A few weeks ago I received an email from the peeps Threadless that literally made me squeal with joy on the El. To paraphrase, it said, “Hey Natalie, I see that you are awesome. We at Threadless are also awesome. Perhaps you’d like to be a Threadcakes judge this year?” After I got done making all the strangers on the train with me read the email I replied with an enthusiastic yes and made several dozen excited Twitter and Facebook updates.
A few weeks later they emailed me again to say they were releasing a shirt soon that they thought I’d be perfect to model. When I saw the mock up for Zombie at Tiffany’s I knew it was a match made in t-shirt heaven.
I’m incapable of new people without baking them something, and I wasn’t about to walk into the Threadless office with some weak ass cupcakes. So I decided to make some Vegan Pancake Cupcakes. I got home from work the night before photo day only to discover that my maple flavoring had leaked all over my spice drawer. Awesome! Now what?
I assessed the ingredient situation – a little iffy since I’d just baked three dozen cupcakes for Teno’s Super Mario birthday party. I had cocoa powder, exactly 12 Trader Joe’s Joe Joe’s cookies, a small amount of natural peanut butter, soy margarine and rice milk – basically everything I needed to make chocolate cupcakes, peanut butter frosting and ganache. So I threw a Joe Joe’s cookie in the bottom of each cup and poured the batter on top. After the cakes cooled, I filled each one with peanut butter frosting and topped that with ganache. Then each one got a small swirl of more peanut butter frosting on top. I had Tony run a taste-test and they passed – thus, Madame Cocoa Cookiebottom was born, and a glorious vegan cupcake she was!
The next day I felt like Ricky on Silver Spoons. I’m pretty sure they have a mini train running through the Threadless office there and if you take a ride, unicorns feed you ice cream. Everyone I met was funny and cool and for once, I was wearing the least stupid t-shirt in the room. (And by stupid, I mean awesomely stupid.)
Anyway, the photos went snap-snap, the cupcakes went munch-munch, and I walked away with one more thing to add to my resume – Threadless t-shirt model.
But it’s not all about me, kids. Because the f’n rad t-shirt that I filled out in a way only a girl who eats Cupcake Pebbles for dinner can do dropped on the Threadless homepage today and to celebrate – I’m giving two away.
To enter, head over to Threadless and peruse the goods. Come back here and leave a comment about your favorite Threadless shirt. Random.org and I will pick two winners – one of you will get this here awesome t-shirt and a $25 gift certificate for even more Threadless swag and the other will win the Zombie at Tiffany’s shirt. I’ll announce the winners one week from today – 4/21. Good luck!
The contest is now closed – thanks to everyone who played and congrats to Danielle and Jessica!
Awesome giveaway and you are totally rockin’ that tee! My favorite Threadless shirt has to be “Springfield Still Life” because it’s super incredible and I totally love The Simpsons!
Gah! That shirt is perfection!
My favorite threadless shirt is ever changing but as of right now it’s the “Velcrow” shirt for sure! http://www.threadless.com/product/2149/Velcrow
I have alway been a little paranoid around crows until last summer when I actually got attacked by one for walking too close to its nest! Ever since then we’ve kind of been cool, we just keep our distance now.
I LOOVE this Zombie at Tiffany’s shirt. Its AMAZING! I took a look at the site, and after clicking through page after page… I found the “breaking up is hard to do” shirt… I died laughing… Its right up there with the Zombie at Tiffany’s shirt! <3
Ahh! I’m dying for that shirt! Anyway, my favorite Threadless shirt (and picking a favorite Threadless tee is like picking a favorite doughnut…HARD) is “Her Hair”.
zombie at tiffany’s is awesome! it’s definately my favorite, along with the one of the “Cat Who Mistook His Wife (and the Kids, and the Furniture and Even the Parrot) for a Hat” and “birds of pray”. Can’t make up my mind!
My personal fave is Giraffe Slide, but my oldest daughter Audrey (who, yes, was named after Hepburn) would just die over the Zombie at Tiffany’s shirt. Would make an awesome birthday gift for her!
i adore the ‘it’s toile about you’ shirt, but oh man, this is awesome. WANT
So I love so many of there shirts so Kai, my son, picked Space needs color. He things Mars should be ‘more than red’.
I was really tempted to go with Space Needs Color because I work for NASA but Beat It made me laugh so it gets the nod.
