 So hi guys, so I am out this morning trying to get to Walmart this morning. It's not morning, that's a lie. It's almost three o'clock. Today sucks. Just FYI. If I can get through filming this bit without crying, it's going to be a freaking miracle. I'm going to insert some pictures here. I'm going to do sort of a montage. Montage right here. I'm going to cut Jeeves out by the way hopefully. Our dear sweet Bandit passed away this morning. I can't say too much because I'll start crying. We knew it was coming. We knew he was pretty sick. He had what we now know as a brain tumor, multiple tumors, probably cancer and we knew it was only a matter of time and finally this morning he stopped eating so yeah. So that's that. I have spent the rest of the day cleaning, reorganizing some things in the art room, staying busy so I'm not thinking about it. Needless to say the husband and I are not. We were going to hang up Christmas lights today. We are not in the mood. If we get any Christmas lights outside this season, it'll be a damn freaking miracle. Yep, so that's the way our week is starting. Hopefully you're having a better one than we are. All right, I'm heading over to Walmart. I got to solve a solution, a problem in my art room of I want to have my typewriter out. I have an old-fashioned manual typewriter. It hasn't been out yet but I need a little table or something to go next to my desk to put it on so we're going to go look for that and I'll be back. Hey guys, good morning. It is Monday morning, December 3rd. It's weird not to have Mr. Stinky Butt in the house. I suppose we'll get used to it eventually. Anyway, before I start crying again, I am just catching up on stuff I haven't been able to catch up on because he wasn't doing well. So anyway, today is my day to get caught up on stuff. The cleaning lady will be by after a while like right before lunch. The cup that I did, the acrylic pour-on is dry and what it did, I like but it's not quite exactly right and you can see parts of it where the metal is showing through. So what I learned from this is that you need to mix your paint a little thicker than you would for a canvas because otherwise it's just going to run right off the cup. So I'm going to do another pouring it. I actually want it to be a bit darker blue kind of marbled model background. So I'm going to do another pour on it, which I'll film and yeah, Ben said I decided to dry some more. That's all I can do. All right, I'll be back. Good morning everyone. It's Tuesday that I know for sure. December 4th. It's early in the morning. 7.53 for Leish. I've been up for a while. I've been up for, I've been up since before it was light out. I'm going to edit the vlog for last week so that I can get that up for tomorrow for you all. And I need to go run a couple errands. I need to go over to Fred Meyer. I want to work on the fabric stash part of the art closet today. I just kind of threw stuff up there to get it up and out of the way and put away. But now I need to sit and organize it better and go through it and maybe get rid of a few things. I also need to do my daily postings. So we're going to head upstairs right now. I'm going to grab my water. And I'm going to, I need to grab a little bag out of my stash of art bags, which is in the big closet, which I also need to do something about but maybe not today. But when I'm out at Fred Meyer, I'm going to look for some plastic storage shelving to maybe put up in that closet. A huge walking closet in a spare room that's just a guest room. And we use the closet for storage of like Becca's baby stuff and things like that. So we just stuffed packing boxes in there and closed the door when we moved in. So I actually need to fix that. And I'm probably going to resin the first of my metal tumblers today. So that's what I'm up to today. What are you all up to today? I'll be back. All right. So I'm back from running errands. I got the groceries I needed. I got some bins and shelving that I needed to sort the fabric upstairs in the art room and also start working on the big closet in the spare room. It's not even 11 o'clock yet. It's like 10 52. And I only know that because I'm looking at the clock on the stove and I have to kind of squint to see it. Anyway, it's a thing. I should start on one of said two projects upstairs before lunch, but I don't really feel like it. So I think I'm actually going to put my coat back on. I'll take my keys with me and check the mailbox. Although I seriously doubt the mail is going to be there. It's too early. But I think I'm going to do that anyway and take a little walk around the neighborhood, get some fresh air. I'll be back. I think the projects I'm going to work on today are editing tomorrow's vlog because it's not edited or uploaded yet. So I need to get that done. I'm also going to sort the fabric bins and purge probably and clean that out the fabric stash in the closet and also start the first layer of resin on one of the cups that I the tumblers metal tumblers that I've been working on. Maybe I'll start on the closet tomorrow. Maybe I don't know, but I'm not going to do today. Anyway, I'm