 Good Sunday morning everybody. It's Sunday morning October 25th 10 o'clock 9 a.m. Don't get excited. I'm at the computer. Otherwise I can't keep it straight. I am just logging on and I was double checking some inventory at the Etsy shop. If you order more of one of something, more than one of something in the Etsy shop, don't be hesitant about making a notation. Hey Gina, I've ordered multiples of whatever it is for whatever reason lately and it's only happened to one customer but it's happened to that one customer twice. She's ordered multiples of something and I've missed that quantity by one or two and had to send her a second package. My fault, my mistake but yeah. So anyway, the kids are here to drop off Lily for the day. They're going to go for a drive. They're having a difficult time. Their furnace isn't working. We're going to get a freezing temperature thing tonight. Rebecca's car battery died this morning like it's just, you know, it's a year of Mondays. Anyway, I'm going to go catch them and I'll be back. Okay, so I have a live broadcast with patreons and YouTube membership supporters in about an hour and a half. I need to start getting ready in about an hour but we're going to go for a walk first. We're babysitting Lily. So yeah, we're going to go see if we can get her to burn off some energy. So and I'll see if I can get some pictures to do more tone tan journal drawings from. So let's go see what we can see. I'll be back. Good morning people, I guess for some. It is 8.05 a.m. and yes, I'm in the car. So for those that don't know, I have crappy teeth. They're very cracked. All my molars are cracked. I have three crowns already and two teeth they were watching. I'm going in to get them evaluated this morning because I did something to them over the weekend and they're hurting. They're not feeling good but it feels like there's some nerve issue. That's not good so I don't know if I'm getting impaled or what is happening. But yeah, so we are headed over to the dentist. The first thing this morning you get an evaluation and an examination and see what's going on and they're going to give me some recommendations for pain relief for the next 24 hours and then tomorrow morning I go in at 10 o'clock and get impaled or turn left. I was just recording all that and the oops should have gone that way. I was just recording all that and the camera wasn't on so joy to me. So happy apocalypse. I get to get two more root canals. So tomorrow morning I'm getting the tooth that's causing me some pain done. They're going to prep the tooth behind it which is one week they've been watching and then next week I'm going to get the one behind it done. We're going to not wait for it to be a problem. We're going to just go ahead and fix it. Okay so the ladies at Tigard Family Dental. I do appreciate them very much. They've given us good service. They drilled out my infected tooth that's causing the problem and I guess inserted some sort of post with antibiotic on it inside and then sealed it back up again and I'll be on oral antibiotics for a week with that post inside of my sorry that's my keys my tooth and next Wednesday I will go back and they will finish the root canal on that tooth. The infection should be cleared up by then and then they will crown it and they will crown the tooth behind it that's very cracked and cause has potential for other issues. So let's try to stave off those issues and or prevent them all together by putting a crown so they're going to do that too. So anyway I'm all numbed up to crap and back. I need to go home. I need to finish downloading the vlog footage. I need to have this guy behind me stop tail getting me and 48 a.m. Tuesday October 27th. Can you see the the pain cocktail they have me taking while we're waiting for the antibiotics to do their thing work does work it doesn't get rid of all the pain as you saw me just poke at it and go out but it does do well enough that I can sleep so I did get some sleep last night although when it does wear off that wakes me up and I have to go take more so um it's only day two of seven on the antibiotic so it's going to take at least three days for the swelling and to start going down in the infection to start clearing up so cross your fingers tomorrow some of this abate but yeah my cheek is like swollen anyway fun times right I am upstairs obviously I'm looking at the website mochi things for things I don't really need but I'm looking anyway I'm going to edit the vlog and I have another video on the sd card to edit and I need to yet again it's like the end of the month and I only filmed filmed the introduction to this month's challenge video for my creative years Facebook group I didn't ever film a tutorial so I'm going to try to squeeze one in this week before the week is over and the month is over we'll see anyway that's it for the minute I'll be back last night we had the family of raccoons visiting multiple times last night right Fred right he's just telling me right by the front door evidently they like this low growing ground cover because they were eating it yeah and just walking and I was watching about the window yeah and you'll notice yes puffiness thank you toos infection yeah yeah uh but we're on day two of the antibiotics hopefully by day by tomorrow day three it starts going down I'll put ice on it when I get back um we're going to go for a walk and get some steps in because other than the tooth I actually feel okay but so we're going go go um get some steps in and see what we can see and I'll be back it's Wednesday morning October 28th 11 26 a.m. I don't think I've logged yet today I filmed three short videos this morning two were for my creative year um one is for YouTube and I haven't I haven't I just realized I haven't loaded it yet because I was worried about scheduling posts for November 1st which is fine I'll do it later um cleaning up the art room doing today's um our apocalypse drawing and that I don't know if you can tell the swelling is slightly down this morning I didn't wake up in pain which is progress it's like the first day in like three days I think that I didn't wake up with like pain on the side of my face so I didn't take any pain medication until just a few minutes ago I started to throb a little bit so I took some um so that's progress so let's hope tomorrow I'm completely playing it pain free that would be great morning everybody it is 7 54 a.m. Thursday October 29th I am up obviously upstairs in the art room having my coffee I can kind of smile the swelling is much down over here um so that's good I'm hoping