Cleaning my Art/Craft Room & New Paint Supplies & Happy New Year

    Brrrr  still cold here, but the sun is shinning and no wind anymore as it has moved on.

       I decided I needed to tackle my art/craft room this morning, along with the coffee table in front of the living room tv which was piled high with books etc.

   Felt good to get my craft room tidied up and cleaned-the motivation was I need my desk top to get cleared off-for room to paint. The coffee table will get filled up with sewing supplies for those bags I am making.. My plan is to work on these in January and February I still have not tried a toothbrush rug yet but I have lots of fabric strips ready for that project.

  I bought some fun painting supplies that I think I will really love. 

    I found on Amazon an off brand of gouache tubes with lots of different colors - a student grade at a really good price-Inside was information and also a chart to put dots of paint colors on to-I have not done that before. The amazon reviews were pretty good-most people liking the paint and the extras in the box.

  I also wanted to upgrade to something fun for water and I spotted this stacked ceramic dish set with lid-which will be perfect for working with the water based gouache-I love fun supplies don't you?  I had been using the lid in my watercolor paint set up so now the gouache will have it's own space.

This is what I am using now

My new pieces-I think I will love these The two stoneware dishes I will use for water

   I usually find what I am looking for on Pinterest for ideas-I found these little bags made from the Kantha fabrics I want to make these to go inside the bags I am making-need to figure out the draw string closing on the top..

I liked these too

   My postcards are finally moving in the postal system-several friends have let me know they just got them different days this week  So far the international ones have not gotten through.

    Any plans for New Years Eve?  For a few years when we lived at the woods home we went to an early evening party at a good friend's home  He boiled shrimp and everyone brought sides-good eats.  When he got ill and stopped doing that, I started doing a shrimp boil for the two of us.  Last time I looked at shrimp -it didn't look all that great-so haven't decided what I will make this year.

    I will be watching the country music New Year's Eve Show-I enjoyed it the last couple of years.

    

Happy New Years