"Somethin' Sweet"!

From the people who bring you "La Parada" every month, it's "Somethin' Sweet!" The San Carlos building will now host not only one exciting event a month, but TWO! 

"Somethin' Sweet" will go down every third Saturday of the month.  However, this event starts at 4 PM, as compared to "La Parada" which starts at 8:40 PM! Thats four more hours of fun time!  They want you to have so much fun, that if you get there before 8:30 PM, it's free for ladies and $5 dollars for guys. After 8:30 PM, its $5 dollars for ladies and $10 for gents. 

So, get to "Somethin' Sweet" early to enjoy all the fun! This will be the first of these events, so don't miss this one!  Jeff Craven will be headlining.

See you at the show! 

For more info click here: First Friday or on Facebook

Building a Better Neon Desert: Part One

Neon Desert is to be El Paso's first official music festival.  Fortunately, the Neon Desert Crew picked us to help them construct some of the structural components of the festival.  Here are some of the beginnings of what will become the Neon Desert sign.  The first part of making this unique sign is planning out the shape. Once the shape, size, and design of the sign are set in place, this all needs to be transfered to the wood being used to construct the sign.

Drawing out the sign may be the toughest, yet most important part.  After the sign is drawn out, the wood needs to be cut.  This sign has some really interesting cuts. To save wood all the sign template letters were cut out of six sheets.  There wasn't much scrap wood left over from these template sheets. This sign is going to be quite large, well over twenty feet long, and eight feet tall.  To add a bit of a twist, the sign is also going to be three-dimensional.

"NEON" Template Letters

There are some special plans for this sign, so check back for updates! In the meantime, check out the Neon Desert website and this song by MSTRKRFT

Get ready Chucotown! Its going down soon!

IF YOU NEED SOMETHING CUSTOM BUILT OUT OF WOOD, LET US KNOW! WE CAN BUILD DOG HOUSES, SKATE RAMPS, SIGNS, DOLL HOUSES, TREE HOUSES, SWINGS, PERGOLAS, TABLES, AND DECKS/PLATFORMS/STAGES

FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: CHUCOFRESH@GMAIL.COM

Chuco Fresh T-Shirts!

That's right folks, we've got shirts now! We learned the ancient art of silk screening, and got to work making some, oh so fresh, Chuco Fresh shirts! Like everything we produce, we make them by hand, so no two are exactly alike! Get your one of a kind Chuco Fresh shirt now! 

As usual, we will be at "La Parada" tonight, selling our Glasswork and Jewelry, and now also our Chuco Fresh shirts! Come out and support La Parada and Chuco Fresh! See you tonight!

Here are some pictures of our silk screening process, and finally, the finished product at the bottom:

To make a silk screen with the photo emulsion method, you need to first make a transparency, or a stencil to block out the light.  The emulsion fluid is light sensitive. You can think of it as an empty film when it is dried on the silk screen. Once it is dry you want to place it under a light, or in the sun. Leave it for a few min (5-10) and then wash the screen off with water. What you are left with is a stencil that you push ink through onto whatever surface you want to silk screen... in our case, Chuco Fresh shirts.

To the left are crucial items you will need, and below are the examples of the transparency and the finished silk screen stencil.

You will probably need some clamps to hold everything down!

 Before...

 ...after!

 Kim Sully, sportin' the Chuco Fresh!

We only have black and white tees right now, but we do have them in girl's tank tops.