Cardenas Varsity Arch mug

About this cardenas gift

Cardenas is a family name, which means the person who'd wear this gift probably belongs to a big, loud group that gathers for birthdays, holidays and the occasional reunion. A shirt with the family name is how a Cardenas family finds each other in a crowded backyard and how everyone ends up in the same photo. The name also travels: cousins move away, marry in, and end up in other cities, and a shirt or mug with the name is a small reminder of where they come from. For a grandparent or the family's matriarch or patriarch, a mug in the kitchen where everyone eventually lands is hard to beat. Add a reunion year, a hometown or the names of the grandparents on a second line and the design stops being generic and starts being the family's own. If you're organizing for a group, the Team Shop lets you pick one design and paste each person's first name, so every shirt prints with its own name and nobody has to pass a size chart around.