going to do all that after lunch. Let's go for a walk. December. I spent the morning starting off with a much needed cup of coffee or two, which you saw already if you're watching this and making some fabric beads, chatting with friends, catching up on things. It's pretty cold out. I'm headed to get the mail. I've been waiting for the mailman to show up. Either we don't have any mail today or he's really late and it's pretty late in the afternoon. So if he's not here, I don't think I'm going to check it again, but let's nothing in there and I'm expecting a check for some artwork I sold, which is not there. So that's annoying. Anyway, maybe I'll have my husband go out and check the mailbox when he gets home. I don't know. We'll see. Anyway, I'm going to go back inside, finish the fabric beads I was making earlier, and chat with my friends some more. I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. It's Thursday morning, December 6th. I'm looking at the computer, so, you know, don't get excited. At 8.24 a.m. I came upstairs to check on the resin tumbler that I've been working on. And this coat of resin is much smoother. There's still a couple spots that need to be sanded, but for some reason I have like a lot of resin on the bottom and there's this like lump. I don't know if you can see it on camera. So I have the smooth bottom and sand all that off. Sand off the couple lumps that are still on here. And then I guess give it one more thin coat. So, you know, it happens, I guess. I have a lot of sanding in my future today, I think. Anyway, I'm still in McPajamas. I'm going to go downstairs and get dressed. And then I'm going to go over to drop off some Etsy orders at the mailbox at McCann's. I'm going to ask them about PO boxes and see if they have any available. And then I'm going to take a walk around the neighborhood and then I guess I'm coming home and doing some sanding. So anyway, it's just after 11 now to go mail my Etsy orders and I got a PO box for the business. Resinning and painting because it had a lump on the bottom. Big lump because my spinner thing wasn't level. I'll insert a picture, a little video here. I'm making a few of these for Christmas gifts. The decorated metal tumblers. Anyway, I was sanding the bulk of it off with my old Dremel, which is like 20 years old, maybe more. I don't know. Anyway, I think I killed my Dremel. Let's stop working. It wasn't hot or anything, it just died. So, I don't know. I might need new Dremel for Christmas. So anyway, I'm out walking around now and just getting some fresh air. It's a little brisk, but it's good to get some steps in and yeah, walk around the neighborhood. So then I'm going to go in and maybe have a cup of tea and an early lunch. So yeah. All right, I'll be back. Good morning everybody. So I left my car outside overnight last night, so we're going to just sit here for a minute and let it warm up. It is all of 38 degrees. I'm not always great about letting my engine warm up before I start going, but given the low temperature, I thought it's only nice to be fair to the car. It is Friday morning, December 7th. Yeah, 7th. I had to count my head. And it's 9.45 a.m. I only know that because we're in the car. I'm looking at the clock. I've already got my daily postings done and I'm in something other than pajamas. Woo-hoo, progress. I haven't gone for a walk yet today, but that might be because my Etsy store is going crazy. I had a video that aired today. I believe it aired today, which is why suddenly the listing is selling like crazy. I put together some embellishment packs. I'll include the link for the video in the description. If there's any left, it might be sold out by the time you see this. I don't know, but the way it's going, it wouldn't surprise me. I only have so many and when they're gone, they're gone. That's it. I've already sold a few this morning. And so before I go to the grocery store, which I have to do because the kids and some of their friends are coming over for dinner, which is great, but I need to cook for them. So we need to go to the grocery store. So I have food. But before we do that, I got to go to McCann's and I got to go drop off my Etsy orders. So we're gonna do that. We'll let that cart warm up just a little bit. I'm hoping to get some artwork done today. I tried. I'm working on a resin tumbler and I had some problems yesterday with it not being level and there being a big blubble resin on the bottom, which then I sanded off and I used my Dremel for the bulk of it, but then I killed my Dremel. So then I was trying it by hand. I didn't quite get all of it off. I don't think because it's still a little bit funky on the bottom. So I got to do some more sanding and another coat of resin. Like, yeah, that's going to be a thing. So anyway, I hope that husband can fix my sander. My Dremel. I also want to get the website updated. I don't know if that's going to happen today. I don't know if there'll be enough time before I need to start cooking dinner, but I'm going to try and that's actually more important than the sanding. So I'm going to work on that. I've got a lot of updating to do. So anyway, I think we're ready. Maybe. Got my seat warmer on. So my buns are getting warm. Let's go. All right, guys. So I've been resigning the same cup all week. My machine wasn't level. So I got lumps of resin on the cup in different places. I didn't sand it enough yesterday. So I had to re sand it again today. We're going to try this one more time. So what I've learned from this is make sure your machine is level. If you have to sand it a lot, just get out of palm sander. It's just easier. I killed my Dremel and husband's going to look at it this weekend, but I think I killed my Dremel. It was an old Dremel, but still. So I just went out to the garage and got his palm sander. And I got 99.9% of all the lumps off, I think it seems to be much, much better. So we're going to now fix all the scratches I've created in the coat of resin that's on there still by putting another thing coat of resin on. So I'm going to mix up some more if my scale corroborates. Yeah. So like any other resin, this is, this is a Lumolite. Amazing clear cast. And this is FDA compliance. You want to use food-safe resin when you're using it on something like a cup. Equal parts A and B. Mix it for two minutes. Oh, I need my timer. And then we'll coat the cup. So I'm going to do all that and I'll be right back. Okay. So our resin is mixed. I've got my torch handy to pop some bubbles. We've got the machine all set up. So let's just turn it on. This keeps the cup rotating so that the resin, which is self-leveling, will theoretically have an even coat all the way around. Unless, of course, like me, you didn't even check to see if your machine was level. That's a problem. Hopefully I mixed up enough. So we'll see. I guess we'll find out. I learned how to do this from my friend Karla McCants. She's much more of an expert at it than I am. She does not have a YouTube channel. So y'all cannot ask her any questions or go watch her videos. But there are a lot of people on YouTube that do these resin cups, usually glitter. This has got a acrylic pore skin on it and a little bit of copper leaf and some glitter. So I'm trying to make sure I catch all the spots I sanded, fill in any indentations, not put too much on the bottom. And then it has to set for 18 to 24 hours. And I'm just checking the reflection on the cup like Karla taught me to do. Make sure there's no lumps or bumps or spots I've missed because I really don't want to have to do this cup again, to be honest. I think I can take my gloves off and pop some air bubbles. Let's hope I got it right this time. Hey guys. So it is late Friday afternoon and the kids are here yet and I'm waiting for a couple of edits I just did to the website to finish loading. So much that I turned on the camera, what up? I got some Happy Mail and it's from Margelle Shelley. She is a member of my design team. And a really nice person, a great artist here on YouTube. I'll link her channel in the description below. And if you all want to send me Happy Mail, I'm always open to Happy Mail, even if it's just a note card or a tag. I do have a PO box here up in Oregon now, so I will put it in the description below and you can send me what you would like. Nice stuff though, please. Anyway, she sent me a really great Christmas card. Look at that. Isn't that pretty? I send out so many Christmas cards every year. I wish I had the energy to just make homemade cards for everybody, but I sent out between, well, depending on the year, between 80 and 150 cards every year. So that's just like immediate family and close friends, so it's too many. I just buy them to be honest. She also included this bookmark, which looks like a laminated piece of watercolor, which is fabulous. I do read a lot, so that'll come handy. And then she sent me an envelope or a little package full of small bits. It was wrapped in this really cool tissue with this great sticker and little piece of washi tape on it. I'll be using that again. And she sent some really cute little butterflies, some birds that look hand drawn, and they're so cute. I love birds. I recognize that. I've done, I've done these, so just, they're cool though. I love them. There's a card, our ATC card. Yeah, experiment with jelly paper that's titled made in April. Very cool. A feather, a piece of acetate. That's my stamp if I'm not mistaken. I don't know. Can you all see that? Here we go. I love the way she did it though. That is cool. I'm going to use that in one of my journals, and I'm going to steal the idea, Margelle, because I think that's very cool. Okay, that's one of my stamps on a tag that she's made. She did tell me that some of the bits were things that she'd made over the year with my products. Look at this index card. That would be a great greeting card front. It just needs to send a mint across the top. And then she sent me some napkins. Really pretty ones. I love this black and white one. I don't know why. So anyway, thank you so much. I appreciate it, Margelle. And everybody go check her channel out. She's been a great addition to the team this year. And the whole team this year for 2018 has done a