 what time it is this morning. I ate something? I don't know. And he made my father, my father, my husband is inside talking to his mom and we're gonna be getting together with the kids later and calling my dad to wish him happy Father's Day before that but anyway it's a beautiful bright sunny day out so we're gonna go explore downtown Portland and spend the day out. So I'll bring you with us where I can. Happy Father's Day. Tell you dad's out there. I'll be back. By the way it's 944 a.m. I just checked. East Portland. We've got the whole family in the car including Lily Bean back there. See here? She can't decide which window to look out. The whole back of my car is gonna have doggy nose prints to take pictures and they all kept walking without me. He's back there. Portland Rose Garden. International Rose Garden. They supply the roses to the Rose Garden where we used to live in San Jose. Fun fact. But now we need to test the bench. Yeah gotta test out this bench. Make sure it fits. It's stable. Yeah for like five minutes. Yeah. Really quick good morning to you. It is Monday morning June 17th 9 24 a.m. Don't get all excited. Hello the iPad's right there. I am up and showered. I have been for a few hours waiting for workmen to get here to fix a couple things around the house and I needed to get some stuff done before they got here and I you know don't want to have them show up and me still be in my pajamas so I got up and got early and got dressed. It's a beautiful sunny day out. It's not gonna be warm but not too hot so I've got windows open. This Monday June 17th unfortunately a very dear friend of ours and her husband are laying their son to rest to his final rest. Chris passed away last month right before Mother's Day. I wish her and her family my sincere condolences on such a loss that something no parent should ever have to deal with and although I can't be with them today my thoughts are with them and their family and we're here for them always so I know you all don't know her and her family but if you would send your love and support her way regardless that would be great and anyone else who's suffering such a loss right now anyway before I cry I'm gonna get off the phone and get a few more things done before the workmen show up they should be here any minute so they're due within like five minutes so let's hope I don't hear that's interesting oops oh shit or huh today because all of those phrases when the contractors and repairmen say they always cost you money so and we have two different repairmen coming today to fix two different issues so holy cow all right I'll be the awning people have come and gone they fixed the broken piece in the awning but then said you have a bad gear we're gonna go check our warehouse and we'll hopefully be back today with a gear to fix it I still haven't paid them a dime they didn't ask we're maybe gonna replace the fabric on the awning so they left some samples here that I looked at I did pick a couple and a fabric so the guy's gonna they took some measurements he's gonna get me an estimate and then the plumber has been and gone and figured out what was wrong with the toilet and nothing major no holes in the wall thank goodness but he is gonna fix the problem and I'm just gonna have him put in a new toilet because there are some pieces inside the toilet that are a bit past it anyway so you know what I don't want to have to call him to come back he's a nice guy but you know let's just be one and done so he's off to get a new toilet and he'll be back this is what the bathroom looks like because yeah this is the bathroom where I wash my paintbrushes by the way my paint washing things yeah it's gonna be uh probably 1500 dollar a day and I haven't even been anywhere gone shopping done anything fun just getting stuff fixed around the house joy for me holy cow at least I didn't hear oh that's interesting or oh shit or any of those other things contractors say that you know when they say them all you hear is kaching all right that's it for the moment I'll be back that over my shoulder so I tried the polymer clay thing again with my wax seals only this time they baked correctly so I do think it was maybe a combination of me not maybe having the temperature right on the oven but also the clay this clay is brand new very easy to condition very soft the old clay super hard so maybe that's it I don't know maybe I didn't condition it enough because it was really old clay that I mean you know I'm just assuming user error anyway now I have them sitting in the molding putty cross your fingers it works the way I want it to we'll find out hey everybody it's Tuesday morning june 18 I think listen I only know that or sort of know that because yesterday unfortunately was the memorial service for the son of a dear friend of mine I think I mentioned that yesterday so you know yeah even I kind of remember what day it is and you say this sewing machine repair and vacuum repair place has a really good reputation on the internet and good reviews on yelp and it's on main street which is a cute little street in Tigard but it's right next to a massage parlor which I'm sure is legitimate I'm sure but you know yeah anyway I'll be back okay searcher all dropped off for cleaning and maintenance ace sewing and machine and vacuum they have two offices one in here in Tigard and one in Newberg and they have good reviews online some of the reviews involve them working on vintage machines and those reviews are very good and my my searcher unfortunately I think qualifies for that category I think it's old enough anyway so they are going to spruce it up it'll be a week or two and then when I get it back I'll be back to selling the nits so yep now I'm gonna head home and put my groceries away hopefully the ice cream is not too melted and then I need to go upstairs and make an ATC card and a paper clip today maybe chat with my art friends and yeah I'll be back hey everybody it is Wednesday June 19th 1 11 p.m. don't get excited hello I'm scanning a bunch of old painting papers mostly of mine I think one might be my friend Shannon greens I know somebody gave it to me I know I didn't do it at least I'm pretty sure I didn't this one I love it so much I'm gonna make a personal use copy of it before I cut up the original and so anyway I'm doing that today and I've already got all of my social media stuff done today and the artwork obligations I needed to have done I'm doing laundry downstairs stuff like that keeping myself busy because I have a doctor thing in the morning early that's got me a little bit stressed out nothing bad it's just a test but I stress about it all the time so so y'all know I'm stressed out about tomorrow's doctor visit not because it's a big deal just because I don't like doctors hey doctors hey doctors yeah but we're gonna go for a walk I'm trying to keep busy not eat chocolate it looks like according to the scale I've lost at least three pounds and so yeah let's keep it up anyway we're gonna go see what we can see we're gonna go a new way right yeah all right so we'll be back good