Supplies!!!!

My very good friend, Littletree's godmother (well, one of them), known to me as Littletripper (though she's actually a scientist and not little at all), sent to Little tree a huge parcel full of fantablous art supplies in the mail.

Littletree was so excited she opened the parcel right there on the footpath outside the post office.

Seriously, it's a great lot of art and craft stuff; pencils, paints, glitter, scissors, glue, coloured paper, stickers...

Littletree's been hard at work making amazing works of art ever since, and even taken to writing letters to people.
Here she is with the bag of loot:


The funny thing was that the parcel contained a pack of "Brenex" squares. Coloured paper squares that were the staple of my primary school art classes.

Brenex squares are really awesome; they come in lots of bright colours, in shiny and matt; I remember much of my childhood was spent in cutting and glueing collages with them, cutting out "snowflakes", folding origami... Anyway, this is the first time i've seen them in about 20 years, and I've never seen the label, which I was surprised to note seems to be unchanged throughout the ages. Indeed, it seems the label was originally printed sometime in the late '60s, when "new-fangled" metric measurements were introduced into Australia.

As you can see, 10 inches equalled 4 centimetres back then. LOL