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Hau'oli la hanau! = Happy Birthday

That's be me ... pretty useless

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I thought about that, but the local shops around here only to "big" orders (100+ decals). I think I have a lot of practice ahead for me

If so, do tell. The boyfriend's birthday is coming up next month and I was thinking about getting him a Mr. Beer or Beer Machine . He tends to like some of the fru-fru beer stuff (i.e. Michelob Honey Lager, Waialua Wheat (a local brewery makes it flavored with passion fruit), etc.). I'm not a beer drinker, and when I actually drank beer it was season (after canoe regattas and long distance races), and even then it would something like Hornsby. I researched about doing the more hardcore "home brewery" stuff, but it looks so complicated. Maybe I should just get him the krups draught kegerator and be done with it. Any suggestions??

Sent you a PM .... or at least I thought I did

Thanks! I know that I need to learn how to do it, so this is definitely a trial by fire. I know that I need to separate by colors, do does everything fit together like a puzzle, or is layering best? I will definitely try to "home made" registration marks like you guys have suggested in some of the other postings. Is there any wet application fluid I should be using while to trying to fit everything together or do I just a really steady hand? I guess I should be glad that the decals are small to start me off.

It just totally blows my mind how this niche has just taken off like wildfire.

I know this is sooo ... Buggie - can I acquire you emoticon to add to my emoticon page?

I was thinking about getting a tablet, but then I nixed the idea when I realize that the extent of my creative drawing abilities didn't go beyond stick people and hangman. I have friends and family who have them, and they swear that it's "the cat's meow." Although when the cat ran away with the pen tool to take it exploring throughout the neighborhood they had second thoughts about getting a replacement.

I'm in the process of looking for a new flat bed scanner. Anyone would there have any suggestions for good ones, or ones that I should steer clear of? It doesn't need to have a super high resolution, but something decent would be nice. I think I can budget it up to $300 - $350.

you can always look at digital scribes

Yah, family can be an inspiration at times. But a lot of times they're a pain in the butt too. I find that if I can get any inspiration from them, I usually need to make a mental note and not say anything out loud, else they cease to share stuff. Then again, most of the stuff that I derive any inspiration from is usually smart@ss remarks. My family are bunch of witty smart@sses, it can awfully painful if you can't keep up with them.

We just cracked the $4/gal on O'ahu, and the outer islands are on their way to over $5/gal soon. I agree with John. The people elected Gore, but the stupid college electoral votes got Bush in office. That has got to be the stupid system. I remember seeing all those PSA before election - "Your vote counts", etc. Well, as we all learned with the Gore vs. Bush incident, that in reality it sorta counts. Made me not want to vote anymore. Stupid system. Of course you didn't see any type of legislation changes to the election process ... like making the popular vote count. College electoral is just as dumb as delegates and super delegates. We should just them decide the next president. Sorry peeps. Just had to put that out there. If y'all haven't figured out by now, the soap box that stand on is pretty dang big.

I really never ventured into vector art before getting my cutter back in November (outside of the CAD). Now I see the lite and try to most stuff in AI if I can. I'm more versed in PhotoShop and Fireworks because it's the fastest means for me to prep raster images for web design. Jenny, is your daughter on PC of Mac? Which operating system is she using? Jay, Adobe acquired Macromedia a while back. Now everything is starting merge. At least Adobe didn't fuss around too much with the apps that Macromedia had branded and distributed globally. Basically Adobe engulfed probably their closest competitors.

bb - I'm going to ask even though I know that it's all relative - was/is the process difficult for making cider? I mean, outside of the mushing of the apples and stuff. I'm wondering about the part where you need to start having the brewing equipment. I saw that there is a 'make your own cider' home brewery kit, but didn't find any instructions for it online.

Mahalo everyone! I've owned an Epson scanner before, and liked the results, but that scanner is long gone and now I'm in need of a new one. I was considering going back to Epson, but admittedly I wasn't fond of their software, but it sure did scan my slides and 35mm negatives beautifully. I don't think I'll have the need for that in this day of digital photos, but just wanted to see what others were using and if they either love it or hate it. I will definitely take a look at canon scanner too! Mahalo!!!

welcome to forum. i would suggest you let us know which cutter you have. the cutter cuts from right to left, front to back. so basically your starting position should be on the right side, clearing enough vinyl in the front, so it tracks and you can get your blade on it. when you finally have you starting position, reset your x,y positions to 0,0 by reseting the "home". from there it should go well. don't forget to make sure that whatever it is you're cutting won't end up depressing the red "kill" button on the cutter. to remedy that problem, just scoot yoru vinyl over a bit and reset the "home" position. good luck!

Yeah, I'm wondering if that's what he is going to end up doing too. Then that'd be a total waste of a gift. :- I wonder what the secret is to make tasty home brew. Is it the ingredients, the method, or someone who actually like funky tasting beer?

Let's here it. What was the very first thing that got you past being a cutting virgin (please don't move this to the mature board ) I couldn't find what I needed, so I bought a cutter to do it myself ... "I discriminate against stupid people." - jenism Don't have pic of any of them, but handed out a bunch, until I smartened up and started charging less than time and material ... wait, that's still not smart is it? Hahaha... Who cares, I just wanted to share my wicked sense of sarcasm with the world!!!

I should be popping in more often. Now that I have "clean" electricity here - the old wiring kept on frying the filaments in the incandescent bulbs (no comments about the going "green" with CFL's - the incandescents came with the house and I'be been replacing them with CFL's as the blow. I think I already replaced half the bulbs here. Friday we get the carpeting for the bedroom and my office. We still don't have any window treatments, so everyone on the street can see me wake up with a disorientated look on my face wondering where the hell I am, and what are those strange noises. At least the kids that walk to school and get dropped off haven't started making fun of 'the weird lady' with the dogs across the street. I've been crashing here for the last couple of days because the electrician has been coming in at 8am sharp, and I'm not inclined to waking up early just to get stuck in traffic to drive 7-miles away from home. So for now, I have what I need for a remote office, and with any luck will be moving the cutter soon so that my office can feel complete. Although I want to make sure that I have some kind of curtains or blinds. Rght now I'm tempted to just stick vinyl on all the windows just for some privacy. Hahahaha.

I'm the same way for the first part (when you're broke, everything is fair game!!) ... although I think I have far more theory than I ever will apply. Although I do notice that when the bank account is low I theorize how much I should be marking up some of the hardware/software I resell and will usually apply that to the billing invoice. Does that count? Hahahaha.

no pics = no bull ride, only bull $h!t. Awe, you know I'm just kidding! Dude, where are the pics??? Next you'll need a stetson 10-gallon and you'll be listening to Garth Brooks! Not quite a bull, but probably fun to ride. Hahaha.

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