Days of Christmas

On The Second Day of Christmas

I give to you......

Cheesecloth
This is one of my very favorite, very inexpensive tools.

You can get a 6 yard package at your favorite wally world store for

....well I can't remember for sure but maybe 3 or 4 dollars.

As you can see, the package back says there are, "hundreds of uses".

Here is what I do with it.

I cut off about a 8 or 10 inch piece of it to use while I'm painting.

I wet it in my water jar and squeeze it out.

No matter what my right hand is doing,

I always have this little piece of wet cheesecloth in my left hand.

I use it to blot my brush after swishing it in the water jar.

I use it to wipe off my pallet knife because acrylic dries so fast on it.

I use it dab and blot and smear paint on my canvas.

I use it to wipe watercolor pencil off of my piece

when Norah'S evil eye dislikes where I have used it.

I use it to wipe of rubber stamps after using in acrylic.

And

When you walk away, it dries real fast.

I use the same piece over and over an over

until I want a fresh piece.

Then,

I might use the dried piece

like the one in the above picture under my hand

in a collage.

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I have to tell you, I received two wonderful packages

Christmas Eve

via US mail.

WOW

I got my copy of the

Altered Abbey Skinny Book Swap

I will share more on that later.

But, if you ever get the opportunity to do a swap like this...

all I can say is

DO IT!!!!!

The other package was......

my "Complimentary Copy" of

January/February

CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS

Do you know what that means?

Yes, it means the contents of this little package

did get published.

Very very exciting!!!

More later,

Sharon