Dog Food Time (again!)

 Making the "girls" their dog food isn't a quick process (takes me 2 hrs from start to finish - cleanup)...but my daughter, Dawn, and hubby offered some good shortcuts.

It's always hard to cook 6lbs of ground turkey (stirring is a bugger!) so my daughter suggested to use the instant pot to cook the turkey! I can only fit 2lbs at a time and so after 3 sessions the ground turkey is cooked.

Part of the cooking process is chopping up the ground cooked turkey...again, hard on the arms/hands...so hubby suggested I use my food processor! Well, guess what, that works like a charm! I put a pound in at a time, then transfer to my large cooking pot! Once all are chopped I can add my veggies (spinach, carrots, zucchini) and rice to the turkey! Mix it all up and done (after 2 hours)! Now the girls have their food for about 10-2 weeks. Works for me!

This is my sewing room right now

...I'm cutting up some of my snow dyes...thinking of doing an appliqued small piece...but I've changed my mind twice already on a pattern so who knows what or if I'll end up with something...

I'm also doing some more mono printing! HA Just can't stop!!

Snow Dyeing Time!

 Well, what else do you do with all that snow when you live in Michigan!  We've normally been in Florida so I've only done ice dyeing and not snow dyeing.  I have to say this was fun and I'm happy with my results!  

I did the 'normal' placing snow and then sprinkle dye powder on top of the snow for the first method.  

The second method, which I just happened to have a bookmark on snow dyeing from Tamarack Shack,   Kathy fills small ice cream containers with snow then mixed each color of dye powder in the containers.  She would then scoop the dyed snow on top of her soda ash soaked fabrics!  

I started with laying some of the purple snow/dye mix on top of the soda ash soaked fabric.

 

Then I added the yellow and green.

To be honest, I was hoping I would get some brown pieces of dyed fabric.  Hmmmmmmm  

I used Blue Violet, Bright yellow and Chartreuse for the center/snow & dye mix.

Bottom tray was Lime, Robin Egg and Periwinkle.

Top tray is Red Wine, Bright Green and Bright Yellow.

Some of my  best results...

You can see my Kalee girl sniffing the fabrics in the pic above!  She loves the snow!

I believe this was the mix of....oh heck, I don't know!!  HA  But I really liked it.

I have two pieces similar and they are quite brighter than what shows in this piece.

Yep, I had two pieces similar..the dark areas are actually green black.  Really a nice piece.

I do know this was the snow/dye powder mix.  You don't get the intensity, at least I didn't.

Again, the dye powder/snow mix.  This was a piece that I did rubbings using Gelato's.  You can see the original piece before I dyed it below.  I should have left it alone.  HA

This was a cool piece but I always wanted to over dye it.  I just didn't think it would cover so much of the leaf rubbing.

You can barely see the design unless you're looking closely.  But that's ok.  It's still a good piece of fabric that I'm sure I can use at some point.  

I am working on playing with some of the fabric and cutting out a floral design.  Back to the old days of doing some traditional type work.  

Oh, had my MRI finally...yep, complete tear of rotator cuff...ugh...I see the ortho dr next week.  I don't want surgery and hoping this Dr. will have some other alternative.  Some tears will heal...some require surgery...Here's my final report: Double UGH!!!!!