October was an extremely busy month for all of us here at Collar Factory.  Just the way we like it!  Orders coming and going! Now we’re gearing up for the holiday season…with all of the special events and gatherings with family and friends.   A Collar Factory custom-made collar would be a wonderful gift for many people in your life – young and old.  Imagine a collar made with the colors of a favorite sports team!  Add to that the team name! WOW!!! What a wonderful gift for yourself, your best friend, sister, brother, mother or father! Heck!  You can even order one for your dog!   Unique and custom made.  Just imagine all of the color combinations and the lettering. Double Strap or Single Strap. Lined in Lamb or Faux Fur…or not at all. Gems or Studs or plain.  YOU decide!  Purple/Gold/White (L.A. Lakers), Blue/Orange/Black/White/Silver (N.Y. Knicks),  Blue/Silver/White/Purple (Utah Jazz),  Green/White (Boston Celtics) and of course our favorite Black/Red/Silver/White (Portland Trailblazers).  Of course, then you have your high school and college team colors…

Orange and Black, Yellow and Green, Green and White and so on.

 So…don’t wait until the last minute to place your order!  Order early to ensure you get it in plenty of time for your gift giving, or for that special event.   For your One-Stop Christmas shopping!

We’re now have a presence on Twitter and Facebook!  Come Join Us! 

Summer is unofficially over….Labor Day is here and gone…time for the Big Yellow School Bus(es) to be picking up all of the kiddies (large and small) for the first weeks of school.. It’s always been my feeling that once school has started – summer is over, and fall is here. 

That being said…how about injecting a splash of seasonal color into you fall leather collar wardrobe.  We have some gorgeous ones…mustard, acorn brown, chocolate raspberry, orange, forest green, gold metallic, even the teal is a warm shade…and of course the ever so popular, sophisticated and elegant, go-with-anything “Black”.

Don’t forget the new gemocite gem studs…very naturalistic and resembling tumbled smooth stones…coming in green, red and purple.

We here at Collarfactory.com would like to thank each and every one of our customers for a wonderful year!  Wow, what an inspirational and creative bunch you are!  We have been amazed at all of  the designs our customers have come up with.

Thank you, as well, for the patience you have had during the month of December 2008. It has been a hectic one to say the least!  One last hurdle to the holidays…UPS will not be providing pickup on New Year’s Eve Day, so there will be a bit of a delay on any collars that we have ready to go out via UPS today.  But they will be shipping out with our regular shipment on Friday, when we return to the office.

 If ever you have a concern, please contact us…we are always happy to hear from you!

Have a wonderful and safe New Years!

Your Collarfactory.com Staff

As I’m sure many of you know, the FA: United convention is coming up in just a few months!

(Image borrowed from the FA:United banner ads.)

Because we’ve developed such a great relationship with Fur Affinity and the folks throwing the convention, Collar Factory is going to have a page in the Conbook.

This is where you come in: We have seen some truly stunning art on our forums, and we’d like to put some of that on our page.

The prize: $35 off your next collar or cuff purchase, credit for your art on the page, and extreme bragging rights. PLUS: After the contest, all entries will be posted on a special, contest-entries-only thread on the forums, because even if we don’t choose your image, we want everyone to see the beautiful work you’ve done.

The guidelines: Show us your character! Well, it doesn’t actually have to be your character, but we would like to see a furry/animated character. PG-rated, please - no nudity, sexuality, or violence. Please depict the character prominently wearing a Collar Factory collar and cuffs, since that’s what it’s all about!

Technical: You may submit your entry in any web-friendly format, but if selected, the graphic must be available to us in vector form (Illustrator) so that we can resize it as needed. Send entries to webmaster@collarfactory.com, with the subject line “Furry United Art Contest Entry.” Please keep all submissions under 2MB.

Due Date: May 1!

Please note: You will receive credit for your art on the page, but we will retain all rights pertaining to the use of the image.

For more information, please visit the contest forum thread.

Want special lettering or a specific design engraved on your Collar Factory collar or cuffs? We can’t do it in-house, but we just met someone who can! He can engrave almost anything onto almost any leather strap, and he can even do limited leather embroidery. Learn more about it on the forums.

The new additions to the customizer are finally LIVE!

This includes:

-Locking buckles (and padlocks offered in your cart for your convenience).
-Outer linings.
-5 new leather colors.
-Combining lettering with other decor elements!

And don’t forget: Come visit us tomorrow at the Vampire Ball!

xo,
Collar Factory

p.s. Want to get major announcements by email before they even hit the blog? Just go to the index page at collarfactory.com and click on “Get our e-newsletter.” We will only send out emails for major updates, and we will never sell or give out your contact information.

Collar Factory is vending at the 2008 Vampire Masquerade Ball! If you’ll be in the Portland area this weekend, come down to the Melody Ballroom for this luscious event, and make sure to head down to the vendors area to visit us. For those who haven’t gotten their first Collar Factory collar or cuff, we’ll have samples on hand, and postcards with special discount codes for everyone!

You may have noticed a little change around here - the “Premade Store” is gone! This is because there were never really any “premade” collars just hanging out around the Collar Factory. We took lots of pictures when we were first building the patterns for collars, and thought it would be helpful to provide examples of what you could build through the customizer.

But as time passed, we refined our techniques, and added tons of new leather colors and decor options. The “Premade Store” had just become confusing and out of date, so now we offer you: Collar Ideas! We post pictures of every awesome new collar and cuff that our customers build before we send them out the door, and we created the “Collar Ideas” page to encourage visitors to check these pictures out to get a better idea of what they can do with the almost infinite possibilities at the Collar Factory.

Keep an eye out for even more changes for 2008!

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