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Chromatek Watercolor Brush Pen Review 10/10 for Beginners Long Lasting Brilliant Colors

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You will love painting with the Chromatek watercolors. Chrometek are the best watercolor paints for beginners.

Before I get into the review, let me show you something that will be able to do…

My daughter had an event (at the Hilton Hotel in St. Louis Missouri) where there was a lot of waiting time in between each tournament round. I, being the smartest dad of the world, brought some art supplies with me so that I could continue to practice art during those times.

In one of the large hallways was this large artwork. I thought it was pretty cool and I said to myself, “I bet I can paint that…better!”

Portable – Chromatek Watercolor are Portable

Lucky for YOU, this Chromatek Watercolor kit is portable. Easily portable.

Lucky for me, I had my Chromatek watercolors with me. And they come with “blending brushes” that I filled with water before the trip. With the Chromatek kit, you don’t need little containers of water for your watercolor paintings. Just look at those vibrant colors!

Sometimes, after I am done with a piece, I think how lucky I am that the colors did a cool thing. And I always feel like I could never do that again. It’s weird. And I’m new to this art stuff, so I don’t know if that is normal. Is it? Do you ever feel that way?

Chromatek Watercolors are Long Lasting

This is a short but important point. When you buy art supplies, don’t you want them to last a long time? Don’t you want to be able to create lots and lots of art before you have to re-supply and buy more?

Your experience should be similar to mine: I painted dozens (if not a hundred) pieces of art with these Chromatek Watercolor Brushes and I have not run out of any colors yet!

You’ll be impressed!

Chromatek Colors are BRILLIANT

Here are just a few more examples of how YOU will be able to make impressive art with your Chromatek Watercolor Brush Pens.

Jason Clements is the founder of and writer for Not Too Late To Start  Jason has served as the President of the Kansas City Climbing Club where he grew the club from 100 members to 1000 members.  He lives in Shawnee, Kansas and also runs the cell phone recycling company, Cells for Cells, which recycles cell phones to raise money for families battling cancer.

You can follow Jason on Twitter @jasonclements and Instagram @theartandtimesofjason

Start painting with watercolors today.

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My art on the left from about a year ago. My art on the right after practicing art for almost a year.

If you are like me, you love art. And when you look at a piece of watercolor art you think to yourself, “I wish I could paint like that.”

How long have you put off making art?

Start painting with watercolors today!

I’ve enjoyed art since childhood. We had the Norman Rockwell art book that every family has. I would look at it for hours. Enjoying how an artist, with a brush, canvas, and paint created moments – real pieces of life – in his pictures.

I loved art class throughout grade school and high school. Culminating in my senior art project of a 12 foot T-Rex made from chicken wire and papier-mâché. The day before the project was due a funny prankster removed the tail and attached it to the front of the T-Rex.

Whoever heard of a 12 foot tall T-Rex dinosaur with his tail in the front?

Our principal did not have a sense of humor and I remember how pissed off the janitor looked when he was tearing our ‘art’ down and putting into the dumpster.

Luckily, I still got an “A” for the class. However, the saboteur was never caught.

Year,s passed, and life happened, and I never did art.

ENOUGH! I said to myself – and this is where you can join me!

What am I doing. When am I going to do art?

The answer is now. Do art now!

All of our stories end the exact same way…

You might as well fill your life with EVERYTHING you want to accomplish Start now. No matter where you are, start now.

Start painting with watercolors today.

Start drawing every day.

Do art every day.

Start with the basics: Paint and Paper

There is nothing complicated about starting.

  1. Buy Paint and Paper
  2. Practice every day

That is all. Start with these 2 steps and when you are ready, allow your curiosity guide you.

Want to watch “How To” videos – do that. If you like learning from books, get to your local library or buy your favorites books on Amazon.

And then paint or draw what you see…inside your house. In your backyard. At the park.

Keep going.

Don’t stop.

The piece of art on the right is inspired by the famous artist Odilon Redon.

Jason Clements is the founder of and writer for Not Too Late To Start.  He lives in Kansas City and also runs the cell phone recycling company, Cells for Cells, which recycles cell phones to raise money for families battling cancer.


You can follow Jason on Twitter @jasonclements and see his art on Instagram at The Art and Times of Jason

Disclaimers Disclosures and Affiliate Links

This site uses affiliate links that can create a revenue for the author of this site at no expense to the reader. This site includes links to Amazon, Bluehost and others.

This preceding is only my experience and only my opinion. I give no legal advice. I give no medical advice. I give no crypto investment advice.

Lavazza Super Crema Coffee Bean Review

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Yes. This is the actual picture of my Amazon purchase.

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I am always searching for THE coffee. The one that is the smoothest with the best flavor. That doesn’t taste burned. The one that smells the best while grinding AND while brewing AND while drinking. In this Lavazzar Super Crema coffee bean review, I will tell you why you should buy this bean today.

Coffee can taste AMAZING when you get the right beans and Lavazza Super Crema is just that coffee.

