 It's Sunday morning, April 14th. Don't get all excited. I only know that because tomorrow's tax it is I don't know what it's still morning. 10.09. We've been up for a while. We did sleep in a little bit which is cool. Loving the new bed by the way has helped my husband snoring tremendously and mine too I think. Anyway I was doing a little cleaning and sorting just upstairs just now as you can hear my husband's got laundry going in the background. Kids are coming over to watch Game of Thrones later and I think Bambi might be outside eating breakfast. Let's go see if we can take a peek. He's eating breakfast so yeah it's pretty cool. Good morning. It's Monday morning, April 15th tax day. It is 9.55 a.m. Don't get excited. Hello computer. I have been doing the social media thing and making phone call business phone calls. Not about art business personal stuff. Nothing bad all good but you know my husband left for work and said can you do this and can you so I did you know. What else? I have contractors coming over for more estimates today and I need to do some cleaning and reorganization in the art room and I need to film a couple of quick videos and get them edited and I need to download last week's vlog clips and get that edited. All I really want to do is sit down and read a book but there's a lot of other stuff to do. I do have a few minutes before contractors come for estimates so I may get a little bit of reading in and then after they're gone do the filming and cleaning in the art room. Yeah that might be how it plays out today. We'll see. All right I'll be back. When you have appointments and things sporadically during the day. I don't know about you guys but it's just hard to get anything else done. You're busy waiting on people calling people. I yeah it's just a thing. I haven't got any of the filming done I wanted to do today but they're both short videos. I do have a little bit so I think I'm going to go upstairs and try to get them done. I'm going to show you all a couple things before I film the videos. I got some stuff in. A couple of new doodle designs on black paper. You can get them as digital downloads and stickers and things from my Etsy shop but you can also get it on fabric from Spoonflower. This is a cotton fabric. You can also get it on merch like leggings over at Teespring so I will connect all of those in the description below. I got Spoonflower prints on lots of different kinds of fabric including a knit and I think I might try to make myself a shirt. I hesitate to say that because I haven't done any garment sewing in a long time but it's pretty cool. Anyway I am going to do some sorting and cleaning now and try to get those videos filmed. I'll be back. Hey guys so a few weeks ago we I think about two weeks I announced with the design team inchy challenge that I had four extra inches. I was going to wrap up and give away. We were going to have a giveaway here on the channel and the time period for that ended today so we are going to pick four winners and I'm going to at the very least send you an inchy. Probably I'm going to send you a little bit more than that. It's not going to be a big package. It will be an envelope like a greeting card size envelope but there'll probably be other stuff in there just FYI. All right let's pick some winners shall we? The first winner is Rosalyn Jones. Rosalyn I need your address. I will be emailing you all if you don't get the email before you see this then check your spam folder. So that's one. Rosalyn is one. Let's add another one. Pat O'Donnell Cun. Cun K U H N. Pat I probably pronounced that wrong I'm sorry but Pat you're another winner. Woohoo. I'll be emailing you along with Rosalyn. Let's see one more. Erin Petty. Reminds me of Tom Petty. Erin you're another winner so woohoo. That one's going to Canada holy crud. United States Australia. Rosalyn and Pat Rosalyn and Erin I don't know how long it's going to take to get yours or how much it's going to cost. You're going to get it anyway. I didn't put any limitations on that but it might take a little while. I'll try to let y'all know when they leave here. Okay one more winner. It's thinking. I think it's thinking. Oh fair way. Let's refresh and try that again shall we? It doesn't want to pick another one. There we go. Judy Steins. Judy you are another winner. I'm going to email all of you right now and so get me your addresses and it is Monday right now but I will try to get your envelopes out in the mail to you. No later than Saturday that gives me the week to get them done. There is a lot of stuff going on this week but I'll get your inches on the way to you and you know a little other little goodie. We'll see what I can put in there without making the envelopes too heavy since two of them are going out of the country and that's it for the moment. I hope you all have a great evening. I will be back tomorrow. I'll be right back tomorrow. Morning. It's Tuesday morning April 16th. I only know that because yesterday was tax day. It's just after 9 a.m. I don't know exactly what time it is. Big surprise. We're obviously out here in the garage. I think a neighbor's having their carpets cleaned or something. Anyway I am going to check on Bambi's bowls and feed Bambi and then I'm gonna go out and run a couple errands. I probably don't need to run