A little after 10 a.m., I drove to the Real Thread company office and production facility to meet with my good friend Dru. (You may see my recap of his recent wedding here.) Dru owns the t-shirt company and we previously spoke about collaborating to make some awesome PBF t-shirts.
I set up a meeting with Dru because I feel a little lost when it comes to ordering and designing shirts and I wasn’t really comfortable with the online t-shirt options I saw when I did some personal research, as the costs appear expensive, especially if you want high-quality shirts with more than one color ink.
Dru is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to t-shirt printing and design and I left our meeting feeling excited and motivated to get things going! Stay tuned for some color and slogan options. I definitely want your input.
I have many different slogan ideas and am thinking I may end up wearing one PBF t-shirt for each day of the week. My blogging uniform!
Lunch
After my meeting with Dru, I had to take my car in for service because it was part of a recall. Fortunately the service center has wireless internet, so I’m blogging away while waiting for the work on my car to be completed. (Remember when I was here last time and was practically salivating over the Tory Burch flats? Yeah, I never got those. Too darn expensive.)
Fortunately the service center had some tasty looking lunch options for those waiting and I took advantage of the free food and nabbed a turkey wrap with some kind of cream cheese spread inside.
I also enjoyed two pickles, an oatmeal raisin cookie and about 3/4 of a Nature’s Valley sweet and salty peanut bar.
Pretty sweet lunch for a car service center, huh? I was impressed!
I think my car should be just about done, so I’m off to check on the status. See ya for dinner!
P.S. Who knew I had so many Sheboygan readers!? You guys should form a little club and make peanut butter and squeaky cheese sandwiches. Or, you know, something that actually tastes good.
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AHH T-shirts~!!! THAT IS AWESOME! i cnt wait to see the final product!
yey for t shirts, it has taken me a while to design mine so I can def understand wanting some guidance!
that food looks pretty good for a service station! 🙂
T-shirts? That’s awesome!!
I love t-shirts!
Race shirts and blog shirts are great! So exciting, congrats!
Where is this car service center and why do they not have one where I live?! I would look forward to car repairs if I could get this kind of lunch!
Oh my goodness that is an amazing car service?! Holy smokes I wish my car place offered food! they do offer free wi-fi though, so I can’t complain.
And how cool that you’re doing t-shirts. I bet they’ll look great and have PB containers all over them 🙂
Wow! I can’t believe you got that lunch at a care service center…sheesh. Looks like quite a yummy meal to me. 🙂
Can’t wait to see the final t-shirt products!
I can’t wait to see your slogans!
When I get my car serviced I get the choice of water or pop and either choc chip or sugar cookies 🙂
Can’t wait to hear more about the tshirts!!!! 😀
Good luck with the t-shirts! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Wow, I wish where I brought my car in for service had food set up like that! They don’t have anything! You are lucky! 🙂
i know! pretty sweet deal. i think they’re trying to compensate for the inconvenience of a recall.
That lunch is impressive! Who woulda thought?!
I can’t wait for PBF t-shirts! I will totally be buying one 🙂
That’s awesome! Are these tshirts that only you will wear or will they be for sale for us readers as well? 😉
they’ll be for sale! 🙂
Yay! Can’t wait to see the design you choose and get one then!
Can’t wait to see the shirts, I was always pretty fond of the “my heart’s a flutter for peanut butter” one.
I’m impressed by that lunch – had no idea car service centers did that!
Can’t wait to see the shirt options! 🙂
ahh t shirts how fun!
Funny you mention peanut butter and cheese sandwiches, my 5-year-old nephew had one for lunch last week! YUCK!
I will sport that PBF shirt with pride. Even if I do get on The Bachelor. 😉
nice!! 🙂 i’d be sure to blog all about you – good things, of course. not nasty things like i say about bentley.
The place i take my car has one dingy bathroom, a few old and boring magazines and a TV with no sound. I need to upgrade, clearly!
Very impressive lunch for a service place! 😀
I’m so addicted to those sweet & salty bars! The layer of peanut butter on top is the best part! 🙂 They’re probably not the most “real” food you can get, but I still love ’em 😉
I can’t wait to see the shirts! I have a feeling lots of people in Austin, TX will be sporting them! And I have had to take in my car for 3 different recalls in the past 10 months!! I wish the service center at the dealership had that quality food!! Jellie!
I’m so excited to purchase a PBF shirt! Your blog has inspired me to start my own healthy living/fashion blog, and I’m hooked!
Yay for the t-shirts! I am excited to hear more about them and will def rock one 🙂 You should order one in a kids size for Sadie to show off at the dog park… I bet all the other dogs would be jealous!
And that’s quite the amazing selection of food for a car service place! Was it special because of the recall or is it that way all the time?!
I am so excited about the t-shirts!! You should be so proud how successful you have become! I will definitely order one when they become available!!
PS- I am super jealous of your car service center refreshments! Anytime I go I am lucky to get a cup of stale coffee….ick!
Very excited to hear more about the shirts!
You must own a Lexus? My Lexus dealership does the same thing.
WOW that’s such a nice lunch! I have a Lexus, but I’ve never seen these perks… maybe I should take my car in soon 😉
I totally approve of that snack spread. Especially the cookie 😉 Are you going to have a picture on your shirts, or just text??
it’ll be a big blown up photo of my face! no, just kidding. 🙂 i have many sayings in mind and a couple will have pictures. i have to work on the design first though!
That lunch kicked my lunch where it hurts, and I made mine home! p.s. Yayy for t-shirts :):)
Can’t wait to see the t-shirts!
Lucky girl! The place I take (well, use to take my car before I lived in NYC) would only have donut holes. You can’t make a lunch out of that, or I should say, shouldn’t. I could definitely make a lunch out of it haha
I would never mind taking my car in if my place had wifi and free food!!!
OMG! I can’t wait to wear my love of PBF blog everywhere I go! This is my favorite blog, I would love to support you, Julie!! 🙂
Haha! I was unaware there were that many bloggers in this area either! I will have to go back and check out the comments and see what blogs there are, I would love to meet some of the bloggers that I follow.
I would totally wear a PBF shirt… Just saying, you know, invade you need a human billboard out my way! 🙂
If the t shirts are bomb they might become my own uniform! lol 🙂
Dang, your car service place is awesome! I definitely would wear a PBF shirt!
And I thought I was lucky that my car shop gives me a free loaner car while my car is getting repaired. So jealous. Also, I retweeted your swan picture and I’m pretty sure everyone out there has retweeted that!
shirts…how exciting!!! can’t wait to see them, and i totally think u need to rock out a diff one each day as ur work uniform. 🙂
wow, also can’t believe u got such a nice spread at ur car place, ummm, they need to have more places like that! mine only has tar coffee and back issues of auto mag’s.
Excited about your t-shirts.
I’ve never heard of a car service place that has given lunch..
then again i’ve only really ever had work done on my car at a local mechanic!
Shirts are going to be great!! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Julie- can’t wait for shirts to come out!!
As far as the Tory Burch flats, totally worth the money.
I (finally) splurged, they’re worth EVERY penny!
I get compliments every time I wear them, and I feel barefoot even after 9 hr days! You Wont be dissapointed !!!
Can’t wait to see the designs! I’m sure their lovely.
Talk about amazing service, you are one lucky girl! Since I am day ahead and its FRIDAY here I was eyeing up your service cookie!
Looking forward to seeing your PBF t-shirts 🙂
Free food at a service center?? Now that’s something that they need to introduce here!