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I have been saving onion skins and avocado pits and skins and marigolds for some time.  Yesterday I decided to get out the pots and get busy. This is the onion skin dye. I had two big plastic bags of the skins and it made a pretty dark orangie color. I'll leave the fabric in over night. I have some wool that I will add in a couple of hours. Avocado skins made a deeper pinkish dye than the pits. I cooked them separately and like the two shades. The pit color is the next picture. You can see the lighter color. Marigolds make a very pretty light yellow. It is always a surprise to see what color comes. Always different. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& A reminder of the two special classes coming up soon. Color Theory Class is Saturday Aug. 4. There are a few spots left so let me know if you'd like to join us. 10-2----$10.00   Friday August 17 is the P...

We just returned from about a week at Nehalem Bay campground, it was a wonderfully peaceful time. Loren's sister came with us and then Ginny and Darren joined us for a nice mini reunion! Very close to the campground there is a place called Cart m. It's kind of a recycle place (also called The Refindery)  that has cool stuff. Susan Pulford told me about this place and we visited it again. This is some of what they do...Upcycling....go visit if you can. 1 We made a trip to Manzanita. Fun little town to shop in. Nice bench to rest on. There were wind surfers having a wonderful ride. It was very windy, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A couple of class pics Diana scaled down this pattern and made it her own! I love it.  Denise added beads around the circles and now I need to add them to mine! So darn inviting Pennies anyone??? ********************************** New Classes On Saturday August 4 from 10-2 we wil...