Working with tarps with glued decals

Some tarps have glued-on letters which makes the tarp thicker and harder for my vinyl cutter to cut through the layers. I have tried to peel off the decal in the some cases, but that is time-consuming. Also, some decals don't lend themselves to being removed. I tried a multicut and that cuts through both layers, but its a bit messy. Maybe if the cuts were simpler in design it would yield a better result.

I had been setting that type of tarp aside, but now I'm seeing that I will be able to work with it, even though it will take longer on the cutting machine.

Lake Chaparral Stampede Kick-Off

225 Chaparral Drive SE (at the lake) Saturday, June 27 2009, 9am-1pm. Entry is a food bank donation, free pancake breakfast, live entertainment, games, bouncy houses, horse&carriage rides, outdoor market, face painting, and prizes.

Update: I think I need to provide more information in my displays like my company name and pricing. I had planned to have my laptop showing my commercial and product slide show but in an outdoor venue there's too much glare. There were good crowds and this event was well organized.

Vase Sleeve

A humble salad-dressing bottle gets a Mid Century Modern slipcover with a circle tesselation. Groovy, baby.

Soap Box Design, continued

One way to get air on the soap is to have a corrugated vinyl liner in the soap box.

I experimented with putting feet on the box as well as a way to raise the bottom of the box. If it had a mesh cut on the bottom of the box then that would be another way to keep the soap dry, but the soap box would still have to be on the sink or have another dish underneath it to catch the water. So I'm favoring the corrugated liner.

I'm aiming for this box to be three things: a soap box, a soap dish, and then a nice decorative box after the soap is gone. More than just a box, as notes Packaging Diva JoAnn Hines writing about David Graas' Not A Lamp,

I've been asking soap makers how many soaps in a hand-made batch. The Etsy folks say between 5-25 on bars on average. So there's my target range for a custom Etsy listing.

Please comment!

Soap Tote Video

Garden Fencing

This idea for garden fencing comes from the necessity of keeping soccer balls out of the garden. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, now to adjust the positions of the tabs and make some more for this flower bed.

This design only requires inexpensive bamboo stakes to install. The tab and slot extensions at the sides adjust to fit the diameter of the bamboo stake.

Vinally.ca Website

I got my E-commerce website up and running with two products. http://www.vinally.ca/
I am sure I will be making many changes to it but I'm glad I got this far. I will load it up with products in the days to come. Please visit and comment!