Warm September Sun Curing Paintstik Odor

Happy September!
Can you believe summer is pretty much over already?
My youngest kid starts college on Tuesday...

Did some Shiva paintstiks work on this last night, and it was too smelly to leave in my studio workroom,

So it's been hanging up on the clothesline all night and this morning to cure.

I'll iron it later today and see if the smell has gone down enough for me to work with it to make some ATC's. It is supposed to be in the 90's F today, so the warm September sun will undoubtedly help things along.

From Leather to Kaleidoscopes

 Going a little crazy (or bored) recovering from hand surgery, so I made a couple of kaleidoscopes from a recent picture taken on my work table.  I'm happy to report that I can now wiggle the tip of my pinky finger, so far that has made the surgery worthwhile.

Can you tell what the source picture might be?

 Well it starts out with some leather.  Small leather samples from a recent trip to FabMo.  I snagged them because of all the great and varying textures.

All the shiva paintstik  colors got a try with each of the patterns, but the yellow light pearl didn't show on the white fabric of course.

  So here it is on black fabric.  And that's the source picture for the kaleidoscopes at the top of this post. Tada!