to get through the entire day and night today and tonight without any pain meds I was I took half the dosage yesterday that I did the day before so let's hope so let's hope I think we're on the right track I think it's clearing it so anyway um I had my morning cottage cheese and I'm working on my coffee the cleaning lady is coming today and as soon as she gets here I'm gonna go check the PO box and run a couple of errands and yeah I have to finish a I didn't film any of it yesterday maybe I'll try to get some footage today but I don't know I don't know I don't know if I left it in the vlog or not but last week when I was going to make my new art drawing bag I went to Hobby Lobby and while I was there I got this coin purse handle top so I decided to take a bunch of my um English paper piecing hexagons and make a coin purse out of it so I did this front piece yesterday I'm gonna do another side and then we're gonna do some like uh bias binding around the edge to attach the two pieces together put obviously aligning I put some fusible fleece on the inside to keep everything from unraveling when I cut it I think it's gonna be cute I'll try to fill part of the process for you all for the vlog here um I of course had to make a bunch of new hexagons last night because I used up a lot of what I had which is fine but yeah that was interesting so I did that and I think things are decently neat and strained up up here so she can clean and uh yeah anyway I'm gonna finish checking out social media and just finishing my coffee and chair got stuck in the floor mat uh finishing my coffee and hanging out till she gets here and all the things for the things all right I'll be back it's just after 5 30 and we are gonna head out for a pre-dinner walk I am my mouth is feeling much better the swelling is almost completely gone I don't know if you can tell there's a little bit like right here um I haven't taken any pain pills today and it's very manageable I'm not worried about the drilling in the crowns but the tooth pain is just obnoxious so anyway but that's all clearing up hey guys it is Friday afternoon October 30th I think 2 6 p.m. I if you're watching this clip you just saw a little clip it looked like I was going through my eight pads I was so I realized when I was doing some stamping with some new products that came in which we'll talk about in a different video that I have a lot of stamp pads I was never using I had some that were dried up and those are in the project pan art supply style box the purge box um I had some that just needed to go away something wrong with them I just never use them and I also found a couple of like date word stamps I never use anymore um so I think so I have these these are going away I know right mostly um distress ink I kept my favorite colors of distress ink um I had a couple of I had like three stays on pads two of which I have reinkers for which is good because they're dried up one I don't so it's in the project pan to like throw out box the ones with the reinkers are in here I only kept the white one now the stamp pad part is pretty old and the reinkers pretty thick it's still sort of semi usable so I'm going to use it up I am going to order myself a new one though um the opaque stays on is really the only one that I like um and then I have some archival ink from ranger the waterproof I have a big giant brown and a big giant black reinkers for both I have one of their small ones that I've kept the vintage photo um again my favorite distressings I kept I have a few color box inks I have a pretty blue and a pretty green that I like um and then a color box well it sort of was a rainbow but I've you know done that to it stamping on it can you see that yeah it's like really dirty anyway um and then I'm getting rid of my blending tools because I never use them I like these instead which are makeup brushes from wish uh for ellie express or something they're like I think it's supposed to be a powder or blush brush but it's great for blending ink and I love that um so I'm going to keep these things I'm going to reorganize it a little bit these two are going to go in the pile of stuff that I have to put into priority male purge boxes still because they haven't done that yet um but I will be and the there's probably going to be two large-sized boxes and they're going to have ink both going to have ink in them the lids are taped on and the reinkers are in little zip lock bags so hopefully nothing leaks anyway I'm going to answer whatever that is on my computer somebody is messaging me I have to do today's art poplips dry and I need to reorganize the ink that I'm keeping I think I have an idea for doing that that's going to be cute and functional and we better get to it I'll be back I can tell you all now and I can share some pictures I am the newest designer with art foamy's I know right so I have a line of rubber stamp design rubber stamp foam stamp designs over at art foamy's including a zombie doll and among other things and I'm going to put a link below to their what not only to their website but to the art foamy's facebook page where they had a video playing with my stamps that are now in the line and they showcased a few of their other stamps too that they have I love the new little pair of wings at KP just did anyway I'll be sharing some pictures on my social media later of some things that I did when my samples came in with the stamps that they sent me and so much fun and I've already used one in a journal page today that I didn't show you all yet because well the video wasn't live yet but I can show you now see if I can find it in here somewhere here we go this is one with the one the moons one I did the moons on oh there we go on a jelly plate um print I did all of them on jelly prints and um they worked great on the jelly plate and I will be sharing that video soon um and um doing some live broadcasts and things with the stamps too so look for that and um I will show you all this is one of the ones that I this is one of the stamps that I did I didn't think he could turn out quite right but then I traced him out with a red pencil and stick a pin in me I'm done I mean you know yeah so art foamy's who knew all right that's it for the moment I'll be back so in case y'all didn't get a clue we're out walking it's not that late but you know it's winter in the Pacific Northwest so it's pitch black outside anyway walking by the halloween house trying to get myself some pictures without tripping and falling over something I managed so far anyway uh that's it for the minute I think discussing