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I've now sent the second payment to A (El printaro), and from an email he sent earlier I can say that the shirts are being packed today, posted either tonight or tomorrow and with a 1-2 business day courier delivery I should be getting the package either Wednesday or Thursday!
I'm so glad that printing has now finished, and now that A has given me an accurate shipping date (taking into account the most recent wave of Royal Mail distribution centre strikes), I can now announce the launch date and time of the main SA shop.
Sanusi Apparel will open on Friday 2nd October at 9am BST.
To everyone who has been following and keeping up with all the SA news, I will be giving the first 5 orders FREE DELIVERY (UK only) as a special thank you from me :)
This means that, Royal Mail strike permitting, if you order before 12pm on Friday morning, you'll get your new SA shirt the following day!
I will be announcing something similarly wonderful for any current students of Sir John Colfox/Beaminster at the weekend, that will come into effect for the whole of next week, so by all means, be SA's new follower, fan, and friend to make sure that you're the first to hear any SA news as it happens!
Sorry about the over-use of bold and linking, but I think this is the biggest post I've written so far so I think it's deserved!
In other news, I now have achieved a completely central COG (courtesy of Wii Fit) and I am obviously now in a very good mood with everyone, life and the world.
I'd still love to hear anything that you've got to say, and don't forget to drop me a line at frontdesk@sanusiapparel.com if you've got a minute or a free period to burn :D
I've asked A to email me as soon as the shirts are sent out and I'll be making regular tweets over the next few days, in an attempt to keep you as updated as possible in the build up to the launch.
Have a great day and I'm really looking forward to seeing who'll get the FREE DELIVERY on Friday morning from 9am BST here.
Ok, that's my bit over - I'm off to watch an episode of Beth's beloved Scrubs S7 boxset (I'll give them back next week I promise!!).
Out.
- Ben
Apologies for the time taken to write another entry!
Just a quick update for y'all...
Printers are behind with my predictions and have just created The Design's transparencies and the screens have been completed. According to A, the shirts should be finished by Friday, but will need a complete 24hr cycle to dry through, before being posted out to me.
Having protested at this further set-back, he has agreed to do his very best to get the shirts to me by Monday. Hopefully looking at a day off work to deal with everything on that day and the launch looks set for Monday morning, with a specific time to follow via SA's Twitter page or as a smaller entry here.
Over the week I've been test-posting packets from a few nearby locations (as I said I would here) to make sure everything arrives in a good condition - it's amazing how much a "Fragile" sticker will do!
Working the rest of this week and I've been listening to a lot of Thom Yorke's The Eraser - focusing on And It Rained All Night and Black Swan on the wet and rainy drives to and from work.
I'll be announcing some new items on the agenda in the next few days building up to the launch on Monday (all down to the printers to meet their deadline) so stay tuned and keep checking back here and on my Twitter page - go on...you know you want to follow me!
Out.
- Ben
Anthony has now confirmed that the design screens are ready to go and that printing will be done on Monday. Setting and finalizing will be done the following day, and he's sending the order out to me on Wednesday so I should be getting Thursday-Friday time!
The main reason I'm staying up late is to watch bit.ly/uRNlX, and I think you should too - the Supermarket Psychology clip is genius!
If you want to know more about screen-printing and how the design will be printed onto the shirts, I think Wikipedia do a good guide showing you what the printers will be doing on Monday, that can be found here.
Anthony (el printaro) uses Union and Wilflex inks, high, high, high quality plastisol inks that are heat-treated towards the end of the screen-printing process to ensure that the design will have maximum resilience against most sorts of washing (hand or machine).
The printing is done using steel screen frames covered with very high quality Scandinavian (only the best!) metal mesh. The U&W inks are then spread onto the screen surface using 65 shore squeegees with metal handles and guide bars to make sure that the print distribution across the screen is as even as possible.
So that's just a basic summary of what will be happening to that lovely batch of Continental N11/N12 t-shirts on Monday morning...
Anyway, I'm off to watch some more of Eddie Izzard - "Cake or Death?" Just about the simplest question ever asked!
Out.
- Ben
Finally finished my 12hr double shift but I thought I'd leave you a little update before I go to bed :)
Anthony's starting on the shirts tomorrow, finishing on Saturday or Sunday (yes, he's agreed to work weekends for me!), meaning that they'll be with me by Wednesday next week.
I'm doing 2 test posts tomorrow from Bridport and Yeovil just to make sure the packaging is up to scratch but, apart from that, there really isn't anything else to say!
