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Sweet Maria's T-Shirts

It's not that we are such shameless self-promoters, in fact it took years and many pleas from customers to finally print a t-shirt at all. But we do really like T-Shirts. So now that the floodgates are open, we actually make new t-shirts often, or whenever the mood strikes us. Basically, we make these for our own use and enjoyment, but we hope you like them too! All our shirts are 100% cotton and pre-shunk, but the brand will vary. Personally, we don't like the small collars on the Beefy-T, so we sometimes chose Fruit-of-the-Loom or American Apparel. The later makes our cost higher (they are American-made) but the shirts are so soft and nice to wear.

A general sizing note: I guess as a response to America growing larger the t-shirt sizes have become larger too. So a medium is now a pretty good-sized shirt. And an average sized guy, not overweight, 5'10" can fit in a medium these days if you like a closer fit, and if you like more room, a large will give you that. I guess this is true with all t-shirt brands now. Keep it in mind


New! Brown Sweet Maria's Espresso Monkey T-Shirts and Baby One Pieces!

Here is a very simple, straight-forward shirt with the Espresso Monkey Blend design on it. Yep, that's one weird lookin' monkey, ain't it. But we like it a lot and, , it's a popular one among the Sweet Maria's staff ... all 10 of us! Anyway these are on 100% cotton shirts. These are on super-soft, "dark roast brown" American Apparel shirts with cream color ink ... so we have a coffee theme. American Apparel are made in the USA, sweat-shop-free!

American Apparel tend to be sized a little smaller than your average Hanes cotton shirts. These shirts are so soft and comfortable you want to wear them straight away!

Big Brown Monkey


The front has the monkey logo in cream color, and the back has our little diy-style ice-cream logo, discretely places down at the hem line to the right



Espresso Monkey Brown T-Shirts

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When we did the baby-sized shirts of the "Weird Chicken" people asked us for one-pieces. I know, Maria and I need them too for Ben but the cost of the blanks was crazy high. Well, maybe we were confused because this time we could get the best brand, American Apparel super-soft cotton onesies, and it wasn't much more than the adult shirt blanks. So here they are, Espresso Monkey One-Pieces in 3 Baby Sizes!

Little Brown Monkey

The Monkey on the front is half-sized to fit midget dimensions.
The back has the little ice-cream logo centered up high.


Espresso Monkey Brown Baby One-Pieces

$14
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6 to 12 Month
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Weird Chicken (with a cup of coffee)

It is one weird chicken indeed! But we didn't do anything to make it that way. This is another t-shirt from coffeelands; in this case it was inspired from a painting on a restaurant in Chiapas, Mexico. The area around this small town is surrounded with coffee, and on Saturday and Sunday the town is packed with the coffee farmers. I can't attest to the popularity of this particular restaurant, and whether their "wierd chicken," pockets and all, actually helps business. The shirt is a nice yellow-orange Hanes cotton, so this is an orange-on-orange theme. Our cup logo (also from a local painting) is in orange on the back, lower corner: very "low-key." so you won't feel like a walking billboard. Kids love this shirt- it's silly. We are thinking of making some child and even baby size versions.


the front



The "weird chicken" on the front
. The colors are a bit nicer than this picture, really.

Sizing on Hanes Authentic Cotton Shirts:
These are very comfortable, not-too-thick shirts. They tend to shrink a bit.


on the rear, to the right of your rear, on the bottom, 3 " wide


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Baby Chicken!

We have more than a few requests for kid's shirts, and since Maria and I (Tom) now have a baby, it makes even more sense to print some baby-sized clothes! Ben (left) really liked my Chicken shirt when I wore it, so why not make him his own Baby Chicken shirt. Maybe you know a baby that would like it too.

These shirts are paler in color than the adult ones, more like a custard yellow. The logo on the rear (the cup, like the adult) is in black ink. We have 3 sizes: 12 month, 2T and 4T. They are all "Hanes Playwear" brand cotton, but the 12 Month is a stretchy light cotton with lap shoulders, while the 2T and 4T are a more typical t-shirt make. As I write this, Ben is 8 months and could wear either the 12 month or even the 2T shirt, although it would a bit long. If you have bought kid's clothes, you know how it is; buy big! Here's a picture of all 3 shirts together, so you can see the size difference.