I found Lavazza S.C. During a month of prolific coffee buying.

I had not been satisfied with some of the grocery store prices and then my old reliable Trader Joe’s began their shrinkflation – and T.J is a 15 or 20 minute drive for me…

So why not find a coffee bean that I truly enjoyed and have it delivered right to my door!

Yes! Amazon will deliver your favorite coffee beans right to your door.

I am sipping my morning cup of Lavazza as I write this I am trying to deeply taste what I, in fact, taste.

Obviously, it tastes like coffee. Smooth coffee. There is a hint of caramel. No bitterness. And it almost finishes with a hint of – do you remember when you sharpened your pencils in grade school – that fresh woody smell. It doesn’t taste exactly like that; but a hint of that smell is there when I take a sip.

One trick that I learned over the years is to NOT boil the water that I am going to use to make my coffee. Use a thermometer if you want perfect consistency. Otherwise, just don’t let the water boil.

I use the Aeropress for a perfect single cup of coffee and the supplied scoop in the Aeropress kit.

(If you need to know the benefits of an Aeropress, read this article on how to make crazy awesome coffee every time with an Aeropress.)

Two scoops of freshly ground Lavazza Super Crema. Let sit for 60 – 75 seconds. Stir once. Press…

…and BOOM! Enjoy one of the best coffee beans sold on Amazon.

I have sampled dozens of coffee beans from Amazon and Lavazza adds a BOOM to my mornings Lavazza Super Crema. Remarkable. Lifeblood. Medicine.

Jason Clements is the founder of and writer for Not Too Late To Start.  He lives in Kansas City and also runs the cell phone recycling company, Cells for Cells, which recycles cell phones to raise money for families battling cancer.


You can follow Jason on Twitter @jasonclements.

Disclaimers Disclosures and Affiliate Links

This site uses affiliate links that can create a revenue for the author of this site at no expense to the reader. This site includes links to Amazon, Bluehost and others.

This preceding is only my experience and only my opinion. I give no legal advice. I give no medical advice. I give no crypto investment advice.

How To Make Crazy Awesome Coffee Every Time With An Aeropress

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You already know how to brew a perfect cup of coffee. Yes?

Perhaps you use a French Press. Oui? Perhaps you even buy gourmet beans on a monthly basis from your favorite online shop.

Or maybe not. Maybe you just need some caffeine in you RIGHT NOW! Do you quickly scoop grocery store brand grounds into an automatic drip machine and hope for the best?

What if I were to tell you that an Aeropress can turn your mediocre, store-brand coffee grounds into an excellent and enjoyable cup of coffee.

The flavor you get from an Aeropress is unmatched by any other brewing method.

The control that you have over the flavor makes EACH of your individually brewed cups of coffee a 10 out of 10 EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

  • You control the perfect temperature for you.
  • You control the perfect type of bean for you.
  • You control the perfect amount of grounds for you.
  • You nearly* control the perfect brewing time.

If you enjoy coffee and you have not yet bought yourself an Aeropress, let that be your next purchase.

You will enjoy your cup of Aeropress coffee so much that you will want to buy one as a gift for all of your coffee drinking friends. It is a very affordable gift and one that will be used every single day.

HOW TO MAKE THE BEST COFFEE POSSIBLE WITH AN AEROPRESS

Step 1: Turn on your water

I am fortunate to have a Berkey Water Filter. It makes a gigantic difference in the flavor of your coffee (and the flavor of the water I drink all day long). If you haven’t upped your water game yet, put a Berkey Water Filter on your wish list. (And if you use tap water, it is no big deal.)

To monitor your water temperature, any stem-style thermometer that fits in your teapot should work. The one pictured below is probably the first thermometer I bought for myself 20 or more years ago.

I enjoy the flavor of my coffee when it is brewed at 150`F or a touch hotter.

For me 200`F is way too hot. I can’t sip it right away. At this temp, some of the bitter flavors that I don’t enjoy in my coffee seem to become more prevalent.

And at below 140`F, the coffee loses some of the crispness that I enjoy and it is not especially enjoyable as it is now dropping in temperature and needs to be warmed back up.

YOU are going to need to experiment for the exact temps that you enjoy most.

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Get Better Sleep

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It is not too late to get better sleep.

Allow me to offer 3 foundations of better sleep that has worked for me:

1. Quit Drinking Alcohol

2. Exercise Every Day

3. Read Fiction to Fall Asleep

Someone reading this article will say, “I can try that for 30 days to see if my sleep improves.”

And your sleep will improve. And that will be the beginning of a better life. Sweet Dreams.

Get Better Sleep

My Story

I went through a period of my life for longer than a year, where my sleep was terrible. There were 99 troubling things in my life. The world was against me. Everyone I cared about betrayed me or abandoned me.

When I would put my head on my pillow, my mind would race. I would be angry and restless and I would re-live mistakes. There was no peace in my mind.

Sleep would not come to me. And if I did fall asleep, I would wake over and over.

I tried alcohol for a while.

That was a gigantic mistake; as my sleep problems became worse.

Then I tried binge watching shows.

Sopranos. Breaking Bad. Old school cartoons.

That didn’t work either.

Staying up until 4 am like a sleep-deprived zombie watching episode after episode, hoping to fall asleep turned me into a sleep-deprived zombie. That was a nasty cycle.

I was tired of being tired.

IF THIS IS YOU, THERE IS HOPE

Read Fiction to Fall Asleep

By some weird luck, I caught my big break when I learned about reading fiction – boring fiction – to help with sleep.

You see, reading fiction allows your mind to be somewhere else – not focused on your 99 problems.

It worked for me the first time I tried it! Not perfectly, but I finally had a night of decent sleep. I chose Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Moby Dick could be one of the most boring works of fiction in existence!

After a few nights of better sleep, I could tell that this was the right path for me.

[Here’s a great explanation from MentalFloss.com on why Reading Makes You Sleepy.]

Quit Drinking Alcohol

I got lucky too, because around this time, I had read Ed Latimore’s personal story of sobriety. Hidden inside an early version of his essay was the phrase, “…most people can’t quit drinking.”

That punched me right in the soul! I am not most people, so I decided to quit drinking alcohol right then and there!

It wasn’t easy to quit. I had cravings every day. I still had tough things in my life to deal with – that I wanted the alcohol to mute. But I did it – I took it one day at a time – and I won.

Exercise Every Day

This was easy for me. I have always been active.

But what if you are reading this and you are not “active”?

The best advice I can give is to:

  1. Start Slowly
  2. Commit to 90 days

Actions Steps For You

Realize that if you want to get better sleep, it is up to you. There are dozens of article on sleep hygiene that can give you a piece of the solution that you are looking for.

But if you give my suggestions a try for 30 to 90 days, I can bet that you will find success.

All of these tips in this article are free – you may even save money when you stop buying alcohol.

You don’t need to spend any money on books. Heck, just renew your membership at your local library.

I use Kindle Unlimited for all of my fiction needs. There is tons and tons of fiction; and even more BAD FICTION available for $9.99 per month.

Here is an affiliate link for Kindle Unlimited on Amazon

Finally, I want to remind you that it is not too late to start getting better sleep.

And if there was one sentence I would repeat to someone who really needs help quieting their mind in hopes of getting better sleep…

“reading fiction allows your mind to be somewhere else – not focused on your 99 problems. “

Sweet dreams.

This Will Save You 1 Year of Your Life Guaranteed

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It is not too late to stop watching the NFL

If you quit watching the NFL right now, you will get back approximately 37 days of your life this year.

If you quit watching the NFL now, in10 years, you will get back 370 days or 1 entire year of your life back.

I will show you the math, but first understand that…

I was just like you: I watched Football every Sunday, Monday, and Thursday.

I had been a life-long football fan.

I can remember as a kid watching football with my dad and not being able to understand why those men had such big shoulder muscles.

And now, for that last 25 year, as an adult, and as a parent, I thought it was so precious when my little ones would fall asleep in my arms as we watched Sunday Night or Monday Night Football.

Little did I know that I being tricked into being a “Football Fan” and it was slowly robbing me of my life.

Today, I am not where I want to be. I am not where I want to be financially.

I have not achieved some of my life’s goals. I have not done many of the things that I want to do.

I wish I had invested that time into MYSELF or MY GOALS.

It is not too late to find the time…

It is not too late to stop watching sports on TV every Sunday…all day long.

By watching football – being an avid football fan – I lost approximately 2.5 FULL YEARS OF MY LIFE. What a g*d d*mned terrible decision.

It is not too late to do the math…

The NFL Season is 17 weeks plus 4 pre-season plus 4 or 5 post-season.

Let’s call it 25 weeks.

Most of you will watch the entire day on Sunday.

Watching NFL on Sundays is approximately 25 days per year or 250 days per decade!

You following along?

Wait, there’s more…

Remember, there is Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football.

We should add another 1/2 day for 25 weeks or, rounding down, another 12 days per year or 120 days per decade!

Sobering….

250 days of Sundays per decade and 120 days of Mondays and Thursdays per decade means we are now at 370 days of watching football per decade.

Wait, there’s even more….

What if you watch some pre-game show and some post-game show?

Add more hours. Add more days. Add more years.

What about checking scores and stats and reading the stories of your favorite players and watching highlights?

Add more hours…days…years…

AND WHAT IF YOU ENJOY WATCHING COLLEGE FOOTBALL OR OTHER SPORTS?

How much can you accomplish in your life this week by not turning the TV on?

Start there.

Start this week.

Don’t turn on football this weekend and go from there.

Dust that old project off (that you now have time for it) and get to work.

I bet you can accomplish great things this week, this year, and in the next 10 years.

It is not too late to start getting your time back.

Sincerely, I wish you good luck!