Tea-dyeing old ribbons and trims to create another vintage looking album.

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Shifu.....spinning paper into yarn with my electric drill so much fun

Hey, check out this image I made using Diptic on my Iphone.

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My new favourite book.

This is a book I got from Anthropologie and it is quite beautiful eye candy.
I think I feel a shopping spree coming on!!!

Photo album

I took some papers,ribbons and tea dyed muslin and began sewing. Look what happens when you start doing instead of thinking!

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Surrounded by love

Hearts all over the place. Love is in the air!

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Putting up heart strings from the melted wax hearts I made the other day.

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A page from my Journal.......I make a month page and add bits and pieces to it as things happen.

Warped

Wahoo....Shawn showed me how to use the warp feature in Photoshop....love the possibiliities!

Collage of wax crayons melted in to paper and hearts cut out! Spread the love.

I made this with Collage Lite - Available on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and (coming soon) iPad. Download the full version at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/collage/id289943863?mt=8

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Took a photo on my I phone and created some fx with pic grunger.

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Took a photo with my I phone and added textures in Photoshop.

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Another ballpoint pen sketch of my wallet contents!

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What's in my bag? Someone made this suggestion so that's what I sketched today! Thanks for the idea.

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A ball point pen drawing of my journal kit.

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The first page in my new moleskin journal

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It's Official....I'm an addict!

At the beginning of the month I signed up for Kim Klassen's Skinny mini e course and now am taking her Photoshop Essentials and what with my new Canon SX30 and my Iphone and its apps I am spending every spare moment taking and playing with photos!

Last weekend we painted some textured backgrounds with grungy borders and then using my new found skills at layering , added various different elements until I got a picture I liked.

Playing with apps on my I Phone

I signed up for LK Ludwig's "The phone in your pocket" on line class and have been playing with all the photo apps that are available for the I phone. Here a few samples of things around my home and around town. It is very addicitive !

 these were done with pic grunger

 These two were  done using the sketch mode in Toon Camera

and the rest are using the hisptamatic camera ....my new fave!

Getting Festive

Last weekend I started cutting paper and couldn't 

seem to stop ....the season is fast approaching!

The Butterfly Effect

Check out the link to this amazing project. One and a half million children lost their lives in the Holocaust and the Holocaust Museum of Houston Texas is mounting an exhibition of butterflies to honour each life lost......1.5 million butterflies are needed for this project.....I am rounding up all the artist and kids I know to get working!
Trudi Sissons is an Albertan who lives in Lethbridge and is the owner of
Two Dresses Studio. Spread the Word!

Turning Reeds in to Paper!

During my many swamping trips this fall I collected bagfuls of reeds, cut

them up and then cooked them. Last weekend I went to the Studio in St.Albert and put my cooked reeds in to the Hollander to beat them in to a pulp.....literally!

 I added a wee bit of Ababaca and the result is some very nice medium brown paper with long flecks in.

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I had lots of advice and tips from Barb our paper maker extraordinaire. Thanks Barb! Now I have to bind these papers in to a book.

Tenth day of the tenth month of two thousand and ten.

We went down to the river this morning to collect branches for Rozina's twig archway we are building. There were so  many red rose hips that I collected some of those aswell.

Then she found a fallen nest, which I thought needed a little something.So I added some rocks

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We came home and made a marvelous thanksgiving supper.Check out these amazing Yorkshire Puddings!

A Nest!

I am so lucky to live just a short walk from an area of wetland where the rushes and willows grow tall. Today after many searches at last  I found one red winged blackbird's nest. It is amazing how these birds so very cleverly weave grasses in and out to anchor their structure to the thin tall stems of the willows.
It was woven around seven uprights and hang in perfect balance.

A walk in the reeds

I used to have a web site many moons ago but life happened and I let everything go .  So I am starting anew with a new computer ( IMac) and new technology with the intention of documenting my creative pursuits at least on a weekly basis.
Yesterday I went for a walk in the swamp at  the end of our road.
The reeds are taller than me and it was quite wonderful to walk amongst them, listening to the leaves swaying in the breeze. I am going back there later on today to see if I can find some Red Winged Blackbird nests. In the spring this wetland is filled with their song and bright flashes of red as they take to the sky.
I wonder what I'll find?