 10 something. No, sorry, 945. We're having a relaxing start to the day and no big hurry to go anywhere or do anything. We do have patio furniture to put together and I suppose at some point I have to help the husband drag stuff around to the backyard, which is gonna suck, but there you go. The pieces are too big for him to do, so we're gonna do that. The kids are coming over later for dinner and to watch the last episode of Game of Thrones and that's it for today. Nothing exciting. I'm gonna get some computer stuff done upstairs right now. I haven't done that yet and piddled around the house. Yeah, that's it. Tomorrow I think we're gonna go do some thrifting and I'll bring you with me. I have to drop our ballots off at City Hall because we didn't get them in the mail in time and stuff like that, so anyway, I'll be back. It is Monday morning, March, holy cow, May 20th I think. 9 07 a.m. I only know the time because I'm in the car. I've already got my social media stuff done this morning. I did it from my iPad, which is always a challenge, so if you all noticed a typo or anything this morning, that would be why. Not that my spelling or grammar is all that hot, but you know, the iPad makes it more challenging. Anyway, I've got to go drop off our ballots this morning because we didn't quite get them in the mail in time to have them count for the vote that we're having in Washington County, Oregon. So I'm headed to City Hall to go drop them off and I'm gonna run a couple other errands on the way. Maybe stop at Value Village in Goodwill if they're open. I'm on the lookout for a couple things. In 1000 feet. Thank you, Jeeves, which is always a challenge when you're looking for specific things that you're thrifting, but anyway. So we're gonna go do that this morning and I'll bring you with me where I can and we'll be back. Obviously we're upstairs in the art room. Obvious to some of you, maybe not to others of you, but this is my art room. Anyway, so while I was out this morning, I did pick up one non-fun thing, which is isopropyl alcohol. I use it up here in the art room a lot and I was out, so I usually get 91%. I use it for lots of different things, but one of the things that alcohol will do, not a perfect job on, but it will do it, is it will dissolve and or lift dried acrylic paint. Did you know that? So I do use it sometimes. I found at Value Village, which is owned by the people who own Savers. They're all the same company. I found this really cute pattern from, I don't know when. It looks like 1970s era without opening yet. I don't know, but it's supposed to be sort of like a for a halter wrap dress, but how cute would that green one, I'm sorry, the red one be for a work apron up here in the art room. So I'm gonna have to size it up because it's a size 12. I ain't been a size 12 all long time, but I can do that. I know how to do that, and that would be cute. So I got that and hopefully all or most of the pieces are in there. It feels like it might be. Then when I was at Goodwill, why I got this? I have no idea, but for I think it was three. Oh, the pattern was 99 cents. This was $3. I found a Rolodex. I've done Rolodexes before. I've given away a few Rolodexes, but I don't know. The cool thing I found this morning is this vintage. I don't know from when. I mean, these things don't have a date on them, but I can tell you this is not new. It is this vintage box. It looks like a little toolbox, but it's actually a vintage cash box. I've had cash boxes in the past when I did arts and craft shows. They were much, the newer ones are much bigger than this, but how cool would this be for some sort of art toolbox? So I couldn't resist it. It is so cute, this little box. So it was $4.99. So anyway, I'm going to turn on the computer now, do something about my table, which is covered again, because over the weekend, when I don't have time to come up here, things come in or we go out somewhere and bits and pieces get saved, like for instance, coasters. We went to McMinnomins this weekend. We went to pick with my daughter to pick up her wedding dress at your big day in Camus, Washington. Those kind of things, you just get plopped on the table and then by the end of the weekend, this is what my table looks like. This happens almost every weekend just FYI. So anyway, I am going to get on the computer and do some stuff on there and I will be back. With the doors closed and the TV on, but we have this pond thing. Now we're trying to figure out. I hear some frogs, but they're coming from that way. Now we have Kermit in the backyard and Bambi in the front yard. This is our gross dirty pond. We should clean it. How do you clean a pond? No idea. Maybe some of the YouTube peeps know how to clean a pond. What do you call it? A water feature? Water feature. It's got slime in there. It's gross in there. It was gross when we bought the house. It hasn't gotten any better. It works though. It does. Anyway, I'm going to go back inside. It's cold. He's out there somewhere. Yep. So we