Indigo Dye Play Date with Kathy

What a fun day! On Tuesday I drove over to Illinois to spend the day playing with my friend Kathy Sands and indigo dye. After mixing up the dye bath, we folded our fabric. Then we dipped them in the dye bath. After taking them out of the dye, we unfolded them and placed them…

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More 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…

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Screen Printing Day

Saturday I drove a couple hours to take a wonderful screen printing class taught by my friend and artist Kathy Sands. Several months ago I had purchased a screen from Blicks. I’ve been wanting to play with it and this day I really gave it a work out. Kathy took us through everything from mixing…

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Playing with wax

Yesterday, my friend Kathy and I played with wax on plexiglass. The November/December issue of Cloth Paper Scissors had a tutorial on this so we thought we’d see what we could come up with. We started by gluing our focal or main image to the back of the plexiglass so that it could be seen…

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Stencil Making

I have really enjoyed working with stencils lately that I thought I’d try making my own. But before I tell you about that, I wanted to share what we did Sunday. Hubby and I drove over to New Harmony (Indiana) to see Katherine Sands, one of my new artist friends I met via this blog…

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Buying Local for Christmas

I know, I know..it’s early, but I’d like to give you some ideas for Christmas presents or even upcoming birthday presents. I really like supporting local artists and these all are within a couple hours from where I live in Southern Indiana. The first is my new fiber artist friend Katherine Sands, who lives an…

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Layering on photos

After taking several online classes this year, I’ve really learned a lot. I am finding that I love layers. Before these classes I knew I loved a piece, whether paper or material, but didn’t realize that the artist had spent so much time layering and layering. My artist friend, Kathy, has been an big inspiration…

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In The Mail

It’s been a wonderful week so far regarding mail here at Happy Acres. A couple of the goodies include this book. What is neat about this book is that on page 180 in the Managing Transitions chapter is my article “Using dialogue to move on with my life.” I wrote (and rewrote) this article many…

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