Stitching My Story

Design Inspiration: Color

(color palatte created at COLOR HUNTER based on a photo I took and uploaded)

kuler

color scheme designer

color explorer

pictaculous

color hunter

colr

rgb color chart

color code

degrave color palette

cymk color chart

Typography Class Starts Soon And....

... I am weak. I couldn't resist. How great is this mug???

The View From My Desk Chair....

Happiness looks like this. In a round-a-bout way, a gift from dad.

Perfect for what I'm doing at school.

Notice the reflection of Syd's paintings in the screen? I love that. Even when the computer is off, it is colorful and fun to look at.

Now.... I just need to get used to all these little MAC quirks. It's like my fingers are having to learn a new computer dance!

As much as I like order and organization.....

"As I ran this morning I started to see a pattern in my life.  As much as I like order and organization, sometimes this inhibits me from making the important changes I need to make.  Because you see, some changes require a mandatory period of messiness in order to get to clarity or cleanliness."

Kristin Armstrong, Mile Markers

Blast from the Past...

 

After my last post, a friend emailed me about this old time Popeye Coffee House cartoon. SOOO funny! It brought back great memories of watching Saturday morning cartoons at home with dad.

Thanks, Roger.

Instead of Doing Homework...

"Coffee gives you the time to dream it, then you're ready to do it."

 

For a school project, I am designing three different logos for an "old school" coffee shop

(imagine the sharp smell of roasting coffee, writers bent over their latest short story or poem, young college students engaged in philosophical discussions, bins of freshly roasted beans with coffee scoops and scales nearby, burlap sacks, wood floors, mismatched furniture....).

*happy sigh*

{dear cowboy} and Unit Four went to the movie. The house is quiet. I should be hard at work in Adobe Illustrator, but instead...

I am watching David Bowie and Kurt Vonnegut promote coffee on youtube.

I think I have officially raised procrastination to an art form.

 

 

Loving My Titanium Cowboy....

Mike's blog is always a fun read. Great writer... Great sense of humor. And what can I say? Even if biking is not your first love *raising my hand*, these Titanium Cowboys are just plain eye candy.

; )

View From Inside my Travel Bag....

We took a quick trip to the city today. Unit Four needed a large canvas for his oil painting class at school, and I was feeling the urge to wander a BIG UNIVERSITY art department.

In addition to my classes at the college, I've been taking Alisa Burke's "Sketchbook Delight" class online. She was very convincing when she said that I didn't need any new, fancy supplies for her class, but I was in the mood for a bit of art store retail therapy just the same.

Here's what was in my canvas travel bag on the way down:

• My Moleskine sketchbook, a Graphic 1 Pigma Pen and a 2B drawing pencil.
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard.
• Regia Sock Yarn on #2 Needles with a print out of the sock chart in my sidebar.
• My favorite black and white polka dot reading glasses.
• An electronic Suduko game (backlit for seeing in the dark... thank you, Unit Two).
• A tiny grid notebook and a Ticonderoga pencil for notes.
• An Odwalla Sweet & Salty Almond Bar , and a Diet Coke (ok... two DCs, but who's counting? DARN those new year resolutions).

Here's what we came back with:

• A large canvas and a new brush for Unit Four's BREAKFAST themed oil painting.
• Several new colors of acrylic paint for my design class.
• A large roll of tracing/drawing paper to hang on the dispenser in my studio.
• A Prismacolor pencil sharpener and a black Prismacolor colored pencil for Unit Four's friend.
• Pelikan opaque watercolors (24 colors-- I've had my eye on this set for a while now).
• A travel tub of brush cleaner for my school box.
• Several water soluble black markers for Alisa's class.
• New dustless chalk and a chalkboard eraser for the chalkboard that {dear cowboy} made me for Valentine's day.
• A small Koi waterbrush... perfect for tucking in with my new watercolors.

I don't think I could live in the big city, but I do love visiting. I feel full to the tip-top with happiness, gratitude and inspiration here this evening. Life is good.

Christmas Knitting Roll for my BFF....

I made this for Cindy for Christmas.

I modified and used this pattern.

I bought the needles on Amazon.

In a Spinning and Dyeing Mood....

 

I just ordered new dyes from Sheepish Creations on Etsy, pulled pounds of snowy white merino roving from a box, and oiled up my spinning wheel. I love fall!!!