have Bambi in the front yard, Kermit in the backyard. He's a little bit far from the wetlands. We're near the woods. The wetlands are like on the other side of the community. It's raining outside. I'd go out and look a little bit harder. Yeah. Hey guys. Good afternoon. It's 1.28 p.m. May 21st. Hello computer. I've been up for a while, obviously. Doing the social media thing, chatting with some friends. I did some more sewing today. I like to wear stretchy pants, fun fact. But anybody who's over the age of five years old and has anything of a figure, you know, things are jiggly back there and nobody needs to see that. And although the stretchy pants are comfortable, a short top with said stretchy pants isn't necessarily attractive. So I tend to wear longer tops in case you haven't noticed in my videos in the past. A lot of times I can't find the top that I want to wear or one that I like that's long enough. So I got into the habit a few years ago of wearing kind of what I've referred to as an undershirt. H&M made these long shirts with lace at the bottom, long tank tops that I wear under a lot of my shirts. And most of the time I've got one of those on. The problem is they don't make them anymore. So I drafted a pattern and I just made myself one. And I only did one because I wasn't sure it was going to work out. I'm a little rusty with the sewing thing. I made this shirt yesterday, which I'm loving. And that turned out well. So I thought, okay, let's tackle the tank top and see if that works. Because if it works, then I'm going to need to make myself a few new ones because mine are pretty past it. And I'd like them in a couple of colors besides black and white, which they never did make. And if they did, they didn't have them in my size. So anyway, this is not the H&M one. This is the one I just made. And it's pretty cute out of a nice cotton spandex knit with lace at the bottom. And it's all I do own a serger. So it's all surged and finished on the inside. And yep, loving it. It fits well. I tried it on. I'm not going to try it on for you all because it's an undershirt people. I don't need to be showing those bits to you on camera. It's just not happening. Sorry. No, we're not going to go there. The video might go viral. But yeah, I don't need to get ad revenue that way. So anyway, so yeah, I'll be making more of these. I'm enjoying getting back into a little bit of sewing and working on a couple of projects. It's fun every now and then I think to pick up an old craft that you haven't maybe picked up in a while. So this week, I want to encourage you all to do that and maybe, you know, whatever it was, you set aside a while ago, pick it back up and take a second look at it and see if there's something fun you can do with it. All right, that's it for the moment. I heard an Etsy order come in while I was sewing. So I need to get that going and I need to eat some lunch because I'm starving. All right, I'll be back. I want to say that this top has only been on social media like less than 12 hours and I'm already getting questions about, I shouldn't say less than 12 hours, less than 24 hours. I'm getting questions about the pattern and everything, which is great. And I'm happy to put some details in the description below. It's a new look pattern number 6225. I recut it just a little bit to lower the neckline and the pattern called for darts at the bust. So I recut the top to be cut without the darts. And I added a band to the sleeve like around the neck. And yeah, I love it. It's a long top and definitely with one of my undershirts underneath, which I have on right now. This is one of the H&M ones in black. It covers all the jiggly bits in the back and it's kind of cute too besides. So you know, there you go. All right, so that's it for now. I'll be having Fed Bambi yet today. I'm sure the food bowls are probably empty. So plus gotta go mail the Etsy order and do a couple of the things. So let's go check it out. So I have to say regarding the two tops I've made this week, first of all, I'm shocking the crap out of myself that I'm sewing garments. Mixed media sewing is one thing. And the occasional pencil bag, that's one. Garments are a whole different ball game. And the fact that I didn't screw either project up knock wood. More than the occasional mistitched or broken needle is shocking. I'm that rusty. So yay for me. And I have to say the pattern I drafted of the undershirt, I think it fits better than the original. So there you have that. Yeah, now I need to go fabric shopping and find some more stretch lace and some more cotton spandex and different colors. The stretch lace is going to be the tricky part. So anyway, we'll see what I can find. Good morning. It is Wednesday morning, May 22, 1013 a.m. Don't get excited. I checked the phone and the clock in the car. Anyway, I have been up for a while, getting 900 feet. Thank you, geez. Getting some Etsy orders wrapped up that came in overnight and getting them out to post and now I'm chatting with friends doing the social media thing and now updating the website. I did that today too. And some files over in my creative year in the Facebook group, which is linked below. It's a group with free daily art, inspiration and content, at least I hope that's what you're getting out of it. Anyway, I'm headed now out to the fabric store and the grocery store. I am at the moment working on sewing projects, why I'm sewing right now. I have no idea, except that I need a few things for my for myself that I can't find at the stores. So I am sewing them and to my shock, awe and surprise at my own abilities. I'll be real honest about that. They turned out very well. I made two shirts this week and I'll put pictures here for you all. If you don't follow me on social media or you haven't seen last week's vlog. Yeah, I'm surprised at how good they turned out. So that, you know, I didn't have to do too much dusting off of the sewing skills and having to rip out the few mistakes that I made that I did without too much frustration in the old days. I got very frustrated and it was easy for me to give up. Evidently, I don't do that anymore. Something about maybe turning 50 or over 50. Um, anyway, so I'm going to head to the store for some more supplies and I need to get some fruit and some stuff for lunch and I'll be back. Yes. Ha. So says the computer. 831 AM. I'm only good because of the computer today. Don't let that fool you. Anyway, I am done upstairs with the social medias and catching up on comments and all of that stuff. So now we're going to head downstairs. I'm going to try really hard not to have any more coffee, although I feel like I need it. It's not really that good for me. I'm back to tracking my food and movement. I keep getting off track with the food people and I really need to get that under control. It hasn't been since I moved. I'm going to just chalk it up to the stress of the move. But anyway, I'm going to try to get a control of it. Take a deep breath. Enjoy the sunshine. Sorry, cloudy rainy weather. I have a bunch of different weird errands to run. I've got to go pick up an order from the Maiden Oregon store. I wanted a item in a specific size and they didn't have it at that store. So they shipped it in anyway. It's ready. I need to pick up some deer corn. I need to put gas in the car. I need to pick up some small Moleskine Cayet notebooks. I'm out of the little ones that I use for some of my daily sketching. So I need to pick up some of those and God knows what else I'm going to get up to. But I also have some things here I want to do. I need to clean out some of the cabinets in the laundry room do some rearranging. I did have done some of them since we moved in, but there's the big upper one I haven't done and it's a disaster. So I've got to fix that. I have some art stuff I want to do. The big thing I want to do for you all today is I want to film the studio tour. But I need to get my day started and I need to put something on besides pajamas to get all that done. So I guess we better get to it. I'll be back. Okay. Obviously I got like dressed and showered and everything. It's about 56 degrees outside but honestly it's not really cold enough and hello I'm too fat to be super cold at the moment. And that leads me into a topic of conversation that I brought up earlier. I'm going to be bringing up again is that I'm trying to get my weight back on track and what I'm eating. Not that I eat super horribly. I don't eat tons of fried food or anything. I just eat probably too many carbs and don't move enough reality. I'm one of these people that when things don't go right and I'm stressed I have a lot of self-destructive behaviors. One of them is overeating or eating when I'm not really hungry. So and I know a lot of you can relate to that statement. If I shut down completely and I stopped talking to everybody those of you who know me off YouTube in real life off social media yeah you better call Bob because that's not that's really bad and that's not a good thing. But generally I just overeat and since we moved and I knew for sure we were moving of course it stressed me out. We were in our old house 26 years and despite how much we wanted the move how much we love our new house how much we love our new neighborhood and I'm so happy here that doesn't mean it hasn't been stressful it's been super stressful and branches on my roof. It's been super stressful and so what is one of the things I do when I'm stressed I try to make art because if I don't make art I eat. I've been doing both which the eating is not good and so I'm trying to get that under control there's certain things we just can't have in the house and unless we're having company and then when the company leaves they need to take it with them. My husband loves his sweets but I need to allow him to have that but I also don't need to indulge. So I need to have fruit or something healthier for me to eat and I need to track it I need to track what I do I'm eating it doesn't mean I can't have some you know cookies