...grow fonder (I hope). But I may be pushing my luck a bit as it's been almost 2 months since my last post. There are no real why's and wherefor's. It all started with the great success we had with the Colours of Africa weekend. We had almost 1000 visitors, sold all the objects and raised over 1000 euro's for the creche in South Africa. The weather was great too. And then I sort of hit a real low. My focus was gone and I struggled to get myself together. Talk about anti-climax : this one was for real.
Anyhow, I eventually picked myself up by the scruff of the neck and seriously engrossed myself in dyeing with procion. I've been selling procion for about a year now in my Trapsuutjies-shop, but I had never really used it that much. I hate selling something that I don't know a lot about so it was time to rectify that. For those in the know it will come as no surprise that I became just a little bit addicted.
I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to start rinsing the previous day's work. And I love the results. Of course I had to combine my main products, so I did a small series of screenprinting with Trapsuutjies Fabric Paint on the procion-dyed fabric. I chose the fern-image.
The picture below was taken after a day or two of dyeing. Isn't it amazing what you can do with just 4 colours? I have now done 26 meters of great-quality poplin, all in fat quarters, ready for my next show. This happens to be "Textile Art Berlin" next weekend.
Well, it's that time of year again - I'm writing exams! Or it feels like it because I seem to do all the stressing, planning and stop just short of actually studying for the kids' exams. They take after me in my role as "queen of the last minute" but that was never the deal. They are supposed to start on time and give it their all. Dream on girl ......
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Luckily there are readers, so when you publish I will see it.
Good luck with the exams, my children are not nearly that far in their education, but I notice something similar, I stress about their school results too. Much more then I ever did when I was in school (I just learned it and made the exams, did start in time and was done with it). I guess the 'problem' is that the results of your children in school do have an impact not only on your children but also on you as a parent and you can do absolutely nothing to influence it (apart from perhaps locking them in their rooms with just books and even then they can just not do anything not to mention it being illegal and somewhat impractical, trying to lock a big teenager in a room).
Lovely to see you back, and what a comeback, I just love he new fabrics and ferns are my favourite patterns.
Kijk een aan, wat heb je dat mooi gedaan. Procion is fijne verf. En zeker in combinatie met jouw vertrouwde Trapsuutjies verf levert dit hele mooie stoffen op. Ik ben ook heel benieuwd wat er gebeurt als je eerst een mooie achtergrond maakt en dan dieren er op schildert. Ik denk namelijk dat jij daar fantastische kunstwerken mee kunt maken, zeker gezien je voorgaande werk.
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