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New Shirt Friday: 100% Plunger Monkey Approved!

You know, I should have titled all these weekly posts as New Shirt Friday: (insert appropriate and/or witty subtitle). Oh well. Anytacos, it's New Shirt Friday again! I like the badge/stamp motif. I came up with several variations of this particular design (not uncommon for me) and struggled to chose one to go with. The others will likely get a few tweaks and be available at some point. Maybe I'll do a new 100% Plunger Monkey Approved shirt every year or something. It's a simple, clean design and I like it. I had wanted to add some texture

May 3rd, 2019|0 Comments

New Shirt Alert: Eye of the Tiger 2.0

It's later than I'd like, but it's still New Shirt Friday! Despite the kids being home for April vacation this week, I'm still hitting my weekly goal, which feels good. I spent a lot of time this week tinkering with a whole variety of different shirt ideas in between life and parenting interruptions. I was mostly done with this week's shirt design earlier in the week, but I made a few tweaks all the way up until listing it moments ago (partially because I forgot to do a few steps). After working on the image intently for a few

April 26th, 2019|0 Comments

NEW SHIRT FRIDAY: Bang Your Head!

Look! A consistent posting pattern! How long will it last? I can't answer that, so enjoy it while it lasts. In case the title wasn't obvious enough, I've decided Friday is going to be New Shirt Friday. At least until I make it through the various new shirt ideas I've got. This week's offering targets a particular nitch. Well, I guess you could say all my shirts target specific nitches of one kind or another (like fans of monkeys with plungers on their heads. That's pretty specific). I am a self-proclaimed metal head. I'm not a die-hard concert goer

April 19th, 2019|0 Comments

Get On Your Cats and Ride!

Hey! Look at that! Another new shirt design available at the Plunger Monkey Designs Etsy store! And you can get it in PURPLE! I originally drew this image in black and white as a "shout out" to my youngest son in his elementary school year book. Plunger Monkey's sign originally said something specific to him and moving on to fifth grade, which obviously needed to change when I decided to color this and make it a shirt. I went with "get on your cats and ride!" as a bit of a nod to Queen's Fat Bottom Girls' line

April 12th, 2019|0 Comments

Finally! Time to go BACK to Braining!

Hey. How's it goin'? It's been awhile. Again. However, I have been keeping rather busy. Aside from all the standard life and scout related obligations, I spent the bulk of the first 3 months of 2019 (how the heck has it already been 3 months?!) finally trying to tackle some big goals that I've been avoiding, tasks that I have been referring to as "braining" (business stuff), as opposed to "Braining" (being creative and manifesting all these things running around my skull). I don't try to hide the fact that the financial, administrative, and business aspects of being an

April 3rd, 2019|0 Comments

Some Things This Way Come…Soon.

*Sigh* I wasn't that far into this post before I accidentally clicked outside of the text block window and lost all progress, but it was enough to be annoying. I have a real bad habit of accidentally clicking where I don't mean to, or just a hair outside of where I'm trying to, which usually launches some app that takes 12 minutes to boot up and 22 minutes to fully shut down. That's the kind of relationship technology and I have most of the time. Anyway, the original intent of this post was to talk about my recent wool coat project:

February 25th, 2019|0 Comments

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