How To Tie Dye Dot Net website updated!

Yeah Mon! I&I have been working for a while on the www.howtotiedye.net website and I feel like I finally have it ready to go, only about a year after I made it so not too bad!

So there are two lessons online, one how to make a rasta spiral and the other on how to tie dye a camo peace sign shirt. But the great thing about tie dye is one pattern can be dyed many different ways for great unique results.

Yeah the site has been ranking on the first page of Google searches too!!

Let me know what you think about the site! PEace!

Made By Hippies 100th Tie Dye Sale on Etsy!

Yeah Mon! I&I just got our 100th sale on etsy today. I joined etsy on Jan 20th, 2009. So that's just about 5 months so I am pretty happy. I have been making and selling tie dyes since 2006. Thanks to my wife Amanda for teaching me after we first met! I have really been working hard on my website since last fall and it has shown from the hits. On my website www.madebyhippies.com.I went from about 250 hits a month last summer to around 4,000 a month this year. It's all with my just writing my website using html code in my good old notepad program.

But yeah I am happy I joined etsy and I am happy to have made it to 100 sales. I would say until I got to about sale #20 or so things were kind of sporadic but ever since oh about the end of April I have had almost an order a day, I love it!!! Sales on my regular website have been picking up as well.

Peace!
Erik
http://madebyhippies.etsy.com

Made By Hippies Summer Tour - Oh Niner!

NW World Reggae Festival - Friday - Saturday - Sunday August 7th-8th-9th, 2009
Gresham Farmers Market & Gresham Art Walk Saturday July 18th 2009
Sandy Mountain Festival - July 11th-12th, 2009
Gresham Farmers Market - June 27th, 2009
Tigard Hot Air Balloon Festival - June 19th-20th-21st 2009
Gresham Farmers Market - June 13th, 2009

I&I am sick of the new internet

Yeah Mon! Just give me some notepad and good old HTML code. That I Overstand and Love. I have been making websites since 1999 and over the years have had a handful of sites that I worked on for years each and brought along the way from the early internet days to the new fangled internet junk of the year 2009.

I grew up in the NES generation. I was five when I got my Nintendo and loved it all my life. I always thought though that the kids who came after me would be even better at computers then me. Because I was good at them cause I grew up in the dawn of computers. From the first 286 computer we bought for like $2,000 when I was in the sixth grade to the various others along the years, the Pentium II, oh boy! But it seems in a way that for all the speed and performance that has been improved on (and of course the price of everything has dropped down) that what has suffered is the way people look at computers. They are no longer some cool thing that requires knowledge to use and understand but just a basic building block of life today. You can't even get a hamburger at McDonalds unless there are three computers involved in the process....

But what I am getting at is the new Internet just plain sucks. And what I mean by that is that the internet used to be a collection of websites that actual people made. There was some companies website or some tv shows website or a zillon billion fan sites for every topic around, Star Wars, Motorcyclces, Fraternity Life, whatever... But they all had a person behind them more or less... Then there was eBay back when you could actually find one of a kind things like at a garage sale.. now it seems like it's just stores selling stuff for a flat rate...

But what I am really getting at is that all these new Web 2.0 or Social Media websites are really dumbing down the internet and make people think that they are actually building a website or have a website of their own. But really you have no control over that crap... You uploaded your personal information to some central database of computers and gave them your email password so they could search your address book and find all your friends... index every human on the plant into a facebook profile... all data nicely lined up... but you are expressing yourself by choosing your own profile picture... and look your old college room mate that you didn't like then just invited you to join in on a mob raid with him... now that is bonding...

meanwhile there are all these websites that used to give people free websites, like angelfire or geocities or various others... you could make your own website from a blank slate and have it be any way you wanted... but you had to have a banner ad on the top, that sucked.. did it, how many banner ads are all over the websites now... and what the hell is with hotmail? everytime I go to check my email I have to look at ads of peoples big rolls of fat and trying to sell some diet pills... so don't tell me some crappy geocities top banner was crampin your style because internet ads have gotten out of hand now... well maybe those pop up ads that kept popping up two new ads for every one you closed, those did really suck...

