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A small TX based artist-run apparel & accessories studio! Email us: freshhotflavors(at)gmail !

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BFCM Deal spotlight: ALL accessories, stickers, and print goods are 40% OFF!
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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BFCM Deal Spotlight! ALL of our skirts are on sale for UP TO 40% OFF! If you've had your eye on a few of our designs, now is the time to stock up! Get gifts for friends, fam, or yourself (we won't judge)
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal highlight! Spend $150 or more and get FREE US SHIPPING!
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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It's that time again! Time for the big dang sale. Fresh Hot Flavors is running our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale from Nov 28-Dec 1, with huge discounts including up to 40% off ALL SKIRTS and FREE US SHIPPING on orders $150+!
Fresh Hot Flavors mascots Chip and Nug the French Fry Dragons showing off our 2025 Black Friday-Cyber Monday Sale! Running from Nov 28-Dec . Deals include: up to 40% off all skirts, FREE US shipping on orders of $150 or more, 40% off all accessories, wallets for $28 and pins for $7.20
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Today I saw a leftover Halloween decoration outside someone's house that was like, just a skeleton having a laugh with a pumpkin wearing a batman mask... peak design
Sketch of a Halloween decoration seen outside a neighbor's house - a jovial skeleton with its arm around a pumpkin wearing a batman mask
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Zyn's gonna be at Lone Star Zine Fest in Austin THIS WEEKEND right near the front~

There's limited stock of block print tanks, zine kits & zine fiend patches, for both Saturday the 11th & Sunday the 12th!
[Blue Genie, 6100 Airport Blvd 12-6PM, a free-to-attend event] #LSZF2025
a map to Xenon's table at Lone Star Zine Fest. it has an arrow leading up-right-up to table #44 a spread of different zines stacks of cassette cases a spread of the tools and items that are in a travel zine kit that's stamped with a 'zine fiend' emblem
October 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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two of us will be out and about this weekend!!! come visit if you're in the north dallas area :>
Come visit Cheesy at: Monster Hunter Theme Drink Art Market, Rainbow Teashop Plano TX Sept 27-28 Zyn will be at: Denton Zine and Art Party; Sunday September 28, 2-6PM at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios 411 Sycamore Street
September 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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progresssss. gosh I really like the blue stain, it helps so much finding the spots I need to get to!
a partially carved block of bold lined lilies and sparkles
July 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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3 hours of carving 😀👍 (😭)
a design of 4 concentric rings of stippled shoujo bubbles on a rubber carving block. the outer ring and inner splotch are carved, but the rest remains uncarved
July 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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block designs: transferred and ready 2 carve ✌️

me: man I'm glad I don't carve the raptor design. so many lil bones!

