Lamp Detail

Vintage Dresses

Vintage Tin

Multiple views (each side has something different on it) of a vintage tin, it has quite a bit of pink on it. The top image of the tin has a faded painting of a water mill and a river.

Dressing Table

Corner Found!

I found one corner of the guest bedroom

Teddy Boa

One Corner

Of our guest room, it is a tiny room, very nest or den like. The white shrouded item on the wardrobe is my wedding dress, I still haven't stored it away after seven years! From time to time I take my veil out and wear it around the house, it's what every princess does right? ;-)

One Corner

Of our guest room, it is a tiny room, very nest or den like. The white shrouded item on the wardrobe is my wedding dress, I still haven't stored it away after seven years! From time to time I take my veil out and wear it around the house, it's what every princess does right? ;-)

Lamp

I found the vintage tin at a thrift shop about 7 years or more ago.

I found this lamp at the Salvation Army of all places, it has a hair

line crack in it which only seems to add to it's charm.

The carosuel to the right was my mothers, my dad made it for her one year after she found the horses at a local store. It doesn't rotate, but John says he can fix that for me, I know my mother would have loved it even more had it rotated. It plays music and has lights and the riders on the horses go up and down.

Finally!

I've been looking for a space in my house where I can photograph things undisturbed - read cat and dog free zone. So for the past two weeks I've been cleaning and deciding, well today I stumbled upon an area that is perfect, and why I didn't think of it before is beyond me, it's the guest bedroom. So this afternoon I'm removing the "all" from this "catch all" room~!

And what I'm finding in there is, not only my artwork, but lots of vintage goodies I forgot I had collected over the years.

Mirror Frame

This old frame was attached to a dresser that is basically no more, I plan to paint it have John insert a piece of plywood, that will be painted with chalk board paint, and will then attache it to the front of the house. Oh and I plan to attac some vintage blue quart jars to the frame to fill with flowers and such ;-) I'm thinking a nice pink will make the frame look wonderful, with some red over aqua in the recessed areas.

New Front Fence

I found this vintage fencing material along a road in Valley Junction a few weeks ago - they were having their "throw it out weekend" John wasn't all that excited about picking it up, can't say I blame him it has WORK written all over it!

I have plans for John to cut it into panels and trim it out with wood and attach it to wood fence posts. The wood he's planning on using is from a salvage job of an old garage. I just need to find my recipe for white wash so I can paint the wood white.

Front Garden

This is the front along the porch, I put down some sort of garden cloth and then the mulch. later this week I'll plant tulips, iris, asian lilies, and hostas out there, and put the muddy area back into grass ;-)

New Path

Through the ole mud patch! I've been slowly plugging away at the lawn this week, trying to get all the leaves raked up (a never ending battle) the creeping charlie beaten back (a defeating battle) and the grass seed spread (good luck with the weather on that one)! I was really happy to see that my Asian Lilies survived the winter, they were in a pot in the yard so the goal this week is to get them transplanted to the front lawn.

The hostas should be ready to transplant in another week or so, my peonies are breaking the soil as are the lilies of the valley, tulips, and tirger lilies.

Jerusalem Artichokes

Well spring has finally sprung here, it's supposed to be 66 F here tomorrow, and if it hasn't sprung then I'm pretending it has anyway! I've been doing yard work, will take some pictures of that tomorrow, I've been putting down mulch and pavers in the areas that I've decided are permanent walkways and trimming everything back.

I cleaned the Jerusalem Artichoke garden and found some really nice tubers, will be making these up with a batch of green beans.

New Barn Series

New series of barns in the making. Silk velvet that has been dyed with natural dyes (vegetable or botanical dyed), compost dyed and or indigo dyed. The colors really are this vibrant in person! Cotton is not this vibrant but with a lot of work you can get it to this level of saturation ;-)

Now to figure how I'm going to stitch these babies and not lose the naunce of what I'm trying to achieve - which is to NOT have them look like a quilt! I'm not sure what the size is at the moment, I'll have to measure the pieces tomorrow, I"m thinking they are around 22"w x 28"h

Still Cleaning

A pile of silk sheers that have been dyed with either cochineal and or indigo.
Compost dyed silk fabrics, mainly sheers, that'll end up as faerey shoes or dresses - I think.

Found my pile of immersion dyed cotton fabrics, to the left, dyed with natural dyes. A selection of silk sheers to the right that have been dyed using a variety of methods, compost dyed, screenprinted (with natural dyes) or bound resist (shibori). Seeing the dark burgandy fabric reminds me that I wanted to get back to the dye pots and do some overdyeing a great way to make hohum fabrics SING!

Dye painted, Bound Resist, Compost Dyed, Silk Sheer Fabrics.

Like what else am I going to do? I had planned on working in the front garden this morning but over slept and woke up to rain! So now I'm back to sorting and pressing art cloth and will list some on my prairiefibers.etsy.com store later this evening. I have way too much fabric, and fibers, at this point and some of it definately needs to go live some where else.

Wet Studio Clean Up

It's still a mess but it's far better than it was before, at least now I can get my art cloth pressed and put up in the etsy store.

Pin Cushion

Here's a pic of my new pin cushion I actually love pin cushions though I don't have many of them. This one came to live with me by default, it's big and harder to lose, and my beloved pin cushion disappeared. Me thinks a tabby cat has taken said pin cushion and put it in HIS stash of goodies! This one is approximately four inches across, and hopefully won't disappear, though I think this may be more wishful thinking than anything else.

Studio Clean Up

I'll try to post pictures later this afternoon of my wet studio, I started cleaning it yesterday - and unpacking my stuff from the other place. It's slowly coming together, and involving a LOT of rearranging of everthing, but I have faith that eventually it'll be a real working studio again.

The problem with having BOTH a design studio, the place where I do all of my stitching etc., and a wet studio, the place where I do all of my dyeing and painting of fabrics, fibers, and papers is that they are seperated by a floor in between the two - and my knees don't like stairs anymore!

More later from the land of chaos and dust bunnies.