Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Saved a Shirt


This was my favorite colored shirt. Then I got pink dye on the bottom of it. It covered nicely with a dip in brilliant blue. So glad to have my shirt back.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Interesting piece


This is a piece of sateen cotton that I decided to experiment with this summer. I put it in a jar of water and added avocado pits. It sat all summer. It didn't do anything that exciting, but turn grey. Then I rusted it to make it more interesting. Then I dyed it with safari grey. It looks pretty good now. A long process, but fun to have a challenge.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

A new project finished

Took another patch of grass out to accommodate a fountain. Arranged some planted pots and added some glass rocks. Have some old twin bed foot and head boards behind the fountain that I found at a garage sale.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Christmas is coming

My six grandchildren will be happy with these Christmas tye dye shirts. This one was wrapped around a large nylon rope and it makes it look like water or bubbles. One of my grandchildren has a tye dye shirt for each day that he wears to school. He spent the night last weekend and made his own. I delivered it to his house today and I am sure he will be explaining to his friends tomorrow at school that he did the shirt himself.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Napkins and Table Clothes

My wheels are spinning with ideas of what I can do with the pile of linen table clothes and napkins I have. This shirt has four napkins and one each for the sleeves. Notice the pockets are on top of each other. Thought that created a different look. Some nice vintage buttons seems to set them off.
The back is a table cloth and the design of the table cloth really stands out.