Check-In Post May 30th 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: No question today.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[alafaye]

Been working some OT lately so I haven't had much time for anything (although because work has been slow I'm writing fanfic again! First time in over 3 years!), but today with the holiday weekend I finally got time to play around with some water color pencils and oil pastels -- trying a different medium. I definitely love the pencils; I'm gonna have to save up for the bigger packs.

[wiseheart]

Yay for rediscovering fanfic! In which fandom do you write?
Also, trying out a new medium is always fun.

[alafaye]

Many fandoms, but right now Murdoch Mysteries.

Yes. I like to try out different things so I don't get bored.

[smallhobbit]

I've heard good things about water colour pencils.

[alafaye]

So much fun ^_^

[badly_knitted]

Yay for fanfic!

I haven't used watercolour pencils since I was a kid. I remember them being fun though.

[alafaye]

Yes!

I was unsure about them, but when Michael's gave me a coupon, I tried them out. Definitely want more colors!

[badly_knitted]

(Hopefully there will be a torchwood_fest again this year).

I've inherited all of my mum's art supplies, which she b=never got around to using. Gave av lot of stuff away, but I kept the watercolour pencils, thought I might use them someday, just not sure what for since I can't draw beyond stick figures.

[alafaye]

(Hoping I'll have a damned better job by December so I can give more effort to the fest! Fingers crossed.)

Yeah I struggled hard to figure out what to draw no matter what I'm using. I've pulled up the image gallery on the NASA website to try those images out.

[badly_knitted]

(Fingers and toes crossed. And hopefully I'll be in a better position to write something.)

NASA? That's got to be some amazing images to work from!

[annofowlshire]

I love trying new mediums. I always find something I can take back to my previous on, and sometimes a new obsession, too ;)

[alafaye]

Yes so I don't get bored, lol. And yes these are definitely a new obsession.