 Happy Easter. It's Easter Sunday. It's like 4 30 in the afternoon and my natural hair color is coming out. It's pretty silver. Yeah anyway it's gonna get worse before it gets better. Anyway I'm feeding the deer some corn, cut out a bunch of new zombies, did some computer work, got another roll. I got another load of sourdough rolls in the oven. Some more sourdough starter discard instead of throwing it out which I just really don't have the heart to do. I've been making bread or rolls or something with it. Now I started my starter a week ago. You need to really feed it every single day for two weeks when you first get started which I'm doing. I haven't had a sourdough started in like a million years it feels like. Anyway after that I can put it in the fridge and just feed it once a week but for right now I have a lot of discard and yeah that's a thing. If I can find some rye flour I might try making sourdough rye bread because that's a thing. I also got a recipe, two recipes from my cousin in California. She and her mom and a bunch of my cousins down there they're all we're all cooking. We're all doing the same. We're Italian so we cook when we're stressed. I got a recipe for sourdough crackers and sourdough waffles. So we'll be trying that I think this week. We'll find out how it works. I'll let you know. I'll put the recipe links in the description below so you all can try it. I'll also include one for making your own sourdough starter and basic bread and all of that. I use some organic honey as I've stated before instead of sugar for my friend who's a beekeeper so that's a thing. Use what sweetener you want but the honey seems to be working well for me and I love the way it tastes. So as does the husband because he was making sandwiches with the homemade bread earlier. Anyway I'm gonna feed the deer and then go check on my rolls and I'll be back. Those are two little duck friends. I bet you they have a nest there somewhere because that's where we saw them yesterday. Good Monday morning everybody. Hopefully you can hear me but I guess I'll find out in editing. Anyway it is Monday April 13th. It is 1130 in the morning. I'm all suited up. I've got to go pick up an order for some supplies I'm literally out of at Michael's. You order it online. You drive up. You pick it up. You don't get out of the car. Anyway I don't know how this is gonna work exactly but I guess we'll find out. Crazy times right? In the meantime I'm sporting my new head tube. It's covered in skulls. It's a little more comfortable than the mask. It's more comfortable than the mask but does the job. It's double-layered and so anyway I'm not gonna pretend I'm not a little scared to leave the house but I need some supplies. I'm literally running out of stuff. I never thought that was possible but anyway. Alright I'll be back. Okay that was remarkably easy and strange all at the same time but I disinfected the bag already with some wipes and it's right here. The wipes are on the floor. I'll clean that up and spray on everything when I get home. Very strange but they did have everything I needed in stock so that's all good. Anyway let's go home now. I'll be back. I can't my blood pressure can't take all this stress of being outside the house. Really can't. Okay so lunch has been had. Sourdough starter has been fed. This is week two on the starter too. Started a new starter. Usually you have to feed it for two weeks straight every day to get it really good and sour. So we're on week two. I did discard some of the starter today because I've got half a loaf of bread in the fridge and a whole bunch of rolls and making a new bread today so yeah. I need to eat up what we have before I try making more. I do think I might want to try sourdough rye but I need to try to find rye flour so that might be a thing. In today's uncertain times it's hard to find ingredients. Anyway Lily wants to go out so we'll let her out. I had lunch. I had the starter like I said and so I'm gonna head back upstairs now. I've got to edit this last week's vlog to air this week so I'm gonna work on that and then hopefully the piece of fabric I was distressing a little bit is dry. I was putting some ink and stuff on it to just make it look a little old and worn. Hopefully it's dry because I want to finish a stitching project so we'll see. I'll be back. Good morning Tuesday morning April 14th. It's an attractive look isn't it? It's just before 8 o'clock. Still haven't fixed my clock in the car yet. Anyway I am geared up because I have to go to the grocery store. It's the first time to the store by myself since this whole thing started. Fun fact. So that we need groceries. I need to drop off some masks to be shipped to somebody in need. A nurse in Wyoming. A carer in Wyoming. And I got to get that done and everybody else is busy. I can't always rely on them to do shit for me. Alright that's getting old fast. So I'm gonna go out and go get it done. Oh bright light. That's better. Anyway so I'm gonna go get it done and get the package dropped off. Get the groceries shopped for. I don't know when I'm gonna be able to find. I should have left probably an hour ago but I really really needed some coffee. There's a lot going on right now at the house. I didn't get to bed till late. Again the kids are in the midst of remodeling their house. So things are a hive of activity. We are keeping social distance as much as we can while still trying to get their housework done. But yeah, a lot of stuff. Anyway let's go get it done and see what we can find and see what kind of substitutions I need to make because I can't find stuff. I don't know but we'll find out. I'll be back. Family. I tried the box here if I can. I had one this morning while I was out there. It was too big. Too many masks. I had to go drop it off. So I did it while I was suited up to be in the public. But it seems like all I do right now is make masks and send masks out. I have some people sending me elastic because of course I've ordered some but it's not in yet. I don't know when it's coming. No it's just I don't mind being home but the stress of the world situation starting to get to the whole family. Bob thought an envelope that came was you know one of those random pre-approved credit card things that we don't want, we don't need. So he shredded it and then afterwards realized it was our