Also, we couldn’t forget Cinco de Mayo! We just can’t pass up an opportunity to whack a piñata! In this video, birthday-boy Adam, (reluctantly) beats our piñata into submission:

The folks at the PopCultureTees blog recently posted a great review of our site! Here’s a small excerpt from the article:

They sent a few dark tees with underbased prints that held up under stress testing of stretching the material (if you see cracks in the print when stretching the tee, you know it wasn’t properly cured). The trapping was spot on and it looked like the artwork had been well-prepped.

For you less technical folks: The prints looked great.

If you want to read the entire article, you can check it out here.

Now, as an opportunity to show off our outstanding product quality and customer service, we’re offering PopCultureTees readers the chance to win 24 FREE Screen Printed Tees!  Click here to see how to enter the contest and to check out the rules. Hurry! The contest ends April 6th!

Update: The contest has ended. Thanks to all of you that participated!

Excitement In Every Box from Joel McAfee on Vimeo.

If you’ve ever played the popular board game, Scrabble™, then you already know how to play Words With Friends! That’s what it essentially is–a mobile, turn-based version of the casual crossword game. One really great thing about WWF is that you can have several games going at one time! I currently have 12 games going simultaneously. So, do you have an iPhone or iPod Touch? If so, play with us! Just download the app to your device, create a new game, and search by any or all of our usernames below!

• michael_dunn (Michael)
• AngieNorrod (Angie)
• saul66 (Dan)
• Leannfarmer (Leann)

If you start a game with one of us, let us know that you’re a BlueCotton customer. I must warn you, though. We are pretty competitive. We will not show you mercy!

Don’t miss out on this amazing St. Patrick’s Day offer! Take 10% off your ENTIRE order at BlueCotton.com when you use coupon code “GOODASGOLD” at checkout! Hurry! This offer is only valid Wednesday, March 17 through Friday, March 19, 2010!

UPDATE: This special offer has expired. Keep your eyes open for future promotions!

As you might have noticed, this blog has been–to put it gently–lacking for quite some time now. Well, we’ve finally gained a renewed vigour and a sense of what we would like our blog to become. Like any corporate blog, this blog will be one of several avenues where we will broadcast our lastest news and promotions with our clients. But, in addition to that, we aim to convey the warm, fun, and family-like personality of our company. Hopefully, you’ll see what I mean by that in the near future.

Now, a quick tour around the new layout. Along the top of the site are the categories and sub-catagories for all the entries on our blog. To only see entries from a particular category, simply click on that category! Along the right side you’ll find a search field to search for specific terms or phrases in our previous posts, an archive listed by date, as well as feed of our most recent posts on Twitter! Keep your eyes open for new features and enhancements as the site evolves.

Similarly, BlueCotton was showered with several significant press recognitions and appearances this spring.  The April 2, 2009 USA Today Lifestyle cover featured the Favorite t-shirt survey we conducted back in February.

On April 11th, our fearless leader Mike Coffey went live on Barry Moltz’ podcast, “Business Insanity Talk Radio” to discuss t-shirts as the original microblog.  Click here to listen!

Mike was interviewed for Business Week’s publication Small Biz.  In the April/May issue, “Turn On, Tune In, Tweet Out,” Mike discusses Twitter’s impact on our customer interaction. Twitter is a positive addition to our customer service tools, and we enjoy using the 140 character limit to engage customers.  You can read the article here.

Through April, We’ve been using TwitPic to send photos of customer t-shirts hot off the dryer, actively issuing daily coupon codes for a free custom t-shirt, and tweeting discount codes up to 50% off the total order.   We’re continuing our Twitter campaign through the summer and have some special BlueCotton and Twitter-themed t-shirts on deck to give away very soon.

We’re confident this publicity shower will push us to blossom through the summer!