 Good morning everybody it is Sunday June 3rd 848 a.m. I've been up since about 5 30 this morning because I couldn't sleep. I actually woke up about an hour before that and tried going back to sleep 5 30s when I actually got out of bed. Anyway we are going to be doing some more cleaning and purging around the house today. At least is what we can do with Lily around which is going to be interesting and trying to run some errands. We're going to try to do it early ish this morning because it was pretty hot yesterday and I think today is supposed to be a repeat of that weather-wise so anyway we're going to get our day started and I'll be back. You know he always smiles and crinches as soon as he sees me he'll hold up the phone. Yeah no kidding. So we're out running a few errands this morning and the first step stop is to get my car washed because the outside of my car is disgusting. Yeah the inside is clean the outside is really bad so we're going to get the car washed. I'll be back. I've been up since about 6 30 or so. I was expecting somebody to come by for some estimates and stuff anyway. They didn't show up but that's okay. Other stuff happened so it was all good. I did get all of September filmed for all of my commitments so I have the SD card on my desk so I can spend the rest of the afternoon after lunch editing and then hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday I can get October filmed so my goal is to get the year filmed. I think I've mentioned that already. Lily went home last night and she's a super cute puppy and loving and energetic but she went home thank goodness. I love you Lily but yeah I'm not used to having any kind of little ones whether it has two feet or four feet under foot all the time anymore so yeah anyway she was real cute but oh my god hungry all the time I forgot how hungry puppies are like all the time. Anyway so I have stopped filming for the day and I'm going to have an Etsy order that's got to go out and I need to stop by the fabric store. It's just a matter of stopping figuring out if I want to go to Morgan Hill or if I want to go to up more north to San Jose time wise they're the same amount of time for my house. It's just a matter of which is going to be less annoying traffic wise probably Morgan Hill so that means I'm probably going to Hobby Lobby. That's okay with me I need just a couple things I'm not going to buy too much I just need a couple things so that's it for the moment I will be back. I obviously decided to go to Joanne fabrics see what they have. Okay so I got a bunch of snaps and some other like little sewing hardware parts that I've been out of I did say earlier on a video I was shooting for something else that I I'm not really into dress making anymore although I used to be a dress maker but I do like making bags and I was looking for some of these kind of like strap hooks and I found them and I found some really big huge jumbo sew on snaps which are really cool so I got I probably won't need to buy any like for my lifetime I'm probably set but I got a few sheets I mean I didn't get a ton a ton but I don't use them that often so anyway I probably purged them the last time I had any and that's why I only found the one snap when I was making a project earlier that I was working on which is why I went to do this so anyway it's an upcoming video for next month so anyway we are going to go get the mail there's a bunch of stuff that came in including an order from um Shannon greens etsy store and a new order of postcards and stuff from this to print that I need to um look at and will probably be going up for sale in the Etsy shop at some point and stuff like that I also need to eat lunch because I'm starving that's it for the moment I'm just sitting at the red light in traffic in San Jose as usual yeah nothing new okay so one of the things I'm doing today besides everything else I've done today including all the filming is I'm boiling here some onion skins and um this is my ink making pot a dedicated pot for this kind of experiment so this is some red onion skins and leavings from dinner cutting up an onion for dinner last night and I'm gonna boil um them and I'm gonna um it I brought the water to a boil with the skins in it and then I just reduced it down so I'm gonna leave it to simmer and reduce um for a while like 30 minutes to even an hour low and slow until it reduces down and gets thick and really absorbs all the color possible from the onions we'll see what color we come out with all right I'll be back okay so we've boiled our onion water and it's all cooled off and reduced so I'm going to pour it through this strainer into this measuring cup this is all like stuff I use just for art projects and crafting I don't use any of these for food FYI all the water out have this okay we're gonna put um it into one of these bottles a little bit extra which I thought I might so I've got an extra bottle I'm gonna put two like drops of glycerin in that almost empty bottle and like five or six in the full bottle to act as a preservative now the test what color what color is it gonna be I've got a scrap piece of white card and white watercolor paper and a brush let's test it shall we no idea what to expect we did the avocado skin we got um reddish purple with both the skin and the and the seed and when we I have coffee ink and stuff like that which is a brown oh this is a pretty color it's a brownish red color it sort of looks like coffee or a weak tea oh interesting let me dry it and I'll be right back okay so interesting so this is the avocado skin ink color that we got this is the avocado seed color that we got so two varying shades of red the skin color looks actually in my opinion looks like kind of like blood but both interesting shades of reddish pink and then the onion color came out when it dried look at this green this greenish brown so really interesting these would be interesting to paint with which is of course the next step so I'm gonna cut like I did here I'm gonna cut this into a couple pieces and tape one to each one of the bottles so I know what the color is and yeah I can't see what else I find next to make ink out of but I'll let you know all right that's it for the moment I'll be back hey guys it is Tuesday June 5th I think it is Tuesday um I forgot to vlog this morning no excuse I just got up and started doing other stuff and forgot and then was chatting with friends and still forgot and I'm in the car getting ready to get the mail realized that I forgot to mail a package I should have mailed yesterday oops and it's going out today um and um yeah I was gonna maybe head over to Daiso this morning I have a friend that needs me to get some stuff but I didn't make it over there today so I think I'm thinking I'll go like maybe tomorrow or Thursday and that's really it there's just I'm taking a day off did a lot of filming and a lot of work yesterday today the only important thing I'm doing is laundry so you know there's that um I am doing the Stencilified Journal at least for as many weeks as I can manage and I did do week two today which doesn't air until next week or go public until next week it's not a video it's just images so if you want to see what I'm doing in that regard you need to follow me on Facebook or Instagram or something like that Google plus um if you go to the video description here on YouTube and click on my link tree um you're going to come up with a list of links to all the different places I am on the internet my website Facebook groups Instagram everything so click on that and go follow me somewhere um I did week one aired yesterday so anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back we're here to see Brian Setzer so I tried to get footage on the way up but I think it's a little shaky whatever I can salvage I'll insert it here because the drive-up is pretty but yep let's go find our seats concert by Brian Setzer and his band his what does he call him Brian Setzer orchestra the same band yeah anyway they did a great job I will put a link to his fan page or whatever I can find in the description below if you don't know who he is check him out that's it we're going to go home now and have a cup of tea because I'm also freezing oh my god is it cold anyway I'll be back good morning everybody it is Wednesday January 6th I think so anyway I'm really tired this morning we were up at the concert late last night it was really fun but I'm really tired um and I couldn't sleep last night number one I was freezing cold by the time we got home because it was really cold last night up at the mountain winery so anyway I'm going to head out this morning early because I don't want to fight afternoon traffic if I have to fight traffic I'd rather do it this morning and I need to hit up a dollar tree and I need to do some um daizo shopping for a friend so we're going to go do both of those things this morning and I'll take you with me we'll be back okay so dollar tree had one of the things I was looking for which I got thank goodness some little um sort of aqua colored um so turn left on to Stevens Creek Boulevard they didn't have the other thing that's okay I think I'm going to just have my husband make me some of the other thing here these wire geometric frames um or little sculptures I'll include a picture here uh I am looking for them in 1.1 miles turn left they could be made out of wire coat hangers or something else but anyway now I'm headed over to daizo so we'll see if they have what I'm looking for there clip right now how much of the daizo footage is clear and not shaky boy can you tell I'm tired anyway um but that's a look around a daizo store and uh I did find almost everything my friend wanted and of course a few things for myself because you know and I am gonna go to the grocery store now and then go home what time is it it's 10 58 depending on what time it is when I get out of the grocery store I might go try to get the mail but because then I don't have to go out again I like that idea we'll see what happens hey guys it is Thursday June 7th I'm pretty sure it is 12 50 in the afternoon I have almost forgotten to film for the vlog because I've been up since early this morning um doing my daily writing and posting commitments on different Facebook groups and social media um and then I went right into filming for October um which I got all my major commitments done um so now I can after lunch edit them and get them loaded to YouTube and then start working on November and then after that December so I'm hoping to get actually all of the big YouTube commitments filmed and loaded for all of 2018 by my goal is by next Friday I don't know if we'll meet it but we'll find out I have contractors coming over for estimates and stuff on Monday so I don't know how much filming I'm gonna get done I'm gonna try to get up early and get one or two things filmed before they come and then hopefully get some stuff filmed after they leave and that sort of things we'll see what happens we have some more repairs and stuff around the house need to be done so I'm going to be filming in between them when they're available to do them so um and then I need to also film a bunch of videos for design team challenges and um for my design team for my products so I need to do that too I've got a list don't worry I've got a list right now we're gonna take a break and go check on the mail and then eat lunch and you have kind of a headache because I think I need to eat again I also am dead tired and probably need some more caffeine because I'm not haven't been sleeping well there's a lot of stuff going on not bad stuff just stuff um and you know I'm of a certain age that you know insomnia is pretty common and those of you women out there in your mid 50s completely understand what I'm talking about anyway um I can't wait for you guys to see some of the pages I've been creating for some of these commitments because I if I do say so myself have turned out some really cool work and um one of the pages I did the today was for explorations of me for October and I love the way it came out love love love so anyway all right I'm gonna go get the mail and I'll be back I've so lost track of vlogging this week I have no idea when I vlogged and when I haven't it's Friday that I know for sure June I think it's the eighth because I think tomorrow's the ninth anyway it is just before one o'clock and I'm over at the shopping center where I pick up my mail I've spent the morning doing some more filming and catching up on not catching up on filming ahead on stuff for my design team and it's currently all edited and loading up to YouTube and getting scheduled out so currently I'm scheduled out all my commitments through October my goal of course is before the end of June to be scheduled out for the rest of the year there's lots of business stuff going on right now and I and stuff going on around the house and you know improvement stuff remodeling fix it stuff kind of thing that category so I need to really get filmed out through the rest of the year soon because then I don't then it's just one less thing I have to worry about to be honest so that's my goal right now um I've been doing some more purging too of things and if you're watching this and you're local I have some diva curl shampoo I'm no longer using sorry I'm getting a notification and styling products so if you would like them they're free I'm not using them I have kind of a lot of it let me know email me my emails in the description below um and there's a pile of hardware type things at the curb I was giving away for free everybody took everything else except the little pipe fittings and things nobody seems to want them so I'm going to bring them back in the garage and we'll either dump them or see if one of the workmen who's coming to the house to do repairs wants them I don't know that's a lot I'm going to go check my mailbox I'm waiting for more stencil inventory for the Etsy shop from the United Kingdom from my friend Mike Deacon so hopefully that's in today it is kind of a big order this time though so it seems to be taking a little longer I'm assuming it's because it's kind of a big order so hopefully it does come in with no problem and I was contacted this morning by a company about doing an affiliate thing with some of their products and a video or two or more so I am in negotiation with them so that may be coming I will make sure they are clearly marked so you all know that it's an affiliate video that being said I'm not going to tell you something about the product that's untrue just because it's an affiliate video so I don't do that all right that's it for the moment I can't think of anything else I'm going to go get my mail it's like 80 plus degrees outside and it's really hot in my car so anyway I'll be back see this that's a solid no packaging included stack of stencils over a hundred of them all intended for the Etsy shop holy cow I know what I'm doing the rest of the day all right I'll be back good morning everybody it is Saturday morning it's just before noon so technically it's still morning and we've already had a pretty busy morning with Etsy shop orders and contractors coming over this morning and now we're going to go out and run a few errands before the kids come over for dinner so it's going to be a busy day it's always a busy day I know right so we'll be back hi guys it is Saturday evening and it is 8 30 ish the kids have gone home and we had a really great family dinner together played the game of life board game and just generally chit-chatted about life and things and stuff that's going on it was a nice visit and it was really funny that the as you saw in the prior clip when we were choosing career cards when we all landed on that section you know the cards were faced down I just grabbed one at random I chose the artist card and while I didn't win the game I wasn't I was second so I wish I wish being a working artist was so easy in real life I really wish it was it's not anyway it is time to just go sit and chill in the other room I am looking at YouTube and I'm going to close up the desktop computer because it's time I'm done with that and the little few things that are on here can be checked on looked at or read from the iPad in the other room so that's it I'm going to reply to a few to YouTube comments and shut this off for the night I hope you've all had a great week that you still find the vlog interesting if you have any questions comments or concerns leave them in the comments below if you want to follow me on other social media or join one of my Facebook groups click on the link tree link in the description below if you click on it you're going to find a list of every single place I am on the internet including my Etsy shop my website all my Facebook groups Instagram everything so pick one and join me that's it for right now go out and have a great week everybody do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys