 I don't like to vlog in my pajamas, but happy Sunday morning everybody. It's July 26th I think. I don't know what time it is, but did you see the clip before this one? Yeah, there's a big buck right outside the windows here behind me outside of our game room like literally like what four feet from the house? eating my eat my bushes, but still he was a pretty Pretty dear so anyways, he was having his morning breakfast while we're finishing our morning coffee Anyway, happy Sunday morning. I'll be back. Hey guys, it's 3 51 p.m. Still Sunday Didn't do much this afternoon. We went we did go for a walk when Bob got back from the gym I'll show you the dye progress in a minute We're gonna let them soak until tomorrow morning, and then I'll take them out and rinse them and let them air dry I'm gonna shake them up a little bit more We'll talk about those in a minute, but I was working on this so I have a favorite nightgown That's comfy basically like loose tank top style I have trouble picking out nightwear that I like that's not like super expensive Like I don't just don't see the point in spending $50 on the nightgown So I thought let me take my favorite one and let me make a pattern from it and then use like knit scraps to make a mock-up Which I did obviously I use scraps if you can see this that wasn't on purpose And it doesn't match from the front to the back the lines are in the different place but I didn't squeeze one mock-up out of two of the same kind of knits and so it's a mock-up I can actually wear and it fits the way I want it to so Yay, I am going to Stick through some of my knit scraps. I have a lot. I probably Don't need to keep every scrap, but and I have a bag of scraps hanging on the door So I'm gonna do that next And I have some knit fabric on order which I hate to do and I hesitated doing but right now I'm just not comfortable going out to the store looking around for fabric The midst of a pandemic. It's not time for that. I don't think so anyway, I Got the mock-up done. Yay, and I can wear it and it's all good and it's surged and Yeah Pretty happy with that. So Let me show you the dye That's the fabrics that are soaking in the homemade dyes And we'll talk about each one and the progress and I'll be right back. That's the sage and rusty metal It's turning out a really pretty sort of gray color This is the wild blackberries and Can you see how red that's turning Try not to like spill it on any more covered too, but that's okay. This is the roses Nice dark dusty pink color. Now. This is the beats now in the beats. I said yesterday that I thought Well yesterday yes last week's vlog that I thought the water came out a little bit more brown than it was red that I was hoping for Because I cooked the beats in the way that you cook them if you were gonna eat them rather than just cut them up to get the color out But when I was done cutting them so my husband could eat them because he likes beats. I hate beats fun fact I took all the peelings and everything and the icky bits and I put them into little tea bags And I let them steep in the water overnight both in the beat water and in the beat stem water and they did turn much more red They're not as red as the blackberries, but that is a lot more red than it was And then this is the beat stem water, which is very pink and then this is the cabbage water Very purple, which is really cool Dying fabric is very messy But very cool So anyway, that's the progress today, and we will see in a couple of days when they're all rinsed and dried and Yeah, I usually let them sit for 24 hour to 48 hours and you know Give them a chance to soak up as much color as they can before I rinse them and then let them dry So I'll check back in with you in a couple of days. Hey guys Have I vlogged yet today? I don't think so It's Monday July 27th, maybe hang on Yes 27th, it's just before lunch I've been editing the vlog for last week all morning and I Am filling another purge box this time. This is a large flat rate box Yeah, I just purged two bins of mark making tools mostly found objects and homemade things purged them down to one If you collect homemade mark making tools for art journaling or jelly printing You know that at some point your collection gets a little out of hand So I find every few years I need to purge it because it just gets ridiculous and this year is that year so I'm gonna fill up this box. I'm going to Show you on camera what I'm putting in it I am gonna speed through the process a little bit and the listing for the box will be in the video description I am also next going to do a punch box so Let's get started. Shall we? Most of what I need to get done done today except I still haven't done the Writing for Facebook for the week and schedule post-out that I do normally in the art groups over there And I still have to rinse out and set out to dry the fabric and twill tape that we Started experimenting with over the weekend So but first I just did the dishes and I'm gonna go check the mail box I have to mail stick a bill in the outgoing mail. I have a bunch of other mail that's got to go to Including an Etsy order, but it's too big to put in the house box So I'm gonna just go down and it doesn't have to go out until tomorrow So I'm gonna go just down to check my PO box and mail it at that time like in the morning So let me go get the mail done. I put my snap pea chips away And then we'll get back upstairs and get the rest of today's work done Oh