 Okay you guys, we spent a total of $25 and I got a new table so we went to the habitat for humanity restore on a lark yesterday as I said in last week's vlog and they had a bunch of these 36 by 72 inch tables. They were $10 each. Now it's not in the best condition and the edging has you know some issues but it's for the art room. It doesn't matter. It is white which I love and it's the old one was only about 30 by 60. This one's 36 by 72 and it's a little taller. We did have to replace the feet which I have east six thousanding to the bottom of the legs. I'm going to see if I can get replacement proper feet for it in case that doesn't work but the ones that I found you have to spend a minimum of $15 and the feet only cost $4 so yeah. I'm gonna do a lot of looking on amazon see if they have them there but anyway I'm not going to put too much back on it until everything dries on the bottom part but all right I'm gonna eat lunch I'll be back. It is Monday January 30th I think. Yes 105 p.m. We have had the furnace and air conditioning folks out doing maintenance on the furnace which is in that closet there waiting for her to write up and come back so I can sign off. I don't think anything's wrong with it it better not be because it's a new unit they put in anyway. I'm getting ready to do a couple of my first projects on my new art table and I have a new series idea given to me by some of you all that we'll be working on either later today or tomorrow something may probably more likely today than tomorrow anyway okay guys before we go back to our room and start filming a new series that you all have been requesting um we are going to prioritize our health and well-being we are going to get back into walking something I've been wanting to do anyway since we truly started feeling better I miss taking pictures for you all today's views hashtag organ life like I've barely done any for two months because we got sick with the coughing hacking flu cold thing no it wasn't the big C we got tested four times the last one was a PCR test all negative anyway it may be a little brisk but it's nice to be out in the fresh air so let's get to it find something to sketch because I haven't sketched anything in my watercolor sketch turtle since before Christmas yeah let's see no noise but the squeak of my orthotics I forgot how calming that was you know it's a little cold I love it all right let's keep going and let's get back to making this a daily routine shall we okay I'll be back when the pond ice is over because it's so cold there's probably not going to be any ducks still a pretty view it is Tuesday January 31st it's almost 3 30 p.m I haven't vlogged before now because it's been a busy morning I we have the house cleaner out and I had a bunch of errands to do and I got to be in my bonnet about reorganizing my downstairs art stuff again I know so when we were in Hawaii I bought this tote bag which is a lunch bag and I'll link it below and when we when I got that I also got this they call it a clutch I think but I pencil bag and these two bags have my watercolor sketching stuff in it that it's in a tote bag so I can have it downstairs I can carry it upstairs if we go on a road trip I take it with me it's easy I just grab it and go I wanted the same kind of thing for my downstairs daily drying stuff I had it in a old suit vintage suitcase but half the stuff that was in the suitcase I wasn't even using and it just kind of became a dumping ground I am definitely the person that has to limit my storage space for things or I just collect everything so I made another bag just like the Hawaii one out of my own fabric from spoonflower with my feather designs on it which matches my daily drying pencil bag which actually is full of ephemera it's not full of pencils so let's set it up shall we you wouldn't know I was a professional youtuber or anything because I was struggling to get the phone out yeah anyway it's been a pretty good day as I said earlier I got a lot of done a lot done I got that little tote bag made um and reorganized some things it probably didn't really need reorganizing but it's what I do bop's not surprised no yeah I also got some little feet covers leg covers for the new art room table little rubber feet with cork bottoms and I think that's going to work great and much easier to find than trying to find the vintage self-leveling feet with the little caps yeah that would cost me about just under $100 was shipping because nobody has them in stock and you can't just order four way more than the table is worth yeah we tried a couple things so one that didn't work so I did spend $10 I probably didn't need to spend but the good news is that I found something that is going to work and even that combined was only 20 bucks for both so if you're interested in something like that and if you need it for some piece of furniture or something in your art room let me know I'll share the link and what I did anyway we're going to go get some steps in we're determined to get back into our walking routine and uh it's cold I got to put my glove back on I'll be back it's 9 25 a.m on February 1st um I was in the middle of brushing my teeth and the little ones from next door came by to say hello um which is cute but yeah I don't have very long before I need to leave to go run a couple errands before I pick my dad up at the airport so I had stuff to do anyway I'll be back all right so it is 3 20 p.m dad it should be home any minute and I should get a text from him that he got home safely I've been at the art table um painting another there we go abstract watercolor um changing at the paint boxes for said abstract watercolor one more time I got some of these pill boxes and they actually fold up they have covers which I've taken off they covers come off easily I have one for like sort of blues and purples and neutrals and one for yellows greens and reds um and then this will go in the kit to like mix on I think that's going to work better this is a learning process abstract watercoloring for me and what is going to work in my kit um for me and so we'll see uh in the and I'm also trying to use up some paint that I've had sitting around for like eons so there's that I'd like that these pill boxes have nice big wells in them so that I can get all of my tools in there easily no matter if they're unusual ones or not so yeah um I also got some um I got a box at the post office when I was checking the PO box by the way yes I have a PO box if you want to send me happy mail the address is down below in the description I got a box while I was there because I didn't have any and um I needed some party mail boxes for stuff anyway so I picked up an extra one and then covered it with this pretty green contact paper for all of my daily drawing journals for this year I needed a box I finished it's February 1st so I needed a box for this year um and I think we're going to start filming a new new video series that I'm getting asked about so um I don't know if I'm going to do it today or not maybe tomorrow so because today has been a bit hectic anyway I need to go wash my hands again I'll be back hey guys while I didn't get any filming done today it was a pretty productive day as you saw I just even made overnight oats I didn't get any bread made and I didn't get any filming done as I said I know so I might put the bread loaf together and have the bread machine start doing its thing when we get back from walking I've got my coat on um that won't be ready until late tonight takes about four hours but we are out of other bread except for a couple of slices of rye so that way if mr bob wants like regular bread for a sandwich like you can cut up the homemade bread maybe anyway and then tomorrow and or Friday filming filming filming I'll be back it's 2 30 p.m. February 2nd Thursday anyway I haven't gotten with you before now because I've been kind of busy we're filming a new series here for my youtube channel not exactly sure what I'm gonna call it right now um fixing your art room workflow I don't know it's about decluttering your art room but it's about more than that so if you have suggestions leave them down below because I'd be interested anyway I filmed the first first episode today got a little rambly so it's gonna probably take a lot of editing I also filmed a second video inspired by one I saw recently she tagged me in the video from an old video of mine and so it inspired me to try something new so anyway film that today I also talked to my friend Leslie McGrath today and she's sick again you all send her some good vibes um bob has a masonic meeting tonight so I'm gonna go out and get some steps in while I can because I've gotten like three days in a row where we've done over 8000 steps and let's keep that going um and yeah when I get back I've got to start the bread machine because I still haven't done that yet oops all right I'll be back I think the ducks may be in the pond hold on let's go see I've seen that many ducks here the whole entire flock is here wow okay guys so I am editing it's I don't even know what time is it um 5 14 bob is off to his masonic lodge meeting I think I'm gonna call the new series fixing the flow um and it's gonna be five or six parts um they're all pretty chatty um because that's part of for me how I figure out or have figured out what to do with my space is just talking it out to myself and to those I trust so anyway I am editing the first video on that right now and um I'm gonna edit the feather video I filmed too and then I'll worry about loading them and scheduling them tomorrow and we'll try to get this editing part done before I go downstairs and have dinner anyway my hair is just a hot mess today I didn't say anything about it in the fixing the flow video but you'll notice my hair is just a hot mess it's just decided to resemble I think my nearest family relative must be Einstein because you know anyway some days are better than others I guess all right I'm gonna turn on some YouTube while the computer is doing its thing and I'll be back if it's 10 30 Friday Friday February 3rd um anyway down the stairs in one piece my yeast bugging me a little bit because I'm back to walking but also it's cold so yeah haven't done much this morning Bob started we started off the morning with Bob having a doctor appointment for his clogged ears because it's the side effect he's got from being sick and uh he's got some medication and stuff we need to go out at lunch and go pick up so we're gonna he's gonna take a little bit longer at lunch break and we're gonna go do that I need to upload the videos I edited yesterday to YouTube and get those scheduled and that's all my brain can think of at the moment what brain this just not capable of going anywhere else but I'm gonna avoid having any more coffee I'm gonna make some bone broth instead which I think is a good plan I'll be back yes we're back in the car again um went picked up Bob's prescription I got a couple of food things that we're going grocery shopping tomorrow but he we literally had no bread for his sandwiches in the house and he didn't want to cut into the homemade bread for whatever reason I don't know so we got that while we were out I'm gonna go pick up some pizza for dinner from one of our local favorites and it's on the way which is an Asian grocery store they have a little Daiso section if you've been following me for a while you know I love a good bargain and I love a good dollar store especially Daiso the Japanese dollar store and I am looking for a couple particular things I want to see if they have more of my favorite magnets I use when I make my urban sketching boxes because I have an idea for another box and I want to get some more magnets and I'm kind of looking for a year of the rabbit cell phone charm I know that's a weird thing but a few years ago I started collecting them from Daiso and hanging them on my art bags for whatever reason so there you go fun fact about me you didn't know so anyway we're gonna stop there then we're gonna go get the pizza then head home I haven't done any art today but I need to do something even if it's only my daily drawings so we're gonna go get it done and I'll be back hey everybody it's just after 11 a.m Saturday February 4th yes I already looked because I wanted to say March even though I knew it wasn't March it's 20 after or 18 after 11 and it's February we just got out of Costco and very crowded but successful shopping trip now we're gonna head to the next door so last time last week when we did errands we ended up having to go to five shops to find everything on the list because I'm a little bit of high maintenance and I was looking for particular items and you know it's the covid decade so you can't find stuff anyway anybody want to take a bet on how many stores we have to go to today on the list we have one two three the Costco was one of them let's see when we're we'll see what happens yeah all right I'll be back guys it's 4 30 something like that we um yeah on saturday still saturday we only had to go to three shops today instead of five like last week um we still didn't find jelly beans and yes we buy jelly beans all the time I wish I could tell you they're for the kids no no judgments yeah some great whole herald lady that lives in our house also likes jelly beans might be a problem anyway I don't know we seem to have a jelly bean shortage here around us so anyway I did a painting and did a couple other things had to fix a dog toy again anyway we got all our chores done we're gonna go try to get a few steps in before we either freeze or it starts raining again I did just feel a couple of drips so we'll see and I'll be back guys it is sunday february fifth I think um we are in bob's car one of one of one of bob's cars that's a other car yeah that's a long story but yeah we won't go there anyway um taking it for a little spin because it's been parked for a while um and headed to hmark but that's for next week's vlog we forgot to close last week's vlog oops um so I hope you guys had a good week it's been interesting I've been doing a lot of painting if you guys want to see a full abstract watercolor tutorial sort of video let me know I've been doing shorter ones or sped up ones with no audio but if you want something where I'm talking through it let me know um we can certainly accomplish that anyway if you have questions comments or concerns leave them down below don't forget to check the video description for relevant links we've got some exciting content coming out soon and stuff I've got to film um but anyway so stay tuned and if you'd like to support the free content uh get ready access to me and help with different things and downloads and things from me that you can't get otherwise join my patreon because that's what it's there for and uh yeah I'd sure love the support above all go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you next week bye guys