Samples for Print

Sneak preview for samples going to print... checking for colour and size...

I am having such a lot of fun putting these designs together - so much funky colour going on and some of these are destined for further embellishment with some bling and beading and maybe a bit of embroidery...

I now have 12 definitive final designs -I'm aiming for 24 - the others aren't far behind. While its great fun I just cant stop putting things together I have so many primary drawings and photographs I just want to get the best out of them. I have used a lot of photograph resources this time something quite new for me. My Photoshop skills have come on in leaps and bounds - overlaying colours, stacking layers, experimenting with image hues, levels, differences, smudging....... and more. I've been doing web based tutorials to hone skills and while it doesn't stick immediately I know where to go to revisit when I need to.

My next dilemma is what fabric to print on, I was going for best quality cotton lawn but now having perused some like minded designers and their products I'm considering using silk as the colours will really zing!!! More research is needed.

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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