WOYWW #500- The HUGE milestone edition.

And what a milestone it is! 500 weekly linkups around the world, non-stop. All from an idea by Julia, our much loved leader at the home of WOYWW, The Stamping Ground, to have a weekly blog hop sharing our desks,( and floors/cupboards/ and I recall at least one Ironing board!) good & bad, tidy & messy, no matter what your craft, this is a fun and friendly place to drop in with friends every week.So I'm sending a huge Thank You to Julia,who along with some occasional standing in from LLJ, keeps us organised every week,and a huge Thank You to all of you who join in, to make this so much fun. We also have an amazing 10th Birthday Crop to look forward to on June 1st too.
There has been much more tidying and packing away than crafting this week- Christmas has now finally left the building. Normally I leave it till 12th Night to take the decorations down, but this year I just wanted to see the back of them, lol.
So, you may recall amongst my Crimbo pressies was a case for my Prismacolor pencils. I'd originally bought the middle set of 72, not being sure how much I'd like, and therefore use them. Having discovered they are so much easier at blending than Promarkers, I've gradually built up my collection.

 There are a total of 150 in the range, but as I had a box of 72, needed something for all of them. This is the case Hubby bought me, and I can highly recommend it. It will hold up to 180 pencils, so room for spares/blenders etc, and has a totally solid outer case.
 For anyone wanting to buy pencils to build up their collection, I can also recommend Artist Pencils Online . The guy whose business it is is very fast at shipping- typically next day- and packages them really safe and secure. He also has a couple of deals on them , 10 for £12.95, or 7 for £9.48, which makes them the cheapest on the Net, as that makes them either £1.29 or £1.35 each, and the cheapest price I could find for individual pencils is £1.60, frequently more.( Yes, Julia, I'm enabling again!)😁😁

Some colouring being done- great to be able to use some stamps I'd shied away from as I was not happy with the results from Promarkers.I think it's partly due to the colours all being so strong, even their Pale/Pastel shades seem extremely dark. Although I have recently realised that the Flexmarker range, which are also by Letraset, and will work together with Promarkers, do have a lot more very pale colours in them, so I have bought a handful to see if it helps. Equally, part of the problem is quite possibly me expecting to be better at using them with little or no practice!


Hubby bought me these after seeing a card on Facebook using them, and tracked them down. The cat image is great, as you get a selection of facial expressions to use with it, as well as a Santa hat.

The previous post to this one is my annual round up of my favourite projects of the year, and probably tomorrow, Thursday, I'll do a review of the Tim Holtz Travel Platform, now I've had it out and used it.
 Which just leaves.....And Finally......