 Hey guys! How cute are these? How cute would this be to have a jar full of old grungy paint brushes that have been sent to you and shared from different friends around the country or the world? Each one has their own little message of love and support with their name and the date on it. I love the idea. I have some footage. I've tried to film this a couple of times and I just was so excited about the idea. I think I had trouble. So I'm going to talk my way through the process of making the brushes and we will cut away from the desk here and you will see the footage of me making the brushes. There really isn't anything special to it. Get your old grungy dirty brushes, the ones that are past it as you all may or may not know. I've been cleaning in some of my friends out our room and our studio rooms and getting rid of old brushes and things. I've saved a few things. I have a bin of art salvage supplies and recycling, you know, it has aluminum can for you, aluminum cans in it, some kids building blocks, old paintbrushes, hardware, different random things I want to add to some of my mixed media. And before I sent my round robin supply box off to its first destination, I took some of the brushes out and saved them. If you don't know what a round robin supply box is, it's something that we're doing over in the My Year 2017 Facebook group. You really need to join to find out. We're basically taking our old, well-loved, but still probably useful to somebody or maybe never used and you really don't care for art supplies, or maybe you just have too much of something and we're packing up a box and sending it off to a friend. That friend takes what they want out of it. They fill it up again and send it off to another friend. It's a pretty nice way to share supplies. So anyway, we've been doing that and I saved some of the brushes out and I took them and I decided to show them a little more love. This one's completely dry, so I'll show you this one. So I added more paint to them. Now these brushes are my actual paint brushes, so they already looked like this. But what I did was I took the bristles and I added more paint to them and let them dry so it's hard. I added a little bit of stickles. So I have stickles and I just will use them at a tag that I've made with a note on the back signed and dated. I am going to be trading them with a couple of my friends and we are doing this again over in the My Year 2017 Facebook group. We are calling it Artist Trading Brush. Instead of Artist Trading Card, Artist Trading Brush, you get it, ATB. So I want to encourage you to get out some of your old grungy brushes that you're probably going to toss in the trash and don't stop. Take your brushes and show them some love and respect and appreciation by decorating them up even more, adding a little tag and a note on the back. Make sure you sign and date it. I actually forgot to date some of these, so that's why I've got a pen in my hand. I've got to do that. And then trade brushes with some friends. You send them one of yours. They send you one of theirs. And before you know it, you have this really great jar of lovingly inspired paint brushes from all of your friends that can sit in your art room, it can sit on your desk, it can inspire you and you'll have all your friends there with you showing you some love and inspiration. I think it's a fabulous idea. I hope you do too. Please don't forget to like, share, and subscribe if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. You want to send me happy mail. You want to join the My Year 2017 Facebook group or my other Facebook group, A Life of Art and Self-Expression. You want to support my channel by shopping on my Etsy store. Send me happy mail. Any of that stuff. Send me a paintbrush. My address and all the links for everything are in the description below, so don't forget to check it out. Of course, the most important thing, go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.