Busy Doing Nothing

A day spent doing lots of little jobs, but not really achieving anything.
This evening I tidied up my TOUCH ( multi-surface paint from Pebeo www.pebeo.com ) collection by squeezing the last drops of paint from one tube to another...... procrastinating again, and cut open the empty tubes to get the dregs, and then finger painted and sponged onto white card to make backgrounds ( the sign of a true crafter, I never waste a thing !).
This morning I collected a parcel from the sorting office containing the Christmas stamps I designed for DUO DESIGNS. I always get a thrill from seeing my designs become stamps, it's the stampaholic in me I suppose.
I am really dreading the upheaval this week, after teaching on Wednesday morning the three rooms will have to be moved around so that Keith the plasterer can work his magic on our badly treated walls...
I am one of three tutors teaching a workshop next Saturday the 14th at Hexham, the other two lovely ladies being Sue Jones and Jill Johnson. I am looking forward to showing people how to make an ATC ( artist trading card) holder. Easy I hear you cry, not quite, I've had to invent a template as the original design was based on an american sized envelope which we can't get in this country. I am working on this though, one of my Wednesday ladies the lovely Amanda is off to Florida and I've asked her to look in Michael's craft superstore for a proper template for an american size six and three quarter business size envelope. It will be a bit late for the workshop, but nice to have all the same.
I was really pleased to find Micaceous Iron Oxide paint ( made by Golden www.goldenpaints.com) yesterday at the show. It's mentioned in Tim Holtz's second DVD. He uses it on pre-baked polymer clay to hold mica powders. I got it from ART VAN GO who are great for anything unusual or out of the ordinary.
Those black canvas's are still awaiting my attention, so will make a start tomorrow now as I seem to have run out of day again........