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Cast paper, Xpanda, paper quilting, textile scraps, rusty bits, hand painting, hand embroidery, found objects, rusty bits, beading, stencilling and machine stitching---a culmination of some newly learned and some well loved techniques.

"How Does Your Garden Compute?"

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how does your garden compute
how does your garden compute detail 

Somewhere in a box in a closet in her mother's home, there is a reel of home movie, the kind with no sound. Amidst the flickering of the camera and the dappled light coming through the leaves, there is a three year old girl wandering in a forest and with puzzlement asking "Where are all the flowers?" You can't actually hear the words, but you can see her lips moving and the look of consternation on her face, as another fairy tale idea is broken.

I think of that little girl when i find all these in a kilometre square section of forest, mountain and riverbank.

 Violets, daisies, lilies, pusitilla, sunflowers, roses, clematis, and a ton of others i don't recognize, these all renewed my faith in fairy tales that showed a little girl in a thicket of knee deep flowers in a green green safe forest. It's cool and peaceful here, fresh and pure.

My sixteen year old self would have reveled here.

Paths to wander uninterrupted, no other soul around, vistas to explore and rocks to climb, all leading up and out, but safe in going back down as well. Dry and still, silent and open.

And in the arid soil, some hope:

And growth for the future:

HAving problems posting, so hope this gets where it's supposed to! I *am* still around, just having probs again with computer related stuff............

 Time for a change:

 These little spice cabinets are a dime a dozen in both "new" stores and thrift shops. They're perfect not only for paints,  bead bottles and dinky bits, but would be great fodder for shrine work as well. I painted and glittered this one 6 years ago, and it's been everywhere from bathrooms to studio to kitchen. Time for a change though--needs a little zazzin up. The doors and drawer pulls are buttons with shanks that i just wood glued into the old knob spaces.

Today's project :} 

Mary Anne's corpse has arrived in her hands! It's amazing how many interpretations can be made with her theme "Escape". Go see on her blog! Well done, my CorpseMistresses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!