First and foremost, thank you to the entire 2011 shirt wearing team: DeAndre, Angela, Neal, and Amber. I appreciate all of your hard work and dedication this year, and I’ve enjoyed working and getting to know each one of you. A big shoutout to Heather for keeping us organized and operational behind-the-scenes – I appreciate the long hours and the oodles of email. And we can’t forget our awesome intern Burt. You’re the best intern a company could ask for Burtle! 

Secondly, thanks to all our our awesome sponsors this year, including our Proud Partners:
Jockey,
Citrix Online,
Survival Straps,
nGen Works,
CDev Tech and
Underground Printing. We had a ton of fun promoting each one of you, and we look forward to working with many of you again next year!

Last, but certainly not least, I want to send out a sincere thank you to all the community members. You guys seriously rock my socks off every day, and there would be no IWearYourShirt without your support. Thanks for all the tweeting, liking, commenting, viewing, sharing, chatting, and high-fiving that you’ve done on behalf of us and our sponsors. We’ve already got a ton of fun, new stuff planned for 2012, so we hope you stick around to see what we have up our sleeves. 

Congrats to the Shirtmas 2011 Winners:

$25 Visa gift cards (Elizabeth Schultz), $25 Visa gift cards (Jimmy Vinicky), $25 Visa gift cards (Matt Gardner), $25 Visa gift cards (Dennis J Smith), $25 Amazon gift cards (Cool Kid), $25 Amazon gift cards (Eden Clark), $25 Amazon gift cards (Mandy Zumwaldt), $25 Amazon gift cards (Lillian Kirkpatrick), a $100 Zappos gift card (Frank Dickson), IWYS T-Shirts (Valerie Salazar, Andrea Workman, Julie, Anita and Mike Freestone), a $50 T-Shirts.com gift card (Minor Thread), a $50 HalloweenCostumes.com gift card (Paige), a Manfrotto backpack (Jason Markow), an al fresco grilling kit (Suzanne Chase), two 3-packs of Good Life Granola (Clayton Robrahn and Chris Deneau), Klipsch ear buds (Kristie Bryant Fitzgerald), a Canon PowerShot digital camera (Dave Yankowiak), a Kindle Touch (Mike Freestone), an iPod Touch (CTWhalers), an Apple TV (1957 Chevy Man) and the grand prize iPad 2 (Stacy Conner). All winners will be contacted this weekend!

Again, thanks to everyone for such an amazing year. I love this company, and I sincerely wouldn’t be able to live my dream without you. So thank you, Happy Shirtmas 2011 and Happy Holidays!

Lion Country Safari is the last tour stop on our West Palm Beach sponsor extravaganza, and they offer the only drive-through safari in the state of Florida. Recognized as one of the top three zoos in America by USA Travel Guide, Lion Country Safari is home to the largest herds of rhinos and zebras in the country and home to the oldest living chimpanzee in captivity. The park offers you a four-mile safari complete with wild animals like zebras, rhinos, giraffes, wildebeest, ostrich, water buffalo, watusi just inches from your car! (Lions too of course, but those you have to enjoy a few feet from your car.) In addition, you can check out
Safari World, the 55-acre walk-through park with tons to do, including animal displays and encounters (feed a giraffe, lories, budgies or goats and sheep), rides (Ferris wheel, carousel, camel rides, paddle boat rides), food, shopping and more.

Best of all, Lion Country Safari is
all about conservation, and has been a leader in conservation since opening. Their ability to house large herds of animals in a more natural habitat has allowed the animals to live longer. With over 900 animals from six continents, they are also accredited by the American Zoological Association and are actively involved in the captive breeding of threatened and endangered species.

If you’re in the mood for adventure,
Lion Country Safari definitely has you covered. Feel free to stop in during
Jason’s live video today from 3-4pm EST, as he’ll be broadcasting live while on a safari! 

We couldn’t be happier to close out 2011 with such an awesome sponsor, and we hope everyone is getting excited for our holiday party. Check back here first thing tomorrow, and find out how to win some incredible prizes, including an iPad 2, Apple TV, Digital Camera and more!

Not only that but
Palm Beach Opera is quite possibly the most social media savvy opera company around! They have an
iPhone app with videos and news, and also have what they call
“Tweet Seats,” inviting active social media folk to the final dress rehearsal of their operas where they can live tweet/Facebook/blog throughout the show. How cool is that?! 

Aside from these awesome and innovative ideas,
Palm Beach Opera is also running what they call their
“50 for 50″ campaign. In honor of their 50th anniversary, Palm Beach Opera is aiming to have 1962 online donations of $50 (1962 was the year of their first opera), helping to raise over $98,000. These donations allow the opera company to keep producing fantastic shows. To up the ante, Palm Beach Opera’s General Director, Daniel Biaggi, has agreed to do something crazy if the goal is met, and when you donate, YOU get to decide whether it’s by land, air or sea! 

So visit
Palm Beach Opera on the web and see what great shows they have coming up, or donate to their
50 and 50 campaign and let’s show everyone how much WE ♥ OPERA!

Our daily sponsor today also happens to be our monthly sponsor, the laugh-out-loud party game created by
USAopoly, Telestrations.
Telestrations is basically like the classic game of telephone, but sketched out. All players simultaneously draw what they see, then guess what they saw to reveal hilarious and unpredictable outcomes. It’s perfect for holiday parties, game nights, and family gatherings because it’s easy to understand and, quite honestly, the less talented you are at drawing, the more fun the game gets!

