 have one of those days where you just feel jumpy for apparently no reason? Where you just seem to be on edge all the time? Yep, that's me today. And I haven't had too much coffee at least not yet. So I always chalked it up to a symptom of my anxiety. Whether that's accurate or not, it does happen periodically where I just seem to be jumpy for no reason. I don't know. It is Sunday morning, March 3rd, I think. Did you catch that glimpse of the beautiful sun coming in the window up here upstairs? I have no idea what time it is because, you know, it's me. Look at the sun over here. Oops. Just a shaft of sunlight. It's wonderful. Anyway, squirrel. I'm getting ready to do the intervals of sanity live broadcast this morning. Oh, my computer says it's 8 a.m. Green Room opens at 8 30. I have typing and posting to do before then and I probably should have some more coffee because I'm not really that awake. So that's a thing. I'll be back. Good morning. It's Monday morning. It's March 4th. Don't get all excited. I've been up since about 6.15 this morning and I've already been on the computer for a few hours. Doing daily postings, updating the website, sharing the links for the blog page and the design team blog, basically sharing their videos. Not that that always helps me know what day it is, but yeah, I do this morning. And sitting at the computer first thing this morning is probably not something I should have done, but it is what I'm trying to make my new Monday morning routine. That being said, I was doing a lot of sewing and projects over the weekend basically hunched over a desk of some sort most of the weekend and my old neck injury has been bothering me. So I did some physical therapy on it yesterday, which helped. It's not quite back yet today. I'm sure sitting for a couple hours this morning at the desk didn't help, but you know what are you going to do? So I am headed out to go run some errands now. It's 9.19 a.m. So we're going to make McCann's our first stop because I have some Etsy orders and things to drop off in the mail in one flat rate box to send out. I think they open at 9. And then we're going to head over to Fred Meyer because I need groceries, but I also need a hodgepodge of miscellaneous things too. And rather than making a bunch of different errands to different places, I can just go to Fred Meyer and they probably will have something that'll work and I'm good with that. All right, Bob is home and so is Rebecca from their weekend in California celebrating my mother-in-law's birthday. Again, everybody tell Betty happy birthday. She was 90 years old this weekend and that is a fabulous accomplishment. And what else? That's all I can think of right now. Yeah, I don't know. That's it right now. I mean, you know, I've had two cups of coffee, but I feel like I need like a bunch more. Maybe I just need some activity because I've been sitting at the desk a lot for like three days. So maybe walking around and getting steps in even if it's only at the grocery store will help. Let's hope. All right, I'll be back. Not that that's any big surprise. I've already been up and down the stairs a few times today, getting my daily postings written and stuff like that. Now I'm going to edit the vlog for tomorrow, last week's vlog. I spent more time than I thought it would take trying to get the clips to airdrop from my phone, which we're filming on right now to my desktop. Some days they just don't want to talk nice to each other. I don't know what else to say. Anyway, I finally got it done and was able to go get a take a shower. Obviously my hair is wet. And while I'm also doing that, I'm going to see if a few of the paintings I've done recently are small enough to sit on the scanner so I can scan them and maybe create some printables for you all. I'm supposed to be catching up on my videos for Pauline Agnew's class that ended last week. And I'm two days into five days of being behind. And I'm going to go with Pauline's voice being so soothing because it's not that she's a boring teacher. Her voice is just so soothing that I'm starting to fall asleep while watching the videos. That's probably not a good thing. So I'm going to go out and get some steps in. There is something sort of I want to investigate in the woods if I can do it without going too far in because I don't know what's living in there. So I'm going to do that first. I'll be right back. I'm white and blue back there. I'm thinking it's just garbage. Somebody spun over the fence, which is too bad. I'm not tramping through this to investigate further and we'll pick it up though. I don't really see any safe way to get over there right now. There's really not any safe way for me to get over there, at least not by myself, and I don't know what it is over there. So we're going to let it go for the moment. I am still adjusting to organ life and the fact that the move has been difficult because not everybody was as supportive as I'd hoped. That's all I'm going to say about that. It's been difficult and yeah, but I'm working my way through it and doing art helps, going for walks helps. I know it's for some little chilly outside. It's I don't know exactly 42, something like that. It's all right. I like the cold. My asthma likes the cold. So anyway, I'm going to take pictures of where I can and just enjoy my little walk around the neighborhood, get some exercise in and I'll be back. Good morning. It is Wednesday morning, March 6th, I think. I should know this because I am in the office obviously near the computer. I do believe it's the sixth. Hopefully I got that right. It is Wednesday definitely. I am just getting my day going. I've already done all my daily postings and checked on the Etsy store, already walked to the mailbox with some orders that had to go out and I've had breakfast. I'm trying to avoid having a third cup of coffee because it's probably really not good for me, but I kind of would like more coffee. Yeah, so that's a thing. I need to start laundry. Well, continue work on laundry. I also need to work on this behind me. There's a blank page back here, which I need to watch the last of Pauline's lessons for her class and then do my homework. So that's kind of my focus today so that I can clean off the table and do some art journaling, which I also want to do. I did set up my mini inspiration boards this morning. I had bits and pieces floating around. I wanted to put over there. When we moved into the room, I always envisioned a place for mini inspiration boards and I knew I wanted them on mini clipboards. Anyway, I got it set up. I'm going to show you my Kia wall pocket thing. I think I'm a jig and I have my business receipts and calendars and stuff up here and miscellaneous like these are labels for the stencils. Anyway, the bottom two pockets are my mini inspiration boards and when I have pictures that I want to create something by, I'm inspired by maybe just the colors in it. I'm going to put them on a clip, print them and put them on a clipboard and then attach other bits and pieces like paints to watches. I think this one, yeah, there's a little lace doily on it. If you've been following me on social media, you recognize this picture in the background and a quote underneath here that I thought might go. This is the background image is a print of some bird feathers and paints. Anyway, these and I'll be adding to them, creating from them using the actual bits and pieces sometimes in a piece of artwork or on a journal page and then replacing that, cleaning it off and replacing what's there. It'll be a very fluid kind of thing. I'm very happy to have that here. I need to work on my to do list on my other clipboard and do that homework. So let's get to it, shall we? Hi guys. So it's snowing again. Let's see, hold on. There you go. I don't think it's quite cold enough for it all to stick. But yeah, the next like three days we're expecting a sprinkling of snow. This is not true snowing. This is a sprinkling. Anyway, I spent the morning working on another painting based on the lessons from Pauline Agnew's class. And I got that done, turned out really well. I'll insert a picture here. I also did an acrylic pour on a board. We are going to be mounting our dog Bandit's paw print and a picture of him on a board. If you aren't aware, we had a dog Bandit who passed away in November. We miss him. Anyway, I did an acrylic pour in Bandit colors as I'm calling it. I added a little blue because he was a boy dog. I'll put a picture here of the pour, turned out really great. The only problem with how it turned out is I don't want to cover it up with anything. But we're going to add his paw print and we'll add a picture of him after it dries. It's going to take a few days to dry. So I'm going to get that done and right now I'm going to go check the mail and then go make some lunch and have a cup of tea. So I'll be back. Hey guys, if you follow me on social media, you already know I got some new watercolors in today. I needed a few tubes if there's some things I was out of these three in particular. But I didn't really want to drive all the way over to the art supply store to get them. So I just ordered them online. That being said, whether I had gone to the store in person or ordered online, I always kind of feel like I need to justify the trip all the way over there or justify ordering something by at least ordering enough to get free shipping. So I got these smaller tubes of Daniel Smith. I was out of Rose of Ultramarine and I was out of Crocodon Gold. I got the smaller tubes because my pans are currently full. That being said, these are two colors I run out of all the time. So I wanted to have some backup and I have one pan that could use a little bit of a fill up. I was completely out of Grumbacher Academy watercolors in the turquoise, which is a favorite color of mine. I don't think it's light fast at all. It may be a little bit. I don't even know. And I don't have my reading glasses on, so I can't even tell you what the tube says. But yeah, maybe you can read that. I can't. Or you can look it up. Anyway, it's a good color. I love it. That being said, they also had a special for whole mine watercolors, which aren't always like my super favorite, but they do have some opaque watercolors. They don't call them gouache. They do call them watercolor, but they're opaque colors. And I thought that might be nice to add to my repertoire of stuff. I have been using some of my acrylic paints with watercolors, and I'm