by Debbi | Nov 20, 2010 | Sandbar Stuff, Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is almost here! Where did this year go?
Earlier this month, we asked for ideas from you, our loyal customers, about the designs you'd like to see on our popular pint glasses. We didn't get a huge response, but we did get a few great ideas.
Our Thanksgiving pint glasses won't be here until Monday, but we love the design so much we don't care.
The Sandbar logo is on the other side of the glass. Dave created the artwork for this one, based on ideas that came from our friend Susan and man on the street Pat.
Stop by next week and add a Thanksgiving pint to your collection of Sandbar glasses! And watch for our winter/Christmas themed glass coming soon, followed by a Happy New Year glass.
by Debbi | Nov 5, 2010 | Cool Stuff, Sandbar Stuff
Our pint glasses are a popular item, especially on Tropical Thursdays. We like to change the design on the glasses to match holidays or other events, but we don't always have time to create the artwork.
We know there are lots of talented Sandbar fans out there, so we want to use your artistic abilities!
Here's what we're looking for:
- Thanksgiving/turkey-themed design
- Christmas/winter holiday-themed design
- New Year's Eve design
The designs are printed in a single color, so we need a black and white design. It needs to be a line art drawing with no shading or other complicated techniques. The design also needs to be simple- these are small images that are printed onto glass, so lots of tiny details will get lost. You don't have to be a professional artist to do this!
Clip art is fine or an original hand-drawn design works too. You can see some past examples here, here and here.
Send your submission to us at sandbar@thesandbar.com. Submit something for one holiday or all three, we don't care.
We'll either let our staff choose the winners, or we might let the fans vote. Submitting your design to us gives us the right to use it; we're not going to deal with fancy copyright and trademark issues. But, we'll compensate you with a pack of pint glasses or some other prize, our undying gratitude and the chance to be known to other Sandbar fans!
Hurry up, Thanksgiving's right around the corner!
by Debbi | Aug 10, 2010 | Birthday Party, Sandbar Stuff
It's almost here! Just a few more days until our 21st birthday bash. Like last year, we ordered commemorative shirts.
Bartender Joe drew the original artwork (first published here) and then we turned it over to the fine folks at Hasty Awards in Ottawa to work their magic.
Here's our new design:
Do you love it? We do!
The shirts will be available at our block party on Saturday. If you can't make it to the party, we're happy to take email orders. Just send us an email at sandbar@thesandbar.com and let us know what size you need, and we can work out payment arrangements.
Shirts come in sizes small through double extra large, and they'll be $15 each.
by Debbi | May 6, 2010 | Graduation, Sandbar Stuff
We have some great gifts for the 2010 graduate!
Our popular pint glasses have a brand new design- a mermaid with "Congratulations 2010 Graduates" wrapped around her. The front of the glass has the Sandbar logo. Choose from red or blue designs, and they're just $3 each.
We also just printed a new batch of Sandbar logo t-shirts in both blue and red, with white logos. Available in S-2XL for $12 each.
by Debbi | Jan 3, 2010 | New Year's Eve, Sandbar Stuff
A new year and decade is here, and so is more snow.
What did everyone do for New Year's Eve? Our White Trash party was fun, we'll have some stories and pictures tomorrow.
For those of you who like to collect our pint glasses, we have a special New Year glass in stock right now.
The design was created by our friends at Grandstand. The Santa gnome was provided by our friend Tierney, it's not a new drink toy- sorry! Pint glasses are $3 each, and you can bring yours in every Thursday for $2 tropical drink refills.
And good news for the Shark Attack fans- the original sharks are back in stock!
by Debbi | Sep 25, 2009 | Birthday Party, Sandbar Stuff
Now that we're almost ten months into our 20th year of existence, we thought it might be fun to have commemorative pint glasses. So we're a little slow. We can celebrate 20 years as long as we want though.
Our friends at Grandstand worked on a design for us that's similar to our birthday t-shirt design. (We still have lots of those left in large, so if you want one, let us know. We'll ship).
Dave picked up the new glasses yesterday and put them in circulation last night for Tropical Thursday. Pick yours up for $3 anytime, and bring it in on Thursdays for $2 tropical drink refills.
Let us know what you think of the new design! Maybe we'll print the next batch in another color.
