TRTUL Arrives!

I'm on multiple deadlines for cool (done as gifts--ack!) invitation designs but I HAAAD to pop in to post about the most wonderful thing Paul picked up in the mail today. Justin and Shel Rasch are raising a wonderful person called Aedon. She won my heart the fist day I met her over at her place. (She bid me goodbye by saying sweetly, "Bye Bye, Shell-Shell"--I melt forever.) She's been over here a couple of times since and has even added her flowers to a painted garden on our wall.

Well, today she sent over an adorable little package with the note above folded inside. I swooooon! YES! Yes, Miss Aedon you darling dear, I would indeed LOVE to feature your Turtle puppet in my movie!! Thank you so much! That was so nice of you and I am thrilled to have a piece of your art in Halfland! (Little does she know that I will also be framing the note above and having it nearby on the wall of my studio--FOREVAH! That made my day and was one of the nicest things that I've probably ever received. (Thank you too, Justin and Shel)

The Chair Report


Just to show there's also been action in Halfland, just to show it hasn't all been ballet, housekeeping, designing, and Coraline bitterness here... I've been progressing along on a few chairs for the set.

I noticed the upholstered chair was looking DULL in the cottage next to all the bright fuschia silk window seat cushions I've been making so I mixed up a small batch of fabric dye and sloshed it all over the chair. It didn't bring it to pink but it did hit the brighter wine color I was hoping for. I've also switched the chair's doilies to wonderful hand crochet pieces in the right scale that I cut up for the three spots. I first washed them with a bright Indian Yellow paint and then toned them back to ocher with a soak in dilute walnut ink. They will be sewn on and finished well. I like how the piece across the back will suggest hair on a head.

I've also taken a great little store bought chair and sliced the mofo in HALF! HA! Sanded her down where wear would be and sloshed on the ink and paint mix. I'll either build a HALF table to blend with it or set it against a wall in the cottage as if the cottage grew around it.

And the last photo, on the lower right, shows the living chair for the porch. It started as a rocking chair from a store that I took pieces off of and added others to including the olive tree branch with hand-painted silk leaves attached one by one. Once on the porch the vines will be hung with wisteria-like blooms as though the chair was mostly formed as the vine grew on the porch. {People do this kind of thing you know!)

There's A LOT more to say about Halfland innovations/enhancements/ideas that has come to my mind that I dearly love. Please God, more action in building it all soon!