Studio Tips

I received my new Japanese hole punch on Thursday...the difference between this good one and the cheap one is like night and day.  Now I want to punch holes in everything!

Here are a couple of studio tips to pass along ~

If you do a lot of gluing, use an old catalog or phonebook.  Lay your piece to be glued on one page, and after applying glue, simply turn the page for the next piece.  Great way to recycle those old papers and not have to deal with individual pages with glue on them.

When you first open a plastic jar of something -- medium, paint, gesso, whatever -- coat the threads on the jar with petroleum jelly.  You'll never have a problem opening the jar after that.

Have a great weekend!