morning everybody it's Thursday morning April uh April holy cow June 20th I think 6 56 am I am not awake that's obvious I've only had one cup of coffee I am headed out this morning for my doctor's appointment yeah anyway and then I gotta run a doctor visits all done but how annoying is it that they pushed your appointment out two weeks so they could get your old records and then when you show up this morning they still don't have them yet so after I was done with the doctors I had to sit in the car and make a bunch of phone calls and step on some toes so hopefully they get those records that they need in a timely manner back seals I've been doing them in polymer clay I shared on social media so if you don't if you didn't see that you don't follow me on social media how come if you look in the video description and if you're on a tv when you get onto your pc um or your phone go to the brow facebook in your browser app and not in the in the facebook app it's easier um the facebook go to youtube in the browser and not in the youtube app anyway in the video description there is a link tree list of links and in there besides all the places you can support me on social media like my etsy shop 28 new stencils hello uh merch on teespring and society six and amazon affiliate all that stuff you can also find my social media links instagram twitter facebook and all that so go check it out anyway I made some more of those clay tiles and and I put a box together for my sister she's she makes she is a feng shui expert and she's studying to be a feng shui master and she makes fairy houses her business is very feng shui I will link it in the description below and um she helped us um she's also an expert at organizing and moving people packing people up like that whole business anyway I'll link her business in the description below she's helped us so much anyway she also makes fairy houses and uh for her property she has this beautiful piece of property in Utah and she was she saw the wax seals I think I mentioned it before in the vlog and she loved them and I was and she says they would be cute on the fairy houses and I laughed and said honey you live in Utah they'll melt their wax so then that got me thinking though and I've been making them in clay and resin and I kept some for myself but I'm sending her a whole box of stuff including some of the mistakes I thought she might be able to use some of the ones that didn't come out so well for like little fairy stepping stones or something so I'm gonna send her a box of stuff got that done got some bookkeeping a little bit of bookkeeping done um got the social media thing done late but I got it done and now I'm gonna empty all the garbage cans because yeah up here I'm gonna do all the ones up here and then downstairs and then I'm gonna eat lunch I don't know what I'm gonna eat yet I kind of want to boil some eggs maybe all right I'll see I'll see well I'll think about it we'll be back the light's kind of weird uh it's overcast outside um and it is a typical overcast Portland day it can't decide to be cloudy and dark or sunny and it doesn't know what it wants to do so the light's weird june 21st 11 57 it's been a crazy morning it's gonna be a crazy few days it's gonna be I said before a few days prior and the week after gonna be a bit stressful there's just a lot going on um so stressful that I've started doing daily pages again to deal with some of the anxiety I really do find that therapeutic I don't know that I need to definitely for myself do it all the time but when I am feeling anxious and stressed out I definitely find it very therapeutic to get it out on three pages of writing um in the morning or in the evening I'm trying right now in the morning I think the morning might be a little bit better for me but in the evening if it's really bad it does help quiet my mind so I can go to sleep so um I just write three pages whatever's on my mind I don't stop and bother with spelling or punctuation it's one giant run on sentence for three pages so anyway um I did that this morning I did my paper clips for the next couple of days my atc cards for the next couple of days social media I have to update the website I haven't done that yet right now we're going to go take some etsy orders over to mccann's and drop them off and I need to mail a box to my sister the awning people were back again today fixing the awning so that's all fixed it's so strange though we haven't paid them evidently they're going to bill us they do the work first and then they bill you afterwards the installer guys do not accept payment it's it's weird anyway they did a great job it's just odd I'm not used to that we're just too tired walking tonight we've got a we're dog sitting again anyway it's okay it's all good we're in the airport again we're in california just for the day and they're both rolling their eyes at me anyway I'll be back in a crazy day we're on the way home now we flew down to california for the day for some appointments and things um this is a mad rush we did have time to go to lunch at the counter which is great and also a quick trip to daizo so I'll share what I got later right now we're going to find the gate and we all need a drink so we'll be back we are back in organ was it tiring but quick trip I wanted to show you guys really quick before I close the vlog vlog what I got at daizo so daizo has these face masks this one particularly it's one of the few that will moisturize and condition my face without making me break out so I really do like this one they did have a cucumber one so I'm going to try that I found these pens that uh appearance wise look very much like the stubilo markers I did test them out while we were having um some drinks at the airport before we flew to came come back home so I'm going to give you my thoughts on those and compare them to the actual stubilos in next week's vlog but we are going to do that because I do own the other stubilos somewhere upstairs I also picked up three more of these so daizo has these wire cups they hang on they will fit on the side of the Ikea carts I don't think that's what they're for but and I use them at the work table and I hang them on the sides of the wire shelving at either end of the work table they work great so I picked up three more of these that was all they had so I got them so that's it we're really tired but we're home yay it's been a interesting week we hope you've had a good one we have and if you have any questions comments or concerns please leave them in the description down below and if you want to follow me on social media support the free content here over on facebook or send me happy mail or any that links on how to do that are in the description below in fact you'll find a link to a site called link tree you click on it you're going to find me everywhere that I am on the internet so check it out so that's it now I'm going to get ready for bed and get some try to get some sleep have a good one everybody we hope that you have had a great week go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye