 It is Sunday February 18th, and it is late in the day. It's like 6 25 I'm about to go eat dinner. I've spent the day chatting with friends catching up on daily drawings updating the website Chatting with my heart journal magazine Blah blah blah blah stuff stuff stuff stuff So the day is just whizzed by and I haven't yeah, I'm just now filming this So anyway, it's been a productive day And yet a relaxing day. I don't know how the two of those go together, but they do anyway Probably because I was chatting with friends on zoom while I was doing all of that stuff So that's today. I'll be back tomorrow It is Monday. It's president's day the husband is home. I think we're gonna go out and try to do something fun I don't know if we're gonna go to the beach or and head out like Santa Cruz Or if we're gonna go to the movies or I'm not sure yet, but I'll let y'all know what I know All right, I'll be back So we are in Milpitas, California Yep, and we're headed to the Great Mall today because we want to get out of the house Not a good mall the great great mall. Yeah greatest mall were too great And we're too big couch potatoes. So if you give us half an inch, we'll just sit on the couch all day So we thought that was probably not a good idea. So we would go out and go walk around the mall and yep Maybe buy a few things we don't really need, you know, yeah stuff like that So if we see anything funny or interesting, we'll take you with us eat food We're not hungry for by stuff. We don't need we need a pretzel. Don't we we should always get a pretzel I know I like this. Yeah. All right, so we'll be back. She's not like waiting for a parking space or anything She's just double parking right other people Unbelievable Yeah, if we had to deal with one more line of like 50 or more people or one more screeching child, I Think we were gonna go off the deep end But we got some good bargains on clothing that we didn't really need but it was really nice for both of us And I also found some really fun gel pens at the Daiso store here Every one of my area seems to carry slightly different stuff. So anyway They seem comparable to the ones I got at Muji, so we're gonna play with them later on when I get home Anyway, we're gonna go do that go home. I'll be back Very 20th. I only know that because I had to sign for something at the mailbox and it is after lunch I need to eat some lunch. I spent the whole morning chatting with my friends the zoomers While I was creating Sticker sheets. I know you're like what I can't see anything there. Hold on hold on because I'm not prepared So I took my feather design that you've all seen and I created a phrase to go with it And you can now get in my Etsy shop. This sheet is Five and a half inches wide by eight and a half inches tall full of feathers and the phrase They're all cut printed on adhesive paper and ready to go And so I figured out how to do that this morning and got that all worked out. I Am so happy because that's something I've wanted to do for a long time and I'm gonna bring you with me walk with me and Because I need to eat some lunch. I have a few cards and things. I Want to share one of them is from New Year's so that's kind of bad I am gonna sit down over here because there's one out here somewhere I have to find it. We're out in the library space of my house and Let's see somebody here it is Okay, so I got I'm gonna do this one first. So Stephanie Parks who is a fan a subscriber here on YouTube and a fan a friend Sends me regular emails and everything and she sent me this beautiful Card at New Year's it's been sitting on my desk for obviously for a while And this is a photograph of one of her pieces of art really great. Thank you Stephanie. I so appreciate the card It's gonna go in this box right here where I keep all the stuff that you guys sent me I Got this one recently from My friend Barbara Clark for Valentine's Day This is a card that she made and she included some little bits and pieces in it which are over on my Really messy art table and I am I have already used some of them. So I love that love to get happy mail this one is from Shirley Williams and I think does it have yet has an ATC card in it again. This is a Valentine's Day card that she made for me and And Included this really pretty ATC card with a note on the back. Thank you so much It's so pretty and I have a smaller box that the ATC cards go in and since you signed this one That's where that's gonna go. The card will go in this big box and then this one is from If I'm not mistaken I Laura I'm sorry Connie Krueger and Connie is the one that made the ceramic pot pots Look that are hanging on my wall above my desk that I put the feathers in that I shared a few weeks back when I was Rearranging my room. She's the one who made those which I couldn't remember at the time if I can find a picture of them I'll include it here. There are these cute little ceramic pots on some ribbon that I stuck some of my feather collection in and Because I said in the vlog I couldn't remember who sent them to me I wasn't sure so she sent me a card with this really nice note and look at this beautifully doodled card Look at that. I do not have the patience for that most of the time, but look at that. That's great So I really do appreciate all the cards that you all send me just so you know I do save them and they go in my boxes or a journal or something somewhere I even have one of these old seven gypsy Sort of ATC things right there So yeah, I've got a few places they can go. So that's it for right now. I Need to eat some lunch because I'm starving and I probably should drink some water because I haven't had any in a while And we got the sticker thing worked out so whoo that like took all morning, but I'm so glad it's something I've wanted to do for a long time. I was gonna check the silhouette portrait Which is what the cutter is that I have Because I bought it thinking it would be more useful and it just wasn't and then it dawned on me this morning I wonder if and yes, I can so Yay Look for more of those coming soon to the Etsy shop. All right, that's it for right now. I'll be back Hey guys It is Wednesday Yeah, it's Wednesday. I think it's the 21st And I'm obviously in the car again headed over to get the mail and I've spent the morning after I got my steps in which I did do Working on new stencil designs doing some redrawing and some drawing of some things and Brainstorming with one of my design team members Which is fabulous to bounce ideas off of the team when you have a good one that you can trust So I've been doing that all morning I was up until kind of late last night creating More of the new stickers that I showed you all already yesterday. I have another set Another set That I cut a few of them out last night they cut beautifully once I figured out what I was doing which took all morning yesterday Figuring out how to use the equipment I have to do what I wanted Once I figured that out then the rest is cake And so now I'm just waiting on packaging to come in and I need to design a backer card for the stickers something that'll work in everything and So I do have the feathers already up for sale even though I don't have packaging ready And the other set will be in soon and here's a sneak for all of you it's called be a wildflower and It's sort of watercolor inspired. So I hope you'll all like it If I have a picture I can insert it like here somewhere. So I'm gonna go get the mail. I've got it ship some Etsy orders and some happy mail and Then I am going to work this afternoon on trying to finish the journal page that's on my desk I shared a picture of my messy desk on Social media yesterday, and I think I shared it in the clip I filmed yesterday Anyway, I'm gonna try to finish the journal page that's on my desk at some point, but I also need to I Design that packaging and while I'm waiting for the bags to come in and I need to work on some more stencil designs and I have some digis too that I need to do That might actually work for another sticker set so I really need to finish them Because I may be able to do like both so anyway That's it. I think for the moment I have a big bag of stuff here. I need to go get over there And I think there's some packages waiting for me to pick up at least one And uh, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Hey everybody It's time to color my hair again, can you tell? Uh It's been a crazy morning I um I got up A bit early right after the husband left for work. He left leaves at 6 30 in the morning Because I needed to finish some stencil designs. I started working on last night And of course my mouse on my mac was dead which meant plugging it in and then I got that fixed and then that mac didn't want to recognize the printer and then Took way longer than it should have But it's done. So 10 new designs are off to Be checked and prototype. There's one. I think I might have to redraw Well, I'm gonna see what my deacon says. I'll find out. Um Because he helps me out with that. Anyway, what else did I do? I don't think I did anything else. I started a little laundry um And we have somebody coming over tonight that we're meeting with my husband and I and so I forgot about that so I need to clean the house and Ah, yeah, yeah, I have to go to the grocery store. I haven't done that yet Uh, we've got two new sticker designs. Both are in the etsy shop the um Packaging for them. I printed last night for now. I'm gonna print it at home um I have plenty of ink right now. I'm just thinking I don't think I need ink I've got I know a couple of empty cartridges on my desk, but There's more ink in the drawer. Uh Thinking like I'm forgetting something What it is it's gone. I don't know So we're gonna go to the grocery store. Maybe I'll remember while I'm there You never know. Um, I am going to start filming hopefully march commitments today If not today tomorrow And because now I have to clean the house. So if I don't start filming him today, I'm going to start filming him tomorrow I want they get to get them done by like Tuesday next week. So I can edit them and get them loaded to youtube and um That's it for the moment. I am going to head over to the grocery store and I'll be back Hey guys, how are you? It is Friday morning February 23rd, I think pretty sure maybe Anyway, I'm sitting out here in our library area and uh Getting my stuff together. I've got to go out and of course go get the mail as per usual I do that every day. Hey, um, I also have some etsy orders to send out and I've been a filming maniac this morning trying to get all of march filmed For my commitment videos for my creative year explorations of me my giant life On i'm working on the last one for my giant life and uh It is