insurance card renewal. So I did reorder that. New cards. Yep. My Subaru has a recall, airbag recall which I've put off doing and the dealership keeps emailing me. So I finally contacted them and they have a because of the world situation they will come pick the car up for me fix it and bring it back. So yay. So that's gonna happen. I don't know. And you know I've gotten to where I don't wash my hair every day. I didn't ever get a shower this morning because I just got dressed first thing this morning and went off to the store. Not that I'm dirty or smelling or anything but it's just weird and different. So yeah I did get another zombie doll made and so this is Mr. Stay Safe and his tagline is gonna be are you feeling right now like there's not enough masks or protective gear bubble wrap you can wrap yourself and your family in to feel like you stay safe or are gonna stay safe? Mr. Stay Safe gets you. And yeah got a couple more positive affirmations on my positive affirmation doll and got my daily drawings done before 34 I don't know it's after four o'clock. Let's see. I have to spray those shoes lice all somebody remind me. 429 yeah 430. So I'm gonna sit and have some more water watch a little YouTube and then I'm gonna get working on dinner because I'm the family cook these days so you know what are you gonna do? All right that's it I'll be back. Hey guys so we're headed out for our evening's walk. Lily has already left her deposit and Bob has gone to dispose of said it deposit. I have to sneeze. Hold on allergy season. Wow. All right sit down we're gonna tell you to get up uh anyway we're gonna go head out on our walk I'm gonna see what pretty things I can get pictures of and I'll be back. I think I'm too old to jump leap or hop it's a big game they put a lot of deer I don't remember synonym from it antonym from noun from anything it's too long ago my brain forgot hop jump leap hop jump leap those are synonyms. I've forgotten most of the English class it was too long ago that was uh yeah a long time ago yeah very long back in the 60s 70 somewhere in there so two days in a row I'm in the car yes yes I am I couldn't find some things yesterday at the store so uh that I went to and uh rest of the household needs liquor I don't drink but um and they weren't open when I went by so I'm gonna go actually do the liquor store first thing this morning and then I'm gonna go try to find that couple of things that I couldn't find yesterday and I may just go out driving around to be honest this whole thing is you know of course making all of us stir crazy so yeah I have one of my head tubes with me today in lieu of a traditional face mask and we're gonna just go get it done I have my fresh bag of Clark's wipes got some some sticks to push buttons with hand sanitizer and I do have gloves in the car if I need them so yeah let's go get it done I'll be back you might hear the ring in the background and you might hear Lily barking in the background it's because the pest control people are here and she's in her crate and she's not happy about it and they're strangers in her yard she doesn't like it I haven't told her yet she doesn't actually live here but you know uh anyway um I do want to say I didn't find any rye flour this morning as I think I said to you all already but this whole search for ingredients and getting back to cooking at least some things and baking and you know has led me to some fabulous finds of the smaller lesser frequented markets and I just found a local Oregon flour mill not too far from me that I can actually order flour from and have it sent to me and the shipping is not ridiculous it's a reasonable cost on the shipping and they have it in stock I mean yeah so you know I think buy local stay local I mean you know visit your mom and pop shops visit those those stores that you wouldn't normally I know we found ingredients for some things and some really good food at the local Asian market at the natural grocery stores so check them out you know you're gonna maybe find what you need there rather than the big box stores at least for right now nothing wrong with a good big box store but sometimes you need to fit uh visit the mom and pops too it's a good thing all right I'll be back no hey guys we are out getting some steps in while it's still light and bright out I spent the afternoon working on another slow stitch project and this one's lemon inspired I'll put a picture of it as it is right now here somewhere not done yet but by any stretch but yeah it's pretty cool I'm liking the process a lot so anyway we're gonna go get some steps in and I think tonight if I can I'm gonna try to read my next Gene Haynes watercolor book and yeah that's what's on my agenda right now what about you keeping busy during the quarantine stay in place stay at home I don't know what you want to call it but anyways I hope so all right I'll be back good morning everybody it's Thursday morning April 16th I think I think anyway I'm playing chief cook and bottle washer again I've been doing that all week um and portioning out some leftovers for meals for Bob and I for the freezer and um these are just leftovers from the last couple of days and um I've got some chicken here so I'm gonna cut that up also I think Bob's gonna eat some of it for lunch so I'm gonna cut it up so he can make chicken salad and um I ordered some more silk buttonhole twist on Etsy I'm really enjoying working with it I had a box of vintage sewing stuff some of which was from my grandma there and there were some vintage buttonhole twist in there and love working with it it's kind of hard to find new even if the shops were open right now which they're not um and if you look online it's like really hard to find but Etsy has a number of sellers who have lots of vintage buttonhole twists so I've ordered some of that and some felt felt I did order felt but not felt uh wool and other things to work with my slow stitching and so I will link some of my favorite sellers that I'm enjoying the products down below for you right now I'm gonna cut up my chicken and uh get that done so I can get on to other fun things like laundry all right I'll be back okay guys so I'm working on laundry downstairs happen all day but I got another slow stitching project done my lemon piece is all done turned out so cute and I am loving it so much that