Are you prepared?

Mental Infestation Sale Coming To An End

Yup, the two year sale is almost up! Make sure you don't miss out on the extremely low prices!

www.cafepress.com/mentalinfest

The Daily Tees

Yesterday I decided to start a new blog to help promote my favourite designs available on Cafepress. The new blog is called The Daily Tees. Each day I will add a new design (at random) which I think is FABULOUS, with pictures and links to the store. I am hoping that this will help to promote some of the best designs available by designers and artists that use Cafepress to sell their t-shirts.

Best Selling Design of January 2008!

January was a good month for Mental Infestation! It saw our second year birthday on Cafepress, and sales were above the monthly average!!

This months best seller was an unusual winner. With our sales prodominantly being ecologically friendly designs, I found it rather surprising to see sales of Pyrite go through the roof!!! It's a design which as been up for a while, and it appeared to be a design that had very little interest from customers, until this month!


Pyrite Jr. Ringer T-Shirt, Januarys best selling item.

Seriously Cheap Stuff from Mental Infestation!!!

I've posted some of the best selling items up in the 2 Year Birthday Sale section, at rock bottom prices (from $1.25!)! Everything is now up there, so make sure you take a look!!!

http://www.cafepress.com/mentalinfest/4681036

If you want to make suggestions on what else should be in the 2 Year Birthday Sale, then leave me a comment and I'll get it on there asap! :-D

Mental Infestation Celebrates 2 Years On Cafepress!

Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, yesterday was our second year birthday on Cafepress! And to celebrate this, I'm asking you to get in touch and let me know what you would like to buy (design and style) so I can put it into our 2 year birthday sale, as a thank you for your on going support! I will add a section to the store and I will add items suggested with big reductions!

So let me know, and I will put these up later on today, and I'll keep them up for a month! So start your suggestions now!

http://www.cafepress.com/mentalinfest

Top Selling Cafepress Designs By Mental Infestation

Tomorrow will be the second year that Mental Infestation has been on Cafepress! Hooray for birthdays! And in that time, we've had some highs and lows. The biggest high was April 2007 which was our best month for sales, with Earth Day designs being our best sellers. The low was finding someone that I had high regard for, stealing ideas from my store. I have seen a lot of this happening on Cafepress, especially in the military based stores.

Over the last two years we have had some designs which have sold really really well, so I thought I'd share with you the 3 top selling Cafepress designs by Mental Infestation.

Number 1.



Save The Polar Bear! Stop Global Warming! has been the best seller on Cafepress by Mental Infestation! This has become our number 1 monthly seller several times over! The Jr. Ringer Tee has been the best selling style to have this design on.

Number 2.



Environmentally Friendly has been the second best seller for Mental Infestation, and has been the best selling design of the month twice! The Woman's Cap Sleeved Tshirt has been the best selling style for this design.

Number 3.



Climate Change is the third best seller. Though it has never been a best selling design for a particular month, it has been one of the best sellers overall! And the Women's Light T-Shirt has been the best selling style for this design.

Mental Infestation Banners

If you would like to add a banner to your page, then below are some brand spanking new banners that you can save to your computer and do with what you wish! And the link you need for the store is: http://www.cafepress.com/mentalinfest

The End Of The World As We Know It

Since a young age, I have had a real interest in politics. Perhaps it came from one of my earliest memories, seeing Margaret Thatcher leaving Number 10 Downing Street and other Tory members putting themselves forward for the position. Maybe it came from the fact we always watched the news at home. Who knows, but what I do know is that I have been putting forward my views on the injustices in the world for a long time.

One of my my concerns as a 10 year old was the state of the environment. The ozone layer/CFCs, endangered species and global warming (or as I recall from one poster I was making in school, global "worming"). That was 13 years ago, and it seems only now that people are realising what global warming and climate change really means!

I remember going with my friend to the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, where they had a whole load of groups representing environmental and animal rights groups. I signed a lot of petitions, took loads of leaflets, bought a few badges, and a passport for Rockall.

Ok, before I go any further, you're wondering what Rockall is. I've taken this from Wikipedia:

"Waveland and the Greenpeace occupation

In 1997 the environmentalist organisation Greenpeace occupied the islet for a short time, calling it Waveland, to protest against oil exploration under the authority of the British. Greenpeace declared the island to be a “new Global State”, and offered citizenship to anyone willing to take their pledge of allegiance. The British Government's response was simply to give them permission to be there, and otherwise ignore them. Indeed the Home Office when asked, responded that since Rockall was part of the United Kingdom, and since the UK was a free country, Greenpeace were perfectly entitled to be at Rockall.

The project continued until 1999, when the company sponsoring it collapsed and the experiment ended."

You can always look into it more yourself.

As I was saying, we went to this thing, signed all these petitions, then we started getting phone calls from Greenpeace asking if I wanted to join. My mum had to keep telling them that I was only 12 years old so a bit too young to join Greenpeace, which they laughed about and said that perhaps I should keep it in mind for the future. We did recieve a lot of calls relating to it, my mum thought it was hilarious!

But because of my passion for the environment, my mum was convinced that when I got older that should be the field I went into. This wasn't what I wanted at all! My first passion is music, my second passion is the environment and politics, and I wanted a career in music.

On my work experience, after ringing around all the places I could think of in Edinburgh which related to music, I ended up with my last choice. I went to Friends Of The Earth for a week. When asked by them why I wanted to go there, I told them the truth: it wasn't my first choice, but I cared for the environment and what they did, and really it was kind of a last resort.

Well I had a great time there, I really enjoyed learning more about the environment and their campaigns. Mum was convinced that I should go back and volunteer for them in my spare time, but who has spare time as a teenager in a band with exams coming up? And I don't want to do environmental stuff anyway mum! I just have an interest in it.

I still have no regrets about not wanting to get more involved in ecology or get a job doing something environmentally friendly. It would mean I'd probably still be studying up on some subject or another that I had little interest in. But I do still care a lot about the environment and climate change, and feel that as an individual I can make changes to my lifestyle that will help the planet. Reusable bags, energy efficient light bulbs, not leaving stuff on stand by. We can all make a difference by reducing our carbon footprints.

I have created some designs for Mental Infestation with my passion for the environment in mind. Like I have said, it's something I have cared deeply for for a large part of my lifetime, and something I will continue to care about and discuss with people, and hopefully convince a few to change their lifestyles not only to help ourselves, but to benefit future generations.

Here are a few examples. To see ALL the environmentally inspired designs, click here!

Hello and Hi!

Yeah, I've had this Blogger thing for a while, but for some reason, I never got around to using it. That is until now!

So you're wondering, "who or what is Mental Infestation?"

Mental Infestation is the name I used to give to any compliation CD, tape or mini disc (remember those?) I made for myself. It's a name I've been using for years and years. In fact in college we had to make up the name for our own record label (purely fictional) and we called that Mental Infestation. So naturally, when I decided to create my own tshirt and apparel store, I called it Mental Infestation!

Mental Infestation has been online for 2 years now! Infact it's our second birthday is in 5 days time, the 27th of January. But I have been coming up with ideas for a number of years before I stumbled across Cafepress.

So now you know what Mental Infestation is, you're wondering who I am?

I'm Hannah, I'm 23, I love music (especially metal and progressive rock), drawing, history, politics amongst other bits and pieces. I'm Scottish, I'm dyslexic (so if you notice spelling or grammer mistakes you know why) and I'm short (I needed a third thing there).

I will be using my blog to post up designs from the store, thoughts and rants. So stay tuned for the insights to my strange and warped little world!