A Time For Outrage

I have decided that it's time for an end to a barbaric practice carried out all over the world.

This unspeakable act causes the mortal suffering of millions of people every minute of every day, myself included.

But we bear our suffering in silence. Why? Is there a stigma associated with standing up to this particularly horrifying cause of pain?

Are we fearful something worse will take its place?

Perhaps.

But now is the time to be heard. We must be brave in the face of the monster that is known as....

TAGS SEWN INTO CLOTHING.

SCRATCHY,
HORRIBLE
TAGS.

As I was clawing at my neck today (wearing a new shirt) I just snapped. I can't take it anymore. My sensitive, itchy Irish skin has had enough. 

Once we figured out how to print that the State of California has banned all the material in your shirt ONTO THE FABRIC, why did there continue to be a tag industry?

Where is the tag industry located and who heads it up?

"I'd like that person brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten..."

Well - Christmas Vacation fans know why I had to cut that off where I did. 

ANYWAY - they need to be brought to justice. Every last one of them. The suffering needs to end. 

Once I did some surgery on my shirt, the day got better. 

For one thing, an interview I did with Modern Woman was published today - hooray! It's about why we send handmade cards. 

Read the full interview here. 

Shelley Seale did a great job on the article and there are tons of great tips in there.
(And tomorrow I will actually be in USA Today online, talking on a different topic. Print version is Thursday or Friday I believe.)

Today I wanted to play with a set I've had at the front of my "stamp with this now" bin forever.

I paired it up with one of the upcoming Sale-A-Bration sets because I love that sentiment! The name of the set is Designer Tee, and it goes with a set with little customizable T-shirts. Adorable. They are available in January, or if you want to pre-order them, you can do so in a starter kit!

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The hipster fox is from Jolly Friends in the holiday catalog. I stamped him first in Smoky Slate with my MISTI. Then I colored him with Copics, and then overstamped him with Memento to make him really crisp. 

The little scarf image in the set I stamped a little below his head and then filled in a neck for him with marker. 

The glasses in the set are separate so I just stamped them on last. 

My daydream is to get rid of all tags in clothing, and I will not quit it, I promise. Not until they've been banished from the earth.

Loveyameanitbye.