Sunpainting is a method of printing on fabric using a specialized fabric paint, stencils and a variety of natural materials to create permanent, multi-layered effects on clothing. I paint clothes, and arrange the imagery and then lay the piece outside in the sunshine. The sunlight bakes the imagery into the fabric. Each side of each piece is individually created, which allows me to vary the designs and placement,so each design has its own variations and is unique.

All clothing for sale has been heat set and pre-washed. If you follow the washing instructions," Wash with cold water, in a machine is fine. and hang dry for best color", your shirt will stay bright and vibrant for years. Putting the shirts in the dryer will cause some fading as that is what dryers do to clothing. There should not be any running of color on the first wash, but just in case, wash by itself or with similar colors, and not with your whites. I encourage using eco-friendly soap. Let's help the environment in any way that we can.

You can wash in a washing machine with similar colors. Always wash in cold and use an environmentally friendly soap. Hang to dry. You can put it in the dryer if you must but the color may fade a bit from the dryer. The shirts have all been heat set and pre washed before sale.

Yes, my process of sun painting allows me to use many types of natural materials in the printing of the clothing. I love to use ferns, fir branches, cedar and redwood branches, grasses and random plants from my garden. I like to experiment with the textures that the plants create. I can often use the same branches quite a few times before replacing them, so I am not constantly cutting branches for my work.

All the clothing from Starseed is 100% cotton. I've tried to print on different types of fabrics, including rayon and hemp, but the colors are the brightest on the cotton clothes.

Yes, I have been making and selling jewelry since I was a teenager...which I am no longer. I originally started with tiny glass seed beads, and spent many years creating and weaving them together. I have sold many pieces in my past and occasionally get to see someone wearing something I made many years ago. All of the jewelry currently on the website is also hand made by me. I love to work with crystals and stones and colors, and it's fun to come up with new styles and color and stone combinations.

Yes, all the jewelry here is made with sterling silver wire, sterling accent beads and chain and sterling findings (clasps and earwires). This provides for high quality, long lasting pieces that are also hypo-allergenic. Sterling silver can tarnish or darken over time, to remedy that, it is good to keep your sterling silver pieces in a jewelry box or under a cloth or even in a plastic bag, Sterling can be polished with a polishing cloth, which is a cloth with a silver polish in it, or even with toothpaste or baking soda and warm water with a soft toothbrush.

Any gold jewelry on this site is made with 14carat Gold filled chain, wire and findings also. This is high quality gold that will not change or tarnish.

Yes, I can do custom orders on clothing, provided that the timing is right. I use the sun to paint the clothing, and there comes a time in the year when the sun's rays are not strong enough to print the clothing nicely. This time is usually from November until about April. It also depends on our weather in the Pacific Northwest. So I'm willing to do custom work or even custom designs during the sunnier part of the year.

I am also willing to do some custom jewelry as well. It would be necessary to contact me here at Starseedoriginals@gmail.com, to talk about custom orders.