Success in print samples on silk!!!!

I got my Walter Helena print in the mail this week and it is so gorgeous.  Nadine's photography style mimics watercolour and her paper and print choice really supports that quality.  I actually like the way it looks on the cardboard it came in (which I think is more to keep it from bending in the mail).

When I am dyeing textiles I feel at peace, but also highly charged.  It gets me vibrating with excitement (I can hear Lauren and Ali giggling at me).  Its a phenomena I sometimes call yarn drunk, a term I first used with Ana while driving away from having bought a car load (literally) of hand-spun merino at a really good price.  If I remember correctly, my shear joy came out in the form of an ongoing evil cackle. 

I think I'll just say that yarn drunkenness applies to all textile related bliss, since I don't want to make y'all think I'm drinking my fabric dyes (dye drunk? hrmm I don't think so).

So, as the left evidence implies, I spent this weekend in bliss dyeing yarn swatches for a natural dye experiment I'm doing.  You'll hear more about that later.  Just know I am in my happy place :)

I'm pretty sure this winter in Montreal has been even milder than last year.  We only got a huge dump of snow for the first time yesterday, and it feels like its been no colder than  -10 for a while now.  Yes, its been snowy and slushy, but not how I remember it being last year around this time.  I haven't even seen the snow-plow parade yet.

Yesterday I was going to do a photo shoot of the Anchor/Cradle at school, but the the new snow fall was so ideal (this was the beginning of what was 3.5" by the end of the day).  So I carried it over to Parc Jarry in the morning before class and found the perfect tree in the perfect spot.  It was easier than I expected to get it tied up on that branch.

I would have really liked to leave it there for a day or so, but I was afraid it might get stolen or taken down by the city and I need it for an upcoming show, so..... it was a temporary installation; long enough to get some good (higher quality) shots with the new camera.

I just got home from waiting for the bus in the snow for a full hour.  It would have been wretched if the snow hadn't been so mesmerizing.  Until now I've never actually seen snowflakes shaped like....snowflakes - the kind you'd make with scissors and paper.  They just make me smile.  AND because each flake is so flat they create a faceted blanket on the ground which sparkles like diamonds.  Amazing.

When I walked in the door I told Danny that was going back out to take pictures and he asked me, with serious conviction, what I had been smoking.  Haha.  He'll understand once he sees it for himself.

I attempted to capture the freezing rain on the trees outside our apartment from our porch the other night.  Danny and I had taken our time walking home from dinner with friends to enjoy the icicle scene.  It was really beautiful.  But once I got home there was no way I was going to brave the ice sidewalks again in order to get better light.