I am ordering this shirt now! First of all, a welcome to Spreadshirt.com to our shop partners thank you for setting up a Spreadshirt shop here in the US so I can order one of these shirts.

Peter has just posted about his Spreadshirt.com shop on his blog TheWavingCat.com (which is a great name for a blog, one of my favorite restaurants has one of these waving cats on the mantle by the door).

IworkfortheInternets.com has some great pictures of their completed shirts more pictures on Flickr here.  And Peter has just posted this picture of “the shirt in the wild” which was taken at the Communia Conference.

Photo by Juan Carlos De Martin, (jdcm on Flickr), released under Creative Commons (by 2.0).

Spreadshirt Show Off is a series of blog posts where we feature people showing off their favorite Spreadshirts. Have a Spreadshirt you want to show off - email me lpa - at -spreadshirt.com.

I love blogging - for me blogging has been an incredible way to share stories, promote causes and sell t-shirts.

T-shirt Magazine has a great post from Anthony Marsh of  http://www.popularthreadz.com and  http://www.teebiz.com about getting started with a blog for your t-shirt shop.  Check out his post -  Get your designs seen by creating a blog for some great tips on getting started.

I also wanted to point out this great video that Glenda Watson Hyatt put together.  I think I first found this video from a tweet on twitter.  But lots of other people have blogged about it in the past week too.   The video is less than 3 minutes long and does a great job showing the power of blogging.

The results are in  (it takes us a little bit longer than the professionals to work out the scores)  here are the winners of the T-Summer Games Competition. (Click here for more info about the contest).  Thank you to everyone who joined the competition.  We had lots of great entires from all types of sports and athletics.  Check out some of the additional winners below for more great designs!

Best Grabbed Design - Just Ballin

Check out more designs from ballshirtz.net

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Best Rated Design - Soccer Summer

Check out more designs from Asyrum

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Top Selling Design Three Stars

Check out more designs
from Yellow Ibis

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We also gave away 5  Zexis Books and 5 Premium shop Upgrades to the following competitiors:

• aspa
• Phushurt
• PerfectT
• My Child Loss Grief
• Insan Art
• Designs by Louisa Armburst
• LadeeArt
• Avete Osservato
• Burb Skateboards
• Pictogram Pirate

Check out our Spread The Vote center - lots of designs for the presidential race.  Choose one of ours or make your own.

I have posted about some of the past ThisNext contests before. ThisNext is a social network centered around shopping - you can easily submit things you would like to buy - including shirts from your Spreadshirt shop to the ThisNext site and you can keep track of things you would like to buy. It is a pretty easy way to share you t-shirts with a new audience.

Since Halloween is near - less than 2 months away - they have launched a Halloween contest - just submit your favorite Halloween items and add the tag “TN Halloween” the more items you submit - the more chances you have to win. The prize is a $300 gift certificate to Spirit Halloween stores.

I just submitted my favorite Zombie design to the ThisNext site, check out my recommendation here.

More Halloween blog posts…

• You Still Have Time To Get Your Halloween Flowers
• Halloween Time is Here!
• 3D Screaming Skull Cover: Dress Your PS3 Up for Halloween [PS3]
• Brando USB Pumpkin Lights are Actually Cubicle-Worthy

Image via WikipediaAhoy! September 19 is one of my most favorite holidays - International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrg!

To get you in the mood check out this minute podcast on how to talk like a pirate here.

So to celebrate I thought I woud show off some of our finest pirate booty from the Spreadshirt marketplace (Click here to see the t-shirts we showed off from last years ITLAPD)

Cute Girl Skull Long Sleeve T-shirt from Tshirtster

PI - rate T-shirt from asc

And for the kids…

Arg! Cute Pirate Face Toddle T-shirt from FuzzyLojik

Continue reading ‘Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day - Pirate T-shirts’

Ever since I saw the post on Fashionista called Street Walker - where they stop people on the street and take pictures of their outfits I have been trying to get up the nerve to stop people on the street and take pictures of their t-shirts.  Jana beat me to it.  She posted this great picture and story in our fantastic Spreadshirt Flickr Group (Everyone is welcome to post pictures to the flickr group - we want to see your shirts!!!)

One good thing that came out of being forced to check my (mostly legally sized) carry on last week with evil United was meeting this lovely couple. They are just married and happily on their way to Hawaii for their honeymoon. They were a bit surprised when I asked her if she got her bag on Spreadshirt. (It is our eco-tote in black with hot pink flex!) Her husband was bummed he wasn’t wearing his shirt… I let him in the picture anyway. His shirt also says “Marriage is sexy”. Fun font she chose. And thanks to them for indulging me with a pic! I hope Hawaii was all you dreamed!

Congratulations to the Happy Couple!

Shirt Walker: See a great shirt on the street?  Take a picture, ask permission first, and send it over to me to post as our next Shirt Walker! 

We found this tutorial on t-shirt forums from a Spreadshirt shop partner Exittheory posted on T-shirt Forums. He has put together a step-by-step guide for creating a Favicon for your website, Spreadshirt shop or blog. I have always wondered how you get your own little graphic up there in the URL bar so I am so happy to discover this tip.

Favicon Tutorial from T-shirt Forums

Check out the Exittheory shop here. I really like this little red riding hood hoodie. Exittheory has some other great designs in their shop.

As I have often said, I love learning about our shop partners - this is another great one. Man Zero is the blog of Tim Agne who writes about video games for MLive. Tim has created a Man Zero Spreadshirt shop and even has a picture of one of his shirts posted on the Man Zero blog.

It is from his post that I also learned about video game shirt day which seems to be a regular feature on this blog. Maybe we should create an annual video game shirt day!

Spreadshirt Show Off is a series of blog posts where we feature people showing off their favorite Spreadshirts. Have a Spreadshirt you want to show off - email me lpa - at -spreadshirt.com.

By request here are some of my favorite blog posts from the past year. Which post did you like the best.

• Hypercolor Commercial - how can you not love videos on 80’s fashion?
• Best Holiday Commercial - While this has nothing to do with t-shirts - this is just a great commercial that does a great job of summing up Christmas.
• The History of The T-shirt & Shirts with a History - I guess I have a thing for history. Long before blogs ever existed back in the days before the internets people used quits to tell stories. I think t-shirts are kind of like quits and I like that t-shirts can have stories and histories too.
• Wedding Season Fun - This video is awesome.
• The Smallest Spreadshirt - Meet Hannibal - Spreadshirts are for creatures big and small.
• Mac-O-Lanterns - I hope I can find something cooler and even more geek to celebrate Halloween this year.