 it is Sunday afternoon just before one o'clock September 17th and we are babysitting Junior and Lily and we decided to take them both out for a little walk once Junior and Oman Pops all had lunch so we're gonna do that and we'll go back and chill and Pops I think is gonna watch football anyway and I'll work on my little bumblebee I'm making a little stuffy bum a bumblebee stuffy if I can find the blog I got the pattern from I'll link it below I think like hand stitching these days with which they call slow stitching and slipknot they call a magic circle magic ring they call it a Maguri I think I probably butchered that but anyway I'll link it below all right I gotta put my other hand on the stroller I'll be back morning yes it's long-sleeve weather I'm so excited we're gonna be in the mid to low 70s all week so that is forecasted let's hope it stays anyway I'm headed out to Joann's really quick this morning because I can't get it out of my mind to get some blanket yarn and try making a giant Oman Gurumi bumblebee I made the little one last night I did look up how to pronounce it it's Oman Gurumi at least I think so anyway probably still butchering it and I apologize but he's the cutest little pattern from hooked up hooked by Robin I will link it down below and yeah you guys should try making it the little one I made I made out of scrap yarn and it turned out so cute so I just can't get it out of my mind to make a big one so we're gonna do that I also am going to depending on how complicated it is maybe I can get them both done today because the bee is not super complicated but I also need to work on a stuffed bunny for junior so out of what's left over of his baby blanket yarn so yeah and then after those two projects are done I need to make another baby set for my husband's boss which I've been saying that for quite a while now I still haven't done that so baby's not due till October I think hopefully so yeah there's that oh yeah and the school next to us put up the electric fence we figured out why goats so they're using goats in different sections you know one at a time I'm assuming you move them you do one section let them eat everything and move them to a different section anyway they're doing that to clear out some of the brush and shrubbery from the open space between the school and the residential area which they honestly probably even if they're gonna cut down some of the trees which probably they need to thin out the trees a little bit they have to do the shrubbery first because it's full of organ blackberries which have gigantic thorns on them and also poison ivy so yeah that's a thing so anyway we're gonna focus on crochet today we don't have junior today he comes tomorrow and today I can just crochet all day paint all day draw all day whatever I want to do I'm feeling more crochet I do have a few sewing projects I want to do and some painting projects that are brewing in the back of my mind but right now today all my muse can think about is crocheting it's all she can think about that's it as I've been saying for a long time now on my channel I go where she leads me and right now crochets the path so all right that's it for the minute I'll be back you guys I spent that day crocheting once I got back I did make the larger bee he's already done I'll put a picture here he is so cute that bee pattern is very easy to do and all I did was size up the hook and the yarn to be appropriate with the yarn I didn't change anything else about it and that's the size difference the smaller one is knit with a Karen mini skein I don't think it's worsted weight seems like I might be DK maybe DK weight I think I used a four millimeter hook or a five millimeter hook and then for the chunky blanky yarn I used a eight millimeter hook so double the size and the size of the bee hugely different but so cute anyway now I'm working on a bunny by one dog wolf one dog wolf is the name of her the designer the name of her blog and I'm doing the classic stuffed bunny pattern if I can find the link I'll link it down below I have one skein of our grandson's yarn left when I made him a blanket so I am using that yarn to make him a stuffed bunny and then I will work on my husband's boss's baby stuff anyway I have been avoiding going downstairs to do dishes and just staying up here crocheting all day but I guess I should go do them and I didn't edit the vlog today but it's due to be posted on Wednesday which means I guess I'm doing that either tomorrow before junior comes or after he leaves it is so yeah anyway all right it's a beautiful mild day out a little bit of a breeze not too hot I mean I have sleeves on so we might be going to the gym later I know the husband's going my first instinct is to say bye is he a but I probably should go too so yeah there's that right up in everybody it is Tuesday morning September 19th just after 9 a.m. and it is babysitting day but we are going to make a quick run to Hobby Lobby because I'm not expecting him for at least another hour if not a little longer so we're gonna go do that I still haven't edited the vlog this week you've been following my channel for a while then you know it's not my favorite thing to video edit just FYI which is why generally I film for the edit meaning there's a lot of breaks and I put a lot of clips together because I just really dislike editing if you're new here just FYI I hate video editing I am a creative channel but I guess I also am a life vlogger those of us who are aging and trying to live life getting used to being older and helping our kids take care of their kids and working our creativity and things