WHoOoOP!
Awesome coverlady shot for Threadless!! You’re so famous.
My fave Threadless T right now is definitely the “Boom Box” on aqua.. the old-school nintendo bomb holding up a sweet stereo. rad.
http://www.threadless.com/product/2226/Boom_Box
Buuuuut, yes.. that Zombie at Tiffany’s shirt is beyond fantastic.. great post!
My favorite shirt is “Spoilt”.So funny. Probably because I wasn’t actually spoiled by any of it heh.
And you look a-mazing!!
I love the Zombie at Tiffany’s shirt! it’s so you and you’re the perfect model! It’s tough to choose a favorite but I kind of really like “We’ve Got Some Work To Do Now”. Awesome.
Mine will always be the Threadless <3's Bioshock Dead Sucker but this one may overtake it.
You do look totally hot in that tee!! I have been waiting for this one to get printed cause its creepy, unexpected and AMAZING!
Its really hard to pick a favourite Threadless Tee, but one that I think is hilarious is “The Last Piece of Sushi”
Other faves are Her Hair, The Communist Party and Magic Mushrooms.
i adore robots, so firelight cottage wins today!
i am loving the “zombie at tiffany’s” one you modeled (sidenote, i just got the threadless newsletter email and did a little eep of joy for you!) but my other favorite is the “infinity mpg” because i’m a bicycle commuting geek like that, i guess.
the zombie at tiffany’s is incredibly ideal for you, who could not love that tee! i also adore the ‘gentlemen love light swords’ screenprint being the nerd that i am, as well as the chaos of the ‘it’s toile about you.’
threadless is wild, i love ’em all! <3
My favorite shirt is Mr. Roboto Goes Sightseeing. Robots + mustaches = win!
my favorite shirt is: http://www.threadless.com/product/1891/Dandy_Lions
Without a doubt, my favorite Threadless tee is “We’re on the same level.” How can you go wrong with a depiction of a dinosaur and a giraffe hugging? You really can’t.
The Revenge of the Toro is badass! And the roller skating dinosaur, adorable! So much awesome!
I am fond of the wonderful “Le Romantique”. I am def loving the zombie at tiffanys…Fucking badass… Go Natalie! And you as the t-shirt model def caught my eye!
My favorite has always been “Marshmallow Factory”…a unicorn shitting marshmallows=friggin’ fantastical.
loooove the props you’re getting. “zombie at tiffany’s” is my favorite but “i got another whale.” great back story and a cupcake flavor combo i have to try!
My boyfriend and I both love zombies so I went to Threadless and searched for their zombie t-shirts. It was very hard to choose a fave (they’re all awesome), but I’ll have to go with “In Case of Zombies”. PS those cupcakes sound awesome!
Congrats on your fancy modeling career! Being a film buff, I absolutely love this Zombie at Tiffany’s tee. I’m pretty sure Truman Capote would approve.
My other favorite Threadless shirt is their Transfarmers shirt. It’s more than meets the eye.
lookin good on the front page of threadless!
i have so many favs on there. i really like “captain bellyflop” because it’s kind of just like “wtf?!” and it makes me lol.
vegan pancake cupcakes sound sooo yummy.
it sure is hard to choose just one favorite shirt design from all those awesome shirts, but i finally got it down to either “Dead Shred” or “The Politburo Explains”.
We’re thrilled to have you judging our humble contest as well. We expect it’ll be absolutely crazy this year!
The runnin’ rhino shirt just cracks me up!
Natalie! Super Sick that Threadless pursued you to model! Congrats! You’re rawking that tee like no other, because The Zombie at Tiffany’s Tee totally matches your personality and it’s really unique! I became a fan of all things zombie after my first zombie experience where I got made over at Wild Claw’s Dance of the Demented!
With that being said, I’d love to rawk not only the Tiffany’s Tee, but also the Breaking Up is Hard to Do Tee by Leon Ryan! I love the comic of the girl holding the gun! It’s gangsta as hell and you know she means bizz-nass! Most def, my kind of Tee that would totally stick out in a crowd! =D
Those cupcakes sound delicious!
Favorite shirt has to be “Disbelief” for sure!
My current favorite is Monkey Business. I don’t know what it is about the monkey in the pinstripes.
And the cookiebottom cupcakes sound delicious…would love one right about now. :o)
I am…kinda a fan of Firelight Cottage because I secretly want to burn thomas kinkaid “paintings” like a giant robot. 🙂
I used to be a total threadless addict, but I’ve gotten over it somewhat… when more than half of your extensive t-shirt collection came from threadless, I think it’s time to re-evaluate the t-shirt situation. I was always a big fan of “Flowers in the Attic” (an oldie but a goldie) and I bought my bf “Ninjas vs Luchadors” which I think is soooo cute!
I am going to have to say the zombie at tiffanys is my favorite… It pretty freakin’ awesome!
WOW! Thanks, you gave me a new place to shop. My favorite is still the one you are modeling. AWESOME!!!!
xox
Britt
Ahh! This is so fantastic! I was so happy to see it on the homepage! But I’ve gotta say that my all time favorite is “Zombie Food.” That and “Roller Skating” absolutely kill me every time, and they make the list of the hundreds of shirts I would like to order!!!
And I would also like to say that the cupcakes you made for Threadless sounded sooooooooooo good!!! 😀
Cookie Loves Milk!!!!
Pretty much any Threadless shirt that has an animal on it is my favorite. My collection is GETTING OUT OF HAND. That said, I am terrified of Audrey Hepburn and think the zombie shirt is an improvement. I know it’s crazy, but Ms. Hepburn literally gives me nightmares. I must have some deep-seated childhood trauma I don’t know about.
I’m a big fan of the “Flow of Wisdom” shirt. Your cupcake idea is great, and a good excuse to buy some more Joe Joe’s.
i love love love the zombie at tiffany’s shirt and i also adore the “i listen to bands that don’t even exist yet” shirt. gotta keep it real.
I have never even looked at Threadless T shirts before Thanks so much for telling me about the site!!! Theres alot of really cute shirts! I made a list and bookmarked it of all my fav’s there must be ten or so that I want now 🙂 I would say my top pic would have to be the
Memento Mori….My second favorite is It’s Always Midnight Somewhere.I will def be ordering from them. You look super cute btw!
my favourite has to be “liquid shot”.
http://www.threadless.com/product/1437/Liquid_Shot
black. white. geometry. so simple, simply awesome.
also, you look absolutely lovely!
My favorite is Burgervetica!
Awesome! My favorite is “Dead Shred”
http://www.threadless.com/product/1468/Dead_Shred
My favorite Threadless shirt is “Of The Dead” (http://www.threadless.com/product/324/Of_The_Dead). You know, because I heart zombies. 🙂
I love that first pic of you. Awesome. My fave tshirt? Franklinstein. Hell yes.
i know i can’t win, having birthed you and all, but i love the B Earth tee. I’d wear it to school on earth day and make ’em all jealous of my stylish self. 🙂
i remember that day, by the way. it’s the day we met you at frontera, toured reuseable and did NOT get a cupcake.
love you!
my favorite threadless shirt is my orange dumb and dumber tuxedo. justin has the blue one cause we’re cool like that.
There are so many rad things about this post! I gotta say, there’s something about the 8-bit Blues that gets me.
since i’m in grad school to become a librarian i have to go with “libraries are the number one place where ssh happens” EPIC! need it! want it!
http://www.threadless.com/product/2161/Libraries_Are_the_Number_One_Place_Where_Shh_Happens
The Zombie At Tiffany’s shirt is amazazing and you make a wonderful model! But, I have to say “Three Keyboard Cat Moon” is still my favorite tee because I’m a ‘crazy’ cat lady who plays keyboards!!! So, it’s like the best of both worlds to me! 🙂
always love threadless! the zombit tee is great! i love so many, but one of my favs is “i caught another whale” its hilarious!
Loved looking through the website. My favorite T is Limb- I love the geisha!!
I love the “Things to Do Before I Die: 1) Don’t Die.” shirt. I plan on living forever so..so far so good!
It’s a tie between “Heartless” and “Running Refrigerator”. Thanks for the giveaway.
I think I have more Threadless t-shirts than I need, but I’m always up for more. There are always about 20 of ’em that I want. But my fave of the new ones is “The King.” The Lion King + Elvis = WIN.
GOTTA GO WITH THE LAST F*CKIN’ UNICORN
lest i get scortch’d. i gotta second marshmallow factory though, and i have a soft spot for my first tees, subterrain and are you in or out?
also, kneil melicano represents, and travis pitts is sick too; urban camo is probably my fav purchase, and i’m so bummed this didn’t get printed:
http://www.threadless.com/submission/106590/As_above_So_below/
My all-time favorite Threadless shirt has to be “Nothing Rhymes With Orange.” Cracks me up!
I LOVE Threadless!! The ‘her hair’ shirt is my favorite right now. http://www.threadless.com/product/1633/Her_Hair
laurenisrocknroll@hotmail.com
Absolute favorite is There’s no crying in breakfast…sorta speaks for itself…bleh
My absolute favorite shirt is now a toss-up between the “Heaven and Earth” tee and the “Zombie at Tiffany’s”
I love breaking up is hard to do and actually entered that one in last year’s Threadcakes contest. I did not win but the $h!t I worked through while I made that cake and got divorced…friggin’ priceless. Here’s some of my pics.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=133316&id=729058624&op=6
How amazing is the ‘Book Jacket’ shirt?!?! I’m pretty sure it’s one of the greatest shirts ever… at least if you’re a book nerd. I’m going to knit my books jackets for christmas!
Man, that shirt rules & you look SO cute.
There are SO many Threadless shirts to choose from! I kinda love the Stop Animal Testing Shirt, Mr. T(iger), & Put the Needle on the Record!
I am in total agreement with Melisser…. My face in the Stop Animal Testing shirt. I wear it with pride. So good. Oh and I got so excited about the keyboard cat/wolf howling at the moon mash up that I brought two!
I freaking love the Zombie at Tiffany’s!!! I love zombies and I love Audrey Hepburn… Put them together and you get one AWESOME shirt!
Hah You lucky lady, I still think that background is made for you and i LOVE that shirt, I may have to buy it soon!
My fave threadless shirt (right now) is Meowy Wowy by tenso GRAPHICS I mean, cats dealing “cat nip” in an alley way all bad ass..of course its awesome haha!
xx
its a seriously awesome shirt natalie! natalie + threadless, two great tastes that taste great together!
THIS is my favorite threadless shirt – because i’m a nerd: http://www.threadless.com/product/1541/Vampires_Beware
i’m wearing my favorite one– it’s called Nice Boobies
the ones i like on the site are Birds of Pray and the one you’re wearing!
Ok, so I’m swooning over the “Revenge of the Toro” tee, but I MUST have the “Zombie At Tiffany’s”! Awesome giveaway!!!
My favorite shirt is God Save the Villian
It’s so hard to decide my favorite..it is always changing. But, for the sake of entering the contest, my current favorite is titled “Fail”.
http://www.threadless.com/product/1344/Fail
My fave is still Mister Mittens’ Big Adventure!!
XOXO
I actually found your blog through the treadless site when I opened my email today to find this rad chick modeling my new fav shirt! My all time fav shirt has to be RED -not in print anymore.
I’m so glad i stumbled upon you!
ha how totally cool you got to do that!.
im lovin the Things to Do Before I Die:1 Don’t Die shirt! Anything remotely related to Pirates and I’m all over it.
I like many of them, but my favoritest (making up new words is fun!) has gotta be Revenge of the Toro, because really, who DOESN’T want a shirt that looks like an angry big ol’ bull is ripping its way through?!??!? (I don’t like to imagine where he came from though. I don’t recall feeling a bull worm its way under my clothing…hmmm…) I DO like to imagine that I’ll tame him and one day he’ll let me ride him through the streets of downtown Sacramento to and fro work each day. A girl can dream…sigh.
I really love “Training” – it just makes me smile everytime I see it. I also love “Fake Pandas Have More Fun” : )
I would say my favorite is the Take Me to Tokyo shirt with the hitchhiking dinosaur and the Zombies at Tiffany.
Oh dear god, I am absolutely in love with “The King” shirt. Hilarious! The “Zombie at Tiffany’s is amazing as well.
such a cool shirt! I always wanted the “one of these days we’ll fly away” shirt, so cute. i really want to try out these cupcakes too!
My current favourite is the Fail t-shirt (http://www.threadless.com/product/1344/Fail) – so cute! (:
My favorite shirt is the things to do before die shirt…it made me smile 🙂
Flow of Wisdom is by far my favorite… I love owls and books.
“The Communist Party”
-a must for someone who is soon to embark on a MA in E. European politics!
Un – hu – gotta luv The King, baby!
I am loving the Luckiest T-Shirt Ever!!!!
The Zombie at Tiffany’s shirt is great! I also like “Mister MIttens’ Big Adventure”
My Fav would have to be The Squid vs. The Whale because Cephalopods rock. I have a poem for another member for the Cephelopod family to share with you.
If you’re ever in a pickle
and your friends are just to fickle
you can call upon a squid
you’ll be happy that you did
because
squids
are
your
friends
Frankly, although the Zombies at Tiffany’s tshirt encompasses two of my favorite things, zombies, and one baker/ blogger who inspires me to create things such as “pizza cupcakes,” there was another shirt that definitely caught my attention, that being “The Official Guide to Music”. Hand drawn type? Music genres? Be still my beating heart.
Besides the “Zombie at Tiffany’s” shirt which is pretty amazing, my favorite would have to be the “Say Hello to My Little Friends” shirt. It looks totally tough but then you get up close and see all their little happy faces. Cute and tough at the same time – kinda like you. 😉
I must say the zombie one is one for the best and you sport it so well. I love perusing the threadless gear, not sure I have the bod for it though, need to hit the gym
Yay-yeah. Love it and if I don’t win it I’ll buy it.
Book Jackets – very cute!
it’s hard to pick just one..love the zombie at tiffany’s! if i had to pick one other than that one, it would be mr. T(iger)
My favorite threaless tee has been the same for a long time. It’s called “She Doesn’t Even Realize.” It’s the one with the sad robot looking at a real heart on the ground, displaying a little digital heart on its chest screen. So cute and so lovably sad. It’s the only yellow shirt I own, I’m normally pretty opposed to teh color – but this was too good to pass up. However, the Zombie at Tiffany’s shirt is challenging its top spot on the list!
Just remember, robots need love too.
Oh man, I just realized that the comment I posted is riddled with typos. Grrrrr, pet peeve.
Fave threadless shirt is “if yo ucan read this, make me a sandwhich” 🙂
oh also i was sad cause i went to c2e2 and they were out of the zombie shirt :/
I looove the zombie shirt! Wow. But I checked out the site and also love the ‘Things to do before I die’ shirt, haha. Very cute!
I’d have to say my favorite is Birds of Pray. C’mon…who doesn’t love animals dressed as humans?
My favorite tee is “magic is just stuff science hasn’t made boring yet.” But I also loooove Zombie at Tiffany’s!
I love zombie at tiffany’s!!!
ah, so glad you’ve introduced me to this site. lots of cute tees!
i think my favorite has to be the ninjas vs. luchadores. but i also really love the donuts love policemen one. hehe.
xo
hey there mrs. cookiebottom. LOL
i’ve been a fan of threadless for a while now. i’m actually planning to submit some of my own designs in the future. 😀 but my favorites right now are definitely: Donuts Love Policemen,
Zombie at Tiffany’s, the Pandamonium hoodie, & the Afternoon Delight hoodie. 🙂
That is an awesome shirt!! My favorite is “Fail” I’ve never heard of that store before, so I’m glad you mentioned it! I can’t wait to buy some shirts!!!
The Overcompensating shirt is pretty great. Plus, rhinos!
Eyes of the Tiger is pretty funny. I like Bubbles the Snow Leopard too. Those are cute on the kids sizes. For me there are just too many!
My favorite is by far Stabby McKnife: http://www.threadless.com/product/259/Stabby_McKnife
I love love love Le Romantique!!! The shirt is so pretty….the colors are awesome….and I just love the concept.
Great job! 😉
Kim
Awesome giveaway!!! I can’t choose one….I have a top 5!!
*ninjas versus luchadores
*arcade expressionism
*art no war
*zombie at tiffanys ……..and
*use your brain
theres tooooo many!!!!
my fave is ….Things to Do Before I Die: 1.) Don’t Die.
It’s perfect!
Zombie at Tiffany’s- for sure! How can you not love a zombie?!
My favorite t-shirt is the “Key Board” one. It rocks.
so does the Zombie @ Tiffany’s.
too hard to choose… didn’t even get thru al the pages. yours of course is fabulous but if i had to choose another one, i think new hairdo is cute. i want them all…
My favorite Threadless shirt is Firelight Cottage. A giant robot setting a house aflame on a shirt? Radness goes through the roof.