Another fantastic opportunity came our way in the summer. We were approached by the organisers of a premier event here in Pembrokeshire to print shirts and safety wear for the VMCC Saundersfoot Run 2009. The Saundersfoot 75 Rally is THE National Motorcycle road trial event for Vintage Veteran and Classic Motorcycles in Wales. The event is held around middle of September each year go to www.saundersfootrun.co.uk for details.

This is the kind of business we thrive on, with an interest in the event which we have visited for the last few years.
We already had customers involved in motorcycle businesses who enter the rally and have a very good friend entering the rally this year and staying with us down here in Pembs.

We just had to get involved!

The weekend was Spectacular! the weather was absolutely perfect and the makes and models of entries for the rally were many and varied and of an excellent standard.
Well done to Mary, Huw and all the team who make this event a fantastic success and a must on any bikers calendar.

This just a small selection of our pics from the weekend.

We feel so lucky to be able to live in a country with great scenery, we get out and about as often as we can to explore Wales. It’s not all work thankfully so we took the opportunity when the weather was good to get our bikes out (Brrmm). 

There are fantastic country and mountain roads to cruise (safely I might add) the landscape is spectacular and more castles than you can shake a pikestaff at.
Look at these pictures and don’t be surprised if you take a deep breath and smell the clean upland air.
Sorry if it sounds like something from the Welsh Tourist Board but I can’t help getting a bit poetic looking at these again. Enjoy!

We had the call from a very good friend of ours. ‘Me & the boys are going to York for our bike tour this year, we need a great T-Shirt design for the trip’. We thought, what an opportunity to use some of the new metallic films on the market and show how good they are.

We created a design using several colours of film with a Viking theme (of course). I am pleased to say they loved it, and had a great weekend in the beautiful historic city of York.

The print medium is thin film in Gold, Silver and Copper. The finish is a soft sheen/lustre not a mirror or chrome finish, we thought it looked more authentic for the design.
What do you think?

Chevron Pembrokeshire Team Challenge and British Quadrathlon 2009, September 12th.
Another big event in the Pembrokeshire Calendar. The Team challenges consist of cycle, Longboat rowing and run.  
We were fortunate again this year to supply T-Shirts for the event. Each competitor receives a T-shirt at the finish, and they really deserve it!

It’s always a challenge for us too as the competition entry closes on 30th August we have just 12 days to complete the order, but we relish a challenge and look forward to these events.
The weather even behaved beautifully for the weekend, as weather and sea conditions are very important for a successful competition.
For photos and results pop to  www.ptcq.co.uk

These are our outstanding Sublimation T-Shirts where the image is dyed onto the shirt permanently, they can’t possibly peel, crack or fade and make a great momento of the day.

Pembs Team Challenge 2009 Tees

Mid August is always a busy week in Pembrokeshire, Its County Show week! It’s the biggest event in the county calendar.
It seems as if the whole county is buzzing in the weeks prior to the show with preparations and plans for the pitch.
We are always busy taking orders from customers who want nice new shirts, or T-shirts to promote their business, name badges, bags and all manner of things to get them ship shape for the big event.
Phew! by show week we are on our last legs and ready for a break.
Which is why we just enjoy visiting the show as spectators and catching up with customers to say hello and are they all happy and having a good show.
Even though the weather wasn’t so good this year, it didn’t seem to put a damper on these folks and the 3 days of the show were as busy as ever.

Here are some of the folks we caught up with in a quiet moment.

Back in the Summer (yes we did get a few days) we got a call from a youth group doing great work with local kids down here.  They had a special event planned and wanted to kit out the whole crew with T-Shirts.  We were happy to help.
It turned out to be an open weekend at Griff Rhys Jones’ Pembrokeshire Farm near Strumble Head.  He had kindly arranged a fundraising weekend for the youth club.  Fantastic, can we come?

Saturday morning, bright eyed and bushy tailed

The Lemon & Lime colour scheme for the shirts went across really well, and even the weather was spectacular, well done for booking that too Griff.
The man himself was on hand to show folks around the farm and answer questions and he posed for a photo with some of the youth club girls. Thanks Griff for your patience, he’s a thoroughly good egg..

The weekend was a great success there was lots going on from the art gallery in the barn and restored showmans wagon to theatre and music in the evening. The turn out was excellent and I believe over £11,000 was raised for the group, quite a result!

Thanks for the pose Griff, smile everyone!

What we found out later was that the BBC were filming the weekend for episode5 of ‘Return to Pembrokeshire Farm’ screened recently and included a small feature from the event. The kids were filmed helping out and looking after visitors and even yours truly got in the frame a couple of times (but I’m not saying where). What a fantastic surprise!! Smart-Tees are now ‘As seen on TV’
As a thankyou to the group I printed and laminated some of the best pics for the club room as a reminder of a really special event.

Point Group Tees

We hope everyone had a good Easter break, I am pleased to say the weather down here in Pembs. was pretty good, and visitors have already started to arrive, it really feels like Spring is here now.

And to prove it, this a long view of Newgale Beach at Easter from the coast path, who needs the Med!

We are also planning to print our designs onto Ladies T-shirts in the same great fabric as the regular Tees. Customers tell us our Tees wash and wear so well, they never seem to wear-out (well we knew this already) and the word is spreading Hi-Tec Sports Microfibre is the new silk!
We do hope you pop back and visit the site again soon, thanks for looking.
Looking forward to May day…

They asked us recently to help out with a couple of outfits for an up-coming competition, they had an idea of the theme for the outfits, but then let us loose to create the design.
The result was a great success, everyone loved the outfits and I hope they went some way to helping the girls win 2 Gold and 3 Silver medals. Well Done Unison Dance!

We have neglected the blog somewhat over the last couple of months. The pre-Christmas rush was so hectic as per usual we just shutdown over Christmas to recover (like everyone else) and enjoyed a couple of weeks of R & R, although it didn’t take long for boredom to bite which was a good excuse to have a huge workroom clean-up ready for the New Year.

As for New Year, we were all struck-down with the cough/cold that went round. I think everyone I knew caught it or someone in the family caught, it was a nasty bug this year.

Now fully recovered from various lurgys and fighting fit we are ready for the spring season.
There are some smashing new products planned for spring including ladies T-shirts and caps, so watch this space!

So just to catch-up, we wish all our customers a Merry Christmas and Happy 2009.
Happy Valentines Day..
Happy St. Davids day..