Spent most of Sunday playing with fabrics. Dyed some silk, and I would have done even more if I didn’t run out of the dye! Dying is so addictive, the paints/ dyes flow like watercolors. Here they are, hanging.
Lately I’ve been exploring ideas on WHAT to do with all this colorful fiber goodness. Lots of secret ideas…
Oh, and I am constructing my faerie house! Here’s the back wall, made of oak twigs (and others as well- rose, maple, willow….but mostly OAK!) To be druid-like, I wanted to make the house solely holly and oak but I became confused over the origins of my twigs:(
The face in the top window is an antique print that I have hanging in my studio room. It’s Psyche- 1909, by William Sergeant Kendall. Goodness, what a beautiful painting. She has very small discrete wings on her back. I am convinced that these are the best (I’m sooo sick of whacking people in the head and other places with mine!)
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~mjoseph/CP/WSK1909.jpg
My holly leaves look great so far. They will done “curing” this Thursday. I hope to have my faerie yuletide cottage complete by then so I can “shingle” the roof with them! I still need to make some furniture as well- a table and shelf for downstairs (yes, it’s two levels!) and little twig bed for the loft. And I will most definitely want to sew a mini quilt for the bed. I’m using mostly natural items in the house, with the exception of the quilt and maybe a few teeny tiny glass jars (to hold herbs and gems) on the shelf.
I’ll post pics of all this soon!