going to be using some acrylic gouache with my watercolor. I'm interested in using some more opaque watercolors with some projects. And so I got, and I also wanted to do like a spring palette. Aren't these pretty? So I got a lavender. It's W316. And I got the shell pink, which is W226, which are both opaque colors. And then I got leaf green, which is a semi opaque. That's what it says in their chart. And then I got turquoise blue, which is transparent. I think that's the way that went. And that's the way it seems to be on the color chart. The four real pretty colors, and I'm happy I got them. And they came with, because I ordered four of them, I got this free tin. Let's see if I can find it. Isn't it cute? It's like the cutest tin. And you would think like the outside is in a plane inside, but you'd be wrong. So it's going to be great for stirring some watercolor tubes or something in. So there you have it. All right, I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. So we're going to start off the day. Well, I've already started the day. You can hear the dishwasher in the background. And I've already had my two cups of coffee. But we're going to start getting the rest of our day going by pulling a new positive affirmation card. Actually, two of them, because I have one sitting behind the kitchen window. So we'll pull one for here. Trusting, that's a good one. And upstairs in the art room, I have flowing. Let's pull one from the window. Noble. So it is Thursday, March, March 7th, I think. I'm pretty sure it's the 7th because we have a lunch date on the 9th, which is Saturday. So that's a bit better. I at least am not in my pajamas and my hair looks, if I'll be wet, but at least it doesn't look like a big old hot mess. Putting it on my galosh is not because it's super wet outside or anything, but they're just easy to get on. And I'm going to go take the sympathy card to the mailbox so it goes out today. And then we'll figure out what we're going to do from there, because I honestly have no idea. So cool. I thought I heard something when I was getting ready this morning, because our bathroom window faces the woods, but I couldn't figure out what it was. Pretty sure now I know it was Bambi eating the corn, which is fine with me. That's what it's there for. All right, I'll be back. They're still there. Can you see them? They kind of blend in. I have a feeling they're waiting for me to go back inside. So I'm going to do that so they can have their lunch. I'll be back. Guess who you can see out the upstairs? Our studio window. Bambi and his family. Hang on. This is the window by the sewing table. And they're just chilling. I'm pretty sure either they're waiting to see if I come back out, or one of them may be over at the deer corn bowl trying to get some food, which I'm okay with. So very cool. So I unloaded the car when I got back. And as you saw, the deer are still here. I came out the front door once I was unloaded, and I'd close the garage door. I thought I'd just walk down really quick to check the mail. Sometimes it comes early. Of course, it's not their interesting thing though. The deer were coming walking out of the woods, and they did not seem to be the least bit afraid of me at all. Yep, hold on. See that? Oops, there it is. He's standing in my driveway. Pretty cool. Looks like we have another little... He's just sitting there. He's probably one of the many creatures eating the deer corn. That would be my guess. He looks pretty fat and happy to me. Good morning. It's Friday morning, March 8th, 9.45 a.m. I only know that because I'm sitting on the sofa in front of the iPad. And yeah, I'm puppy sitting. She's not happy with me when I try to get up, but I do have stuff to do. She does this whenever she gets left here, because not only does she love her people, but I think she's worried I'm gonna leave like mommy did when mommy left her here, so it's a thing. My roots are getting really white. Oh, yay, yay. Anyway, so we just have a quiet day. I don't have anything pressing I need to do. There's a couple things I would like to do, so I'm gonna work on them, but no errands or chores or anything specifically. The kids are coming over later for dinner. I think we're having pizza, um, and then that's about it for today, so I don't know right now, but I'll be back. Bambi's here. Oh my gosh. Hold on. Do you see him out there out the window? Right outside my front window. I'm really fascinated. It's eating my bushes. This is why I got Dear Corn. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Oh, it's not morning anymore. It's 12 12. It's Saturday, March 9th. Yep. Oh, I got it right. Oh my god. Um, we, we were at the mall looking for jeans and stuff for Fred, which we didn't find, by the way. We found a bunch of things that we didn't really need, of course, because you know, we're at the mall. It's easier to just get him to order online. We did find that my other pair of expensive fancy sunglasses, it's a good thing I found these a couple weeks ago because I went to pull them out of my bag to put them on today. They were smashed to crap and back. I don't know what happened. They live in my handbag. I've got no idea, but yeah, so this is why I don't buy expensive fancy sunglasses. So not anymore. No, I haven't. That was the one and only pair I bought in years, so we're gonna go run a couple other errands and I'll probably be picking up some other sunglasses at Fred Meyer. We're gonna stop over at World Market first and we'll be back. I need a footstool for the living room. I had one. We moved it with us. It got bent and mangled on the way up and then Polly is sat on it and broke it. So I'm looking for a new footstool. Anyway, yeah, so that's one of the things we're stopping at World Market for. We'll see if they have one I like. All right, so it is late in the evening. It is still Saturday, 10, 16 p.m. I just got done with my daily drawings a few minutes ago and my husband's been watching movies for a couple hours. We spent the rest of the afternoon hunting at bits and pieces of paper for our tax income tax return, which has to be filed soon. Those of you in the U.S. know what I mean. April 15th is a deadline, right? So we had, as all of you know who watched my channel, I moved to this last year and we sold our California house. So that meant we had to find our old closing statements from 1992. I didn't think we had them anymore, but guess what I found them. I'm, but I'm glad that's over with Holy Cow. Anyway, we got more paperwork cleaning up to do, but I think we're ready to send things into the accountant guy and have him do the tax return for us because yeah, that's going to be a thing. Anyway, I'm glad that's done it over with tomorrow. We're going to work on a couple small projects here around the house before husband goes back to work. And you know, a few DIY things I wanted to do. There's one outlet plate I wanted to change. I wanted to add a shelf in the upper part of the pantry closet, things like that. So I'm going to give him a hand and hopefully head to the store hardware store tomorrow so we can get that done. But that's it. It's been a kind of a quiet Saturday. We had fun walking around the mall. I am on the hunt for a footstool because as I said earlier, our other one broke everywhere we went looking for one today. I was SOL. It just wasn't happening. Wow, got a chill there by spine. So yeah, so I'm on the hunt for a footstool. That's a thing. We've got still furniture for the other bedroom to buy. I just need to nail the husband down so we can actually go shopping and go find something that's not outrageous, but you know, it's a process. Anyway, it's been a fun week. I'll put as usual any relevant links in the description below. If you guys have any questions, comments or concerns, please leave them here on the video. You can of course private message me or follow me on social media and get me that way. All of my information on how to contact me, follow me on social media, support the free content here on YouTube is in my link tree or in the description of the video, including the link tree links in the description of the video. My PayPal tip jar, my Amazon store, my Etsy store where to buy my book, all of that stuff. So there's a lot of ways and there's lots of places to follow me like Instagram and Twitter. I post things daily, usually art that I'm doing just life stuff, funny quotes I find on Facebook. So yeah, pick one of those and follow me. I welcome you and that's it I think for right now. I've got projects to do coming up. I've got some artwork that I need to mat and get packaged so that I can put it in the Etsy store for sale. I do have original art for sale along with t-shirts and stickers, stamp stencils. This is one of the new ones. It does have the be a decent human at the top and then don't be an asshole at the bottom all together. And we have short sleeve and long sleeve and some of them coming not just in the white t-shirt but gray. Also the logo is on some sites like red bubble or society six on some other merchandise. So there you have it. And again, all those links are in my link tree. That's it for right now. I still am going to be on a hunt for a footstool. That's like my top priority thing to buy for the house right now because I use it when I'm drawing downstairs to prop my feet up on because my hello I'm short my feet don't reach the floor. Ask my friends over at intervals of sanity. They've seen me in real life. I am really short. Anyway, so I need a footstool. Anyway, that's it for right now. I hope you all have had a great week. I do have a I do have some people in my life who have had losses recently. And I want to not I'm not naming anybody in particular, but I will send them my condolences. They know who they are. My husband has a co worker I've stated before, whose son passed away. So we send them our condolences. And I know someone else who is going through a tough medical time with her husband. And it's not good. I'm not going to say more than that. So please don't ask. But I will ask you to all send your love and prayers and well wishes to all of those involved condolences. Send out some good energy. They could all use it. And if you know anybody else is going through a tough time, let's send them some too. That's it for right now. I hope you all have a great day and have a great week. And don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. All right, that's it right now. See you later. Bye guys.