creative anchorage

Adventures in cloth dyeing: flower edition!
1. Gather flowers
2. Mash
3. Squeeze out juice
4. Dye stuff!

They’ve faded a bit after they dried, but are still lovely shades. I love the unevenness in color as opposed to a purchased piece of cloth. I even tried out a mini tie dye (the last piece of cloth on the right)!

Thrifted: this leather journal filled with homemade-feeling paper with only few pages torn out in the front. I decided I had to buy it when I saw “ELIZA” written on the top side of the book (the first half of my name).
Since the journal has such a natural vibe about it, I went with dried leaves and flowers. I’m not sure if this page is finished, we’ll see.

holly-dolly-doo-darr:

I’ve always had a thing for terrarium’s there like little worlds trapped inside a bottle this little postcard illustration is just lovely

Yes yes yes. Never thought I’d be into terrariums like my mom, but of course with all these cutesified versions that have been around…

Pretty kitchen items from Mod Cloth:
dessert tea towel
kitty measuring cups
a lovely flower plate

I want them, I want them all!

Pretty garden club booklets from the late 60’s to the mid 90’s. (My mom’s been a member for a few years and was given the old booklets).

It’s refreshing to see the backyard gardens start to bloom…
Picture from around this time last year.

I made something with a little scrap of this cloth I have, but before I did I scanned them because I was sad to see them go. This is my problem….I can’t use anything because it’s too pretty!

May.

I was experimenting with printing on cloth today. You can buy special cloth for it, but I just lightly glued printer paper onto cloth and it worked fine! The first two pictures are from my backyard, and the right one I scanned from a book.
Excuse me, I have to go make something with them now.

I had a photo shoot with my backyard yesterday, ha.

flowers