Cranberry Trees and Shipping

So, this was purchased over a week ago and I'm just getting around to posting it on here. The placement of this design is what sold it for me. It's the Wednesday, April 8th design on teextile entitled "Cranberry Tree":

It seems like a metal band should use this for their shirts, haha.

Okay. Now...a little about shipping here. I purchased another shirt from teextile on March 23rd (see this post) and heard nothing from their shipping headquarters on the status of shipment. Five days after purchasing the Cranberry Tree design here, I received shipment notifications for BOTH shirts. That's a good 21 days after I ordered the "To the Stars" shirt. After reading community forums on teextile.com, I understand that they only print as many as ordered and obviously cannot print them until the end of the week, when all sales are over. That still doesn't justify shipping something out to me three weeks after I ordered it. Also note: that both shipments still only say that "electronic shipping information has been reveived" so god knows if they actually left their shipping facility. They are also on the completely opposite side of the country to make matters worse. Not sure if I'll ever see these shirts, honestly.

With Woot shirts, I generally don't expect to get them quickly, but they are always dilligent with the shipment notification emails and have even shipped another shirt to me (that was a Christmas gift for my brother) overnight when I told them I didn't receive it yet and it had been a month (I also sent them the totally crazy tracking information which sent it from Texas to New Jersey then back to Texas and eventually where it should have gone....a week after I got the replacement). TeeFury's a little on the slow side as well...but you pay $2 for that and at least they let you know when it ships. I'm kind of disappointed in this whole teextile shipment procedure. Not cool. I'll let everyone know when I finally get these shirts!

Music and Unicorns!

I meant to post this yesterday, but found myself desperately trying to find a doctor to cure my 2-week long sickness (that is a vicious sinus infection now). Unfortunately, in Boston...that's impossible. I ended up getting it taken care of, but it was quite the pain in the ass.

Anyway, I was pretty excited to see what would come out of shirt.woot's "Music" derby, as music pretty much is my life. The first place winner was a gorgeous shirt. The other two winners...not really my style...but pretty cool, none-the-less. What made me exceptionally angry about this one, however, is that I was up pretty early to go to work by 8. I knew I wanted it, but didn't have a chance to look at the site again until 10am. SOLD OUT. Balls. This is one I needed to spend the 15 bones on, though...so I picked it up yesterday.

Also: this weekend...I saw something AMAZING. After trying to find the extremely well hidden JoAnne Fabrics in East Walpole, something magical appeared. I was cruising the store trying to find some thread so I could work on some sewing projects and I see this:

Wtf!?? A home-made totally freekin' sweet unicorn tee. I wanted it really bad but it was large and obviously a display of "this is how you use a t-shirt and some paint to make something awesome". It was worth the trip just to see that, honestly.

BRAINZZZ!!!

So. I'm 25 now...how 'bout that! This weekend was packed full of exciting things...including a trip to Philadelphia to see the Bruins kick some major Flyers ass. It was an exciting game...and honestly...I was torn on which jersey to wear...but ended up picking the right one ;) We even made it on TV back in Boston. Check out a screen shot from NESN:

Anyway...I know you only care about t-shirts so here we go. I picked this one up yesterday from TeeFury. Zombies are totally hip...and so are these Obama campaign looking pictures. What an awesome combination.

I also had a little bit of fun tooling around on the internetz today...as evidenced by the following:

Peace out, homies.
-b

To the Stars!

Teextile is a relatively new t-shirt company. They feature 5 designs a week (one a week day) based on your votes. I regret not buying an awesome one last Monday, but have sort of made up for it with today's t-shirt.

Rock. Today is my last full day in Austin, TX and I plan on getting a haircut at a punk rock barbershop on E. 6th street. We'll see how well they can butcher my hair into something more manageable and awesome.

Flatstock 2009

So, these are obviously not t-shirts, but wicked sweet none-the-less. I picked up some awesome posters at Flatstock this year:

There were some pretty cool shirts at Flatstock, too but I had already spent all of my money on sweet posters. This week has been really awesome. Tonight I get to see Explosions in the Sky at some outdoor venue by the lake. Should be monumental.

Spring Cleaning - Threadless Style

Threadless is having a "spring cleaning" sale, letting you get a whole bunch of tees for either $5 or $10. Here's what I picked up from them today:

"Of the Dead" by Justin White


"There's No Crying in Breakfast" by Philip Tseng


"Sprint Finish" by Little Friends of Printmaking


"Playin' in the Sprinkler" by Jason Bergsieker

Good stuff! Also: I have like absolutely no time to write this entry because I still need to make my schedule for SXSW. I also totally need to get a haircut today and I'm not sure if that's going to happen because I have hockey tonight and need to be ready to go by 8:15pm. AWESOME.

Maybe I'll pick up some quality tees in Texas.

Until then,
Brooke

More unicorns and ridiculousness in MA

Thursday must be t-shirt day, as I have found some other awesome shirts to procure today. Without even having to peruse the Cotton Factory website to find this amazing unicorn shirt, I instantly added it to my cart. It's even ON SALE (add $3.00 if you're a lady, though...ugh)!

I remembered that there was another shirt on this site I was looking at a while ago, but never purchased because I didn't want to pay $8.50 for the shipment of one shirt.

After living in Massachusetts for almost 3 years now, I now fully understand the absolute ridiculousness of the names and pronunciations of towns. This lake is actually really close to where my BFF from work grew up and she says the name flawlessly. I make her say it at least once a day now. Anyway...this lake is totally real:

I'm pretty happy with these purchases...especially the magical beast one! Also, Cotton Factory is having a sale until March 9th celebrating Daylight Savings Time. They're offering 10% off your order if you use promotional code "snooze". It's not much, but if you're planning on buying a tee or two anyway, go for it.