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Farming
Growing food is not something I would normally do but the opportunity presented itself in Spring. I wanted to add a couple fruit trees to the property so planted an apple and a quince in the area I now call The Farm. This is the same area where I discarded some pumpkin’s I had used…
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Learning to ‘fool the eye’
Learning ‘trompe l’oeil techniques from Kathleen McKeehen Project progress…
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Painted Paper Flowers
Experiments with paint and bleach on crepe paper. Working toward a grand floral display for the mantel.
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Paper Into Flowers
It was a rainy Sunday in Seattle so I attended a “Paper Bouquet” class at Packaging Specialties. In 2 hours I learned some basics for crepe paper and tissue flowers. This annotation gives some basic steps that I can refer back to when I forget!
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Painted
This past week we experimented with Annie Sloan chalk paint on furniture, fabric, ceramic, metal and bamboo: