How Many Composition Books

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Re: How Many Composition Books

Post by Tidbits of Learning » Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:06 pm

Wonderful! Thank you so much for your help...again! I bought 10 composition books (not the fun, pretty ones :cry: ~ my son would not appreciate those :mrgreen: ) and a bunch of binders. I have 90lb watercolor paper. Would that work?
There is an in-depth list of the painting supplies needed in the introduction. It recommends 140 lb. cold press paper. We started the year with 190g/m squared/90lb paper and it did not hold up well to the completely saturating background painting done. Even if you have to order the 140 lb. paper, do so. I could not find any at Micheal's or Hobby Lobby and found the 90 lb at Walmart. It was back to school time though and the art sections were sold out at Micheal's and Hobby Lobby.
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Re: How Many Composition Books

Post by aspenskies » Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:11 pm

Thank you!
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Re: How Many Composition Books

Post by Homeschooling6 » Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:24 pm

Tidbits of Learning wrote:
Wonderful! Thank you so much for your help...again! I bought 10 composition books (not the fun, pretty ones :cry: ~ my son would not appreciate those :mrgreen: ) and a bunch of binders. I have 90lb watercolor paper. Would that work?
There is an in-depth list of the painting supplies needed in the introduction. It recommends 140 lb. cold press paper. We started the year with 190g/m squared/90lb paper and it did not hold up well to the completely saturating background painting done. Even if you have to order the 140 lb. paper, do so. I could not find any at Micheal's or Hobby Lobby and found the 90 lb at Walmart. It was back to school time though and the art sections were sold out at Micheal's and Hobby Lobby.
Wow, I looked up 140lb at Amazon, for 12 sheets it was $19.71. Is that the norm for this paper?

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Re: How Many Composition Books

Post by Tidbits of Learning » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:08 am

Homeschooling6 wrote:
Wow, I looked up 140lb at Amazon, for 12 sheets it was $19.71. Is that the norm for this paper?

Thank you,
Linda<><
I am not sure. I think it is pretty high but you will only need 1 sheet a week. So you will need 34 sheets for the year. I am not sure that ours is actually 140 lb. right now but it is student grade watercolor paper that I bought at a school supply store and is working better than the 90 lb.
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Re: How Many Composition Books

Post by aspenskies » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:44 am

Wow, I looked up 140lb at Amazon, for 12 sheets it was $19.71. Is that the norm for this paper?
Linda<><
I found it on amazon for $8.05 for 12 sheets. Still rather expensive, but much better.

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Re: How Many Composition Books

Post by Homeschooling6 » Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:27 pm

Tidbits of Learning wrote:
I am not sure. I think it is pretty high but you will only need 1 sheet a week. So you will need 34 sheets for the year. I am not sure that ours is actually 140 lb. right now but it is student grade watercolor paper that I bought at a school supply store and is working better than the 90 lb.
Thanks, it's good to know how many sheets we'll need. I'm purchasing things like this slowly.

aspenskies wrote:
Wow, I looked up 140lb at Amazon, for 12 sheets it was $19.71. Is that the norm for this paper?
Linda<><
I found it on amazon for $8.05 for 12 sheets. Still rather expensive, but much better.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00251 ... M9EQGNCLQA
Thanks, I saved this to my wishlist :D
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dd.15~RtR, MTMM, and now WG
ds.14~ PH, CTC, and now MtMM
ds.13~ PH, CTC, and now Rev2Rev
ds.11 ~Bigger, and now CtC
ds.10 ~ Preparing



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Re: How Many Composition Books

Post by aspenskies » Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:36 pm

You are most welcome!
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