also me: but what if I hand carved stippled shoujo bubbles,,
three large rubber blocks with sharpie and graphite outlines of manga style lilies, sparkles, and a graduated set of shoujo bubbles made of clusters of dots
July 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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someone on tumblr expressed interest in knowing a bit about the types of materials i use for block printing, so here's the infodump!
tags from dogs-in-a-trenchcoat: #It never occured to me you could just.. Stamp a shirt? Always assumed you had to have a screen printing set up or something #I'd love to see a post about like the types of materials yall use and how to make them wash-safe 👀 #Ref #Reference #This is sick congrats, your curiosity has unlocked the unskippable cutscene of the block printing knowledge i accumulated so far! :D block printing on fabric is very easy and accessible!!! i've been obsessed with it for the past few months, spending way too much time on insta (the worst social platform...) bc there is a lot of people on there showing off their blocks and process. and when i get Like This my brain is a sponge for whatever techniques i see and experiment with. INKS when i first started i used speedball fabric block printing ink. it's water-washable, for ease of tool and workstation cleaning. but once i found out most block inks are oil-based/oil-soluble i had a lot better time washing by first using olive oil to dissolve the ink before i finished with soap and water. the brown ink i used for the dragon tanks first printing was also very... chunky? and would dry out on the palette pretty fast. so since it was an oil-based ink, i tried using a lil bit of olive oil to help keep it flowing and coat the blocks more evenly, and it worked great! for the oil-based inks, you can't really air dry them, you have to air-cure them, because oil doesn't "dry" it oxidizes over time. which means you have to wait like a week for this process to happen. the first run of corvid ritual tanks i did, i didn't have a clothing rack for them really, so i hung them everywhere in our spare room after i tried out screen printing (a different tangent for another time lol), i experimented with using the water-based screen inks with the blocks. there are is a small caveat in that they are thinner consistency, so you need to be careful when rolling them to make sure small crevices/areas on your design don't get flooded and turn out blurry on print. but MY GOD. ONE DAY DRY TIME. very good for me, a person with time blindness, to get tanks event-prepped in time. also way easier and faster to clean off of tools, and even fix small mistakes/smudges by wiping it off the shirt with a wet rag. for either oil or water based inks, after they cure or air-dry, you need to heat set them. some tips will say you can do this by throwing them in a dryer on high but from what i've read also, home dryers don't get hot enough for long enough! so i used an iron (TEXT TRUNCATED - view reply for link to rest of text) BLOCKS speedball speedy carve is nice, but expensive!! esp for the bigger sizes. pros are that it is easy to find at craft stores, and you can do this trick where you print your design on a laser printer and transfer it to the block with an iron. you can get cheaper 4 or 5 pack A4 size sets of rubber blocks on ebay or amazon. these will NOT take an iron-on transfer (it just bubbled where the laser ink was when i tried.....) so i've just been doing graphite transfers (and sometime stencils with my silhouette cutting machine) instead. more time consuming but hey, once you have the block, it will last you a long time, so it's worth a decent time investment. i DID just see a tip from thenastynaturalist on insta where you inkjet print on the slick side of the leftover backs of label paper, and gently press and leave it to dry for a day or so. i just finished graphite transferring my next blocks already lol so i'll have to try this on the next one! you can also get those giant erasers at dollar stores, and smaller erasers too, if you're alright with doing smaller prints. any kind of flat rubber works! PRINTING you need a roller/brayer, a glass or acrylic sheet to roll your ink, and i recommend a bucket of water and a rag or you will be using soooo many paper towels. as well as a couple of palette knives to move the ink around, and a spray bottle--or bottle of olive oil in a container with a small tip pour spout, depending on your ink type--to be able to refresh your palette ink every so often, especially for longer print sessions. spray bottle is also handy for cleaning various surfaces and such. in addition, i saw thenastynaturalist using a continuous mist spray bottle to spray the fabric before printing, helping the ink transfer more evenly. I don't have a continuous mist bottle, but i did test this out as well as i could with the mistiest setting on my regular spray bottle, and it does work really well to reduce splotches where the mist ended up on the fabric! they also use a huge hand weight to press the block into the fabric - i just use a spare dry brayer right now but i wanna try this also sometime always do an initial printing on paper or fabric scraps before you print on your main piece to prime the block with ink! it won't have enough ink gripped on the block at first no matter how much you roll on. i usually use fabric scraps for this if i can, cuz then you have patches leftover you can do whatever with! I THINK THAT'S ALL I GOT FOR NOW anyone feel free to send asks for more details on whatever :3
July 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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texas & bluebonnet in gradient inks~
a block print on a navy tank of texas with a heart cut out and a bluebonnet in rainbow ink model wearing the texas & bluebonnet design a block print on a navy tank of texas with a heart cut out and a bluebonnet in blue, pink, and white ink in the pattern of a trans flag
July 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Corvid Ritual Tank Top now in black 🖤
black tank with two-headed raven-crow and collar trinkets design a model wearing the corvid ritual tank with their arms spread wide a model wearing the corvid ritual tank holding up their sunglasses
July 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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need to aquire some Regular pencils before I transfer the designs to blocks. all the ones that I know where they are are mechanical. and I don't want that tiny tip. it makes it hard to get a nice bold stroke which helps the graphite transfer

also, gonna try out 2 color process for these 👀
June 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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sad that I never ended up saving myself a shoujo lily skirt, and likely won't be able to restock that design in a long while. so I'm taking matters into my own hands and making block prints about it
a screen tablet with bold lined drawings of lilies, manga sparkles, and shoujo bubbles
June 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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bagged and tagged 😎
stacks of yellow bakery dragon tanks, in bags and with size stickers this time
June 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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A Good Stack™️
June 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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folding the tanks after their post-cure wash!
a workstation of apile of unfolded tanks, a shirt folder, and a pile of folded tanks with the dragons face peeking from each of the edges.
June 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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finally was able to restock all sizes of the Bakery Dragon tanks after I got cleaned out at Texas Furry Fiesta a few months ago! 🍞
June 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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a small selection of the pastry pride stickers that are up now!
June 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Texas & Bluebonnet tanks in limited quantities~
June 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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corvid ritual tank top restock, this time in black! for the summer goths~ 🖤
black tank top with silver ink design of a two headed raven-crow. there are small circular trinkets around the collar a person in sunglasses modeling the tank top
June 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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new goodies up!!
🌈 upcycled block prints
🦅 new corvid tank colorway (black)
🌈 Texas & Bluebonnet Rainbow & Trans gradient tanks
🍰 Pastry Pride Stickers
a grid of 6 upcycled clothing with a texas & bluebonnet stamp on each a person wearing a black tank top with the two-headed corvid design a model wearing a navy tank top with the rainbow texas & bluebonnet design a collage of the 8 pastry pride stickers
June 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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updated sticker display ft. pastrys pride: sticker edition
a wire grid with a bunch of stickers hanging in a clear self-serve display pockets
June 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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upcycled some shorts and shirts to go with the navy tanks! the rainbow looks soooo good on everything ahhhhh 🌈
a patch with 9 rainbow Texas block prints rainbow Texas on light gray shorts with rainbow elastic waist booty shorts and black shorts rainbow Texas stamp on navy tank top rainbow Texas stamp on the breast pockets of a light orange button up and a white tank
June 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM