After class I went shopping with Katie for a t shirt to tie dye tonight in stamping class. I found a tank top for really cheap at Lefties, of course the best store there is in Spain, and it had words printed on it in English. It says "Wild and Free" but it works for me! After that I came home and read my book and even took a small nap, only for about 30 minutes.
I pretty much wasted more time until it was lunchtime and then after lunch wasted more time again. It is hard to find the motivation to study because I know exams are 2 weeks away, so close but yet so far.
I Skyped Mike between my time wasting and it was nice to hear from him because it has been a long long time! I think the last time that we really had a conversation was when we went to the Packer game together... back in December! It is just so hard to get times to work out with everyone with the time zone differences. Soon it will be over though.
Eventually it was time to leave for my stamping class and I met up with Katie and we walked there together. I finally took some pictures of the process, so here they are.
The process works like this:
1. Take a piece of fabric and stretch it tight over the boards and tape it down.
2. Use a paintbrush and the liquid mixture (part silk and part wax) and paint what you want to be WHITE on the canvas. You cannot paint where the wood is because the liquid will dry and stick to the wood.. bad!
3. Once you have finished painting, you take it to be dyed in the dye buckets. The dye is composed of hot and cold water (so you have the perfect temperature) the color and salt.
4. Once you have let it sit in the dye for the time that you want, maximum time is 20 minutes, you hang it on the drying rack and let it dry!
The new step that we started today, which I don't have a picture of is this!
5. Cover the DRY fabric with newspapers on the top and the bottom and then iron out all of the wax. Keep switching the paper so you have a fresh sheet every time it is filled up with wax. When the paper comes out clean, or close to clean, you are done!
6. Wash the fabric in water and salt so that the excess wax comes out.
WAHHHLAAH! You're finished!
The process would probably take about 2 days or more if you worked on it every day.
After class, after sneaking out an hour early because we didn't want to be there anymore, Katie and I went to get shawarma! We went to a different place than where I have been before and I didn't like it nearly as much as the first place that I went to. There were too many veggies and cabbage in it.
After chowing down on the shawarma, we went to Smooy! for some frozen yogurt. I got chocolate frozen yogurt with Oreos and off brand M&Ms. Who knew they made off brand! I also got ripped off because she left a huge hole in the middle of the frozen yogurt when she was swirling it around in the cup. UGH! For the best though.
When I returned home, Rachael was still at the movie with Chelsea and Amy, so I just hung out. I checked my email and noticed that I received a promo code for a free 20 page 8x8 picture book from Shutterfly. The only thing we have to pay for is the shipping, so I started to work on one for my studying abroad experience.
Eventually Rachael got home and I was becoming tired, so I went to bed.
It was a slow day but a productive one at the same time! A fun day!
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