but to prove me point here is the bottom line. if you make your own website and take a little time to actually learn a skill like writing some basic html code then you create it and it can be however you want. all those social sites are just full of crap and actual damage relationships with real friends more then anything... why ever write someone a real e-mail (much less a freakin letter) when you can just post it to their facebook wall...... but here is my case in point - so the last couple weeks I was trying to surf the wave and pull in some more hits for my tie dye website by promoting it on the social media websites. I was using the twitter to post updates about what I was working on tie dying and I had some feeds being posted there whenever I made a new blog post or posted an item on etsy. I was working on my twitter account for about a month and went from 3 followers to like 1300 in a few weeks... then bamn, twitter decided I was spamming people and suspended my account, bamn its gone. you don't own any of the content you work on to build on these social media websites, you think you own and account and have control, not so much. seriously I was not spamming people, I sent out like tops a dozen posts a day which if you have ever used the sites gets about 30 seconds of screen time I am sure... there are tons of scumbags trying to sell every pyramid scheme and adult program around on there and they boot the Swede for hustling some tie dyes?

Well screw twitter and facebook and all this shite.

I&I am rocking the web Oregon Gangsta style with a real website that I Erik typed all myself only using Notepad and html code.

So check it out at

Peace!http://www.madebyhippies.com

Daily digest for 12 Jun, 2009

Multi Color Tie Dye Baby T-Shirt (Size 6-12 Months) (American Apparel Organic Cotton) (One of a Kind)
_{11 Jun, 2009 - Etsy Shop for madebyhippies}

$20.00
Here is a Made By Hippies Multi Color Tie Dye Baby T-Shirt. It is made on an American Apparel brand Organic Cotton Baby T-Shirt in a size 6-12 Months. This is colorfast and preshrunk.

This one is $20 and that includes the shipping. This is a one of a kind item, once it's gone, it's gone!

In April 2009 we were hired by American Apparel to teach them how to tie dye at their factory in L.A. It was a great time and they even made a video about our trip down there. To view it check out YouTube and search for "Made By Hippies In Downtown LA."

Peace!

Green Smiley Face on Brown Tie Dye T-Shirt (One of a Kind) (Size M)
_{11 Jun, 2009 - Etsy Shop for madebyhippies}

$15.00
Here is a Made By Hippies tie dye. The pattern is a smiley face in green on a rust brown shirt. This is handmade by Erik using Procion Dye for a colorfast shirt. This is a Fruit of the Loom T-Shirt, already preshrunk, in a size Medium.

Peace!

Multi Color Tie Dye Baby Onesie (Size 3-6 Months) (American Apparel Organic Cotton) (One of a Kind)
_{11 Jun, 2009 - Etsy Shop for madebyhippies}

$20.00
Here is a Made By Hippies Multi Color Tie Dye Baby Onesie. It is made on an American Apparel brand Organic Cotton Baby Onesie in a size 3-6 Months. This is colorfast and preshrunk.

This one is $20 and that includes the shipping. This is a one of a kind item, once it's gone, it's gone!

In April 2009 we were hired by American Apparel to teach them how to tie dye at their factory in L.A. It was a great time and they even made a video about our trip down there. To view it check out YouTube and search for "Made By Hippies In Downtown LA."

Peace!

Rainbow Side Stripes Tie Dye Baby Onesie (Size 3-6 Months) (American Apparel Organic Cotton) (One of a Kind)
_{11 Jun, 2009 - Etsy Shop for madebyhippies}

$20.00
Here is a Made By Hippies Multi Color Tie Dye Baby Onesie. It is made on an American Apparel brand Organic Cotton Baby Onesie in a size 3-6 Months. This is colorfast and preshrunk.

This one is $20 and that includes the shipping. This is a one of a kind item, once it's gone, it's gone!

In April 2009 we were hired by American Apparel to teach them how to tie dye at their factory in L.A. It was a great time and they even made a video about our trip down there. To view it check out YouTube and search for "Made By Hippies In Downtown LA."

Peace!

Multi Color Tie Dye Baby Onesie (Size 3-6 Months) (American Apparel Organic Cotton) (One of a Kind)
_{11 Jun, 2009 - Etsy Shop for madebyhippies}

$20.00
Here is a Made By Hippies Multi Color Tie Dye Baby Onesie. It is made on an American Apparel brand Organic Cotton Baby Onesie in a size 3-6 Months. This is colorfast and preshrunk.

