume I will be working at a slow pace tonight. It i hard to get back into work, let alone work AND homework. But it is all fun, so I should be back at full speed tomorrow.

Here are some of the goods....

Produce bags

Shopping bags

Little Farmer T-shirts (fronts)

Little Farmer T-shirts (back)

Little Farmer T-shirts (teacher, back)

Little Farmer T-shirts (teacher, front)

Little Farmer T-shirts (teacher sleeve)

City Farm building. Front angle, front and top view)