I have had in my possession a very nice set of acrylic and water colour brushes that I bought in 2001 when I went to Sheridan College for Art School for a year. I used and abused those expensive brushes every single day for a year, and didn’t put much effort into cleaning them very thoroughly afterward. Now here I am in my forties, with a treasure grove of good brushes, if I can only find a way to remove all the accumulated gunk. Oh I’ve done boiled soapy water, paint thinner, mineral spirits and brush cleaner (all well after the fact mind you), but have never managed to clear more than just the very outer most surface. But, last night I came across a YouTube video of someone using Murphy Oil Soap concentrated floor cleaner on an old acrylic crusty dried up brush, and after 3 to 4 days it revitalized that brushes bristles. For the low low cost of $7.00 CDN, I too hope to breathe new life into my collection of Windsor & Newton brushes. My old clam pack brush cleaner is a lost cause, being about 21 years old now. But I’d love to salvage as many as I can of my five hundred dollars worth of brushes. At $20-$45 a pop (iirc), back in 2001, I can only imagine what a whole new set of Windsor & Newton brushes would cost me today to replace them all. I don’t want to think about it. I see the package says new formula, so I hope it works as well as the older stuff I saw that YouTuber use. Time will tell.
So today we begin with a warm temperature wind storm, and will finish the day with a snow squall slash blizzard. Sounds about right for a Thursday, ten days from Christmas. I can only imagine what my kids will do next week at school. Movies, crafts and lots of bouncing off the walls. Good for me at home away from it all, not so much fun for the teachers who will take the brunt of all that restless excitement. Although snow means, snowball fights, king of the hill bouts, forts, raids, and rolling heavy snowman parts. All great ways to tire out school aged children. Which reminds me, I need to put a second reserve pair of gloves in my kids back packs. I sorted out the youngest on Monday, but my older one is still going the whole day with one set of soggy gloves. Seems I am playing catch up! I have the second pair up here all ready. I never put them in the back pack though. So I’ll do that when the kids come home later today.
I think I need to get the last of my invoices out this week, or run the risk of not getting them processed in 2022. So I’ll sign off for now. Ciao Bella!
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