Category: Adventures
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It’s Retirement Party Time!
It’s party time, and we’re getting ready for the big day! We can’t believe it’s been 20 years since we formed the Pixeladies, but now that we’ve been clearing out the studio, we know how much a couple of people can collect in that time! Can you believe all those boxes and bags were in…
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Pixeladies’ Farewell Tour: Mar-Apr 2023
Dear Friends,Our farewell tour is moving along at a fast pace! Below are some more important upcoming dates. Please join us, if you can. Deb Cashatt: Pieced StoriesThrough Mar 30, 2023 • Richmond, CADeb just mounted her first solo exhibition at Bay Quilts in Richmond, CA! Here’s the change to see some of Deb’s amazing pieced quilts. The artist reception…
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Pixeladies’ Farewell Tour: Jan-Mar 2023 News
Our farewell tour started out with a bang! “Mrs. Hamer” was used for publicity throughout the Women’s Summit at the Clinton Presidential Center. We hope to have more to report on this amazing trip soon. Below are some important upcoming dates. Please join us, if you can.Happy Holidays,Kris and Deb, the Pixeladies Photoshop Elements ClassesBeginning…
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2003-2023: Celebrating 20 Years of the Pixeladies
Dear Friends,October 2023 will mark our 20th anniversary as the Pixeladies. What an amazing journey it’s been. We’ve traveled near and far, had our work exhibited in places we right now can only hope to visit, taught hundreds of students about Photoshop Elements, and met many lifelong friends. We are so proud of the work…
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SAQA Art Quilts 2 Exhibition in Pacifica, California
It’s so nice to be able to say we are part of a live exhibition. View it in person in Pacifica, CA. If not, join us online Saturday, Jan 29.
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Tidbits Of Random Stuff You’ll Want for Photoshop
Today we’ve got random bits of useful information you can use in your computer work, from laptop help to character maps and file conversion.
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Celebrating Wayne Thiebaud and Rev. Desmond Tutu
Wayne Thiebaud and Rev. Desmond Tutu passed away last week. We stop at moment at the Pixeladies Studio to celebrate their lives.
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Four “Towering” Projects: One Down, Three To Go
Towering projects indeed! We haven’t posted in a while because we have finally gotten into the groove of creating, and we really didn’t want to stop what we were doing. Now that we’ve nailed down a few things, we thought it would be fun to let you know where we’re headed. Here are our latest…
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SAQA Benefit Auction: Deb’s 2021 Dream Collection
It’s that time of year again to bid on some great art at SAQA’s Benefit Auction! Is your favorite piece in Deb’s 2021 dream collection?
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Rosie Lee Tompkins and Her Velvet Dreams
Get yourself down to the Berkeley Art Museum soon to catch the amazing and inspiring Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit! The exhibit ends July 18.
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Went To See Van Gogh, Got An Earful!
We are on the road again! Our first trip together since the pandemic was to San Francisco to see the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit.
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We’re Zooming! Join Us for 4 Women : 4 Stories
Please join us on June 8, 2021 at 4:30pm EDT (GMT/UTC -4) as we give our presentation called “4 Women : 4 Stories” for the Maryland-DC-West Virginia Region of SAQA.
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We’re Back In The Studio Again!!
Here’s a little taste of our first day back in the studio after our pandemic hiatus!
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Pixeladies’ Student Art: Alison Becker & Masks
Recently a former student, Alison Becker of Berkeley, California USA, sent us the following email about her quilt on masks: Hi Deb and Kris,I have taken your Photoshop classes a couple of times and want to thank you so much for your inspiration…. I have been making masks for family and friends since the beginning…
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Digitally Designing Scarves
Years ago, shortly after Pixeladies was born, Kris and I made scarves. Tons and tons of scarves. We took custom orders. We designed them in Photoshop. We printed them on china silk, georgette, and charmeuse. We even sewed the narrow rolled hems by hand. We always wore scarves when we were giving presentations. They were…
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Happy New Year 2021! Registration & Recipe
Are you as happy to see 2020 in the rearview mirror as the Pixeladies? We are hopeful that 2021 will see us back in the studio working together at the same time! So let’s ring in the new year with class registration and a recipe. Registration Registration for classes starts on January 1! We don’t…
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Happy Holidays 2021 . . . The 1998 Throwback Edition!
We write our Happy Holidays post this time of year, usually with photos of our time together during the season. Deb is famous for her wine tasting parties, but not this year. Kris’s husband Neil makes a mean egg nog to share, but not this year. We Pixeladies are hunkering down for what will be…
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Thanksgiving 2020: Try Origami Turkey Napkins!
Well, our thanksgivings are going to be quite a bit smaller this year, but we are still thankful that we have the ability to stay home on what is the native land of the Nisenan, Zoom with our families, and teach online. We’re thankful for the medical frontline workers, the farmworkers, and the emergency workers.…
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The Anatomy of Adjustment Layers
We recently had a student ask what she thought was a dumb question: “Do adjustment layers apply to all visible layers, all visible layers below the adjustment layer, all layers, or some combination thereof?” Well, here at the Pixeladies Studio we think there is no such thing as a dumb question. In fact, understanding how…
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Stitching Fannie Lou Hamer
This is Kris with a little update on our Fannie Lou Hamer (FLH) project. We introduced this project in a couple of earlier posts. (Links to them are at the end of this post.) Today I thought you’d like to see how the actual quilting is going. I sometimes think the quilting is the hardest…
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Photoshop Elements’ “Remove An Object” Guided Edit
We’re getting ready to teach our Photoshop Elements Essentials classes again. We’re always amazed at how many tips Photoshop Elements has built into the program. Deb thought you might like to know how to use one of these guided edits, Remove Objects, to eliminate a bald spot as well as getting rid of background objects.…
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Happy New Year! Let’s Start 2020 Together
Happy 2020! We’d love to start this new year out with a bang, so please join us on Sunday, Jan 12, 1 pm at Bay Quilts for our talk called 3 Women, 3 Stories. Faith Ringgold, Mitsuye Endo, and Katharine McCormick are three of the most interesting women we’ve ever encountered, and we can’t wait…
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Happy Holidays . . . With Eggnog!
We at the Pixeladies Studio want to wish you all happy holidays. We hope you can be with family and friends, are happy and healthy, and looking forward to the possibilities of many tomorrows. We’ve already had our wine-tasting dinner this year with old friends. It was loads of fun, and the wine was delicious.…
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Happy Thanksgiving 2019!
Just a short note to wish you a very happy Thanksgiving 2019 and to let you know that we are taking a little break this week to spend time with our families. We are so grateful for them as we are for our friends, students, and colleagues. Here’s a short reminder of how to make…
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Sam Bowker Provides Context For The Tentmakers of Cairo
The Tentmakers of Cairo We’ve just returned from a visit to the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles to hear Dr. Sam Bowker present a lecture* on the history of the tentmakers of Cairo. Our quilting friends have perhaps heard of the tentmakers of Cairo or even been fortunate enough to see one of…
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Field Trip to the Asian Art Museum & Kids’ Art
Kris and I love to take field trips to museums. Last month we took the long way to San Jose (via San Francisco) so we could visit the “Kimono Refashioned“ exhibit at the Asian Art Museum. We hit the jackpot, though, when we ran into a kids’ art exhibit at the same museum. Kimono Refashioned…
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San Jose: Another Upcoming Pixeladies Adventure
Off to San Jose We’re about to head off on another Pixeladies adventure to the 2019 Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Conference. Kris and I will be starting our second decade of attending SAQA conferences. Our first one was in Athens, Ohio in 2009. We had just become Regional Representatives for the Northern California/Nevada…
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Deb’s India Trip part 2 – Colorful India
Color, color, and more color! When you like bright colors as much as I do, India is paradise. I talked about my favorite place in my previous post about India. This time I’m just going to share some colorful eye candy. The colorful Vehicles One of the statements I write in my bio is that the world…
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Deb’s India Trip Part 1
Do you have a bucket list? You know, that list of things you want to do before you “kick the bucket?” I’m really not a bucket list kind of gal, but there was one thing I really wanted to see in person: the Kailasa Temple in the Ellora Cave complex in India. I think it…
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Practicing for Focus on Fiber Florida Style
Deb’s in India, so I thought I would take the opportunity to practice some of the upcycling skills Deb taught me. If you remember, Deb will be teaching at Focus on Fiber Florida Style in April. You can read about it by clicking here. She helped me with the dress shown above. While Deb was…