Red Cedar
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Bloom!
Posted on May 16, 2014 by Megan
Left this morning for a quick trip to our property outside Princeton, but before I did I noted that the warm weather in Vancouver forced the peonies into full, brilliant bloom. My blueberries are going like gangbusters too!
Had so much fun mixing paints from natural dye materials and then painting and stenciling with them this last week. What I really couldn't believe was the difference in colour between the dried paints and when they were heat finished with steaming. They became much more vivid in that process. More on the agenda for this week including building a colour wheel from more colours!
I've been beating myself up about letting my powerlifting go over the last few months. Not completely of course, but I've been too intermittent and that reflects in my overall strength gains. Today I went to the gym after a wee break and decided to go as easy as I wanted to, as light and as slow. Focus on form; make sure I got in the one exercise that keeps the Mortons neuroma in my foot at bay. No surprise, it was the most enjoyable workout I've had in months!!! And then I washed off the sweat by swimming to the reef and back in this strange October weather. #fitatalmost50 #powerlifting #gabriolaisland #gabriolafitnesscentre
Stenciling and painting with natural dyes. Turns our I love the process of blending colours over a stencil. @maiwaschooloftextiles #maiwaworkshop #maiwaschooloftextiles #printandpaintwithnaturaldyes #surfacedesign #textilestudio
Studio time. Making marks with the paints I cooked up earlier this week.
This is the songwriting studio, Paradise, at our home on Gabriola Island. A friend of ours built this during the pandemic and it mostly gets used for extra sleeping space during parties. I just cleaned it after a summer of use for our next songwriter-in-residence @kimberley_macgregor this afternoon and now I'm hanging out remembering how lovely this space really is. Newly acquired artwork by @c.r._avery visible in the photo. We are blessed by the creative energies of others at Birdsong Gabriola. #songwriting #writing #birdsonggabriola #writingresidency #gabriolaisland
Making paint out of natural dyes and creating samples of my colour pallette tonight. I think I'm going to wait until I have more natural light to work with these!
I never swim this late in the season but I had some bad juju on me from the weekend that needed washing off. So clear, the water, so cool and still. I swam to the reef and back, disturbing the sea birds perching there. It was the only way. #writingtheendtimes #gabriolaisland
Finished Module 2 of the @maiwaschooloftextiles #printandpaintwithnaturaldyes course last night.
Excitement in the dye studio this morning when I lifted these test pieces out of their pots and discovered how well the dye adhered to the painted and stamped mordant on the cotton fabric! Dyed with buckthorn (yellow) and cutch (brown) - I'll be interested to see what these look like when dry. On Sunday I plan to dye the "finished" pieces from this @maiwaschooloftextiles #printandpaintwithnaturaldyes module, which have been painted and stamped with mordant already... and will share more process pictures when I'm done!
Some of my printing blocks for Module 2 of the @maiwaschooloftextiles class I am taking. I am excited to show results after I have finished this process later this week! #maiwasupply #maiwaworkshop #maiwaschooloftextiles #printandpaintwithnaturaldyes #textileprocess #textilestudio
The canning kitchen is getting another workout today. This outdoor set up really was a fantastic investment, especially loving it on the mild fall days. #canningseason #foodpreserving #Canning #pressurecanning #foodsecurity #fillingthepantry
For the first time in three years I stepped into the Wall Street Zendo this morning. I showed up in person to practice with my #zencommunity and deliver a talk on what brought me to Zen practice. It was a deeply moving morning of reflection and kinship for me, a reminder of how much we need each other on our path through this lifetime. #zenbuddhism #spirituallife
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