Sunday is Detroit's St. Patrick's Day Parade and Corktown 5K. It's a festive race, with a costume contest and beer at the finish line. This is last year's get-up.I knew I couldn't do a repeat - Owen ate the pants and there is no way in h-e-double-hockey-sticks that the jacket would zip. I mean - I need to be able to at least wog in this. (Wog = walk+jog) So I perused the web for ideas and game up with a gem. Being too cheap to pay the $27.99 (+$8 shipping) for a short-sleeved shirt, I decided to create one myself.
I bought a $5 kinda-sorta-green shirt on Target clearance and some iron-on transfer paper at Michaels.
The design was no prob. Whipped that puppy up in Illustrator in no time. Wouldn't you know, though, my inkjet printer, circa 2002, putzed outta ink in the 11th hour. My lettering was blue. Now, the non-Enlarged Marge would have scurried to the nearest Staples (25 minutes away) and fingers crossed, hoped they had a replacement cartridge. The Enlarged Marge says - eh - we'll roll with blue.
Will had a better idea, and since I had 4 other sheets of paper to burn, went with his black and white suggestion. Looked pretty good in the test shot.
Now, all I had to do was iron the transfer onto the shirt, on a hard surface, with no steam, with gladiator-like force. Check and check. 
The finished product isn't bad. Stay tuned for race shots. Now if only meeting my 10-minute-mile goal would be this easy...
