 Hi guys! So I'm here with another vlog and I've got lots of stuff in front of me. I have to work on art business paperwork today. I don't even think this is all of it. I think there's some stuff I have to print. This is mostly bookkeeping because, you know, I should do it every week. That's what you're supposed to do. And to keep up with it, I tend to not do that, but it's really bad practice. I do it like every couple months or six months. Yeah, it's not good. So I have to work on that. I also have some Happy Mail from Heidi Richards. She sent me this really great envelope. And I saw a junk journal posted on one of the Facebook groups I'm on. And I don't remember which Facebook group. I want to say it was Ruth Nelson who made the journal and posted the picture. And it was made out of all envelopes, like Happy Mail envelopes. Those were the signatures that were made up of the envelopes. I loved it so much. I don't know why I haven't thought of it before now. I've been cutting your envelopes up and using bits and pieces of them in collage. So now I'm saving the envelopes because I want to make one of those journals now. It was a great idea. So Heidi sent me this Happy Mail and she said she just had some extras from the latest Crazy Island family swap. She thought she'd send me some as a thank you for coordinating them. I'm not the only one who does, by the way. I have a team that helps me now with the swaps, Cindy Utter and Williamson. And Nadine Hoved, they all helped me and they do a fabulous job. Thank you, ladies. So FYI, she sent me some really great painted deli paper, which I love. And there are some really great letters. I think these are stickers. Yeah, they're stickers. They have different words and sayings on them. And a quote, some other random words, which is great. I have to sort out my word bin a tag with the word art on it, which I love this tag. Here's another quote. These are all fabulous, Heidi. Alive, I love that. Every woman has a story. Isn't that the truth? This stamped image of a typewriter, which I love. Some text it looks like from a dictionary. And some scrapbook-y paper that has words on it. And then there's this one, which feels like there's another piece to it, but I think it's just really thick cardstock. So thank you, thank you, thank you. What else is going on? I went up to Menlo Park yesterday with my husband and picked up some things that were given to me by my friend Melinda Koutzona. Thank you so much, Melinda. She gave me a mat cutter. Yay! Can't afford one, but have some mat board was doing it by hand. Now I have a proper mat cutter. Woo-hoo! I'm going to dust everything off and pack it away, figure out where its new home in the studio space here is going to be. So yay, thank you. I love it. I also renewed, revised, restored. Not really started, it's not really new. More like restored or revised. A Facebook group I started a while ago in 2013, I think 2013. It's been a while, like once a year. Hang on, I can tell you for sure. Maybe if my internet decides to cooperate this morning. Come on. I sort of got it slower than it's not this morning. Do you have that issue sometimes? Let's see, come on, come on. Yeah, it looks like 2013. And it was called a year of art and self-expression. I changed the name over the weekend to a life of art and self-expression and decided to reactivate it as a group. And the link is in the description below if you'd like to join. Now I know what you're thinking, oh my god, another art group. Okay, it's not that kind of art group. So yes, we're kind of an art and art business group and a creative self-expression group and hopefully creative daily boost group. But we aren't going to be doing swaps. We aren't going to be doing exchanges. There's no like projects or anything like that. What we will do is have comprehensive, hopefully at some point, comprehensive lists of sites, Facebook groups and blog posts where you can go to get your inspiration and do swaps and that kind of thing. We'll have a separate list for classes and teachers that we all like. We'll have one for places to get good deals on supplies. We will have one for art business, tips and tricks, et cetera, et cetera. And we will be promoting other groups and other pages and sites that have like journaling by fives. Love Shannon Green's journaling by fives. Love her Facebook group. It's a great idea and we'll definitely be telling people if you want to do some sort of timed lesson and speed journaling and learn about just being more free and expressive, definitely go join her group and watch her videos here on YouTube because that's a fabulous idea. The only kind of swappy thing we will have is we will have a Happy Mail or Rack list. If you don't know what Rack is, it's random active kindness. And that is not going to be anything that's organized and it'll be up to the members to decide if they want to send somebody something or not. But in that list will be social media contacts and if you have a YouTube channel that will be in there. Hopefully you'll put that in there if you're a member. And then if they want to, you know, people, you want to find out the other members who are on YouTube, you can go to that list and look. So if you want to join, look in the description below. I do also have the jeanniebearans.com Facebook page which is hooked up to my website. But if you're on that page and you're following me, all the information that's on there is duplicated on my personal page. And so either friend me on the personal page or come over to the art and self-expression Facebook group because in a couple of weeks I'm going to be deleting the .com Facebook page and getting rid of it. There's no point in having it. There's a long story behind how that Facebook page came about and it didn't start out as the jeanniebearans.com Facebook page and it just kind of has some bad mojo with it and it doesn't really serve the purpose that I want it to. The Facebook group will. And everything else will be on my personal page and that's easier for me to keep up with. I think that's it. I should be doing other stuff. I need to fill a crazy Annalyn family lesson today at some point. And of course, you know, we have house flippers who bought the house next door and they've been working on it steadily for two months straight and they've been working on it on the market. And I keep saying, I see the sign now that says it's going to be coming soon and of course yet again they're blocking my driveway. I don't actually have to go anywhere but it makes me want to have to go somewhere so that I have to go tell them to move their car. It's so annoying. Life on the end of a court. So much fun. I think that's it. I'm thinking about filming a quick video for the art group on Facebook that has to do with how I do my business, art business, some of the things that I do and don't do and why I do or don't do them. The information really only applies to me in my geographic location but I don't know if it would be helpful for the rest of you and I don't know if you are in the group if it's something you'd like to see and or if you are on YouTube if you'd like to see. So let me know and if there's other things you'd like to see me do then leave something in the comments below. Let me know. All of my information of course now is in the description. You can contact me via email. My PO box is down there. The link to the Facebook group is down there. The link to my crazy island family classes are down there. All that stuff along with my copyright disclaimers and all of that stuff. So if you have any questions, comments or concerns let me know. If you have a product you'd like to review or send me to try you know how to get ahold of me and send it to me. Don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye.