Dinosaur hoodies. Yea, we do that.

So, for those of you who don't know, but I'm pretty sure anyone who knows me does, I and Jeff are the creators and owners of www.dinosaurhoodies.com . So I thought I would add a small post about them.Well when I first started dating Jeff, we both had a love for dinosaurs. We pretty much thought they were fantastic. We also love doing crafts, and would constantly come up with cool things to make each other. Jeff worked at a screen printing company, and one day printed the image of a dinosaur from a Volcome  t shirt on a zip-up hoodie. Then it just kind of clicked, we both thought how cool it would be to have an ACTUAL dinosaur hoodie, that looked like a dinosaur instead of having a dinosaur picture on it! So we both just sort of came up with the idea one day, thinking about what we would do if we made one, what we would have for eyes, and teeth, where we'd put them, how we would make the horns, ect. I was going to try to make one for him on my own, but found out he was going to do the same for me! lol. So we decided to make them together. We went to Salvation Army bought two cheap pullover hoodies and just went to town. AND... TA DA! Dinosaur hoodies. Then we wore them everywhere and our friends asked us to make them some, so we did, then those friends friends wanted them, then it just spread, we put up a website because we figured, hey why not? And pretty much the domino effect happened, soon we were shipping all over, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, UK, and many more. Five years later here we are today, still working out of our house and sewing like crazy! We actually had to hire my sister this past year to help us get caught up. We've expanded to doing  a lot of custom orders like making a tail, making a dog hoodie, rhino hoodie, tiger hoodie, cartoon character hoodies, lion hoodies and shark hoodies. We always are up for any challenge someone posses to us! We've been at it since 2006 and hope it keeps growing!We've really only advertised by word of mouth and facebook, but we're looking to do a photo shoot in May and some magazine Ad's!

These are the first two original dinosaurhoodies :)

 These are a couple of matching hoodies a couple ordered together

This is a custom (add on) tail, we don't usually do them but someone wrote and asked, so we took on the job! It Velcros so you can remove it!

 This is Jeff wearing one of many Cartoon hoodies which I can not say we actually sell....lol

 This is our Shark hoodie done in Tye Die!!

 Dinosaur fight! RAWR

 The first and only camo-saurous with neon orange spikes and bloody teeth and angry eyebrows! We get a lot of requests for angry eye brows. Oh and this is Michelle and Doug :)

 Adam hiding in his little man dinosaurhoodie

 Stephanie rocking a classic black and red

 Dinosaur gossip

 A Dino for princess my doggie! Dog hoodies are supply your own at this time.

CARTOON HOODIE! Guess what one it is!?

 A not -for- a -dog, "Dog hoodie"!

 This is the original Shark hoodie we made. It has double layered teeth, gills, the back fin, and side fins

 Alternating horn colors on a brown hoodie

 A Rainbow of horn colors, this is what we call the "ROYGBIV" pattern, we get asked to make this style a lot because it's so fun!

 The first and only double layered horns!

 

This is what we call rainbow fabric or tye die horns, the material of the horns is multicolored

 This is a sent in hoodie, we offer the option to send in your own hoodie and for 15$ we turn it into a dino!

 A big old pile-o-dinos

And yea, thats dinosaurhoodies.com!  Check out the website, it's not great, we're in the process of making a new easier one, and in the process of getting more pictures, but hey this is just a peak at my life and what I do  :)

Rafting Goodness.

Well, let me just say that white water rafting, was pretty amazing. I highly recommend the experience. Yes, it was cold and tiring at times, but wow, so amazing. I'll walk you through my day :)

So we get there around 10:30 pm and wait for our group, after signing some wavers, you go into the buildings basement where you are giving a whole wet suit. First you put on the pants, well they are more like overalls, and you have to shimmy your body in lol. They you get a coat, booties and mittens. I can't remember what it's called, but essentially a wet suit takes the cold water you get on you and your body heats it up in this material so you stay warm, it's incredible because you really do. Your not supposed to where any cotton under it, it holds no heat. I wore spandex capries and under armor under my suit. Honestly, the wet suits are freaking cool, you look like you know what your doing as soon as its on lol. Then you get the huge puffy livevest they strap you in and an oar. You get packed on a bus and sent miles up the river.

We went in inflatable rafts. On mine was me, Jeff, my mom and a woman named brenda plus our guide. there was probably ten or so rafts that came along with us. Ironically my friend Melissa Maze from highschool was one of the guides, I had no idea! And my old highschool teacher Mr. T was there with some students. Anywhoo.
The first leg of the trip is breathtaking. I can't even describe the beauty of zoar valley from the river. Amazing. The water is calm in this part, and we are rowing through cliffs, and hills, forests, it's amazing. Down all the jagged cliffs, water falls are everywhere, some small, some big bursting over the rough edges. The amazing thing about going in the beginning of April is much is still frozen, so many of this mini water falls would be totally ice on top with water flowing from benthe, looking straight up was just amazing. The hills, the trees, the water the smell, and all the while you stay warm even though icicles hang from the cliff edges. One wall of cliff was all ice.
We stopped, had some hot tomato soup, and carried on to the rapids! It was INCREDIBLE huge rocks and whirlpools, waves, and bumps, you drop, whip around, turn fall, and get so soaked! I have to say that everyone in our raft feel out at somepoint! If you fall out you must try to get with a boat and they pull you up by the lifevest. The rapids just rip and it's like a mini roller coaster, adjusting your body to not fall or slip. Falling out was actually fun, to say you went overboard. I wasn't scared, I was with jeff and I knew he would grab and pull me in right away which he did. However when he fell, he went in more choppy waters and I was freaking out. Imagine seeing the one person who is your world, trapped in crashing waves with big rocks getting thrown all over! I was screaming JEFF! He finally got to the raft and all I could hold on to was his foot, I could get him in! He kept yelling at me to let him go, but trying tell your brain that it's ok to let the love of your life, whos been smashing in the river, to let him go back! But I did eventually so he could grab on forward and had others help me pull him up. I don't like Jeff being in turmoil lol. I'm pretty sure or vessel got stuck in every possible shallow spot, we were constantly stuck.
Near the end of the trip we hit another rough patch and it threw our guide off! We were paddling so hard lol, luckly jeff got out once we were out of the rapids, pulled the boat to the edge as we waited for our guide.
Needless to say it was amazing, it was so fun, so freeing, so breath taking, so tiring, so cold, and so worth it.
This is the place we went through if you want to check it out http://www.zoarvalleyrafting.com/rafting_tips.php3