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It’s always a great thrill to create a new product, and the long process of designing my mandala oracle deck was indeed a huge but very enjoyable challenge. From start to finish I think I was working on it for almost 3 years.
For those of you who don’t know my cards, I created a colourful deck showcasing 52 of my silk mandala paintings from over the years. The birthing process was a lot of fun, and I worked with large orange prototype cards for quite some time, all the while...

I’ve just finished creating a lovely silk satin altar cloth with very firey colours and mandala design. I added some golden-coppery metallic accents for a nice sparkle and then took some photos.
I’m sharing here with you both the finished item as well as an animated slideshow I created and posted on YouTube. Just click on the video screen to watch the animation....

As many of you know I love to paint with vibrant rainbow colours when I get my silks out. And over the past few years I have created all sorts of rainbow designs on my scarves.
Painting on the rainbow colours
But this month a customer asked me to paint a rainbow silk with a new twist. This time I added the dyes running the full length of the silk so that top and bottom of the scarf were identical. Often my scarves have one purple end and one red/magenta end...