Alright, I was on the fence about posting this while it is in Etsy store phase (my web building friend is taking forever and a day to get the freestanding site up) but well I'd love to be able to maybe make a few sales so I can afford to order more materials.

lol it's hard starting a business when unemployed and with little start up capitol... but thankfully so many great artists were willing to help support this start up phase by contributing designs.

So thanks so much to d3d, Mezo, Wotto, Wullagaru, Steven218, Travis76, and last but not least Isaboa for contributing designs and working with me on the early color restrictions.

So here it is...



empire of color




But everything is handmade, and the screen printing was done by a very good company who I think did an amazing job.

Anyone else notice the little line in the newsletter saying :

Who's excited to go back to school?

Could it be a hint we'll see the sale next monday??

Well this is just weird....

*edit*

My friend who was working on my site having problems with the coding and is sorta flaking out and says he has no idea when he get finish the site for me. Unfortunately for me I need a site pretty soon in order to start selling stuff!

Sooo.... if anyone is good at website stuff and wouldn't mind lending a hand in getting something up for me that would be great!

I can pay a small fee now or maybe work out some sorta payment plan? Or even figure out some sort of an exchange of items for the work? I can sew really well and I also do fiber arts like fabric painting and batik etc.

Ok well I'm totally depressed.. I had like my first job interview in months and I'm sure I didn't get it. Anyways there was alot of miscommunication of information that was given to me and they're blaming me for it even though I followed the directions I was given. I'm just so upset. lol.. I tried icecream but I don't feel better.. and I have no beer in the apartment... so what do you do to feel better? Usually my cat is very cuddly and makes me happy but he's sleeping in the clothes hamper and not available for cuddling since he seems so happy in there. Anyways I'll probably delete this in a bit since the whole mess is embarassing.

UPDATE July 30th

Adding Link of Tees that I have not reconstructed yet. I will be getting to them in due time though so if you want to request one custom made for you please do so quickly before I cut it up and reconstruct it however I want to. :P

Customs will be in the same price range as the others $40-50 depending on how much work and how much extra fabric I need and if I need to buy extras like buttons or ribbons etc.

Available Tee Flickr Set

UPDATE July 29th

Added Electro Love Boat Select. I really like the way this one turned out with the wide ties at the shoulders. The ties can be just knotted or tied into a bow like shown as they're not fixed. $40

Sorry for the crappy picture but this is what happens when I let the boyfriend take the pictures.. lol he didn't even wait for me to pose or smile. hehe I'm just lucky my eyes are open :P




UPDATE July 26th

Just added Rollin' Hatin Select Reconstruction. This one was crazy tough since the whole back was damaged with a black grease. I reconstructed it as a deep scoop back halter top. There is a medium purple tie around the neck and a dark purple band from front to back that keeps the girls from falling out the sides ;) it can also be used to hide a bra band. I did one version of this and it didn't work so I had to pullt he whole thing apart and start again. $45

Pictures below.. I apologize for my icky sunburn lines :P



UPDATE July 23rd

Symbol or Signifier Select reconstruction. Cut off the top of the tee and added a deep purple tank style top. Added a patchwork overlay of pieces of top of the shirt that was cut off. Edges were bound with an extra strip of the purple fabric and secured with a zig-zag stitch. The design is a little off kilter and not 100% centered and the hem has a teeny irregularity where the front was only a quarter of an inch longer in the front.. I liked it so when I put the front and back together I left the irregularity in the hem. Going to have to say $45 for this one because of all the extra labor that went into it.



UPDATE July 9th
I Got Another Whale is finished and available. I cut the design out and carefully placed it ontop of a made from scratch Heather Grey tee that I made. The tee has a wide slightly scooped ballet neck. The overlay is held on with a grey zig-zag stitch along the edge done twice with a single straight black stitch along the edges of the cat and the whale where is is very unobtrusive to the design.. as you can see in the picture the stitch is hardly visable but it add extra durability and strength to the design patch. $40


UPDATE July 5th
Attack of Literacy is now available! This fits much closer to a girly medium than a girly large tee (as you can see it's a bit tight on me) but it came out super cute. The straps were a pain to figure out so I have to charge a little more for this one. To be sold to Ladykat. :)


Round Two:
Not too many this time... only two so far.. I'm working on Attack of Literacy right now but it's not going to be done till probably tomorrow.

ps sorry for the crappy photos.. I had to take them myself and I accidentally had the camera on the wrong setting so the pics look kinda grainy. :/ but it's enough to get the idea across for the moment. I'll get better pics as soon as I can bribe the boyfriend to take them.

Patchwork reconstructed as a tunic / dress. It is actually long enough to be worn as a dress :) I just hate my legs so I'm wearing it as a tunic with jeans. True size large fit, although this can be easily reduced down to a medium if the buyer wants. $40


Ci'trust me its Moving reconstructed as a cutie cross-back tank top. This one runs small much closer to a medium than a large as you can see it's really snug on me. $40


Ok well this is my first batch of reconstructions :) All shirts are about the equivalent of a girly large tee.

*Edit* All Designs below are now listed at www.LillianDietel.etsy.com

Serenade patched over an aeropostale tissue tee with some other bird screenprint on it. Colored thread is stitched through the design to add texture and to secure the overlay to the shirt. - Holding for miss Twiggyhall :)


MP3 turned into an extra long tunic top with a ruffle on the collar and a bold white stripe around the middle. $30


Ignorance is Bliss made into a fun tanktop with added black detailing on the straps and hem. $35 (I liked this one so much I made 2 so I could keep one! hehe)


The Doomsday Select made into a ruched tank with a black ribbon made of teeshirt material that ties in the back. SOLD!

The backside


And last but not least I have Adorable Disaster made into a cute haltertop. Halter is double layered with material in the errmm chest area for more durability. $35


There are more pictures of all of the tees on my flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/pyralis16/ I'm even modeling them all so you can see better how they look.

Anyways all reconstructions are for sale and unless called for here will be going up on www.LillianDietel.etsy.com later tonight when I get around to reformatting all the photos to the square etsy format.

ok well i'm kinda bored tonight. my bf's already gone to bed since he works in the middle of the night and i need something to do. i've been sewing all week so i'm just taking a teensy break from that and will get back to it later on. there will be photos in day or so of the sewing projects ;)

i'm kinda thinking of maybe dying my hair. lol :) i just can't decide if i want to go red or black. right now its kinda brown with these lighter colored blondish brown streaks. hehe when the cherry red streaks washed out i was left with these weird bleached hair clumps. but i've never done black before and am tempted to try it but am afraid to because it's almost impossible to color over black if i hate it.

Yay! heheh I just emailed threadspotting with a newly spotted tee! Andrew wore Florence Nightingale on Top Chef tonight. heheh I was so excited I took a video of it with my camera and emailed threadspotting immediately. Hopefully they pick it for their blog post!

Ok well I've refined my handbags even more and am pretty sure I'm ready to set up a website of my own as etsy won't work for the new direction.

I've been dredging craigslist looking for a person to build the site and was curious how much is a reasonable price is? The prices I'm seeing are really all over the board and well being unemployed I can't afford a really expensive fee.

I'm so dissapointed... what with my personal issues I'm having and now this. I can't believe that it only got 2.08 and the number of people who voted is pretty low. I worked so so so hard on this one too.