 it is. If I'm looking at the computer it's Sunday November 25th and it's 12 32 p.m. it's lunchtime. I'm editing video I've been doing postings working on some new fabric designs for 2019 with spoon flour. I used my phone to film my conclusions about the rainbow shock reports which are dry now and we have some more experimenting to do with that because that's going to be fun. I've got lots of stuff to do. I'm going to go hang all these little paintings up somewhere now to get them off my table so I can work on other stuff tomorrow and probably have some lunch is a good idea. That's it for the moment. Mr. B is still hanging in there grouchy but he's still with us so I'll keep you posted. I'll be back. I need to get my daily posting done the different Facebook groups check YouTube comments that sort of thing then I need to shower and dress and go head out to Fred Meyer run a couple of errands. I've decided if you're watching this clip you've seen the other clip I've decided to do what's called morning pages only I'm going to do them at night. I think it better suits me to do it at night sort of emptying my brain of everything that's up there so hopefully I can sleep better. It's a journaling concept I've heard of before I guess there's a book out right now called the artist way that talks about it. It's basically a stream of consciousness writing for me at least it's not about spelling or punctuation in fact I don't put me punctuation and my spelling is atrocious so but you just keep writing until you fill up three pages and um if you have nothing to write about you write about the fact that you have nothing to write about. I mean you just empty your brain of all the everything that's up there and it's a good daily practice I've actually done it in a small amount before and I stopped doing it quite a while ago so I'm going to pick it up and try doing it again I probably should get the book the artist way and read it so that might be on my to-do list at some point. I might check and see if there's a local Barnes & Noble that has it in stock we'll find we'll see. Hey guys all right so Mr Bandit aka Mr Sideways is outside um he's definitely not a happy camper typical grouchy old man he does not like it when he falls asleep on the living room floor and you want to wake him up to put him in his crate for the evening because you want to go to bed anyway we are going to go out and run some errands I've got to go to McCann's and drop off an Etsy's order I want to go to Dick Blick and pick up a couple more tubes at gouache I know me and I like acrylic gouache who knew I don't like the watercolor gouache because when I watercolor I want the transparency but I like the acrylic gouache I like to be able to do it over it and it's anyway I've said it before I take everything back whole mind you have a great product um I'm going to add a couple more tubes to my pastel palette I want like a dark blue again I'm really um um inspired by Franaird and I will link her channel again in the description below but anyway we're going to go pick up a couple tubes and I have a bunch of other like random stuff that I need but I'm thinking I might be able to get all of it at Fred Meyer so I'm going to go do that and I'll be back there is a person behind me in a white car SUV thing they are evidently in a really big hurry they're so close I can't see their headlights or the front of their car when you're that close you're too close all right let's get going hey everybody it is Tuesday November 27th shouldn't have taken me that long I am sitting in front of the computer I was trying to see if I could do it without looking the answer is no um it is after lunch already it's like 1.38 I spent the morning um what did I spend the morning doing I don't know I whittled it away um I spent the morning talking to the rubber stamp manufacturer working on next week's um next week hi yeah I focus focus focus next year's um stamp designs I'm also working on the stencil designs some fabric over at spoon flower and um some printables which I've only worked on as far as knowing up here what I want them to look at I have lots of work to do I also filmed the design team announcement for 2019 which will air here on YouTube on December 1st at 8 a.m pacific standard time I will be sharing it on social media everywhere to the link um welcome to all the new members I need to and actually announce it to them that they made the team today oh that's something else to add to my list I'm also editing uh the vlog that'll air tomorrow and um I have to edit said announcement I have to edit the um little bit of footage I filmed for the pouring medium comparison between liquitex and deco art the conclusions after the paintings were all dry so that will be airing in a separate small video clip here on YouTube um I did film something and the paintings are already hung up in the house and they look really great I also finished or I'll maybe finished this one behind me I've been sharing it on social media it went from sort of an ugly duckling to that I really like the way it's looking I'm not quite sure it's done yet I need to let it dry and just like let it sit and simmer um but if it's not done it's nearly done I really love the way it looks and it is not at all worth I thought it would go but I love it anyway um I've got some journals on the table I want to work on and of course the requisite taking care of mr. bandit and making sure he's doing okay uh I've got to go get the mail and that sort of thing um just hanging out around the house getting stuff done today that's it anyway nothing it's super exciting but I will let you know if something does come up um that's it for right now I'll be back morning everybody it is Wednesday morning yes I almost said Monday and it's November 28th I keep wanting to say all morning that it's April it's really not April it's November um it's just before 9 30 in the morning that I only know because I was looking at the phone I have already done my daily postings for the day and obviously I've taken a shower my hair is wet um had my coffee had my breakfast um gotten ready for you know work um later when I get back I have some filming to do for YouTube and for a couple of Facebook groups and I've got of course the ever present art business paperwork to do I need to start catching up on receipts and I have some phone calls to make for the legal part of moving and buying a new home and so I need to make some phone calls for that and I need to do something about an umbrella stand we live in the Pacific Northwest people are just leaving their wet umbrellas in the entryway up leaning up against the wall it's not cool with me so anyway first I'm going to go take a walk around the neighborhood it's only about 30 houses deep the neighborhood and I'm going to take a couple of walks around do a couple of laps and just enjoy the scenery get some footage if I can of the beautiful wetlands that the HOA owns here in our neighborhood and yeah trying to get back into a normal routine so yeah um we'll see how far I get all right I'll be back legal issues but not not the new equipment the