G-O-L-D!

Last night were the Austin ADDYs, held at the new Austin City Limits Venue at the W hotel. Ben entered Evan's birth announcement. And... He got a GOLD ADDY!

I am so proud of him. He worked so hard on these announcements. They were life size. Grey paper, beautiful soft white paper for the image, and the blue stuff was all thermography. On the front of the announcement, it reads "A Still Small Voice." And inside lists his stats. To bind the pages together he sewed them with blue thread.

Now it will go off to Regionals, and then maybe Nationals. Ben is an awesome baby announcement designer. Remember Lucas's? It was quite a big deal. :)

Ben's shirt for sale

Ben's Trianglion shirt is for sale today and today ONLY. Weird, I know. I don't know why they chose that for their business model, but they did. Go buy it for $12!!!
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FYI - We had a baby

Most people get their baby announcements out by the time the baby is a couple months old. Most people have a simple post card printed and shoot it in the mail. The Harmans are a little different. I wouldn't say we have babies, just to make the announcements, but Ben does start thinking about the announcements before the baby bump appears. Our baby announcements have to be worthy of entering design contests, winning awards, and oh yeah - also sending a few out to family and friends.

Ben's been working so hard on this. For weeks our kitchen has transformed into an announcement making factory - stamping, heating, and sewing. He's almost done. Almost. These announcements are such a pain to make and so big that we're just making enough for family and design contests, plus we don't want people to feel guilty for throwing them away. So, Ben made me some post cards to send out, too. I'll be getting them off soon...

Hopefully Evan's birth announcement will be as well-received as Lucas's birth announcement. I'll post a pic of the final product when it's done... Until then, here's a video of Ben working hard.

One more...

Here's one more shirt Ben got up today... It's on the French website.
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Awesomer than AWESOME!

Check it out! That's Will Ferrell wearing Ben's Taking Tree shirt!!!!! Maybe now we can hope for some reprints. Congrats, Ben! Click here to see more pics.