today but I just you know it's good to get out of the house a little bit rather than being stuck in the house all day so anyway I will be. Sometimes it's just the little things right. I can always tell when my husband's been driving my car. My feet so totally don't reach the pedals. He's so much taller than me. I need every remembers to put the seat back. It's the little things some days right. Anyway all right I'll be back. Bambi hasn't been by to eat their breakfast yet. That's okay. So when I was out at the store today I forgot about something. I have a few things in life and the environment that set off my asthma. They're givens. Pine tree pollen. Yes I know. I do have a stock of allergy pills and inhalers. Cigarette smoke. Perfume or cologne. And cinnamon pine cones. For whatever reason those cinnamon-scented pine cones at Christmas time drive me crazy. I start coughing. With all of them I start coughing. If I don't control the coughing then I start wheezing and if I don't control the wheezing then I can't breathe and I'm suffocating or I feel like I am. So yeah asthma. Hello welcome to my world. I forgot about Easter lilies. Holy moly. I walked into Fred Meyer and the whole front entryway was covered in Easter lilies. Had to hold my breath going in and out. That was fun. Not. All right I'm gonna check the mail then I'm gonna go sit down and have something to eat because I haven't eaten yet today and I'm a little hungry. Good. I was gonna say morning but it's not morning. It's three o'clock. Good afternoon. It's Wednesday May uh May. April 17th I think. I've been busy all morning. Making phone calls. Editing video. Fixing my link tree list of links. Updating the Teespring merch site which is connected to YouTube. Yeah. Re-editing video because I didn't do it right the first time. Yeah that's a thing. Anyway I um a little out of breath. Okay so I have a meeting um at five o'clock that I have to be to and I need to go pick up some sort of aerosol sealer spray probably Carl on matte finish spray and because of for an upcoming video and project I don't use it a lot. I have asthma so I don't use aerosols a lot and when I do I wear a mask but that being said for the project I'm going to be doing it's really the best option. So I'll probably stop by Michaels with a coupon on my way. Yes I have makeup on a little bit because you know it is a meeting. Um I was chatting with Cindy and my friend Vicki Brown. Cindy Utter and Vicki Brown while I was editing today and answering emails and doing social media things and editing the video and did I say that already? Anyway um those two are hilarious but they are not good for um chatting to while you're editing and you shouldn't probably be chatting with your friends while you're editing video anyway. Yeah you should probably have the computer be quiet because then you don't make mistakes and have to re-edit things. So that was the thing. My fault not theirs. Anyway got it fixed and um had some emails I had to answer from DecoArt and had to send them some links and I'm waiting for the last video to finish uploading of nine minutes and then I can head out to go pick up the spray and maybe run one or two errands before I go to the meeting. I think that's how the day's gonna play out. So anyway I should check on Bambi's food bowls too before I leave. Um they probably need corn would be my guess. So I'm gonna just diddle around for eight minute eight minutes now until this is done and then I'm gonna even though it's only just after three o'clock I'm gonna once this is finished I'm gonna shut off my computer for the day because by the time I get home I'm not gonna want to go on the computer. So I'm gonna just turn it off and be done with it up here for the day and then hit the art studio fresh tomorrow. Hopefully I can get that spray and then I can start filming um that video and I have commitment videos to do for May almost at April. I have to do the my creative year videos, explorations of me, something for the design team challenge and that's it. There's some things on here I need to cross off. I've done it already. So I need to do a few more videos. I'm hoping to do them between now and next week because I think that would be a good idea and then I'm done and then I can start working on June. So it's a plan anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back. So really quick this is interesting in California all of these aerosol cans be behind a locked case in Oregon not so much that's different something else that's different look at all this over open stock pens markers pencils you would never see that in the California Michael's store. So that was different I didn't really have permission to film in Michael's so I wasn't I was trying not to talk talk trying not to speak too loudly but you know I'm used to stores in California and I don't know about where you all live Michael's stores in particular the one I worked at in San Jose um all of the spray cans were always under lock and key all the all of the open stock pencils and pens for the most part I think with the exception of Sharpie um were usually under lock and key they just don't do some of those things here like they do in California I don't that's different I'm not used to that so I expected to have to go in there and then wait for somebody to come unlock