• Blog - Kitchen

    Natural Dyes


    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.

  • Blog

    Mother Nature is amazing!


    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?

  • Art - Blog - Creativity

    Fashion plates


    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.