Layer Love Lesson #4

I'm having trouble adding stuff to my finished lessons. So I decided to call each lesson "finished" until the day comes when I find that perfect thing to write about or to collage.

So until then...I decided to make a digital finished piece!

Oh Digital, I love you!

This is how I began Lesson #4.

Like the cookie sheet? :-)

I bought Golden Crackle Medium and was so excited to try it! I'd never heard of the stuff until Julie added this to our lessons... When I was ready to do the crackle layer

OH-MA-GAWD! it was all dried up! Crap!

The next day I found some Ranger Crackle Paint but the only colors they had were yellowish orange and a pinkish color, thus the yellow choice in this lesson...

I like it!

The scratching and squiggling work real well in the crackle paint.

Have a great hair day! Becci

"Layer Love" Lesson #3 and a Couple Discoveries!

This is my finished lesson #3 ready to add some journaling and /or collage.

I decided to buy a sample box of Golden paints because the Windsor Newton paint I was using just wasn't looking quite right. Under the paint tubes I discovered a nice big color chart and history of the company.

I realised this color chart was a mixing guide!
It shows how to mix almost every color Golden makes!
O-MA-GAWD!
I won't need to go buy all the colors that I wanted for this workshop!
These paints are expensive pretty little buggers!



For example Julie is using Burnt Umber in the lesson and my little box didn't include Burn Umber. Sooo, I'll make Burnt Umber by mixing 4 pts Quinacridone Magenta, 8 pts Hansa Yellow Medium, and 1 pt Pthalo Green, which all came in the sample box!



My other discovery was that using a paper plate to mix my paint on was wasting the paint. The plate was too absorbent and sucked up the paint too fast. So, I mixed my paint on a plastic baggie until I can get a proper paint mixing pallet.
Oh yes...
MUCH BETTER!



Finished!

Geeze that was hard work , it pooped out Wiggles!

Have a great hair day! Becci

Sock Creature Workshop was FANTASTIC!

I had so much fun teaching this workshop to these wonderful ladies! But the best thing about the day was that we all made new friends and everyone produced some very very cute creatures to take home and love!

I’m so astounded how fast the day went! Not too long after lunch it seemed as if everyone was getting close to finishing their creatures and I began to worry about how I was going to make this class last closer to the scheduled ending time of 3:00. I then looked at the time and it was already 4:00! 6 hours absolutely flew by! The saying “time flies when you’re having fun" is 100% true, that’s for sure! Can you tell I’m amazed about how fast the time went? :-)

I loved how this group was so funny and so silly! We had more than a few moments where were laughing so hard our eyes got teary! Some of the jokes were borderline crude which made us laugh even harder and made our goofing off just that much funnier!

In the process of presenting the workshop I came up with a few ideas to help add to the value of future classes. I suppose that every time I give a class I‘ll come up with new ideas.

Everyone was familiar with sewing and using a sewing machine. Although I would have been more than happy to help someone who had never touch a sewing machine it did make it much easier for me to keep the class moving along smoothly.

I loved that they listened to my presentation and then ask the question “what would happen if I did this or that to my creature?” By using their imaginations they all come up with original, one of a kind creature to take home and love!

Thank you all again for making my day!

BrideZilla! Oh NO000ooo!

My first client yesterday morning was Debbie, BRIDEZILLA! How can someone who is getting married be so horribly unhappy and so ugly???

I found these hints on “eHow” to help deal with a bitch to be helpful and have incorporated these ideas into my hairdressing, actually not just with hairdressing but in all kinds of relationships as well…

Step 1 - Never show fear. Get control over yourself and take a few deep breaths. This will give you the time that you need to override your natural responses. Keeping calm is going to piss her off because it sends a message loud and clear that she hasn’t gotten to you.

Step 2 - Deliver a rebuttal that makes her back down and puts you in charge.

Step 3 - Feel sorry for them. It’s difficult to get angry with people when you pity them. They don’t have a grasp on their own lives and therefore try to shatter someone else’s because inability to control their own jealousies. It is a condition that deserves pity and compassion, but also intolerance.

Step 4 - Look at yourself from their perspective, it’s good to get another viewpoint. Very few of us are perfect. We likely have a trait that drives everybody else crazy.

Step 5 – SMILE

Does anyone else have any suggestions to add to this?

And

do have a great hairday! Becci