Letters from afar - Baracoa, Cuba

I got a letter addressed to ME last week!!!!

It's a letter from Arntie Isabelle - she's in Cuba!!!

That's a little island just south of Florida in America!

She sent me a map with the letter as well!

On the back was fun facts about what you can find in Cuba!

Wow!

What can you do with.......?

A tin of metallic watercolour paints, a box of Derwent inktense colours, a 3 x 4 inch pad of Hahnemuhle bamboo paper, a tube of green gouache paint and a jar of india ink?!!!

Well mini art doodles of course!!!

Red

Orange

And yellow

The metallic paints I bought through a Facebook advert and almost got scammed - was supposed to be 36 metallic paints but turned out to be 12 metallics and 24 "normal" non metallic paints and they didn't want to refund me.  My credit card company refunded in full and then told the company (in China) they had to provide good reason for the sale to stand.  (they couldn't so the refund stood. I sold that tin on ebay and bought the full set of metallic paint on ebay!!!)  The Derwent box of paint I got on a trip to London before lockdown.  The mini pad I got from the last trip up to London at the end of May this year.  The india ink I bought online and the gouache was in the goodie bag from the company I got the india ink from.

We got mail!!!

We got a postcard from Jerry and Ben the other day!!!!

They're on holiday - and where they went was where some of the movie Close Encounters of a third kind was made!!!  Hope they don't get abducted though...... we'd miss them........

OH WOW!!!

Andrea was spending money online the other day - and today, we had a package delivered!!!

It's a big box, too!

OOOOoooooo!!  What's in it??!!

We got sweeties!!! (that's Candy, in America!)

Ooo, five sketching pens!  We'll like those!

And two different inks!  One's called "writers blood" and the other is India Ink.  Andrea says she wants to practice her calligraphy and wants the india ink for that.

And then some gold ink and silver ink!!!

And this is a calligraphy practice pad!!

You have to put this practice lines bit underneath each page... then you'll write in straight lines!

And this is a free goody bag that we got!!!!

Oh wow!!!  Six pens, a graphitint pencil and a watercolour brush!!!

And a glue pen!!!  That's for gluing small bits!!  That's handy!

Oh!  Another pen!  Excellent!

And a roll of washi tape!  Brill!

Coccoina? What is it?

Oh!  Apparently it's glue in a tin???!!

And it's got a brush to apply the glue!  Never heard of this before....!

OOOooo!!!  A tube of green gouache!!  Oh we'll use that!

And then we got a circles template and a dotpad!!!

What a brilliant goodybag!!!!!!!!!!