new room get used to the new room anyway this painting I do think is done I hung it here in one of the downstairs on halls this is right next to the kitchen it doesn't have any clear protective coating on it yet I will do but for right now I think it's going to hang right there I really love the way it looks and I did paint the edges of the canvas and yeah I think it's good to go I love it Mr. Bandit is over here inside because it's too cold outside anyway so I am just chilling he doesn't like it when I disappear for too long he likes me to be where you can see or hear me so I guess I'm downstairs for the rest of the evening anyway I'll be back good morning everybody it is Thursday morning it's just before nine o'clock don't get all excited I only know that because I'm upstairs see and I was already working on the computer it's November 29th again I only know that because I was checking the computer otherwise I would have no idea as per usual um I am a little running a little bit later than I would like this morning I was just I guess I had trouble sleeping last night so I'm a little tired but excuse me I did get my coffee in I've had my breakfast I've done all my daily postings this morning I'm gonna go downstairs and do the dishes get dressed go for my daily walk run a few errands and that sort of thing I am here home alone husbands at the office today tomorrow he's working from home but I don't know if I've told you all publicly but since we moved into the house um in the whether you believe in an afterlife or not take it for what it is and you can feel free to think I'm just completely a nut job that's fine in the old house I definitely had deceased friends and relatives that paid visits and some of it was caught um on camera so to speak when I was talking to friends on zoom one in particular Cindy utter you can all ask her about it someday um which was my grandmother we've had our share of incidents here at the new house pretty sure there are people that have followed us and not anything to do with the house because we've had the house blessed and cleared that being said we have this male voice it sounds like an answering machine you know automated electronic male voice only we don't have a landline we don't have an answer machine yeah I've been hearing it this morning so I didn't know what it is so yeah it's kind of weird um so I don't know I don't know where to go with that uh anyway I'm gonna go get dressed I'm gonna go get my errands done get some walking around the neighborhood I'm gonna start a couple new canvases I have these behind me there's three of these I did these as part of a lifebook project I don't know three or four years ago um tomorrow the port did an art journal page like this and I decided to do it on canvas after seeing pita Thompson doing it on canvas miss lady peddle here on youtube and anyway um I did three of them which was great in the old house I kind of need two more because I've got this adjacent wall there going up the rest of the staircase I kind of need two more to have it like go up the staircase so I'm gonna try to I want to use the word replicate but I'm gonna try to do two more of them that are similar enough that they work with the old ones and um hopefully I remember what colors I used what collage papers are in the background or have something that's similar enough um I'm gonna just use what I have and we'll see what happens and one of them looks crooked so I don't know if that's the way I'm standing or if it's actually I think it's actually crooked so I don't have to fix that anyway um so I'm gonna be starting on those today so um they're gonna take I don't know a couple weeks probably to get finished so I'll let you know how it progresses and I also have um a project I started yesterday for my creative year 2019 I need to finish so yeah that's gonna be my day and keeping an eye on Mr. B it is going to be a little chillier today than it's been and we're headed towards snow season um we don't get tons of snow here but we do get um it does get colder um by about 10 degrees or so um than it did in California during this time of the year so I have been bringing him in a lot earlier than we did in California so I'll be doing that keeping an eye on him and when I have to come upstairs I'm gonna have to create him because otherwise he just wanders around downstairs looking for his people because you know he wants to be with his people I don't blame him but you know I got stuff to do all right that's it for right now I'll be morning all right so I am walking a bill down to the mailbox and then I've got to go run a bunch errands this morning it is a beautiful crisp day here in Oregon and uh yeah I need to send out an email this morning asking a couple questions of our HOA president but um other than that I evidently forgot to buy any of the drinks that we need um at the grocery store yesterday so I'm headed back there I also for some reason am out of mat Liquitex map medium I'm not even sure how that's possible but I am out so anyway I'll be back it's almost lunchtime and I've already checked the computer a couple times and been tagged in a whole bunch of December 1st where the light is just obnoxious in the afternoon I tried but I suck at it we're just having a quiet day we're doing some DIY around the house we need to go to the hardware store and probably get some takeout for dinner again try a different restaurant we're gonna try to do a DIY cosmetic upgrade to the ugly ceiling fan in the master bedroom that also isn't very bright if it works I'll let y'all know I'll post something on social media and include a picture here if it works if there's no picture because it didn't work I'll let you know what the results are anyway we took the ugly little amber shades off the fixture and the light bulbs out we're gonna go get some brighter bulbs and see if we can find a pretty bulb you know like an Edison style bulb and maybe not put the shades back on so we'll see anyway that's it for right now we'll be back guys so I forgot to film the ending last night for last week's vlog again it's Sunday afternoon it's been a week full of ups and downs which I'll explain in next week's vlog um anyway I hope you've all had a great one don't forget check out the video description for links to any relevant places people or things including Gustav so if you're watching this you've seen the pictures of that we had a really great dinner out last night at a really great local German restaurant and I will link their website they have I think three locations or four locations so anyway really great food really great service I definitely would recommend check the video description also out for my tip jar if you want to support the content on this channel and over on Facebook and the Facebook groups um and any other relevant links places to find me all that jazz um anyway um I hope you've all had a great one and that you have are are having a great December don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it maybe do something nice for somebody else because they probably deserve it too and I'll see you later bye guys