Off to the Farm

We're just about to head off to UBC Farm for the market. Yay!

Reading: Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland--a historical novel about the woman who invented the Tiffany lamp and designed the first prototypes. It's fascinating to read about how the stained glass process works, including the creation of all the colors of glass. The novel is starting to talk about the change from the Art Nouveau aesthetic to a less ornate style, Art Deco.

Watched: The forth season of The Ghost Whisperer: Love Never Dies. This is my least favorite season. Spoiler: Melinda's husband dies and comes back in another man's body. It's a plot twist that's really hard to take and neither of the main actors wring any truth out of it. At least the show makes fun of itself by focussing on one episode with a soap opera, a genre where the death of a character who keeps coming back to life is a standard plot device. I am really fascinated by the clothes Melinda Gordan wears. They are often ill-fitting, unflattering and wildly inappropriate. Who dressed this woman? And why does she always have false hair pieces and outlandish false eyelashes? I much prefer Alison Dubois in that other psychic show.

In the dye pot: Just finished experimenting with osage and now I've got to mordant some more fabric and if the blackberries are ripe, maybe I'll cook up some of those for dye. I also did some eco-prints with smoke bush, which is a dye plant known as young fustic.