Delighted to hear it - thank you for taking the time to comment.

So happy you enjoyed it - especially the fly-over! Glad to match up the IG names with the one here (I'll try to remember the connection!!). Thank you so much for your support in both places.

I know, right! Thank you!!

Thank you so much... I enjoy a touch of haunting melancholy!

Twice... but who's counting!? Thank you.

I completely agree about browns and blues! Thank you so much for another lovely comment.

Oh, that's lovely feedback - thank you so much. Delighted to have intrigued you!

Isn't it extraordinary how the Clippings stickers always manage to have just the right words to help out?! Thank you so much for your lovely comment - I'm happy you enjoyed the journey.

Thank you very much.

Definitely always a story... I don't think I know any other way to create! Thank you so much, as always, for your thoughtful comments.

Thank you very much.

Oh, my goodness - beautiful storytelling... I'm delighted that these tags took you on such a poetic journey. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts.

Thank you.

Oh, that's a beautiful, sad thought about the Magdalene girls... yes! Thank you so much for your lovely, thoughtful comment.

Oh, I would so love to have been able to use the Gnossiennes for the end section of this - the perfect haunting music - but sadly the copyright laws get in the way. So happy you feel inspired by what you find here. Thank you so much for your lovely, thoughtful comment.

I'm so happy to hear you are enjoying both the words and the pictures, as I muse my way along the creative path! Thank you so much for your lovely, thoughtful comment, which has made my heart sing.

I also have some reservations about the AI images, but sometimes I just get caught by the expression in one or two of the faces. And no, certainly no yearbooks in the UK, nor here in the Czech Republic, and not something I've come across in Europe generally... but there are plenty of old photos out there. I'd love to start working some of our old family photos, but my mother has reservations... even with those we've got multiple versions almost the same. And yes, those "meh" backgrounds sometimes take the best journeys, because I'm utterly unbothered about covering them up!! I actually set off tomorrow morning (early), but I've worked hard to make sure there are videos coming while I'm away... so worry not, but carry on enjoying them! Thank you so much for your lovely, thoughtful comment.

@@w0rdsandp1ctures Alison - I am always in awe of the time you take to reply to comments! (And I'll say right now that no other reply is necessary here, but I HAD to respond.) Thank you, first of all, for not taking what I said as criticism. What I said might have been a little strong. And I know not everyone has access to some materials...I happened to stumble across my first one - from the 1930s - and kept it not knowing at all what I would do with it. I also just inherited a whole lot of old photos, many of them of people long gone, or even unknown. I understand your mother's feelings as I grapple with this myself...I will start with photo copies, I think, while I am such a beginner. But I am sure the original photos will eventually, as I gain confidence, be such a lovely, time-worn, and authentic addition. And I will overcome my scruples, as I did years ago when I first dismantled old books...it takes a moment, and then, it becomes an ok thing to do. Finally - exactly how I will feel with lesser backgrounds....the ones I really like I have such trouble continuing with! I am waiting for my first TH distress spray order (yes, that much of a beginner) and look forward to my first stencil flipping session. There will be some/many? that I won't be nervous about 'ruining', I am sure. Thank you again, and don't reply, or I'll feel guilty. You still must have things to do, or looking forward to calling it a day and relaxing. Oh, and it's late I just realize...good night and bon voyage!

You may have gathered that I enjoy a touch of bleakness and melancholy... it's a recurring theme in my work, especially during these winter months. Thank you so much for watching and for your thoughtful comment.

Oh, I would really love to do that... I'll see if I can make contact with any of the Canadian PaperArtsy stockists when I'm at Creativeworld in Frankfurt this weekend. If you contact them to say that's what you'd love to have happen, that will start the idea running at the other end too, of course!! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm!

That's such a lovely thought about them waiting... I want to know who and why now too! Thank you so much for watching and for your thought-provoking comment.

Happy you enjoyed the journey - thank you for taking the time to comment.

Beautiful (sad) storytelling - as you've probably gathered by now, I enjoy my stories with a touch of melancholy to them. And yes, it is definitely an adventure to build a life in a new country! Thank you so much for your lovely comment.

@w0rdsandp1ctures I enjoy your stories

Yes, that's a powerful echo for me too... well spotted. I didn't think I would bring the world's mood down even further by articulating it in the video! Very happy you found such power in these tags. Thank you for your deeply thoughtful comment.

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for your thoughtful response, Debbie - I'm so pleased you are inspired to play with similar combinations. Glass vase pebbles (coming up in an episode soon) will make a nice addition if you haven't got bulbs... or even old glass marbles if you happen to have any of those lying around!! Thank you for the good wishes for February - it's going to be busy, but hopefully lots of fun.

It's a "return" to where my maternal grandparents were originally from before fleeing to the UK. It is a beautiful country, but a fiendishly difficult language! Thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment.

You're so very welcome - thank you for creating such amazing, powerful imagery.

@arthousewhimsy23 I had a quick look at your etsy shop, an amazing selection of images.

I love the window frames - they're so good to play with. Hope you can find yours and that you have fun with them. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

Well, yes and no... it depends on the tissue paper, and on the rice paper. Same basic effect - translucent glued onto whatever surface you have - but they may have slightly different textures or porosity or levels of transparency. But one tissue paper can be as different from another tissue paper as it is from rice paper. Sorry - not much of an answer, but every paper is different! Thank you for watching and commenting.

Happy to hear you are inspired, thank you.

Happy you enjoyed the inky messy fun. Thanks for watching and commenting.

@@w0rdsandp1ctures You're welcome!

Thank you very much - they bring me a lot of joy during the winter months.

Thank you so much for that lovely comment. They really are magical to have around - I've created autumn ones, winter ones, summer ones for the garden - and they all make me happy! So yes, do have a play, and have fun. Here's another way to do it, in case you haven't seen this episode:kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXeVd32kg7mWqNE

Thanks.

Oh, I'm so happy to have lit a spark to nudge you out of your rut... that's a huge compliment in itself. I hope you'll have a glorious time getting inky and messy. Thank you so much for your company and that lovely comment, which has put a song in my heart.

Thank you very much - really a very (very) early make, this one!

Thank you so much - I'm delighted you enjoyed seeing some of the inspiration behind some of the stamp sets. I've been thinking about leaves for a while, but I worry that a pear stamp might be quite boring... the outline is so very simple - it's all about the watercolour shading and shaping! But I'll look again in the autumn, thank you for the suggestion.

Very happy you had fun - I definitely did too with this session - it kept taking me by surprise how much I was loving what was going on!! Thanks so much for your company and comments.

Thank you so much.

I'm so happy you enjoyed it... it remains one of my favourite handmade books, even several years on. Thank you.

I do love letting the colours dance... and joining in occasionally!! Thank you so much for watching and for that delightful comment, which has put a big smile on my face.

I'm so happy you're inspired by watching... yes, a number of people have mentioned the shaker. (I'm guessing Tim was talking about it in his Live... I haven't got around to catching up with that yet.) I haven't really got room for another machine in the art studio - plus I do get a bit of exercise with the shaking!!! Thanks so much for your company on this creative journey.

Any order will do (though you may sometimes find yourself watching backgrounds being made which you've already seen reach the finishing line!). So nice that you are watching the whole back catalogue - thank you so much for your time and lovely comments.

Thank you very much. Hope you found the follow-up video too, where the backgrounds get some collaging over them?