I always love these when I see them so I finally made one. I don’t care if they’re meant for parties – I never have parties so I have no other option! I used a hot pink string to hang it for a bit of colour. The tissue & string were both found at the dollar store. Total cost: $2.

This week I’ve just been getting back into classes. I’m getting some credits during the summer to lighten the load later. I’m taking Screen Printing & Markmaking on the Loom, then for the second half of the summer I’m trying to get into an independent study which is causing a bit of stress right now. Think good thoughts for me!

Anyway, the photos here are just me getting started on some projects. I feel pretty lame posting about silly little things like this but I’m mostly just trying to document my time at NSCAD a little better. You can see I did a bit of screen printing. We’re just working with paper stencils so far & I’m very anxious to get into the photo emulsion & repeating patterns part. I’m feeling summery so I made up some pinks & yellows even though we haven’t been taught how to mix colours yet. All that was left from class was black, brown & green, which don’t appeal to me so much.

In my weaving class we’re just working on a metre of fabric that’s meant to be very tactile. The warp is of a very fine linen which I’ve incorporated from rope & starting to add some horse hair which I hope I can use to pile. I’m very excited for March 22nd when we go on a class field trip to East Dover, NS. Another instructor lives out there by a lake so we’re going to her place, which is supposed to be a crazy time capsule. We’ll spend the day taking our pre-woven fabrics, picking up nature bits & wrapping them all together. We’ll let them soak in the lake for a while then make a fire & dye pot to put them in! This will be a great day.

As you can probably see, I still need to work on judging how much ink to use so that my prints aren’t globby. Whoops.

1. Some fresh tulips.
2. Trees blooming in the park across the street. I’m getting very excited about spring this year. Last year it was freezing & rainy all through April & May. This year has been so much nicer!
3. High speeeeed! (A tiny Super Moon can be seen through the trees).
4. Finally we got to a photo booth. Last time was in Rochester when we first moved in together. Going to make this more of a tradition.

Just trying to have a nice relaxing weekend before I’m back to super early mornings & seven more weeks of classes.

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Image from Sight from Sound (Nick’s synesthesia blog).

This weekend we were able to get some things done around the apartment. One of which was getting a new table for the dining area! We scooped it up off Kijiji, gave the legs a paint job & voila, a new place to eat our meals. Currently I’m sitting & enjoying the morning sunlight through the curtains. The trees are finally blossoming & the sky is blue. I also see some tulips across the street! It’s been nice having some time off. Early mornings will be starting again soon but I get a couple of months off again after my summer classes. Whew.

Back to being productive around the home!

I’ve put a new print up in the shop recently. It’s a lithographic print I pulled, scanned & had enlarged to 24×36 inches. I made this using touche wash, which is an inky, watery liquid. Then I sprinkled some salt in it while it was wet & that’s the reaction seen in the bottom right area of the mound. I’ve been working with this form for a while now. For me, it originally stems from a dream I had in grade 4 where this form was slowly smashing through my bedroom wall. I used the printmaking course I took this past semester to explore my relationship with this mound, as I call it, & I think I’ve come a long way with it but I’ll keep moving forward. You can start looking forward to seeing it pop up in a lot of my future work!

1. Last lithos!
2. New shoes for my hard work.
3. Milkshake time.
4. Washing my final weaving project.

Two more days of classes!

I’ve been working a bit on my website the past few days. Just been adding some new sections, images & descriptions. In case you want to check it out. I plan to be better at keeping it up to date. This should be good in the fall when I’m taking an open studio course in textiles. I’m excited to have some time to myself to focus on working on what I want! Oh yeah, Happy Easter!

I can’t wait for summer. It’s so bitter out lately. The buses are on strike here in Halifax since February 3rd & I’m tired of walking so much in the cold. Normally I don’t mind walking but not having any options for really early mornings or late nights & lame. School has obviously been super busy as you can see with my lack of blog posts. However, I do have some fun things planned for the arriveal of spring & I can’t wait to share it with everyone! Keep your eyes peeled. I’ll be posting little hints on Instagram/Twitter!

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Tote in photo from fieldguided.