Bontanic Alchemy 植物奧妙之美

What the botanic

alchemy is? A plant is not only a plant.   See how you make use of it. A dying plant can make something forever pretty.  These marks I made the eco prints with the windfalls and fresh leaves on a silk fabric. 

The other day I picked some windfalls and a few fresh eucalyptus leaves near my studio.

To use the same method (last post) of sandwiching leaves in between rich iron fabric and white silk fabric then steamed for an hour.  Stayed overnight in a themo pot.

Unbundled it after 6 hours.  Quite nice to my expectation.  

Green leaves are still green

The dried leaves still got some bold prints of brown.

Nature alchemy - blowing in the fall.

Fall has fallen. Nature is changing it's clothing, green to red to yellow. Then falling.....

It's not the end of some kinds of plants.  Eucalyptus are mysterious to prolong their beauty for persons who love it to keep it forever - the prints I love. 

These are not dirty scraps. My treasure to do with eco prints.

Shade for Mogi, to play seek and hide.....

I'm hooked in experimenting plants prints. These days I was fallen down.  Got a cold, sore body and ...... Bed rest for some hours. 

Done the bundle last night, in the early morning I was so excited to see how it looks.
Almost forget my illness.

Pets help healing pains.  When I was in bed, Mogi laid beside me, I pinched him and told him I was tired and painful. 

Mogi said, "Mum I'm feeling quite good when you're soothing me!"

Subtle color scarf of nature beauty.

Got better now and going to pick some more windfalls.

Have something indulged, keeps pains away.

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Mogi telling story 說說故事

 "What did Mum write on the book?" Mogi queried.

"Ah...... Mum's imagative and always day dreaming."
大自然是創作的靈感, 但地球上資源並非耗之不盡, 有些物料可加點心思, 使其物盡其用, 且聽 Mogi 說 Mum 的 "雲與海".....

 "She said this looks like me - fluffy and cheerful.  I'm in cloud nine!"

 "The beach near Mum's studio she always shows us something from there ."

 "The earthy inspired nuno felt texture of her scarf"

 

 "She made this textural effect with shells."

 "Cross over of wool and  the shells picked from the bay."

 "Inspired by Heather Woollove's  felted book covers, Mum got the ideas to make one."

 "It's done."

 

 "Just a piece slip-on."

 "Incorporated with a shell, Mum called this 'Cloud &Sea Wave'."

"Original notebook of plastic folder."

 "Only one page was used formerly our girl's but discarded".

 "A nice covered notebook to use again." 

 "Mum said 'waste not want not', nature is full of resources."

 "Found trees fell down and sawn after typhoon and trunks were going to dispose off."

 "Why not carrying it for the wool felt baby hat and booties display?

"Reborn of a tree in Mum's studio."

Thought for food.  Nature is full of resources and inspiration. Something may not be used anymore but can be recycled and treasured.  Waste not want not.
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New member of the family

All to my surprise, my daughter Jasmine bought a Chinchilla kitten without letting me know beforehand. She called him Mogi, now 2 months old. We’ve already a 3-year BTS Tiger, he’s a gorgeous and naughty boy. We adore him very much. He’s the king of the family. I told Jasmine we already have Tiger, he brings us laugh and fun. It’s no good to have one more pet. I asked Jasmine if she still love Tiger. She said she wanted to have Mogi it doesn’t mean she didn’t love Tiger anymore. Just like parents already have a son they want to have another baby doesn’t mean they don’t love the first one any more.

Well, last Fri, she brought Mogi home. We put him temporarily in Tiger’s cage for separation. Tiger’s angry, hostile and stares at Mogi. We dare not let them closer and have to see how it goes on.

Mogi is adorable, curious and wants to play whenever he’s allowed to run around. We love both Tiger and Mogi.

我在毫不知情下女兒Jasmine買了一隻可愛的兩個月大金吉拉小貓，貓兒很可愛，名字叫Mogi.

知道會有第二隻寵物時 ，我問Jasmine是否不愛家中已3歲的英短Tiger，Tiger實在已很可愛，每日帶給我們歡樂，我不想分薄他的愛。Jasmine說不是那回事，她仍是很疼Tiger的。正如父母生下第一個孩子，他很快樂的成長，父母決定要第二名孩子，那並不表示父母不愛第一個孩子。 前天Mogi進駐了Tiger的家，Tiger第一眼已經很敵對，籠子、玩具被佔用了，有點兒失落，我們安撫Tiger並不時分隔他們，幾天後待他們融和才讓他們接近。Mogi很活潑，實在又很可愛，我們會對他及Tiger一樣疼愛。