Woowee! I’m posting these a bit early because Hubby and I are off to Virgina for a wedding, so this is all that’s gonna get done until August! July Goals Get ready to LAUNCH Dyeing 104 July 31 85% Dye skirt, shirts and scarves for wedding July 28 100% Pay CA State Sales Tax!!! July 31… Continue Reading
I’m teaching a art in music class at Piano Camp this week. These student piano players have come for a week of all sorts of music related activities, and then one “other” type of class. My 12 kids are getting 3 days of dyeing with me, then a day of beading and another day of… Continue Reading
I’ve done some indigo dyeing before, mostly for a session in my Dyeing 102: Controlling Texture online class, as well as when I teach Mother Earth Chemistry at the University, but I’ve not followed up on it much as there is just not that much time in the days! However, this week, I’m teaching a… Continue Reading
I’ve been hard at work on getting Dyeing 104 ready to launch, and hubby has spent what little free time he has on the next steps of building a bigger, better, brick pizza oven! First he spread over 1000 pounds of gravel in the bottom of the foundation he dug: Next step is the rebar,… Continue Reading
I’ve been working hard on the building Dyeing 104: Multicolor Silk! Once I’ve got the first 4 sessions up I’l launch, but the first four sessions are doozies! So much to explain, so many videos to tape, so many pictures to edit, so much explaning to type! And then there’s the video editting, the picture… Continue Reading
While I’m working on building Dyeing 104, hubby has a summer project: building a bigger, better pizza oven! 4 years ago he built his first pizza oven on our back patio and it has served us well! Here it is when he first built it: Unfotunately, we didn’t dry the clay slow enough, so it… Continue Reading
Holy Moley! My Jetson’s Christmas art quilt is being considered for the cover of Quilting Arts Holiday magazine this year! Feel free to vote for it if you like! (Or vote for either of the other ones…they’re all gorgeous!) I made this art quilt earlier this year, and whether or not it’s on the cover, the… Continue Reading
I thought I’d share this video of NYO-USA’s performance of “America the Beautiful” at Carnegie Hall last summer: Liam had a great experience with NYO-USA last summer, we’re so glad there are recordings like this so we can remember that awesome concert tour! Here in Redlands, we had another fabulous week of music with the… Continue Reading