This one is $20 and that includes the shipping. This is a one of a kind item, once it's gone, it's gone!

In April 2009 we were hired by American Apparel to teach them how to tie dye at their factory in L.A. It was a great time and they even made a video about our trip down there. To view it check out YouTube and search for "Made By Hippies In Downtown LA."

Peace!

Multi Color Tie Dye Baby T-Shirt (Size 6-12 Months) (American Apparel Organic Cotton) (One of a Kind)
_{11 Jun, 2009 - Etsy Shop for madebyhippies}

$20.00
Here is a Made By Hippies Multi Color Tie Dye Baby T-Shirt. It is made on an American Apparel brand Organic Cotton Baby T-Shirt in a size 6-12 Months. This is colorfast and preshrunk.

This one is $20 and that includes the shipping. This is a one of a kind item, once it's gone, it's gone!

In April 2009 we were hired by American Apparel to teach them how to tie dye at their factory in L.A. It was a great time and they even made a video about our trip down there. To view it check out YouTube and search for "Made By Hippies In Downtown LA."

Peace!

Multi Color Tie Dye Baby Onesie (Size 3-6 Months) (American Apparel Organic Cotton) (One of a Kind)
_{11 Jun, 2009 - Etsy Shop for madebyhippies}

$20.00
Here is a Made By Hippies Multi Color Tie Dye Baby Onesie. It is made on an American Apparel brand Organic Cotton Baby Onesie in a size 3-6 Months. This is colorfast and preshrunk.

This one is $20 and that includes the shipping. This is a one of a kind item, once it's gone, it's gone!

In April 2009 we were hired by American Apparel to teach them how to tie dye at their factory in L.A. It was a great time and they even made a video about our trip down there. To view it check out YouTube and search for "Made By Hippies In Downtown LA."

Peace!

Made In Oregon Rainbow Tie Dye Baby Onesie (Size 3-6 Months) (American Apparel Organic Cotton) (One of a Kind)
_{11 Jun, 2009 - Etsy Shop for madebyhippies}

$20.00
Here is a Made By Hippies Multi Color Tie Dye Baby Onesie. It is made on an American Apparel brand Organic Cotton Baby Onesie in a size 3-6 Months. This is colorfast and preshrunk.

This one is $20 and that includes the shipping. This is a one of a kind item, once it's gone, it's gone!

In April 2009 we were hired by American Apparel to teach them how to tie dye at their factory in L.A. It was a great time and they even made a video about our trip down there. To view it check out YouTube and search for "Made By Hippies In Downtown LA."

Peace!

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Backyard Tie Dye Photo Shoot

My brother Lars and his girlfriend Jordan came over for dinner tonight and I pursuaded them into doing a tie dye photo shoot for me. The results turned out great, everything in the yard is nice and green now and the light was just right.

I have just started another kind of overhaul on the website, updating all the pages to the newest format and fixing and updating various parts as well as adding a few new pages.

I updated some of the photos too, so check them out!

Thanks for visiting http://www.madebyhippies.com

Gresham Farmers Market Gets Tie Dyed

Hey Now Folks,

Made By Hippies is back at the Gresham Farmers Market for our fith year in a row!

We have the best booth ever this year with a wide variety of awesome tie dyes. Everything from baby onesies to 4xl tie dye t-shirts with lots in between!

The Gresham Farmers Market is located in Downtown Gresham, Oregon and is open from 8:30am to 2pm every Saturday through the summer.

Come and check it out! Just look for our tie dye flags!

Peace,

Erik
www.madebyhippies.com

Made By Hippies Tie Dye Newsletter May, 2009

Made By Hippies Tie Dye Newsletter

May 19th, 2009

Making Tie Dyes Everyday in Every Way!

G'Day From Made By Hippies Dot Com!

Made By Hippies
Erik & Amanda
PO BOX #16162
Portland, Oregon 97292, U.S.A.
503-757-8558
erik@madebyhippies.com

Thanks for joining the Made By Hippies Tie Dye Newsletter. Our plan is to send out about one e-mail a month with some news about our tie dyes and where we will be vending as well as a special tie dye deal!

This has been a busy spring for Erik and Amanda working away in the tie dye studio. We had a great and unique opportunity in April when American Apparel Clothing Company in LA hired us to teach them how to tie dye! A video can be found on Youtube by searching for "made by hippies" the video can also be found on our website, www.madebyhippies.com

In April 2009 American Apparel hired us to teach them how to tie dye!


One Of A Kind Tie Dyes Now For Sale!
Made By Hippies is now offering one of a kind tie dyes in various sizes for sale for only $15 each including shipping. Each shirt is individually listed at etsy, which is like ebay for handmade goods. Our page can be found at http://madebyhippies.etsy.com

Please check it out! We also have a few items on sale too!
Special Tie Dye Deal of the Month!!!
MAy/June Tie Dye Special of the month is our Rainbow Egg Tie Dye T-Shirt.

Purchase using the paypal link in this email and get one on sale for just $15, including shipping! Now you can't beat a deal like that because it's Made By Hippies!

Rainbow Egg Tie Dye T-Shirt
*Offer only good during May and June 2009 and only for the Rainbow Egg t-shirt.

Made By Hippies 2009 Vending Dates
NW World Reggae Festival - Friday - Saturday - Sunday August 7th-8th-9th, 2009
Gresham Farmers Market & Gresham Art Walk Saturday July 18th 2009
Sandy Mountain Festival - July 11th-12th, 2009
Gresham Farmers Market - June 27th, 2009
Gresham Farmers Market - June 20th, 2009
Gresham Farmers Market - June 13th, 2009
Gresham Farmers Market - June 6th, 2009
Gresham Farmers Market - May 30th, 2009
Gresham Farmers Market - May 23rd, 2009

Relevant Links
www.MadeByHippies.com
www.MadeByHippies.etsy.com
www.CraftyCatJumpRings.com
www.RedEftShibori.com
www.HowToTieDye.net
Gresham Farmers Market
North West World Reggae Festival

Things to Note
All Made By Hippies products are handmade by Amanda & Erik in their Portland, Oregon home using renewable energy.

Made By Hippies Tie Dyes are 100% cotton, colorfast and preshrunk. For a looser fit order one size larger.

Tie dyes are safe to wash and dry with your regular laundry.

We wash all our tie dyes three times with hot water and super strength detergent during the Tie Dye process so you can wash them with your other clothes and they won't bleed dye - Guaranteed!!

http://www.madebyhippies.com

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Reggae Music Links

Yeah Mon! So a while back I built a quick one page website called Reggae Music Links as a sub domain on my website www.howtotiedye.net.

I was just doing it for fun at the time, since I enjoy reggae music and was looking around at various musicians websites.

Then I check out the site recently and low and behold it's getting all kinds of traffic! Actually it's #1 on google for a search on "reggae music links"

Check it out at reggaemusiclinks.howtotiedye.net

One of a Kind Tie Dyes Now For Sale!

Made By Hippies now has many one of a kind tie dye t-shirts all posted to our etsy marketplace which can be found at http://madebyhippies.etsy.com. We will of course continue to have all of our in stock designs in sizes small to 4xl. The good thing about posting our tie dyes to etsy is now the customer can pick from many differant styles and colors by size.

Be sure to check it out!
Peace

http://madebyhippies.etsy.com.

Made By Hippies Tie Dye Fashion Show

Check out this little slide show I put together to showcase the Made By Hippies Tie Dyes. It is just over 2 minutes long and features most of our in stock tie dyes. Thanks for checking it out. PEACE!

Tie Dyed in LA

Man we have been busy this year and especially this April. We had two back to back road trips plus our internet sales on our website www.madebyhippies.com have really started to take off. So life is pretty sweet now. We start selling at the Sandy Mountain Market this Saturday and then at the Gresham Farmers Market the week after that.

Check out this video that American Apparel made of us working with them... I think they are still editing it but here is the rough draft anyways....

Peace!

New Item: Rainbow Bandolier Tie Dye Tank Top

Rainbow Bandolier Tie Dye Tank Top for sale for $20, including shipping!

