Ol' Timey

At times life may not be all that stressful. Then there are the days when you don’t want to get out of bed. Farmstead arts is one of those c...

I had so much fun working with the lapidary equipment! I had been doing the wire wrapping in finished stones, but actually getting to polish...

WOAD! I wanted to experiment with the smelly bucket of woad, but I didn't out of consideration for other's sense of smell. Ive alway...

This was perhaps the activity I had been looking forward to most this class. I got turned on to lapidary arts by Jody when she was experimen...

Today we fashioned some rough pebbles into smooth, beautifully polished stones. The best stones to use are relatively low on the Mohs scale ...

Today Jacob and I removed our T-shirts from the plant dye after 3 days of soaking. We used Genista tinctoria, known as Dyer's Greenwood...

As part of the fiber dying class this week I took in upon myself to some of the blindingly white shirts I seem to own. Dying vegetable fibe...