Today was, finally, one of those days where things click. After a stretch of tech hiccups — the culprit was maybe the VPN, definitely too much coffee — I found a groove, and the shop has the results to show for it: mugs, art prints, blankets, and pillows, all uploaded without a hitch. There's a specific satisfaction in watching the checkmarks appear one by one.
Productivity, it turns out, is contagious. Halfway through the uploads my brain was already in tomorrow: socks, tote bags, laptop sleeves, phone cases, dog dishes — and dog hoodies.
Which raised a question I did not plan to spend the evening on: is it weird to put a picture of a dog on a dog hoodie? A little. Possibly also great — dogs wearing other dogs has a pleasant absurdity to it. And then the obvious escalation: a human face on a dog hoodie. A dog strutting through the park wearing a portrait of its person.
From there, the rabbit hole. If people can be sorted the way we sort dogs — the energetic types as border collies, the laid-back ones as golden retrievers — you could almost write a field guide for humans. I chased the idea further than I'd like to admit before hitting the flaw. No one wants to be called a Chihuahua. So people stay out of it, and the designs stay where they belong: with the actual dogs.
Tomorrow: more uploads, a little less taxonomy. I don't regret the detour, though. The rabbit holes are where the ideas hide — including the ones that should stay down there.
If there's a design you'd love to see — dog hoodies or otherwise — the comments are open.
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