{"id":590,"date":"2023-04-04T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2023-04-04T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T11:46:10","slug":"the-tragic-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"The Tragic Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Winter of 2019, I was watching YouTube videos on Dylusions paint.&nbsp; I thought the colors were fantastic!&nbsp; I wanted them; and I brought them.&nbsp; Called it an early X-mas present to myself.<\/p>\n<p>Got the jars and I could not wait to use them.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Weeeelllll&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found the paint a bit difficult to work with.&nbsp; Back to the YouTube videos.&nbsp; Saw how Dyan R. applied the paints with a baby wipe.&nbsp; Back to the craft table I went and did the same thing.&nbsp; Tried working\/creating with the paints for the month of December.&nbsp; This product was not meant to be for me.&nbsp; I had a hard time trying to blend the colors, using a baby wipe to get the paint on paper, hmmm&#8230; didn&#8217;t care for that.<\/p>\n<p>After getting frustrated, I left the jars in the drawer and there they stayed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back to the Present&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Need to do some cleaning and rearranging of the drawers and bins I have.&nbsp; Open the Dylusions drawer for the first time since December of 2019.&nbsp; Clumpy messes the paint were.&nbsp; No surprised; just that instead of being &#8216;smart&#8217; about it of buying 1-3 jars, at the time I brought the whole collection.<\/p>\n<p>I marvelled at the Creatives that can use the paints to create some truly awesome work.&nbsp; Just wasn&#8217;t for me.&nbsp; &nbsp;Over the past weekend, I packed the jars in a box and off to the trash bin it went.&nbsp; Got a free drawer to throw some stuff in now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Winter of 2019, I was watching YouTube videos on Dylusions paint.&nbsp; I thought the colors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,32],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-let-art-see-you-through","tag-dylusions-paints-new-products","tag-stash","wpcat-4-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toot-tootdoesmixedmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}