My Job

Would you believe it? I work in an embroidery shop. A store called Ballyhoo. We create promotional products for companies at (what I would consider) reasonable fees. We make custom shirts, hats, jackets, bags, pens, blankets, and many other things. We even have a snuggie type product called a couch potato that we can embroider. A custom shirt that says whatever you want costs only $15 (including the price of the shirt) and if you buy in bulk the price goes down pretty quickly.


So now that I'm done shamelessly plugging the store I work in, I'd like to tell about some of the things I do here at my place of work. Yesterday I came into work. I put a couple shirts on a couple machines and embroidered out the pattern we had to do for the customer. It was just some simple words. Then we had to test out another logo on the embroidery machines. That was actually quite fun and the logo doesn't look too bad. All in all those things took up my morning and a bit of the afternoon, so then I had lunch. The next thing I had to do was figure out how to make a rhinestone pattern. I spent the rest of the day doing that. You'd be surprised how hard it is to rhinestone. It's much more difficult than you'd think. Fortunately it doesn't require individual placement on the clothing. Unfortunately, it does require individual placement on a computer program, Corel Draw. It's much like Adobe Illustrator, except it is made by Corel. I think that's the biggest reason that people don't buy it. Another reason may be that its user interface is incredibly convoluted compared to most Adobe products.

So, yesterday I spent half my day rhinestoning (The act of placing rhinestone. Its now a word). And the entirety of this morning was spent creating an embroidery pattern for the final fantasy 7 logo, the meteor. Yeah... I get paid to do this. But truthfully, it's a ton harder than you would think it is. I really wouldn't be doing this for fun. However, I don't not enjoy it. Basically, if I was elsewhere, I would be gaming, but here I have no problem digitizing (The act of turning a logo into embroidery machine readable data. This already was a word. I didn't invent it).

Also, if you want a shirt I hear that friends and family get discounts. Call, click, or come in today to the Ballyhoo store of embroidery and screen printing (and tons of other shirt writing methods)! I guess I wasn't done shamelessly plugging the store.