 Hey everybody. I thought I'd try posting a blog, maybe doing a few clips here and there over the next few days. Inspired by my friend Mike Deacon. He does these every week. There's a lot of filming and editing, Mike, but I'm gonna give it a shot. Anyway, I'm out running errands. I'm at the grocery store and I'm leaving right now. I needed a couple things, but I'm trying to get out of the parking lot. Nobody wants to let me back up my car. And now I'm gonna head over to the plastics shop. And I don't know if you all who are not in California or not in the U.S. know what tap plastics is. T.A.P. plastics. We have it here in California. I don't know how far white spread they are, but they are a store that just sells things made out of plastics and acrylic. And you can have things cut to order. It's the best place to get squeezy bottles. Oh yeah, I need some squeezy bottles. It's the cheapest place, short of ordering them from Amazon or something. I like Amazon, but sometimes I just want to go buy stuff. I also want to see if they can create an extension table for my little craft sewing machine so that I can do more free form sewing on it. And I know they can probably create it for me, but I don't know how expensive it's going to be. So we're going to head over there and ask them and find out. Now if I can just get out on the road and get over there in the San Jose traffic, which is terrible. Alrighty, let's give it a try. Stuck in traffic? Doesn't that need all? Of course not. There's road construction. We're starting rush hour here. Let me go in and see what I can find. You hear that? That's the air conditioner. It's really loud because it's really hot. Alright, so I got some 16 ounce bottles. Two of them. These were 90 cents. I got some 8 ounce bottles, 60 cents. And I got a bunch of squeezy bottle tops, 25 cents. And they're going to build me a custom table extender for my little mixed media sewing machine. For a lot cheaper than you can get it online and they're going to custom make it for me. So got a love tap plastic. I'm going to put the link to their site in the description below. They do have stores across the country and you can, I think, order from their website. So yeah, I don't know if they do international orders or anything. They probably do, but check it out. And you might have a store like them near you, so you can see. Alright, let's see if we can get over to the mailbox place to get my mail. Wednesday, September. Wednesday is in September 2017. That's the day it is today. I think it's the 6th. We're out running errands. I had to stop creating today in my art room because everything was wet. The computer was being finicky and the camera was out of power. I needed to be recharged. I think somebody was trying to tell me something. So we're out running errands and getting groceries and, you know, normal stuff. I'll be back. I have to say, I intensely dislike driving in traffic. It's not even three o'clock yet and the freeway going back towards my house to get the mail is bumper to bumper. What the heck is with that? It seems like we don't have rush hour in the morning or in the afternoon anymore. It's just a rush hour all day long. I really do dislike it. Okay, we're headed to the PO box now to pick up the mail. I've been doing a little bit more ordering from wish.com, so we'll find out. Hopefully, as my husband says, not too many envelopes with windows, a.k.a. bills. Yeah, you don't like windows. No windows. Alright, let's go ahead over there and go see what's available to me. So I got my new inhaler. I get to start on a new asthma medicine. Yay. An Amazon box. That's all that was there. So that's okay. No windows. Bob will be happy. Those of you that don't know, Bob is my husband. He's the one who handles the bill pane and he does not like windows. Alright, so let's go home and unpack and relax and see what's in that Amazon box and maybe have a bowl of figs or cherries because I feel like having some fruit. Alright, let's see if I can make it past DMV without anybody making me completely insane. Yeah, good luck with that. You really think, I think you're supposed to know how to drive before you go to DMV to be your license, but I really do. At least not over here. I'll find out what it looks clear today. First thing in the morning, I barely had two cups of coffee. My hair looks terrible because we're going to the gym. I'm going to get myself my fat driving in the middle of the road because that's what they do by DMV. Let's get in and let's work out. It's just really, really hot again. Like the whole summer is good. When I'm saying hot, I mean we look forward to the cool days when it's only 90, spending the last few hours filming and creating a bunch of really fun, good things for my dear friend, Jerry Bellini, who has an Etsy shop called Recycled Parts for Art. She sells interesting, unique, salvaged and vintage items for all of us creatives to create with. And so I've been filming some videos for her for her shop that I think you're all going to find some of the projects that I'm doing and some of the other artists she has helping her are creating with her things. I think we've got some really interesting stuff coming out for you for the next few months. I was having so much fun. I even went back out to the garage which for those of you who don't know used to be my own art space. Half the garage my husband had the other half and I had my own toolbox full of tools and drills and screwdriver. So I went out in the garage and I found my own old drill and fired that puppy up and I was drilling holes and stuff and I should have probably got some footage for you all but I didn't do that. For those are wondering it's Thursday September 7th. You would never know this is a neighborhood that people live in and that you should only be going 25 miles an hour and not 15. Holy cow! Alright so we're off to get the mail. Then I'm going to eat a late lunch. As usual I've been creating and forgot to eat so I need to do that. See this is why I don't want my hair up too much because you can see like anyway. I started my new medicine today and so far so good I mean I've only taken a couple of doses but this new asthma medicine seems to be working except for the occasional cough and I don't seem to be too dizzy. Well see how I feel as the week goes along and I get more of it in me. It's called Palma Corp I think. So it's a little different so we'll see if it works. I don't mind having to take it but I don't want to feel like a drunk all the time especially when I don't drink. Let's go see what's in the mailbox. My husband's a Freemason and he got his monthly newsletter and I got my package of stencils from Mr. Mike Deacon. So we have more inventory in the shop. Yay! For those of you that don't know Mike in the United Kingdom helps me get my stencils manufactured. He's a really great artist has his own line of stuff and he's got a great YouTube channel. If you don't know who he is you should check him out. I'll try to link these people in the description but if I forget somebody remind me because you know I'm always forgetting the links or at least I feel like I am. Alright let's go home have some lunch because it's like almost 2 o'clock and I still haven't eaten lunch yet. And I need to sit down and have some water too I feel really thirsty because I'm making art all afternoon and I haven't been drinking my water like I'm supposed to. Good morning everybody it is Friday morning September 8th. Excuse me I haven't taken my asthma meds yet today. I am what time is it? It is 8 o'clock in the morning. I've been up for a couple hours and I am having yet another early morning art business crafty discussion with more art friends including Shannon Green and Rosemary Morris and a few others and yeah it's pretty funny it's not YouTube advertiser friendly so we'll not discuss what we're talking about but it's pretty funny. Yeah anyway we're trying to help Shannon with the name of her new business and yeah I think I think we went off on a wrong direction somewhere. Anyway I'm also trying to get the writing done for all the different art Facebook groups I'm in this morning and make sure my video for my year 2017 is live and that that post is pinned and all of that jazz. Today I have to start working on my design team call video and postings for 2018. There will be a design team for my design stamp design and stencil design line for 2018 so if you're interested at all I will try to remember to post a link to the questionnaire you have to fill out you're gonna have to download and answer the questions and then email them to me. I'll post a link down in the video description so check it out you should check out the video descriptions on the videos anyway because they have links to all kinds of fun stuff no matter the artist generally. On mine there is a link to a link tree that has all of the different places you can find me on the internet including my Etsy shop, my website, my email newsletter, all the Facebook groups like everything. I think my LinkedIn page is even on there. I don't know why you need that but I think it's on there. So yeah I also have to work on there was something else oh I have to work on the my year 2017 group that's going to be for next year. We are gonna have it next year it's not gonna be called my year 2018 it's gonna be something different so we're working on ironing all those details out but stay tuned if you're a member of the current my year 2017 group and you're interested in going forward with it we're switching things up a bit still art and user-friendly and still free and still fun and creative I think so I think that you might be interested so stay tuned because we're ironing all those details out we're just about ready to roll it out and yeah I'm gonna go back to my typing so I can get to the gym because yeah obviously yeah gym here gym shirt yeah so we're gonna get going and I'll be back hey guys it is Friday I don't know September 8th and I may have said that already today I've ever had one of those days where just everything you touch nothing seems to go right started out like a pretty good day and yeah so nothing is you know it's just it's been one of those days nothing is horribly wrong but you know a lot of little things that went wrong hmm alright so the husband's gonna be back any minute home from work and we're gonna go out to dinner with some friends I've shut my desktop off for the day and it's a little earlier than I normally do that but I'm just done with that I couldn't even get iMovie was just having issues like I was getting the I have a Mac so the little rainbow wheel of death those of you out there that have max know what I'm talking about it just yeah it was one of those days like I said so anyway tomorrow there's always another day though so we'll see how tomorrow goes alright see you then bye I just give up on my hair lately it just does what it wants to you don't know what to do with it oh yeah yeah anyway it is Saturday September 9th it's just after lunchtime it's almost one o'clock I've been busy this morning trying hard to stay off of social media and Facebook and mess at Facebook Messenger in particular I have a lot of editing to do and stuff to catch up on so the house is quiet I'm home alone and that's a good thing because I have the opportunity to really I'm looking over there because I don't know I have the opportunity really to catch up and get a lot of stuff done so I'm working on that I got some Etsy orders that have to go out and I'm almost out of fluid Matt medium how is that possible again I don't know I must use it a lot and I don't have any backup jars it's all gone so I guess I'm headed over to the art store and a little bit I'm going out to dinner with the kids later so that's going to be a lot of fun they're taking me out to this really great custom burger place that we have here in San Jose called the counter if you have never been there and you're in the area you should go you can order hamburgers I want to say like something crazy like 350 different ways like they have bread options meat options vegetable options sauce and spread options like there's options on options on options like it's unlimited the combinations that you can do anyway it's pretty cool so we're gonna go over there for dinner and that's it just catching up on stuff and you know trying to just make some art and have some fun and enjoy the peace and quiet and yeah life has been kind of crazy this week and there's been some unexpected bumps in the road