All tied up, lately

It's been unseasonably cool lately (we haven't been complaining--it's been nice after the heat in California), but now we are having a bit of a warm spell. We slept with the fan on last night for the first time in weeks.

I discovered that Kate will eat frozen peas for a snack! Hooray! We've been looking for ways to get more green veggies and fiber in her. (And hey, they're cheaper than frozen peaches.)

I haven't been posting much, since I've been busy working on some more digi stuff. (I do have some pretzel-making pictures to post, but I want to double-check something on the recipe first.) Here's the most recent project:



(Update: Since NDISB has closed, the twine set is now available here, with coordinating freebie.)

I've been working on various bits of twine since last November, and including them in some of our monthly collaborative kits at NDISB, intending that eventually I would release them in an all-twine package. I finally finished up the last bit that was half-done, and got all the other pieces together. I also made this cute layout to show them off:



That's some very time-consuming extraction. I think next I'll do something easier!

Twine Thing

I finally finished up the knotted twine extraction that I was working on here. It's now part of this month's customer appreciation kit "Dress in Layers" (a set of layered templates) at NDISB. It'll be available separately later. I was putting together a sample layout for the template and this is what I came up with. I like it. Kind of minimalist.

Edit: The twine package is now available here.

In which we continue to do it the hard way

This is part of the mask for an extraction that I'm currently working on. Each one of those little edge hairs is traced in by hand, with a three-pixel brush. This is definitely a case where the tablet makes things much easier--I don't think I could do this with the mouse.

Doug says I'm a masochist. I'm finding it rather relaxing, so far.