Experimentation

I've spent the last year slowly researching plant dye stuffs in my free time. Most of the info I've found is about how to dye wool. It's the easiest fiber to dye. There are farms in state that raise sheep, but I'm interested in cotton. That's what I mostly wear. Well yesterday I started testing! I bought some red cabbage, chopped and boiled it. It turned the water a beautiful blue! The pink came about by adding a little vinegar. I found the ratios at and lots more info over at PioneerThinking if anyone wants to try it out. I'll post my results when it's done.

Get Started

So I had been a preschool teacher and I liked that okay for a time. But I started to get restless and making art in the fringes of my life wasn’t enough anymore. . . I’ve been waiting to get started for a long time. But my interests are so varied that I have to be kind of general whenever I try to describe myself as an artist. Best I can come up with is the aspiring and “up-and-coming” type of adjectives. That and Environmental Artist. (But of course that’s just one facet and not the whole. x_x) Anyway. Enough about that. Here’s some stuff.
I made this card a few weeks ago with a Grandmother in mind. It's just simple cut work with a razor. I liked building the bridges. Paper is super fun.