 episode of use it or lose it. So I'm going to do going forward less bragging about what I'm getting rid of or if I used up and more trying to give you ideas of how to use things up maybe. So if you like to journal in like mole skin type notebooks then you know that if you keep all the pages in the notebook like you're going to end up with one with a broken spine or one where you have to increase the spine and it kind of looks like that. So you have to take out like every other page and what I do with those pages which I did with this one by the way it's still too fat so and I have a couple more I have to do that too but anyway I don't just throw the paper away I use it for painting papers and I also have paint that's like getting old and past it and some of it is starting to smell bad and or paint I don't really care for. I don't care for its finish I don't care for the way it works on the paper there's something about it I don't care for. So I tend to try to just use them up and make painting papers out of this is some I did yesterday with some fluid acrylics that I had that were getting a little old and past it and so I painted them on a bunch of the old nose mole skin pages and then I also had some sticker paper from printing different stickers and they didn't quite print right but it is these are this is full sheet label paper I don't throw it away. What I do then is save it and then when I have to or need to or want to I take it and do this same kind of thing with it using up old paint and old supplies and then I cut it up and I create stickers out of it abstract stickers square ones and then also rectangular or washi tape style ones so that's something else that I do I've got a big pile of them down here hang on just all the latest batch I also wanted to die cut some birds and I'm remembering why I don't like the particular die cut of birds that I have because it's a pain in the neck to cut the birds out and one of the ones I have is a Tim Holtz it's very particular but I did use up a little bit of black drawing paper that I had laying around and I wasn't using um cutting out some little birds I can use for my journal pages anyway I also had a number of small bottles of fluid acrylic and big bottles and some of them were duplicates of the big bottles so what I did was I took all these little bottles combined them with some of the big bottles and I was able to consolidate I didn't really use it up but I did consolidate the fluid acrylics to have them make more sense so I took all of these and I either used them up which was only like one or two of them or I consolidated them into the bigger bottles so I don't need to have big ones and little ones I never take these traveling the only reason for me to have small sample sizes of anything is if I'm going to take it traveling otherwise if I'm using it at home I don't need a little bottle and if I have the little bottle I don't need a big bottle I had the big bottle so we're going to use it anyway you get the idea so these are all going away you know I use these for drawing cheap and they work big crystal pen I used one up I used up a spool of thread I used up some small again we're back to the small bottles of acrylic paint right and these were homemade I think these were homemade fabric paints um that we used up I'm going to show you how a good way to use those up in just a second it's like right over there so I used up let's see I think I think these were done with the medium that I don't like and I'm kind of scared of now but yeah anyway here's another spool of thread okay and so when I'm doing the stickers and label paper and the background paper I not only try to use up paints that are just sitting around but also inks you know if you've got some of these acrylic inks they don't last forever and they will like literally dry up in the jar and I've had a few do that so if I have ones they're starting to get thick and past it I will use them on the um painting papers and the label paper along with some of these pigment powders and they had some like glitter pigment powders and that worked really well the last time I did a batch of labels washi tape gets old and or some of it's just not made very well I talked about this in a vlog and these two particular ones like they're just going sometimes it's not worth it to try to use it up sometimes you just need to let it go this is two of those I did use one roll up an old jar of which I need to stop hoarding I love to use old jars this is a yogurt jar for paint water and mixing things I don't need to keep a ton of them so I've discovered as part of my art journey and um my um journey to only keep what I'm going to use and use or lose what I do have that I really need to and I'm the kind of person that needs to stick to a bin system so I have one bin for say jars and when that bin is full I cannot keep any more jars unless I use up some of what's in the bin or get rid of some what's some what's in the bin for me that works really well I know it doesn't work for everybody but for me that works really well so yeah anyway this is needs to go and it's glass so it might be recyclable I don't know I used up a really old bottle of dritz fray check so if you do any kind of sewing or hand stitching you just want to make sure the edges don't fray or the knots don't come undone a little dab of this will do you and you can get it at any fabric and craft store works great I had this one bottle for a long time I do have more and this one was very dry um and then an old plastic palette and a pipette okay so these disposable pipettes I have like a hundred of them so plenty enough to throw them away do I feel bad about it because it's plastic yes would I buy them again probably not because it's really not something that's easily cleaned and it's supposed to be disposable but it's plastic so yeah and then I have a plastic paint palette I don't like plastic paint palettes are again they're too hard to clean so it's going to go now as far as the fabric paints I had seven homemade containers of fabric paints I'm pretty sure they were mixed from acrylic paint and golden's gac 900 I talked about this in a recent vlog um it works really well and I was really happy with the product I got using it I didn't read the label before I bought it or after I bought it until recently when I saw somebody else talk about it this product contains formaldehyde you know lots of what's in this art room has chemicals of some sort in it but I'm not okay with formaldehyde so now it's got to go away but I don't know how to dispose of it if anybody has any ideas let me know anyway I took a bunch of old canvas tags that I had in my stash some of them are from Michael some of them are from canvas corp um when I was on their design team some I hand cut and I took all of my fabric paint paints and I have these homemade ones and I also had some tulip paints and I used a bunch of them up just creating these little abstract tags then I can slow stitch like a word on there or I could do a little drawing on there I could attach it to a journal page um I have I made some of these big ones all different shapes some of these now I have taken some of these before and I created a banner for my art room out of them let me show you hang on that up there and it's still I made it before we moved uh over three years ago and when I moved it was one of the first things I hung up I really love it and you definitely could take these banners that I've painted on and you could use them as the background for some of these how cool would that be I may sell some of these tags in the etsy shop because I do now have a lot of them but I am enjoying the process of using up what I'm not using by making painting papers making stickers making these fabric tags and kind of pre prepping some product parts um that I can use for future works anyway I know it wasn't rocket science and I know it wasn't anything new and unique and exciting um but I do think it's something and you know some of the other things you can do are these kind of tags these are old clothing tags or playing cards I have a lot of these around you also of course can do paper clips so if you aren't a follower in the paperclip art group of which yes there is one I'll link it down below these are done I do these on wooden bases and then attach giant paper clips to the back and do big ones do little ones and this has become a great way to use up fabric roses and just little bits and pieces that I have laying around so I am exploring the idea of doing that more and more and instead of buying stuff I don't need using what I have and using it up what about you if you have ideas for using up things in your room that maybe are not getting enough attention or that you're just past it but you want to let them go or use them up so you don't buy them again leave all those hints and tips down below if you're in one of my facebook art groups put a post over there and tag me in it because I'd love to some new ideas um my daughter I think it might be getting into some resin stuff and I've told her please don't buy any resin don't buy any molds don't buy any equipment just come take mine so you know that's another way if you have somebody in the family that you know likes to do a particular craft that you're just not doing anymore but you've got all the stuff for it adopted daughter Jenny likes to crochet so I already told her um don't buy any yarn because I have a box and I've already given her a bunch of crochet hooks that I'm not using so you know share the wealth with the family and friends all right that's it for the minute I'd love to hear your take on it I hope you're having an okay summer ours has started off with a bang and the kids getting married again long story but anyway it's going to be a busy busy summer I think as per usual and there's just a lot going on so my video content will be probably inconsistent at best but that's the best I can do right now because of personal issues watch the vlog if you want details anyway don't forget to check out the video description for relevant links ways to support the free content and maybe some free goodies from me every now and then the Etsy shop is linked down below the class I'm teaching with Bea Grob and all the other artists is down below all that stuff check it out don't forget to stay safe stay healthy stay creative wear a mask if you need to and or think about getting a vaccine anyway go out and do something nice for yourself because you do deserve it I'll see you later bye guys