a mixed media artistic solutions engineer...

Welcome back after a rather lethargic weekend...

After consigning yet another YouTube video to may "watch later" list I finally decided enough was enough. I finally got round to making a much needed batch of texture paste
whilst watching a lovely lady called Marta transform an old book into an amazing work of art, full of envy as she gets sent loads and loads of stuff by companies to try out so she gets to use them in such quantities that you would think they were as free as air. For her they are I suppose. That's why I stopped watching the very lovely but not so frugal any more Frugal Crafter. She started as just that, a make do and mender crafter and now dangles all these lovely supplies in out faces and talk about things I haven't even got a clue what they are even for. I guess that's fame....

So with baby powder all over the kitchen, more glue and acrylic paint, a drawer FULL of match pots I have gathered over the years I came across a rather artisticy chap talking about gesso. Finally! someone who didn't use over-complicated terminology and who had probably never heard of Tim Holtz or Michaels and who didn't think that the words "lace" and "vintage" were synonymous. The relief! Nice chap; I didn't realise anyone could chat about gesso for so long, however, I got to finish 3 half jam pots of lovely smelling runny goo.

I think all these terms - texture paste, mediums, brushos, mousses and twinkle dinkle doo dahs very confusing - mediums? the arty crafty world seems full of so many mediums it's all far too confusing for me. Like solutions. Do you remember how we once has a world which overnight became full of solutions providing companies? What's all that about? It made rather boring firms sound interesting. No it made them sound incredibly pretentious. I digress...

Now on to making the covers of my books look beautiful but that will have to wait as I have to collect up a load of things to bung on them before I can call myself a mixed media artistic solutions engineer...

Bye for now, 

love,

Ruby-Sian XXX