Kickstarter.com

Ive already done a blog post about Brambles kick starter, but I thought I would take a minute and talk about kickstarter.com. I am seriously in love with this website (you didnt think that was possible, but oh it is!) its super cool and I think everyone should take a stroll (or scroll, computer humor haha (yeah im that person sorry)) through it at least once, and if your not hooked, then its your loss! So the basic idea of it is you go on and find a project that you are interested in, its usually either a band trying to get money for a new album, or an artist trying to create a cool new project, film makers trying to make films, and so and and so forth. You donate money to the project you think is deserving of your hard earned money, you donate what you want, (Now this is where the cool part comes in) and each amount has a nifty prize attatched to it, that you get if the project gets funded 100% of what their goal was,  its super neat, usually bands do like signed cds, t-shirts, new albums before they are out for purchase, and other goodies, its super awesome, you get cool stuff and they get money to produce their project. We have gotten some cool stuff from it, and if you donate to some projects, you can get some sweet nifty gifties as well, so go check it out, I dont think you will be disappointed!

-- Have fun kick starting it up--Zoei

I Like to Eat...

If there is one thing that the brightside girls like to do more then screen printing is eating. After eating out almost everyday I think me and Zoei finally realized that we should probably stop eating so much junk food. So I set out on the quest to find something that's easy to cook and somewhat healthy. Then I was reading about Bento boxes and how fun and healthy they can actually be! Plus they are OOOOBER cute, which makes them super fun to make and eat! If you don't know that the hell a bento box is start here-->http://justbento.com/. I love this website and I love her book, its full of super easy recipes. So me and zoei have been cooking our little hearts out and eating soooo much yummy food! I thought that when we started Zoei wouldn't enjoy it as much as me but man I was wrong. She has some mad cooking skills! She hasn't even burnt anything! I wish I could say the same, but I think its safe to say that I'll leave all the actual cooking to Zoei and just help chop the vegetables.

One of our first bento boxes! We made ham and cream cheese rolls, stuffed with veggies. Also chicken stir fry, chopped cucumbers, blanched broccoli ( I didn't even know what blanched was before now) and rice! Not the prettiest bento but for being one of our first it tasted pretty darn good! Pretty soon we will be making rice balls that look like panda faces. (Ok, maybe not too soon but we're working on it.)

I'll be posting more pictures of our bento adventures, hopefully I'll get some recipes posted also. Untill then, we love all of you.

Bramble.

When I am not thinking about Brightside or work i'm usually thinking about music.. I mean, seriously there are very few things that come close to being as awesome as music, and since today is Record Store Day (April 16th) I thought it was fitting to blog about something music related, so this is a blog about Bramble.

Bramble is an amazing local band from good old SLC. So why am I blogging about them you ask?? Because they need our help to earn money to be able to release more awesomness.. But before I get into that, im going to post their site so you can listen to some of their music while you read this so BAM------> http://bramblemusic.com/  seriously click on that, go ahead be brave....listen to some great music as you read a pretty awesome blog..

So now that you have some music playing I will get in to what I was talking about earlier, like the earning money thing, yeah I think you remember... So they are trying to get money to like I said make a full album. So here is another site to check out WHAM-----> Brambles kick starter  BUT WAIT DONT CLICK ON THAT YET.. let me tell you what it is, cause if you are reading this, you probably know that I (Zoei) am one of those annoying people who show you something then explain down to every last detail what it is before you have a chance to look at it... So what it is is (is is haha) you donate money to help reach their goal of $8,000 and they give you some nifty gifties.. thats right you get awesome stuff out of it, so what I am proposing is you donate just 10 bucks and help a great band out and get sweet stuff from them (for $10 you get their cd when and if they release it) The down side to the kick starter is if they dont reach their goal they get nothing (dont worry you get your money back too!) but it would be so sad if they didnt get to record a full length album..So please click on that link now, I promise I wont yell at you this time, check it out, donate what you can and know that we love you more than we did before, even if you didnt think it was possible to love you more!!

Alright enough with all this reading.. here is a video to keep you happy!!
But one more thing.. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE donate what you can, they are a great band, and we feel they really deserve this, but they are far behind their goal... so please help out!!

 VIDEO TIIIIME!!





Hope you enjoyed.. and I hope after watching that you attempt to do the stomp clap rub hands together thing.. its quite fun.. and addicting (btw if you do it at work you will get weird looks, just refer them to that video and you will get a "ohhhh I get it now"

Peace out-- Zoei

Roger, my hero

This blog post is dedicated to (and about) the one and only Roger Jennings.. Now before you get your hopes up i'm not talking about some overly attractive, tall handsome man.. No Roger is definitely one of a kind. So who is this Roger Jennings I am talking about? Well you could call him a silk screening guru, or you could call him just an old man who doesn't quite know how to use a video camera, but call him what you may, I will let you decide after watching just one Roger Jennings video.. But Roger will always have a special part in my heart, so Roger this blog is for you.

