 I've spent the morning chatting with friends, working on projects, I did some colored hot glue embellishments which will be in an upcoming video. I didn't film this batch, I wanted to try it first, so I will be doing another batch on camera and I'll walk you through what I did and what not to do. I also tried some more art brittle this time using my UV resin and my UV lamp inspired by my friend Leslie McGrath over at Leslie's creative studio. I will link her video in the description below. She took my video and went off with it and she did a great job and I have UV resin, I just don't use it often so anyway it was pretty cool. I also found that I had a bunch of these little tiny like fruit shapes. I think they're actually nail embellishments, I think I got them on Wish or something like a while ago. Anyway I put them in resin they're pretty cute. I also did like she did and I put some in bottle caps. Some I was able to take out of the bottle cap like this one, some won't come out but that's fine. I do think I'm going to get some more molding compound and make sort of a bottle cap shaped mold to do some little embellishments in. I think that's a good idea. So anyway I am going to go take a break and go downstairs and I will be back. Good morning everybody. It is more still morning I think anyways. 11 49 a.m. July 8th just barely morning but anyways I've spent the morning filming a bunch of YouTube videos mostly short ones. One video for explorations of me for this month and I have a couple more to film and then the month is done but I need to want to get out of the house for a bit so I'm going to do that. I need to get to the store and run a bunch of errands and there's nothing like finding a bunch of glasses none of which are strong enough for you anymore. You know it's a wonder I can't read the daily drawing prompt words without using the camera on my phone to enlarge the words. Most of my glasses aren't strong enough anymore. So yeah anyway I got to get some more reading glasses while I'm out because now I only have two pair. One of which works well and the other one which is I think going to still be slightly too weak so that's a thing. We've had some a death in the family unfortunately not my immediate family but extended family but somebody who's close to me as a sister she knows who she is and I'm so sorry. My thoughts and prayers are with you and if you need anything you know I'll be there at a moment's notice but I understand you want some quiet and privacy and I get that so I'm here when you need me. For your girls they just need to call me. What else? I got some paperwork done I need to sweep the art room floor. The art room floor is pretty gross and I need to clean off some shelves on either end of the table because I've just been piling stuff up there but I'm going to go run my errands first and I'm going to get out of the house. I'll bring you with me if anything interesting happens. All right I'll be back. Did you all hear that? He rolled his eyes and said oh god because I've got the camera on again. Yeah I'm vlogging so I got. Hey guys it's Thursday July something July night I had to count yes I had to count it's 3 53 p.m. I only know that because the clock is in the car hello and hopefully it's correct and accurate. I spent the morning editing video and chatting with friends while I was doing that. I edited and am currently uploading 13 videos to YouTube. Good morning. It is Wednesday July it's 9 45 a.m. Hello I'm in the car at the clock. We're going out for a walk it's been raining it's overcast we could get drenched we don't care so we'll be back. How cool is that see that big that there behind me I think that's a blackberries it's a big giant massive hedges and you won't be able to see him he's back there he's back there way back way back there he's out again but I guess there's a whole bunch of rabbits that live in those and we saw one if you're watching this you've seen the clip of him and I'll zoom in as much as I can so yeah of course we also have to contend with this because you know it's tick season nothing like taking an accidental picture of yourself good morning everybody it's still morning technically looking at the computer it's July 11th 10 24 a.m. I've spent most of the morning once I had two cups of coffee in me and got dressed well technically I was doing some stuff before when it was still my pajamas but anyway I digress I spent the morning making sure I was caffeinated number one that's the number one thing and then I was doing a bunch of stuff on social media I was updating patreon so for those that don't know one of the ways I have available for y'all to support the free content is I have I do have a patreon it's a little sad patreon because I only have one member but you know gotta start somewhere but there's a lot of free content over there for patrons at all tier levels and there's also links to all patron for all patrons to advanced showings or availability of youtube videos so I usually load the video to Dropbox somewhere and then I make a post on patreon um with the link um so that you guys can go over there and watch it so I did that this morning I linked uh four more videos this morning and I put in a couple of new digital downloads for everybody over there this morning and uh yeah so that's all done and then I did all the social media thing and to be honest I don't remember if I've said before or not but we did have a death in the family uh last over the weekend and um this last weekend and um I was we do have a closed family Facebook group where everybody can keep in contact and ask questions share family photos old family recipes um news and events sad and happy so I was over there for a bit this morning doing some admin work and in a couple of other groups too so I have all of that done I think I do need to start start typing again on the family recipes at least the ones that are in English not in Italian the ones that are in Italian I've got to get my aunt or someone else who speaks Italian to translate for me um I can't even use google translate because they're handwritten so there some of them are pretty hard to read anyway now I need to go to the grocery store I need to get groceries I need to get a sympathy card for my cousin who lost her husband and um when Bob gets home tonight we're going to order some funeral flowers we can't be there for the funeral it's on Tuesday it would cost us about two grand to get there um and we're only in Portland and they're in California it's not like it's a long flight the price is just ridiculous so um but we're going to send our um well wish our sympathies well wishes hello maybe I need more coffee we're going to send our sympathies and send some flowers and I'll make sure afterwards when things calm down that I contact her I have been texting her and sending her my love she knows she's got my support so um and her daughters too so anyway uh yeah I'm going to grab the grocery list put some shoes on and head to the store I think for once this week it might be a little bit blue sky outside yeah I see some blue it's been cloudy and drizzly rainy muggy all week not cold it's been actually kind of warm um but humid and wet so you know it's all right I don't mind as long as it's not too hot I can handle anything except super hot weather all right let's get to it shall we I'll be back morning everybody it's Friday morning July 12th 10 27 a.m don't get excited I'm looking at the computer so anyway I already got my social media and stuff done this morning and a few other small things including a wrapping up some new stencils that came in some for inventory replenishment and then also the charity stencils came in for the charity auction we're going to be having I haven't released the designs to the public yet and um at least I don't think I have maybe I don't remember anyway um all or some of them will probably be limited edition stencils only for the charity auction and only re-released when we have another such like event in fact so if you want one of them you're gonna have to put some money into the auction and again it's to help someone in our community whose husband is suffering from cancer he's in stage four from what I understand if you know who I'm talking about please don't mention their name I'm trying to respect their privacy but at the same time I know they're struggling so I'm trying to give them a hand so some of my friends and design team members have donated some finished art and also some supplies I'm putting in some stencils I may throw in a few other things I'm going to start gathering boxes together now and taping some boxes I have a big spare room in the other end of the house and so I'm going to start lining boxes up and putting things in them and yeah getting things ready to be photographed and listed so let's get to it shall we of the stencils available in my Etsy shop all proceeds except the cost of shipping will be going to the family in need we have seven boxes it'll be listed for auction I think we're going to do the auction through eBay my daughter's going to help me because I haven't sold anything out eBay in literally decades so the stencils won't be listed in the Etsy shop until eBay auction is ready to go live in the meantime here are a preview of some of the well of all of the designs here and there's some pretty cool designs actually yeah so there's going to be a limited way to get them and that's going to be it I think I did this morning update my Etsy shop and all orders $35 or more are free shipping in the USA only and I think coming soon I'm going to be offering at least for the stencils if you are of a mind to have naked stencils what does that mean no packaging no product insert no plastic not even the glycine bag or wax paper bag if you want to save a little money and have your stencils shipped to you naked you get a dollar off each stencil if you choose naked stencils so I'm going to be updating the shop at some point I do have 87 stencil listings so that's a lot for me to edit if you're shopping in the Etsy shop and you're seeing this and I haven't updated the listings yet and you want naked stencils just put something in the comments of your order when you place your order and I will refund how it's going to work on all the orders even after I edit the shop is I will refund the dollar for anybody who says they want their stencils shipped naked so there you go so naked just means limited product packaging I think that's it for the moment I think I need to sit down and have some water I'm glistening again maybe turn on a fan and yeah relax for a minute maybe have some lunch because it's probably that time all right I'll be back no I haven't gone down for lunch yet I should say if I haven't yet and I don't think I did that some of what I was putting in the box where purge supplies I had a box under my desk and as I was working on projects and or going through bins you know once I moved here to the new house at the old house things at some point I got tired of purging and things just got packed and sent but now that I've been here for a few months and I'm working on projects I'm going through bins and finding things that no longer serve not that there's anything wrong with them things I made or maybe somebody else made and sent me an happy mail things I did we used to do a lot of swaps over in crazy island family if y'all remember crazy island family um I did swaps with a few youtubers and things like that anyway as I came across things that no longer serve me or maybe I used a little bit of it like some of the word stickers and then the rest of what was on there didn't inspire anything I would throw them in this box under the table and at some point I always intended to sell the box give the box away in this case we are packing everything that was in that box that's part of what's going in the auction boxes along with some of the boxes have some books in them one of them has a Mindy Lacefield book in it and I think that's the only sort of art-ish type book I think one has an old vintage speedball calligraphy book in it and the and some of the others have sort of help self-help creative life books in it not my book but other people's books I think one of them is a signed copy from Melinda Kootzona on how to sell your art and price your art so anyway so that's some of what's in the boxes so yeah we're gonna get some pictures here shortly and hopefully get those auctions up at ASAP all right now I think it might be time for lunch all right I'll be back guys we are it I should say it is Saturday July I almost said June is it July 13th yes it's 12 17 p.m. why haven't I vlogged earlier no reason just because yeah well you could put some corn back out oh yeah he's eating the flowers holy cow this is why we put corn out people I said this is in our driveway by our front door by our front walkway he's like yeah and what you're gonna do about it are they yummy are they delicious eating my flowers are they delicious this is why we put out corn and delectable hey guys it is early evening not still on Saturday what day did we decide it was the 13th anyway um what did I do with the rest of my day once we went shopping not much I almost fell asleep on the couch after lunch I did get my paperclip and tag made for today um so yay if you want to see what I do um with regards to daily art you can follow me on social media I post things every day um where to find me on Instagram Twitter and Facebook um along with my the places you can support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups along with a whole bunch of other stuff including my website and just a ton of stuff is in the link tree list of links which is in the description below click on the link this is link tree and you will find me everywhere my happy mail address is down there too anyway we went shopping and I found some um wood scrabble tiles which I'm gonna do some art with and um an old player piano paper reel not super old one so I don't feel so bad about cutting it apart a newer one but yay cool paper and um the bridge score sheets and um a really cool t-shirt which is in the laundry um don't usually buy clothes at the turf shop not that there's anything wrong with that I just usually don't find anything in my size that I like um but this was really cool so anyway we're gonna just hang out around the house and chill and I'm out here in the side yard because I've got recycling to sort and stuff and yeah I haven't cleaned off the table yet I did intend on cleaning off my table today because at this point I've been doing sort of mixed media collagey things and the table's a disaster but it's just gonna have to stay that way because I just don't feel like cleaning it right now anyway that's it for the moment um and the week I think don't forget to like share and subscribe I will link any relevant links in the comments below if I missed something you all leave something in the comments on the video and I will um I just screwed that up didn't I I will leave any relevant links in the description below not the comments below holy cow I told you I'm tired I don't know what the deal is um anyway um please leave any questions comments or concerns in the comments below if I forget anything put it down there uh I think that's it for this week don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it Fred and I will see you later bye guys