Sleep Shirts by Janice

While I was on my last trip to North Idaho for the family reunion I found myself in a creative dilemma: I had not brought one single thing to do creatively. No paint, no paper, not even a Crayola. So, in desperation, I decided it was a good time to try out the sleep shirt idea I had been playing around with.

I went into the Shopko across from my hotel and found the neatest new thing. I had been thinking of the tie dye stuff we used to do, but all one color and so random wasn’t what I wanted to do, but right there on the shelf was a whole box of ready to use genius. I was tickled. All I would have to do is draw on the design and it’s a done deal. Perfect for hotel down time.

So I got the box of felt type pens, dug out a t-shirt I had, and went to work. The first one I did I showed off at the reunion in the auction, sold a “to be done later” version, then wound up selling my own shirt as well. That made me have to do another one for me, and naturally I had to buy more pens to do these.

Now the thing I guess I need to let you know if you decide to do any of these is to watch out when you buy the pens. Some are heat set, which means you have to either iron them or put them in a hot dryer, and some are simply a permanent marker. I am not sure how they are different from a Sharpie, but I guess the lines are easier to change from broad to narrow depending on the design you are trying to do.

You will probably want to get all of one type, not like I did: which was buy them, get home and read the box later. Anyway, I had fun with them and thought I would show them to all of you.