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Another Busy Day

Another Busy Day
Another Busy Day

but things went right. Kent’s mobility scooter conked out yesterday, so he put it in “free wheeling, we rolled it out to the van, loaded it, took it to a mobility dealer, got it fixed and bought a new one!

I also loaded up some craft supplies to bring home from Charlotte. I brought all my kumihimo supplies, some gel stains, a large box of UFO’s (unfinished objects,) embossing folders and my Sizzix machine.

We also stopped by the Sedgewick Homes model we’ve been thinking about. We looked at possible interior and exterior finishes. We will not be choosing the model colors.

Colorful Notes

Colorful Notes
Colorful Notes

One of my bucket list items is to return to the piano. I had three years of lessons in elementary school and hated it. I was a terrible student. My piano teacher even cried one time.

The old upright I inherited from my grandmother was so heavy it had to be placed in the basement, and I hated to go down there to practice. When I sold my parent’s house a few years ago, the piano stayed.

I asked my husband for a keyboard for Christmas last year, and he complied. I also found this book.

Not only are the notes in color,

but it comes with stickers for your keyboard

I color over the notes on my sheet music with colored pencils, to match.

It really helps me to learn to read sheet music!

Laura found an app!

Laura found an app!

It’s called ColorMixr, and it’s for polymer clay. I think you could use it for beads and fabrics and paints, and here are  some color palettes I’ve created. These are all taken from photographs. Let me show you the geisha.I look for Asian images to use with kumihimo, and she was in my photo gallery. In the app, you have these options:I clicked on, “Image from gallery, and my photos opened. I chose the geisha and this is what the app did with it.It isolated five areas from the photo, and created a palette at the bottom. Three of the areas were black, and I didn’t need them, so I moved those spots to another colored area. You just touch them on the screen and drag them where you want.Now I could use these colors to choose cords for kumihimo, or fabrics for a quilt, or paints to recreate the image.

ColorMixer goes a step further and gives recipes for mixing polymer clay to get these colors. Then, I could sculpt her! The app has a grid you can download for measuring “parts.” 

The next screen will allow you to save your palette and when it saves the palette, you can name it.It will also save your photo and the color recipes to your photo gallery on whatever device you are using. I am using iPhone.

What else the app can do, I have yet to discover, but I’m looking forward to it!

The app was developed by Nancy Urlich, and at this writing, is free! Find it in whichever app store you use. Look for, “ColorMixr,” and have fun!