Zest-It Has Come to the USA

 

After much diligent work to understand and conquer all issues related to importing from the UK, Vicki Byers of And Bear Makes 3, is now a US distributor for Zest-It.  Zest-It is a non toxic blending medium for colored pencils.  

I have personally not previously used a solvent for my colored pencil work because they tend to be fairly toxic substances.  But Zest-It is environmentally and health friendly.  (Well, don't drink it...)  I love how it works and enjoy using it to create a base undercoat to my colored pencil work.  It sure is easier on the hands than hand blending all of that with a blending pencil!  

 

I posted a review and test of Zest-It a year ago on my blog.  Here is the link to that post if you want to see the results.  Vicki is currently the one and only North American distributor of Zest-It.  When I ordered my Zest-It from the UK, my shipping was as much as my order.  So I am thrilled that Vicki has taken this task on.  You can reach Vicki online here or if you would like to speak with her on the phone, you can find that information here.

You can get a nice bottle for refilling and also a container with a sponge.  This container is nice because it is more stable.  Several of my students and I have all spilled our bottle a bit.  So, we were glad to get the container with the sponge making it nearly impossible to spill.  

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A Little Tea, A Bit of Rust, Throw In A Spark Plug and What Do You Get?

Recently during the One World One Heart blog event I stumbled onto another blog.  You know how it goes.  You are on the site you planned to go to then you go to a link from that site then you go to another one from the new site.  Then eventually you find yourself in a wonderful new place but you can't remember exactly how you got there.  Well, that was my experience when I found myself at the blog of Jeanette Janson.

What fun I had as I spent a while with a cup of tea enjoying the creative mind of Jeanette.  Her Etsy vintage shop VintageSupplyCo is an endless list of treasures with which one might create wonderful mixed media collage work.  She has everything from old photos to rusty metal to ephemera and lots of other fun things in between.

But the really fun part of my cyber time spent with Jeanette was when I visited her Etsy Recycled Robot Art Shop  Jeanette's creations using the same type of materials she sells in her vintage shop are just simply fun!  They will make you smile on a rainy day.  Let me share just a few of my favorites with you today.

 

Each robot has something unique about it giving it a personality to love.

I think this last one is my favorite with her fancy shoes; and her pearls are just the right finishing touch.

So stop by Jeanette's blog and her shops.  You may find just what you are needing to bring Springtime a little earlier to your house.

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