the case and then get the matte finish spray and you know blah blah blah so I did get one little pack of stencils I don't really need because hello I designed stencils I have a large collection of stencils but I couldn't resist it has little cactuses on it it's so cute um I'll do a share um tomorrow I won't have one to do time to do one today so I'll do one tomorrow so anyway I am uh gonna use the navigation app to see how long it's going to take to get to the meeting place and um I think I might be early because I expected Michaels to take longer but that's okay I do have a iPad with me I can just read a book so would be the first time I was massively early for our meeting because you know I'd rather be early than late yeah that's a thing I'll be back it's Thursday morning April 18th 902 a.m don't get excited hello computer um I am obviously upstairs in the art room and just finished all of my stuff for social media I wanted to show you my little small haul at Michaels yesterday I needed some matte finish spray aerosol sprays aren't things something I use a lot of they're not great for the environment they suck for my asthma but for the project I'm going to be working on for YouTube this is the best product for the job so yeah that's the thing I got some a big package of these little small sort of little paint containers for another project and then the one thing I didn't need but I got anyway hello I design stencils and I have a large collection see the rack behind me there you go um but I have found these this pack has all of those designs in it right there it was pretty inexpensive I think it was like 5.99 or something it's got eight stencils in it and I had a coupon so yeah didn't really need it but there you go I need to go downstairs now that I'm finished with the social media thing I've had my coffee I've had my breakfast I've checked email and all that I need to go downstairs and feed Bambi sort some laundry start a load and then I need to go to the grocery store I need to get ham and stuff for Easter dinner Sunday so yep I'll be back never have those moments when you get down this block and you don't remember if you've closed the garage door or not and there's a neighbor happens to be outside sweeping his sidewalk and he just sees you going up and down the street a couple of times and it probably is looking at you like your nuts yeah anyway holy cow is it still morning no it's 12 o'clock 1 p.m lunch time that might explain why I'm hungry hello everybody it is Friday April 19th yesterday was my mom's birthday and I forgot to call her oops uh oh or send her a card or anything that's not very good so I guess I know what I'm doing when I hang up the phone we are seeing them in a couple of weeks so we'll probably wait to get her anything and bring her something then anyway um been working on paperwork in the computer and stuff all day doing social media getting ready uh with the contractor that we picked to have the outside of the house painted and some electrical work done um working on patreon I uploaded a bunch of videos to patreon um some all are available to patrons some are available to patrons only of a certain monetary level but they're all over there and I'm going to um put some digital artwork shares over there I do that once a month so um we're uh headed into May I think I did April's already but I have to check and see because I lost track a little bit um but I'm going to wait to download anything over there for a little bit and have some lunch and um yeah so that's a thing I got a couple of patterns drafted altered or cut out sewing patterns I know right um I one is one that I drafted from a shirt that I already own and one is a store bought one that I altered from actually this shirt that I'm wearing um I haven't cut the fabric out yet but I did get the pattern part done which was a big project so I got that done this morning I think we're gonna um go out to dinner later and yeah not much else I'm just we're just kind of taking it easy quiet day here around the house I'm working on laundry always always laundry um after lunch I go check Bambi's bowls they were full this morning and I have some art journaling and stuff to do in a video to edit so I'll be working on that too that's it for the moment I'll be back anyway okay the giveaways are in the mail the three and I'm going to now head to the grocery outland see if I can get some ziploc bags all right wish me luck stuck in traffic for what must be the pacific northwest's largest train cargo train is that what you call it with all the box box box train yeah we've been sitting here what 10 minutes 10 minutes at least and it's still coming still going with no end in sight oh joy yes it took me until 10 30 night to realize what the actual date was because yes I didn't know what it was this morning we had an interesting afternoon of picking up pieces and parts and shopping for stuff that we needed for the house and then we came home and just didn't want to do anything so we didn't we had a nice dinner of some baked salmon that fred made fred main salmon and salad and crescent rolls it was it was very good and tomorrow the kids are coming over for dinner it's Easter so we hope you all have had a good week and that you have a happy Easter if 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