Designing

I am sitting here trying to design a new textile, when a commerical comes on for "shake weights".  Another exercise designed for those who do not really want to get up and sweat.  I wonder if they really work. 

At any rate, here I sit drawing some of the plants in my house to see if I can make some good textile prints from them.  I have a lot of time to design now that it is tax time and my husband works late and I am on furlough from my job.  I am thinking of designing something with tropical plants that can be screen printed on shade cloth for outside use.  I have a canopy frame that needs a new top and I was thinking that if I screen printed these plants on the cloth it would make an interesting top. I think I will put palm fronds on the top.

Well off for now.