inhouse t-shirts
when i was growing up the fernhill tavern was pretty notorious for the locals punching out anyone who was not a local. the pub is now a backpackers and still full of charm.
Tane was looking for something for Chris from our favourite local spot Pipi. We came up with this little doozie.
Rio is one of the baddest bass players in the country and now after trinity roots the brother has gone on to work on his solo album and has an EP and 12″ called Wahine Toa. Shit is dope with solid production from FFD’s DJ Fitchie. now out on vinyl at conch. Rio is on the road playing bass with Bic Runga, Tim Finn and old D. Dobbyn.
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We have a winner and here she is! NZ, clean, green and with sheep by Madelyn Beattie from Karamu High School. Congrats!
We have had a little competition over in the Participate section and want you to vote for your favourite. We sent out a brief to Hawke’s Bay High Schools to design a T-shirt that defined what New Zealand meant to them. make the jump to make your vote.
How to vote:
1. click on the designs until you find one you want to vote for.
2. fill out the comment form and leave a commect like “i vote for this one” or “my vote goes to #23″
Voting closes 5pm Monday 30th November.
Boh Runga is on the road at the moment with Greg Johnson, making their way south via Napier and then Palmy before heading to Welly and then the southern isle all the way to inver vegas. Life on the road must be interesting with an all male band, cut loose from their usual family responsibilities and on the road, living the old rock and roll lifestyle… ahh, good times.
Boh’s father is from Mahia way and so coming to Napier is getting pretty close to Rongomaiwahine and her turangawaewae.
Stefania and Andrew back from Milano for their NZ wedding.
P.Y.O. – Print your own. The boys are back to London but happy to take aotearoa with them.
anei te tihati mo te wiki o te reo maori. e wha na ra ki te whakaputa nei. ko te mea tuarua nei, na te mea i tera tau, naku i homai tenei mea ki te whakanui o te waka o takitimu. no reira ka huri taku whakaaro ano ki tenei mea.
here is our unofficial maori language week t-shirt. it has only taken me all of the week to post it. we did a version of these t-shirts last year for the takitimu festival and thought now is a great time to do a re-spin.
kiwi street, the king of all streets. i see you rocking that beat from accross the street. and huh huh! kiwi street is a lesson too, cause ya can’t let the streets beat you!
we have an aroha tees promo on right now. all our custom tees are just 40 bucks. in store only so come in and get some of that good stuff.
C.R.E.A.M is an apt one for the current financial climate the world faces
Ghetto’s are the same all over the world and the ghetto i grew up in was camberley or better known as cambodia. all the streets were native bird names and my street was kiwi street.
DMC had style and he was the man that made the cazal 607‘s massive worldwide.
I’m too old for sex, drugs and rock n roll.. it’s love, hugs & hip hop soul. inspired from an album elevation from carlos nino and lil’ sci
Bayley Collins creates these crazy collages and we have now produced a t-shirt with her. Owl in Bunny Suit as worn by the artist. Check out her blog guesswhatyouforgot.
Manu Bennett stopped in and hung out while in Napier. Manu is an actor living in Australia and is back in New Zealand for the filming of Spartacus, a TV show in the vein of Xena and Hercules.
The Warrior for when you need help to fight the power.
Coxy popped into town for a building convention and stubbled accross our store. He had a few Cray Bay stories of his own and was keen to get hooked up. I found out that in his spare time he’s either surfing or fishing. Nice!
The good people over at opera kitchen asked me to design and print them a t-shirt for their staff. We decided to go for a fruity theme with different coloured tees and a design that will work in three colours or just one. Here is the result.
Simon from Rhombus rocks a custom Love Supreme Tee.
Julian from France is getting shaka on his Cray Bay custom sweat. It’s cool, we did a little surf hikoi to cray bay with Julian so he knows where it’s at.
Our American buddy is down for the cause and has been schooled in the struggle of the Polynesian Panthers.
Brett is our Aussie mate and is feeling the Warrior and Aroha Napier.
Clayton is all the way from Cairns via Pukekohe and sports a Pania Doily and Leanne Culy’s Kowhai Cross.
1. remember to photograph people in their tees
2. ask people to send in pictures of them wearing their tee wherever they are in the world…
3. upload pictures of customers in their T-shirts to blog.
I have been meaning to add some of these images for a while now. These are a few pics of some of the beautiful people that have purchased one of our customised organic tees.
If you are the proud owner of one of our tees please send a pic of you with it on and we would love to put it up on our site.
Instead of us picking the colour and size and printing a whole lot we are now offering an instore printing service. You pick your design, couloured tee and colour for the print and we print it up on the spot. It’s all non toxic water based printing and takes 5 minutes. We are working on the drive through… For a limited time. The print above is Aunty Pania in teal.
