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Monday, January 20, 2014

Unstuck.....

A pot full of organza and silk simmering in avocado skins and pits....

Some neocolonial Valentines in the works

... And a few of my water colored pictures, varnished with acrylic wax (a la Frances Pickering) being prepared for journal pages.

A somewhat productive day.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Ugly Dried Avocado Peel + Silk, Scrim, Cotton and Linen

Equals PINK!

If I didn't see it -
I wouldn't have believed it.

I've been reading about natural dyeing on quite a few blogs. The avocado dyeing seems to work for some - and not for others.

It worked for ME. So pretty!

Now I have some vintage pink coolness to use in my workshop pieces.

Next: Blackberry dye + voile, silk dupioni and cheese cloth.

Have I mentioned - Gizmo loves blackberries (and cheese!)

I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the realisation that they create their own reality". The Eagle said, "Give it to me, i will take it to the moon".The creator said, "No, one day they will go there and find it".The salmon said, "I will bury it at the bottom of the ocean".The creator said, " No they will go there too".The buffalo said, "I will bury it on the great plains".The creator said, " No, they will cut the skin of the Earth and find it even there".Grandmother mole, who lives in the breast of Mother earth, and who has no physical eyes but sees with spiritual eyes said, "Put it inside of them".And the creator said, "It is done!"

Native American (Sioux) Proverb

Everything the Power of World Does - is done in a Circle....

The sky is round and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood. And so it is in everything where power moves.

Black Elk 1863-1950

Monday, January 20, 2014

Unstuck.....

Friday, July 23, 2010

Ugly Dried Avocado Peel + Silk, Scrim, Cotton and Linen

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