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Apparently this plant doesn’t know what time of the year it is. This is the first blossom, of many, that has fully opened.
It gave me a good opportunity to practice some more macro shots with my camera. I love macro photography!
This plant was given by my kids school library staff last year for volunteering. Pretty simple job that gave my legs a good workout with all the squats putting the books back on the low shelves. :)
Just like last year, I’m using a natural dye process to color our eggs. I used this tutorial for the process.
The purple/blue eggs were made with red cabbage.
The reddish eggs were onion skins..both yellow and red gathered from the bottom of my onion drawer. Based on the tutorial, I expected I’d get a greenish yellow color.
I also threw a few scraps of muslin in the dye bath. The orange is really puzzling to me. One side is more orange than the other but the blue pieces are the same color on both sides. You can also see where I dripped a little blue dye on the orange. Opps!
Note to self and others: USE GLOVES!! My fingers are horribly stained.
I looked out the patio door this morning and saw this beautiful ripple pattern in the new snow. So I geared back up to traipse around the house to take photos before the kids go running through it.
Of course I had to play around with the photo too. What do you think?
Well, not really but that was all my brilliant mind could come up with at the moment.
My upper back, neck and elbow are killing me from a spill I took a couple hours ago while shovelling. The snow has not quit and the plows have not come through so I’ll be going back out again…bummer.
Calgon take me away… Hmmm, did I just date myself with that one.
AGH!!
I hate it when I get like this. I can’t seem to get into making anything!!! Too much stress…which I thought was a good thing before…has turned into overload for me. Apparently there is a threshold for stress. When it gets too high, my muse take s a vacation.
So here’s a gnome for your viewing pleasure.
When my husband got his new mini computer for work he mentioned that he really needed something to protect it from scratches and such during transport.
I immediately thought of using a denim jeans leg. I quickly made one up but discovered the denim just wasn’t thick enough.
Then I remembered these camo pants legs I had and the matching belt piece from yet another pair of pants. The original denim pants leg is the lining inside the camo. I also put some light weight foam at the bottom so the mini computer would have some cushion.
I really happy with the result and it cost me nothing but the electricity to run the sewing machine.
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