Last year, with my family’s support — helping me when they could, and leaving me alone to work when I needed the time — I added the t-shirt store to this website. This was a big and exciting step for us, but a rather obvious one, really. I mean, adding dad t-shirts to a website for my dad blog is a no-brainer. It was one of those things that we wonder, “What took us so long to do this?”

Designing dad t-shirts is just so dang fun, too. And then having people comment on my t-shirts when they see me wearing one is almost as exciting as selling one.

Speaking of selling the t-shirts, this has been our best selling design so far:

I rather like it myself, and wear mine fairly often. For a little piece of trivia, that minivan in the design is drawn from our family’s actual minivan.

That hero standing in front of the minivan in the t-shirt design, is that me you may wonder? You be the judge:

. . .

Naw, it ain’t me. I’m just a dad, geek, and good ol’ boy; I’m no superhero. The closest I’ve come to mutating a power from radiation is keeping a farmer’s tan even into the winter.

Anyway.

Our t-shirt store is growing. We’re marketing, we’re selling, and we’re building, (virtually, electronically). And we’ve discovered an unexpected fact about selling dad t-shirts: it’s the ladies who are buying them. By a margin of 2-1, women are buying these shirts more than men. Presumably, their buying for their men, but who knows, maybe these t-shirt designs are more unisex than I thought.

I’m looking forward to this new year. More dad blogging, more dad t-shirts, more work, more play. We have a lot of fun and effort ahead of us, and we’re ready to go. I expect 2012 to be a glorious year.

Thank you very much for visiting and reading and shopping.

Bullgrit

Yeah, dads have a tendency to push the envelope of fun. Moms nurture and promote caution. Dads entertain and promote excitement. Entertainment often has an element of risk and danger. Nobody ever paid or tuned in to watch Evel Knievel just ride his motorcycle around the arena.

Maybe it’s pushing the child really, really high on the swing. Maybe it’s building the bicycle ramp. Dad’s are fun enablers. The best fun, though, can sometimes be unwise.

The loudest shouts of laughter and glee are sometimes immediately followed by shouts of accident and tears. But as soon as the tears dry, there come the shouts of, “Again!”

DAD – Keeping Childhood Fun and Dangerous

Bullgrit

Although t-shirts are my main line in the BULLGRIT store, I do have a few stickers there. Some people really like stickers — they use their automobile as a billboard for all their favorite things and ideas. For example:

After seeing several cars and trucks like this over the years, I made this sticker design:

If you know someone, (or if you are the someone), who has a bunch of stickers on their car or truck, this is the next logical step.

Bullgrit

It’s October, and that means Halloween is coming to mind. For this spooky holiday time, we have a few new t-shirt designs:

BOO, Y’ALL!

You Can’t Scare Me

I Ain’t Skeered

You Don’t Scare Me

Yeah, it’s all about the scare.

Bullgrit