Working another 11am-6pm then 6.45pm-10.45pm double shift MADNESS tomorrow, but I'd actually weep with joy if somebody left me a little line to read when I got back tomorrow night! The address is frontdesk@sanusiapparel.com and I'd love to hear anything you've got to say :)
I'll be announcing another feature in the next few days that will be of particular interest for any Beam/Colly readers, but keep checking back in the next few days to find out more...
Hopping over to my Twitter page, I'm very excited to now be followed by the mighty Fur Face Boy from the Grand Prairies, Texaaaaas :)
There's a special treat for anyone who heads over to SA's MySpace page but be quick, because it'll be gone in a few days time.
In other news, I'm off to bed now and just thinking about work (starting again in less than 12hrs now) just puts me off writing any more!
Out.
- Ben
Announcing the super-awesome-cool feature that lets you see everything that happens behind the scenes here at SA HQ from the moment you click Purchase on the Sanusi Apparel online shop!
Click-Arrival will show you a picture book summary of the steps that follow your Click, as your order is selected, prepared, packaged and sent off to you.
This feature will be run entirely online, only accessible via the Sanusi Apparel shop - opening in the last week of September.
The initial response to the design has been overwhelmingly positive, calming many of my nerves the more I read about what you think of it!
Talking to Anthony (the printer) the design will be prepped over the weekend and printing will be starting around Wednesday and finishing on Saturday of next week, meaning that I will have them around the start of the last week of September! :)
My inbox is looking very sorry at the moment, so if you've got any spare time at all, please send me a line at frontdesk@sanusiapparel.com!
I'd LOVE to hear anything you've got to say about...anything! The design, how amazing the rocky road from Somerfields is (see twitters), which film I should watch tonight (seems to be Superman Returns vs Spiderman 3 at the moment), or even how good the weather's been lately!
Anything will do - one line will be very well received!
Anyway, I'll get back to playing Pong and listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new-ish album, It's Blitz! If you haven't heard it already, get the Spotify going and get it on - sheer brilliance!
Missing the newly on-a-timeout A+P already.
Aus.
- Ben
Well, I think you've been waiting long enough!...
This is the first design from Sanusi Apparel to be printed from Wednesday-Saturday next week.
This represents; many sleepless nights, 2 hot chocolates, the crumbs of 1 brownie, 7 Appletisers, 162 toilet breaks, almost square eyes, a bag of Roasted 'N' Salted pistachio nuts, 5 re-designs, 3 bags of Jelly Snakes, 7 peanut butter and banana sandwiches, 9 Family packs of Cool Original Doritos (with assorted dips) and a tin of peaches in syrup.
It's been really really fun from the beginning and I just hope that you like it as much as I do, otherwise all of the above will have been wasted for nothing!
I've got the launch down for the last week of September now, but I'll confirm the specific date when the printers start their printing.
In the meantime, keep checking my Twitter and MySpace for very regular updates on what is happening down here.
And if anything interesting happens, drop me a line at frontdesk@sanusiapparel.com to liven things up a bit!
Out.
- Ben
After several hot drinks, various bits of brownie and a Blackberry and Raspberry Fruit Corner, I finally finished and sent off the design to the printers in Bristol at around 2.32am this morning (see Twitter post)!
Thinking that they would be preparing the design to print over the next few days, I got an email from Anthony (Printer) around 11am saying that they were a week and a half behind schedule with printing, so the launch looks set to be put back even further, again.
Sorry about this, but I will try to keep you as up-to-date as possible on any news over the next week.
I can only confirm a launch date when I have a confirmed print slot date from the printers, which should be getting back to me around the end of this week (all fingers and toes are now crossed!).
Over the next week I'll be getting all of the paperwork and packaging ready to go and I'm considering whether or not to open the www.sanusiapparel.com shop up a few days early, so that you can order the shirts a few days before they arrive to make the time speed up even more...thoughts?
Printers just need to clarify that the .PSD design file I've sent is "print-worthy" and when they do I'll put the design up here so you can have a good look at it! :)
That's all for the moment, if anything else pops up I'll let you know through Twitter!
What's with this weather?
Out.
- Ben
Got the domain name and email sorted this morning!
This means that the official site will now be www.sanusiapparel.com
I'm not launching the site until the morning of the 16th (or around that date) but definitely bookmark it and keep checking back here for more updates on what's happening.
If you feel the urge to get in touch then YOU CAN! frontdesk@sanusiapparel.com!
It doesn't even have to be anything to do with S.A, just send something to make my inbox look more interesting :D
Well, the design will be sent off this weekend, probably before my monster 10hr shift at work on Saturday. This means that the print slot is now confirmed as the 7th/8th September and I'll be getting the shirts delivered to my house a week later!
Very very very very excited about all this now - hope you are too!
More as and when I know :)
Out.
- Ben
