We don't do the Yudu that they do so well

this is r. folks:
One of a's current hobbies is complaining about the Yudu and, in particular, the Yudu infomercial. For those of you who haven't seen it, the Yudu is a $200-300 machine that supposedly makes screen printing easy and accessible to everyone. It's from the makers of the Crickit and proposes that if you wanted to screenprint without a Yudu it would cost you somewhere in the neighborhood of roughly $1500 with a lightbox alone costing yada yada yada (the last time I needed a lightbox to do anything I just used my laptop's screen, but I wouldn't recommend it). This is, of course, ridiculous, but, then, in the infomercial, they show a professional rig that I'm sure was custom built and would be stupid to have in your home. Anyway, I thought I would show everyone my rig which I put together for about $80. I bought the Speedball Screen Printing Tool Kit from Utrecht Art Supplies for $37 along with some ink. The tool kit includes all the basics including a screen, squeegee, chemicals, instructions and an applicator brush. This is pretty much all you need to get started, well, except substrate, pallet knives (god, how I love pallet knives), masking tape and a surface to work on. Indecently, my press surface is an IKEA hack: a piece of an oddly shaped bookcase we weren't using that I plan on tarting up in the near future. That's it... no wild costs or professional set up here (though I am trying to learn the proper way of annotating prints) because that wouldn't be punk rock. Oh, the project you see me working on is a bit of fabric for a project bag a was making. It features a logo I designed for her stitch n bitch group, the Freaky Little Bitches.