my goodness You're not gonna believe the results and they're not even dry yet and I'm so excited on the fabric dyeing thing Let me I've got them on my drying rack here But let me temporarily move them to the table under the light so you guys can see and let's talk about the results that we got It's pretty interesting and I do have one more Round of fabric and trimmings in each one of the colors, which is what I've been doing With all of the colors some of them. I did way too much of it. So I put it in some of the purge boxes But yeah, anyway, and I am saving the leftover dye we'll talk about all that just That's all six of the new colors that we made the beets. I do think next time I'm going to boil the beets without the peels on I'll peel them first and Then slice them or cube them and then boil them and I'll use a cook regular cooking food pot Then the husband can still eat them, but I think I might get more red color out of them But well, I don't know we'll see and then I'm going to show you this one first. This is the beet stems so beetroot beet stems and In each one of the dye waters like I said in the vlog last week I put some of the peelings and things when I was done peeling and slicing the beets into each of the waters This one definitely got more red than it was, but it's still a reddish pinkish brown This one looks like warm coffee to me and then this one is The roses red and pink roses Which this one and that one are very similar So if you want like a dusty pink if you have roses, but you don't have beets and or you don't like beets You don't like the smell of them. You could do one or the other This year this is a wild blackberries. Somebody said they got blue when they do it. I didn't get blue, but wow Is that a pretty color? Okay, and then this one is The sage and rusty metal and definitely per the notes I had that I was working with said it would be a grayish green That definitely is a grayish green. It's a pretty color. It's like a khaki green It'll probably change these will probably all change color a little bit as they dry So we'll have to see check back and see this is the red cabbage Now I will tell you this print was a white on white print So the background fabric where the printing was not dyed this dark reddish blue well Blueish purple, but the print where the printing where the white ink was look how blue that came Very cool So I'll be doing homemade Inky dye things now that I'm running out of containers. So for doing the initial dye. I like to use these big Ish except for that one which has a small mouth the rest of them are wide mouth containers So I can do the initial dye run in these they're very large and they don't leak generally and It's easy to get your hand in and out of it to get the fabric out And or a fabric in so I do sort of rinse these out wash them out and reuse them But then when I'm not dying with the water that's in here, I put them in a smaller bottle like these old barbecue sauce bottles Gelato containers like I have a mismatched sort of hodgepodge over here containers at some point I'm gonna have to I Would like to have all containers like this so I might need to I don't know make a trip to Tap plastics or something It would be nice to have something with this like flip top lid with an opening there that I can just Dump a little bit of the shake the dye up and then dump a little bit like into a bowl with a piece of paper Urch will tape and let it soak for a bit and then you know seal the thing back. These would be ideal. So I Might have to make a trip over there. We'll see if they're open What hours are open? I don't know anyway I'm gonna let all this dry and yes when you're doing this when you're doing the rinsing out part and you're Messing with some of these colors. You should wear gloves. I have my apron on Some of these although they're all food-based colors for the most part except for the sage with rusty metal to get rusty metal in it Like anybody who's cooked beets or blackberries know that shit can stain your hand stain your hands So I had gloves on up until like a minute ago. So wear gloves and all of that stuff and if you have white sinks like I do You know, you need to have all your containers set up nearby for the rinsing process and your trays to lay stuff out on and Your cleaning supplies for the sink right away. I see right away. You wash that sink out. So you don't stain your sink So anyway, there's some tips for you. Alright, that's it for the moment. I'll be back everybody It is Tuesday July 28th. I think 8 58 a.m. I'm headed down to our little post office That I think is still open Maybe what time is it? 3 39 p.m. We did our Live broadcast this morning. I like to stay on somewhere around an hour and a half less than two hours so we started a Slow stitch meditation journal page. I didn't finish it on camera They usually take longer than even two hours to do. I do like to kind of take my time I'll go upstairs here and show you what I did That air conditioners on if you hear that sort of roaring in the background um So I did finish it and I Got it pasted into the journal So that that's it finished for those who were watching me on The broadcast and want to see what it looked like done. There it is I am posting pictures tonight on social media So if you want to know my social media links look in the video description There should be specific links and there should be also a link to a site called link tree which has all of my Places as you can find me on the internet Anyway, I also caught up my Where did I put it? Oh, there it is My fabric dye experiment journal My fabric coloring experiments journal Hold on. I just filmed all that and the camera wasn't on um, okay, so Yeah, that's where we left off last time. So this is the blackberries The beetroot Which I boiled the beets as if you were going to eat them with the skin on and then sliced them afterwards Um, and put them in set them aside put them a dish in a dish my husband likes beets I took the peels and the stems and the icky bits Put them in the water that the beetroot was cooking in and this is the color that I got I'm thinking next time I might try peeling the beets raw the raw slicing them up and then boiling that slices Without the peel on and see how much more color comes out of them This is the beetroot and leaves and stems the red and pink roses The sage and rusty metal is a really pretty gray green And the red cabbage, which is really pretty So, yeah Hey guys. Good morning. I don't know what time it is It's wednesday june 29th Pretty sure what time is it? Let's see Crew won't wake up. I don't it's 10 29 a.m I just filmed My two videos for august. I'm only going to do two besides the vlog for august um, and then we're going to do some live broadcasts um july has been a busy filming month and so After the 30 and 30 project, I think I'm going to take a little break from Filming and lighten up my load a little bit and see what happens with the youtube channel We are doing the live broadcasts. So I'm sure you guys all I'll be fine with that But anyway, I have Etsy orders. I've got to go walk down to the mailbox and I've got some more fabric Soaking and behind the camera That I need to pull out and rinse at some point this afternoon I I'm going to do some watercoloring. I think today. I'm going to start on the lips journal um Which is like right over there and I am going to go through All of these I've got this is resin molded resin I was using up some old resin and some pigment powders And then I have these two besides which are a combination of clay Different kinds of clay this is like paper clay um and resin And some polymer clay Um, I don't need three bins of molded embellishments. That's just crazy town And so I'm going to get these down to ideally one bin, but maybe two And um, I'm going to purge today. I'm going to probably package up the excess into little packages for Um etsy. I may just do the lazy thing and I may just fill a small priority mailbox everybody It's thursday morning July 30th. Yes, I almost said june I'm headed out. I've got some stuff I need to mail and a couple of errands to run I'd rather do them this morning than over the weekend Or later in the day when it's more peobly so Of course, I have my mask with me and all the things It's been an interesting day so far a couple of errands done. I needed to get down this morning and One of them was going to Dollar Tree Tuesday morning next door. It looks like it's closing and going out of business Came home and our cleaning lady is helping with the house Because with me with my asthma, I'm not up to doing it anymore. Anyway, you didn't need to do that, but there it is um And the house is much better than the old one She found a leak in the downstairs toilet like Yeah, we she caught it just in time before it became a huge problem. Thank goodness So we've turned off the water to that toilet. We have a bucket underneath it Thankfully it looks like it's something that's a diy fix Our old house had plenty of bad leaking toilets, so It's not like we're not used to fixing things like that So we were headed to the hardware store tomorrow anyway, but now I guess we're getting toilet parts on top of everything else It's Friday morning July 31st And it's just after 10 a.m. We are Well, we you and me we're walking in the mailbox. I've got net see order that I'm gonna put out And I think the mailman's already come this morning So I'm gonna check the box We're starting on the garage reno today And some of the furniture we're getting rid of from the garage is leaving today Including the antique teachers or secretaries desks that was my father-in-law's I'll put a picture right about here Fun fact. He was a garbage picker before garbage pickers were fashionable And he was constantly bringing home furniture and artwork patio furniture House for like all kinds of stuff that he would find He was working as a gardener at the end of his life and he would drive around in his truck when he was done and garbage pick So I'm pretty sure that's where the desk came from originally. He probably picked it up somewhere Anyway I don't know if he'd be pleased with us for getting rid of it or not um It's a bittersweet moment getting rid of it. But anyway, we don't have any room for it And it needs to go on to a home where it's going to get used so And it's not the last of the things that we've moved all the way from california with us that have got to go so Uh It's just the beginning Anyway, that's getting picked up today. I need to bring the mail in the house I need to move my car because it's right in the way Husband's gonna have to move his car. We're clearing the garage out today And I'm trying to empty it as much as we can so that we can start work on the floor. So I'll be back camera again. You wouldn't know I'm a youtuber and vlogger, right? Anyway, look at that empty spot behind me. We're working on that right there