I've rearranged a few things in the art room so that I can have most of my stitching supplies and concentrated in one space over here by the sewing machine so I already had my embroidery floss here and some doll making supplies here which I've rearranged a little bit um there's still doll making supplies there but because I do the occasional dodie doll or voodoo doll or something like that voodoo doll zombie doll um but then I added a couple of baskets of fabric that I want to set aside just for doing slow stitching and things so that's how much I'm liking it so anyway I've got to put these empty baskets away I didn't really get rid of anything um except for some paint chips and I might put those in the box for um project pan art supply style and just to um share in that video that I'm getting rid of them I also figured out there was a YouTube video on how to do this leaf stitch I figured it out um I may share it in a future little video that I put um over in YouTube I haven't decided yet but I did figure it out and it's pretty cool I'll be using it in future projects I think anyway I'm going to clean up some stuff in here and I have to add a word to my um positive affirmation doll and then I need to go downstairs and start dinner so I better get to it I'll be back we are headed out for this evening's walk Lily has already done her business we didn't get even a block from the house so Bob's walked back to go dispose of the items in question um have I expressed how much I really enjoying slow stitching lately I am really uh going back to my roots with embroidery my grandmother my dad's mom yeah it's bringing back good memories and I'm enjoying the process and who knew I'm probably the last one on the planet to discover silk buttonhole twist I had a couple of old sewing boxes in my art room one of which is my grandmother's in a cup both of them there was some silk buttonhole twists I've been using it that stuff's a joy to stitch with holy cow so now looking for vintage thread silk thread is going to be on my thing that I'm going to be doing whenever I can get back to going thrifting but yeah that's really cool so if you'd like to see a video on slow stitching and my take on it let me know in the comments down below in the meantime we're going to go get some steps in and I'll be back good morning everybody it's Friday morning April 16th I think I think I don't know anyway it's Friday it's 9.22 am I already said to you all I couldn't get into a lot of what was going on this week but this week was a stressful week week the kids are doing some reno at their house they just bought they've been living with us for a while for those that don't know and they're doing some reno they need to do before they can move in and there are people helping them and we're all trying to do get what needs to be done done while maintaining social distance which is challenging and I'm in charge of feeding and watering the horde so while trying to maintain social distance so I've been out this isn't going to be my third trip to the grocery store this week I keep thinking I have enough food I keep running out of things so I'm off to the shops again hopefully just one um my allergies are still at it and so I have a cough drop in my mouth I've got one of my head tubes you like this one it matches my face mask that I have with the same similar print anyway so I've got my head tube on and I think I'm ready to go let's go see hopefully they have most of what I need or they have something I can substitute so cross your fingers all right I'll be back hey guys it's Saturday April 18th I said yesterday it was the 16th it wasn't it was the 17th today is April 18th my mom's birthday so everybody say happy birthday to mom it's just Lily and I today everybody else is over at the kids house working on getting it ready for them to move in things have been pretty stressful this last week in case you didn't get a clue already okay guys I um I think I'm gonna close the vlog now it is Saturday afternoon Bean there she is Lily Lily Bean is in my seat she likes to sit there when I'm not there anyway I got another zombie apocalypse pandemic doll done this is miss uh take miss taken faith if you want the explanation for the name look me up on social media my links in the description below I post daily on instagram and stuff like that so anyway uh the zombie apocalypse pandemic dolls are my way of dealing with the current worldwide situation and how I'm feeling about it to be honest some people love them some people hate them whichever genre or direction you're in regarding the dolls that's cool but they're my way of dealing with what's going on anyway I got another one done I'm gonna feed my sourdough starter I think tomorrow I'm gonna toss the excess but I think tomorrow instead of tossing the excess I'm gonna make some sourdough crackers I do have a recipe and I haven't made it yet so I think I'll do that tomorrow we got a load of rags in the washing machine I need my daughter to take her stuff out of the dryer so that I can dry them um I got a bunch of other stuff done upstairs and questions answered and the floors are clean the kitchen is clean again so anyway um I am going to feed the sourdough starter then I'm going to sit and relax and watch some YouTube because I think it's time maybe I also did my daily drawings already but anyway that's it for this week I hope you all are staying safe staying healthy and staying creative don't forget to like share and subscribe if you have any questions comments or concerns leave them down below I do have a couple of different art Facebook groups um which you can also tag me in posts over there and share your work I'd love to see it yeah ask me questions stuff like that I will link them both in the description below a life of art and self-expression and my creative year both of which have daily art prompts or drawing prompts in them um and we have video shares that go on over in my creative year also so anyway um what else I'll put any relevant links down in the description below I'm going to take a deep breath and we will get past this craziness with this current worldwide situation and I have faith in that it's not mistaken faith but it's faith there's a hint all right anyway that's it for today I think don't forget to um go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys