A friend of mine in Illinois who is a very talented musician and graphic artist has started making guitars in the last couple of years, and I worked with him to create a bunch of Thomas Guitars shirts for he and his wife to give to friends and relatives.

Tom designed the four color artwork, four shades of gray, and we printed it on a variety of shirts but my favorite was the Slate-colored American Apparel tee.

You can see some of Thomas Neal’s custom guitars online at http://s270.photobucket.com/home/tkn42

Saucy? Oh yeah.

My good friend Dawnelle works with Marination Mobile, a fantastic “food truck” in the Seattle-area that was featured on November 21st’s Good Morning America Weekend. GMAW is hosting a contest called the Best Food Cart Challenge and Marination Mobile was one of the four finalists chosen from around the US.

In anticipation of the TV crew’s visit to Ballard to try out Marination Mobile’s cuisine, Dawnelle asked me if I would make her a shirt that said “Saucy”, just in case a shot of her made it into the piece. And Woot! You can see Dawnelle in the segment, apparently performing crowd control, wearing her custom Saucy shirt for all America to see.

UPDATE:  Marination Mobile won Good Morning America Weekend’s Best Food Cart Challenge!  http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerindex?id=9147915 Congratulations!