Tuesday, February 25, 2014

DIY tye dye shorts!


Hello readers, it's blog Tuesday! Today I am doing a DIY on dyed shorts! There is no wrong color, or way we can do this! All you need are a the following 


-bleach jeans/shorts 
-scissors/xacto knife
-fabric dye
-garbage bag 
-hot water 
-washer and dryer
-studs (optional)
(Check out our etsy page for a great deal on clothing studs) 



In my case I acccidently left these shorts in bleach, so I figured why not dye them? I have these dye lying around! These bottled ones actually say to put it in the laundry then dye it that way, but that means I can only use one color, I figured it would still work like the regular rit dye. 


So first things first you want to have a pair a jeans and cut them into shorts (if you desire) and make sure you bleach them, the dye won't take to the blue denim. For these particular shorts I had no vision I wanted shorts I wanted something fun and different. 


I took old dye bottles I had laying around and put the dye and some hot water in it I did about equal parts. But I'm pretty sure whatever dye you will have the directions.    


Take your shorts and lay the on the trash bag, this could get messy. I just took the purple and put it on first then the redish pink then back to the purple. Some spots I kind of missed so I took the yellow and just put it on those spots! 




I think they look awesome but I wanted to give them more of something so while they were wet I gave them a few more shreds it was easier a that way and I wanted to do it nephew I put it in the laundry to give it that distressed look. 





So here are the shorts all done! 

I felt like they could use some studs so I added a few! These shorts came out awesome! 

And here a couple we made in the past and if you love these shorts and aren't a fan of DIY. Shoot us an email and we can do them for you! 



QOTD - the choices today, shape your world tomorrow 

Thursday, February 20, 2014

we are sorry for hiatus!

Hello Motley lovers! We are sorry for the absence of our blog posts! It seems sometimes in life we lose sight of the things that matter most to us. This blog being one of them. We really want to be able to share our thoughts with you through this blog site. We want are readers to get to know us on a more personal level rather then a business level. And it seems this blogging site is the right way to do it.










For our readers we want you to understand what we do for creativity, weather it be, if we redecorate, make a fun craft or how we made our latest selling shorts. We want you to be able to open our page and find something you would love to read. We are more than just a business, we are real people with real thoughts that would like to share them with you!


As far as the future goes we promise consistency with new post every Tuesday and better lighting in our photos too! We are learning new things everyday and it wouldn't be fair to not share them with our readers we hope you can forgive us! Hop back on this train with us and lets expand our creativity together!


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QOTD
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