we want to do in life into that welcome because I've barely left the art room all day today and I can't say I'm mad about it anyway it is Wednesday September 20th I think that read the first time it's around 4 30 ish p.m. and I've been up here in the art room crocheting and stuff all day yes I made two more I'm agree I'm agree still birching that name yeah penguins what am I gonna do with all of these no idea but I have two empty two I have two guest rooms up here so I might end up getting full with Armour Gurries the penguins are very cute I use this sort of rainbow colored chenille yarn or with some modern term blanky yarn this is from Hobby Lobby and the white I already had and it takes two skein their skeins are a little smaller so it took two and this is just leftover inexpensive worsted weight acrylic I mean even if you just do the little ones I used the same exact pattern for both the only thing is I altered the hook size to coordinate with the yarn I was going to use and this I used a five millimeter hook and on that one I used an eight that's that's the only difference between these two so anyway and the pill is a stuffing is I've had it from an old pillow in the closet for like five million years so I'm using it yay all right I'm gonna add for those of you out there who do these little crafty crochet projects there's a lot of different brands of mini skeins of acrylic yarn out there when you're doing these little tiny stuffies and stuff like that you don't need a big giant skein of yarn you can get these little minis and I occasionally see them at the craft store but honestly it's easier to just order them at Amazon Karen makes a mini acrylic yarn you can get a rainbow pack of colors it's very inexpensive this is my favorite brand there is another one of course I took my glasses off I don't know why I did that a brand is Mira the colors are great the yarns not bad but when you're doing the little stuffies because I got to stop butchering that other the Japanese name anyway when you're doing little stuffies this can kind of be a little bit of a pain to work with because it like wants to split all the time this one is great for a little mini acrylic yarn it's fabulous so and great to make these little stuffies out of you can use safety eyes or not lion of course it has their little mini skeins which are great too I don't need to buy more mini skeins but I'll put a link for the Karen ones down below anyway if you're interested okay I'll be back it is Thursday morning September 21st just before 11 a.m. junior's going to be here pretty soon you see I did a thing on my chin and no yeah anyway I got scheduled post for October for the Facebook group and Patreon done just now I have to prep October's journal and film and RC Trio video and that's on my list to do hopefully before Saturday we'll see if I manage that but hopefully which means tomorrow just FYI because I'm babysitting today I also went through a bunch of old crochet patterns I sorted out what I'm going to keep and put in my binder system downstairs and what's going to go away I also knew after crocheting up here yesterday that my corner with my chair and it needed a light because I was working at least in part with black yarn and if you're of an age well or not because I've had this problem for a long time black on black whether it's crochet or embroidery or what that's really hard to deal with without great lighting especially so I realized I needed a light and I'm thinking crap I've got to go find a light I wonder if I can thrift one and then I'm like hold the phone I have an extra filming light it's a really bright I pulled out the chair I swept the floor I cleaned back there and that's perfect there's an outlet there for one cord for my tablet when I have it over here which I do more often than not and it needs charging and that solved that problem just beautifully I have to say and the light's adjustable as far as angle and height so yeah it's going to be great anyway yeah I feel like I didn't do a whole lot that got a lot accomplished at the same time so anyway it's time to go downstairs prep some snacks and take some supplements because once juniors here my hands are full I'll be back Friday morning September 22nd 9 27 am it's only 55 degrees out so I've got my plaid on yay also put a bunch of bracelets on I just felt like it so hair's still wet but that's okay we're gonna go run some errands when I was at hobby lobby the other day the lady said come back Friday she didn't exactly say why although I was just buying yarn I don't know if they were just putting out new yarn today or if something else was going on but I need to go to Safeway anyway and there's one down there so we're gonna go to Hobby Lobby and then Safeway so yeah because you know the whole family loves jelly beans it's a thing when they come over and now that you know they're coming over more than once a week we run out of jelly beans more frequently and yeah and yeah this is what happens I get a little like itchy spot and I itch it and then it turns into those it'll go away eventually but yeah fun times anyway so we're gonna we look not quite awake yet might be reason for that anyway we are headed over to the kids house to help with the addition the construction of their addition Bob is gonna help with the actual construction I'm best staying off a ladder and away from hammers because I'll just hurt myself so I am tasked with babysitting which is fine it also happens to be daughter Rebecca's birthday everybody wish her happy birthday um I'm in a babysit because she's gonna go off she's not working she's gonna go