and I'm handling them I'm good so and I came up with some new I think good stencil designs for 2018 Mr. my friend Mr. Mike Deacon is taking a look at them I'll get his opinion on them next week and if you don't know who Mike Deacon is and you don't know his channel I want to tease you and ask you what are you living under a rock but in all seriousness you should go check him out he's here on YouTube he has uses his own line of products and his own design line which is connected to his Etsy shop so and all of that information on his YouTube channel so I will try to remember to connect it down below all right and I'm filming explorations of me which I do with Cindy Utter and a couple of other people trying to get all of 2017 film and I think I have it so I'm just trying to edit it right now and make sure I didn't make any big mistakes and then we're good to go all right that's it for right now I'll be back hey guys hey guys I am on my way to hey guys I'm on my way to get some more about me out again anyway I'm on my way to Michael's to do that get my gonna pick my mail up on the way back I need a couple of other things just out running here on Saturday you know well video saves and well renders of help anyway all right I'll be back one question today that is our Michael's store nearest to my house like in the worst part members hanging out at the coffee shop somebody was murdered behind the Michaels they found it by the dumpster I just realized I have to deal with the cinnamon which make me we's let's hope the new medicine I've got the radio down the air conditioner off so we're gonna do this quick because it's a dang hot in here but I was just inside of Michaels and I made the mistake of walking by I was trying to walk around the candles and the potpourri and the cinnamon pinecone so I didn't start wheezing I'm the problem with that is I walked by a Halloween mixed media display and scrappy display so I had and it was on sale so I got recollections Halloween eyeballs I actually have a couple projects I think I might want to use these for but they are too cool I couldn't pass them up I got the Tim Holtz what is this Tim Holtz ephemera Halloween ephemera pack again couldn't pass it up most of those images I think I could use for a number of different things not just Halloween Tim Holtz skulls couldn't pass them up people are staring at me because I'm talking myself and Tim Holtz stamp and stencil set which one is this just it says M-I-T-H-M-M-1-1-2 on the back it is a Halloween one it doesn't say but it but it's a Halloween one so how cool is this I'm gonna try to see can you see that so it's got the clear stamp and the stencil and the stamp is cool I love so anyway all right everything with a coupon cuz you know or on sale you know I fixed my hair not that you could tell anyway I finished filming all the things I needed to film this week and editing everything I went and picked up the mail yeah now I have to do put things away because my dear friend Cindy Utter sent me and a big nice fabulous box of stuff and of course the Tim Holtz stuff he saw that I picked up so and I'm gonna create a new meme I took some pictures a second ago in my kitchen and I'm going to while things are editing or things are doing things are uploading on YouTube I'm gonna use my iPad to edit and create a new meme then I think I'm gonna try to upload my website today and package the giveaway stuff for the recycled arts recycled parts for art group and that's it right now all right I'll be back it's Sunday morning and I finished my daily posts for the groups on Facebook I still have my messenger notifications turned off on Facebook I haven't left too many of the chat groups I just right now want to break from the constant and I just I just need a social media break you all feel that way occasionally don't you I know you all do and it is okay to turn stuff off and if the chat includes me I won't take offense we all need a break every now and then so anyway it's Sunday morning September 10th I'm out here in my living room you can see the front window behind me and the weird lighting because the lights coming in the cracks of the blinds just got out of the shower and I'm gonna just sit down and drink a bottle of water and watch some YouTube and just chill for a little bit and then I guess I'll get up and do the laundry because that's got to be done at some point all right I'll be back we've had a lazy day Sunday and I love that I spent some time working on my Shannon Green custom keeper and you'll see more about that and what I do with it in an upcoming video for YouTube so cool so fun and yes my desk is a disaster but that's okay there's Bandit sitting outside the door wondering why he can't come in and have barbecue chicken with us because like really you guys should cook me something that's right but we're not going to he's a dog hey guys it is Monday morning September 11th the anniversary of September 11th the day the Twin Towers went down and anyway I am having so far a decent morning I'm working on my second cup of coffee I have been it's what time is it 741 a.m. I have been up since I want to say 4 o'clock I don't know yeah about 430 and my daughter and her husband not married my daughter and her boyfriend's new puppy I guess lost one of her first puppy teeth last night so so cute and I didn't see the text message about that this morning so I was answering that and I'm gonna head to the gym in a few minutes and get my workout in and I've been kind of semi disconnected from some parts of the internet and social media Facebook Messenger and that sort of thing and the constant dinging the constant dinging of that you know what I love you all but I have to say I don't miss it I need to ask a question or check on things I can go in there and when I don't want to be bothered I can just have the notifications turned off I know that sounds probably mean to some of you but not missing it I'm not really gonna explain why I did it that's yeah I'm gonna keep that to myself but let's just say I needed it and I've gotten some art done I'm gonna do some more filming today I'm just about caught up on stuff so yeah alright that's it I'll check in in a bit and I will see you soon so I keep forgetting that I'm filming a vlog this week and forgetting to turn the camera on and I just spent like 10 minutes talking to the camera and it wasn't on yeah yeah yeah so yesterday I spent some time with my daughter over at the vet with her and her new puppy she asked me if I could come with her to the first puppy visit so I did super cute little puppy at some point we'll show him on her sorry her on camera and so she and Polly is her boyfriend are figuring out how to be new puppy parents and it's a learning experience for them but they'll do it it'll be fine today is Tuesday September 12th and I've already been to the gym I started off my day before I even got to the gym trying to shut the window in a new bathroom shower if you don't know what I'm talking about you should follow me on social media I've been posting pictures of our remodel of our bathroom on Facebook anyway I bumped my elbow into the on and off valve and yeah you can guess what happened next gave myself a cold shower fully clothed so that was an interesting way to start the day my mom has bought an iPad over the last week and she's in her mid 70s and she's going from a windows based system or her Android phone to an Apple product so it's been a little bit of a learning challenge for her so I've spent quite a few days an hour or more at a time going over things with her and trying to show her how to do certain things we've done a couple video chats which is also new for her she just know how to do so that's been interesting and working furiously on things for 2018 the design team call for my product line is out and there'll be a link to that application in the description below if any of you are thinking of that you might be interested in applying please do I would love to hear from you we are also going to be continuing the my year 2017 process that art journaling class into free it's a free class into next year and it will be calling it something new however and it'll also have a brand new Facebook group so we're working on finalizing those deals those details and we'll be announcing that soon if you're interested in joining that watch for that if you have suggestions for that for next year things you would like to see us do differently or do that we aren't doing leave a comment in the description I would love to I mean on this video and I would love to read those also if you have particular products or designs you'd like to see come out in my product line next year if you have something in particular you're looking for that I that nobody's doing or that I haven't done leave something in the just in the comments and I'll take a look at that I think that's it right now I do think there was something else because you know I said I was talking to the phone for like 10 minutes and it was not it's one of those days all right so that's it right now I think and it's just about one o'clock so I'm gonna have some lunch and then go get my mail I'll be back I can't think of anything else right at the moment but I know there'll be something oh I've been working on Shannon Green's custom keeper that was the other thing so I have a custom keeper from Shannon Green and if you don't know what I'm talking about I'll try to link her video about it in the description below I got a lot of things to link you guys if I forget something somebody would say something please and I'll add it in so there'll be a little video about that at some point because I've been decorating it and it's made of repurposed materials for those of you who don't know and I've been sharing pictures of it on social media so like Instagram and Twitter so there is a link in the description already I know we'll I know for sure we'll be there to a site called link tree and it's literally like a list of all the links of every single place you can find me on social media on the internet my Etsy shops on there my websites on there and all of that stuff so click on that you can find me and follow me over there and see the pictures there was something else that just flew right out of my brain anybody else have that problem I don't know I think if it'll be right back so I'm looking for your suggestions and input I have to do a video that will show up here on YouTube for you all but before it does I do a written tutorial for the folks over on the email newsletter I'm I have a couple of ideas of what I might do but if you guys have any suggestions of something that you'd like to not only see me do here on YouTube but get a written tutorial for over on my email newsletter let me know and well I'll see what I can do and if you want to sign up for the newsletter go to that link tree link because the newsletter sign up thing is on there okay that's it I'm gonna go have some lunch I'll be back hey guys I'm out in my backyard this morning I have to paint some paint swatches on the back of my house because we're gonna be repainting and yeah we don't know what color to pick and we usually paint big swatches on the house we kind of look like the clown house for a while last time we did it in the front of the house this time we thought we would like to be less like the clown house on the block and do it in the backyard so less people can see so anyway I'm gonna paint my colors I'll probably be back to see what you all think if I'm not talking very loudly it's because it's like seven o'clock in the morning and yeah I have only had half a cup of coffee so sorry okay so what do you all think from left to right each the center it would be the body of the house one of the long strips would be the trim and the red is going to be the front door the front door is already red this one here is really similar to the current house color which I don't know if I actually like it's a little grayer and I don't know if I like any of those trims with that color I don't know if I like that one I think that one might be out already and then we have this one that's more yellow that actually more yellow than I thought it was so let me know what you all think all right that's it for this week I think go ahead and I want you all to have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it check out the video description for any links I promise to you and if I forget somebody put a comment and remind me all right that's it everybody I'll talk to you later bye