now and then but I need to track them and account for them and hold myself accountable. So I've gained about I don't know 20 pounds or so that's probably an understatement just FYI since we moved and so I need to get that back under control so we're going to be going forward with that talking about it probably every week in the vlog not constantly we'll be talking about other things but it will be one of the things we do talk about so if you choose to join me on the journey of trying to get things under control you want to be my friend on the Luzit app which is a a tracking app for what you're eating and the calories you're putting in or you want to follow me if you have a Fitbit and you want to follow me over on Fitbit you want to friend me on Fitbit or Luzit. I'll link the two things in the description below and what name you can search for to find me if you can't find me DM me and we'll work it out anyway hold that aside I need I was just out running errands yesterday but it seems like you know what I like the new house so much in the new environment I don't mind leaving the house in the old house I didn't want to go out I didn't like going out of the house I didn't like going out into the environment I would just rather stay home with the door locked here I love my house and I love my environment but I don't mind leaving the house so anyway we're out again today to run some more errands I need to put gas in the car yeah because I've got like an eighth of a tank um and I need to get some more uh deer corn for Bambi and I need to pick up an order over at the Made in Oregon store like I said earlier and I need some more small notebooks which means I might be stopping at Target for the notebooks because I think that might be the easiest place to find them so and I've got a can of seltzer water with me which is only five calories no sweetener and um no fat no no nothing so I got that in the car with me just in case and we are ready to go so let's get to it okay I'm back in my usual spot on the couch I've got two um tumblers upstairs new ones I've started I'll put a picture here somewhere with some glitter I'm also going to do an acrylic pour on a clock so I will probably film that for a video um for deco art um it'll be here on YouTube and um um I had some interesting something interesting happened over at the Etsy store I had an order come in I had to ship some things for for whatever reason the system over at Etsy would not let me just print one label for the order which is what I needed it wanted me to print two labels and charged me for two labels so yeah so I had no choice but two after much googling and much fiddling but to buy two labels and request a refund on the extra so yeah I don't know what's going on with that somebody let me know if you've ever run across that before um I don't know it was very weird it might be one of the listings so I'm gonna have to go check I just was too frustrated and I'm gonna go look at it tomorrow um Etsy um but it was super annoying anyway um that's it for now I'm going to do some more sewing tomorrow and works on the tumblers and the clock and I need to film for June because June is around the corner um I won't be able to do any filming for June until like Wednesday and I I do have some videos already scheduled for June but I mean June commitment so I need to film June commitment videos and um they shouldn't take too long um hopefully because I'm kind of cutting it close a little bit Monday's a holiday Tuesday the cleaning lady's here so yeah maybe I can get a couple videos filmed before she shows up maybe we'll find out all right I'll be back morning it is Friday morning March March holy cow May something 24th maybe let's see yes May 24th 9 0 1 a.m according to the iPad um anyway I um I'm gonna put some clothes on get dressed for the day um I need to get in Etsy order over to the post office I was doing the social media thing putting a coat of resin on a cup upstairs one of the glitter tumblers that I glittered up yesterday I'll put a picture here um it's chunky glitter so it's going to probably take an extra coat and a little extra sanding more than normal but anyway first I need to get my day started and I need to put actual clothes on so let's get to it okay I'll dressed and showered and squeaky clean I've had three cups of coffee it's probably one cup too many but we won't tell anybody right um we are going to go now it's almost 9 30 I'm gonna go take that Etsy order down to McCann's so I can come back and do the acrylic pour I want to do and maybe get some sewing done hopefully before lunch maybe yeah we'll see all right I'll be guys it is Saturday morning May 25th I think let's wake up the computer and see it's yes May 25th 9 23 a.m according to said computer um I got my new t-shirt on it's a little bit loose I like them that way um yeah it's all good uh we are getting ready to start our day I cut my husband's hair already he needed a haircut and um I got all the social media stuff done checked on the Etsy store