 or something. I think it's actually the 8th of October. I know it's 919 a.m. out to run a whole bunch of errands including picking up some more pieces for the art room floor. If I go get them hopefully we can get the installation done ASAP just makes it a little bit faster because the install faster because the installers don't have to go to Lowe's and go get it hopefully that's a that's a thought behind it anyway. And I have another load of cardboard I need to take to recycling and a bunch of other like miscellaneous little errands. I'm going to go try to get them all done this morning before lunch. I check out the local Dollar Tree stuff like that. So let's get going. I do want to say two things. One, I have recently started a Patreon page. The link is in the description below. I have not started it with the intention of pulling content from YouTube. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Some content may be on YouTube that's a speed through but then if you want the full explanation of what I've done and why I've done it it'll be over on Patreon. It's just an effort to raise some funds and start having the art pay something. I don't need to discourage or offend anyone by doing it and I put off doing it for a really, really long time. It's more like a subscription or class page at least that's how I'm going to run it. It's not a free let's beg for money page and there are classes available at almost all the price levels from the lowest to the almost highest. So including some old classes from Crazy Island University and stuff that I actually filmed even before that. So none of it is super great film filming quality but I think there's some good information there and if you are a former Crazy Island University student and you're upset that I've done that because you paid something you know more for the classes message me because we'll work out something. Also in the live broadcast yesterday for intervals of sanity with my friends Peg Robinson, Cindy Utter, Carla McCants, Vicki Brown and Leslie McGrath. We went off on a tangent about big girl panties and it turned into something I think might be pretty special although evidently some people are taking offense. So we are going to get an oversized large pair of panties. We're going to decorate them as the artists we are and then we are going to accept donations for ovarian cancer and the names for everyone who donates will be put into a hat and one winner will be drawn that will get those pair of panties and it's just a way of raising money for a good cause bringing attention to the huge gigantic problem that cancer is especially cancers like ovarian cancer that have almost no symptoms until it's too late. So and Peg Robinson my friend, dear friend and our fearless leader over on intervals of sanity is an ovarian cancer survivor. So I guess there was some backlash last night on other channels and I'm not going to go into details but we don't mean to offend anybody we're just trying to it did start out as a you know a funny joke and then quickly turned into a fabulous idea that we think could really raise funds for a really good cause. So we're going to do that and we encourage other artists to do the same and yeah let's get together and you know show the world the power that we women and artists have to raise money for a really good cause and you know try to bring an end to horrible diseases like ovarian cancer. So anyway that's my little speech for the for the day. I'll put the link to the fundraiser page on I think it's on a faith on Facebook in the description below and yeah I think it's going to be a lot of fun and it will be of course funny because it's a gigantic pair of panties and you know we're going to paint it and it's going to be funny um yes and we're going to have fun with it but all joking aside cancer is a big problem and the big pair of panties hopefully will emphasize that big problem that it is anyway that's it my speech for the day I'm going to go run my errands I'll be back. The trees next to Joann's I don't really need anything but we're going to pop in and check it out. I don't know what it is about dollar trees but they're always in the worst shopping center in not a great neighborhood like traditionally at least in California. The tiger doesn't seem to be any different anyway all right I'll be back. Big Joann store much bigger than the one we had in San Jose so tempted to buy some knit fabric for a project I've been thinking about and or planning for quite a while now but they only had the fabric they didn't have the notions I would need I know a sewing project um so I'm just this tempted to order online and that way get everything at once that I might need and I don't need to do it right now because I can't get to my sewing machine anyway so on to the next place. Hey guys um we're going to make some eco-printed paper today I had most of the stuff to do this with already I'm not going to give you specific instructions because it's not this particular way of doing it's not my idea I saw it on someone else's channel and I'm going to link their channel in the description below I recommend you go watch it she talks about what she uses why she's doing it what works what doesn't so I'm going to experiment and play with what I have last night my husband and I went for a walk and I picked up some things from nature and put him in a Ziploc bag and stuck it in the fridge so that they don't get too wilty and then I just went outside to the backyard and picked some more things so we're going to give it a try um per her recommendations I have three bottles spray bottles one is the pink one is vinegar and water the blue one is alum powder dissolved in water and this one is coffee and water so we are going to see what kind of prints we can make and I will be right back say like she says in her video some of the bit of residue on the paper that you have to then gently wash off and if you've used printer paper like I have um if you're not careful you're going to get little tears um so be careful um I wouldn't probably with this iron method use paper that's too thick because you do kind of need to press and I don't think too thick a paper would work very well but that being said probably something that has more cotton rag in it might but look at these look at these I will probably be scanning some of them my Etsy shop which is something she does on her channel but I haven't watched those videos yet Mary may Mary I think that's anywhere her channel small art um she did um boiling on her channel I won't be using one of my kitchen pots I'm going to go thrift for one so it's going to take me a little bit to get set up for that but I love these the plain leaves didn't do much they did a little bit they didn't do too much on this one I just completely like they're almost dry they're not completely dry the flowers from my yard did a great job and the leaves did better if you sprayed them with the alum and some of the vinegar and then did a a top spray of the water down coffee then you got and you really had to like put the iron on them a little longer than the flowers to get a print but when you did if you had the right leaves you got a really interesting print so give it a try and go watch her I'll link both videos that I mentioned in the description below go check them out and uh yeah show them some love like share and subscribe that's it for right now I hope you all have a great day don't forget to do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and be a decent human that's it bye hey everybody it is Tuesday October 9th I think it's just before one o'clock that I know for sure um still trying to figure out when the mail comes here at the new house you know what day of the week and stuff like that I or I mean time of the day the day of the week hello um and so it's not here yet I'm gonna go back and check in a couple hours so it might not come until after lunch I don't know I do know I'm expecting a bunch of mail today so anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back hey guys it is um Wednesday October 10th and our one of our guys is here he's demolishing the back fence actually he's got a pretty I don't know if you can see between the bushes here from on my phone but he's got you can see him walking there he's actually in the five foot space between our property in the back neighbor he's got most of the boards off he's working on this corner on next will come the lattice work and then the posts the whole thing has to come down the whole thing's rotten and we did not know it but there's a retaining wall um back there so we're gonna that's also rotten so we're gonna have to replace that too and I just keep hearing kaching oh yeah yeah anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back so we found out some problems with the fence in the backyard because there's a retaining wall back there we didn't know about that wasn't even built correctly so we're having that repaired and I locked myself out of the house yeah what a Wednesday I'll be back still drinking my morning coffee it's Thursday morning October 11th I almost said May I really did I have no idea what time it is I just know it's morning still I always tell by the morning light coming in these windows um I don't think it's 10 a.m. yet I think it's early we can actually walk to the kitchen and see um see it's not even 11 o'clock it's 8 53 a.m. anyway I am waiting here on the fence contractors they're going to be working on the back fence we'll talk about that in a minute because I have no idea what I said in yesterday's clip so I'm gonna maybe be repeating myself a little bit I also am waiting on the bug people to come spray one more time this quarter and then they won't be back for a couple months um the houses hasn't been lived in much so like any new home that's been kind of vacant or semi vacant um you know there's usually some issues with insects or whatever so um the last house we bought there was but it was vacant a year and a half um and it had an ant and spider issue also so I don't know we seem to like those kind of houses I don't know uh anyway so we have bug service um but when we were having the old backyard fence demolished yesterday um unbeknownst to us because it wasn't disclosed and the contractor because you couldn't see it um with the fence up you just you couldn't even tell he had no idea till he started demolishing the fence there's a retaining wall back there four feet from my patio holding my backyard up and it wasn't built correctly it was rotten and falling down and yeah just tack on another you know I don't know 1500 to my bill if it's less than 4000 I'm going to be shocked as crap for one little back fence that's probably I don't know 35 40 feet it's not that big not compared to the old house but you know anyway wasn't disclosed we had no idea wasn't built correctly it's not to code probably there's nothing can we can do about it but I let our realtor know talk about stressful and then I also sorry I'm switching hands my arms tired um I also realized last night that I hadn't heard from the Lowe's flooring installers yet even though I went and picked up um all but one piece of trim that's in I told them I don't want to wait for the last piece we'll install it ourselves when it comes in um they said okay we'll get the installers to call you and set something up I haven't heard anything that was all Monday so I called this morning and he very nice young man named Mike said they haven't called you yet I called I messaged them you know Monday I said no he said I'm gonna get hold of them again and see what we can do because I still have a floor so I can only run so much art business without my stuff so I really really need them to get that floor in so I can try to get my room semi back together it's been since August now just not okay with me I'm just done with that part um the San Jose house still hasn't sold we still own two homes we're paying a bunch of different money loans to people and yeah bleeding funds at the moment so put some good energy out there that it sells and that the right people just haven't you know seen it yet but that they will and you know I have also been hearing about people because of the storms um losing everything they own I've heard of a couple people that I know that are friends of friends that are actually passing from cancer and just you know I wish them all well my troubles aside I wish them all well um I know one person in particular I won't name names or anything that is passing actually from cancer and I wish for them a peaceful passing that's just horrible and um yeah so it's been quite a week I also have to go grocery shopping today but I can't go anywhere until the contractors come and the bug people come so I did my daily postings I do need to update the website um again for the design team and yeah I've got a little bit of video to edit I've got some the design team call which there will be one for 2019 by the time you all see this that application should be out so I will link it in the description below but as of the filming of this clip I haven't made the official design team call yet but there will be one for my product line for 2019 I have to um make some tweaks to the application and then get that clip filmed and get everything out on YouTube so it's always something all right and I got asked yesterday if I would do some water well if I'm going to do any more watercolor tutorials the answer is yes but I have to be able to get to my stuff I really I tried to film something the other day and I was on the floor and that was just yeah it didn't work for me and I couldn't stand up straight afterwards anyway I just got a message from the bug people they'll be here between 8 and 12 it's after 8 so maybe closer to 12 all right I'll be back I just spent a minute talking to the phone and the record button wasn't on you know it's just going to be one of those days I don't know what to say the bug guy is gone um Scott my contractor fence guy is working on the fence and I need to go to the grocery store and bandits in his crate so he's safe and sound taken a nap snoring like the old dog he is so I'm gonna head to the store and I'll be back hey guys good morning it is 8 43 a.m it is Friday October 12th don't get all excited or anything I only know that because I'm sitting in front of the computer yes I still have no floor in the art room but they're very nice gal Debbie over at Lowe's and the guy that works in the flooring department Brad over at the Tigard Lowe's are working on it thankfully I am not blaming the delay on the staff at the store but there is a lack of communication between the contractors on the store which I think is a problem and the store is woefully understaffed like I can't even tell you guys how understaffed it is I've never seen a hardware store that needs more employees so desperately um anyway waiting on the tree guy to come and a tree guy hello fence guy to come and continue work on the fence and the surprise retaining wall we didn't know we had um he's going to be back Scott's going to be back today to dig the rest of the holes and get the posts in um he had some trouble with that yesterday he ended up having to run an auger and then he had problems with the auger and like yeah it was just like a comedy of errors and one thing after the other so anyway um he's working on that and um we also um are um expecting my brother to come into town today so I have to go pick him up at the airport I was just doing today's thoughts on Facebook about that um that was one of the things that was in today's thoughts because it is funny I'm a bit nervous I used to get lost trying to pick people up at the San Jose airport um keeping in mind I grew up in the California San Jose Bay area um yeah so finding pdx that's going to be a lot of fun I'm going to need early lead need to leave early and I need to get gas yeah so anyway um I need to update the website again uh in the next couple of days so I'm going to try to work on that today in between picking up people and everything and um yeah sometimes I'll be back good morning everybody see technically it's still morning it is 11 uh o'clock ish I am covered in dog hair mr b is in the back seat and um you can't see it but yeah I'm just covered in this um we are headed to our first trip to the v e t so uh the new one so wish us luck I'll be back all right guys that's it for the week mr bandit checked out just fine his blood work did finally come back a couple days after the last clip that you saw and he um is just fine and he's getting older but he's he's okay um that's it for the moment I have a busy week ahead and there's a lot going on I'll clue you in when I can um don't forget to um keep an eye on the Etsy store because there's new stuff coming out um pretty regularly right now as often as I can get it out and I've got a bunch of designs in my head I need to get out um on paper or electronically so I'm going to be working on that uh in the coming week or so and then um talking to my vendors to see who can make me what um that's it for the moment um have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it support your small youtubers and your small shop um creative shop owners um like of course myself I would appreciate it Mike Deacon Shannon Green and there's a number of others why don't you leave your favorite one in the description below that's it for right now like share and subscribe and I'll see you soon bye guys