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About the Web Mistress

-=-Artist Bio-=-

InkkFreakk is 52 years young, is Native American Indian [Shoshone-Blackfeet], lives in Idaho with her 2 cats and is a true artist at heart.  Give her the opportunity and she will always come through for true friends.  She is an awesome Designer - Creator -  Pixeler - Friend - Confidant.  She spends her time creating when her health allows her to.  On many days she is reserved to pulling out coping tools from her long standing trusty mental toolbox to help her with her slew of health challenges that will be ever present in her remaining years.  She really misses the times trekking through the mountains at her favorite waterfall [Sugar Loaf Ridge], or sitting watching the waves crash over the rocks on the coast at Goat Rock Mesa.

She has been creative from a very young age, helping her mother and grandmother sew from the age of 5.  She recalls cutting patterns out and pinning them onto the fabric the way she had been taught.  As the Memories of the sharpness of the tiny plastic ball tipped pins comes back to her she marvels at how piercing they could be as she continually pricked her little fingers while she learned the proper places to put the pins to keep the patterns the flattest.  And oh how thin the patterns were.  Such crinkly noisy paper that was so uncooperative and defiant.  This was the most difficult part of the learning.  Remember to go slow, her mother would say be careful not to rip or tear them.  Patience was not one of her virtues when she was young.  She wanted to create beautiful things like her mother did, not pin patterns.  She must use the sharpest scissors with which to cut the patterns with.  If they were not sharp they would not cut properly and rip the patterns too.  She had to be very precise, after all, the items you make need to have their pieces just exactly so, or they will not turn out as the pattern cover showed.

Later she was taught how to correctly trace the patterns onto a thin piece of a thin stiff white cottony looking fabric called Pellon.  It's wonderful for all kinds of projects including backups of your fragile patterns.   As she got older, she was taught how to make many different things.  Barbie doll clothes, ceramics (molding them as well as decorating them), Quilting (how to piece together a top, put a quilt together then how to machine and hand quilt patterns to hold the two pieces together), Porcelain Dolls (molding, painting, putting together, making dresses), Embroidery (all kinds), Crochet and Knitting (although she really doesn't like these too well).

After leaving home she continued to learn other crafts to add to her list of many talents.  Silk Ribbon Embroidery, Leatherwork, Tatting, Paper Quilling, Beadwork, ScrapBooking (online as well as actual books), Cross Stitch, Hardanger Embroidery, BlackWork, RedWork, CutWork, NeedlePoint, Brazilian Embroidery, and some she cannot recall at the time of this writing.  She has also learned to design her own Cross Stitch Patterns, Beadwork Patterns, and has written a beadwork book that is yet to be published.  Oh yes, speaking of publishing, she was a Published Poet before the age of 18.  There is almost nothing short of drawing that she has tried that she has done very well at.  Drawing is just not her thing, but she does have an affinity to drawing simple flowers, geometrics, feathers and scrolls, the last two being her favorites.

She is an avid reader, always inquisitive and yearning for knowledge taking every opportunity to learn new ways to help her recovery and health.  Her favorites are Murder Mysteries, Native stories, self help and traditions as well as Spirit Medicine.  Journaling is also a huge favorite past time.  She is in the process of writing as much as she can about her life to write a book about her life.  She also would like to counsel others in areas of challenge she has had in her own life.  She liked to teach and when she was younger, wanted to be a teacher.  That dream was realized, not in the way she had thought, and instead her life has taken her on a different path.  She writes stories, poetry and random work when the muse strikes her.

Today she is primarily working in the digital world, and has set her beads and leather aside for awhile.  Very soon it will be time to pick it back up again and create new mandala's, dreamcatchers and other wonderful goodies.  At the present time she works in Digital Graphics for the Scrapbooking and Pixel Communities and has several Membership areas where she provides her members goodies.  She has also participated in Blog Trains and Member Only Pixel Collaborations when time allows.

She maintains all areas of her websites (links can be found below), and has learned a great deal since first opening FrontPage a little over 9 years ago, but there is much she still wants to learn.  She spends her time creating, playing with color palettes, and learning new techniques.

She loves creating websites using HTML as well as Themes for Wordpress.

The calling to come back to the beading world has been strong recently.  She misses working with the tiny globes of color, leather and all the many different stones she loves so much.  She has done many styles of beading from simple to complex.  Oh how she remembers sitting for hours creating beautiful things.  All the ideas she had, and still has and plans to do.  You can see samples of her work on the Beadwork pages.

The tag below was created by InkkFreakk with a tube painted by Michele Lynch, a commission done from a photo of her.  Enjoy....

-=-Site Info-=-

Built with FrontPage - Created with lots of love - Maintained with heart

Kolor'Scapez Was started October 2008.  Back then it was called Plaid'Scapez!  She just LOVES LOVES LOVES Plaid.   LOL....But a bit later on she felt the Plaid Part was too restrictive so she went on a quest to find a new word for the first half of the name.  Hence....Kolor'Scapez.  Throughout its existence it has undergone many transformations.  It has been rebuilt about many times, due to WordPress issues and database errors.  So thus I have chosen to rebuild this time with HTML Blogger, rather that WP.  I hope you will all enjoy it just as much, or more.  My site will continue to undergo transformations as I continue to learn more and more about HTML and the workings of different things you can utilize for websites.  At some point soon I hope to have previews of past themes.

Color;,  n- nature - viewpoint, or attitude, character, personality

Scapes;, n - a scene, a view, often used in combination such as "seascapes" or "landscapes".

Kolor'Scapez!---

A play on lettering, defining my unique viewpoint of the landscape that is the world around me.  I bring my character and attitude to my creativity, which can range from sublime and subtle, to screaming from the page (screen).  A view that is at times chaotic, other times serene, and all the time distinctly me, oh and throw in a dash of tainted twistedness....LOL

-=-Other site links-=-

FlutterFaerieHollow

FFH Members area [coming soon]

Flutter Faerie Fidgets [coming soon]

Sig Tag Always List Group

Learn2PSP

Come join us if you want.  We would love to have you!