Hi

Well it has been a while, sometimes I feel like I have nothing much to say and life goes along and end up  doing the usual boring stuff. I am sure that I am the only one that feels this and everyone else has exotic weekend's away and go out every night to the theatre and the movies and dinner :)

In the meantime I have been slogging away on this with my Janome who's pedal foot is slowly dying and they want $120 for a new foot!! the machine only cost me $500 two years ago. This is what I want

I am in the process of filling in the black with feathers and bubbles and other fillers.

Then I missed painting, so I got some dyed fabric out and saw a piece and thought hmmm I can see a river here and a kind of mangrove swampy thing happening, so I got my paints out and had a go...

So if your interested :) I dyed this piece by tieing pieces of it. You can see some are left white from the original fabric. So I have painted into the white and tried to give the impression of a mangrove swamp. Of course I have only just started so hopefully it will look better soon :) The brown wierd bits are tree trunks going every which way.
I also discovered that when I mix this awesome product I have called polycolor with my fabric paints,  that the paint is so opaque that it just shines and glows, you can just see it in these shots. I have added it to the water to give it shadow and it looks amazing. I tried some onto white fabric and it was awesome. There is some paint already like this called lumiere but it is so dear, at $13 for 70ml I worked it out to be about $160 a litre!!!!!!! I bought a litre of my awesome fabric paints for $13 and the polycolor was $12. Super awesome value and I can make any colour I want. It looks just the same. I think I could sell it :)
So off to do some more painting. I figure if it sucks I will just toss it like I did to the butterfly. That really was terrible work.
Jane