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Tangible Daydreams
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Welcome to the crafty side of my life. Here I'll be musing about projects I'm working on, and the creative process around them.
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Spinning Wheel Deals and Silk Painting

 "Pssst.....Hey lady! Wanna buy a wheel??"I had to laugh yesterday. See, my daughter has her own place up at college these days, and wants to set up her own studio. (Go Michelle!) Shes b...

6 days ago

Orange Mint Tea

This is a follow up to this post on drying my garden mint: http://tangibledaydreams.blogs pot.com/2012/05/first-try-at-d rying-mint-for-tea.htmlSo, last week I harvested some of my overgrown mint and h...

22 may 12

Annular Eclipse through the Arizona wild fires

Late this afternoon, I decided that I was going to ditch my evening responsibilities and chase after the annular eclipse that was going to be happening around sun down. Now, I looked on line about ho...

21 may 12

Felt baby booties

Ive been making a pair of seamless wet felted baby booties again. (I did a tutorial on this awhile ago, here: http://tangibledaydreams.blogs pot.com/2011/12/tutorial-how-t o-make-felt-baby-booties.html. ..

16 may 12

First try at drying mint for tea

My mint pot out front is getting just a bit unruly. (Actually, I have two pots that look like this, but I can only get one in the picture at a time.) Ive been harvesting the mint to flavor my cold dr...

14 may 12

CSM socks and hat from Serenity yarn

I made a pair of socks today on my antique Creelman Brothers sock knitting machine. This pair is already spoken for. Dont you love the way the color pools and oozes around the sock? This is made from...

30 apr 12

Ear wraps and project planning for ruanas

Ive been having fun making more of the ear wraps. I made this one for my daughter, and she loves it. It is just like the one the other day, but instead of making a spiral on both top and bottom, I sq...

27 apr 12

Back to work

Now that Estrella is done, and Ive mostly recovered from the event, it is time to get myself back into gear in the studio. So for the past few days, Ive been cranking out socks on my antique sock kni...

13 apr 12

Contrasting gores in cotehardies

I am involved in a historical recreation group, and as such I ended up looking at making a cotehardie. Cotehardies were the height of fashion in the 1300s, and are usually what people think of as a M...

24 mar 12

Viking Wire Weaving: Changing size and flexibility through the draw plate

I just finished up weaving a Viking wire woven necklace. (For instructions, take a look at this post: http://tangibledaydreams.blogs pot.com/2010/03/tutorial-vikin g-wire-weaving.html ) Im using Artist...

10 mar 12

Not a dog rug. Really. (But it should be, right?)

Awhile before Christmas, I made a sheet of flat felt in order to make my sweetie a hat. I got around to starting on that last night, and put my felt, pattern, and scissors down on the ground to prep ...

01 mar 12

Orange Vinegar

It is getting close to Estrella time for me (estrellawar.org), which means Im starting to look at doing some food prep. One of the things I make every year is a drink called sekanjabin. I did a post ...

27 feb 12

I found a loom!

Did I need another weaving loom? No, I did not. I have two floor looms already, plus several other little specialized ones. But...I couldnt pass this one up. Really! 8 harness, 40" weaving width....

24 feb 12

Ding-Dong Ditch Banana Bread

  Ding-Dong Ditch Banana Bread1/2 c butter, softened1 c sugar2 eggs3 mashed bananas2 c all purpose flour1 tsp baking soda1 tsp vanilla extract1 tbs cinnamonPreheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour...

21 feb 12

Renovating the game room, continued

Weve been working on renovating our game room for the past couple of weeks. Last time you saw pictures of the process here, we were ripping everything out of the room--furniture, carpet, shelves, and...

11 feb 12

Poem: The Loons Tale

A conversation with a friend brought this poem back to mind, and I realized I didnt have it up on the internet anywhere handy. I wrote it back in 96, for a market that was looking for work about shap...

09 feb 12

The silk painting lesson

I was teaching silk painting today, and decided to snap some shots of the lesson. I had the kitchen table covered with newspaper before she came over, and a selection of dyes and a couple of shapes o...

05 feb 12

Renovating the game room

Id love to show you what wonderful craft project Im working on right now. Well, technically, I could......because I do have a shawl on the triloom. Im trying to variegate 6 different colors of yarn, ...

26 jan 12

365 photography project

One of the things Ive been doing has been working on my photographic skills. Ive got a ways to go, mind you. To get in some good practice, over the last year Ive been posting a picture a day at my pe...

19 jan 12

Re-Boot! Felt Baby Booties (method 2)

I was going to make a set of felt baby booties yesterday, like I did here: http://tangibledaydreams.blogs pot.com/2011/12/tutorial-how-t o-make-felt-baby-booties.html . But..um...well, I wasnt really p...

13 jan 12

Arizona full moon rise into the Belt of Venus

My family and I went hiking in the White Tank Mountains this afternoon/evening. It was a beautiful day for it here in the Phoenix area, and we were coming down off the mountain just after sunset. My ...

09 jan 12

Picture a Day project: 2011

Over the course of this past year, Ive been doing a Picture a Day project over on my personal FaceBook. This started as a way to keep in touch with my daughter as she was away at college, so she coul...

06 jan 12

Tutorial: How to make a flat sheet of wool felt

Im in the process of making a warm hat for my husband to use for SCA (historical recreation group) use. There is a style of hat that is popular here, especially on cold winter nights. Ive heard it de...

27 dec 11

Silk ties in action: Copper Canyon HS Acapella Singers

Im working on a project right now...but Ill have to wait until after Christmas to show you all. In the meantime, here is a shot of the Copper Canyon H.S. Acapella Singers. They were caroling this eve...

23 dec 11

Tutorial: How to make...nope, not saying until after Christmas because my family will read this...

Ok now, if you are a member of my family, and you live in Arizona, quit reading this. Really. You can come back and take a look after Christmas.Here is a picture to fill the space, so you can click a...

21 dec 11

Late night cooking: scrambled egg and sardine sandwich

My taste buds are very happy, and my tummy is wonderfully full. Ahhh...comfort food. No, there are no pictures with this because I didnt think it would be so tasty while I was rummaging around the ki...

18 dec 11

Tutorial: How to make felt baby booties

Today I made a pair of wet-felted baby booties, and thought Id take some pictures as I went along to show you all how I did it.The first thing I did was to make my pattern. The little lady who is get...

16 dec 11

Felt covered stress rocks

I was experimenting tonight, and came up with these palm sized felt-covered river rocks. Everyone at the shows I do loves to pet the large door-stop sized felt rocks that I use as table weights, so w...

15 dec 11

Triloom weaving with Loops & Threads "Cozy Wool" yarn

Ive been searching for just the perfect yarn to weave shawls with on my triangle loom, and I think I finally found it. My pegs are spaced just a little further apart than on most triangle looms, and ...

14 dec 11

Looking back on a months worth of craft shows

Ive been kind of quiet here for a bit. I got to thinking about it, and realized that this spate of few blog entries has coincided with my first forays into having a booth for my items in real life, a...

11 dec 11

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