marketing and email blasting the new art foamy collection with my daughter who is in marketing if you need marketing help I will you can message me and I'll give you her contact information her business page anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back it is 11 27 a.m so technically it's still morning saturday october 31st halloween we are headed out to go run a whole bunch of errands including pay some bills and grocery shop and all of the things drop off donations drop off donations yeah all of that stuff I already took care of a bunch of business stuff social media stuff and some stuff that had to do with the new art foamy's launch that happened last night this morning so that took up a chunk of this morning but that's all done so now we can just go out and run some errands and have hopefully sort of semi relaxing rest of the day maybe we'll see all right I'll be nice all right so it is saturday evening after 5 30 i think it's almost six o'clock um we got all our errands done it was like a crazy time trying to get everything done the stores were jammed with people probably because of the election everybody's trying to get their supplies in before the world goes crazy again because you know anyway um it's 2020 what are you gonna do I got my last picture done for artpocalypse 2020 which was a challenge we were doing for the month of october over in my facebook art groups a life of art and self-expression and my creative year and um it was the color was red so I drew an apple why not I do think after um working with the surprise pencil stash I found um in the art room that um uh and over the month I've purged a few of the pencils but I think the ones that I have here in my um caddy on the art table I'm going to end up keeping I do enjoy working with them so I think I'm going to keep them um I'm going to put this in my box of journals finished journals for 2020 I'm going to grab a new bigger molesk and kye for downstairs because I'm going to finish the daily drawing journal for the regular monthly art prompts today because it's the 31st and um my sister Elizabeth um who lives in Utah sent me a very nice handwritten snail mail note it was so cute I loved it and it was very thoughtful and sentimental and such a joy to just get a snail mail note for no reason and I had the thought and haven't discussed it with her yet so I'm going to just write it and I'm going to just send it and we'll see what happens but I wish I'd thought of it months ago but I think I'm going to see if she wants to sort of do some kind of pen pal thing um for as long as the craziness lasts in the world um someday we can take all the letters we've written back and forth to each other and put them into a book or a journal with some photos um you know and kind of commemorate happy or sad the crazy time that 2020 and the pandemic were going forward hopefully doesn't go too far into 2021 right um but I think that just writing notes back and forth like that with your loved ones and it doesn't have to be a ton of them it could just be one or two somebody you really love and trust um you know if you have a beloved sibling or a best friend that you're not seeing uh you know texting and calling is all well and good but what about just sitting and writing a note I have just a plain old fastened snail mail note I think it's a good idea um so I'm going to make sure I have a couple envelopes and some stationary downstairs stationary right stationary holy cow um uh I may just use a pad of um white lined paper that I have one of these mini one of these um that's probably a good size and then fold it in half it'll fit nicely in an envelope so at least for the moment I've got this I need to use up so I might as well and I do think somewhere around here there's another pad of it yep see look that I you know I have paper all over the place this is you know it's me people I you know there's paper everywhere so anyway I've got more note pads in my desk evidently oh yes I do anyway so I'm going to grab that and a couple of envelopes and bring them downstairs and stamps stamps which I actually do have stamps um I think it's a really good idea and it will help with some of what's going on right um also not forgetting if you're watching my channel that means you're creative or you want to be creative so don't forget to use your art as a way to work through whatever is going on whether it's stress because of the world situation your personal situation it's mental or physical pain um or frustration whatever it is happy or sad maybe it's a happy thing working out your stuff your shit in a journal hello it's not a bad idea it's why we most of us started doing this in the first place isn't it so do that I want you to do that all right we're going to do more of that on the channel and I'm so proud and pleased that the art foamy release um of mine with um our with art foamy's um went over so well it's been months and months and months in the making and I couldn't say anything to anybody um and it wasn't exactly sure where it was going to go but now you know um and uh yeah I'm so proud and pleased that you all received it well I will put a link to art the art foamy's website in the um description below um check it out if you will and um yeah I mean I think that's it for the week um it's been an interesting one again don't forget to check out the video description for not only the art foamy's link but my link tree list of links which includes the um my mail chimp newsletter and which will give you a preview of um upcoming sales and events um sometimes artwork you never know what I'm going to just get up to in the mail chimp newsletter so um there's that and also my etsy store amazon affiliate links and all of that stuff so um check out and on instagram if you want to follow and see what the kind of crazy creative stuff I get up to every day not to mention my hashtag organ life pictures I post all the time so um check out my instagram follow me over on instagram um all the links for all of that are in the link tree list links which are down in the video description if you have a favorite creative here on youtube or over in the facebook art groups if they do videos they may have a way to support them in their video description if they only do facebook maybe you need to private message them and ask but I would really encourage you to support your favorite creatives right now everyone is struggling us included that's it for right now stay safe stay healthy stay creative have a happy halloween everyone and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys