Orange-bellied T-shirts (and hoodies, and stickers)

How to buy a t-shirt, hoodie or sticker from our Redbubble site

We've sold lots of Orange-bellied Parrot t-shirts, hoodies and stickers on Redbubble. And with all profits going toward conservation of OBPs, it's a great way to contribute to the cause.

But the site can be a bit difficult to navigate at first. It's easy (and lots of fun) once you know how. This post will guide you on how to buy your very own OBP duds, so you can wear your love for OBPs on your sleeve, so to speak. 

First things first. How to find us? On Redbubble, our name is 'OBparrot'. To go to the OBparrot page:  http://www.redbubble.com/people/obparrot. Or go to Redbubble http://www.redbubble.com, click inside the 'Search' box and type 'OBparrot'.

Shown is the 'Profile' page. 

Each square OBP picture represents one of the four products on offer. You don't need to remember what's what - just run your mouse over the pictures and a caption will pop up.

For example, if you run your mouse over the Orange-bellied Parrot in the top left corner, this caption comes up: 'Orange-bellied Parrot t-shirt (dark) by OBparrot', as shown.

At the moment, the grey square under the black square is for 'Orange-bellied Parrot t-shirt (light)'. [The default colours for all the squares will change from time to time for Facebook purposes. But each square will always represent the same product.]

You'll notice t-shirts with light and dark backgrounds are separate items. Why?

The difference between light and dark

It's because of the text. We wanted the slogan 'Save the Orange-bellied Parrot' in black with 'Orange-bellied' in orange. This was fine to use with light coloured t-shirts such as white or pale blue.

However, lots of people wanted dark coloured t-shirts such as black and dark blue. The black text wouldn't appear at all! So our artist created a different design, using white and orange text.

Therefore your first decision is whether you want a dark or light shirt.

Which product to choose?

If you want a dark background t-shirt, click on the OBP in the top left corner, as in the example.

If you want a light background t-shirt, click on the OBP in the square at bottom left.

If you want something for a baby or a child up to 12 years, click on the middle picture, top row.

And if you want some cool OBP stickers, click on the OBP on the right of the top row.

The ordering process

Suppose you want a black t-shirt. Here's how the screen will look:

Next, pick a colour from the squares at top right (circled). When you click each colour, the torso on screen will magically wear that colour, so you can see how it will look. Make your choice.

Now, pick a style. In the box headed 'STYLE', look for 'T-Shirt'. Click on the small arrow to the right.

Here's where it gets interesting. T-shirts are available in four styles:

• Women's fit t-shirts - tighter fitting and with slightly scooped neckline. Called 'Girly Fit'
•  Unisex - loose-fit t-shirt;
•  Three-quarter sleeve has two-tone, contrasting sleeves
•  V-neck  

There's also:  

• long-sleeved shirts (think sloppy joe) and
• hoodies (zip or pullover).

Organic cotton is available as an option, although the colour choices are smaller.

Note: the range of colours varies, depending on the style. Many popular colours aren't available at all because they just don't look right with our OBP. We tried them but yellow, orange and red backgrounds looked pretty silly.

This example shows a black, Girly Fit t-shirt:

Next, click on your size, as shown:

We recommend checking your size in the Sizing Chart, located on the far right, half way down (circled, below). It gives actual measurements in inches and centimetres.

For more information, washing instructions, sizing, etc, click on 'T-Shirts & Hoodies Info' (circled, below, bottom).

Just to vary the look of this blog, we've changed the example's colour and style. This is 'T-shirt' in 'Blue'. Once you've had a play with the site, you'll see how easy it is to change around.

Now, at last, you can click on 'ADD TO CART' (black checkmark) and you're well on your way to owning a fabulous item of OBP apparel.

Choose 'Paypal' or 'Checkout Now' and fill in your details. If you've made a mistake, click on the square OBP picture corresponding to the item you want to change and go back to editing it.

If you want to remove an item, click 'Edit Cart'.

Click the 'x' corresponding to the item you want removed.

Choose your payment method, fill out your details, take a big breath and wait. Any day now (technically, between three and ten business days), a lovely cardboard parcel will be delivered to your door.

Congratulations on buying an OBP shirt. You'll be the envy of all your friends and should wear it with pride, happy in the knowledge you've done your bit to raise awareness of Australia's favourite critically endangered, priceless little jewel of a bird.

Note: you'll undoubtedly be stopped in the street. Don't forget to tell people all about the birds, and about Save the Orange-bellied Parrot on Facebook. Zzzt!