 Hey guys, it is five o'clock in the evening Sunday January 21st. We haven't done a whole hell of a lot today. We did go to Costco this morning a big box wholesale discount place anyway for those of you not in the US. And Saturday is never a great day to go because everybody goes on Saturday But you guys It was like trying to shop during the vid again Especially at the very beginning of it where people were clearing the shelves. It was insane Insane Anyway, we did that and then I think we were like not up for doing anything else We just stayed at home. I've been working on my red heart granny squares as you just saw in the clip Getting ready for the week ahead because there's lots going on and yeah I've got this stack of magazines. Hold on a lot of magazines that I need to go through That's my goal this week is to go through all of those Pull out any articles I find interesting or want to save or better yet scan them or take a picture of them and Then make the pile go away because that's crazy It needs to go away In the meantime, we're making some tea and just sitting and relaxing because why not We can so we are I'll be back. Hey guys. All right. It is Monday morning. It's 7 44 a.m. I have been up and awake since about 4 15 this morning Um, not for any emergency reason, but bomb is having a medical procedure this morning nothing scary, but necessary and um I'm is right to the hospital and back so We're doing that fun fact medical things are one of my anxiety triggers and Did I remember to bring a ball in your intercrush? No, and I've been at the hospital a couple hours already So there's that I'm gonna go home. I have some more coffee Do a couple chores and wait for the text message for me to come get him Or and or that he's in recovery. So It's gonna be a long day. I'll be back. I got a text that bob's procedures finishing up and This time I've got a cup of coffee and a yarn ball So I'm gonna run at least one real quick errand on the way back to the hospital And then wait until he's ready to go home. I'll be back. Okay, so Bob's physician called and I can take my time. I'm going back over there, but um in Dollar Tree the coca-cola delivery person um was I'm not sure if he was talking to nobody because there's nobody around him or if he was talking into his phone Um, but let's let's just say it was a whole whole bunch of inappropriate language Not I'm not that I'm offended because uh, hello. I have a foul mouth, but when you're on the job and in public Not really appropriate Who's calling somebody an f and b? And then I get out of the car I get out of the store After finding a cashier because there was nobody at the cash registers um and off to my left There's somebody over here being pulled over on what I'm assuming is a traffic stop And being handed a piece of paper and she's um Decided it's a good time to be on her telephone Anyway in case you need a reminder one of my new cups. I love it. All right Let's go stop at Michael's See what they have. I don't really need anything but I shouldn't say that I want I don't need anything. I want some stuff But I did make that order at Yarnspirations and what else they do have don't have at my local Joann's They don't I don't think they carry it at Michael's and which is more the granny square yarn Um I don't want to drive to beaverton, but Michael's is on the way to the hospital. So we'll go there First coffee. All right. I'll be back guys. Good afternoon. It's tuesday The 22nd 23rd. I don't even know 23rd It's just after lunch. I haven't eaten yet though. So I need to make lunch New new shirt from amazon Well, that was the logo Mister is doing Um, he's doing actually pretty well from his procedure yesterday Um, which we will keep private, but it was nothing serious um He's recovering very well We're probably not going to have the grants on this week because there's some nursing care. I need to Um help him with Um While he's healing and it's best done without anybody around and uh Yeah, otherwise we're doing good It's been stressful and I can tell because I've been wanting to sit and just crochet number one I mean, I do love it, but I do use it for my mental health I can't remember basic things like did I water the plants on saturday? I have no idea. I think I did So me kind of forgetting stuff When I have anxiety that anxiety ramps up. That's Yeah, that's pretty normal So I'm just taking it one step at a time taking deep breaths making notes if I need it and all that stuff. So Anyway, I'm being creative where I can I'll put a picture here. I decided to block All the granny squares I had done up till now last night while mister was taking a nap and um I find blocking helps my crochet and knitting when I do knit Um Because things can be curly and I know you don't have to block your crochet It's usually not a huge issue Um, but when I'm doing things like granny squares, I just find it help It's helpful and when I go to sew them together It's just a little easier for me if they're nice and flat and all the same size and All that stuff. So I sat and blocked them all had barely enough blocking boards and pins To do it with So, yeah, that was a thing. But anyway, we got it done I'm going to make some lunch now and sit and relax and I want to look up some videos on how to Store the few pairs of knitting needles I do have and have kept because I am thinking about Um, picking it up a little bit not a ton because It does tend to hurt my hands and I'll probably have to wear my braces, but Um, there are a couple of things I would like to make that are easier. Well, not easier that are Would look no, I think they would look nice if they were knitted. So we'll see. We'll see. I don't know. I don't know Anyway, that's it for the minute. I'll be back morning everybody. It's 9 44 a.m on wednesday January 24th, I think Uh, mr. Is doing well. He has orders to stay in the stowa for a few minutes while I run some Food to a neighbor I have some baby food that grandson's no longer eating And doesn't really care for and I have a neighbor Not far away about a mile away who has a one-year-old that can use it And so on but she doesn't have a car working car at the moment so I'm going to go run it to her and then head home And continuing to take care of mr I also have an idea for a video that I'm going to film so Um, I do think we may Pick up doing more needlework videos You all seem to really like them. I do enjoy journaling, but I journal for my mental health and therapy I will be doing that on The youtube channel going forward But I think we're going to stick to those two avenues at the moment So Yeah What do y'all think about that? Anyway, and is there anything in particular you'd like to see? All right, let's get over there and drop the food off and get back and I will Get back with you in a bit food drop off done. I left it on the porch And um, yeah with a peek little peek in the window Um Below where the blinds were closed. It looks like they're in a tough spot. So glad to help even if just a teeny tiny bit Anyway Excuse me On our way back Mr. Needs help with a couple of medical things this morning. So we'll take care of that And then hopefully we'll get some time in to film the video do some crocheting I am Still putting off end of 2023 youtube paperwork because Yeah, it's not ever my favorite thing. I'm usually done by now to be fair But this week is hectic and there's just been a lot going on. So I can't focus enough my logical side of my brain And yes, I do have one To sit and do that so anyway We'll get it done at some point before we have to file taxes All right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back Okay. Hey guys, mr. Is feeling better and I'm headed out to run another errand. I Don't have to do it today, but he's like go go do it He's a little bit wobbly, but he's promised to be careful much less wobbly than he was this morning Uh, anyway He's on some medication. So that's what makes him wobbly and it's starting to wear off. So Um, so we're going to head over to the Hillsborough, Joanne. It's about 10 miles from my house not too far And pick up some more granny square yarn in the one color Um, I actually made it get a couple balls of the white and at least one ball of the green And if they have two more balls of the green, I'm going to get go grab those before I even go to the counter Um, because like the green I can't order anywhere like everybody's out of stock It must be the most favorite color or I don't know what else to think and I have an idea for a couple of sweaters that I want to make and I even did a rectangle granny square not granny rectangle with some of the yarn And I'm going to use that for the sides of the front of the sweater for the sides of the neck And um, I think it's going to be really cute. So I can't wait to get it finished But I kind of really just in case want to have a little more yarn because this is a pattern that's up here And I haven't like ever done it before And although I did order some yarn from yarnspirations And a few different colors That box is going to take a while to get here. So In the meantime, and I kind of just want it for stock. This is a good therapy yarn for me And traveling yarn because I can just grab a hook and grab a ball and go And I love that idea. So anyway Long story short, we're going to the Hillsborough, Oregon, Joanne's store So and it looks like GPS is taking me the back way. So yeah I better get off of here. So I know where I'm going. I'll be back out the yarn I pre-ordered one ball and they had two more in stock. I bought them all I don't normally clean a shelf like that, but this particular color Which is I think the cyber green if I'm wrong, I'll put it here. Um, is I don't know. It's a popular color I'm experimenting with granny sports sweater. I want to make That's based on a video, which I will link be up below but At least that that video inspired me for this sweater Um, number one the girl in the video is way younger than me probably young enough to be my Daughter at least if not my granddaughter. Um, number two, I have a fat old lady flabby neck Approaching a level crossing And I don't really do crew necks because it just emphasizes that And number two, I'm old and Not fit and firm and I'm not comfortable. So I'm going to make it longer I'm going to do something different with the neckline than what she's doing playing in a future video And I have no idea how much I'm going to need because I've not done this before so Now I've got plenty Bob is feeling much better. So yay Um, he's actually upstairs on the floor with an old friend right now who got laid off from Where they used to work together and uh, he's looking for a new job. So Bob's helping him out and I got all my current unblocked granny squares They're blocking upstairs. Some of the ones I've done be in the batch before were still slightly damp Um, but I've laid them down flat below. They should be should be fine. Um, and they sort of rectangular blocks They're not exactly half, but I think that's okay. I think that's going to actually work really well I'm going to do up some diagrams I'll probably do a video on this if my idea works out because I want to make two of them so Stay tuned. I'll be guys. All right Junior went home a while ago and I've been upstairs crocheting and watching youtube and doing some Uh Very rough schematics I want to turn some of these well all these red heart granny squares into a sweater but I needed to figure out some math The way at least artists and crafters math Um, so I have created