olive ewe

all the old school homegirls and i at a wedding.

i made us all shirts with an olive and a ewe (get it? olive ewe? like, i love you?)

a few years ago i was working with a client who wanted to do cute sayings on baby clothes (she basically just wrote down every cute saying she saw on a fucking onesie while she traveled around the world with her rich husband and then wanted me to knock them all off for her). one of the sayings she wanted to do was a picture of an olive and a picture of a juice box - "olive juice", which to me just sounds like "I love Jews", which is fine, but doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "I Love You"... Anyway, i decided to switch it and do the Olive Ewe instead, you know, just for clarity. so i turned the project in with an adorable olive and a cute cartoon-y ewe, and she took one look at it and said "i just don't think people will get it...actually, i don't really get it...why is "Olive Sheep" cute?"

i was like, uh, it's a ewe...a female sheep...olive ewe...?

She said she'd never heard of a ewe and said she was pretty sure that most people in america had never heard of this "ewe".

ugh.