Customized tshirts have never been easier to order. No longer must you be ordering for a whole team to secure an affordable price per shirt. Numerous websites allow users to design and purchase tshirts with their own names or inside jokes.
This personalized onesie is from CustomGlamGirl.com, where nine years ago I ordered Heather’s husband a shirt that said “My heart belongs to Heather” and forced him to wear it at his bachelor party.
I’m pleased to see they’re still selling that style (and it’s only $10.99 right now!) All you do is type the name of the person to whom your heart belongs and add it to your cart!
My other favorite custom shirt order was for Julian when he was a toddler and logged many hours of his day at one particular park in Berkeley.
I made this shirt (above) at neighborhoodies.com many years ago, allowing Julian to lay claim to his territory, but I just checked the prices for you, and they are outrageous. (They must have gone up!) Simply colors has better prices and some cute merchandise — sleepsack, anyone?
Other sites that facilitate personalized gifts are CafePress.com, Zazzle.com, and finally Spreadshirt.com, which we use to sell our East Bay kid tshirts for promotion of our hyperlocal site 510Families.com. I would check prices on all of them!
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Hey ladies,
I learned about your site from the babycenter bulletin boards. As a sahm with an 8 month-old, your site has kept me sane on many days! Thanks!
Amy
That is a cute idea!
[...] 12-18 months We’ve been waiting all year to tell you about the cuteness of Jasper Hearts Wren clothes. Please, buy some for your favorite toddler. We also love personalize shirts with favorite parks, nicknames, or inside jokes. For toddlers who demand to be near you all the time, we love the LeapFrog Fridge Farm. For the non-material gift, we love a gift membership to a nearby children’s museum or zoo or a semester of a music class like Music Together. [...]
OK, I LOVE this idea, but I can’t seem to find that t-shirt design (baseball swoosh) anyway on the website. Was it discontinued?
[...] As much as I love the Totland t-shirt I ordered from Neighborhoodies, the price was over the top. I would do it again as a gift for an adult. But $21, plus $7 shipping for a kid is a bit much. I did order a size 4 and hope that we’ll get a full year out of this shirt, and possibly a second wearing for Milo, or maybe Scarlett. Now I see Simply Colors, a web site that has similar personalization capabilities. I can’t vouch for the quality, but they do sell great-looking colors, and the ability to personalize the front, back or both with cute fonts. And, they sell onesies for sizes up to 3/4. Wow! [...]
[...] your little part of the {510} has not been tee-shirted to your taste, it is surprisingly easy to create your own. Whitney created “Totland” and “San Pablo Park” shirts for our [...]
I love the picks on this post, but I know you would NEVER put Sawyer’s name on a sleepsack and destroy it’s hand-me-down-ability.
In fact, I love your clever ideas to personalize without outright monogramming: neighborhood, favorite park, hobby, inside joke.
Ha ha, my husband’s name is Todd. He’d die- LOL