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We are now trademarked!

2009-10-13T12:28:00.000-07:00

It's official, we now have our trademark as of 08-09.

We are also proud to announce that we now have our entire line of clothing for sale in a retail store in Ellijay Georgia. The store is Mountain Treasures so if you are ever in the area, stop on in and say hello and "where are the This Is Living shirts". LOL

Only one more month of our blowout sale!!

2009-07-28T13:00:00.000-07:00

Get your shirts now, our SUMMER SALE ends in one month. August 31 is the last day you will see these low prices.

TIL NEWS - we are relocating our home and business in a few days. Not going far but still packing it all up and moving. We are buying a home and are excited. We should be trademarked very soon. We made it through the process with no objections and are just waiting for final approval.

Summer Blowout Sale!

2009-06-04T13:15:00.000-07:00

We are having our SUMMER BLOWOUT SALE!!

All our prices are slashed on every item we sell. Take a look. If you want to order more than 3 shirts email us and we will give you greater discounts.

Trademark

2009-05-26T12:50:00.000-07:00

Well, it looks like we are on our way to having This Is Living trademarked. FINALLY. Our name will appear in the register for 30 days for any and all complaints to be brought forward. Once we get through that, we will be issued our trademark in 6 to 7 months. WOW in case you were wondering, the government really is this slow.

In the meantime, I have been getting quotes for reprinting our shirts and am not liking what I am getting back. My ebay sales have increased but so have ebays and paypals rates. It makes me ill that for every shirt I sell with ebay, I have to pay roughly 2 bucks per shirt to them for all their fees. What a racket!! Anyway, we are making little to no profit on our shirt sales through ebay but will continue with it in order to get our name out there more until we get our full trademark.

At that time we may suspend individual sales of our shirts and try and market them to business's only. We will see what happens.

Running out!

2009-05-18T12:14:00.000-07:00

Well, I am happy to say we are running out of shirt stock fast.

I am going to have to get some new ones in the works.

Amber and I have both been sick for the last week and I hope we are both finally getting over it. Our trademark is still in the process and I am hopeful that is will come through soon.

Update

2009-05-14T05:10:00.000-07:00

We are selling quite well on ebay now. Hopefully this will help us get our name out there for everyone to see. I am quickly running out of stock and will need to reprint soon. That is a good thing.

Workouts -

Tues. Mandy - jogged 2.0 miles

Jon - jogged 3.2 miles

We got our treadmill piece in last night, hopefully we can get it fixed tonight or tomorrow and be back running on it some.

Running

2009-05-10T17:35:00.001-07:00

Jon and I have started running outside because our treadmill is on the fritz. We are getting a new part for it but until it comes in we are OUTSIDE. WHEW, that is hard. Treadmill running is so much easier on your body than hitting the pavement.

Anyway here are our last few workouts.

Thursday - 2 miles jogging outside

Saturday - 2.3 miles Mandy

3 miles Jon

First 5K

2009-05-06T07:26:00.000-07:00

Jon and I took the plunge and signed up to run our first 5K on July 18th. We have been running on our treadmill and just last night the running deck cracked, so we must order a new one!!! That figures. Anyway, heres our run 6Th Annual Run To Play 5K

We are excited to be doing it. Until our treadmill is fixed we will be mostly hitting the pavement and kettlebell workouts. Once we get our new deck we will continue our treadmill work and still continue to work with the bells 3 times a week.

On tap for today is kettlebell swings and get ups with my 12Kg bell.

My thought for today is CHANGE. I want to change my life one step and swing at a time and I will continue this forever!

Beauty

2009-05-04T07:36:00.001-07:00

We went to a local festival this weekend and Amber got to ride a pony for the first time. She loved it and then went on to pet all the animals. It was fun!

Runnin

2009-05-04T07:33:00.000-07:00

Jon and I started jogging on our treadmill again. We both ran on it Saturday and Sunday. We plan to do this around 4 times a week. We are hoping to get ready and run in a 5K locally in July. Jon has ran in one before and I never have, I think it will be fun. It will definitely be swelteringly hot, but it should be fun anyway.

Sat - 1.5 miles

Sun - 2.0 miles

I plan to increase my miles slowly this month and then start running outside in June. We've got to go buy some good shoes, so I'll be researching this. We normally prefer New Balance, but we will see what we end up with.

haphazard

2009-05-01T13:30:00.000-07:00

So my training today was haphazard at best. But at least I got some work in. I was outside with Amber and I had my tiny 6KG bell out in the garage so I thought why not. Well I warmed up with halos, pass arounds, and slingshots. My workout consisted of 3 reps each of one handed swings, c & p, followed by snatches, switch hands and repeat. I did this for 15 sets. I then did snatches 10 reps per side and did 5 sets of that per side followed by 5 reps per side for 5 sets. That adds up to a nice little workout. Then I did swing squats for a lack of a better term. I would do a swing then fling the bell up to where I had it by the bell and not the handle and do a full squat then once I came back up I would fling it back up some and grab the handle and do another swing. I repeated this for 20 reps and was really breathing at that point. I finished it off with some pass through the legs lunges, 20 reps. It was nice being able to do so much work without getting overly exhausted. I think I will include this continuous style with no rests with my light bell for variation on my other swing, get-up workouts. It was a nice change.

Training

2009-04-29T11:42:00.000-07:00

Last night I did more KB work and body-weight stuff. I have got to get WAY stronger. I did swings, clean and presses, push ups, rows, lying presses, kb weighted squats, and lunges till my legs were totally blasted.

FAST

2009-04-29T11:39:00.000-07:00

Now let's talk about fast!!!! The Twilight Crits were amazing. We had a blast along with roughly 40,000 other people in Athens on Saturday night. The guys were doing over 30MPH laps.

Twilight Crits

2009-04-23T06:05:00.000-07:00

It is time for some fun. http://www.athenstwilight.com/index.php

Jon and I can't wait!!!! We will be there all day for all of the action and excitement.

Workout - 12kg bell

Wed 4/22/09 - 4 sets 25 reps swings

5 minutes get ups

I know it was lousy but at least I squeezed in something. I will do better tonight!!

Have a great day.

Another day to smile.

2009-04-20T12:01:00.000-07:00

Today is Monday and it is yet another day to smile. My family is all healthy and doing ok. All of us are feeling this economic mess, but we are all still above water. I am sore today from mowing, laying straw, and then walking 2.25 miles on the treadmill. I am making it a goal to do something everyday, even if I can't get in a good kettlebell workout.

Bought a Bigwheel, did some Kettlebell work!!

2009-04-18T14:11:00.000-07:00

Today we went to Target and bought Amber a BIGWHEEL!! Just like the ones we all had when we were kids. It is so cool!! She got too tall for her tricycle and can't ride her big bike yet, she's only 2. So we got the bigwheel.

Came home and threw some ribs in the oven for dinner and did a quick kettlebell workout while Amber took her nap.

Just from the little amount of time that I have started back with my kettlebell, I can feel myself getting stronger. I LIKE IT!!

Waiting on Trademark to go though with the US Patent office. Hopefully it will be soon and we can put ® on our stuff, that will be nice. We had to resubmit it through a lawyer. The lawyer said that most of them get rejected the first time due to improper filing procedures. What a bunch o junk that is. Anyway hopefully we will be protected soon.

My kettlebell

2009-04-17T05:47:00.000-07:00

My kettlebell is my friend!! I dusted her off a few weeks ago and got started again. I am focusing on my swing technique and really trying to get it right. I feel I have good hip snap and am really working on increasing my sets slowly. I still prefer swinging with one hand over swinging with two. I like alternating 5 and 5 then doing like 2 or 3 two handed swings and back to 5 and 5 alternating. It is working for me right now, so I'll stick to it till I can get stronger. I feel it is more of a pull in my low back by doing the two handed swing and that maybe I am doing something wrong because I know that two handed should be easier than one handed. I have been messing with adjusting the speed with which I go back down into the hike portion of the swing and that is helping somewhat. I also feel that if I hinge forward just a slight bit more on the down swing that it relieves most of the tension in my low back. I'll be playing with things here and there till I get it dialed in. Anyway, I am happy to be playing with my bell again, it feels great.

Amber

2009-04-07T11:07:00.000-07:00

Here is my cutie!! She is the most adorable thing sometimes.

This Is Living tilstuff.com

2009-01-31T14:31:00.000-08:00

This Is Living is off and running in Georgia. Jon and I are becoming accustomed to our new area and what adventures that will entail. We both think the road riding here will be excellent and can't wait for Spring to come.

In the meantime we are going to begin changing our website and trying to optimize it a little better.

TIL Stuff and Tyner Graphics has relocated!!

2009-01-16T12:36:00.000-08:00

In December of 2008 Tyner Graphics & This Is Living relocated to the Athens Georgia area. We are excited about our new area and all the possibilities it will provide for us. Can't wait to see our stuff everywhere. LOL

Fall

2008-11-03T19:56:00.000-08:00

Well fall has fell here. It is so beautiful outside that I could look at it year round!!! Fall is by far my most favorite time of year. Kicking leaves, smelling fireplaces burning and eating hot chili while watching a football game on Sundays. It makes me just wanna kick back and relax and watch all the leaves fall from the trees. I wish we had a hammock, so I could lay out on the back deck all the time and just feel the crisp air. I remember being a kid and playing pickup football games on the next street over with all the neighborhood kids. Yes, I know I am a girl and I was way younger than most of the players, but I had a mean throwing arm and would end up being quarterback. Man it was fun!! As I got older all the other players moved away or grew up, but I still love to play good ole catch with a football.

TIL is kind of quiet right now, with the economy, the election and just plain old fear people aren't spending too much money right now.

I'll give my little spiel on Politics right now. McCain, McCain, McCain!!!!

I am for family values, for the military and for my second amendment rights. I don't want Obama to become our next President. I think he is a shady character to say the least and I trust someone like John McCain with our GREAT COUNTRY.

Keep on trying!!

2008-10-28T16:23:00.000-07:00

Well, everyday is a new experience.

Finding out how to contact some companies is extremely hard. I was able to contact Rei, Cabella's and Bass Pro Shops. We'll see if anything comes of it. I'll have to submit samples I am sure, but I am ready.

I can't resist posting this old vid of Amber laughing. It cracks me up every time. Now you can see what occupies most of my time.

MONDAY MONDAY

2008-10-27T15:46:00.000-07:00

Welp, it's just another manic monday!! LOL

Trying to get ahold of REI to see if we can become one of there vendors. I had one of their employees contact me to compliment our shirts. Cool huh??? Anyway I keep leaving messages on voice-mails, hopefully I'll get a response soon.

New Products!!

2008-10-24T08:55:00.001-07:00

Ok, so I am experimenting with new products to add to our line. Right now I've got some messenger bags, small purses and aprons.

I've put the hiking design on the messenger bags and the response is good. Not sure what to put on the purses, just our logo I guess. For the aprons Jon is designing a cool grilling one.

Other than that I'm going to get some cycling water bottles. Our polycarb bottles went over well, but they are just too expensive.

Things rolling!

2008-10-20T18:56:00.000-07:00

Things are rolling along. I just had to reprint our Hiking design cause lots of people love it. I printed it onto a few messenger bags just to see how that would look and it turned out nicely.

Jon met someone who ordered a bunch of shirts and the lady bought it right out of his hands. Sounds like it might be a keeper!!

Love the way the l/s tees and hoodies look!!!!

Maybe someone will start to find this thing and give me some comments!

Chataqua AVE festival!!

2008-10-14T15:17:00.003-07:00

Well, the festival was a hit. We sold pretty well. Our new hoodies and long sleeve tees went over nicely.

We are adding new pictures to the website to display our new hoodies and long sleeves, always trying to improve our site.

We're Off!

2008-09-22T17:14:00.000-07:00

OK, so we are off and running now. Yip!

I will be diggin up photos of us doing cool stuff here and there. I will try and add them as I go. We love doing sooo much stuff it's hard to keep up. Anyway, our ebay store is doing well and our main site is starting to get some hits.

I've been busy trying to keep up with Tyner Graphics printing and TIL printing and it's kinda hard.

Printing, printing, printing

2008-09-17T14:25:00.001-07:00

Well, I've been out printing today. Gotta get the stock levels up for a festival at the end of September. Valley River Road Race

Hopefully I can get a bunch more printed up before we go. I'm working on reprinting fishing, cabin in multiple colors, shopping, alone, hot tub and whatever I can get done in time.

I'm also trying to get Tyner Graphics shirts printed up and shipped out. We have gotten pretty busy lately. Yip!!

New Blog!!

2008-09-17T08:01:00.000-07:00

Well, here we go!! We are officially a BLOG now.

I wanted to get this going to let people know about our products. We are a husband and wife company called Tyner Graphics. We have started a clothing line called This Is Living.

We make awesome looking t-shirts. We will eventually expand to include many more items, but for now we have 16 t-shirt designs available for purchase. They are only $15 bucks each!

Anyway this is just the beginning. I'll be adding updates regularly to this blog, so stay tuned.

Mandy Tyner