 Sunday June 14th and if you're watching this clip you've seen a few clips of the kids wedding they got married today because of the pandemic they put off the big wedding which was going to be in October until 2021 and um they did the um small family legal ceremony today which was a lot of fun so Bob and I are home now though the two dads did a lot of drinking so but we have to get the garbage out which means I have to move my dad's giant Denali usually Bob does this but he's been drinking so I'm gonna do it and we're gonna get the garbage out and then I'm gonna put some sweats on I'm in it I'm in a dress um and yeah relax a little bit all right uh the big party is over we hung out with a family all afternoon that was a lot of fun but yeah I just need to decompress a little bit so all right I'll be back my dad has a Denali truck holy crap this is big this is a big car comfortable ride but it's a big car holy cow all right I'm gonna go have a cup of tea and decompress from the wedding festivities and maybe have some chocolate maybe all right I'll be back hey guys good afternoon it is Monday June 15th it's right about four o'clock I spent the whole morning getting the video from yesterday's wedding edited and loaded somewhere where it could be shared with the family and friends and now I'm working on the vlog it's rendering right now and there may be some sort of crafty clips of me working that I can put music to there's no talking on them and load to patreon for over there um I also got the weeks posts written uh and scheduled for the couple of facebook groups I do and I need to film uh something for my creative year uh working with muted colors this week and get that over there and I need to get back to stitching and I've gotta had a big influx of threads and things and I need to make some cardboard spools and yeah it's gonna be a week but it's gonna be a fun one I'll be back I remember what I just said about fibers and flossing and organizing and yeah I just got a happy mailbox for my friend Lisa Swink and yeah hang on Lisa what did you do so first of all she's got this really pretty piece of fabric right on top and I think it's a knit let's see we had some kind of it has a little bit of stretch but not too much and it's got a little bit of a fuzzy texture to it it might actually make a pretty good cute mask but it's a it's a pretty sizable piece it kind of looks like a pajama leg so I'm not sure what that originally was from maybe actual pajamas I'm not sure Lisa could probably tell us there is yarn in here oh my goodness Lisa tell this different kind of bumpily what is it confetti yarn there's some eyelash yarn more confetti yarn there are three bags of other different kinds of gloss and fibers I told you I'll need to make some spools there's some it's already on embroidery bobbins another piece of fabric this is like a tapestry pink sparkly tapestry fabric I only knew about this box that she found in her grandmother's things that is from the brand fof which is the brand of my sewing machine this is a vintage fof box oh my goodness and of course it's full of stuff Lisa I appreciate it so much a bunch of DMC floss in some great colors that I've been using it looks like DMC floss anyway I'm impressed a bunch of embroidery floss good colors and something else down here this looks big in this great mesh bag this looks like a produce bag that you a reusable produce bag back in the day you know pre-pandemic when we were all worried about not using too much plastic I actually have some of these this is a great bag and it's full it's full of fabric oh good grief but this is great oh wow look at this one and then this one I love that one these are wonderful oh look at this plaid right now if you've been watching my progress and stuff anymore the upcoming vlog you'll know I'm into plaid right now eyelet and this beautiful pale yellow color white cotton off white cotton a little piece of vintage calico oh this is pretty it's probably polyester but it's very pretty look at this one love that blue color look at this all these beautiful like vintage these these are vintage fabrics you can tell by the patterns on them look at this didn't I just say I love I'm loving the plaids and then look at this one kind of goes with it Lisa these are wonderful look at the texture on that one some blue and then this one it's in a bag it looks like a white kind of a white satin e tapestry brocade e isn't it wonderful Lisa thank you so much you're such a dear friend to send me so much stuff I love it so much I love happy mail I love when I get happy mail I love adding your stuff to my stash and now now I really need to make those spools and spend some time this week organizing and sorting but that's okay because here's a secret that's it for the moment I'll be back hey guys it is a Tuesday I think it's around two o'clock not actually sure but I know it's after lunch it might be closer to three I have no idea head out to go get done we all spent the morning if you're watching this clip you know I spent the morning sorting and organizing my floss and threads I got gifted some things from some very sweet friends including Lisa Swank and Leslie McGrath Laura Gurdane Darlene Bromberger and so much came in that I had to reorganize some of the slow stitching stuff a little bit I have one more drawer kind of to do but I think I'm gonna sit and stitch for a bit instead of organizing another drawer and after I get the mailbox mail which is is pretty full we're just having a quiet day at home which I enjoy there's nothing wrong with that I think that was a hawk that just flew by holy cow anyway we're just having a quiet day at home hubby is working I'm catching up on stuff and and yeah that's it nothing special we'll go for a walk later if it doesn't start raining again it's pretty black I know it looks bright out but there's some black clouds over that way anyway we'll see all right I'll be back you want to see that again this is Oregon weather you can see how it's raining cats and dogs right now but if you look down there past the trees you can see them sun you can see the sun about 15 minutes will be over yeah so we were going to go walking earlier today it was thunder and lightning and craziness and then it cleared up and we thought for a hot second about going walking we opted to have cookies instead I mean you know Fred baked baked cookies so I ate them um I guess it's a good thing we didn't go walking but he's not wrong give it five minutes you would never know it was June it's June middle of June middle of June I mean that's just crazy I guess we don't have to worry about filling up the pond because the whole backyard is draining towards the pond oh yep see it's stopping holy cow anyway welcome to Oregon hey guys it's Wednesday 10 20 a.m I got a video filmed for my creative year and I needed to check on YouTube comments which I just remembered about as I was turning the phone on the camera on oops but I need to make some bread so or get some bread dough started I have this whole entire jar this is just extra sourdough starter I've got the starter other starter so I don't didn't want to like toss all of this out so I think I'm going to make at least one batch of bread probably two there's enough for more than that I might I have a few days I did feed it this is like again this is the extra starter I did feed it on Sunday no Saturday Saturday um so I have a few days to decide what I'm going to do with all of it I do think right now I'm going to make one or two batches of bread and then I will probably put the rest back in the refrigerator and I might make some batches of crackers tomorrow maybe about a couple of days to decide all right so I'm going to get to it and I'll be back five minutes to six we're headed out for our walk obviously no people yet I spent the day working on a video for my creative year over and on Facebook I made a muted watercolor gouache palette and I'll put a picture here of the finished palette and the colors turned out really great I can't wait to paint with it I also worked on the slow stitch book and per Ann Brooks video I added a couple of pockets to my book and made a couple of fabric tags to put in the pockets and I used some of the little mini cross stitch kits that I found hiding in my office and I've been working on so I used a couple of those finished ones on the tags I use this really stiff um Pell on interfacing that's intended for um creating like fabric bowls and things I actually use it for fabric journal covers I'll put the picture of the end of the bolt here somewhere along with pictures of the projects I worked on um it's something I keep in my office all the time because I find I use it a lot in mixed media slow stitch sewing applications so yeah took me a minute to figure out where I sorted it and organized it to put it away but I did find it anyway we're gonna go for a walk and get some steps in we haven't walked in like three or four days my lose it app is behind again I'm gonna have to borrow the husband's phone tonight to catch it up he's trying hard not to laugh at me right now oops anyway and yeah it ought to be interesting I don't think we're gonna see much of the kids this week we're probably I'm guessing we're skipping family dinner tonight because they're doing construction on their house so anyway we'll see hey guys it is Thursday January 18 I think I had to yes I had to count um wow I just I spent it's after two o'clock I spent a good I don't even know three hours stitching some little fabric tiles out of scraps I had on my table I watched a video from another youtuber that I'll link below that does a lot of slow stitching uh handy mum handy mum win anyway I'll link her video below and she made these little cute little tiles out of just scraps and then she made coasters and things out of them after she had a collection of them that's a cute idea so I just sat and listened to some other youtubers like Bernadette Banner who's a costumer and seamstress and a few other people and yeah stitched the afternoon away so anyway okay yeah like I said I'm gonna go check the mail although I don't think there is anything there is always the possibility I'm expecting a package from the United Kingdom but I don't think it's here yet um and I'm not gonna hold my breath the pandemic it could take a long time I had one from Australia it took two months um but all of that being said I've been sitting at my desk for like two hours that was a screw I'm gonna pick it up on my way back in the house um I've been sitting at the desk for at least two hours if not more winding floss so I need to get a few steps in uh the husband will be done with work for the day in like an hour or so so when he's done we're gonna go walking okay color me surprised my uniting kingdom package is here this is my address on the back here no it does look like it's ripped so hopefully it's only in there it's from a company called mouse loft they do cross stitch kits and they do these little ones that I initially um was sharing on social media that I found a bunch of them in my stash um I'm discovering on these little cross stitch kits I really like mouse loft makes a good kit I'm toying with the idea of placing an order with them and then selling some of their