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Bartering Creativity

here’s a sneak peek at a new journal i just finished.

some background
a friend helped me out recently and i wanted to pay her for her kindness. she told me that in lieu of a monetary payment she wanted instead payment in kind, deciding that she’d like me to make her one of my journals.

i loved this idea! a little bartering of art and each person goes away smiling.

so after i got back from the Nancy Crow workshop a couple weeks ago i started creating, keeping my friend in mind.

she has no idea what it looks like and i get to surprise her with it soon. now you know why the sneak peek. i’ll reveal a pic of the completed journal after i present it to her.

Tags: journals, mixed media, paper art by grace
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Birthday Wishes

hubby’s birthday is today.

every year it’s a milestone for him cause he finally turns the same age as me.

for 8 months out of the year he gets to call himself a “younger” man….then August rolls around and his ship has sunk. Poor thing seems to get all caught up in that age thing the older he gets.

as for me, I am loving where I am…..don’t take no crap from anyone anymore, do what’s best for me so that I can do whats best for others around me and am just all around enjoying my actual age….who knew!

need to get him to loosen up bout the number thing but until then….

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE!!!

may you have many, many more to come (even tho it upsets you just a wee bit..hee hee)

Tags: family by grace
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Dee-licious Colour!

this past Monday i hosted my 5th Annual Dye Day but didn’t dye any of my own fabrics…i was so caught up in seeing what everyone else was doing. on Tuesday though, the itch to get my fingers in some dye couldn’t be stopped. I decided to try a new thing for me.

about 3 months ago i made a large portable flat top for surface design. i spread my soda ashed soaked fab and painted on the dye…usually I scrunch in a container and squirt dye over it.

i LOVE how these new pieces came out!!! I call this one the Melody FAb cause this is just the type of fab she creates.

the Melody FAb

i know you’re supposed to work to get the bubbles out but look at the magic my bubbles produced… SPLENDID indeed!

Melody FAb detail

this one looks like beautiful stonework or a piece of granite…mmmh. this was the one that started the itch….I sat up in bed on Monday eve and thought, what if I diluted black and havana brown. can you believe those were the only 2 colours i used here?

stonework

the 2nd piece i painted was one of the gradation fabs I did for Nancy Crow workshop, originally golden yellow, it got messed up in the wash with green splotches so i saved it for the overdye pile.

forest fire

below is the 3rd piece I painted….lots of cerulean blue, sky blue, black and the last of the chatruese dye….a perfect storm.

storm

Doesn’t this next one look like an over saturated pic of an x-ray of teeth? this was another that needed to be overdyed so i pleated and scrunched it then squirted (back to regular programing) 2 colours on it still managing to keep some of the original yellow colour. this’ll be an interesting piece to use in my work.

teeth