more complicated than the others because it involves Doing a bit letting it dry doing a bit letting it dry So that always takes longer to film because I don't like to necessarily Always speed up the drying time with the heat gun um Easier sometimes to um just let it go So i'm going to do that right now I'm going to let it go and let things dry and then I'll go back and I should be able to get the rest of it finished filmed before um Everybody comes home and or and or over tonight. It's family Dinner and game night and so we're going to do that and Tomorrow we have to take the dog Mr. Poopy pants to uh to the vet Time for a check-up and to get his nails clipped and stuff like that. He needs a couple of vaccinations And um, we have a our meeting was rescheduled from last night until tomorrow. So we have that when we get home and um I think that's pretty much it. It's going to be a quiet weekend this weekend um the next weekend after this we have A lot of stuff going on so um Yeah, anyway, I I'm going to go get the mail. Hopefully they're done sorting at least some of the mail. Um So I don't have to go back later But the kids are coming over for dinner so I could always ask them. Hey, can you stop and get the mail on your way over? Wouldn't be the first time. All right. That's it for right now. I'll be back Pooch down All right. Hey guys, did you hear that on the pooch down bandits in the back? You probably won't see him because I think he's too old to get up on the seat. Yeah Um, he's on the floor back there squished on the floor and I said we should we should uh put on some classical music because Holy crap. What's the game with? He's got a pillow? I don't know. Hopefully it's not all like going to our house. That's the mailman the mailman has I think that's the most packages or anything. I've seen the mailman around here carry ever He's early too. It's like 10. He's really early for saturday. It's only 9 50 in the morning And we're watching him because I'm really hoping none of those Because all of my packages should be going to postal antics. So anyway Um fun fact. All right, so we're so any we're heading to the we're headed to the vet, right? We should put on some nice classical music because he's going to get stressed out What's that? What's that saying music hath charm to sue the savage pooch? I know that's exactly how it goes, but okay Hath charm to sue the savage. I think it's savage beast. I think it's a beast So anyway, so we're headed out to the vet's office Then we have meetings later today and you're a savage beast I think some unexpected finance stuff we're going to try to take care of and I've got ton of video to edit for you guys here on youtube and And you know the normal laundry and stuff. So anyway, that's what we're up to today. How about you guys? What are you up to? Hope you're having a good day We will let you know how it goes at the vet's office. If I get any If anything cute happens, I'll try to catch it on camera Yeah, there's a lot of I don't need a need a desk No, it's a free desk Yeah, all right, so we're gonna go take care of that and I'll be back Okay, so It's two 10 I just got the mail and I got my shipment from clearbags.com. So I'm able to finish packing up The new sticker designs and um print and cut some more and get them listed in etsy So by the time you all see this, hopefully that's done So check the etsy shop for the new stickers sets and um, yeah We had our meeting today that went well um My husband's on the phone with another business and financial phone call that we need to make he needs to make And um, I'm gonna go home and see if he's in the middle of that and what's going on with that and After that, I think we can just chill and relax. We might go out to dinner Um, we don't have anywhere we have to be and We might not want to cook So, yeah, and I think that's it for the moment. I Can't think of anything else that's going on Today some random weird guy hanging out in front of the church. Yeah, that was weird. I have some Um, three more small mystery boxes listed in the etsy shop I'm gonna include some video footage here of me packing them They're filled with ephemera and some old artwork of mine some paper punches Um paper punch storage bags each box has one bag in it Um, and I'm I show packing them up in the footage that you're watching right now They are for sale. I'm anxious to sell them I also have a lot of original art and some other things that are on sale for really fabulous prices in my etsy shop They have to go I need to I unload a bunch of stuff. So go over to the etsy shop and take a look I hate to always lately be having a sales pitch in my videos, but People I've got too much finished artwork. It's got to go All right, so that's it for the moment Um the day the week. I hope you all have had a great week and continue to have a great weekend Um What is my neighbor doing? I don't know if they know what they're doing. Well, they go um Drive me backwards down the street because that's what we do anyway, um Have a great day week weekend Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it Don't forget to like share and subscribe and just go out and be a decent human being It doesn't cost you anything, but you might brighten somebody's day All right, that's it for the moment. I just pulled up into my driveway. I will see you in the next vlog. Bye guys