great job. And I will be shouting out each and every one of them probably in individual videos. I don't know exactly yet, but I'm going to link all their channels in the description below. Go show them some love. We do have one last 2018 design team video coming out. And there is links for all their channels. And that video comes out on the 10th. By the time you all see this, it's already going to be out. So you know what I'll do as I'm thinking as I'm talking, I'm going to shout all the channels out for the 2018 design team by linking that video in the description below. You all go check it out, like out all their channels. They've all done a great job this year. It's been a great team. So anyway, that's it for right now. I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. It's Saturday, December 8th, I think. I got no idea what time it is. It's after 10 o'clock, I think. We're headed out to go run some errands. I had to put another coat of resin on that cup again. The bottom's flat this time, but there were a couple little divots and marks in the other parts of the cup. So you know. Anyway, hopefully this is the last coat of resin on that cup. Anyway, we're going to go run a whole bunch of errands we have to do, including dropping off some Etsy orders to the PO box and returning some stuff, getting other stuff, you know, the normal routine. We'll take you with us. Hey guys, it's Saturday evening. He's groaning because he knows I'm going to do that. Say hi, Fred. Hi, Fred. Fred's drinking some wine and making chicken soup. No, we didn't film it for cooking with Fred. It's chicken soup is really easy. And it's boring. And it's boring. Yeah. You cut up some chicken. We had some cooked chicken from dinner last night. Cut up a half an onion, a carrot, two pieces of celery, threw them in a pan to cook the vegetables through the chicken in, through some herbs in, through some stock in and a little bit of water. Let it bring to a boil, put some pasta in and then just let it simmer for a while. Add some salt and pepper to taste. That's it. It's easy. Easy, easy peasy. Anyway, we're just sitting here being lazy. Waiting for it to boil. Yeah, waiting for stuff to boil. Waiting for, we got some bread. Yeah. Oh, nice local made sourdough fresh sourdough bread. We're going to have with a soup so for dinner yet. So anyway, that's all we're doing. What are you all doing tonight? I'm going to head upstairs and I'm going to turn off my computer because I think it's still on. And I'm probably not going up there to work again. It's going to get dark. Wait. Ha, light. All right. Let's go upstairs. It's a big house, big dark house. All right. So I had to put yet another coat of resin on this pork cup. It's my first one. I'm doing this resin stuff too on my own. So hopefully I got it right this time. At least it's not bulging out at the bottom and it stands up straight. But it had a couple of places where I missed the resin. So I don't know. We'll see. Anyway, we're going to turn off the computer. We're going to sit and we're going to have our soup and watch TV. I've got sketching to do downstairs. I was going to do something else tonight, but I want to catch up on my daily sketching. I didn't do any sketches last night because we had people over. So I'm going to do four of them tonight. And yeah, tomorrow I think I might have a Zoom meeting with the new design team for 2019. And we need to do a few more errands. And then maybe I might get to put some paint on those. So anyway, it's been an interesting, sad, mixed bag of a week. And yeah, I don't know what else to say about it, but that we do have fun, interesting comment content coming forward for you here on YouTube for 2019 especially. And if you would like to support the content here on YouTube, you can do that by making a donation to the tip jar or following me over on Patreon. There are some free classes that you can't get otherwise over on Patreon. And you can also shop at my Etsy store. All the links for all of those things are in the description below. And yeah, so anyway, if you also have some suggestions on what you'd like to see, let me know because you know, I'm all about that. So that's it for right now. I've got upcoming watercolor tutorials to film content for my creative years Facebook group to film, which will air here on YouTube. I've got some wool felting I'm going to experiment with. I've never done it before. And I have some hand beating and sewing tutorials that I want to do stuff I haven't done in a long time. Yeah. And that sort of thing. I've got a list. I have notes. See notes. So anyway, if there's something you would like to see in particular, let me know because I'm all about that. We're just about unpacked. I'm getting settled in. So I'm ready to hit the ground run and so to speak. And we're coming up on winter. And so it's going to be too cold outside for me to want to go anywhere. So I'm going to just hide in here and create stuff all day. So, you know, I'll have time. All right, that's it for right now. Everybody go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I'll see you later. Bye guys.