My new stamp I just picked up from Marchant in Kingston. www.marchantpapermemories.com/Home2.html
Once again they did a great job. So now I can get busy stamping the new cloth bags I have made for the dryer spheres.
What goes inside the dryer spheres. Lots of little snips of fulled wool. It's how I occupy my time in the evening, cutting scraps up into even smaller pieces. Well normally I am watching a movie or something also. So it's not all work and no play.
A small pile of spheres ready to be stuffed. After they are stuffed back to the sewing machine for the finishing stitching.
My dryer spheres are made from fulled wool remnants that are normally too small to do much else with. Each piece is hand cut to help eliminate waste. So thus I am helping to keep textiles from landfill and making a product that makes drying clothes more economical and earth friendly. Just beware tho as children and pets also think they make great toys. ;0)
Benefits of Dryer Spheres
- can reduce dryer time by 40%
- softens clothes
- reduces static cling
- chemical free
- unscented (but can be infused with pure essential oils) I personally put a couple of drops of tea tree on mine when it is cold season
How to Use Them
- Simply toss the spheres in you dryer with the wet laundry and start tumbling
- If doing multiple loads it is best to have a couple of sets or let the spheres cool down between loads. They work most efficiently when room temperature or cooler at the start of the load. Some people throw them in the freezer for a couple of minutes between loads.
-You can just leave them in the dryer between loads or store them in the bag they came in
-If they start to pill a bit don't worry as it doesn't effect their efficiency. You can defuzz them with a sweater shaver but it isn't necessary
-If they do get dirty for any reason just wash and dry them with a load of laundry.
Any colour in the wool will NOT leech or bleed into your clothing. Remember all wool used has been previously loved and washed numerous times.
Taken by my friend Holly at Christmas at The Core in Belleville. Of course we are all wearing IsaTe's Designs.
One of my goals: to bring the muff back as an essential fashion accessory. They are so useful when you need finger dexterity but its COLD outside.
Tie Wrist Cuffs available in a wide range of colour combinations.
These are both some new accessories I have been creating lately.
Has been quite busy the last couple of months with shows. This is a poster from the last show of the season for me. It is in Picton a nearby community at a very nice location above a wonderful bookstore. A great show to end the season with. Decided to not do anymore this year so I could enjoy the Holiday season, munchkin is at the age where she's enthralled with the whole concept of Christmas.
Realized I have been neglecting the blog. The good news is that I have been busy sewing and working on some new designs, and of course doing shows every weekend for the last two months. In the next while will be working on getting a good website up and running. Which means a lot more pictures of my designs.
A friends birthday was last week and she loves to explore and take pictures. So I had heard about an outdoor art exhibit and I thought a perfect way to spend the day. It is A Rural Open-Air Gallery for Site-Specific Art - Fieldwork Land Art Exploration. That is how the official write up goes. I even let munchkin skip school that day so she could come on our trip aka magical mystery tour. This is what my family always calls a local day trip. I posted a few pictures of the exhibit it was a perfect fall day and we spent approx. 2 hours wandering around in the woods and field.
Afterwards we went to Perth a nearby town and had lunch and wandered around for a while. I found two thrift stores, two consignment stores, we also went to a great local coffee shop and stopped at a wonderful natural grocery store called Foodsmiths.(I always lament we do not have one of these closer to home)
Have been busy getting some new designs done for this show. It has wonderful potential and hopefully there will be a second and on. Never been to the venue before but the online pictures of the space are beautiful. Organized by a great team of women who are doing I think now 3 different shows a year, the other ones I have participated in are always well promoted and they try to think of any possible scenerios which my occur and cover all bases.
As for what else is happening this weekend Impresario Artisan Market ( impresariomarket.ca ) is having their official Grand Opening from 3-6pm Friday afternoon. They are carrying many if my clothing designs and a few accessories. If you are ever in Cobourg the store is well worth a visit and its not just because they have my stuff.
