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We partnered with our friend, Lillie Marshall, a teacher and blogger extraordinaire, to create a new set of delightful, geeky, free, printable Pi Day cards for you (and your kids!) to print and share with all your friends!

Inattentional blindness and filling in - the culprits behind a completely obvious error!

They're here! The fabulous 13,230 Digits of Pi dresses and shirts have arrived!

Read about how we created the new collection!

I had this “brilliant” idea to create a Pi design that would feature as many handwritten digits as I could fit into the maximum size rotary screen textile printer (72” by 34”). I had figured each number would be about 3” tall, so I would be able to fit about 1200 of them, nicely spaced, on the fabric....

As I worked, I enjoyed finding little familiarities, like zip codes and famous number sequences (24601!), and I marveled that my own zip code never came up - in fact, very few sequences of more than 4 numbers repeated.  I particularly loved the funny section with six 9's in a row.  And I thought often about the scale of what I was working on. My mind could barely comprehend thousandths - just the first three digits of Pi - 3.141. By the time I finished, the enormity (minisculity?) of the number I was copying gave me a new appreciation for Pi, its mystery, its profundity (life, the universe, and everything!).

Earlier this year, 9th grader Julia Joseph came up with a great idea - she would sponsor a design contest asking for ideas to diversify the topics on boys' clothing.

I had this “brilliant” idea to create a Pi design that would feature as many handwritten digits as I could fit into the maximum size rotary screen textile printer (64” by 64”). I had figured each number would be about 3” tall, so I would be able to fit about 1000 of them, nicely spaced, on the fabric.

Will you join me in marveling at Pi, and helping me to make sure I copied it over correctly? There is just no way that I did this completely perfectly. I am a human being and I am sure I made some mistakes, probably during the hours when I was listening to my Civil War Podcast, or when my teenage son was reading the groups of numbers to me while also playing Clash Royale on his phone. Medieval scribes made all kinds of errors, from skipped words (leaving out non is a really big mistake!) to homeotelutons, and I’m sure I did the same.

A little rhyme written by our dear Ana Balich about the awesomeness that is toddlerdom with pockets....an excerpt: 

Mom calls it junk, but really it’s treasure.
I need to hide it, cuz I’m feeling the pressure.
If Mom finds it first, she’s sure to act rash.
She’ll gather it up and it’ll go in the trash.

They’re fast, they’re clever, they will sniff you out wherever you’re hiding, and they screech in nonhuman decibels. We’re talking about raptors, but could very well be talking about toddlers. Have you checked out our new “Clever Girl” dress? We’re ecstatic with our newest release - a nod to Jurassic Park and the way raptors bear some not-so-subtle similarities to the discerning little creatures in our own lives.

About a week ago, a very kind customer wrote in to say that two of the "Hello Chum" sharks dresses she received in the mail had two strange discolorations on the skirt. They seemed to line up perfectly with the tape that was on the clear plastic bag holding each dress.

"That's so strange!" we wrote back, and immediately sent her two new dresses assuming it was some one-off problem with the dresses she had received. But after we heard from another customer with the same problem, and the first woman's replacement dresses ALSO had these strange discolorations, we knew something was up.

Enter to win fabulous jewelry from Boutique Academia and a new wardrobe from Princess Awesome!

We love seeing all the awesome ideas for new clothing designs!  

Here are some technical sketches of the silhouettes we use most often.  You can print them out and draw on them, and then email them to us at ideas@princess-awesome.com.  We look at everything you send and are so grateful for your thoughts and contributions.

This quarantine business is not easy for me. I am not good at sitting still or staying home, so I’ve had to find ways of doing both of those things over the last few months. I ended up (like so many other folks) doing some home improvement, and I found the perfect piece of clothing for all my projects - my Princess Awesome super twirler dresses! They’re super comfortable, light and airy, make me feel confident, and the huge, deep pockets hold all my tools and hardware.