So I have to share with you the awesome site I found and used recently. Uberprints.com is a site where you can customize apparel - be it a shirt, sweatshirt, baby onesie, etc - with your own design and text. Here’s how I came to use it: Every summer during our family trip to the Keys there seems to be a catch phrase that comes up, summarizing the trip. And every summer we say we should get t-shirts made up that say said catchphrase, the year and our names. You know, like a cheesy family reunion shirt, but one you’d actually wear. So this year I decided to actually do it. My sister is an amazing photographer and she took some awesome pictures this trip with her fancy camera. But there was one picture she took with a cheap underwater camera that I thought was amazing and really represented the trip. I wanted that picture on the shirt, our catchprase and our names. Now, because I had such a specific design idea in my head I needed a website that would let me upload that design with ease. After exploring a few sites and feeling limited, I stumbled across Uberprints.

The uploading of pictures and text is so easy and flexible. By flexible I mean that there is more than one text box and more than one font, etc. Incredibly user-friendly. I had tons of different t-shirt styles to choose from, of brands I know and trust - like Hanes, Jerzees, American Apparel. And I had three different printing choices: digital, screenprint or embroidery. I designed the shirt, picked a Hanes Beefy-T, went with digital printing and hoped for the best. The shirts were only around the $20 mark each - the price fluctuates depending upon the quantity you order. But, I designed this so everyone in my family (nearly 20 of us) could order the shirts on their own accord, which meant if the quality was shoddy I was going to feel horrible. Money is money and I didn’t want to be responsible for someone spending money on a crappy shirt.

Well, I got our shirts yesterday and….THEY LOOK GREAT!! Seriously, they look like something you would buy at the store. The digital printing I chose provided a very professional finish and that picture from the underwater camera? It was blown up to a 10-inch picture and I was very worried it would look pixelated and cheap. But it looks awesome!

So the bottomline is this: If you want to design your own graphic tee for a bachelorette party, for a family reunion, for your office sports team, for a new baby - you get the idea - this is the place to order from. I know I sound like an infomercial, but I’m really excited about this discovery. Because I’m totally going to start making shirts for myself and as gifts for everyone else. I highly recommend them!