I first came across Roger on one of my normal boring Saturdays, you know the ones where you really have nothing to do, so you facebook it up, and when you have over done it on the updating and liking you obviously have only one thing left to do. Youtube. Now i'm not usually one to youtube practical things like how to load the dishwasher properly or anything like that, I'm more of a "lets youtube baby pandas" kinda gal, but this Saturday was different, I was on a mission, a mission to finally get a nice 2 color print silk screened, so once I had watched enough baby pandas I typed in 4 words that would forever change my life: Silk Screening Multiple Colors. Now Roger didn't just appear, not first, not even second third or fourth.. If i'm correct he might have not even been the fifth video to pop up.. But that did matter to me, even though this was obviously not a popular video, I found him that is all that mattered.. I click on this video, and I knew I had found gold when the video started and there stood Roger, looking awkwardly at the video camera, I'm sure waiting for for the camera to show some sort of sign that he can start.. And finally he sees his sign after standing there, awkward, weird, and unaware of how technologically slow he is, and he starts. And he just goes off.. at first I don't think anyone knows what exactly he is talking about, but he keeps going any how. And he just keeps going, and pretty soon, he looks like he is even thinking "what am I talking about?" I know what you are thinking, "But Zoei what is it that makes this man so great?" and my answer to you . Everything. The way he forgets what he is talking about half way through a sentence, the way how he doesn't know how to correctly operate his video camera, and my favorite, when he is talking about how to do something with a screen, but the camera is at the perfect angle that you can't see a single thing he is talking about. Genius, give this man a medal.

Now I know it may seem that I am being a little harsh and I may be talking badly of Roger, but the truth is all of his faults is what makes him so great, you can't help but watch his videos, and I really have learned a lot about silk screening, while laughing my little bum off all at the same time. So now I present you, Roger Jennings, on, well I don't quite know what this particular video is about, but its great.










Hope you enjoyed it, over and out--Zoei

April is already here!

Oh my, its April already! Shocking I know, I can't believe it myself. It seems like time is going by too fast these days! I love spring!  I definitely could use some sunshine! We have been very busy working on a new t-shirt design. Zoei and me are very excited about this one mostly because its our first 4 COLOR DESIGN! It sounds like a silly thing to get excited over, but man registration was a pain! But thanks to the fabulous Zoei we have a whole new system. Which is working out wonderfully! The print turned out way better then I had expected. Hopefully this weekend we will get them posted on our Etsy.  I'm also going to be posting some more notecards and stuff. It looks like its going to be a busy weekend for the brightside girls. As always we love any feed back we can get good or bad.

Spring is officially here!! YAY!!! You know what that means??? It means its time to shed those heavy jackets and show off your awesome silk screened shirts! You no longer have to hide your cool shirts you spent so long picking out each morning. And Brightside wants to help, since us Brightside Girlies LOVE the spring and love showing off our silk screened tees, we are selling all of our shirts for 25% off!! All you have to do is use the promo code "springishere" and you will recieve 25% off of your entire Brightside order.. its pretty neato, so neato in fact that we will only be doing it from now until April 4th, so hurry and get your shirts now for 25% off!! Also keep in mind that a lot of our Large and Small shirts are almost out, we have already sold out of Large Spider shirts, and the small isn't far behind! So get your Brightside Design shirts while you still can!! And also keep in mind that we love each and every one of you, and without you we wouldn't have the motivation to screen our shirts!!

Oh and also check out our Etsy for some paper goods Remi has been working on, she made some envelopes, post cards and all other sorts of fun paper goodies!


PROMO CODE FOR 25% OFF: springishere

New stuff posted on Etsy!

Hello friends! Just a little update to tell you all what the Brightside girlies have been up too. Finally got some of our paper goodness posted up on our Etsy. We posted some hand made envelopes and stationary sets. I love writing letters and snail mail, there is nothing better then getting something in the mail that's not junk. We also have some postcards posted of some lomography photos I have taken with my lovely Diana-Mini. But I don't want to start rambling on about photography and lomography, I will spare you all the pain and save that post for a day when I run out of ideas to write about. We also have been making lots of thank you cards, which are always handy to have around. I will be posting those up on our etsy also, once I stop being so lazy. Also me and Zoei have been working on some new designs and ordering a new batch of shirts to start printing some new shirts soon! So look out for those. I will try to post pictures of our new designs as we get them done. Well I will try to, I am awfully forgetful these days. As always much love to all the support we are still getting from everyone!

 

Check out Etsy and get your self some of these fantastic envelopes! There perfect for sending letters! Lets face it everyone LOVES getting handwritten letters in the mail!

Postcards are awesome because they only cost .28 cents to send! Which is perfect if your cheap like me but still like to send friends little notes! If you like sending and receiving postcards you can always join postcrossing! Its an awesome site and its so much fun to receive postcards from around the world!