checked on the YouTube channel you know that sort of thing um I'm doing so much sewing right now that I'm gonna have to start carrying a little envelope with me of fabric swatches when I go shop fabric shopping that's just become a thing my muse is just really all about the sewing right now but yeah I need I'm gonna need to carry these with me um this little envelope is from Target I think it's supposed to be a seed packet envelope it's from the Target dollar spot um anyway I'm gonna have to carry that with me for a while um there are a few other fabric stores in the area other than the Joann's that's close to the house and I do want to explore them and look for more knits and stretch lace to do some more shirts and things with um especially make more undershirts I'd like to make them in a color besides white um that being said I made a couple of them without the lace at the bottom a gray one in a black one yesterday I'll put the picture here um I initially put the lace at the bottom and I didn't like the way it looked with the knit was a little thicker than the white knit I did the first round of shirts out of um so I just took the lace off and they'll just be tank top kind of longer tank tops which will be fine I'll be able to wear them um with a lot of different things um I'm liking making my own tops to be exactly what I want and rather than buying something that's cheaper at the store that's not exactly quite right y'all know what I mean um that being said working with knits is tricky and I'm realizing both of my machines need a good cleaning and a good oiling so the husband does have an air compressor so I'm going to be dragging the machines downstairs um hopefully this weekend and giving them a good blowout and a good oiling because they need it um and want to try try to avoid paying a large bill for cleaning them at a sewing machine repair shop because that'll be like a hundred dollars a machine at minimum that's not fun I'd rather spend it on fabric art supplies um so anyway I am still tracking my food um we had pizza last night and then the husband made cookies god damn it but I'm trying so I'm gonna try to be better today and if we do eat a big meal it'll be at lunch and then I'm just gonna have salad or nothing for dinner just a cup of tea you don't have to have three meals a day if you're not hungry don't eat and I say that as someone who has the hardest time on the planet with that um I'm also going to go out and run a few errands and try to get some steps in we've got some stuff we've got to pick up at the hardware store and we want to do exploring I'm going to try to talk my husband into going to the fabric store but I don't know if that's going to happen um so yeah that's where our day is at at the moment I've got a bunch of art journals on the table behind me and I'm going to be working on them in some of the videos that I've got to film I need to do one last check of the computer and social media before we leave and I've got my filming list I got the resin cup on the spinner I do think it's going to need a fifth coat of resin um it's doing pretty good but I think I'm going to have to let this one dry then give it a really good sanding and get the bumply bits off and then one last coat of resin that's what happens when you work with the chunky glitters it's takes more resin to cover the cup so I knew that going in all right that's it for the moment I think I will take you with with us where I can and let's go on an adventure today shall we all right I'll be back just another beautiful day important we're gonna sit down and eat dinner it's been a crazy week crazy day I decided as you if you're watching this clip you've seen the other clip where I decided to do one last acrylic pour for a piece that I think is going to go on a wall in our bedroom my husband and I worked on it together he helped me fix up the board so that it fits in a certain spot in the bedroom and pick the colors and then I went and had ended the pour so I'm going to let it dry I actually did it twice the first time it turned out like poop so we did it again and we'll see what happens anyway it's been a crazy busy week and but a fun one I hope you've had a good week too if you'd like to follow me on social media and see what I'm up to every day or support the free content here on YouTube and over on Facebook in the Facebook groups then by all means click on the link tree list of links in the description below you'll find a whole bunch of stuff places to find me and support me follow my Instagram all of that stuff on the link tree link when you click on it and also my happy mail address is in the description below if you would choose so choose you don't have to but I love happy mail don't forget to like share and subscribe and you know what go out this week and find another mixed media youtuber or youtuber a little small one and show them some love that would be great this week the most important thing of course is to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys