Akinz :: Find Your Wings » Events http://akinz.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:41:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Winter Bike to Work day and bike delivery http://akinz.com/blog/winter-bike-to-work-day-and-bike-delivery/ http://akinz.com/blog/winter-bike-to-work-day-and-bike-delivery/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:35:15 +0000 Suz http://akinz.com/?p=1195 Just because there’s snow on the ground doesn’t mean you have to put up your bike for the season. FC Bikes is putting on a Winter Bike to Work day with 17 breakfast stations sponsored by almost 50 local businesses. And if we expect you to get out there and ride your bike, we’re going to prove that we will too by offering Free Bike Delivery to be delivered on Bike to Work day. If you want us to bike … Read More

]]> Just because there’s snow on the ground doesn’t mean you have to put up your bike for the season. FC Bikes is putting on a Winter Bike to Work day with 17 breakfast stations sponsored by almost 50 local businesses. And if we expect you to get out there and ride your bike, we’re going to prove that we will too by offering Free Bike Delivery to be delivered on Bike to Work day. If you want us to bike something to you, use promo code BIKEIT at checkout. Please refer to our bike delivery zone before ordering.


Tandem foxes design by local artist, Allie Ogg, with a small center back print of the commemorative bike to work 2011 tree. To help with the temp on your morning commute, we decided to make the bike to work shirt a bike to work sweatshirt in addition to the tshirt. $4 of each sweatshirt sale and $2 of each tshirt sale will be donated to the Fort Collins Bikes program to help improve your daily commute in the future.

Fort Collins winter bike to work day

]]> http://akinz.com/blog/winter-bike-to-work-day-and-bike-delivery/feed/ 0 Beanie Bash and Scavenger Hunt http://akinz.com/blog/beanie-bash-and-scavenger-hunt/ http://akinz.com/blog/beanie-bash-and-scavenger-hunt/#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:02:16 +0000 Suz http://akinz.com/?p=1173 Akinz is hosting a Beanie Bash party on Thursday the 13th of October at our new showroom space. And we’re sending you guys on a scavenger hunt to get excited for the party and to win free beanies. We’re hiding beanies all over Fort Collins. Some we are leaving for you without leaving clues behind and others will have clues supplied on our Facebook page.

If you find a mini beanie, you will win either a $5 off coupon, $10 … Read More

]]> Akinz is hosting a Beanie Bash party on Thursday the 13th of October at our new showroom space. And we’re sending you guys on a scavenger hunt to get excited for the party and to win free beanies. We’re hiding beanies all over Fort Collins. Some we are leaving for you without leaving clues behind and others will have clues supplied on our Facebook page.

If you find a mini beanie, you will win either a $5 off coupon, $10 off coupon, free t-shirt, free t-shirt with beanie purchase, or free custom beanie. If you take a picture with your mini beanie and send it to us at suzanne@akinz.com then you’ll also be entered to win a free hoodie. Keep an eye out around town and on our Facebook Page for hints to nab one.

Akinz Beanie Bash and Scavenger Hunt Fort Collins

Party details:

When: Thursday, October 13th 6:00pm – 10:00pm
What: Sales, deals, and free bevvies (for those 21 and up with a FB rsvp).
Why: To celebrate the start of winter and our new permanent custom beanie creation station.

Please RSVP on Facebook: Beanie Bash Facebook Event

and please ride your bike if you plan on drinking.

]]> http://akinz.com/blog/beanie-bash-and-scavenger-hunt/feed/ 0 CommuniTEE Night with Articulate City http://akinz.com/blog/communitee-night-with-articulate-city/ http://akinz.com/blog/communitee-night-with-articulate-city/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:02:45 +0000 Suz http://akinz.com/?p=1146 T-shirt printing party with Articulate City

Next week, the 19th of July, the ladies from Articulate City (a great Fort Collins art community) are rounding up their pARTiers to come over to the Akinz showroom to print some of their own t-shirts, drink some booze, snack on some yumminess and hang out. Here’s what they have to say about the event:

“If you haven’t heard about Suzanne Akin’s awesome screen-print tee shirts, get ready to get educated. Articulate City has partnered with Akinz Boardwear to host … Read More

]]> T-shirt printing party with Articulate City

Next week, the 19th of July, the ladies from Articulate City (a great Fort Collins art community) are rounding up their pARTiers to come over to the Akinz showroom to print some of their own t-shirts, drink some booze, snack on some yumminess and hang out. Here’s what they have to say about the event:

“If you haven’t heard about Suzanne Akin’s awesome screen-print tee shirts, get ready to get educated. Articulate City has partnered with Akinz Boardwear to host a screen-printing extravaganza at the new Akinz studio. Event-goers will meet on bike in Old Town Square and then ride over to the store’s location. Afterall, Akinz Boardwear is all about biking and reducing your carbon footprint! For those not privy to two-wheels, feel free to meet us there.

Upon arrival, guests will be able to sip cocktails and snack on appetizers. You’ll be able to mingle with fellow Articulate City members as well as others from the Fort Collins community, while printing your own Akinz tee! You can choose your own ink and tee shirt colors. Get creative! To top it off, you’ll be using a brand new custom design, which will be kept secret until closer to the event date. (Keep up with us on Facebook for clues.)

Come hang out, make a shirt and have a drink with us at Fort Collins’ newest, local clothing store.”

Price for the party is $20 for members and $30 for non-members which includes your t-shirt, drinks, and appetizers. Check out the rest of the details here and RSVP and pay to reserve your spot here.

]]> http://akinz.com/blog/communitee-night-with-articulate-city/feed/ 0 Bike to Work Week and Bike Accessories http://akinz.com/blog/bike-to-work-week-and-bike-accessories/ http://akinz.com/blog/bike-to-work-week-and-bike-accessories/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:47:05 +0000 Suz http://akinz.com/?p=1135

Fort Collins Bike to Work Day is tomorrow and so far we’ve raised almost $200 for the Fort Collins Bike Co-op! You have until the end of June to buy your bike t-shirt and benefit the Fort Collins Bike Co-op. You can buy your bike tshirts here. That also means that today is the last day to put in your order to be hand-delivered by yours truly by bike tomorrow (June 22nd). Don’t live in Fort Collins city limits? … Read More

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Fort Collins Bike to Work Day is tomorrow and so far we’ve raised almost $200 for the Fort Collins Bike Co-op! You have until the end of June to buy your bike t-shirt and benefit the Fort Collins Bike Co-op. You can buy your bike tshirts here. That also means that today is the last day to put in your order to be hand-delivered by yours truly by bike tomorrow (June 22nd). Don’t live in Fort Collins city limits? Surprise a friend with a bike-delivered gift! Just choose By Bike as your delivery method by 10pm tonight and you’ll get added to our route.

We also are joining up with Big Shot Bikes and the Fort Collins Emergency Vet Clinic to host a Bike to Work Day breakfast station on the Poudre Trail at Riverside and Lemay. Come say hi, buy your bike shirt, and snag a La Luz burrito on your way to work (or another breakfast station).

With all this BikeStravaganza Frenzy going on, we’ve been inspired to create some bike pendants and necklaces. We have both bike scrabble pendants and laser-cut acrylic bike necklaces (modeled above by Houdini) rolling in on the site soon. Check them out in our Jewelry and Accessories section.

]]> http://akinz.com/blog/bike-to-work-week-and-bike-accessories/feed/ 0 Akinz at the Northern Colorado Bike Expo http://akinz.com/blog/akinz-at-the-northern-colorado-bike-expo/ http://akinz.com/blog/akinz-at-the-northern-colorado-bike-expo/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:43:44 +0000 Suz http://akinz.com/?p=1133 We just confirmed our space to be out at the Northern Colorado Bicycle Expo on June 18th! We will be there with our Bike to Work benefit tees, the Bicycle Burst T-shirt and our Bikes are Fun t-shirt of course, but will also be bringing along most of our summer line. As well as some brand new bike jewelry that has yet to be debuted! Hours of the expo will be from 10am to 6pm and you can find more … Read More

]]> We just confirmed our space to be out at the Northern Colorado Bicycle Expo on June 18th! We will be there with our Bike to Work benefit tees, the Bicycle Burst T-shirt and our Bikes are Fun t-shirt of course, but will also be bringing along most of our summer line. As well as some brand new bike jewelry that has yet to be debuted! Hours of the expo will be from 10am to 6pm and you can find more details about the seminars and events at the Noco Bike Expo website.
Northern Colorado Bike Expo at the Ranch

]]> http://akinz.com/blog/akinz-at-the-northern-colorado-bike-expo/feed/ 0 Bike to Work Tees and Bike Delivery! http://akinz.com/blog/bike-to-work-tees-and-bike-delivery/ http://akinz.com/blog/bike-to-work-tees-and-bike-delivery/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:54:34 +0000 Suz http://akinz.com/?p=1122 Northern Colorado bike month is back and that means so are our Bike Tees and Bike Delivery programs! The bike to work tee were so successful last year that we made several different bike t-shirt design options for you this year! You can see them all in our featured bike t-shirt product page. As last year, $2 of each Bike to Work t-shirt sold will be donated to the Fort Collins Bike Co-op.

Plus, now that we are … Read More

]]> Northern Colorado bike month is back and that means so are our Bike Tees and Bike Delivery programs! The bike to work tee were so successful last year that we made several different bike t-shirt design options for you this year! You can see them all in our featured bike t-shirt product page. As last year, $2 of each Bike to Work t-shirt sold will be donated to the Fort Collins Bike Co-op.

Plus, now that we are in the month of June, local Fort Collins shoppers can choose to have their order delivered “By Bike” during checkout. This offers free shipping and we will personally bike your order to your house on Bike to Work Day, June 22nd. If the demand is there, we will be keeping Bike Delivery available as an option for the rest of the summer as well.

In addition to these things, this year we are teaming up with Big Shot Bikes and Fort Collins Emergency Vet Hospital to host a breakfast station on Bike To Work Day. Our breakfast station will be located along the Poudre Trail at Riverside and S. Lemay.

Fort Collins Bike to Work Day t-shirts benefitting the Fort Collins Bike Co-op

]]> http://akinz.com/blog/bike-to-work-tees-and-bike-delivery/feed/ 0 New Space update! http://akinz.com/blog/new-space-update/ http://akinz.com/blog/new-space-update/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 20:02:56 +0000 Suz http://akinz.com/?p=1091 So… space is finally somewhat starting to come together, which is great considering the party is tomorrow. (umm… not ready). But, I thought I’d share some of the new stuff with you guys. Most importantly, we have a mini-fridge! And it is stocked with the essentials (AKA: lots of beer, a few Dr. Peppers, boxed wine, and LOTS of cheese balls).

One of the challenges we had as far as screen printing in the new space is that there wasn’t … Read More

]]> So… space is finally somewhat starting to come together, which is great considering the party is tomorrow. (umm… not ready). But, I thought I’d share some of the new stuff with you guys. Most importantly, we have a mini-fridge! And it is stocked with the essentials (AKA: lots of beer, a few Dr. Peppers, boxed wine, and LOTS of cheese balls).

One of the challenges we had as far as screen printing in the new space is that there wasn’t a separate room that we could use as a darkroom to make screens, so our solution was to build a light proof screen drying cabinet to store screens and use UV safe lighting when the cabinet was open or we were coating them. This kinda tested Bumpas’ carpentry skills. He worked on it for over a week straight, but he got it finished a few weeks ago so I could start printing summer stuff. And now, I finally painted it a couple days ago.

Screen drying cabinet

Everything is finally starting to come together… just in time. Now I just might have time to finish some of the shirts I wanted to print for the party. More updates as the day goes on!

]]> http://akinz.com/blog/new-space-update/feed/ 4 Akinz is Growing Up http://akinz.com/blog/akinz-is-growing-up/ http://akinz.com/blog/akinz-is-growing-up/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 19:48:31 +0000 Suz http://akinz.com/?p=1081 If you are our friend/fan on Facebook, you’ve probably seen a few pictures of the new office space we starting renting in Fort Collins. I’ve been a little absent on the web as we’ve been doing some remodeling trying to get it ready for the public, so we thought we’d show you what we’ve been up to… and share with you some of the woes of fixing up an ugly space to something I can deal with.

First off, here … Read More

]]> If you are our friend/fan on Facebook, you’ve probably seen a few pictures of the new office space we starting renting in Fort Collins. I’ve been a little absent on the web as we’ve been doing some remodeling trying to get it ready for the public, so we thought we’d show you what we’ve been up to… and share with you some of the woes of fixing up an ugly space to something I can deal with.

First off, here it is pre-move-in:


So… it’s a little rugged, you might say. About 5 different floor coverings, some pretty ugly “updates” circa 1980′s and some creative paint choices from the previous tenant (you didn’t even get to see all the different colors the bathroom is decked out in). So, I added a little color and painted one of the big wrap-around walls “Akinz” turquoise. And then the next step I wanted to take was to rip out that nasty brown carpet seen above… which was hiding some nasty brown linoleum on only half of the room (seen below).


That was not a happy site to see. I was so determined at that point that I was going to stain the concrete that I decided to forge ahead (bad idea) with trying to rip up the linoleum. It didn’t come up all in one piece. It left the gooey cardboard part (apparently called mastic) which was a pain to get up. After about 10 collective hours of 2 of us scraping and scratching with probably all the wrong tools, this is how far we had gotten…

We finally went and bought a better scraper system (by this time we’ve probably spent enough at Home Depot to have paid someone to do this for us) and got the rest finished in a less painful 3-4 hours. After that comes the etching. I hadn’t read the bottle before I was ready. It said I needed protective rubber gloves and rubber boots. Considering I was not ready to make another Home Depot trip at this point, here was my solution… make shift moon boots:

Finally though, we have the concrete painted and soon we will be able to move furniture into this room. This may be really unimportant for you, but you don’t even know what kind of victory this is for me:

]]> http://akinz.com/blog/akinz-is-growing-up/feed/ 0 2nd Annual Sunglasses at Night Party http://akinz.com/blog/2nd-annual-sunglasses-at-night-party-2/ http://akinz.com/blog/2nd-annual-sunglasses-at-night-party-2/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:10:25 +0000 Suz http://akinz.com/?p=924 Well, the long-awaited 2nd annual Sunglasses at Night Party has come and gone and it was amazing! I brought more than double the number of glasses as we had people last year and we ran out of glasses at 10:45! For those of you that didn’t get sunnies, I’m sorry! At least you got free cover. The place was packed, drinks were flowing, people were dancing.

Party started at 9pm, right after the Steamboat Park Challenge’s Akinz Fly By Night … Read More

]]> Well, the long-awaited 2nd annual Sunglasses at Night Party has come and gone and it was amazing! I brought more than double the number of glasses as we had people last year and we ran out of glasses at 10:45! For those of you that didn’t get sunnies, I’m sorry! At least you got free cover. The place was packed, drinks were flowing, people were dancing.

Party started at 9pm, right after the Steamboat Park Challenge’s Akinz Fly By Night Big Air and went hard until closing time. Thanks to the Sweetwater Grill for hosting and to DJ Theory for jamming dance-worthy tunes.


]]> http://akinz.com/blog/2nd-annual-sunglasses-at-night-party-2/feed/ 0 2nd Annual Sunglasses at Night Party http://akinz.com/blog/2nd-annual-sunglasses-at-night-party/ http://akinz.com/blog/2nd-annual-sunglasses-at-night-party/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:27:53 +0000 Suz http://akinz.com/?p=865 After the ‘Fly by Night’ Big Air comp at Howelsen Hill, head over to Sweetwater Grill for the 2nd Annual Sunglasses at Night Party.

$5 cover gets you a pair of our new colors of the Shenanakinz sunglasses (your choice of teal, white, or plum — retail value $15), drink specials, and a chance to win free Akinz schwag.

Music by DJ Theory

Last year was killer at Amante, but since we ran them out of liquor 3x in one … Read More

]]> After the ‘Fly by Night’ Big Air comp at Howelsen Hill, head over to Sweetwater Grill for the 2nd Annual Sunglasses at Night Party.

$5 cover gets you a pair of our new colors of the Shenanakinz sunglasses (your choice of teal, white, or plum — retail value $15), drink specials, and a chance to win free Akinz schwag.

Music by DJ Theory

Last year was killer at Amante, but since we ran them out of liquor 3x in one night, we figured we would find a larger venue.. so come out to Sweetwater Grill.

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