Hi
there! I'm Ken, and this is my little website. At mushycat
I make pins/buttons/badges, stickers,
shirts, undies, and whatever else I come up with! I really do mean I make
everything myself, from pressing the buttons to screen
printing to programming all the code that runs everything. If you want to know more...
Intellectual Slut
I just put up an old shirt design again, by request! Intellectual Slut
You can always request old designs, or new ones. Just email me. : )
main, shirts - January 28, 2010
Laptop bed desk (in the blog)
I had an old Ikea desk chair with wooden armrests... (read more)
blog, woodworking - December 27, 2009
mushycat-egorize
I've never been very good at trying to categorize the buttons, so many can mean totally different things based on you, what you think, and how you back them up. But there are so many buttons that it can be hard to find things sometimes. Why do you think I give you the chance to just let serendipity guide you? Still, it would be nice to group things together a bit more. Fiona has done her best to do that, and now you'll find many more categories on the left side of the button pages.There's lots and lots of overlap, and you'll probably still want to go through them all, or at least by date. If you have a few days to spend. If not, searching works too!
Anyhoo, let me know what you think.
buttons, main - December 24, 2009
An LED ring light for jewelry photography (in the blog)
I came across this post on how to make a... (read more)
blog - December 21, 2009
just a little something I've been working on...
They take a lot of work to make but I like the look... What do you think?
jewelry, main - November 11, 2009
Sanding boards (in the blog)
In my pursuit of making wooden jewelry I've been doing... (read more)
blog, woodworking - November 9, 2009
New buttons on consent and more...
New buttons, mainly dealing with rape and consent, but also gay families and more. We came up with some of these quite a long time ago, and they just sort of sat on my hard drive for a while. No longer! You can expect to see regular button updates now that I've got the site how I want it again.
click to see them all!
BTW, if there are any button designs you'd like to see on shirts, please feel free to let me know!
buttons, main - October 30, 2009
Shiny Shiny!
Well, if you been to mushycat in the past by now you've surely noticed that I've given it a bit of a new look. The buttons are a bit shinier, to match how they are in real life! Pretty, aren't they? There are more than just cosmetic changes though; I've changed things on my side so that it will be much, much easier to post updates so there will be more new designs more often (at least that's the plan!). You can expect me to blog more too.
The big news is that I'm printing t-shirts again, with a nifty new less-problematic supplier and the shirts are not only sweat-shop free, they're 100% organic too. The undies will be returning soon!
Finally I'd like to properly introduce you to my partner, in life as much as anything - Fiona. She'll be helping me work on the ideas we've both had about what to do on mushycat and so far some of them have been interesting to say the least! She's all sorts of brilliant and witty. Watch, as they say, this space!
ken & fiona
main - October 22, 2009
Janay's button earrings!
Janay of janaygreen.com recently ordered custom buttons with sew-on backs with the clever idea of making them into earrings. Here are her results!
Pretty nifty, and her halloween cat design is adorable. I've made button earrings before by drilling a hole in the metal, but I had never thought of just using the sew-on backs.
buttons, main - October 20, 2009
Wood and silver... (in the blog)
I've been spending a fair amount of time working on... (read more)
blog, woodworking - October 10, 2009
Button discounts for orgs!
I haven't actually mentioned this on the site before, but I'm always happy to give discounts on large button orders (100 and up, generally) for charities and other cool organizations and people doing work I agree with and want to help support. I've been doing so for years for a whole range of orgs who have asked. Buttons are great for fundraising and for creating awareness of course, and you can use either my designs or custom ones.
If you're interested, just email me and let me know what kind of work you're doing.
main - September 5, 2009
Button linking
If you want to post button images to your blog or site, I've made it a bit easier. Just click on any button (or sticker) image on the site and a window will pop up with HTML code to display the button and link to it directly (it used to be quite difficult for anyone to link to a specific button...). Just copy and paste it.
BTW, feel free to hotlink any button image on the site if you want, I don't mind! If you link back to mushycat it'll make me super happy of course. ^__^
buttons, main - June 20, 2009
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