{"id":260,"date":"2005-11-29T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/29\/fabric-dying-faerie-house-construction-life\/"},"modified":"2005-11-29T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T21:07:00","slug":"fabric-dying-faerie-house-construction-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/29\/fabric-dying-faerie-house-construction-life\/","title":{"rendered":"fabric dying, faerie house construction, life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent most of Sunday playing with fabrics. Dyed some silk, and I would have done even more if I didn&#8217;t run out of the dye! Dying is so addictive, the paints\/ dyes flow like watercolors. Here they are, hanging.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/051128.jpg\"><br \/>\nLately I&#8217;ve been exploring ideas on WHAT to do with all this colorful fiber goodness. Lots of secret ideas&#8230;<br \/>\nOh, and I am constructing my faerie house! Here&#8217;s the back wall, made of oak twigs (and others as well- rose, maple, willow&#8230;.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:(<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/051128_2.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe face in the top window is an antique print that I have hanging in my studio room. It&#8217;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&#8217;m sooo sick of whacking people in the head and other places with mine!)<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.scils.rutgers.edu\/~mjoseph\/CP\/WSK1909.jpg<br \/>\nMy holly leaves look great so far. They will done &#8220;curing&#8221; this Thursday. I hope to have my faerie yuletide cottage complete by then so I can &#8220;shingle&#8221; the roof with them! I still need to make some furniture as well- a table and shelf for downstairs (yes, it&#8217;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&#8217;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.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll post pics of all this soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent most of Sunday playing with fabrics. Dyed some silk, and I would have done even more if I didn&#8217;t run out of the dye! Dying is so addictive, the paints\/ dyes flow like watercolors. Here they are, hanging. Lately I&#8217;ve been exploring ideas on WHAT to do with all this colorful fiber goodness. Lots &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/29\/fabric-dying-faerie-house-construction-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;fabric dying, faerie house construction, life&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}