kits in my Etsy shop so if y'all would be interested in that let me know anyway I'm gonna go inside and open this and I'll be back okay let's see if it's in here there is a hole in the bag but the kits aren't very big so seven should be seven one two three four five six seven there is so they make these little kits they're called titlers they're very quick little cross stitch kits um they're like a mini kit and literally the longest one took me like two hours and that was because I wasn't paying I was doing like three things at once so I got this penguin I got this ladybug and these bees with the little bee house bw bus lighthouse everybody say bless you to husband if you heard him sneeze a little fox and then I got one of these other um kits from this other line called by the sea just because I thought it was cute and it's little boats on the ocean so that's cool so we're gonna play around with these I've been using them once they're stitched I put it I have a drawer full full of um embroidered little mini pieces like these and patches and things some I did on the machine some I've done by hand and I'm using them in other like collage pieces and um slow stitches and stuff like that I'm losing my words people all right I'm gonna go sit and have some water and a snack and I'll be back hey guys we are out for our annual evening walk and we are crossing one of many bridges and streams we have in the neighborhood I do call Oregon the land of much water many bridges and no direct routes anywhere for a reason so this is a few blocks from our house we have a stream like this without the bridge actually two houses away from us but yeah it might be the same stream I don't know anyway it's in the low 80s it's uh 81 degrees 81 yeah but we're out walking anyway even though it's a little hot for me but you know what you can do anyway we're gonna get some steps in and then Fred's promised me cake so you know I gotta keep up the curvy fat girlish figure so you know goes with the gray hair anyway I'll be back hey guys how are you uh it's Saturday afternoon what time is it 1 27 as per usual for some of our days since the pandemic started which I don't understand we got our package delivery via USPS already but the regular mail didn't come they come twice to our mailbox yeah I don't understand and most often it happens on Saturday it's weird anyway I got the house clean I got the dishes done I made two batches of sour dough crackers I'll put a picture here it is a king Arthur flour recipe I will put a link and they also have a recipe for sourdough starter if you don't have sourdough starter or know somebody who has one that maybe you can ask can I have a starter they also have feeding instructions once you have starter and all that stuff I like the recipes on the king Arthur website I have good luck with them anyway I made two batches of crackers for tomorrow for Father's Day and we were going to be doing dinner at the kids house but they're running behind on their construction and they're I think working on the drywall and texturing like today and tomorrow and then painting I'm assuming after that so they're not quite ready for that yet they are going to prepare some of the food so the kitchen's I guess clean enough to do that anyway they're going to come over here and do some of the cooking over here some they're doing at their house or prepping or something I don't know I just I'm loaning them my kitchen I will be honest and tell you all that's kind of like loaning somebody some craft supplies I have trouble with that my eyes are a little bit watery today allergies I took a Zyrtec but you know man anyway I am going to sit here and wind some more embroidery floss and yeah my table is like there's a clean spot like right here the rest of it the rest of it's the best anyway I've got more embroidery floss to wind up and I'm gonna work on that husband is out at the hardware store running errands he did get a did get he's going to be getting some new cabinets for the garage he has been wanting to fix up the garage and make it his space since we moved in and he hasn't had time but now that he's working at home all the time he has lots of time off that he needs to take but we can't go anywhere he's going to just take some of the time off and work on the garage put in some new cabinets so I think while he's at the hardware store he's looking at cabinets anyway I don't need to go with him because I don't care it's not my space it's his space anyway okay oh my god you guys it's 10 13 p.m. on Saturday the 20th I haven't closed the vlog because I've been too busy winding I don't even know how many spools of embroidery floss I went through the whole pack of I think 100 plastic spools and then I had another like 50 of the cardboard ones I only have this many left y'all have been too generous nobody said you want to send me happy mail cool don't send me any floss I have too much now I need to use some of it up but that being said in all seriousness thank you very much it was very generous anyway now I have to do today's drawings I need to put my husband's drill away I need to clean up my mess I didn't even go walking because I wanted to get the spools wound well and my allergies are bugging me but anyway it's been an interesting week next week will be equally as interesting we're going to start the week off with Father's Day I've got my mammogram next week yeah cross your fingers everything goes well all right all right that's it for now and don't forget to like share and subscribe if you can support the free content here on youtube or over in the 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