VIRTUAL WINDOWS! FURTHER COMPUTER ADVENTURES My existing system, working well but with some drawbacks I have one older HP Envy laptop still running Windows 11, in the studio for art work. I have some ancient software that won't run on Linux, which is now the operating system on my other two laptops. Linux…
BEATRICE HOT-TUBBING IS NOW FRAMED Yesterday the frame for my recent coloured pencil drawing arrived, and I left it unopened until today when my hubby was out all day and I could work on it without fear of interruption. I am very pleased with the result. It is now gift-wrapped and ready for…
DIY WASHI TAPES - SOME NEW ONES Repeating patterns in Krita I have been working in Krita, the open-source photo editor on my Linux laptop, creating some more washi tapes. There is a useful facility for taking a single image and making it into a pattern, which is ideal when one wants to…
SQUARE TISSUE BOX FOLIO 1 - FLORAL Fortunately I have not had to pray for a cold! We are getting through my order of 12 cube-shaped tissue boxes fast enough for me to start upcycling the boxes. Again I am following Chasing Paper on YouTube for another of her excellent tutorials, and again,…
COLOURED PENCIL DRAWING - BEATRICE HOT TUBBING When we lived in our old house we had some concrete tubs on our patio, and for a while one of them was empty. Our old cat Beatrice (sadly no longer with us) discovered this and settled down in it. In the warm sunshine the concrete…
DIY WASHI TAPE - FINALISING THE CANDY STRIPE PROJECT A quick addendum to my previous posts about this DIY washi tape. Cutting the strips After thinking about this further, I managed to cut the strips using my guillotine. With the faulty-printed edge on the right, I lined up the other edge to the…
