• Posted on: September 6th, 2008
  • By: myc
  • Under: What if

Studio poetry

What if it was true? That no wish whispered was special? Then let me be hoarse from shouting.

We are privileged here at the Expressly Yours’ studio, to be able to indulge our whims. We have two spectacularly great cats, an apple tree, a martini bar, sewing room, painting room, casting and glazing rooms, woodworking tools, welding tools (don’t know how to use that yet), 3 kilns, and a 12 foot wall dedicated to anything with magnets, like poetry. Could it get much better?

Well, it would be awesome to be in the beautiful layouts of Cloth Paper Scissors Studio Issue, but we’re not very organized or disciplined. Perhaps the organizing skills of Cate Coulacos Prato is needed. Check out her blog. She is giving away a scrumptious handy caddy of goodies. Good luck to all who enter.

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  • Posted on: August 28th, 2008
  • By: myc
  • Under: What if

Grow fearless

Overheard at the Chicago International Quilt Festival, “I’m tired of the word DREAM”. Hopefully, she was not tired of the concept.

Personally, I need prompts, reminders and permission. I NEED to live in my alternative worlds, where tearing my house apart will lead to a fabulous home, where buying a lottery ticket will have me packing my bags for art-camps and Ireland, and the next technique I choose to delve into will be my bliss and my life’s passion.

Without living fearlessly, where would the ”oops, that didn’t work, but it looks really cool” next exciting technique come from? What if we were so afraid of imperfections and failure we withered and died inside?

Grow. Grow fearless. Dream. Believe. Live. Create. Take risks. michele

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  • Posted on: June 11th, 2008
  • By: myc
  • Under: What if

a tyvek-xing outcome

dont try this at home

Answer to: What if I ran Tyvek through the printer: Don’t do it. I have a desk top toner copier. The toner gets set with heat. Heat melts Tyvek.

On the Left hand side is painted Tyvek before print experiment. The right side is what survived the punishing heat of office machine hell. If you click on the photo, you will get a larger view. You may be able to see the meltly edge. Now I know how to take apart the machine, and how tiny melted pieces of Tyvek can become.

One What If answered, 8 million to go - yeahhoo! Now, what if I ran Tyvek through an ink jet…..

June 15th update: The Tyvek did survive printing through an ink jet printer. However, the printer went berserk shortly afterwards and is not fixable. It was an old printer with long standing problems. So coincidence? or my Tyvek curse? michele

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