 It is Sunday afternoon December 15th 108 p.m. Don't get excited. I'm looking at the iPad. I spent the morning chatting with the art groups for 2020 the 2020 my creative year and the 2020 design team for my product line and I think we got things all set and ready to go. I need to film some video next week but other than that I think we're good. The husband is outside cleaning out one of our gutters where which is where all of the pine needles and stuff get swept down to. So I think it's going to be a monthly thing that we need to clean that gutter out. The kids are out house hunting and Lily is here wandering around wondering why I won't give her any of my lunch but you know that's the thing. Anyway a quiet Sunday but that's okay. I'm good with it. All right I'll be back. I'm going to go pick up some trash around the neighborhood. I've been meaning to do that for a few days. I fed Bambi, took some broken latticework down that we had attached to one of the fences. I've been meaning to do that since we moved in September of last year. Anyway it's down and in the trash. People are taking over my art room space for wrapping Christmas presents so I got to do something with myself so anyway I'll be back. Good morning. It is Monday morning December 16th I think and it is 10 o'clock, 6 a.m. according to my car clock. I don't know if that's right or not but that's what it says. I am in the McCann's parking lot so I was dropping off an Etsy order and picking up a flat rate envelope and I need, I thought I was done with the Christmas shopping but we need a couple of gift baskets for the parents, my parents, my husband's mom. So I think I'm going to head over to the little shopping center where Michael's is. There's a new season's market. They may have a few things and there's also a home goods over there. If I don't find anything there then I think we're going to pick one evening this week and head over to Costco which is a warehouse discount store for those of you who don't live in the U.S. or don't know what Costco is. So anyway yeah exciting right? I know. I already did my social media posts for today, some scheduled ones for later in the week and I wrote some other ones that I need to manually post over the next few days since I am scheduling out all my posts. I'm not doing them all at once. I want to work on some paper clips today and I need to this week work on filming some stuff for January and I need to edit the vlog. So that's all stuff that's on my plate this week and then I want to get done before Friday so we will see how far I get with that. All right I'll be back. I took apart the plastic insert from some Christmas lights because I wanted this which I took my husband's power sander to to sand down the plastic ridge here in the center. I think it's going to make an interesting mark making tool and something I can use on the jelly plate. I also got this one out of that same thing and there were two of each of those so on the other one of them. I cut it apart and those I think are going to just be interesting little bits and pieces to use like on paper clips and stuff. So then as I was cleaning up I realized I also have these which I'll add to my basket of found and homemade mark making tools. Pretty cool. I also was getting my journal ready for chronic pain for next year which is what this is. I'll be posting over there in that group about that so if you want to know what that's about and you want to know what I did in that journal and why we're doing it you join the Facebook group and I'll put the link in the description below. Holy cow our journaling through chronic pain. I should know the name of this holy cow our play through chronic pain. It's my friend Cindy Etters group and she and Peg Robinson and I and Karla McCants are all doing a series of projects next year of using chronic pain as a sort of therapy to get through our chronic pain using art journaling as a sort of therapy to get through chronic pain situations physical mental that sort of thing so anyway no substitute for professional medical help FYI but this is just something in addition that we do anyway if you're interested in following along or joining the group I'll put a link in the description below. I think I'm going to go check the mail now take a break I'll be back. Hey everybody it's Tuesday December 17th. I don't know what time it is I know it's after one o'clock that's all I know for sure. I've got four videos filmed edited and uploaded to YouTube this morning. I got some corresponding posts in Facebook taking care of this morning and scheduled I'm working on scheduling more posts so I don't miss things forget to share video you know that sort of thing so anyway I've got like four more videos to do for January commitment videos but the most important ones that are due like new years are done now so I can take a little bit of breather for the other ones so anyway it is cold out here I have a sweater on I'm still cold when I'm cold that's a bad thing it means it's really cold all right I'm going to head back inside and see what else I can do and get done well we have a quiet day in the house before the holidays hit right all right I'll be back. Doubt to get away from the children a little bit no honestly we needed to go get some Christmas shopping done and while we're out we're taking the opportunity to walk around some shops and get some steps in right now I'm in Cabela's and I don't hunt or fish or camp let's be honest but I like Cabela's I've talked about this before I love their organizational bags and things they have for the different sports they're great for art supplies they have the best candied cashews on the planet and it's the place where I buy my deer corn so anyway right now I'm standing at the candle aisle which I shouldn't be in because I really want to cough what was I thinking just wearing short sleeves out here to check the mail it's only 41 degrees out here even for me it's cold holy cow I spent the morning doing some social media stuff and working on a journal page chatting with friends working on laundry because the husband hasn't had an accident going up the stairs with a full cup of coffee now I have a load of towels to wash so yeah that's a thing all right I'm going to check the mail of you for a while here on YouTube then you know every year at Christmas time we send out a lot of Christmas cards over 100 and in years past I get teased by the family because I always end up sending them to dead people people who have passed in the last year and I've forgotten and I forgot to take them off the list in my defense I'm thinking about them anyway so always also the ones that have moved that you forgot about or didn't know about this year no dead people but I have at least one I need to get a new address for I need to make sure I do that today so anyway I'll be back everybody it is Thursday morning I think it's December 18th it's 9 46 a.m according to the car clock anyway I am headed out this morning after way too much coffee to go try to get the first round of holiday food shopping done and check on the PO box before I spend the rest of the afternoon puttering up in the art room hopefully making some paper clips anyway how's your day are you ready for Christmas present wise we're ready I think food wise not so much so anyway I better get to it I'll be back good morning it is Friday morning December 20th it is a rainy Portland winter morning it's Oregon I don't know what to tell you I think I said yesterday it was the 18th it wasn't it was the 19th I mean you know I look it up I still screwed up I don't know what to tell you anyway I would normally not be headed out in the rain this morning just because I don't like driving in the rain fun fact but when I was at the post office box the other day I had a brief two second thought no I should grab some flat rate boxes on my way out because I think I'm out at home for the Etsy store that's right it's Christmas I'm not gonna you know my Etsy store doesn't usually do tons of business at Christmas well I got orders last night I don't have any party mailers they all asked for a party mailing so yeah we're headed out to go get some boxes and bonus my husband said oh can you mail one more Christmas card so I guess it's a good thing I'm going out so Saturday morning everybody it's Saturday morning December 21st 9 18 a.m don't get excited I've looked already um if you're watching this clip you saw a clip I put I took out the audio and put some Christmas music to it because we had the radio playing in the background of my parents at my kitchen counter they came over last night for a pre-holiday dinner before the kids left to go to California to spend time with Polyasus family and I just couldn't help but film the two of them because my dad is um almost completely deaf he wears hearing aids and even with them in he's very hard of hearing and he was trying to talk on the phone to somebody and that's how he needs to hold the phone to hear and meanwhile my mom is just yeah so anyway it was pretty funny anyway we are off now we just dropped off some Etsy orders and we're gonna put gas in the car and we're headed out to a Christmas party thing with um Sarah our realtor who sold us our house last year and she actually called to make sure that we were coming I guess we kind of looked at each other and went I guess we better go no choice no choice yeah so we're gonna go to do that and I don't know what else we're gonna do nothing um we're not doing any chores we're just gonna enjoy the afternoon we'll see where it leads we'll be back guys it's something like that I just got done doing my daily drawings and we went to the Christmas party and we had a lot of fun and it was great to see people and chat and meet new people not something we either of us do well we're both introverts fun fact so but we did it anyway and it was a lot of fun um we didn't do much else to be honest we dropped off some Etsy orders put gas in the car and then just came home and puttered the rest of the afternoon it was kind of quiet to have the house to ourselves for a bit and just chill and relax did some dishes more cleaning up from the family dinner last night and that's it tomorrow we're gonna go do some running around do some shopping you know it's been a fun pre-christmas week next week's gonna be a little crazier but it's all right it's the holidays it's to be expected it's not gonna calm down until probably after new years it is what it is I'll bring you with me when I can anyway I hope you've all had a great week hope you're all ready for the holidays if you celebrate them and no matter which ones you do celebrate I hope you have a great time enjoying your friends and family uh anyway if you have any questions comments or concerns please leave them down below if you want to see what I'm up to on a regular basis and or follow what I do my other content other videos I don't post them all here on YouTube anymore sometimes they're going to be directly to Facebook sometimes they're over in my Patreon there's links for all of that stuff down below along with my Etsy shop my happy mail address all that stuff my email address I think is down there yeah anyway you have a lot of ways to contact me so do it don't forget to like share and subscribe and above all go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it we'll see you later bye