Then we're going to move that beast then we're going to move that thing Emptying the garage out so fred can redo the floors in here And we can get that done and then he's ordered new cabinets for his garage So after the floor is dry, it'll take a few days to dry And cure then we're going to take those off the wall and empty that off and then hopefully in a few weeks By the time we do all of that the new cabinets will be here and we can get it all set up for him Because of the current pandemic situation The contractors who usually do the cabinet installation are not working right now. So It's going to be a diy project from start to finish We haven't done one of those in a while not that we're not capable So It'll be fun All right. Now i'm hot and sweaty, but I need to help him finish this So I'll be back earlier. We got the garage emptied and now we're in line at The deq which is the department of environmental quality Good idea. Yeah, I don't know. It's the deq here in Oregon. It's where you go to get your car smog tested And most countries and at least states in the u.s You have to get your car smog tested to make sure it passes quality control Um before you can register your car and we found out just today that my car renewal is up So we decided to just not waste time and let's just do it now. We're out. We're near deq So we'll wait in line and do that then we're going to go to the hardware store and get the stuff for the garage floor Then we're going to get lunch And then we're going to eat lunch and after lunch fred's gonna Start prepping the floor in the garage for painting it tomorrow, which yes, I'll film for you guys Hopefully we do it and don't make a gigantic mess, but I guess we'll find out All right, I'll be back. Do you hear the noise? He's out in the garage standing and he's going to be spending the rest of the afternoon Probably part of the evening prepping the floor for painting it tomorrow Um, so yeah He doesn't need me to get in his way So I'm gonna not working on the garage prepping it for painting it tomorrow. Bob is degreasing it I've been helping him. I got my galoshes on Um, and I looked up and hold on. I'll finish two babies are eating dinner Glad I filled up the bowls. They're just watching Bob scrub away Nope, they don't care they're eating some little care. So anyway She's trying to degrease the floor Or doing what we can to prep the concrete for the epoxy paint coating thing that we're doing tomorrow anyway Pretty cool That part I mean Not the degreasing Hey guys day two of the garage reno. We're going to start painting the floor First fred's got to blow all the pine needles that came in overnight out and then I need to put paper Over at least 12 inches of the bottom of the opening so we can hopefully keep them out while the paint is drying I will be doing sort of a time lapse kind of thing of the painting today and yeah, we'll see what happens All right, wish us good luck. I'll be back yeah, the garage is drying and My purge box is overflowing again because I did purging and you know Fred is downstairs making My birthday cake because tomorrow's my birthday, but you'll see that in next week's vlog um So yeah, so I we're not doing anything big We're not even seeing the kids for my birthday because they were in california last week so we are making them wait two weeks before they see us and Because of the pandemic and uh, so we'll see them and celebrate with them next weekend and We'll get them to help us with some of the garage stuff because Bob's cabinets might be in by then we'll see And in the meantime when we can't get to stuff I will get bob and or polyus to help me Get the pegboard up right there Those paintings are going to stay Again the shelves may go up on top of the pegboard I don't know though But I can't wait for the pegboard to be there because I love my little piece of pegboard. Where's the sewing desk? Can you even see it from here? Oh, yeah, uh Yeah back there in the corner right there underneath that That's a piece of Ikea two pieces of Ikea pegboard with all my thread collection that I love it It works so well and yeah, it's gonna be good anyway It's been quite a week But you know, it's the pandemic. I don't know what to tell you It's all we can do All right, that's it for the moment I hope you guys have had a good one if you have any questions to comments or concerns Please leave them down below links for any relevant products Websites facebook groups any of that stuff. It's down below So check it out Also ways to support the free content here on face here on facebook here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups so all your favorite creatives usually have a way to Have you support them? Whether it's an etsy shop or a patreon or a paypal tip jar or An amazon affiliate link or something So we would all appreciate you to use one of them if you can and if you would Not just mine mine are in the video description If in your favorite creatives, you can't figure out how to support the free content ask them I'm sure they have a way sometimes you just need to ask the right question So that's it. So I would love the support for YouTube and the free content over in the facebook art groups as I know they would too So we would all appreciate that. Anyway, don't forget to stay safe stay healthy and stay creative And go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you next week We'll start with my birthday. All right. I'll be back. Bye guys