Each player gets their individual notebook and dry-erase marker. After each person gets their “word” that they must draw, everyone simultaneously draws their best depiction of the word. Then, everyone passes their notebook to the next person and they have to guess what the drawing represents. The person following has to then draw what the previous person guessed. This pattern continues until the notebooks return to their rightful owners. But that’s not the fun part! The best part is going through each notebook, seeing the transformation from
how “this” became “that!”

Telestrations is not only a great activity to give your family a few laughs during the holidays, but it also makes for a great gift. Check out the game, get your drawing on, and get a few giggles in when you play the telephone game all sketched out!

The picturesque setting isn’t all Grandview Gardens has to offer. The amenities and activities in the area make it a great place to vacation.
Grandview Gardens has five individually-decorated guest suites, each with its own private entrance and terrace. Guests can also rent one of the adjacent historic two-bedroom cottages as well. The property also includes a swimming pool with a large sunbathing terrace, and complimentary bicycles, which guests can use to access the famous Palm Beach Lake Trail. Also, the location couldn’t be better being just over the bridge from famous Palm Beach Island, America’s most exclusive resort destination, and walking distance to City Place, the Kravis Center of the Performing Arts and the internationally acclaimed Norton Museum of Art.

They also have some great packages! They offer a Honeymoon/Anniversary Package which includes a bottle of champagne, flowers and fruit in the suite upon arrival, and a picnic basket for two prepared by the innkeepers to be shared at a number of romantic destinations nearby. Their Theatre Package includes VIP amenities to a show at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts or Palm Beach Dreamworks, with free transfer one way before the show and $10 off the room rate with the purchase of two nights. Lastly, Rick, one of the innkeepers, offers private guided tours of West Palm Beach and Palm Beach, including a walking tour of Worth Ave, highlighting local history and architecture. 

If you’re looking to stay in a charming place with gorgeous decor and authentic character,
Grandview Gardens Bed & Breakfast and Vacation Homes is the perfect place to explore West Palm! 

Through
Walgreens’ text alerts, you can get a quick and easy text message when your prescription is ready for pickup or when you’re due for a refill. Not only that, but if you sign up to receive texts from Walgreens Mobile, you can get great deals and exclusive offers texted right to your phone. You no longer have to go hunting for coupons – the deals come to you! 

Speaking of great offers, did you know that
Walgreens.com has a ton of products that you can’t get in-store? They have just about everything including cosmetics, HD TVs, digital cameras, DVD/Blu Ray players, and even contact lenses! (In fact, now through December 31st, all contact lens orders are 20% off with promo code CONTACTLENS20!) Who knew you could get all that from Walgreens.com?

Find out what else Walgreens.com has been hiding away and
sign up for their text alerts today!

Shopping at
Walgreens is all about convenience to begin with. You can shop, get photos printed, and have your prescription filled all in the same place. But what if we told you all of that just got even easier! That’s right,
Walgreens Mobile knows how important it is to bring you convenient features that make your life easier. That’s why they’ve developed a great mobile app available on iPhone, Android and iPad, and even Windows 7 and BlackBerry too!

One of the best features on the app allows you to refill your prescription just by scanning the barcode on your prescription bottle. How easy is that? You can also reorder from your account history, or simply enter the prescription number for easy refills. Not only does it help with your prescriptions, but the app is great for taking advantage of Walgreens’ great deals. You can access your local weekly ad, and even add items directly to your shopping list from the ad. That, plus you can access exclusive mobile coupons, find a store near you and get directions, and even order photo prints straight from your phone or iPad. 

Walgreens Mobile has clearly thought about what features make our lives easier, and they’re now all easily accessible in their handy FREE app. Visit the
App Store, 
Android Market, or
BlackBerry App World and download it now to start shopping!

Think of
ZOOMcatalog as a search engine for the promotional products industry. This is an almost $16 billion industry because marketers have come to realize just how effective these branded products can be for brand awareness and even sales. However, as a brand, you may want to know what kind of unique products are out there for you to give to potential customers. 

Well typically you might ask a promotional products distributor if they have a specific item your looking for, or if you don’t know, they may send you catalog upon catalog from suppliers for you to search through. This is not only time-consuming, but it’s terrible for the environment! Instead,
ZOOMcatalog works with suppliers/manufacturers to basically publish their catalogs in their online database. This allows you to search through pages by types of products and truly see what your options are. From there you just contact a certified promotional product distributor, and they can work with you to purchase your items. It’s that simple! (**Important to note, ZOOMcatalog is not actually a distributor, just an online catalog of products from multiple suppliers/manufacturers.)

If you’re in the market to get some promotional products made,
ZOOMcatalog is definitely the place to start! 

Not only do they have a wide variety of protein products to choose from
(powders,
smoothies, and
drinks), but they all come in some delicious flavors! Ever heard of a berry pomegranate protein smoothie? Now you have! Not to mention Isopure’s smoothies are made from 100% whey protein and are lactose-free. Now that’s pure, people. 

Isopure also has a super fun (and incredibly well-designed!) site that allows you to
create your own custom “(iso)graphic.” Your (iso)graphic is kind of your personal membership card into the Isopurists club. You answer a few short questions about yourself, and it customizes an awesome design for you. You can share it with friends, post it on your social networks, or you can even buy it as a t-shirt and wear it while you’re pumping iron (or hey, even pumping gas!) For every (iso)graphic created, Isopure will donate $1 toward helping feed children in developing nations. For every t-shirt purchased, they’ll put another $1 toward the cause to help reach their total donation of $25,000. 

So head on over to
Isopure, grab yourself some deliciously pure protein smoothies today, and don’t forget to
create your very own (iso)graphic. It’s for a great cause!