 upstairs, checking on social media. We're going to start working on, I think I know where this needs to go and that is not it, just FYI. So I think this week we're going to start working again on this canvas. Yeah, getting it to be somewhere. It's going to be very abstract, but yeah, I think I know where that needs to go. Anyway, we're upstairs checking on social media and answering comments and deleting all the million spam email I get every day and I have a couple of email accounts like I don't check on too often. I probably ought to, so we're gonna do that this morning and yeah, yeah, all the things for the things. Bob's at the gym and I'm just here. I'm still not feeling up to going to the gym, although I think it's probably safer than going to the grocery store. But anyway, I'm just here and yeah, enjoying the sound of the rain on the roof and I think I'm gonna start on the Frida Kahlo slow stitch today and Bob is gonna work on some stuff in the garage, I think, getting his. He has a fan that he's gonna put up on the wall to circulate air, especially in the summer and stuff like that. So he's working on his car. He took my car to the gym, so I can't actually go anywhere even if I wanted to, because I don't drive his car ever. Not because I can't, because I don't want to. So barring an emergency, it's not happening. Anyway, so I think that that's what's gonna happen today and I want to add a couple more things to my Christmas list. Even if we're not doing a bunch of stuff for Christmas, that doesn't mean I don't need to have a list that we're not giving gifts. We're just probably doing them for the most part socially distanced, except for those people in our bubble, as Rebecca says, which would be of course Bob and I, and then Rebecca and Polius and Jenny and Brian. So Jenny is a former daycare baby who is a grown-up married lady. Her husband's name is Brian and they're sort of in our bubble. So yeah, anyway, I think that's it for the moment. I feel like I need more coffee. It feels like Monday on Sunday. Again, Monday on a non Monday day. Thank you, Corona. Anyway, that's it for the minute. I'll be back through and listening to every single clip and make sure pouring the crap out of you, saying something I shouldn't, trying to keep it to something that goes from like an hour and a half to like 20 to 30 minutes-ish. Yes, I usually edit that much stuff out of it because I ramble. What day is it Monday evening? I don't know. The 12th. I don't know what time it is. After 5.30. There you go. 10 after 6. We're out getting some steps in before dinner. Ran into our neighbor next door. Poor guy. He released his tenants from his property so that he and his wife could fix up the house and move in. And I guess I think they're gonna rent out the house they're living in right now. Anyway, he started that right at the same time as COVID. So, they've not only not been able to move in, but they've had trouble getting... Oh, another U-Haul. Oh, boy. They've had trouble getting contractors to finish the work on the house. But finally to the point, I think where they're gonna be able to move in soon, they're gonna be painting the outside and all of that stuff. But anyway, we ran into him on our way out the door and I was talking to him for a little bit. And sharing the name of our contractor guy and all of that stuff. We just saw another U-Haul. So, I guess we have another neighbor that's moving out, maybe? Or if, I don't know, see apocalypse, anything is possible. Hey, guys. It is Tuesday morning, 11.47 just before lunch. I just finished with today's live broadcast. We made an art journal page. A really cute one, but that said WTF. But it was a cute one. So, I'll start a picture here of the page. And then I, with the leftover paint and paper and scraps, I made a little paper art doll angel. I'll start a picture of that here. I'm gonna go head out and I need to go drop off Etsy orders. Sorry, I was making sure I'd close the garage door. I need to go drop off Etsy orders. And I need to get a new extension cord for my art room. Because the one I have is so kinked that you can't un-kink it. I'm pretty sure it's not safe to use anymore. It's so kinked. There's Fred. Give me an up ahead, Harry Fred. Well, Fred, you may be Harry. I'm starting to resemble Einstein's sister who hasn't gotten any sleep or something because yeah, these are big. Anyway, I spent the afternoon after the broadcast running errands and cutting out new sticker flakes. So, those will be in the Etsy shop soon and getting some things together for the patrons over on Patreon. So, hopefully I can get that out soon. Anyway, we're gonna go for a walk, see what we can see, get some fresh air. I would say and some vitamin D, except it's cloudy because hello Portland. You know, yeah, but there we go. So anyway, I'm gonna get a picture of that and I'll be back. Good morning. It's 10 19 a.m. Wednesday October 14th. I have been up for a while. I've got some new sticker flakes to package. I've got some stuff for the patrons to package. I'm also gonna add a couple things to Patreon. I'm gonna add a couple things to Patreon, I think. I'm gonna think of on that for a couple of days. I just took my cold mask off my face to help with these just a little bit. I had an early morning chat with Mike Deakin. That was really great and working on some stuff for 2021 because you know, 2020 is just a shit show, right? Anyway, I have my slow stitch to work on today of Frida Kahlo and I need to do the art pop lips drawing. It's just a chill day at home, I think, which is good. I am also going to schedule a live Zoom with the ladies over at Patreon, the supporters. And yeah, I think we're good for the moment. I feel like I need more coffee, but then I felt like that a lot since this whole pandemic thing started. So you know, what are you gonna do? Seems like a year full of Mondays. I've said that before, I'll see it again. So anyway, all right, that's it for the minute. I'm gonna check on social media, I'm gonna get some labels printed and stuff like that and I will be back. Hey guys, so I made a set of lanterns for lack of a better word based on a video from my friend Mike Deakin and he's posted inspiration pictures to social media, but not the video. The video is only for his supporters as angels, but I did have access and so I thought that was just such a cute idea. So I did my spin on it. Here's my little video here. I have to take the music out because I had the radio on. Anyway, that was fun. Did today's drawing, pencil drawing, made some little paper zombie dolls out of one of my art doll stamp set number 10 and I'll put a picture of that here. I had the thought overnight. I wonder if I can do that. You can. It was easy and they're cute. So anyway, I'm gonna go check the mail. Got an Amazon box and have a snack, plan dinner. I did the dishes. Try to avoid doing laundry because I don't want to. All right, that's it. I'll be back. Hey guys, good morning. It's just before nine o'clock on Thursday, October. I think it's the 15th. I filmed this clip once already and decided I was going on about things that I don't need to go on about. And so yeah, anyway, we are headed out to the post office. I've got a bag of Etsy orders and Patreon things. Thank yous that need to go out today. So we're gonna do that and then I have today's Artpocalypse 2020 drawing to do. I want to do some more work on the Frida Kahlo slow stitch. I'm also slowly getting back into doing some art journaling, some painting in my art journal, which is good and I have an idea for a Tim Holtz style vintage colored collage medium only matte finish because his isn't a matte finish. So you have to cover it with clear gesso or something if you're gonna use it in your art journal. Anyway, I have an idea for a home DIY mix that might work. So I'm gonna experiment with that. If it works, I'll share. What is the grocery store? Nothing exciting. I mean, you know, it's another Monday, Thursday, you know, 2020 is a whole year of Mondays. So, you know, what are you gonna do? 755 year under lockdown again, I guess, at least parts of you. I feel for you. We never got out of lockdown. So here, I was just watching a news report, I guess there, the higher the number of tier you're in, the more locked down you're in. Here, the lower the number, the more locked down you're in. So we have one, two, and three, but one is the most severe lockdown other than just having people just stay home and nobody can go anywhere. If we were in three, everything would be mostly open. We've been in one, we're in one, we never got out of one. Yeah, so I feel for you. Anyway, I'm having some another cup of coffee at Etsy orders to pack up. The kids are all coming over for a pizza tonight. They're really the only ones we see. I need to give the bathrooms a once over before they come and prep some food, but I need more coffee first. So I'm gonna do that. I'll be back. And the husband is so cute, he hears me talking to himself and says, are you vlogging? I think he's hoping I say yes and not no because then I'm talking to myself. That's another issue, right? Anyway, all right, I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. It is 9.52 a.m. Saturday, October 16th. No, I think 17th. It's Saturday, 17th. We are obviously in the car. We are headed out to go drop off Etsy orders first, and then we need to go to Costco for those that don't live in the U.S. It's a big box, whole warehouse discount store. Membership store. Membership, yeah. So we're gonna go over there and stock up on some things. And yeah, we're all anticipating when the election happens in a couple of weeks. No matter who wins, it's not gonna be pretty because, you know, it's 2020. So why would you expect things to go smoothly? So we're gonna go stock up on some basics and get that done. We also have to make our run to the liquor store. We had the kids all over for dinner last night and a very late game night. But by the time they left, and I got my drawings for the day done, which I don't know why I didn't do before they came, but anyway. And we got to bed. I think it was almost midnight. So we played a really fun game with them. I don't remember what was called red something. Red flag. Red flag. Which was, it was funny. And by all the kids, I mean our daughter Rebecca and our son-in-law Polly is and Jenny and her husband Brian for those that don't. Hey guys, so we are out for a late afternoon early evening walk with crazy pants, not Bob the dog. We are puppy sitting for a few hours while the kids go out with some friends and so safely of course. And so we're gonna take her out for a walk and try to burn off some energy. Of course, all of the online chats that I'm in, both public and private family ones, are all talking about the election. So I'm staying away from it. We're stock up with supplies and we're good to go. I don't need to watch the news. My ballot's upstairs. We don't have Bob's yet. It's lost in the mail somewhere. So we have to get a copy and once we vote, I can set it and forget it, which I plan on doing. All right, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. So I want to say thank you to my daughter's father-in-law, Arturus. He is a contractor. He visited this last year. He said, you know, you should really check out the fireplace to find out where the emergency gas shut off is and all of that stuff. And when the power went out, it reminded me that he said that and I kind of, because I kind of forgot about it. I'm glad we opened it because the fireplace had a, well, not only needed to be vacuumed out, which you can hear any noise in the background. That's Bob vacuuming out the cobwebs. It had a battery backup with batteries in it, which number one, they don't recommend you storm that way because they do that. So now we need to get into one. Thankfully, the part seems to be available on Amazon. But yeah, that's a problem. And evidently, if there's a power outage, that enables us to still turn the fireplace on. Anyway, this has got to go away now. All right, I'll be back. I didn't know what to say except that, you know, thank you Apocalypse. I'm here at my computer. I'm just booting everything up for the day. It's been a weird week. I got completely distracted for closing the vlog last night by what we found inside the gas fireplace. If you're watching this clip, you've seen that clip. So thank you again to our tourists for putting that sort of earworm in my brain about knowing where the power shut off or gas shut off was for the fireplace. And then of course, you know, a month or so later, maybe more than that, we had a power outage that caused some issues. We learned a little bit more about our house, i.e. the smoke detector that's up here in this room over there, which is also a carbon monoxide detector. And although there was no carbon monoxide leak, as soon as it was not powered by the hard wiring in the house, because we had lost power, it didn't like just being only on the battery backup and started going off and saying there was a carbon monoxide leak, even though there was no carbon monoxide leak, which we verified. So we learned that when there's a power outage, come up here right away and take the battery out of that thing or it's going to go off. And then we learned that there is a battery backup on the gas fireplace now. So we can still turn it on if we do lose power in the winter and there's no heat in the house. It's been an interesting week. Things are going well in the Etsy shop. Thank you all for your support. I do truly appreciate it. And those of you who are over on Patreon, I am getting ready to see if I can schedule some live broadcasts for you all. And I am working on a recording just for you all of me working on the Frida Kahlo slow stitch over here. Sorry, I'm getting messages. And so that'll just be for patrons. If you want to see me working on Frida, the portrait of Frida slow stitch, then you know, it's only for patrons. So I'd request that you join. It's not much. I think it's $2 a month. And once or twice a year, I do send you all a little package. And by the way, if you're in Patreon, and you're already a supporter, you get a little envelope like this, I have one extra. So the next person that signs up in Patreon to support me and my channel will get this. It's already wrapped and packaged and ready to go. I only have one. So I appreciate you all. And I am working on some things I'm going to try to see about scheduling some zooms or seeing how to exactly go live in Patreon. I haven't done it before. So that'll be an adventure. Something easy, I hope we'll find out. That's it. That's all I can think of at the moment. If you have a favorite creative person here on YouTube or over in the Facebook art groups, I would request that you find out how to support them if you can and you're able. Lots of them have Patreon or they have an Etsy shop or they have a PayPal contribution jar, or they have something. So if you can't find it in their video description, then ask them. Mine is in my video description. If you click on the link tree link that says link tree and then my name, you'll find a bunch of different places I am on the internet, including my Etsy shop and PayPal. Yeah, the PayPal link and to just gift and Patreon. And there's a bunch of things. So check it out. Right now we're in the process midstream of rebranding. It will be taking all new product shots for the Etsy shop, which is going to be a huge endeavor. But thankfully my daughter is a photographer among other things. So it's going to be literally a minimum of whole day project. But I'm guessing two or three day project. That would be my guess just to get the photographs much less get things updated. So anyway, it's gonna be a big deal. But we're in the process of rebranding new logos have already gone up and all of those things. So yeah, it's a big deal. But I would appreciate the support and I know your other favorite creatives would too. So do please do that. And just remember right now as times are tough and things are crazy, to remember to smile at people, even if it's only with your eyes because they can't see your mouth because of the mask, you can still see a smile with your eyes, right? You know, say please and thank you and all of the things because there's enough stress and grouchiness and nastiness going on. We don't need to add to that, right? Stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. 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