Oh, all those leaves and nature photos, but sometimes... you gotta dig right into the grit. It was time to visit my fave little boutique for a few things. No, I wasn't at the craft or scrapbooking store, I was at Space Age Auto Paint in Mesa, AZ.
The auto paint super center has a certain vibe all its own. Of course you walk in and your olfactory sense goes shabang!!! Ah yes, the smell of all that mixing paint, then there is the little squeak coming from the mixer as well. Lots of cool things to look at literally hanging all over the place.
It was kind of interesting because the crowd in there, as always was very diverse. There were men, women, young folks, old folks, folks looking at supplies and a little crowd waiting for their custom blended paint. Just makes you wonder where everyone is going back to and what kind of cool projects will be coated with the paint. One of the guys in the shop told me that someone had come in for some fiberglass supplies and then came back in with his finished projects. He had shaped and made the twisted horns like Ms. Jolie wore in Maleficent for his daughters. He brought them into the shop wearing them one day. So, I guess I'm not the only person in there working on something else other than an old pony car.
Me..., well I was there for sandpaper... Factoid: The hardware stores and big box shops have rather lean selections of sand paper. Yah, they have the lower grits like 400, 300, 80 and stuff like that, but I use the high grit stuff. The wet/dry paper they have at Space Age is great and I can get it all the way up to 2000 grit.
I use this sand paper on my metal jewelry, polymer clay beads and pieces. You can do the work, but you have to finish it. "If you don't take the time to finish it well..., well then you haven't finished it at all!" Yes, that's a Julie quote... You can quote me on that!
