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New Adventures and New Beginnings

Have you ever had one of those "Aha!" moments where life starts to make complete sense and you feel the most clarity of your path in life? Have you also experienced that moment of euphoria and let it get ripped away by your self-doubt and anxiety? Said "Yes" to both? Then we have a big thing in common! :)

About two months ago, me and my boyfriend were sitting on the couch sketching, talking, you know, the typical Saturday morning.  He's one of those people that is so super humanly intelligent and talented, but, like me, experiences a lot of self-doubt and humbleness to the point of insanity! For our first Christmas together, he painted me these four little canvas prints of my favorite thing: Mid Century televisions.

They are something that to him seemed insignificant, but to me were the best presents I could've received.  This was in 2012 and since then, I've begged him to make more.  Now flash forward to two month ago, we had the idea, "Why not start our own business"? It's by NO MEANS a novel business venture, but one we loved the idea of.  I had just left my job of almost 10 years and I've been CRAVING something to feed my need for organized chaos.  
We decided to take the plunge and start "Bone Jack Designs".  "Bone Jack" is a slang term used decades ago, to describes stealing a dead man's style.  Something we all do today by referring back to our favorite eras and paying homage to their sense of style.  
Now you would think we would start simple and do canvas prints first.  Nope.  We decided to screen print tees by hand using my boyfriend's sketches.  We learned emulsion techniques, proper screen printing methods and how not to get print all over your bathroom floor.  Needless to say, it was trial and error, but we knew that if we could master this, we could handle ANYTHING.  We are not pro's at screen printing and we have no desire to be.  We are just amazing we did it by ourselves! 
Available on Etsy: Bone Jack Designs







We are extremely nervous, excited and ANXIOUS about where we can take this, but we are under no illusions.  The only thing we can do is have fun and stop being so hard on ourselves :)

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