The number of comments and visits I am likely to make this time around will be limited to whatever my eyes will tolerate.
I am looking forward to finding out what my fellow deskers have been doing recently! For those of you who are new to the wonders of this fun weekly blog hop, please visit the blog of the Queen of the Deskers, Ms Julia Dunnit. Her deskers like to meet up very Wednesday.
Eye health report: No cure yet, although I am now trying a nutritional option called Taurine.
I used to say that I would never try Facebook again. I had a dead account there for years that I never used to use. Recently, though, a number of really nice people kept urging me to try it again. So I did! I revived that dead account. Since that time, I keep meeting more and more fun and interesting people at the various Facebook groups I've joined. And I now even have a small, select group which I've given the same name as this blog, but that is in connection with my older, bigger blog, Plush Possum Studio.
It's nice to not always need to type comments when a thumbs up, heart or emoji will often do. If the eye is having a decent day, I chat along and have a grand time at the various groups I've joined there.
One of the people I've been getting to know at Facebook (this time via YouTube first) is one Lisa Conway. Follow the link HERE to her fun channel, where you'll find her arting using gelli printing, watercolors and many other fun, creative things.
Recently, Lisa and I began talking about one of the products she'd been using with her gel plate, a form of wrapper for sandwiches that she'd happened to run across via serendipity at a Thrift shop. I had never heard of those before, and I really enjoyed how she was using those pleated paper wrappers in the printing process.
The next thing I knew, she was offering to send some to me, free of charge, so that I might try using some myself. Of course, I was both grateful and excited at the prospect of trying the Pleatpak wrappers. But she didn't stop with the wrappers. Oh, no. Wait until you see what else she's given me!
I am looking forward to finding out what my fellow deskers have been doing recently! For those of you who are new to the wonders of this fun weekly blog hop, please visit the blog of the Queen of the Deskers, Ms Julia Dunnit. Her deskers like to meet up very Wednesday.
Eye health report: No cure yet, although I am now trying a nutritional option called Taurine.
I used to say that I would never try Facebook again. I had a dead account there for years that I never used to use. Recently, though, a number of really nice people kept urging me to try it again. So I did! I revived that dead account. Since that time, I keep meeting more and more fun and interesting people at the various Facebook groups I've joined. And I now even have a small, select group which I've given the same name as this blog, but that is in connection with my older, bigger blog, Plush Possum Studio.
It's nice to not always need to type comments when a thumbs up, heart or emoji will often do. If the eye is having a decent day, I chat along and have a grand time at the various groups I've joined there.
One of the people I've been getting to know at Facebook (this time via YouTube first) is one Lisa Conway. Follow the link HERE to her fun channel, where you'll find her arting using gelli printing, watercolors and many other fun, creative things.
Recently, Lisa and I began talking about one of the products she'd been using with her gel plate, a form of wrapper for sandwiches that she'd happened to run across via serendipity at a Thrift shop. I had never heard of those before, and I really enjoyed how she was using those pleated paper wrappers in the printing process.
The next thing I knew, she was offering to send some to me, free of charge, so that I might try using some myself. Of course, I was both grateful and excited at the prospect of trying the Pleatpak wrappers. But she didn't stop with the wrappers. Oh, no. Wait until you see what else she's given me!
Buttons (!), lace, colorful circles for collage or embellishments, decorated paperclips, paper flowers, and so on....
Pure treasure!
I must confess to having never used napkins in any of my work before. Perhaps it's time.
Below are the wrappers. Notice the neat pleating? Well that is the cool part of using them in the making of gel prints. I will leave it to you to imagine....
Lisa,
Thank You
for this wonderful and inspiring
cache of pretty goodies!
I love all of it.
