 got an envelope from Wendy Ewing. I think on Facebook she's Wendy Lee Ewing and I think there might be an artist trading brush in here but I'm not sure so let's open it and find out. It came in over the weekend right before Easter and I just did not have time to open it or anything. It's literally, I'm opening it right now. It's been sitting on my desk. Alright and I have it facedown because I don't want to show her address but here's a cute package she sent. I love the tissue paper. Love the tissue. Okay I have to save that and the washi is cute too. It's like watercolor-y kind of washi that says happiness. Okay so we're gonna have to first thing around to try to take that off without messing up the washi. I want to save the washi. And the string is cute too. It's like purple baker's twine. Very cute. That can be used to bind a little grab-and-glue book or a junk journal or something. Just too cute. I can see that on a journal page. Love it. Didn't even get inside the package yet. Alright so here's the tissue which is just full of envelopes which I love okay. I don't know where you've got the tissue Wendy but it's very very cute. It'll be added right to my tissue box which I have to use some of because it's kind of overflowing. This is the artist trading brush so let's open that last. If you don't know what an artist trading brush is it is something that we came up with over in my Facebook group the year-long journaling group my year 2017. I do have a video on that. I will try to link it in the description so you can go over there and click on it. If you want to join the Facebook group the link for that's also in the description so you can check it out. Alright so first of all there is an index card or postcard here which I can add to my library box and she signed it and dated it on the back. Cute. Some really cute lace that looks like she hand dyed with like spray inks or something which is totally cute. I love that. That's going to go in my little scraps bin with the baker's twine and this is some packaging. It says ball pens, black ink to count and but I love the lace might have been wrapped around it but I have a bin of just packaging Wendy so that's going to go up there. These are some little like journaling cards or game cards or something. They're cute. This is a little canvas that you're supposed to color I guess. It looks like something from maybe Tuesday morning and it's an actual piece of printed canvas stapled to a substrate so that's pretty interesting. I might actually want to take that apart and use it some way but that's interesting. Alright I like that. Some of these felt pieces that I think I got these in one of the round robin boxes and I don't know if they were from Wendy or what but I saved those because I thought they were interesting too and they went in my fabric scraps box which these will too. As soon as I figure out which fabric scraps box I put the other ones in so they're all together. Some bits of scrapbooking paper always cute always useful one little like journaling card cute a scrap piece of dark blue fabric it feels like canvas or it's a kind of a thicker material not quite canvassy thick but that's always handy to have that again it's going to go over here with the fabric this is reimbursement and coding for moderate to severe r.a okay it's a medical something medical but I'm not I'm sure that's not why she sent it it would make a really cute glue book and I love the fact that it has tabs already and it's got an envelope in our pocket in the back here that's going to be a cute glue book or something some sheet music always handy this looks like it's the leftovers from valentine punch outs or something something a chipboard but this would be a cute stencil or even better yet I might put this in my packaging box because this would just be cute as a collage element texture element so that's probably going to go in the collage in the packaging box I'm kind of yes I'm kind of sorting things as I'm going through more really cute tissue this is cute tissue with script writing on it I love that some painted paper towel always cute I do have a box of painted papers here's another piece of painted paper and this one's textured I'm not sure I don't know I guess I could just be paint but it doesn't feel like it it feels like it's something else it's rough but it's really pretty and then this one here really cool Wendy all right and then here's the artist trading brush which she put another piece of cute washy on it says dream and then although I think I have that washy in my drawer I'm gonna save that one so here's my artist trading brush oh so cute oh that is cute so she painted up a brush and you know add some she signed and dated it add some creative crafty artistic inspiration and mojo to the brush put a little tag on it with a note and a cute paperclip really really cute Wendy thank you so much I can now add it to my collection of artist trading brushes I'm gonna have to get a bigger jar soon but they're so pretty so they just as a whole make a really pretty collection in my art room so I love them all right that's it for today everybody again if you want to make and trade your own artist trading brushes if you want to see what that's all about check the link in the for the other video in the description if you want to join the my year 2017 Facebook group or my other group the links for that's also in the description below along with my happy mail address my email all of that stuff and support my channel if you can by shopping in my Etsy shop I'd appreciate that I have my own line of rubber stamps my own line of stencils I wrote a book this last year you can buy all of them from my Etsy shop the book is also available on Amazon that's it for today the most important thing of course go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys