Chaotic Luxury

We’ve lost a few members… and we’ve gained a newbie or two. So we’re kind of revamping our vendors… know anyone interested? Have them contact me

We’re doing a stocking tomorrow- in honor of Memorial Day and America. Check us out!

Stocking tomorrow!

OH and

all of my diaper stuff is still marked down because I’m still trying to get it all out of here…
And if you use code BLOG you can get an additional 15% off of your total order

So pass that along!

Here’s a link to the stuff that’s marked down
http://taterbean.wahmweb.biz/store/WsDefault.asp?onSale=On%20Sale

Lots of pics of dyed stuff :)

Earth prefold & tee set

Princess Dress

Octopus tote- I am not happy with the way this came out.

Star baby bunting

LWI Lap tees

Tie dye lap tees

Onesie & Playsilk set

Scrunchies

Bathing suit

And this playsilk… I didn’t tie it up with rubber bands like normal, just kind of painted the colors on randomly after I folded it up. I LOVE IT and I have no clue if I can ever repeat it

Some pics of the dying process

My tie dye towels

I use vases for LWI… I prefer them to be clear so I can see if even the bottom got saturated.

This one I was attempting to do it patriotic, red white & blue
BUT… just five minutes later the dye had spread

Custom Tie Dye Tutorial

I’m not going to give away all my secrets…

1. Decide to open customs.
2. Set them up on the store’s website. This takes up to two hours. Why? Because I have to go in and manually mark them all as unsold to get them to show up on the site. I could leave them up all the time, but then people would order them when customs aren’t open and it’s a huge pain in my butt. I don’t get the wholesale discount when I don’t order in bulk, add in shipping and time and energy and I end up paying them to take my stuff.
3. Send email announcing customs are open and spam places I post.
4. Take orders. This is the easy part LOL
5. Verify those orders- you want pink and brown tie dye but you don’t it to look too girly… um…
6. Close customs. Again, a couple hours individually marking them all sold. My store saves EVERY product I’ve ever listed, even if it’s long gone, so I have to sort though tons of products in the behind the scenes part of my webpage.
7. Print out each order.
8. Place wholesale order for blanks.
9. Tap feet until it arrives.
10. Open huge box of white clothes and sort everything. Make sure they sent everything I ordered, in the right sizes. Make sure I ordered everything I needed to.
11. Wash and dry all the blanks. Sometimes this can take two or three loads of laundry. Don’t use dryer sheets or fabric softener.
12. While the stuff is washing, prep the dyes. I have over thirty colors, so I go through the list and figure out what ones I need for the order, and measure and mix them all in the squirt bottles. This takes up my whole counter LOL
13. Resort all the dried blanks into piles of LWI and tie dye.
14. Take all the stuff to be tie dyed & soak in soda ash fixer for 30 minutes- overnight, depending on what is going on in my house. I do this in a bucket in my sink. The bucket holds maybe…. 4 grown up sized tee shirts. So this takes a LONG time.
15. Hand wring out everything that’s been soaked. Again this takes forever and hurts my hands. I often make Aaron do it when he’s home LOL
16. Rubber band up all the stuff to be tie dyed. I have a lot of rubber bands. I do this on my kitchen floor, because my counter is covered in the dye I prepped.
17. Then I spread out my tie dye towels. When I first started, I took an old bath towel to put under the stuff I was dying, to soak up the extra dye. I’ve now got probably at least eight LOL
18. Dye up stuff, often stopping to mix more dye of the popular colors.
19. Put everything in plastic shopping bags and let sit over night.
20. Wash tie dye towels.
21. Repeat steps 12-20 if there’s more than what would be one small load of laundry… as many times as needed. This time- it was three.
22. Get the LWI stuff ready- put each blank in it’s own container
23. I mix the dyes for that in an old baby bottle as I use them, because I don’t usually need a whole 8 ounces from my squirt bottles.
24. LWI dye stuff, and let sit for 60 minutes.
25. Once that’s done, pour soda ash solution over each LWI dyed blank.
26. Let sit 20 minutes.
27. Rinse each item separately by hand and wring out.
28. Throw in the washer, and set to extra large load, even though it’s only a small load. Rinse twice.
29. Then wash & dry all the LWI stuff.
30. Repeat steps 22-29 if there’s more LWI than what fits in my containers. This time it I didn’t need to repeat these ones
31. By then it’s the next day, and I can rinse and hand wring out the tie dyed stuff.
32. Rinse twice in the washer, same as the LWI, small load size, with extra large size amount of water.
33. Wash and dry all the tie dyed stuff.
34. Then I hand stamp all the stuff that needs stamps.
35. Let the stamped stuff sit for 24 hours.
36. Package up all the dyed stuff with their proper order form.
37. Print postage.
38. Ship.
39. Pray it doesn’t get abducted by the postal workers.
40. Pray the recipients like my work.

Small stocking

I’ve stocked a few LWI dyed prefolds (all premium size) and a couple new playsilks over on my main site.

The diaper sell out continues- get them while you can… I won’t be reordering diapering products aside from the occasional prefold to dye.

In addition to those items, I’ve added another skein of sock  yarn to the Hyena Cart and six LWI dyed KL0s from the outlet.  They all go live tomorrow at noon

Ooo Pretties

My husband is deployed, so last night I made three matching deployment bracelets. I made each of the girls one that says Daddy and mine says Aaron. I got a support ribbon charm for each, but forgot the sterling silver jump rings, so I’ll have to add them later. I used all sterling silver letters and findings and swarovski crystal beads. The girls love their Daddy bracelets

HC Stocking

The new yarn as well as a few I’d never gotten around to listing are stocking tomorrow on my Hyena cart

http://hyenacart.com/ApplePieBaby/

Yarny Goodness!

Sock yarn:

and my purple experiment LOL
2 skeins dyed together, 3 oz each… worsted weight wool