Newest Thirtyonewest Photo Shoot + Products

This past Saturday I was suppose to have a 3 person photo shoot - but I ended up having only one person who could make it - which is my friend, Lindsay. Here's a few of the edited pictures I have so far:

 This dress is super cute! It's oversized & slouchy - not to mention reversible! Yep, this awesome dress has two different sides - woohoo!

 There are a few more I haven't uploaded - but this is mainly it! I really like taking pictures of things - photography is part of what I went to school for. I tend to get into the photography mood when I take pictures for my shop & I don't know if that's a good thing or not? Like, if you skim through a lot of other vintage sites - they just have either mannequins modeling their clothing or have boring models with a plain white background. Which I guess draws all the attention to the product - but I think a good setting also draws interest to the picture? Maybe that's just me. Dfsdfsdlofdslflfdsfl - I'm rambling again. Just me, talking like i'm a photographer of some sort :P baha. 

I'm suppose to do another shoot for a different girl on Tuesday. She wanted me to actually just shoot some pictures of her for her fashion portfolio because she said she liked my photography - so I told her I'd do it as long as she modeled for my shop :) Yay! Someone who likes my pictures! Woot!

It's rather late, I am just the only one up & felt like typing a blog about pictures at 2 a.m.

My New Hobby

Today, i've been at home allllll by myself! :( My mom went to Carowinds with her work & Joshua is currently at work. So today I decided to make cut-off dyed shorts.

I've done these once before, it's very easy and cheap to do them. I use jeans (vintage and modern brand name ones) and cut them. I don't spend a lot or pay retail for the jeans that I dye. I get the ones I use mostly from yard sales (sometimes Goodwill). All of the cut-off shorts in the pictures I've posted I have gotten from yard sales and flea markets. I didn't pay over $1 per pair (mostly $.50 each) - and they're modern brands!

All you do is boil water, and mix the dye (I use Tulip fabric dye) and salt and dip or tie up the shorts in rubber bands  to do a certain style. Afterwards, I always decorate mine with studs or I throw some bleach splashes on them. I also use an Xacto knife to make slits in them to give them a 'destressed' look I guess you could say.

All the sizes of the shorts in the picture are different. I don't just get jeans my size - since I do own my own shop, I LOVE creating these to re-sell! It's fun to make different colors with different designs. Customs are always fun too.

But now it's about to storm, and i'm still home alone :( So I better go gather my kitties before they get all wet and dirty outside.