Congrats! Hopefully you can make some amazing art and sell it to buy more in the future ( if you chose to ).

Ouch! Wow I did know these were that expensive?!

Your right they’ve been going on sale on Amazon lately, I got a second set of the pastels for only 180$ Canadian including shipping which is only 130$ US!!! Mine did not come with the warnings tho, tbt one reason I got the second set is because I wanted to see if the US set would be different from the set I got from Japan but I think I ended up with a second set from Japan. I think I may remove the whites & the cream now, that definitely freaks me out just a bit too much 😅🙈🙈

@@MissEddieBlueKawaiiKrafts WHAT!!! They're currently £400 (480 USD) on amazon UK. I'm so jealous!

What wonderful ideas!!! That does sound Awesome! 👍

That is awesome your were a gymnast! I absolutely love gymnastics. They wanted to start training me at the age of three when a coach that was training girls for the 78 Olympics saw me running doing cartwheels at that age. My folks thought long and hard but decided that my education was more important. They told me years later and I was upset but understood where they were coming from. I’m sorry for diagnosis that is unfortunate my sister in law also has M.S. ugly disease. We’ll take care! Tanya Camano Island WA.

@@tanyaknapp5985 Why, thank you 😊. We sound VERY similar. I also couldn't keep my feet on the ground as a young child either! 😄 Except I was fortunate that while being born in Philadelphia, I started school in Malta (we had family there and moved for an extended stay, while I turned 5) and when coming back to the states at almost 6yo and enrolling in school here, I was massively tested and the fact that my birthday is Dec 11th-half way thru the school year, they didn't know which grade to even put me in (public school, nuff said 😐). I tested at a Mensa level but thankfully, my mother knew that my entire heart was in gymnastics (yes, even at 4yo, I was also one that HAD to flip around)! It was in my blood to be airborn 😜👍. But my mother had told me this story when I was much older, that I was laying on the couch by myself smiling one day, she thought I was watching TV. When she came in the room and saw that the TV was off, she asked me why I was smiling and I told her, " Mom? The way I'm laying on this couch right now, I'm not in °ANY° pain!" 😳 I was 11yrs old. She started crying, thinking that she caused it by allowing me to go into the sport, till I told her no, there was no WAY she could've kept me from my dream and I wouldn't trade ANY of the pain off, for not doing what I °loved° to do 😔. 51yrs later, I'm still paying the price, but I STILL wouldn't trade a second of it in my memory, for what it was. I got to work with my dream coach, even though I broke one of the cardinal rules, never give gymnasts "time off" 😐, we tend to do stupid things 😬. I frinally got a chance to go back home for a week to visit family, went to my old gym and tried to show my old coach how I was learning a full twisting double front and broke the second cardinal rule, NEVER stop flipping mid-air. Going into the second flip, I saw the old equipment and my mind just froze mid way through and I fell from 14' in the air, onto the back of my neck. Ya. I don't call myself "The World's Smartest Dumbass" for no reason. Having to make that phone call to say that I'm not coming back-after getting a mouthful of Romanian cursy words, he actually then hired me to come work for him as a coach "You trained by the best, now come coach the best". Getting paychecks from the very man I dreamed to work with my whole life was surreal, but I had to make peace that my dream ended with one stupid decision that I made and I just had to move on with life. My life, of pain. 💜

@@harshreality2672 wow what a life! I am so envious! Well thank you for your telling your story. I pray that the rest of your life be as adventurous as your past. And that your pain will subside. Take care! 😊

@@tanyaknapp5985 Lol, the things I've gone through, well, every decade of my life could be a novel! 🤣🙌👍 But 5 FULL novels that would make people laugh 😄, cry 😭, be shocked 😳, be amazed 😮 and yet be SO appreciative 😊-because my message throughout ALL of my life is always this, no matter WHAT comes your way, you CAN get through it❗ and you can do it with style! 😜. Humans have no IDEA how powerful we are 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦. And I always tell people this MAIN message, NO matter WHAT you enrdure, NO one is guaranteed another day, we get no promises down here, so live every single DAY the °BEST° that you can and know you're NOT alone!! 💜 And laugh 😆. A °lot°. It is the °literally° the easiest and FASTEST way to "raise your vibration" and ease the difficulties of living life here in 3Dland 😊. Pleasure to chat with you! Thank you for makin me smile, big 😁, lol. The best to you, as well! And as Bela would say in his Romanian accent lol, "Be STRONG! 💪 Like °bull°!!!", lol. Amazing things are coming our way soon, to ALL of our HumanityFamily, trust. That is WHY we all came down here! 💜😊💜

Pastels are beautiful

Blick does sell them individually on their website.

Brutfuner has a large pastel set, too! Lindsey from the frugal crafter has a review video where she compares them to the Holbein pastel set. They are way cheaper, and she gave a positive review!

It’s cause they were made with an animal fat that when mixed with the other ingredients can be linked to cancer. I think the newest ( most expensive ) formula doesn’t use that. Holbiens used to use animal fats in general as the “oil” in their pencils. At least that is what the research someone else I watch found.

As for the pupper, her name is Rose and she is a really good girl!

So expensive....can't do them!

Fades “fast” is a relative term. almost any colored pencil will out last the ink in an alcohol marker that is exposed to sunlight. It only really matters if you are displaying your art without extra UV protection.

@@ColoringBliss ahhh thank you!!

If stored properly, colored pencils can lest decades.

Exactly. They are way overpriced imo. Hype, not quality.