Art supplies hoarding spree

Last year a friend and I bought a pricey watercolor palette for a mutual friend on his birthday and while we were at it, we got one each for ourselves.

Tbh, I hadnt used it much until I picked up sketching a little more often recently. But the fact remains that if it wasnt for the super compact and versatile nature of the pocket palette, I'd always have shied away from using watercolors.


This is the business card holder actually housing magnetized watercolor wells designed by an ingenious artist somewhere in the states. It holds 14 colors.

Another of our mutual friends posted a sketch of her palette the other day with over 21 colcors and I was like 😍 I want thaaaatt! I asked her where she got hers from and she said she made it.. diy!

I had to catch-up with her to get her to show me how. Which she did.. in fact she spent the whole day with me showing where to get art supplies from and we had an awesome dinner at the Rocks.

So end result. The original pallete I'd bought was something like $70. And with her method (I ordered 5 business card holders on eBay for $5 free shipping!) It was a total of:
$1 - business card holder
$6 - eye shafow palette
$450 - watercolor tubes 5-15 ml ×17 😂

($200 other misc art supplies that are supposed to be helpful when doing watercolot.. lol)

I definitely saved money and had tons of fun with the diy... but im not sure I really did end up saving any money... 😕

The one thing I'm happy about is that I'm hopefully here in this city to stay. So even if I don't use it all right away, I will.. someday. I remember having multiple shopping sprees in Melbourne for arts and crafts supplies and then giving it all away when I moved to here without even having opened some of the packaging!