2010 is gearing itself to be a financially questionable year as I’m looking towards graduate school with, when it comes down to it, no means to pay for it. I don’t want to keep relying on student loans. While I’m looking for scholarships, fellowships, research assistance ships, internships, and every other type of -ship, I’m also facing the reality that I may have to pick up some temporary or hourly work to pay for my living and education.

Ideally, if I absolutely had to do it, I’d like to try to do something that could actually run parallel with building up some of my own skills. One idea that I’ve kept in the back of my mind is setting up a shop with Cafe Press by making t-shirt designs and earning a small commission from it, and that in that way it could also help me with earning a little bit of money on the side, too.

And so I actually did it — I opened up a shop, Team Fortress 2 Fan Gear!

I’m going to aim for the next month or so 5 new items a week to post up. And also, it’ll also help build my portfolio, which is in desperate need of some more content. Eventually I’d like to branch out to more general geek and geek girl apparel and goodies, just for right now since Team Fortress 2 design ideas are the first thing that come to mind, I’ll leave the store name with the Team Fortress 2 theme.

But I certainly hope you enjoy what I’ve posted, and will be posting up! I promise they’ll be quality designs that would be actually worth paying the price!