While I was making the “Under the Silvery Moon” piece, I made 5 Silvery Moon postcards….I posted 2 of them in my Etsy store and the one below is framed. Sorry about the reflection, I tried about 10 shots & this is the least amount of reflection. The frame is 7 X 9 inches.

I took yesterday off from the studio, caught up on blog reading, napping, emails, napping, Facebook, napping, Twitter, napping and started on my cards for the last few weeks I’ve missed doing for 52 Questions.

I bought myself an external hard drive on Sunday and spent some time make folders on my computer where I can transfer things from all my CDs, and then put them onto the external hard drive.  I have hated having to go through all the CDs for one photo I know I took a year or so ago.

I have “Photographing the leftover bookmarks” I made for the exhibit on my TO DO list for this week.  Finishing the beading & hand stitching on “Wildflowers” is also on my list…..I stopped working on it when I couldn’t get onto Blogger anyway, so couldn’t have posted to the Textile Abstractions blog.  Yesterday, I could finally get the Blogger dashboard to open – for the past month or 3 weeks, all it would do was go to white screen and have that symbol that it was taking its time.  Don’t have a clue why it wouldn’t as all other sites were fine, since the last Firefox update.

On Sunday I, also, bought myself a brand new box of Crayola 64 crayons – the box with the sharpener on it.  I used to have pail of crayons for when we get little kids here, but dumped it a couple months ago…..I wanted a brand new box for ME!   I went through some of my sister’s magazines & pulled some colourful images to use as inspiration for my Colour Journal that I have started – inspired by Alisa Burke’s HERE.  As I work more into it, I will photograph and show you what I’m doing in it.

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OK – remember I was saying that I was leaning towards Sunflowers for the “Flora” challenge on Textile Abstractions…..well I changed my mind.

I was looking through an old Outdoor Canada book I picked up for 50 cents at the local thrift store…..WILDFLOWERS shouted out to me!

With these Textile Abstractions challenges I wanted to challenge myself to try something OUT OF MY regular box!

So, I just went with it…..I used all Jacquard paints – Textile Color,  Dye-Na-Flow, Lumiere, & Neopaque.  I wet the fabric (Its prepared for dyeing fabric) then starting laying down the colours.  DH & I like watching Yarnell School of Fine Art shows on SCN. On Yarnell’s show, he showed how to make grass with the flick of a brush….did that with Lumiere green & gold.

I LIKE…..no I LOVE IT!!!  DH likes it also.

Now, I will let it totally dry, heat set it and then start quilting it.  Reveal day is August 1st…..

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Today I have been playing with photo images in Photoshop…..some just changing to black & white, some distorting, etc.  I challenge myself to use Photoshop at least once a week, just to get to know all the details.  Could take me the rest of my life…..LOL!

Today, I was working on different sizes of the centre of a sunflower as this might be the “Flora” I use for my Textile Abstractions challenge piece, due August 1st.

I have another flower that may make the cut instead, we will see…

I have printed this image onto a TAP sheet  (Transfer Artist Paper)…..scratched the edges and am thinking of ironing it onto a chiffon or organza layer.  Still thinking this one through.

If I go with the sunflower image, I will be using some of my stash of  yellow hand-dyed fabrics. Sorted them all & folded into one of these wire baskets from IKEA (I bought the units last year, still working on finding space for them in my upstairs studio).  Decided one basket is NOT ENOUGH hand-dyed fabrics so on my TO DO list this week is more fabric dyeing.  Don’t need purples, but really need light blues (skies) and greens.

This week’s TO DO list also includes painted fabrics, fusible web, Lutradur and we’ll see what else comes to mind when I have the paints out.

While I work away on projects this week, I’ll post some of the pages I have had in the “I’m a Scavenger” sketchbook.

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