Thursday, August 6, 2009

On Vacation



Well, back from Bracebridge for a day. The Airstream is clean and so is the outhouse in preparation for the gang to come up tomorrow for the weekend. My hubby laid down a landing for the Airstream door. Ready for a good time - rain or shine!!!!!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Blogging from Bracebridge

Just thought that I would try out blogging from our Airstream trailer that sits on 50 acres just east of Bracebridge! I got on the internet using my Rogers rocket stick! Sweet!!! I'm loving this very much. Too much fun!

I love how I can change the colour for each post and mess around with the font and font size.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Trial and Error


Not completely satisfied with what I was able to accomplish yesterday; I still have lots to learn! However, I am still excited by the prospect! I'm trying to post a picture of my offering made as part of the Marmalade Fibre Arts group challenge.

It may not be obvious to everyone, this is my rendition of an abstract landscape. It is a picture of a setting sun overtop of a mountain with a ruby red cloud; the purple sky is dotted with stars overlooking lush farmers fields. Most of this project is recycled: the mountain is made from painted and ironed bubble wrap, the sky is a recycled dryer sheet, and the sun is from a spacer used from a CD container. The fields were created using recycled mens silk ties.

The cloud was not made from recycled materials; it was fun to knit the thread on skinny needles and then have a use for it. I also embellished the landscape with beads and sequins. It was a fun project to do.

This was a challenge from 2008 and it took our group almost a year to complete since I believe that we had ten participants. I challenge the other members of our group to use recycled materials. I called it my Reclamation project.

So here is my first attempt at posting a picture of a piece of art. I want to see how it looks on the blog before I invite other members of our group to join me here.

Monday, August 3, 2009

It's Fun to Learn new things

I'm just trying this site out to see how it works because I think that the fibre arts group that I am involved with would benefit from using this site and technology when we can't always get together. Using this site we could post pictures of and blog about what we are currently working on and invite feedback.