FEBRUARY

a teabag a day 

what's this?  cans of sample acrylic house paint from my local 

ace hardware store.  my friend told me about them 14.5 ounces for 

the sale price of $1.99!  to my surprise, the paints were individually

hand mixed!  look at the colors!   apparently the stores have regular sales so 

that means return visits for me.

these are a gift of beautiful senellier pigment powders

that i just learned how to mix and make my own 

watercolors!  oh my gosh, what a gift for a girl like me!

to add to the new color, pigment theme, i boiled

red onion skins, yellow onion skins, avocado skins, 

and avocado pits as inspired by an exercise in 

misty mawn's make do art online workshop.

she recommended labeling the bottles right away.  

i can see why now that i made them~~  the batches 

look so similar and it would be impossible to keep them

sorted without a label.

here are the samples i took at varying time periods. 

samples of avocado pit dyes.  print paper on the right

absorbed the most  dye.  i have boiled batches of papers 

with flower petals  and onion skins.  they make lovely 

stationary and journals.

have any of you tried making and using natural dyes?  i would love

to hear your experience and get ideas on how you like to use

the dyes.  

it's friday and i am looking forward to a creative 

weekend.  on fridays as always, i post with a lovely

creative group hosted by eva and kristen, paint party friday.

peek in on the  artists there if you get a chance... and 

Have a lovely

W E E K E N ED

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