 Everybody say hi to G. Hey, buddy. It's Labor Day weekend and I thought it would be a good time to do a vlog and tell you what I did during the summer of 2022. You might have tuned in to find out how many countries I visited, how many ziplines I went on, and how many foodie things I experienced. And that would be a big fat zero because I work for a maniac and she says our budget doesn't have any gas in the tank so we stayed home and worked. The first eight weeks of my summer was peace, love, and art, in which I hosted a weekly challenge and during that time period we raised over $2,000 for charity. I put out six brand new classes, several that had pen and ink mixed with other mediums, which I did not know you were going to love that much, so stay tuned for more of that. And I also gave away over $1,000 in classes. I gave away $2,500 in art supplies. Lots of packages went out and the $2,500 does not even include shipping some of it overseas. So if you missed out I'm sorry for you, but you can see the new classes Lincoln and Doobly do. Once that first eight weeks of creativity was done I suffered some losses. I lost my aunt and I lost my cat within a week of each other and I took a couple weeks to just kind of recoup from that and then I knuckled down and got to some real work. I wasn't feeling super creative so I decided I would finally tackle some tech things that I wanted to update and I'm not going to bore you with all the themes that I used and how I united my brand across everything now. I will let you notice all that on your own, but there are some things that are for your benefit that I wanted to bring to your attention. I updated, cleaned up, and rewrote some pages on all of my websites, cleaned up the about me pages, and put some actual interesting information on them. I cleaned up my whole resume page. You might actually want to look at it because it has some sandiasms on it that are kind of hilarious. The FAQ page on all of my websites has not worked in a while. It's a toggle and there's nothing under the toggle because the plugin is broken but I didn't have time to fix it until now. They all work. I would love your help in coming up with more questions that I need to answer on those so when you find an FAQ page be sure to leave me a note. And I think I'd have to say that my favorite page now on my blog is the Studio Snacks page. I wanted to replace the old one that just had a supply list so when you wanted to know what kind of paper I used with a particular medium that you could have all that information there, well guess what? Not only has that shopping list for each medium, it has some pros and cons of each one. What does it do well? What does it not do well? It has some beginner classes so if you wanted to try something but didn't know where to begin, I'd give you some ideas. But the coolest thing about the Studio Snacks page is the videos that are now on it. There's exclusive videos you won't see anywhere else and they're going to change out over time. The only people who will get notified of when they change out is going to be patrons so you'll have to check in periodically or make friends with patrons so they can tell you when things are updated. And to those who have left comments for me, God bless you, saying, Sandy your art is so great. Why don't you sell it? Well I have been but I had this website in which the galleries did not work nor did the shop. You could only get to page one. You couldn't get to page two. So I fixed that. And thank you to Karen for finding the website and purchasing my Pelican which is now on the way to her. Speaking of fine art, I decided that I would enter Copic's competition this year. They're having a regular thing I think they do annually and they emailed and asked if I would enter something so I'm going to enter my waterfall. If you end up seeing something where they say go and vote for the people's favorite or some such, make sure you vote for the waterfall. They give you markers as a prize which I don't really need but boy could I use the cash and then I could do a marker giveaway so go vote for me if there is an opportunity. The updates at art-classes.com are super cool and they are going to be really helpful for you and it's not just that I wanted a new theme on that page that I wanted new graphics even though I love new graphics but it's going to make it easier for you to see focused on your experience because I've uploaded something that's going to streamline classes for you. They're going to look nicer. If you go into your account you'll see there's some new icons at the top that are going to help you navigate through the things you're trying to find. Once you go into your classes there's a different system now for navigating through you just click a mark complete button and it'll just take you through each one of your lessons. If you've been trying to figure out what level you're at what classes should you take because you don't know well now the levels page is readable it's no longer a microscopic type and I'm very excited to be able to share that with you. Vimeo has started doing automatic closed captioning so any of the newest courses are closed captioned and I have re-uploaded all of the jumpstart videos. Yes jumpstart classes are all closed captioned now. If you're one of my students who needs closed captioning please do contact me and let me know which other classes you'd like to take so I can get those re-uploaded for you as well. That we discovered during the summer that my app didn't work. I spent a lot of money on this thing and it did not perform as planned so by the end of the year it's going to be kicked to the curb however. Instead everything's moving over to mighty networks. I've started a network there called Artventure. It's open to not just students but it's open to all artists in my circle. Anybody who wants to come and join us as long as you're nice and kind and encouraging to other artists but it's going to be a great place for us to share our work. I've invited a small number of people to kick the tires. We love it so far. We've had some Zoom chats. We've had some text chats. We've had a lot of fun together and I hope you'll join us. Link in the doobly-doo to that and everything else. I'm going to bet that there's going to be some of you by now saying, Sandy, that's too much stuff. That's too many websites. How are we going to find all that stuff? Well guess what? I have that solved for you too. All you have to do is go to my homepage sandyall.com, scroll down past the smiling video of my face telling you jokes, then you get to a nice big section that has links to everything I do so you can never be lost again. Over on my blog there's a little scavenger hunt and under one of the tiles there's a coupon code so just for this weekend after this weekend it will be replaced but the scavenger hunt will still be there so if you see this video later feel free to click on the link in the doobly-doo and go see all the fun stuff. Thanks so much for going for a walk with me today. I hope you enjoyed it. I will see you again. Bye guys. Peace out.