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sweetie pie the sweet potato

Did you know morning glories are related to sweet potatoes? They are. Yuko gave this sweet potato a home in our living room, and it's doing quite well.

I don't think I actually knew what sweet potatoes even were until a few years ago - to this day my stomach turns at the horror of knowing what I missed out on.

Books are still up for sale! I added a handy sidebar link (finally).

Everyone - I think we want to try to do a run of new t-shirts for the holiday season. If we were to print one of the following two, which would you be more interested in?

The first shirt bears a quote from Hokusai that appeared as a postscript on One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji:

From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.

Leave a note in the comments if you have interest one way or the other! Thanks. We're out!

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Hokusai!

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I'd definitely much prefer the one with the quote. : ]

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That's something I know my art teacher and my friends would appreciate. :D

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Gotta say I'd pick the quote - the design is awesome, and that quote has always been one of my inspirations. A poster might be easier to read though... just put that design on something, and I'll buy it. :D

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Ohhh man, I am all about that Hokusai shirt.

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LIGHTNING BOLTS!

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I prefer the blue shirt, it's much more arty and sophisticated.
I'd wear it in a heartbeat.

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2nd for a shirt.

As many have already said the 1st would go much better as a poster print, which I would buy ;)

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The quote is inspiring, I love the look of the shirt, and I would totally buy it!

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I agree with everyone who's saying the first one would look better as a poster. Personally, I just think it looks too cluttered as a shirt, even though it is a fantastic quote and design.

So, as a shirt, I would buy the second one, but as a poster, I would buy the first.

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Would it be possible to see the Hokusai teeshirt bigger? I love it

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The top one!

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Both shirts are gorgeous, but I think that the lightning bolt is more flexible. If I were buying a print or a tote [winkwinknudgenudge] I would go for the Hokusai. My only concern with the shirt is that the design wouldn't look as good on as many people. Curvy girls, for instance, might look awkward in it. Just sayin'.

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I have to pick the quote shirt.

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I love the Hokusai shirt, I think I'd probably buy one!

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I would go with the quote as well. It's a beautiful way to think.

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Quite an inspirational quote, and i enjoy how you've varied it and interspersed art to create an interesting shirt.

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I like the Hokusai design both because of the great quote and the great artwork. I would like to buy it if you print it.

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To be quite honest, I don't really wear clothing that has writing on it, so my vote goes toward the lighting c:

On the other hand, I would so buy a poster of the Hokusai quote was for sale...

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Sorry, I just can't help myself. If you made that quote t-shirt, I would be forced to buy it. FORCED. It's a problem.

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I like both of them but I like the Hokusai a little bit more. It just seems....jazzier. If you get what I mean.

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The lightning bolts! I like the Hokusai also but I'm seriously a big fan of lightning bolts.

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i vote the Mt. Fuji one. its so much more interesting and beautiful. please print that one!!

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Going with the quote on this one. It's got way more substance than the lightning bolts.

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I would definitely buy the Hokusai quote as a poster, but only maybe as a shirt. I prefer it to the lightning bolt shirt, though (but that one is pretty awesome too).

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For definites.

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The texty one is so cluttered and harder to appreciate.
Simple lightning, simply awesome.
:)

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I would definitely buy the quote shirt--not so much love for the zig zag.

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Definitely feeling the quote shirt!

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Sorry to say, but I wouldn't buy either as a t-shirt. The quote shirt I would consider buying if it was a poster, but neither the quote nor the lightning shirts really appeal to me. This is only my taste speaking but I feel the quote shirt's too cluttered and the lightning shirt's simple but not really exciting to me. I hope this helps. :)

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Definitely the quote shirt- it has concept!

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My vote is for the Hokusai shirt. It may be very wordy, but I love the overall visual.

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As a biologist and doodler, I vote the quote shirt :3

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I likey the quote shirt.

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Mm, sweet potatoes... Have you had sweet potatoes in cinnamon-sugar butter? It's like Cinnabon but better for you. @u@

But the shirt I would wear would totally be the lightning one. Sorry, Hokusai.

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I am all for those sweet lightning bolts.
I have a thing for t-shirts with lightning bolts on them.

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I want the Hokusai t-shirt so badly. I have a rule against buying t-shirts in general but I would definitely buy it and possibly in multiples since I know several people who I think would want one.

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I didn't read other people's comments because i'm writing from a cell phone, but if you add soil to sweetie pie's container ever so often, and make her grow taller and taller, she will grow new sweet potatoes for you, I believe. So one sweetie pie will become many after a few feet of added soil. Also_ my copy of Johnny Wander 1 has made my week more happy. Thenk you!

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I love the one with the Hokusai quote :)

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I really like the lightening bolt one.

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Man this exact same thing happened to me and now it is massive and annoying.

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I think the quote would make a better poster - it's just a little too cluttered for a T-shirt. The lightning bolts would be awesome though =)

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gotta get it

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Hokusai t-shirt, all the way.

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I like the thunderbolt design; it's more like something that I would wear. When wearing T-shirt, I prefer a simple design that someone can glance at and know what it is, rather than a mash of text that takes a while to look at.

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It's very pretty.
I might actually buy it.

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Hokusai, indefinitely. <(^_^)>

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Hokusai!

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i like both pics but i personally would love to see a pic of the dragon and the skeleton "What are you doing? Why are you doing it?"

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DEFINITELY the first one. It's so cool!

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