She still makes tumblers, but they aren’t her biggest seller anymore
— her T-shirts are. May buys patterns from Etsy for her shirts, bleaches them herself and prints the patterns onto each shirt.
When May first opened her craft store on July 1, she bought, bleached and screen printed 400 T-shirts. She’s been open for 28 days and half of them are gone.
At first glance, she said, most of her customers thought her shirts were tie-dyed.
"A lot of people thought it was tie-dyed at first," May said. "All of it's bleach."
Bleach's best friend
May takes a plastic spray bottle from Walmart, fills it up with bleach and and sprays each shirt. There are two different styles May uses to bleach the shirts. One is a marbled effect