Having a little “off” time in Half Moon Bay, i stopped at Luna’s Memories, a well stocked craft and rubber stamping store.
I picked up a colorless blender at the suggestion i could use it to mix my own colors — and with the hint at using it in this transfer technique. (311 from Eberhard Faber)
I also picked up two “shadow inks” — soft grey (sc 132) and soft mauve (sc 145) from Hero Arts.
A set of five a-e, made in a bit of a rush to take to http://bookartsjam.com
Morning glory stamp in 100
Mariposa stamp
Cork cancels: champaign cat, Mercury (red), Heimdal (blue), Hermes (green)
I suppose i should take photos of the furniture staining i’ve done. YesterdayToday i went to Home Despot (as my brother calls it) and had some wood sliced up to be additional bookshelves. I’ll need to stain the plywood.
Sunday i bought three small herb plants for the container garden. I’ve decided my garden is also part of my creative expression, so i suppose i’ll document it’s development here, too.
I’m staying at home today with a slight fever and needing rest from a continuing low grade health issue. As i was settling in, one of the Grey Cats settled in, and i felt the need to document my cosy rest space. The image was supposed to be 600 pixels wide, but i screwed up with photoshop. It’s 800+.
I think we hung the lights Monday night. The table the tea is on is one of the ones i’ve stained — The color looks warmer in the halogen glow, just as GreyBrother looks orange. The birch dressers are part of the IKEA assembly effort. The motorcycle jacket (Glowing sleeve piping)is on my manikin. The book case is the one that needs more shelves.
I think we want to go to pale turquoise and less deep plum shades for the bedroom over time. I’m going to make a “headboard” by hanging a long pillow on a curtain rod. First step is picking out fabrics for the pillow case. I think we’ll also go for some sort of concentric circle theme.
Just for the record, the Raggedy Ann and Andy pillowcase is an antique from my childhood.
Saturday:
Addressed envelopes to asdf, heymaggie (ATC-hub & nness), simplybooks (nness – photo ATC), candypug (ATC-hub — 5/5)
I am a little confused because candypug sent me five wonderful pug cards which i received last night. All from her. So is this her five for five pet trade? Or just friendly? Ack! I don’t think i’ve a committment to anything in particular with heymaggie — her enthusiasm for my weaves & she has a call for feline art up….
***
So, i got most of the entries under control. The scanner “died” — the on/off power problem. At least i got the newest cards scanned in before it died. New cards will have to be documented by camera, i guess. Bleh.
