Have missed a few days! Busy with getting the play "Kitchen Witches" back up and ready to perform on May 13 & 14. Great cast seem to rememer most of their lines -- good work folks!
Thinking about summer flower garden. Did not do much last summer and fall due to my health/orthopedic issues. So .. if it would warm up, I would be so glad. After having a very mild winter, spring seems a bit elusive! Lovely and in the 70s for a few days -- and now we are back to 30s and 40s. In "my other life"(reference to my first marriage) my dear mother-in-law said to never plant things that could be damaged by frost until after Mother's Day. So, I wait, dying to go to the nearby green houses and buy things. I keep trying to get mostly perienials - always praying they will come up another year! And, we need perhaps one more tree and several bushes that did not return this year. Another little concern, we cannot find hardy mums for outdoors until fall -- ?? how dumb is that ??? -- they barely have a chance to develop a good root system before it is cold!!
Today instead of teaching, my dear volunteers did. Nancy Schofield, an incredible artist, taught a simple way to make prints:
Thinking about summer flower garden. Did not do much last summer and fall due to my health/orthopedic issues. So .. if it would warm up, I would be so glad. After having a very mild winter, spring seems a bit elusive! Lovely and in the 70s for a few days -- and now we are back to 30s and 40s. In "my other life"(reference to my first marriage) my dear mother-in-law said to never plant things that could be damaged by frost until after Mother's Day. So, I wait, dying to go to the nearby green houses and buy things. I keep trying to get mostly perienials - always praying they will come up another year! And, we need perhaps one more tree and several bushes that did not return this year. Another little concern, we cannot find hardy mums for outdoors until fall -- ?? how dumb is that ??? -- they barely have a chance to develop a good root system before it is cold!!
Today instead of teaching, my dear volunteers did. Nancy Schofield, an incredible artist, taught a simple way to make prints:
- Use styrophome plates.
- Use a softly rounded point on a pencil. Too sharp tips will poke a hole in the plate!
- On the outside, bottom of the plate. Remember, when you print it - it will be reversed! Using letters and numbers is tricky.
- Use a piece of flat glass at least 8" x 8", it is a good idea to cover the sharp edges of the glass with painters masking tape.
- Put your printing ink on the glass, spread it around with a "brayer".
- Then with the brayer roller covered with ink - roll the brayer on the design on the plate. Do not use too thick a coating!
- Then press your now inked picture onto paper. Pull the styrophome plate quickly off! Hurrah! Now lay your printed paper flat to dry.
I am tying to send a picture here to "icloud sharing" ?? Need to know more about this blog business!
Busy weekend coming up - Saturday morning will help with tye-dyeing tshirts for advertising the Tin Shop Theatre's production of a patriotic play. The actors will march and sing in the Memorial Day Parade in downtown Buchanan, MI.
Saturday afternoon play rehearsal - Kitchen Witches will be performed May 13 and 14.
Saturday evening will will go to a play at the South Bend Civic Theatre. Busy, busy, busy!!
Would someone explain how to get a photo from my iPhone sent to my computer to put on this blog??
Blessings to all - hope that spring will soon arrive and be as joyous as the blooming trees!
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