UPDATE (9.05.08): From now on, we will no longer be selling Jason Castro fan merchandise. Please head on over to his official site, Jason Castro Music, to show him and his family your support! To Jason, thank you for the music. Poptastic Tees wishes you all the best.

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The nicest thing about having a small, home-based t-shirt business is that, because my husband and myself run it on our own, we correspond with our customers ourselves and thus get to meet a lot of wonderful people from all over.

One of which is Mandee whom I've had the pleasure of corresponding with for sometime now. You see, she owns a "Jason is My Idol" fan shirt that carries one of our favorite but discontinued designs:


(Sorry about the watermark. We have to take extra precautions now because design piracy is becoming rampant of late...)

Today, she sent me this piece of wonderful news - she met Jason Castro. Part of her email goes:

I met Jason Castro on Aug 13 @ Philadelphia's Wachovia Center. My friend and I wore the "Jason Is My Idol" cartoon drawing t-shirts that were available on your site for a limited time. When Jason got to me, he took a double take at my friend and I, looked back at me and was like "I LOVE those shirts... where did you get them?" So I told him I had gotten them on-line, but that they were no longer available. He replied that he REALLY liked them. And even after I took my picture with him and talked to him, he moved on to my friend and spoke to her for a bit, studied her shirt again and said once more that he really liked the shirts!!!!! I thought you'd enjoy that! Approval from the man himself!!!

Yes Mandee, I totally did enjoy that! How wonderful to have approval from Jason himself. Thank you so much for remembering to share that info with me, we at Poptastic truly appreciate your thoughtfulness!


Mandee and Jasonnnnn

Mandee went on to say that David Archuleta and Brooke White showed appreciation for this shirt too. Ooh, how exciting! If only they knew that we made fan shirt designs for them as well, LOL. :)

Meanwhile, what we do have in our shop is the now-iconic (thanks to MTV's John Norris AND Castrocopia) "Jason is My Idol" design which features a folk guitar (or a ukulele, if you will. It kinda looks like it too) and the words "Jason is My Idol" in light blue and green.



See the different colors and styles here.

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The Official Jason Castro t-shirts however are available HERE. Proceeds of these shirts will go to Jason's choice of charity.

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We have more pop culture graphic tees @ PoptasticTees.com

As I was surfing through some Idol fansites on the net, I found this really great photo of David Archuleta signing autographs for his fans.

(Portland Tour photo from FanBlaster Jennifer)

Upon closer inspection, I noticed this:

The girl holding a camera is wearing one of our "No One Sings it Betta Than Mistah Archuleta" t-shirts! I'll recognize that design anywhere (well of course I will, I made it. LOL).

OK fine, so I may have been over-reaching with that photo but I certainly am not with these following gems courtesy of the lovely Lindsay:

Lindsay was very lucky indeed to have met ALL the idols like David Cook -


... Mr. Jeff Archuleta (ok, the dad of an idol) -


... and Mistah David himself! Awesome.

Don't the three of them look adorable?

There are more pics with the other idols on her Myspace.

Lindsay is wearing out "Mistah Archuleta Sings It Betta" tee in navy blue

See this design in other t-shirt styles and colors HERE.

If you've bought a shirt from us, please send us a photo of you wearing it. It's really always a pleasure to see our designs on happy customers.

Related entries:
- She be rockin' our Word Nerds Rock t-shirt
- David Archuleta fans wearing Poptastic's Archie tees
- American Idol 7 Tour shirts
- Idol shirts @ Poptastic


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We have more pop culture graphic tees @ PoptasticTees.com

A few days ago, we posted a photo of David Cook fan Elizabeth wearing our "Word Nerds Rock" tee. This weekend, it's the Archie fans' turn in the Poptastic limelight:



The lovely Sophie is wearing our "Archie is My Hero" Jr. Jersey Shirt


More t-shirt styles & color choices are available HERE.

Jenny also very kindly gave us permission to post the following photo of herself and her friends taken at one the Idol summer tour venues. Aren't they cute?



Starting from the left, the girls are wearing an "Archie is My Hero" Jr. Jersey Shirt (same as Sophie's above) and a "No One Sings it Betta Than Mistah Archuleta" raglan.


More t-shirt styles & color choices are available HERE.

Okay, so we have photos of Cookie and Archie fans. Now I'm calling all Jason Castro fans to send in your photos wearing our top-selling "Jason is My Idol", "Dreadhead", or "Dork Dance" tees! Come on over and reprazent. :) (MTV's John Norris is excused, of course.)

It's always a pleasure to see our customers happy with their purchases. If you're one of them, please don't hesitate to send us your photo wearing our merch.

UPDATE: ALL of our Jr. Jersey ladies' shirts are on SALE! Use coupon code 4JRJERSEY. Click HERE to see all the Jr. Jersey designs.

Related links:
- American Idol 7 Summer Tour T-shirts
- Idol shirts @ Poptastic

So I was just exploring my MySpace friends' pages when I came across this photo of the very pretty Elizabeth wearing our "Word Nerds Rock" tee. Naturally I was overcome with glee! Like any other t-shirt designer, seeing my designs out there gives me a huge thrill. :)


Elizabeth is wearing our original "Word Nerds Rock" design on a Jr. Jersey shirt.You may click the link or t-shirt image above to see our original design on different shirt styles & colors.

To see all the David Cook / American Idol 7 designs, click HERE.

By the way, great news - orders over $65 from today, July 8th through July 20th will be shipped for FREE! Yep you read that right, that's FREE shipping for orders within the US! Remember to use coupon code 'freesummer'.

Lastly, if you've got photos of yourself wearing any of our shirts, do send it to us! Always a pleasure seeing our designs on people who appreciate them. :)

* Thank you Elizabeth for rockin' our shirt and for allowing me to post your photo here!

Related post:
- American Idol summer tour shirt suggestions