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!

WOYWW "baby, it's cold outside"

That's because it's winter and that Mini Snow Album is going to be finished!
It's a present and there is the card which I have made to go with it.

The little canvasses on the right are inspired by my workshop with Tim Holtz 

a couple of weeks ago.

And look!

The last ATCs have arrived for the 3rd Birthday of WOYWW ...

from Morti (left) and Vickie (right).

And if you are either of the two people I am still sending ATCs to ... they are now in the mail.

Now if you stumbled here by accident or intent and you don't know about WOYWW, then I encourage you to visit Julia over at the Stamping Ground and everything will be explained.

WOYWW bending the rules

Where did the last week go? Well, here it went by at the normal speed of light until the end of the week, which vanished even faster in a flurry of craft related activities which you may find of some interest. I'll try and keep it short and sweet, but there just has to be more than my usual one or two photos, hehe.

Workshop with Paula Cheney (7 Gypsies)

Last Friday I went to a workshop at Alice in Paperland given by Paula Cheney. It's not often we have international artists of Paula's reknown so I felt very privileged to take part in her creative class. OK, I didn't finish it in class, so here's what is happening on my desk at the moment ...

The project was a "Natural History Folio" using lots of different techniques and ideas. Paula was a great teacher, friendly and helpful, with no stress (or measuring) involved.
It was a fabulous class and Alice provided lunch afterwards! How good was that?

But wait, there's more ... next comes a

Workshop with  Tim Holtz

Yes, that's right, two days later, another workshop, with none other than (now, please don't swoon, there was enough of that going on at the time), the man behind many of those fabulous Ranger products. Another great teacher, again, friendly and helpful, giving us more tips and techniques, of which I can probably only remember about one!  And here is the finished piece! Yes, that's right, finished, at the time, in the class!

And many thanks to my friend Sandra who hears about these things, while I live under a rock, or in a cave, or some place where this sort of information rarely reaches!
Here's where we had lunch before Tim's class ... don't forget, it's Winter here! :)

Now, as I have blatantly and deliberately bent all the WOYWW rules :) I'll save all the happy mail which continues to filter in, from the WOYWW 3rd Birthday and show you next week, because it deserves a post all it's own. OK? and I'm off to visit Julia now to see what everyone else is up to on their desks.