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.

Happy Birthday Spreadshirt Blog. I was so busy blogging that I almost forgot about the blogs’ birthday! August 22 is the anniversary of the Spreadshirt blog. 2 years and 814 posts later I still love blogging about t-shirts. Back in July of 2006 someone left a comment on my blog about this company Spreadshirt. I was happy to find a better place to sell t-shirts and I never thought it would lead to all of the fun and learning. I hope you have enjoyed reading as much as I have enjoyed writing about t-shirts, Spreadshirt and just fun things on the internet. As always I welcome your feedback - please let me know what you would like to see more of on the blog.

I was hoping I could find another blog birthday cake picture like the one I used for last years birthday post. No luck but I did find this one and there are some great pictures of cake on flickr - after spending the past 20 minutes looking at cake - I think I may need to take a little walk to the neighborhood cupcake shop.

Image via Wikipedia Sorry - I couldn’t resist the cheesy summer joke. I am so not ready for summer to be over and I need to spend a few more afternoons by a pool - for now I will just blog about pools. This is a different kind of pool - the Spreadshirt Photo Pool on Flickr. If you are on Flickr - please share you pictures with us in the Spreadshirt photo pool - we really want to see what you look like in your shirts. Include a link to your shop - it is a great easy way to promote your shop too.

Last Friday we gathered up team Spreadshirt for a western themed party to celebrate summer and the 1 year anniversary of the Spreadshirt production facility in Greensburg, PA.  We had a great dinner of bbq chicken and ribs and lots of other great pot luck treats.

In keeping with the theme of the evening our Spreadshirt party planner extraordinaries had a mechanical bull set up for the party.

Here are some of Spreadshirt’s most wanted…

For more pictures of all the bull riders, click here  and here

Here are some of the pictures from our t-shirt day celebration in Berlin.  Click here to see the whole set on Flickr.

Check out the t-shirt banners handing above the street…

To celebrate the warm weather we brought out the grill for a company wide potluck bbq lunch here at Spreadshirt.  Everyone brought some tasty treats and Ben and Steve did a great job with the grill.

We have had so much happening here that I thought I would post a little round up of 3 cool things that are happening now on the Spreadshirt blog that are worth a look.

1. Earth Day Savings until April 22, 2008 - save 15% on any item from the eco-friendly product category.
2. 1-2-3 Free - Get three new orders in your shop and get a $20 gift certificate from Spreadshirt - plus a chance to win an Ipod shuffle
3. Spreadshirt TestLab - check out or highly scientific and detailed look at how much an American Apparel t-shirt really shrinks

It is the little things in life that often bring the most joy.  One of the things I love is getting the email that says “SOMENAME is now following you on twitter.”  It is just cool to see who wants to see what Spreadshirt has to tweet about.  I like to check out their twitter pages and their link.  So I thought I would take the opportunity to share a few of the recent people that are following Spreadshirtcom on Twitter.

• Ami - http://twitter.com/ami - Ami works for Spreadshirt in Germany.  His tweets are in german.  I think it is just kind of cool to have multiple languages following the Spreadshirt Twitter.  If you read german you should check out his blog.
• Spndoctr - http://twitter.com/spndoctr - he has got a nice little blog but I really enjoyed the link to his wife’s blog - The Domestic Diva - she offers up some great product reviews of baby and kids stuff as well as some funny posts.
• Twubble - http://twitter.com/twubble - is a totally awesome tool that helps you find people that you might want to follow, but aren’t yet following by looking at who your followers are following.  I had to reread that last sentace to make sure it made sense.  Just try it - Twubble is cool.

Are you on Twitter?  Are you following Spreadshirt?  http://twitter.com/spreadshirtcom

It was a tasty holiday lunch break here at Spreadshirt today. Everyone brought in some tasty treats and there are still goodies to snack on for the afternoon.

As you can see - the food was so tasty that many of the plates were clean before I could even take a picture.

December 6th is St. Nicholas Day! Which is not the most widely celebrated Christmas holiday in the US (unless you are in Milwaukee). But this is an important part of the holiday celebrations in Germany.
On December 6, children put their shoes out - if they have been good they get a shoe full of candy. You can read more about St. Nicholas Day here.

Santa made a stop at Spreadshirt in Germany to put some treats in some of the packages headed to European customers. Click here to see more pictures and read hilarious captions.