off and spend the day with adopted sister Jenny which is fabulous and they're gonna just spend the day together wine tasting and all sorts of things okay hopefully no nails in the tire anyway so we're gonna go whoa hey well he's also speeding um anyway we're gonna go run a couple of errands and then head over to the house hopefully you know we don't run into any more speeders like just happened but anyway all right I'll be back okay let's try this one more time it's been a long day it's about a quarter to seven in the evening and it was a fairly successful day working on the kids construction project they got most everything done that needed to be done there are a few things left to do but it started raining because we here in Oregon are headed into the rainy season and whether they'll get the rest of it done or not before Polly is his parent head back to California I don't know that's debatable uh little junior is teething already he's five and a half months and he's got two teeth coming in so that was fun but no he was good he's a good little baby I'm watering the plants because I forgot to do that before I left this morning and so trying to get all the plants watered because you know I'm not great with them in the first place but if I forget to water them that doesn't help all right hang on everything's watered I do have a couple that look like they're dying but you know I've got water at least I also did order some yarn from my goals that I couldn't find in the stores and no it doesn't have anything to do with making any more stuffed animals it is cotton blend yarn and I and I couldn't find the color and or any of this in the store so I ordered it this is they're by care I think they're all by Karen and they this is a blossom cakes which is a cotton acrylic blend and I got it in the color doesn't have a color name radiant rainbow I got two I should I should have gotten enough to do sweaters by getting two cakes theoretically um I got Karen cotton cakes and this is a cotton this is all cotton cotton they're both cotton acrylic blend so that's interesting yeah this one's a lot softer and fuzzier this one actually feels like it could be 100 cotton and this and they're both 60 well this one's 60 40 60 cotton the other one is 61 anyway I got it in this color nice neutral color I got two and each one of these has 530 yards of that one and this one has 481 and I have a number of patterns that need 800 to a thousand yards to do the sweater um and these are for like tank top type sweaters without sleeves so that should work here's the second one of those and then the other color I got is called mm-hmm beach glass this neutral one is called what is it called lighthouse so I couldn't find these at the local shops they might have had it I couldn't find it but I knew that's gonna just have to sit there I knew the fiber content I wanted and um you know I'm not a natural fiber snob I hate to say that picky natural fiber person I don't mind working with some acrylics as long as they're good quality acrylics not a red heart fan nothing wrong with it but it's I'm not a fan of working with it um but yeah these are nice and I like the Karen brand Bernays also a good one and yeah I think I'll like working with those so anyway we are all done for the day and the week so how has your week been I hope it's been a good one why is that open I hope it's been a good one I hope you've had a good week and a good day and um you know that you go forward just being create your creative self some weeks if you're like me you're going to get more done than others you know life happens and that take your family takes priority and that means that um we can't always be as creative with as we want but I do make notes and on my tablet on my phone on a piece of paper if I need to of projects that I want to work on or come back to and sometimes it takes me a while to come back to them but I do eventually so that's something to keep in mind if you're like me and you're just really busy right now anyway if you have questions comments or concerns please do leave them down below if you guys want um channels or websites for crocheting content specifically and pattern ideas favorites of mine I can create a list for you all let me know I can put it in the community tab and let me know if you guys are interested in something like that um needlework and crochet are my first things I did being creative I learned them from my grandmother my dad's mom and um I remember wanting to learn how to crochet lace but she said first you need to learn how to hem the handkerchief and then you can put the lace the crochet the lace on it and you couldn't hem the handkerchief on the machine you had to do it by hand she was the old school but anyway I remember it fondly so anyway I love coming back to my roots and yes I'm you know creating you know stuffies I don't know anyway leave any questions comments or concerns down below if you have specific things you'd like to see on the channel let me know send me some ideas and um don't forget to check the video description for relevant links please like share and subscribe I would appreciate that if you want to support the free content you can join over on patreon it's not very expensive and I do provide some free content over there and they have their own private youtube channel and a chat with me so there's that all right that's it for today I'm going to drink my broth maybe have a cup of iced coffee and just sit and chill I'll see you next week bye guys oh don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it but I'd forget didn't you all right I'll be back bye