At the @gardenofeden,
holding true to the high importance of sustainability,
we have been hand-painting Steem Logos on SteemGear
for over a year already. 

We love the logo design, creating hand-made treasures, and promoting Steemit.  With our SteemGear we get to engage all of these facets, and activate a whole new economy at the same time. 

Here's our first fashion photoshoot of our hand-painted SteemGear.

We hand harvest, salvage, trade/barter our materials, and use paints and paint brushes that would otherwise go to the landfill as trash.  We give our inspired attention to each stroke of the brush, and infuse our loving touch while creating one-of-a-kind, hand-painted articles of clothing.

Sometimes we use a hand cut stencil to transfer the ink and then refine the print, and sometimes we just draw on the outline and paint them in free hand.

We have also cut out clear, sticky back logos to make relief prints.

We've even gone with the classy look and added texture by creating a raised leather logo on hats, skirts, jackets and pants, especially for Steemfest.

This past year we have hand-painted dozens of clothing items for our SteemGear line.  We have shared them at Steemfest 1 and 2, have them listed on PeerHub and our Steemit Shop on our website, and offer them at many events along with other merchandise offered by the @gardenofeden. 

To see one of our mega epic designs check out this Steemit beauty.

16 more of our handmade pieces are featured here.

We have been doing this for over a year, painting hats, jeans, pants, vest, shirts, blouses, scarves, skivvys, tights, swim trunks, jackets, sweat shirts and anything else that strikes our fancy.

We love Steemit so much, that we even painted the Steem logo on my creation of our boutique hand-made, salvaged fence panel floor.

We have a lot riding on this logo as we immerse ourselves in promoting, supporting the value of Steem and engaging Steemit.  We wear our SteemGear to many places we go, including meet-ups, festivals, on our travels, and of course Steemfest.  

We love to get this logo out and let people start recognizing it, even if they don't yet know what Steemit is.  This logo has a really sleek, eye-catching design that is simple, yet very noticeable.

While in Lisboa, I was surprised to see so many logo designs that reminded me of the Steem Logo.  Though they are not necessarily all "like" the Steem logo, they all have a similar feel that caught my attention.

I first saw this logo in the center of Lisboa.

It looked like a very important logo, engraved in this old building, watched over by the Lion King.  

After seeing this logo throughout the City, I finally found out it is the logo of Banco Santander.

I then began seeing many logos with a similar feel....

Metal plate on the sidewalks of Lisboa:

This one is on a seat at the bus station:

Here's the logo of the Crowne Plaza:

And this logo with similar curvy lines was imprinted in the brick of an old building:  

Even on the airplane was a reminder of Steem!

And the toe of my socks I wore to Steemfest have a resembling logo too:

After tuning into a lot of logos in a lot of places, helping to create the @gardenofeden SteemGear line and going to Steemfest to share it, you can imagine our surprise when it was revealed at Steemfest2 that the Steemit logo had changed!!!

It's old news now that the cool, sleek logo no longer belongs to Steemit, but now just to Steem.  :(

Steemit has adopted a new logo, which of course everyone has already seen as it is in the upper left corner of this screen.   It would have been incredibly helpful to know of this change before we invested tons of time and energy into promoting Steemit through the creation of an entire hand-painted brand.  However, we always roll with the punches so....

The logos we painted on our epic SteemGear are now even more awesome, as they were the originals...from whence we came.  They will forever be a reminder and worn proudly as a remembrance of our beginnings here together on Steemit.

Maybe more importantly, Steemit does not exist without STEEM. It is the STEEM blockchain that Steemit is built upon and runs upon. So the Steem Logo is actually the founding and more influential logo of importance even still, and our SteemGear as epic as ever.  

We still have dozens of designs, everyone of them available for $teem.
You can get a piece of this one-of-a-kind, original logo, hand-painted SteemGear,  support the real world economy of $teem, and promote Steemit every time you wear it!  And another layer of bonus....should you acquire one of these premier pieces, you will also be supporting the humanitarian works of Steemians living in service at the @gardenofeden.

Though the logo has changed, there are still plenty of reminders of our beginnings.

Together we can support creation, sustainability, and engage a new economy.  Our opportunities are endless, and this is but one way we can change the world and make it better for us all.

I'm grateful to share possibilities with you and hope to inspire you to give your best to Steemit too.  

$TEEM ON!!!!