Magic show

I want to make some more clocks, but need materials, so I have been dyeing a bunch of beautiful wool felt. I've got a little workshop set up on our back porch, right next to the sand box. My boys have been playing happily in their little pool and sand while I do this:

 

with this:

 

(marigolds) and this:

 

(onion skins). 

Yesterday, I got an indigo vat for wool going and got this:

 

The browns are black walnuts I collected last fall. Cool, huh?