Check it out at http://www.madebyhippies.com/tiedye/tanktops/rainbowbandoliertiedyetanktop.html

Youth Sized Tie Dye T-Shirts For Sale!

Yeah Mon! I&I finished making our youth sized tie dye t-shirts. Right now we have three designs ready to sell...

Buy them for $15 each (includes shipping!) at http://www.madebyhippies.com/tiedye/tshirts/youth/

Made By Hippies Dot Com is the #1 site on Yahoo for a "Tie Dye For Sale" Search!!!

Man, the traffic for Made By Hippies Dot Com has been increasing steadaly ever since August 2008 but this latest push has been very impreasive. The last couple of weeks traffic has surged to well over 100 visitors a day. About half the traffic is from website links and the other half is from search engines. I have been reciveing more and more orders too, so that is great!

Today I noticed some extra traffic being generated from the Yahoo search engine. It caught my eye because so far I have been getting most of my search engine traffic from google. So I checked it out and the results are awesome!!!

This is definitly my biggest search engine accomplishment to date. For the search term "Tie Dye For Sale" on yahoo my site www.madebyhippies.com ranks #1!!!

Shaman Tie Dye T-Shirts for Sale

The Tie Dye Sale Begins.....

Up for sale is this sweet example of Made By Hippies screenprinting.

We found this ancient design that was painted on a cave wall in China thousands of years ago by the ancient shamans of antiquity and applied it to a tie dyed t-shirt.



This is a one of a kind item. We sell them on our website for $25 and now we have some for sale on our etsy website for just $15!

Preshrunk and colorfast.

Buy it now and get in style!

Peace!

Check out the link to our etsy page on the sidebar of this blog.

Or go to http://www.madebyhippies.etsy.com

Made By Hippies Tie Dye Newsletter

I just started a newsletter so I can send out a few updates to fans of our tie dyes. I plan on offering a monthly special on a specific shirt that will only be offered to members of the Made By Hippies Tie Dye Mailing List. So sign up and stay tuned!

Peace!

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Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Tie Dye T-Shirts For Sale

Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Tie Dye T-Shirts are now for sale at Made By Hippies Dot Com.

There are two styles to choose from, blue with a gold stripe or a gold shirt with a blue stripe.

They both have the greek letters PI KAPPA PHI screen printed onto the chest.

This shirt was made by Brother Erik "Swede" Granstrom of the Zeta Gamma Chapter (U of North Dakota) of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.

It can be found for sale here: http://www.madebyhippies.com/pikappaphi/

The price is just $20, which is a special deal for my Pi Kappa Phi Brothers as my other Tie Dye T-Shirts with screenprinted designs are normally $25.

Wholesale prices are avaliable for the chapter that wants to buy over a dozen tie dyes.

Thanks for looking!

I'm damn proud to be a Pi Kappa Phi!

Swede ZG #244

On Wednesday Feb 18th, 2009 I launched the Pi Kappa Phi Tie Dye T-Shirt using the mailing list from my old Pi Kappa Phi Online Community website, www.nuphi.net and I got the most hits I have ever had in one day. It was pretty sweet! Thanks Pi Kapps!

Lampworking has started in our studio!

We finally started our glass lampworking lessons this month and things are going well. It is a bit challenging at first just learning how to work and control the hot glass but we are learning quickly. We have begun to work on making some small pendants which are turning out really cool, even at these early stages.

So stay tuned for more, we will hopefully have some one of a kind glass pendents for sale on our etsy site soon.

Peace!

My first number one Google search ranking!! For Camo Peace Sign!

I was checking some of the keywords used to find http://www.madebyhippies.com/ today and someone used Camo Peace Sign as a search term. So I checked it out on Google search and to my suprise and pleasure I found my website as the number one ranked site on google for the keyword "Camo Peace Sign" and then my other website http://www.howtotiedye.net/ as the number eight ranked website for the same search words. Man, my own hard work typing and typing html code and more pure html code is really paying off. It makes me happy!!!

Here is a screen shot I took. I have been working on the website a little too, cleaning up some of the copy and adding a bit to the menus, then I will propagate the changes through all the pages over the next few days.

A big photo shoot is in the works for the next week or so.... So stay tuned for lots more cool pictures to come!

Peace!!!