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I bought the Stampin Up Watercolour crayons last year, and have hardly touched them since. I dug them out the other day and started to play, just to see what I could come up with. I was a bit surprised by how easy and fun they were! I love the effect they gave, especially when doing a 2 step rubber stamped image and using ink on top of the crayon. I might have to start showing the crayons in my workshops. Now that Stampin Up (SU) sells them in the individual colour families, they aren't too expensive.By the way, you can now view the new Stampin Up catalogue online, just click here.
It was fun to gooo and gahhh over the catalogue with some of you last week. Thanks for coming over and sharing the excitment with me!
I placed a huge order with SU on Monday, the first day to order from the new catty. I'm hoping the order will arrive before Easter weekend but as I was one of the hundreds of demonstrators around Australia placing orders on that day, I'm not holding my breath! As soon as I have the new products in my hands, I'll be able to put together some technique classes and workshop ideas for you all. Watch this space!
On another note, since my sister and her family moved to Canberra a few months ago, I've been able to play Auntie to my gorgeous neice and nephew. Its kind of a new role for me as I've always been living too far away to get involved in the everyday routines with them. I'm trying to make time to be more involved with them now as I always forget how fast these little ones grow up! And there is the possibility that they may move to Brisbane later this year.....hope not....but at least we'll still be in the same country! 
This picture of Christopher and Cora is my new favourite at the moment. You can see that Christopher totally adores his baby cousin through the gentle way he's trying to hold her as she wiggles about. And I LOVE her bib in the photo above....Cora is holding Christopher's favourite toy when he was a baby too. I kept a few of his favourites and have passed them onto Cora to enjoy now.
This weekend is the Easter long weekend. Christopher and I will do our egg decorating on Friday. We'll be thinking of you Katrina and Joel! The eggs looked dreadful last year when we used brown eggs, as there were no white eggs to be found. BUT this year, I managed to find some white eggs so they'll going to look beautiful. Martha Stewart has lots of egg decorating ideas. I'd love to try the silk tie method one day....it looks so easy and gorgeous!
Happy Easter Everyone!
2 comments:
Lots of memories of our egg painting exercises in Hong Kong Katie. Was actually dwelling on memories of your AMAZING cinnamon buns too when I saw them advertised in a mall in Dubai last week - I was tempted to challenge the shop to a taste test as just knew yours would win hands down ! Hope you had a great Easter - I am embarassed to say that I actually forgot it was Easter as Dubai don't celebrate it and then I was on a plane across 2 days. Mum had to remind me to buy Joely an Easter egg (no-one ever said I would win the award for Mother of the Year). We will be down to Canberra to visit you soon.
Great to have you back in the country!...easter egg or no easter egg! I think my favourite egg hunt was the one we did with the boys at the bottom of Greenwood and then seeing that REAL bunny a short time later. Oooooh those Cinnamon buns are pretty naughty. I've made them a couple times over the past year. I'll definetly make them when we get together. We might have to come visit you during the July school holidays. Christopher is in NZ at the moment.
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