Ben Otto Owen in his 12 month Baby Chicken Shirt

Baby Chicken Shirt
$11
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The 2T size shirt

Computer Shirt

It's a no-tech painting of a lo-tech computer. What's your guess? A 286 circa 1988? Well, if you go to David, Panama, an agricultural center in the lowlands of the Chirqui province, and you are looking for an "internet cabana", that is, a place to check email at speeds around ...oh 56kb ... you just might see this exact painting on the wall outside the datacenter of your dreams. Okay, I admit it's a fake: I added the coffee cup from a place a few blocks away. It had to have something to do with coffee, right? Well, like most of our shirts it barely has anything to do with coffee, but it's great "art brut," printed in black and blue duotone. This is on a lightweight white cotton shirt of decent quality, and it will shrink a bit. On the back, down at the wasteline, our simple cup logo in blue.


the front



The "computer shirt" front
is a duo-tone print in
black and blue. ouch.

Sizing on Hanes Authentic Cotton Shirts:
These are very comfortable, not thick.
They tend to shrink a bit, but are sized a tad large.


on the rear, to the right of your rear, on the bottom, 3 " wide


Men's Sizes Only
$12.50
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Frankenstein T Shirt

What does this have to do with coffee? Nothing at all. We thought it was funny. It's from a thrift-store painting. We made a t-shirt to give to friends, not to sell. We made too many. (Or we just don't have many friends, or both). So if you really like Frankenstein as we do, or you just like odd shirts, you might like this one.

It's printed on super soft, lightweight, American Apparel type shirt, but a different brand. It's a olive drab color and we wanted it to look like a mirky painting.




The frankenstein shirt is actually a bit more dingy and dark looking than this image. It really looks like it was painted on the shirt. It has nothing to do with coffee, except it does read "Sweet Maria's Coffee, West Oakland".

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Sweet Maria's T-Shirts of the Past...

Our first shirt from around 2000

Sweet Marias home coffee roasting t-shirt
A great color if you have a VW SuperBeetle to match it.

Sweet Marias home coffee roasting t-shirt
Safety Orange - hey, I Iiked it. It fades well...

The safe color, beige. It matched my '70 VW Bus.

The remade Brave the Smoke Shirt 04/05

"Good Greens" from '04

the skunk shirt - some loved it, some didn't. "skunky" is a cupping term for a bad roast flavor

The "falling dog shirt" of 2006-7 was actually very popular. go figure.

if you see someone with this shirt, they must be a friend or employee because we never sold them. that's one fat-headed cat.


from a brazil bumper sticker i found; another "friends and family shirt"

the Variac shirt - very popular - again - go figure.

Espresso monkey shirt on white

The Cupping Spoon shirt- nobody seemed to like this shirt. Maybe the fact that is said "slurping, sucking and spitting since 1997" had something to do with it.


A shirt we printed just for ourselves, too wacky and, like others, totally unrelated to coffee.
       

Sweet Maria's Soccer Balls ?!?

Why? Well, I love soccer, and I hate lousy soccer balls. When I travel to coffee origins, one thing I see is that from India to Ethiopia, from Peru to Honduras, at schoolyards and coffee drying patios, the workers play with lousy duct-taped half-inflated soccer balls.

Not making any high-falutin' claims about quality here: this is a "practice-level" ball that wouldn't pass FIFA in a thousand years. But it holds air and stands up to a beating.

So offering them to our customers was not really the intention here, but when you get custom-made soccer balls, you have to get a lot. Selling a few will help fund our give-aways to school kids, coffee pickers, and mill workers when I travel. See the pictures below.

So here it is ... skunk and all. By the way, we ship 'em flat - you need a pump.

sweet maria's size 5 soccer ball


Sweet Maria's Size 5 Soccer Ball

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Giving away soccer balls in coffee-producing countries... that's why we really made them, and when you buy one you are helping us to gift them to coffee producers, to small teams, to farm owners, to children. We have just started taking them on our trips (I pack them flat and bring a pump to inflate them on the spot!) Here are a few pictures of our recipients. And thanks for buying a ball and helping to fund this program!

Askar Ogsadey, son of a cousin of MAO Harar Horse coffee exporters, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia


Myself at the Butare cupping lab, Rwanda.

In Hirna Ethiopia. This ball was for the small boys Hirna football club.

 

 

 

 

 


At the big soccer game between Gashonga and Maraba coffee mills. Our ball was the runner-up prize, and the trophy was 1st prize.

Another gift at the cupping lab near Maraba. This great picture was by Jasper from The Coffee Company, Amsterdam


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