Mary Ostler

. I have been a little busy and /or sick for the last little while. I do have stuff to post, but am waiting for some final finishing.
Sherbert the Entari is slowly chugging along. Its possible it will be done for investiture, but I am starting to doubt it.
I didn’t kill my Mulberry Tree over [...]

Experimenting with Purple Heart dye. Having collected a bunch of wood sawdust, I decided to try making a usable dye from purple heart.
I first separated the sawdust into two piles.

The first pile I left steeping on the stove making a dark reddish tea.
Many more pictures after the jump

The big push is on. I will be leaving on Friday for Avacal/Tir Righ war. My deadline for finishing this project was this event, so I needed to get on with it.

All of the side panels have been cut out, carved, primed and painted.

Sides and doors with the heraldic badges painted in bright colors.

The butterfly [...]

 
So the long and trying road has finally winded to the end. The bed is done. This project was a fairly ambitious project for myself.  The whole thing needed only a fairly simple skill set, but its a marathon of time and patience.  I have a severe backlog of projects I need to do for [...]

Milk Paint from kitchen spice
From top to bottom.
Chili powder, Wasabi, Turmeric & Mustard Powder

Did a bit more experimenting with dyes for milk paint.  I have no problem with getting  Blacks, Oranges, or Yellows but am having an ace of a time getting a decent red for my rope bed.

Saffron, Brazil Wood, Turmeric, Red Oxide, Carbon Black, Red Saw Dust in Isopropanol,Red Ainiline Dye, and a Black Ainiline Dye [...]

Since I have been playing around with milk paint, I decided to try my hand at making my own milk curds.

I don’t want to muck about with cooking, so the test will be done at room tempature.
1L skim milk (.4%mf, and three days from expiry date)
apple cider vinegar  5.5%a.acid (all i had)
Control = ~350ml  s.m.
Trial#1 [...]

The skid scrap chest is heading towards the finish line. I painted the whole thing with milk paint stained with tumeric. My test pieces of the milkpaint stain has shown a fair amount of fading, but I just wanted to get this thing done. Once I got one good coat on I did [...]

I decided to give my dust filled lungs a bit of a vacation day, so I
chose to play with milk paint instead. I have been playing a little bit
for the last week or so, but today was what I consider day one of
the experiment.
I managed to finally find Hydrate Lime yesterday. I had borrowed a [...]

Got a bit more done on the Skid wood chest.  I now have the two ends done, and a front panel.
I have ran out of the ripped slats, and will have to rip a whole slew more tomorrow.
Thinking I will dado the bottom board and recess the front and back panels.
Saw a similar design on [...]