 Um, the lighting is a little weird in my art room because it's cloudy outside. Let me put a few more lights on. Hang on. Did that help or no? Helped a little bit. I don't know. My forehead's still shiny. Um, for 2020 what we've been calling project pan art supply style and we are going to continue something similar into 2021. Um, and we're going to use the hashtag use it or lose it. For 2021 we're going to air a video I'm hoping for like around the 15th or so every month and we're going to review, um, in the prior month what we used up or what we decided to let go because we're not going to use it and all of those things. So for the end of 2020 up until today and today is the 6th of January. I should know this. Um, I have a pile of stuff to show you and one of my reasons for filming this so early and not waiting a few more days is because my box, my discard box is just completely jammed and overflowing and dropping everywhere. Um, and a few other things I want to go over with you including something about this box, but we're going to start with a discard box first. I am really trying to let go of most of my craft kind of paints. Um, there's nothing wrong with them. I just find that most of the time I'm not doing crafty things. I'm using them in my art journals and if they are your traditional craft paint, um, or more inexpensive sort of journaling paints, they are a satin or glossy shiny finish when they're dry and anybody who's done a lot of art journaling knows that those are the kind of paints that stick to each other when you close your journal. You have to coat them with clear gesso or wax pages or something and I've just found that it's easier to get a matte finish paint. Um, you don't have to generally do any of those things to it when you close a journal when it's dry and it's easier to draw over and doodle over, um, because of the matte finish. So, um, I have been transitioning to those paints for about a month or more now and one, two, three, four, five, six, forty-two, three, four, five, forty-six, forty-seven, and this one, which is stuck, uh, forty-eight, that have got to go. I also have a container of modeling paste that is so dry. It's so dry. It's, oh, it's a rock. It's not reconstitutable. It's got to go. I have been saving paint skins from acrylic pours. I have so many of these now and I've saved some really pretty ones that I'm going to use to make jewelry or something. These have got to go. Nobody in the right one is going to want them there, the color of mud. And then we have a few things that I'm going to put in a purge box that I'm going to let go of because I don't want to throw away. Okay, when I've done these purge boxes in the past, they've been primarily art supplies with a little bit of art thrown in. Right now, going forward until I get rid of what I need to get rid of, they are going to be primarily artwork and things from the Etsy shop with a little bit of supplies thrown in. So it's going to be, the balance will be shifted the other way. I'm going to open that other box that's open and shove some artwork in it if I can. That's the one with the Xyron in it and the large Xyron and I still have that box. And if anybody wants it, it's got the large Xyron in it. And I think one refill of something, I don't remember what. Anyway, the supplies I wanted to get rid of that were in the discard box. There are some printouts. So you know, when I'm working on artwork or printing things for the Etsy shop or doing things for the Etsy shop, I need to print a sample to photograph. And so I have some skyscrapes photographs. I'm going to put them in the bottom. I've got some random pictures, memes, pictures of artwork cutouts of some of my little things that actually at some point turned into stickers. Some collage paper books. Does anybody remember back in Crazy Island Family when we did these sort of match books of collage papers? I have so many of these. What I've been doing, I've saved them all. I've been going through them and I've been using what I can and I'm inspired to out of them. And if there's anything left like in this one, and I've shoved a few things in the back, I'm going to put the rest of it in a purge box so somebody else can use it rather than throw it away. These are some similarly liked items that I made out of greeting cards. And so I would take an old Christmas card and a bunch of random packaging papers and found papers and sew them in and make sort of a little collage paper book that I would tear bits out of when I'm working in my journals. This is one that I've used as much as I want to out of it. And there's actually a piece of a paper bag in here that I'm going to just tuck in. And so that's going to go in here. Snowflake cutting waste. So much of this from December daily. So that's going in here along with some snowflakes that I didn't use. So those are going in here. Some magnetic bookmarks, picture frame, two little books I made out of yoga for your brain, zen-tangle cards. And this is original edition and totally tangled edition. You know what? I haven't used these in years and most of the time if I want to do some sort of zen-tangly kind of thing, you can just look it up on Pinterest. I don't need to have these in my arm room so they can go away. Some winter scrapbook and papers from again the December daily that I pulled out what I want and the rest is going to not ever probably be used. So it needs to go. A little journal that needs to go because I'm not going to use it. And some a package of bits and pieces that were in the box for the December daily. Some wrapping paper, some ribbons, some stickers, some die cuts, some little bits of paper, painted paper that I'm not going to use and I'm so the whole pack is going in there. So I have some watercolor paintings I'm going to put in this one from an online class and I don't really teach anymore. They're the samples. I've got some stencils. These are original stencils that I made that when I first started making stencils. These are cut out of plastic folders. Some cut my hand, some cut with my silhouette, which I no longer own. I'm going to let these go. Okay, so we've got some artwork, original artwork of mine from 2008, 2009. Different things, a couple of them in the box without the Xyron because there's more room in there. There's all pen drawings, all kinds of things. You can see more about this purge and what's in here in the vlog for the week of third until the ninth, I think. I'll put the link below. We've got some ribbon and trims. This is the same kind of trim I used for tote bag handles when I made my daily drawing bag into a tote bag. Again, I'll link the video down below. I used this exact trim to make the handle. It's been in the Etsy store for a while and it hasn't sold. I'm going to put one in the box with the Xyron. I'm going to put the rest in the other box because it's got way more room. I also have some large, some wide grogling ribbon. I think this box is just about full. Okay, I have some metal, some cut metal. These will cut by my dad. A star shape and then some letters. This journal book by Floriboli that I've never used. It's been in my collection a really long time. It's a beautiful book filled with some of her artwork. It's really a gorgeous book and with space to do some writing and journaling, so following her prompts. That's going to go in the box. Again, I'll try to link it down below. I didn't have a jelly plate, so I used a piece of acrylic. A really long story. You can watch the video. I didn't know what a jelly plate was. I made a few prints that way and I have all of them up until now. This is one that is going to be a signed dated print. A one of one and it is a blue nude and this is from 2012. I don't know if I can get these in here. There are some big portraits. Anybody remember when I did the portrait painting with my toes? I don't know if I can get these in here because I don't think these are going to roll. I have some really big, some abstract watercolor landscape. I mean acrylic landscapes. There are some portraits on Verlap. Here's some more small ones. There's a whole bunch of small ones. There are some pencil drawings. There's another practice nude that I did at a later date. These aren't from the original batch. And they're not. Some of this work is signed and some of it's not signed. And to be honest, there's so much of it I really don't have. I'm not going to be able to go back and sign the stuff that's not signed. So hopefully you're all okay with that. Some of it's good. Some of it's not so good. That's not so good. Some of it you're going to want to get and maybe just cut up for a journal page. Cover, paint over it. I don't know what you're going to want to do with it. Okay, found some stuff. This is alcohol inked clear plastic that I use for all kinds of mixed media purposes. So we're going to like that though. If you've been following my channel for a while, you know I do a lot of art paper clips. So I actually have some packs of some of the paper clips that I use. We're going to put a few. I'm going to make a third box. So we're going to put a few in each box. I'm going to set some aside. I also have some art brittle, which is clear resin filled with glitter and metallic foil flakes and things and different like kind of broken pieces that you can again use on mixed media or your journals or paper clips. So I have a bunch of those. So I'm going to put a couple of those in this box and I do have some more and we're going to save those for the third box that I'm going to make. So I have a journal that I made out of this zipper case and it has some a couple of, is it just one or two? No, two collage journal pages done by me and then lots more blank pages with room for a few supplies. You can very easily make it into a travel art case. That's going to go in one of the boxes. Here's a journal I made a long time ago. This is one of the first journals I made and I've never put anything in it. It's been in the SD shop for a while. It hasn't sold. It's going to go in one of these boxes. It looks like this. It has a long string to tie it and does anybody remember being making this? It is made with envelopes. I think I got the idea from Shannon Green. There's tons of journaling spots and tux spots and all kinds of things. So that's going to go in and the cover is sewn by me and I think that this is like dyed baby wipes. I remember correctly. Okay, so we're going to package the paint the same way I did when I moved, which I tried to put light colors together. So if something did leak, it wasn't a big deal. I screwed the lids down really tight and then I put no more than three in a Ziploc bag together and sealed that shut tight. It is. Now for these kind of flip top decor work paints, what I found when I moved was the best thing was of course make sure it's on all the way, put a little piece of tape so it doesn't flip open and then put it in the bag and that for the most part, I think I only had out of all the hundreds of bottles of paint and that's no exaggeration. I think I only have like one or two weeks. So I have this journal which has been made from a Carlos Bakery box. If you are familiar with their TV show and they have a bakery in Las Vegas and I came home with the box, we've eaten sweets of course and I filled it with and this is hard for me to let go of. I'll have you know it's been in that Etsy shop a long time but and I enjoyed making it but I'm probably never going to put anything in it but I used some things from my grandmother's collection including some note paper with her name on it and there are some paint swatches. Like there's a lot of tuck spots here and this tuck spot has like a paint swatch booklet in it and it's all in the red and white checkered theme like the original bakery box. There is some coffee dyed paper, some music paper. I do know how to make junk journals, I just choose not to. There's you know prescription bag and all kinds of things in here. Some paper clips and different different things. So anyway that's going to go in one of the boxes. Part of the canvas corp design team I made of this journal as part of the design team and um yeah this has been in the Etsy shop also a long time. It's been in the bag so long that the bag is ripping. We'll just take it out of the bag um and it looks like this and it again is filled with different kinds of scrapbook papers and painting papers envelopes. It's got tuck spots and like all all of the things some burlap pages so yeah I'm going to put this in a new bag. This is a slow stitch paper clip. We're going to include that. Who remembers this? Did y'all know I wrote a book? It's actually available from me signed but it's also available in Amazon. My version that you get from me is Spiral Bound. It is a journal intended to spark your creativity and your journey and ask you questions and it tells you like stories about my journey on one side and leaves you space to create art or write your thoughts or something on the other side. I'm going to include one copy in each box. So when I was cleaning out the artwork I found a bunch of painting papers. We're going to we're going to put these in here. Some of these are painted on newsprint some of these are painted on drawing paper different kinds some of them are good again good some good some bad but you know you can use them for all kinds of things. So we're going to stuff the top of the box that I'm going to seal these three boxes they will be available in my Etsy shop and yeah I think some of this really big artwork really big artwork some file folders they'd be great for journal covers abstract landscape paintings there's a couple of them anybody remembers when I painted this portrait with my toes on YouTube there's two other sort of abstracted portraits and then some portraits on burlap I have a really big padded mailer envelope I'm going to see if I can get all these in here hopefully they're not too big otherwise to be honest with you I'm tempted to throw them away or cut them in half I know some of you are like okay so if you just want a little bit of artwork and I'm going to put a paper clip in here then I do have this big padded mailer I have a paper clip to stick in there here we go this one is cute this one has a little image in the background of a jar from my Etsy shop and it's a stake grounded in your power holy cow people use it or lose it it's the theme this month this year you know it doesn't do you any good to like take up space in your art room and just sit there for eternity if you're not going to use it and create art with it then maybe needs to go to somebody who did who will that's my theory anyway all right that's it for today please don't forget to like share and subscribe support your favorite content creators whether they're here on YouTube or over in the Facebook art groups find out how you can support them whether it's shopping in their Etsy store or they have a PayPal tip jar or they have a patreon or something like that find out how you can support them and do that I do have two Facebook groups that you can join add an Instagram you can follow me on Instagram my all my links for all of that stuff are in the video description in the link tree list of links so check out the video description look at it carefully any links that I promised you will also be down there if I forget something let me know in the comments and I'll fix it you can also if you're attached to me over in the Facebook art groups or Instagram you can private message me if you have a question and that's it for today please stay safe stay creative stay healthy please wear your mask and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys