It goes around and comes around..

Where have I been?  Here.  But with not much to say, so I said nothing.  Thanks for asking - really, everything is normal.  As I shall now prove, by typing the hind legs off the donkey...
You forget don't you that however much stash you've got, however many years you've been doing it, there are people who are new to it, and they've missed the first go around in the circle for what ever product....take this card for example...

When I posted it a couple of weeks ago, I commented that using my Brilliance inks to colour the flowers made me feel that I'd gone all retro - I had truly forgotten how lovely the Brilliance inks are and really enjoyed playing with them.  I hadn't for one moment considered the retro-ness of the Mulberry paper!  At Japonica's workshop on Monday, many people hadn't met it before and had to be introduced to the wetting and tearing to create the feathery edge - I was surprised, and of course, again, reminded that every product has it's time off the circle and in the spotlight...but it's temporary.

I've had to play with chalk and black card to prepare for a workshop making cards in the Chalkboard style.  

Soon got bored with that. Really, apart from the investigation of White inks and White embossing powders, its a single technique. 

So I made some cards using chalks too, trying to keep the style but add some colour....so, out comes the very old palette of chalks..

Magenta's Owl, Kaisercraft's text.  Gobbly eyes and chalks from century old stash.

It's funny what goes around and comes around isn't it.  Some sexy new packaging and possibly a signature line and suddenly we're all using something we tried and tired of some time ago.  But that is the circle of craft and hey, sections of my stash are being revealed to daylight for the first time in a long time, so I'm not complaining - just observing, really. 
I make a point of not looking at CHA or sneaks...I figure that my wish list stays in proportion and by the time I do see new stuff, other people have used it all and ironed out the bugs and figured out the best practice.  Idle, huh!  No change there then.  Now, considering my desk is untouched from Wednesday, which was untouched from Sunday, I really have to go do some tidying and cleaning.  If I'm gone for more than three days, send in the stash hunters will ya?
Have a lovely weekend.