 Hey guys, happy Sunday. Is it still Sunday morning? Oh technically it is 1151 a.m So I just finished timing a pair of Bob's pants because he ripped a giant hole in a pair of pants yesterday, so Yeah, that's done. Anyway, the rainbow tumbler is all finished finally. There is a couple of like rough-ish spots less than completely smooth spots around the upper outside edge But I think I'm gonna just leave them. I can think I can live with it So I'm gonna let it Dry I like to let them dry. I mean supposedly the resin cures in 24 hours I actually like to let it dry a couple of days. I need to trim the Overspill. I don't know if you're gonna be able to see that there we go of resin That's on the inside of the cup leaving some on this upper edge And then it'll be done and in the meantime. I've got the purple glitter tumbler I need to add some resin too. I might have just enough resin to finish that one I started doing this to use up the old resin that I had so Maybe it's got too close to glitter on it So I think it's time to put it on the spinner and get it get it ready And then I'm gonna work on some more watercolor videos today. I think so what do y'all up to today? All right, I'm gonna get working and I'll be back. Okay. Wow. It is what time is it? 3 32 p.m. On Sunday. I was going to film like three or four more of the 30 and 30 videos. I Filmed all of them How many did I have to do eight seven or eight? I don't know I lost track now So I guess I'm spending the entire day tomorrow editing a bunch of video because I not only have the vlog now to edit But I've got all of I've got a total of 10 30 and 30 videos to edit which requires 20 edits Because you on YouTube get the speed through version, but the patrons get the talking version Yeah Anyway, I guess what my day is going to be busy doing tomorrow Yeah, hey guys. Good Monday morning. It is Monday morning. It is 9 58 a.m. I'm obviously upstairs in front of the computer I have a long day of video editing ahead of me. So I'm kind of procrastinating a little bit getting started Um heard from my dentist this morning as you all know from the last vlog. I had some dental work done Um, I have to check back in about a month with them and see how things are going I'm probably gonna need at least one crown for my birthday An oral crown wasn't the kind of crown I was hoping for but what are you gonna do right? So, okay editing those videos literally took all day It's after four o'clock. What time is it 4 28? It's almost 4 30 um I did in the meantime get the rainbow tumbler finished and that needs to get a good wash out Once it's finished it needs to be cleaned before you can actually use a drink out of because you know, there's Dust and glitter and whatnot inside Anyway, the purple one is on the spinner again with a second coat of resin I think I might have just enough resin to finish that purple commission. So yay Round up all the fabric and trims that I did a DIY dye job on and got those put away I did get some pictures which I will put um on social media tonight and I got the floor swept up there Um, I got the table rearranged just a little bit for tomorrow's live broadcast and Yeah, now I need to do the dishes because the kitchen sinks. Yeah Gross, so I better get to it. I'll be back I got a cough drop in because my allergies are kind of flaring up a little bit It's 80 degrees. Is that what you said? 80. Yeah, it's a beautiful bright sunny day 79 79 well We're gonna go out in the sun. Yeah, we're gonna go out and get some vitamin d go for a walk Before dinner Got my mask in case we need it. Fred's got one too starting This week If we're in a public setting outside and we can't maintain social distance you need to have one so Which I've kind of been doing anyway Hey guys. Good morning. It is Tuesday morning 9 37 a.m Obviously, if you all know and you've been watching I'm in front of the computer. Don't get excited Um, and do you see that? Let's see. Hang on. Don't make you dizzy, but do you see all that setup business behind me? We are getting ready to go live and um Yeah, it's Only the second time in more than three years Yeah, three years That I've gone live the first time was sort of a live test that turned into a one hour chat I don't know Anyway, um We're gonna go live this morning in a few minutes and we're gonna work on some slow stitching You we're gonna get a project started in chat and I've got the camera set up On the tripod. I've got you can see the iPad right there so I can see the chat The microphone is um next to it. You can see the round white thing. That's the microphone So we're set up and ready to go and uh, that's going to be the focus of today. I did get um The monday posts I should have done yesterday done this morning and I got um A bunch of schedule patreon links done that I should have done yesterday too done