Ok, I admit I didn’t really go much further than my own back yard. But it’s definitely a wilderness behind our garage! 
There’s a shed where we keep garden furniture etc, a huge birch tree and lots of very tall weeds. We’d cleared an area earlier in the week for burying my beloved dog, and I realized what a lovely, shaded peaceful place it is back there.
Category: Chit Chat
Quote of the Day
“Cultivating a regular daily practice of actually showing up and creating is the only way you will ever progress your talents, your ideas and you ambitions in creating.”
“The energy required to bring a pan of cold water to the boil is far greater than if the water was already simmering.
In creating, if we create nothing for days or weeks, then expecting to be instantly on the boil and creating at our peak, weâre like to be continually disappointed.”
What’s going on here?
Today I’m just playing with all the features and getting my domain names to work.
Galleries to come, definitely. So what exactly is an Aside? Bleeping looks like a regular post, doesn’t it?
ETA: Ah, I see the Asides don’t get titles….
The little house in a field
What exactly is the Colour Cottage? Well, it’s what I do AND where I live. Seeing and playing with colour gives me a kick, doesn’t matter if it’s photography, computer graphics or making a salad, as long as I get to be creative and use colour.
My latest passion however is dyeing yarn and fiber for spinning, so this is probably going to be the main topic of my blog. I don’t claim to be any kind of expert on the matter, but I’d like to share what I learn along the way, and yes, you can try this at home! A workshop area or a kitchen slightly larger than mine is however preferable. 😀 Messy doesn’t quite describe the process, and I’m lucky that our kitchen counter was old and ugly from the get go.
I also have too many ideas for colour combos than I can possibly ever spin for myself, so I’ve been entertaining the notion of offering a few braids for sale, just to get the ideas out of my head (gotta have room for more, you know!)
If you’d like to get started without me, here’s a couple of resources for you.
Dyeing in the kitchen DVD from Interweave Press
Wild Colour (book) by Jenny Dean
Dye plant growing in my garden
Day 1
So this blog is officially up, if only I could get some peace and quiet to work on it 😉
Outside is stormy, chilly, not feeling like summer at all, but sunny and pretty with all the flowers in bloom, deer wandering the garden (and eating my flowers), fat ponies grazing outside my window and the last batch of scoured wool drying fast. So, should I create a header graphic for this blog or make an order for Cormo fleece from Down Under?
