Shirts soon available at Thriftway- VASHON ISLAND

Just mailed out an order to the Vashon Island Thriftway. That store is incredible. THE nicest people! Their produce manager is going to carry the shirts in the produce section (ingenius!) and I am so honored... their produce section looks straight out of a magazine. Bayview Thriftway here in Olympia placed an order this week as well... so hopefully early October they will be available there as well.

Cowboy hat worn right!

(Notice the shirt! =) Buy it here)

Yelm Farm and Pet Store

I met Dave from The Farm and Pet Store (click here for to view their site for location and contact info) here at my booth yesturday. What a nice guy, he asked to sell my shirts in his store! It is so nice to hear of a large farm store that is not corporately owned, but a locally owned family feel that still supports the small local businesses and meets all the needs of raising and caring for animals! I am excited to work with this store and encourage anyone in that area to support it.

Everyone LOVES the shirts!

Two days into the fair... an interesting experiance to be sure. I don't think I have sat as much as I have in the last two days in the last two years combined! It has been beautiful weather and the kids all seem to be having a good time. Everyone who comes by really likes and smiles at the shirts. The people who buy them are really in love with them and buy more than one as they are "perfect" for many people in their life. It is definately a niche group of people... I fear that my booth location (maybe due to my late entry) is not really ideal to reach the right people for my product, but many seem pleasently suprised to stumble accross my booth. I have had many take my information "to give to a friend in Missouri" or "my dad will LOVE these- he's in Alabama"... so that is of course exciting and encourageing. Those are good things to hear when I miss my kids so much and am putting in long days without them. I am hoping the foot traffic picks up tomorrow and through the weekend.

Come see me at the fair!!

At the VERY last second we decided to have a booth at the THURSTON COUNTY FAIR! I will be located in the Lake Building.... come say hello, bring your friends, tell me what you think of my booth- come buy a shirt! =)

(click on "thurston county fair" above to open that website for days/hours and info on the fair)

New Blog

I have started a new blog with an effort to make purchase of the shirts immediately available for all of those who have interest and do not live near me to just handle it in person. =) Or who know someone I don't that has interest. I am NOT computer savy AT ALL... so any feedback you have on how to make this easier, would be excellent. I realize that there are better "purchasing" type sites out there, but they cost a lot of money and are super complex to set up and I am just not there yet. So if you are a blog expert and know how I can better link for purchases or shopping cart ideas...feel free to chime in, I'd really appreciate it! This is just so in the beginning stages, I am almost embarrassed to even put it out there, but hey, that's what THIS blog is about... what I am learning/experiancing! So maybe someone else could learn along the way too! =) Thanks you guys! Here's the site http://www.willowfarmstore.blogspot.com/ . There'll be a lot more pictures and info up soon...

Elle's New Shirt

"Smile Elle""Show me your new shirt mama made for you" =)

MORE shirts came back from printer!

Both Co-op's in Olympia, WA are going to start carrying the shirts at the end of the month.

Shirts, shirts, shirts!

This is the logo.  It reads "Comfort for Life". That is our slogan.

Early next week I'll have the other shirts ready/printed and have a lot more colors.

Willow Farm Apparel

The other phrases that will be printed are:

"Pasture Fed", "Grass Fed", "Home Grown", "Farm Grown", "Organically Grown", "Free Range", "Organic", "Locally Grown", "Pasture Raised" and a couple more still in the works...

Alright! Here they are! The first printed shirts I designed! Willow Farm Apparel is in business!!! I am still working through what the best feel/fit shirts are and what colors I want to focus on offering and completing getting the phrases trademarked, but here's the first four...
I will have the website up and running by the end of the month, and will have them in stores by the end of August, in the mean time if anyone is interested in buying one (or more) let me know!
I will be creating/printing hats in the near future as well.

Many more details later, but just real excited to share with my loyal blog viewers! =)