WOYWW playing with pastels

This month, over at Wanderlust, the emphasis is on pastels. Before I joined Wanderlust 2016, I first looked at the Supplies List (which was extensive), and found I already had about 95% of them here in my Giant Art & Craft Stash. Certainly, the pastels date back to last century (hey, it's not all that long ago!) and they are in mint condition. Pastels come in Hard or Soft varieties. I have both :)
Now, in case your first thought is that pre-schoolers have hijacked my desk, I'd best tell you that the first pastel exercise was to just scribble and doodle ... get the feel of them ... nothing else. 
So that's what I did ...

It's not "finished". It might turn into something interesting.

Here's a finished double page journal spread which I submitted for the Wanderlust October Challenge. 
It all means something but it's complicated so I won't bore you with the details :)

Here's a good start to this Wednesday.  I got an email this morning about a 50% off sale of all Tim Holtz, Ranger and Dylusions at a nearby shop. (This is after telling someone last week that we never have sales for TH stuff!)  So, after a quick detour before work ...

All useful supplies. The sort I can actually use ... almost immediately!

What are you doing?  Me and Julia and all her WOYWW friends would love to know!