Most of you know that hubby is also a beekeeper. In addition to harvesting the lovely honey, we also get beeswax. Since we’ll be using the beeswax this winter for lip balms and other fun stuff it needs to be filtered. And an easy way to do that is with a handmade solar beeswax melter.…
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Ray’s Jade
I’ve always loved jade plants. When I had lots of house plants I found that my lovely jades weren’t demanding as many of the other ones. If I forgot to water them, they still lived. In the 70s I had a jade that I nursed back to life. I don’t remember why it was sick.…
Read MoreStand and Pour Fabric Dyeing
If you have been following my blog, you know I’m on a fabric dyeing kick. I still had some dye concentrate left after my low immersion dyeing so I had to try something else. In Frieda Anderson’s “Fabric to Dye For” she covers Stand and Pour fabric dyeing technique which I thought would be fun…
Read MoreLow Immersion Dyeing
UPDATE: Check out my 2019 post on Low Immersion Dyeing. I won “The Complete Photo Guide to Textile Art” by Susan Stein quite a while back from Lindsey on the Craftside blog. The book includes over 40 techniques with wonderful step-by-step pictures and clear instructions. While planning my dyeing day a couple weeks ago I…
Read MoreHow To: Oatmeal Resist
Two weeks ago I played with dyeing again. I wanted to try some different techniques that have been on that “to try” list. One of those was oatmeal resist. Lisa Kerpoe wrote a whole series of kitchen resists for Quilting Arts. Her tutorial on this technique was in the October/November 2010 issue. Since I was…
Read MoreHow to: Tomato Leather
We have been blessed this summer with an ample supply of tomatoes. Our freezer is full of tomato sauce, puree, marinara sauce, and slow roasted tomatoes. I’ve also dried lots of these red jewels and Dave’s made ketchup. So I thought I’d try making leather again. I made some several years ago but it didn’t…
Read MoreMore Screen Printing
In June, I took a screen printing class from friend and artist Kathy Sands. It was so much fun, but I wasn’t real excited about my results. Here was one of those prints from that day. I liked the actual image but I didn’t like the white between the screen printing. I still had not…
Read MoreBayard Park Sketch Crawl
On Tuesday I participated in a sketch crawl. Well, it’s not really a crawl or a walk or a stand – but maybe – Yes! a stroll. We spent an hour strolling around the Bayard Park area, near the East Branch Library which was sponsoring this class. This area is made up of beautiful old…
Read MoreGiveaway: Easy Canvas Prints
Congratulations to Rinda Ontiveros at Gallo Organico! Thank you all for your comments. I just love taking pictures, but I never seem to get around to having them printed large enough to hang. However, the good people at Easy Canvas Prints contacted me about trying their prints. Oh, and one of my readers will win…
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