Another view


Here's another view of my fabric, now that it's been dried. I really like my photography lamps, why I haven't used them until now I do no know. I know they don't work well with the digital camera, I'll have to dig out the slr for that task. So the fabric may appear a bit bluish in this pic. I may take a pic outside tomorrow, in the daylight.

I haven't decided if I want to screenprint on this piece yet or not, it's very tempting. It'll be the first time I've ever screenprinted on a piece of my compost dyed fabric. I have some madder lac extract made up that would add some real dimension to this piece. If I were to use the osage ornage instead it'll end up discharging some of the surround colors, which could be really neat. Decisions decsions.

Speaking of which I'm learning a very valuable lesson, burning cd's/dvds with video takes forever. Oh and I need new/more ram for my computer as this will make the burning process go faster.


I've been busy screen printing fabric, now to figure out where I laid this piece down!!! The dark print is Logwood Grey, a natural dye extract. Yes the design is my own. Making your own designs is pretty easy just look around at nature and start drawing. I'm fascinated by vines, tree bark, and rocks. But you could also look at animal patterning, especially birds and insects for additional inspiration. Posted by Picasa

Field Set


Here's a pic of my field color set. The plastic case I bought at Michaels Crafts some time ago for a few dollars, I then squeezed my watercolors, from tubes, into the appropriate holes and let it dry for a week. I also take watercolor pencils, a few drawing pencils, disposable technical pens, and various brushes and erasers. With the exception of my pan set, it all lives in that little orange bag which gets thrown into the backpack.

Thyme & Gourds


This is the garden w/o all of the junk in it! I have Thyme seed to plant in my little pocket garden, that's the garden right outside my back door. I planted three varieties of thyme there already, I want some more to grow up in between the rocks.

Whence they are done poisoning the yard this week, hopefully next weekend I'll be able to plant my gourds. I will be putting them on the dog run again this year, as the added shade was quite beneficial to the dogs.

A Lil' Garden Patch


I can taste the garden fresh cabbages already! In the interim I planted some lettuce, radishes, onions and the like in between my tomatoes and cabbages. They will be gone by the time those plants are big enough to need the space.

Hmmmm and I planted some mustard greens as well. Hubby commented that I was really getting into the garden this year. You betcha!

How I Spent My Saturday




Well after I got 35 packages out the door this is what I did. It actually started on Thursday, but I was so sore yesterday evening that I rested instead. Now I'm off to work again, business work.

I think the area outside my back door looks much better now, I spent two days digging up and removing galic chives. I've decided that garlic chives are evil!

The Necessaties

But maybe not so desirable. I just finshed mowing the lawn. I wish hubby could have gotten it done himself, but it was already pushing two feet high, yes we have had that much rain, and it actually started raining again while I was mowing! But I got it done anyway.

I'm not sure when we're supposed to get sunshine again to be real honest. And no I'm not supposed be mowing the lawn, between bad knees and hips, and a severe allergy to creeping charlie, a noxious weed, I'm betting I'll be hurting tomorrow and big time.

Anyway, hubby can run the weed whacker for me. I'd really like to get into my garden and start transplanting my plants - hostas, lilies, lily of the valley, and the like. And I have a bunch of perinneals I bought to put in the yard, thyme, bee balm, actually I guess that was all I bought. Anyway, we have cabbages to plant as well.

More later. Here's a picture of our summer project, getting the rest of the house painted this year. Two words, paint sprayer!