this morning before I set all the equipment up Um, I was so busy editing video yesterday and trying to get it loaded to youtube I didn't do either one of those things so I did them this morning But 22 videos Is a lot of videos. Um, we won't be doing that again anytime soon. So Anyway, I still need to um Oh, I need to cross one more thing off of my list I have a couple other things that are on here that I might want to work on but In the meantime, I'm going to just sit and relax and chill and have some coffee And I'll probably go live a few minutes early like five or ten minutes early just so we can like check sound and stuff like that um But yeah, I ought to be a fun morning I'll let you know how it goes. I'll be back. Okay. So the live broadcast went pretty well, I think and we Took this painting of mine that I did in a kids art video not long ago And we started turning it into a slow stitch So it's just the beginning So it's turning out really nice already. I already like the where it's going. So we will continue to work on that in next week's broadcast Will I do a little bit to it between now and then? I don't know for sure Maybe it's the best answer I could give you on that So anyway, okay I Got a frog in my throat. Okay. I was listening to our president speaking Yeah, I can't watch anymore I sort of cleaned off my table. So we've got project piles So I've got my meditation journal, which I'm going to actually move to like right there because I think I'm going to work on it next We've got the slow stitch book project. This is the fabric band for it. And this is the actual book and the cover pieces We've got the piece that we've been doing live that we're we started working on today This is my upcoming project pile. I have the slow stitch book, which has a couple of pieces And it Exercises in it. I want to try I got this a book on amazon and if you want to Um Get the link I will put it in the description below. It's called slow stitch Mindful and contemplative textile art by Claire Wellesley Smith And then I have a kit Here in this envelope and then I have I want to do like we're doing the cactus this one that we started I want to do actually free to call next Her face. So that's gotta be an upcoming project. I've got my tools. So scissors Needling tools pins Notions Threads a few more small tools like um symbols and beeswax and then My um compression gloves should I need them because yes, I have arthritis in both my hands. I'm not young anymore. Hello gray hair Um, I knew needle book which I made today Which I love and then my yo-yo Um tools and then my little jars are all the same So I think that'll work and it cleaned up the desk a bit. At least you can see the tabletop now, which you couldn't earlier So i'm gonna put those things on the irony board away And in the storage bin closet. Yes, I have one of those And i'm gonna go downstairs. I think I need a snack. I need a banana or something. All right That's it for the moment. I'll be there Hey guys, obviously we're in the car I just killed two ants so there's still ants in my car Someone I get back. I'll be spraying inside of the car again Hey guys. Good morning. It is wednesday July 15th, I think I think it's the 15th. I know it's wednesday anyway, I got the purple glitter tumbler sanded and What is hopefully the final coat of resin on it, but we'll see um What happens? I have very little resin left. Maybe enough to squeak by with one more thin coat. Maybe It's a really big maybe um I'm boiling some black beans dry black beans right there. I'm using a kitchen food pot because it's food um, I'm going to be saving the water to dye fabric with and then i'll be putting the Beans probably in the freezer Um, we do like black beans, but I haven't done dry black beans Since our daughter was little she's 25 probably they're a lot cheaper than the cans, but generally it's just the two of us So I just need like one can maybe But i'm going to do a batch of dry black beans and um Yeah, and I only have one cup of beans in there, but I'm actually thinking I just got a small bag of dry beans I'm actually thinking and put all it putting all the beans in Maybe I really want some nice dark water. So we'll see And I'm going to make a loaf a loaf a batch of garlic bread. I've got see that jar Whoops that one. So that's just the extra sourdough starter Yeah, I've got two of those. So I'm going to try to use most of that up and make some garlic bread today Um There's always art projects to do upstairs. I don't know exactly where I'm going to focus My energy today, but I'm going to do these things. I promised myself three things I was going to do the resin tumbler The bread and the beans no, you know, so we get those three done I'm good and then I'm golden and I can focus on something else So that's what we're going to do. I guess all right. I'll be back. Okay So we've got two loaves of garlic sourdough Proofing And they're already rising Um barely got them in the pan and we've got a pot of black beans and water simmering And um I saw a lot of people they were only boiled them for an hour. I'm going to boil them actually for two hours I am planning on eating the beans and um Dried black beans like really take a long time to cook and get soft. Um So I'm going to really boil the crud out of them And I have the timer set for two hours on simmer And um, we're going to just let them go low and slow. I'm going to turn them down just a little bit And I'll stir them occasionally And then when it's done, I will turn it off and let it set and cool Um, and I will pull the beans out and put them in the freezer And um, then we'll have some water to do some dying with and Supposedly you get some sort of blue gray color, but I guess we'll find out And uh, yeah, I think I'm going to break for lunch and then we'll get back to it. I'll be back Hey guys, so I decided to do some more fabric coloring experiments um, so I have these two, um Plastic containers. I've been using this one's from coconut sugar. This one's from some rice I usually fill them about Halfway ish with water And then I dump a bunch of whatever I'm going to use for coloring in there And then I add some vinegar and alum. Uh, alum and that's not alum. That's turmeric. I need to grab the alum um, this one here on the end is um Black bean water. So I cooked up a bunch of black beans and I saved the water I don't know. It looks pretty browny purple. It's supposed to dye a blue color, but I'm I'm not getting that from it So we'll see what happens. So I'm going to prep These and I'm going to put some fabric strips in And I'm going to cut some more of the twill tape and put that in and we'll see what happens in a couple of days I'll be right back Let's look into the containers and then in a couple of days. We'll see what happens And let's go day one. This is the cayenne pepper This is the paprika and this is the black beans So we'll let them sit a minimum of 24 hours probably longer And then we'll pull the fabric and twill tape out and rinse it off and let it dry and See what we get. I'm sort of hoping for an orange or red And a bluish purple, but you know When you're dying with things from nature or food, you just kind of don't know what you're going to get I mean, who would have thought you could get pink from avocados, but you can So that's the thing. All right. I'll be back. Okay. Those of you who may or may not know This is my daily art bag. It sits on the sofa next to me It usually just has drawing stuff in it, which it still does you can see have a lot But I did add some stitching. So as you know, I'm working on some cross stitch kits I do like to do embroidery fun fact. I started out as a seamstress In my creative journey way back when I was a we won So this is a mini clipboard I put in here with the current chart I'm trying to work through and this front pocket. I cleaned it out And this has The parts to that kit including the pin cushion with the threads and the piece of fabric and a few of the mini mouse loft Tiddler's kits that I like to work on And then I have my of course drawing stuff In here in the middle pocket. I have like hand lotion and things like that. I do have my reading glasses And some journals I'm working on. I think that's going to work out actually really well Will it still zip up? Probably not easily But I don't often move it unless we're having company and then I have a tendency to just pick the whole thing Up and put it in my bedroom um So yeah, I probably still have way too much stuff in there, but you know It is what it is. Okay. I had a journal in there and some gel pens Which I do work on occasionally, but not too often if I take them out. It's it'll close up um the stickers That I'm trying to work my way through still won't fit in there Um, but I might be okay with that. I might even pair them down a little bit To just a few sheets to work through and then when those are done get grabbed some more So I'm gonna look at this and um, think about it and we'll see what I have logged enough today But we are headed out for our evening walk. You all see how light it is it's Well after 8 o'clock it's 8 20 p.m So we live in the pacific northwest and it doesn't get dark until nearly 10 o'clock so Yeah, has been worked late, but we're gonna go out and get some steps in anyway and we'll be guys. Good morning It is 10 23 a.m Thursday Oh, yeah, yeah, what day is it? I don't even know July 15th, maybe I think it's 15th. I don't know. I know it's thursday Anyways, obviously I'm headed out I'm headed out to The post office. I've got Etsy orders. I have to go out Try not to run over my trees while I'm backing up doing my three point turn in my driveway talked about this already um So, yeah, I spent the morning getting the Etsy orders ready. I've got three big priority mailboxes. I've got to go out Everybody it's friday morning july I just looked literally holy cow July 17th, it's 9 39 a.m Working on laundry all the normal things trying to finish my morning coffee I was rinsing off I'm sorry if the background's making y'all dizzy because I'm walking around but I was rinsing off the next batch of fabric And twill tape dyeing experiments that I've been doing If you haven't seen the ones I have done I will put a picture here. I dyed The dusty pink color is camellia flowers. The brown color is coffee The yellow color is turmeric And the green color is just some leftover um inks and things I had That I wanted to see if I could use and how stiff it would make the fabric if you could still stitch through it If you water down the inks Then it works just fine. Just fyi Um, but anyway, I'm really interested in using found objects cheap things to dye besides art supplies And so this next round I did cayenne pepper paprika and black bean water I got unexpected results. I'm happy with the results, but unexpected. Let me turn the camera around pepper I don't know how much this is going to show up on camera because It seems like in the in the viewfinder of my phone. It's washing it out, but it's a very light orangey yellow. So this bright yellow one. This is a turmeric So it's this pale um orangey yellow color Which I like and this was white on white fabric So the printed part with the flowers on this particular one like they stay white and then it just dies the background And then that was cayenne pepper this one is paprika Again these colors are washed out a little bit on camera And I'm not sure There we go So this one that's more accurate to what it turned out. It's really pretty sort of like orangey red color The surprise one is a black bean water. Now it said it would do like a blue This is definitely not what I would call blue. This is a grayish purple like a muted purple And the cotton fabric dies differently than the twill tape, which is pretty true with all of the colors This is much more purple than the fabric. The fabric is grayer, but I'm happy with the results I'm surprised we like black beans around here and eat them um often Usually the can style and not the this is from that I made the black bean water from dried black bean cooking up some dried black beans But I am kind of wondering if we did canned black beans and I saved the water what that would do Still trying to figure out how to do a sort of eco-friendly blue more blue and a green Um Maybe a brighter red. I heard those colors are kind of hard to do the red with camellia I mean camellia flowers um rose petals So we do have a red rose in the back. So I may start Putting the petals into a ziploc bag here truck outside somewhere And putting them in the freezer until I have a bag full and then seeing what happens Um trying to make some dye out of them. So we'll see I'm gonna let all of that dry And chill today. I did have to put my apron on because you know, of course, I decided to wear a white shirt today That was super helpful So anyway, I am going to Finish the rest of michael and we'll figure out what we're gonna do. All right. I'll be back got net to work to walk to the mailbox Kids are coming over for dinner later Along with some friends. We're all yes being cautious and safe and socially distant And all of that jazz So that means I'm trying not to make a mess in the house because people are gonna be here later And sort of want the house to be presentable Yeah, but I do have to finish that Purple glitter tumbler tumbler over my shoulder. That's a commission That I'm working on and I do believe it's good It just needs now the inside rim cleaned up and to be rinsed out and I need to print the directions For care taking care of it and all of that and then let the person who ordered it know it's ready But before that I'm going to go pop this in the mailbox and check and see if the mail's here and yeah I'll be back. And yes, you're not seeing anything. I put makeup on for the first time in a while All right. The idea to tell you all that I do resin tumblers Was my friend leslie mcgrath's idea and she says hello Everybody say hi to leslie. I'm going to put her channel down in the description below But anyway, yeah, I do do the occasional resin tumbler I know there's a lot of artists out there on the internet that do them there. It's like really flooded Um, so I haven't really said anything about it. I just really do them for me and Um friends and family But if you would like one I could do a painting on a tumbler and then cover it and resin for you or I mean, there's a lot of things we could do There I charge about 25 dollars a tumbler by the way I just used up the last of my resin on this purple glitter one. I have to Get some more if anybody orders more tumblers, but that's easily had and yeah Um, anyway, I also did a rainbow one recently that I think I put in the vlog But I will put pictures here um somewhere for you all and yeah, I've got a bunch of them that I've done They are kind of clogging the kitchen cabinet downstairs Anyway, all right, that's it. I promise I'll be back I have no comment Probably smart since I have the camera on We are out for our evening walk the children are back there. Hello And wait, hold on I know there's Fred and our friends li and Ivana Lily beans up there somewhere Uh, anyway, I don't know how to double tap the phone and get it to change Anyway Yeah, it's a beautiful summer day out. It's not too hot. Nice breeze. So we're gonna go get some steps. I'll be back Hey guys, it's 10 30 a.m. It's saturday july 18th. We are in downtown Portland. We haven't been here since this whole apocalypse thing started We're near the waterfront over there We have seen some evidence of the riots boarded up windows and spray paint homeless encampments No, I'm not by myself. I'm with our friends li and Ivana and bob is here. Of course, we'll be safe I've got my mask, but we're gonna go walk around and see what we can see Hopefully we don't see too much destruction, but I guess you don't know, right? So We'll see I'll be back. So the waterfront doesn't look too bad We are seeing some graffiti and boarded windows Some encampments. I'll put a few pictures here But it looks pretty good It's all right. I'm gonna make you in the shot. See there. That's Lee back there Anyway, it's not too bad I mean, you know the waterfront's beautiful. Can read that but it say it says say his name George Floyd approaching some of the protesting so Lynn international rose garden Which is still open to the public as long as you wear a mask and maintain distance. So It's gigantic. So we are having a good time Lee's over there. They're back that way taking pictures Yeah, having a good time So this is much prettier than the protesting graffiti and things Which is depressing. So I'd rather not see too much more of that. So I'll be back We're touring the Piddock mountain here in Oregon I will put that website link down below and I just gotta say I don't know if you guys are gonna catch it on camera here because of the glare But I'll insert a picture right about here of the view out this window Yeah, it's phenomenal the view Anyway, it's pretty interesting if you're in the Portland area And you like visiting gardens and touring old stately homes. I definitely would recommend coming I'll be back. Okay. So I'm back home with Lily We have a dog sitting for a week. The kids are spending time with Polly's parents. And so we're a dog sitting and We came home after touring the walking around the whole rose garden and Going over to Piddock mansion Which was gorgeous And had some lunch my knees kind of bothering me and plus Lily needs somebody so we can't leave her in the crate for 12 hours So I stay home with the dog and bob took Lee and Ivana back out And they went on a drive over towards malt nomofalls I don't know how far they're gonna get because I'm not sure how many of the roads are like open They're doing that. They're gonna stop and get some pizza for dinner on the way home And I'm just sitting here chilling and Lily Bean and I are watching youtube and Yeah, it's all good So I hope you all had a great great week and if you are able to meet with friends safely And do things safely that you're doing so but don't feel like You can't do anything just do it smartly and um, and remember to enjoy life and have a good time and You know, don't be scared About things that you don't need to be scared about Um, just you know wear a mask wash your hands and all that stuff and yeah, it's all good Anyway, so don't forget to like share and subscribe support the free content here on youtube if you can There's a lot of different ways you can do that check out my video description You can of course shop in the etsy shop. You can Um join patreon There's tutorials and things over on patreon that you don't get over here and free digital downloads The occasional piece of happy mail for me and all that stuff And your other favorite content creators here on youtube but also over at the facebook art groups Most of them have a way to support the free content. So if they have a way I know they'd love for you to do that. So if you can't figure out what their way is of supporting them Um, check it out and ask them if you need to lilies over here Like just keep scratching my belly. Um, if you need to email them and ask because i'm sure they have a way Don't forget to stay safe Stay healthy stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later. See you next week. Bye guys