 Good morning everybody. It's technically still morning. I'm looking at the clock. It's 1042 AM August 2nd. I only know that because it's my birthday. So here we'll break away right here. I got this cute little voicemail from my dad this morning when he and mom called and I wasn't near the phone, so I didn't hear it right away. Yes, I did call them back and talk to them for a bit. But he left me this cute little message. Fun fact, my parents, one or both of them call and they do this every single year, all 57 years of my life. So here you can listen here. Hey wonderful daughter. Happy birthday to you. Talk to you sometime today, maybe, when you get to your phone and read the message. And hear my beautiful singing. So we're gonna actually get on the road and go for a little drive for a couple of hours and maybe drive to the coast, get some lunch out or something like that. The garage floor is still drying and we can't really close the door all the way till like Tuesday. Everything's locked up. And there's nothing in the garage for anybody to steal, but an old hammer. So if you really want it, have at it. Anyway, you can't get in the house and we've got security cameras everywhere. So if you do get in, we've got your face on camera. Well, by the time you post it, we'll be done anyway. Won't we? Yeah, we'll be finished. But you know, that's not the point. Anyway, we've got security. Yeah, security. All right, so we're gonna hit the road and we will bring you with us if we do anything fun or shopping or, you know, whatever we do, I don't know what we're doing. Can't do much, you know, hello pandemic. So anyway, we'll be back. We'll pictures here that I could take from the car. Even if we wanted to stop and get a better shot, there was no place to stop. We're in Cape Kewanda. Kewanda, K-I-W-A-N-D-A. Yeah, near the Oregon coast. And I have to tell you all, for a world in a country that's in the midst of a pandemic, I know Bob and I are out driving and we're kind of contributing. It's very people-y out there. There's a lot of people walking around, not only a lot of people visiting, not a lot of people driving through like we're doing. They're stopped, they're walking around and they're no masked. There's a lot of people, more than I expected. Probably not as many as normal, but more than I expected. So we found some place to stop and eat some food. We stopped at a local Fred Meyer to use the facilities and get some food. And with literally, we've just been in the car. This is the first time we've gotten out of the car, but look at the view behind me. It's pretty good, huh? Happy birthday to me. Hey guys, it is Monday, Monday, August 3rd, 2.41 PM. I haven't vlogged all day today, I've been busy. So I edited the vlog for last week, but it took me three times of starting and stopping my computer, because for whatever reason, the screensaver I was using was causing the computer to freeze. And after much Googling and much trying of different things, I switched screensavers and now it's working fine. Yeah, it's Monday, did I say that? But I did get it done, and I got my writing for the week done and everything's scheduled and posted and all of that jazz. I also got, ta-da, the wall behind me emptied. And we're all ready to hang the pegboard as soon as Happy has time. And I got things mostly, I think, organized into the bins and trays that I want to use that came in. I have a few Dollar Tree things that will work with a clip that I want to use too. I need to make sure I don't lose these because I think I'm probably going to have some parts I'm going to want to take back. I do have some of these elastic bands, but I think these are, I think I already had these, but I have some of these other, what are they called, they're for the status. I don't know, anyway, they look like this. I'm going to be using a couple of them, but there's too many, I think. So I'm going to want to return some of them. Okay, folks, we're out for our evening walk before dinner. It's warm, but it's not as hot as it's been. And to be honest with you, we're both dragging today, it feels so like Monday. I'd like to go take a nap, which is funny because I know we worked on the garage floor this weekend, but literally yesterday we did nothing, but plant our butts in a car and go drive around. But we're both dragging today. Okay, so I got everything in the garage. I can get in the garage. Oh, oh, God. So that pile knows basically all the smalls. There's his big toolbox and the table saw and the chop saw. They are too heavy for me. And even though the toolbox has four wheels on it, it's too big. I can't end heavy. I can't move it by myself. So yeah, I have to wait till he's done working. But the good news is it'll be a lot less of a process than he thought because I had some time this afternoon and I got all the smalls in here. So the floor is dry. It's not sticky. There's still a couple of loose pieces of, you know, the garage confetti, AKA garage herpes on the floor, but that's fine. He's gonna power wash the driveway this weekend because yeah, there you go. Because there's some of the dry cleaner. That's not epoxy. That's some of the stuff we used to clean the garage. It didn't quite rinse away completely. Hopefully he can get it off of the power washer. So, but after we, that'll be this weekend after we load the garage. And we also are gonna be taking down those this weekend. And my parents have been quarantining at home as have we, as you know. So they're asking if they can come help. So I'm gonna leave that up to Bob. I'm okay with it as long as nobody's been traveling or exposed to people they shouldn't be. So anyway, I am gonna go inside now. I'm gonna finish this and have another one. And yeah, I'm not tired anymore. Good news. So anyway, and I got a lot of steps in, I think. I would see. You have almost 5,000 steps now, which I didn't have that many before. It's all good. All right. Onto the next. Good morning. Technically it's still morning. It's Wednesday, August 5th, I think, 10.47 a.m. Obviously I'm in the car. Wednesday seems to be my run to the post office day. Where I drop off at the orders and check out the keel box and stuff. And I have two more paper grocery sacks full of purged stuff. So I need to pick up more boxes to pack them with. There's the mail person. And no, I can't just stop the car and ask her to pick if she'll take the boxes because they won't do that. Anyway, I need to check on the keel box and I need to get some party mail boxes anyway. So I'm gonna go to where I'm down there. It is Thursday. Obviously I'm out getting the mail. I don't think there's anything in here for me. I think it's all for the son-in-law. Yep, he still gets mail here even though they have their own house now. Mostly it's just junk, but anyway. He always tells me, why don't you throw it away? Cause I enjoy annoying the crap out of him and giving him his junk mail. Anyway, I got a couple of slow stitching projects today. If you're watching this clip, he saw some clips of that. I got another meditation journal page done. I got two more pages of my slow stitch books all sewn together, which is amazing because if you could see my art room, it is a disaster. I moved everything that was on the shelves and in the bins on the small bits bank wall off and sorted, organized, purged, wrapped up two more purge boxes. They're listed right now in the Etsy shop. Link is below. But it means that there is stuff on every conceivable surface in the art room. And there's not much room to work on art, but I did find a little space, so that works. And yeah, it's all good. Bob has a late afternoon meeting, I think, for work. And then we're gonna head over to our weekly date night, AKA the grocery store. It is three or something on Friday, August 7th. We're out for a walk. Husbands upstairs working. Kids are all coming over for dinner later, but the house is already clean. Dishes are done. Before I have lunch, I think I'm gonna just go for a walk. I'm having one of those sort of blah, blah, blah days. I think especially because of COVID, you all get it. So anyway, I thought an invigorating little walk in the fresh air, I do have a mask because I'm guessing because it's Friday lunchtime and kids aren't in school, that it's probably gonna be people who are down near the park, so I'm probably gonna need this. But I'm going to turn on one of my playlists and listen to some music, probably Andrea Bocelli, and go for a walk and get some fresh air and some vitamin D, and then go back and have lunch and then see what else we can get up to. All right, I'll be back. August 8th, I think, I know, 6 a.m. We are getting ready for another day of working on the garage and stuff. And hopefully at some point today we get my pegboard hung up finally. I've been waiting like a week. Oh, you saw me. I gotta tell you, I haven't even like used it yet. Love it. I can see everything. I can get to the washi tape real easy. I can see all my trims. It also helps me keep control of how many trims I have because I'm one of these people that if you don't give me a designated capacity space to store stuff in for art supplies especially, then I will just keep adding and adding and adding. And so I need to limit myself, which is why this kind of system or the drawers and bins work for me. Plus I can find everything, which I love. And if it's in a bin or a drawer, it's labeled. These aren't labeled yet. I don't think at the moment they need to be, but love it. I also have some surprising results to my latest round of fabric dye, which to be honest, I've lost track of how many days they were in the dye. I wanna say like four or five days, maybe longer, but I don't know exactly. I might be able to tell myself when I review the tape. I don't know, or the video tape. It's not tape anymore, it's video. Anyway, surprising results, which I'm gonna switch the camera around and we'll go over. This first one is basil. It was supposed to be a purple gray. And no, you don't need to adjust your camera. It's like a light beige color. So it's not purple gray at all. So I don't know if I did something wrong or if there's a different way to process the dye. I have no idea. I just know this is the color I got with my standard boiling the crap out of it, try to get the color out thing. This is rosemary. It's nearly an identical color. It's supposed to be yellow-green. It is not yellow-green. So again, I don't know what I did wrong, but to be honest, I dumped both of these. I didn't even save them. I'm going to let the fabric is dry. I'm gonna take swatches and add them to my color book. And I'm gonna make a notation that I must have done something wrong. But yeah, they're not great colors. And I have one more of those. Should have been green. Can you see that that's almost the exact same color the fabric was when it went in there? Barely any change. So yeah, I dumped that one too. Now, the surprisingly good one was blueberries. Oh my God, people, yes, I saved this and I have more fabric dying. Look at that color. Holy crap. I love that. That's blueberries. So yum-ee. With all things in art and life, some successes, some failures. So, but I love the blueberry one. It definitely is what I would call a dark blue-purple and it will lighten a bit as it dries, but I don't think it's gonna lighten a whole lot. And I'll be taking swatches of all of them and I will be making notations on the three sort of leafy ones, right? The spinach, the rosemary, the basil. There might be a different way to process the plant material to get the color out, to extract the color other than what I normally do, which is boil the crap out of it. So I'll have to do some research anyway. So that's it for today. And then loving again, loving my bag board. And I have a few more things in the purge bin again. And there's I think six boxes again in the Etsy store of purge boxes. There are descriptions in each one of the listings of the type of materials that are in each box. And, you know, most of the time when you buy them, it barely covers postage, especially if you spend $35 or more then you get free postage. And it barely covers the cost of the materials inside if it does at all, but that's okay because I just want them to go to a good home where they're gonna get used. So anyway, I think that's it for the moment. I'm gonna sit and drink some water and chill for a bit and just relax. I think I'm gonna end the day here, the week here and the day here. It's been a busy, crazy day. We got the pegboard hung, we got a bunch of stuff in the garage done. We have two to three weeks, at least before the garage cabinets come in. We just found out there's a delay in the shipment because, you know, hello COVID, but that's okay because my husband has some sorting to go through things that were pulled down off the wall and he wants to sort of start gathering like materials together and kind of going through his stash of stuff down there and seeing what he can keep and what else he can get rid of and all of that jazz. So it's a big job, but that's okay. He can take his time now and get it done. And he has time if he doesn't wanna paint in the garage, which he's kind of debating back and forth about, then he has time to get it done. So anyway, I think that's it for the moment. It's been an interesting week. COVID is giving us more interesting weeks and not, I think not necessarily interesting in a good way, but, you know, it is what it is. We're just keep it on, keep it on, right? Baby steps, that's the most important thing is that we keep moving. So I hope you're having a good one. Stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe. I sure would appreciate it. And if you can support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups, not just for me, for all of your favorite creatives, most of them have a way to support them financially, whether it's Patreon or an Amazon affiliate link or an Etsy shop or something else. They're usually in their video descriptions. 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