Mosquito Bite Shirt

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Mosquito Bite Shirt

So, here we have a shirt with a blood-gorged mosquito in the process of biting. Icky, huh? Don't you want to slap it? But then you would get blood all over. Ick. I had fun drawing the legs, especially. Something about all those joints just appealed to me. Also, I like the way the mosquito sort of wraps its front legs around its tubular mouth to support it. I'm not sure what the feathery feeler parts are (maybe feelers?)

I never understood the people that would try to squash a fly by clapping their hands over it. Don't you end up with squashed fly on your hands? People are weird.

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Fruit Crate Labels by Labelstone

Is there a legend more retold than King Arthur? From The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White to the 1998 movie Merlin on the Sci Fi Channel and the books by Marion Zimmer Bradely, we have been fascinated by this tale of the boy who becomes king and victim, hero and fool. It is a story of high ideals and sordid details. The main characters in the legend are viewed through so many lenses: Guenevere is a naive young woman who stumbled and took the world down in her fall, or a queen and matriarchal mystic ignored at your own risk. Merlin is a dotty old man, a powerful, magical force, or an introverted orphan, making his way as he can. Mordred is a symbol of evil or prince denied his heritage. Even Morgan Le Fey is seen as beautiful, evil seductress and deformed, ignored outcast.

This design, at Fruit Crate Labels by Labelstone, hints at that many-layered legend, with the realistic natural detail of men in the boat, in armor, and the lake mist with the swans and the hint of the parallel, magical world in the vivid reflections in the lake water. The sword thrusts through that barrier between worlds.

Indulge your nostalgia with this and other vintage and mythical designs at http://www.cafepress.com/labelstone.

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A New CafePress Store

So, what's with the name? Well, I was trying to do an online POD store about flyball as a fundraiser for my team. We need $$$$ to do things like hold tournaments and buy equipment. So, I did this Weasel Puppy Flyball Stuff. But, once I set up the store and started making designs for it, I kept having these ideas that had nothing to do with flyball. I kept drawing things like this:

and this:

Which wasn't flyball dogs. They didn't have anything to do with flyball. I tried to stuff them in little stores all by themselves or in corners in the flyball shop, but they kept leaking. So, I've given up and decided to give them there own store. I also gave them their own blog.

Stupid bugs.

There's other stuff there, too.

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