Never Thought We'd Get A Christmas Card Like This..

When this LadyUmbrella venture started a few years ago I never for one second imagined that we'd receive Christmas cards from model agents, let alone Christmas cards from model agents featuring a model wearing one of our t-shirts but that is what transpired..

A few weeks ago Irish stylist Lisa Byrne got in touch and asked us if she could use our black LadyUmbrella Meets Peter Pan top for an Irish themed photoshoot she was doing.. Now, regular readers of this blog will know I'm not prone to saying no so without hesitation I said yes..

And, then, a few weeks later, we get a Christmas card from Absolute the Agency with our t-shirt being showcased amongst a whole ton of other Irish designers..Really, was, well, kinda cool you know? I didn't expect to get a Christmas card and I certainly didn't expect that our top would be selected for the shoot...Perhaps it's time to raise expectations? In any event, it was a nice little surprise just before Christmas, one I shall remember for a while...Ole..


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SXSW 2010 Update

Well, we hope you all saw our video of our ladies t-shirts when they embarked on their journey to Texas and the SXSW 2010 music festival.

This is just a brief update on our t-shirts progress. I have heard from Carla from lp33.tv and can confirm that our t-shirts have arrived safe and sound. Now, we cross our fingers and hope that some of the performers at SXSW 2010 in Texas will like and wear our t-shirts..watch this space for more updates and cross your fingers for us!

LadyUmbrella T-shirts: Tested on The Stage

Hello all, it turns out I have an inner scientist that I was not aware of and have conducted another demanding test on our LadyUmbrella ladies t-shirts. You might have seen us when we Tested them in the Sunshine but this time we wanted to see how our t-shirts would hold up on stage...a fortunate sequence of events made this possible..

You may recall we ran a competition a while back and one of the winners is an Irish based musician who goes by the name of EleventyFour. Well, she recently got in touch with us letting us know which tees she wanted and we promptly delivered. She also let us know that she was playing a gig on Friday 15th January in Crawdaddy in Dublin and we figured why not go and conduct a test. Check the video below.

The gig itself was really great. I (Rob) really like music and have played in bands and been a band manager so have a little bit of music knowledge and I thoroughly enjoyed the gig. The fact that EleventyFour was wearing our t-shirt made it all the sweeter (and she even plugged us twice - pretty cool and we are most thinkful). Her music is quirky, chirpy, funny, interesting, lyrically rich and engaging. In the video in the background we have an EleventyFour song called "The Friend Song" playing which is a very nice song, asking the question, what kind of friend are you? You can listen to it here and I beg the question, what kind of friend are you? Leave a comment and let me know...

And, without further ado, the video, recorded and edited superbly by Elena and starring yours truly and EleventyFour..enjoy and leave a comment to let me know what other tests you'd like me to put our LadyUmbrella ladies t-shirts through - I'm all for the experiments now..On a final note, watch this space, watch our facebook fanpage and keep your eyes on our site, we are going to launch in the next week - nice!



Ok so, stay happy, leave a comment and let me know what you think of the video, what type of friend you are, any other t-shirt tests you'd like to see or just let us know that you're looking forward to us launching, hehe, we'd like to hear that too..ole..

P.S. We are going to splash out and get a new super dooper camera, the limitations of our one were found out in the dark setting of Crawdaddy - any suggestions?

2010 - The Arrival of LadyUmbrella

Hello LUFANS, this is just a short post to let you all know that we haven't forgotten about launching :) It has been a long time coming but finally we are happy with our ladies t-shirts and on the brink of launching. It has taken about 16 months to get LadyUmbrella to where it is now and we hope that the world will take kindly to our own brand of womens fashion.

Each of our t-shirts are 100% combed cotton and every aspect of them is created by the lady behind LadyUmbrella, Spanish designer, Elena Montes Casado. Everything, from the shape of the t-shirt, the neck label, the designs and our hang tags.

Each of our t-shirts customised hang tags will be signed, dated and numbered by Elena so that each t-shirt is truly unique to you. Not only that but all of our t-shirts will have free shipping worldwide and you can get a 10% discount by joining our facebook fanpage and leaving a comment letting us know which design of ours is your favourite..

We are really excited about launching and can't wait to start shipping our t-shirts all around the world. The long awaited arrival of LadyUmbrella t-shirts is almost upon us - which design is your favourite?...

Stay happy, LadyUmbrella..

New Years Resolutions: The Importance of Happiness

At LadyUmbrella t-shirts we champion the phrase of "Stay Happy" and the importance of happiness was acutely highlighted to me on the 23rd of December. This blog is titled "LadyUmbrella t-shirts and life" - this post falls into the latter of the two.

On the 23rd of December my loving, caring and healthy mother got paralysed. She woke at 8am and was getting breakfast ready in the kitchen. She got some pins and needles in her feet and then 15 minutes later was paralysed from just above her belly button down. It transpired after emergency surgery later that day that she had suffered a prolapse disc (aka herniated disc/slipped disc) which 73% of the time does no "real" damage. Unfortunately my mothers was a rare rare case and it turned out her disc was "calcified" making it a lot harder and doing more damage. I've been with her every day since in the hospital and just willing feeling to return to her once active, dancing, life loving limbs. Feel free to send some positive energy her way so that she can recover.

And so, the importance of happiness. The happenings of the last 8 days has starkly highlighted to me that we are but fragile creatures with no real control of things. The saying of "you're not here for a long but a good time" is resonating with me now, reverberating around my mind. I would say my outlook on life has changed - things can't be taken for granted. There really is no way of knowing what may happen at anytime. My mothers plight hammers this point home.

As a result of my mothers misfortune the launch of LadyUmbrella t-shirts is still undetermined. We pretty much have everything lined up and hope to get going soon but my time is now more divided than ever before. Also, I'm down a "member of staff" as my mother was looking forward to spending time in LUHQ and help me pack up the orders as we receive them - she is one hell of t-shirt folder, she folded mine for so many years..I dearly hope to have her by my side folding t-shirts sometime soon..

So, as this New Year approaches I have my resolutions nailed down: focus on happiness, don't take things for granted and try to live life each day..what are yours? I genuinely wish all who read this a great 2010 and that you don't take things for granted..stay happy, really - why not?

Where will you stick our stickers?

Hello all, well, it is with tired eyes that I frantically type this - so much has happened in the last week here at LadyUmbrella..Our stickers have arrived from the good people at Sticker Robot and we are really happy with them...like them? want one for free?...read on..


Holy Cow - A sticky treat


Fresh fruit sticker salad anyone?


How did that get stuck there?

So, there you have it, both of our stickers in all of their glory - who wants one? Leave a comment letting us know where you'd like to stick one of our stickers and we'll send you a free sticker...

Other big news here at LUHQ is that we did our photo shoot today and it went really well..a very long day but we're really pleased with it..Behind the scenes photos (hehe, some are hilarious) will be posted on this blog soon so stay tuned...Also, if you didn't know you can now pre order a LadyUmbrella t-shirt on our Facebook fanpage and we'll send you a 10% discount and free shipping code if you leave us a comment there letting us know which design of ours is your favorite (or, just leave a comment here, all good)...We're delighted to say that over 100 are already spoken for so speak now...

And thats me done..I can go on no longer...stay happy all..

Blog No. 20 about a Blog and a Discount

Hey all, well, things are hotting up here at LadyUmbrella t-shirts as we have been informed that our t-shirts should be in here about 10 days NICE!!! So, in the run up to their arrival we are now giving you a chance to pre order on our facebook fanpage by simply becoming a fan and leaving us a comment letting us know which t-shirt you'd like..then, whenever you decide to purchase we'll give you a 10% discount - simples...

But, this, blog number 20 (yep, I've made it to twenty blogs - anyone even read them hehe?) is about anther blog..We got a great shout out from Loving This Tee which I'm really delighted with..Bo, the author, gives his own views on what it would be like to have an umbrella for a head and it does make for some interesting reading...hope you enjoy it...

And, any views yourselves on what life might be like with an umbrella for a head? Get creative, get surreal and leave a comment with your thoughts and awkward umbrella scenarios..