Hey guys!

Rotten Thread is an up and coming clothing company based out of San Antonio, TX.

These shirts are all designed by us! – Me (Shannon) and my husband, Javier. In fact, we not only do the shirt designs, we do EVERYTHING else too. Javier is a graphic/web designer so he takes care of the website, blog, photography, Photoshop work, shirt designs, and all the other technical stuff. I handle all of the writing (website content, blog entries, Myspace content, Facebook content, etc.), communications, promotion, research, and I help in brainstorming ideas. I’m also Javier’s handy little assistant and keep us organized and on track. We are a great team - totally made for each other.

Javier and I are both 20 and have been married for almost a year. I attend a community college here in town and am attempting to finish with a Bachelors degree. I just recently returned after taking the year off for making wedding plans. Javier has a success story of his own. In high school he was constantly told by his teachers he would never succeed. In fact, one even told him he might as well just go get a job at McDonalds because there wasn’t much else out there for him (way to inspire your students, eh?). He had a hard time focusing in school because he was always busy drawing all over his notes and was creating websites at night instead of doing his homework. So, sick of school he decided to leave it and pursue his dream! He got a job working at a local ad agency and then later we decided to create our own ad agency. And so we did. It is slowly beginning to make us money but not quite enough yet so Javier still freelances for another agency.

For the past year or so we kept talking about how awesome it would be to own our own clothing line. We’re both pretty creative so we were constantly bouncing t-shirt ideas off of one another. One day we sat down and actually started drawing them out. We thought to ourselves, “We should print these, I want to wear them”. We started showing a few close friends what we had and they told us they loved them.

So that brings us to now. We spend every spare moment at a desk in our apartment hovering over our computers and working hard at making this dream become a reality!

Let me take a moment to talk about Javier’s decision to drop out of high school. We do not want you to think that this is something we are promoting. High school is important! Instead we are simply shedding light on our lives. We are only human. What we do want you to know is that even though Javier made this decision he is not allowing it to cripple his future. Instead of giving up he is working hard to better his life and make his dreams come true. By sharing this story we want to encourage each and every one of you to follow your dreams and never give up. As corny and cliché as that statement may be – it’s very true. You have the world at your feet and you really can do ANYTHING you put your mind to.