I grew up in West Seattle if you've ever met someone who has or is currently living there, you'll know! West Seattle is just an ordinary neighborhood within the city of Seattle but for some reason, it's a peninsula of pride! We may not be as trendy as Capital Hill or can make legitimate claims to be the center of the known universe like Fremont, but it's safe to say we have the best rocky beaches, a famous music store, and tamales. I don't know if that is what West Seattle is "known" for it is just what comes to mind. A month or so ago the main bridge that connects West Seattle to the rest of the city was closed due to some structural damage. So now, more than ever, we are our own little island paradise. Come for a lunch and never leave, because it will take you 5 hours to go 6 miles. Being stuck here, I realized it's pretty great and maybe we just embrace it. Here is a new collection of graphic tees that people can sport showing off their west side pride!

I've been inspired by the a great project by Inka Mathew titled Tiny Pantone Objects . She places found objects on a corresponding color matched Pantone Color Chip and documents it! It's such a simple and amazing reuse of a chip book! Before we move on, I should explain what a chip book or even what the hell Pantone is! Pantone is a proprietary color system used by graphic and product designers to ensure color is consistent from the design plan to its production. The Pantone chip books are the encyclopedia of said colors that you can use like paint sample cards. Since I don't have an old chip book laying around, I needed a substitute. Welcome in coolors.co a great website that helps you create color schemes. Originally created for web designers to check web safe colors and create schemes this site also has a random color generator option that gives you five colors that look great together! This was such a great solution, now, instead of finding the object first and sorting through a chip book. I used the five random colors given to me, forced to go on a kind of treasure hunt for color! That is basically the whole deal! I did this on safe, socially distant, walks through my neighborhood. Since this was a fully digital experience, I continued with that and used Photoshop to create the final scheme with the found objects. The last Photoshop step isn't necessary, making it a fantastic trick to get kiddos engaged on a walk! Just pull up the site and keep walking until you snap a photo of each of the colors.

I started out thinking about just color and shape, but then landed on really leaning into the belt theme... I figured this might be another project that get filed under "things only I will find amusing", but I guess we are great siblings for a reason, and he was impressed!

Our book club just finished reading it and during our discussion we kept debating about which current countries would reside in each of the three new superpowers. Using the book "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" with the novel itself as a guide I found several excerpts that lead me to this version you see here. If you are interested in the sited text, see chapter 4, when Winston starts to read the a fore mentioned book by Emmanuel Goldstein, it's Chapter 3, holds several notes referring to current geographical locations.

It all started a few years ago when my family bought a cabin and we decided it needed a few more modern handmade touches. Our first to pieces simply highlight a few of our favorite cabin past times... eating and puzzling! Just finished the Mount Higgins piece! Now we have to think of a new project! Want more stitches, check out the QR code testing blog!