Wow! I LOVE that pallete thing Dini! It's like a mother ship of pallettes! Does it spin like a lazy susan? Do you take the center part out to put the other section in to use? I love seeing what real artists use. Always very cool stuff!
Fun question! I really enjoy seeing what people are getting.
Last year I lost my mind over black friday...I still have not used all of what I got. I promised myself NOT to do that again this year. (Last year was when I really got into ordering online vs only my LSS.) As I have plenty of dies and stamps I was trying to be a responsible grown up and get supplies this time.
As my bday is in Nov, I have both that and the holidays to play with...I started doing my homework in Nov and waited for Black Friday so I could really squeeze my dollars.
I didnt have any WC paints yet and before I go near the very lovely but also very expensive ones, I went with the 36 Gansai Tambi set and the Starry night for golds that I found on Amazon much cheaper than in the stores. Those seem very nice to me as a starter set. I have tombows for blending pens, but everyone and their dog is talking up the Zig Clean color...so I got the 120 set. I was pretty much set there...but at the last minute added the full adhesive post it notes for masking and a ream of 110 lb Neenah Solar white for card bases as I have been stuggling to figure that out all year-should I do Whisper white? Neenah? Gina K heavyweight? I like all of them...but while I was getting free shipping, as that ream is very heavy.. I just made an executive decision.
I have been slowly collecting a few Black silver WC brushes as they were on good sales over the year, so now I have several sizes. I should be good to go now to try watercoloring in both paint and pens
(I pleasantly surprised myself discovering I had WC paper in the house already that is years old and was tucked away)
Then Sandy Allnock sent out a message that the WHOLE set of Prismacolor pencils were on a stunning sale on Amazon at like 70% off, and advised us to run not walk there....I
almost got them...but as I need to figure what I already have and use those, I backed off. I might regret that later.
The process also alerted me to the fact that my wishlist was over 20 pages which is
totally insane, so I chopped off over half of it. Now it's 9-10 which is still too long but one step at a time...it's that long b/c what I want never goes on sale (like frantic stamper's own dies or Dreamerland stamps) and I break out in a rash paying full retail. So I am in no risk of financial ruin there lol.
