Pigments production

Hey all,
I wish you a pleasant, happy and healthy new year with lots of time for your hobbies :)

I'd like to start the year with some thing I bought recently. For conveniance reasons I'm not happy with scraping small amounts of pigments from my pastell-chalks with an old cutter knife. This takes like forever to get a usable amount of pigment.

What I bought is a mortar with a pestle:

I got this for 2 European Credit Units at Woolworth, which you might have somewhere around you, too.

 I put a 1/3rd of the pastell chalk in it and crush it. Don't go for more at a time if you fancy very fine pigments.

 This thing is a real timesaver. If I only had bought this before...

One more thing: I'd like to welcome my new followers:

CPBelt
http://ordinarygaming.blogspot.com/
Michael Scott
(aww snap, no blog?!  :) )
Thomas
http://thomasmegas.blogspot.com/
Bragondorn
http://bragondorn.blogspot.com/
http://asquirrelstail.blogspot.com/

Good to have you on board ;-)

//mojo