I recently created my second off loom weaving, using a foam board card as my loom. It was a little more difficult to use compared to a regular loom, so I bought an easel loom for future projects. But I do like how it turned out... love using a variety of yarns and wood to add texture and visual interest!
Right now, I'm busy building my inventory for our annual Flagstaff Open Studios tour scheduled for
Aug 28-29.
This will be the 12th year I have done the tour, and always love seeing friends and shoppers, and visiting with some of my fellow artists. This year, we will have 5 at my friend Cinde's house, so it should be a fun weekend.
I'm also continuing to create my spirit dolls, which seem to be selling well at Sedona Artists' Market... I was hoping they would! Here is my latest, "Wild Child" who will be going there Friday with a few others I've blogged about in past posts:
So, what's next? Well, a couple of years ago, I tried my hand at eco-printing... you can see my post about it here. 
I made a bunch of cards, then tried several scarves, but as usual... moved on to other things, and haven't done anything else with it since 2019. But recently, I was inspired to do some tea-dyeing after watching a great video on a tiktok post, and did a few tries with tea I rescued from tea bags... not great results. But my friend Jana of Little Cabin Soaps is an avid tea drinker, and she has donated loose tea from a local shop that she had in her stash. I did my first experiment with it yesterday, and got great colors, but not the great designs I saw on tiktok. So I'm going to combine some of the loose tea with leaves from the yard and see how that works! It involves clamping together a number of papers with leaves sandwiched in between, and steaming or boiling for a couple of hours, so I'm re-assembling my equipment and chemicals to do a batch this weekend.
But that's not all! I watched another video that creates prints with leaves, AND adds some dye to the mix to give it more color, so that's on my list too!
I will "show and tell" pix in my next post, so check back soon... I don't think I'll be able to wait long to share the results (if they come out!). Meanwhile, hope you are enjoying your summer! We've had a very good Monsoon season so far this year... lots of rain, even had a lightning strike nearby take down our internet for 3 days, but the moisture is so welcome!
Until next time, Happy August!