the traditional square, but I've also done a rectangle which is slightly narrower By like an inch and really an inch is what it's all about Um the inch on each piece makes a big difference. Anyway, um, so I think I have the math figured out and the schematic figured out So now I know how many of the little rectangles I need to do. I need to do some more of those um, I am going to Do some sorry deliveries. I'm going to do some Uh filming for it on the white sweater. I'm going to do the black one first and figure out what I'm doing. Um I will put some of it up here on youtube, but the details will be for patreon So if you want the details Please think about joining my patreon and supporting the content here on youtube It's only a couple dollars a month And I do things like this. I've also recently shut down my etsy shop. I haven't even told them yet and The digital downloads that were in the shop Um that they haven't already received they will be receiving so Yeah It's a lot of stuff Anyway I'm going to put a couple more pins in some of those And put this late christmas card away And then go downstairs and wait for husband to get off work Um, he's feeling better today. He's not a hundred percent But he just comes up here into his office and sits at his desk like what he says he doesn't do anything strenuous. So um So it's all good. Anyway, it's going to be a little while before he's feeling a hundred percent. So All right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back and I know I look like hell And I've got a change of clothes because you know, baby sitting and spit up and it's a thing So I'll be back do this while there's some light Um I told you earlier. Mr. Was feeling better. He's not a hundred percent, but he's better Um, so we're out for a little bit of walk Um as he just said there's no more snow or ice. It's all melted Um, it's also not super cold Yeah, it's about 50 about 50 51 something like that There is a lot of water if you can hear that in the background. That's the creek by our house. Um, It's been raining a lot. Anyway, we're going to go for a short walk How much ever he's up to it? Yep, and then We'll go home and have dinner. So That's it. I'll be back guys. It is Friday January 26th I have no idea if I vlogged yesterday at the moment But I think I did um, we did baby sit yesterday And That went well. Mr. Is still recovering. He's not a hundred percent Um But he's doing better. Um When he doesn't want to drive his truck, then you know, he's not quite there yet Anyway, I spent the day doing some purging and cleaning I purged The closet of storage container bins reorganizing bins and got rid of things I've been Hanging on to that. I don't need to hang on to and so there's now a pile downstairs I also went through my art bed art bags I have way too many of them still but I kept what I love. I kept what's versatile that I can sort of interchange when the mood strikes So that's all good. I also unpacked my travel art bag. I don't need to have a travel art bag packed 99 percent of the time So that's unpacked. Um, the only thing I will leave packed is the um, minimal art bag that I have with my DIY coloring book in it Because that's not only good for traveling, but if we're on a road trip and um, I'm not up. I'm not feeling crocheting I can bring that with me along with one ball of yarn and a crochet hook and have plenty of alternatives to Work on things. So anyway, sorry for the shaky camera um So I just finished getting everything cleaned up and sort of put away We're still working on my new painting desk My vintage secretary desk downstairs. It'll be a while before that's ready To go in the corner, but when that does go in the corner, I can see me purging more stuff So there's that I am going to be posting probably most of it on the local buy nothing group Before I donate anything to Goodwill. Yeah, or value village or whatever So yeah, I do think that's a thing so Buy nothing first because I'd rather give it away to a local artist or person who could use it So Anyway, I'm going to watch some youtube drink my water Which I haven't been great at doing the last couple of days Which is funny because I'm constantly reminding my dad and bob drink your water You know, it's a thing All right, I'll be back. It is just about four o'clock on january 27th and Mr. Is feeling nearly 100% so yay. We were able to go out grocery shopping and run a couple of other errands this morning while we did that we stopped at the um post office and I checked the uh p.o. Box And I picked up some free boxes um from there and I used them to create some sort of bins on my bookshelf That's behind my work table that I've been sort of just dumping stuff on for kind of a long time It was initially supposed to be a drying rack. It hasn't been used for that for a long time and now it holds some of the Yarn I have that's intended for projects going forward and the scrap balls Um, which is a much better place for it than where it was but the scrap balls were by this home machine That didn't make any sense. So hold on made these sort of cardboard bins I used the bins didn't cost me anything Uh, I had contact paper and packing tape and Just put them together that way. Are they perfect not by any stretch of anybody's imagination? In fact, I got tired of trying to have the contact paper not be wrinkly and there's wrinkles, but it doesn't matter Um, it does what I needed to do which is um sort the yarn so I can see it So when I'm ready for the next project or I need another ball for the blanket I'm currently working on like maybe that brown one. I it's right there. I can just grab it this is project yarn intended um for use and um This makes me happy. This is much much better. I like that I have specialty yarns behind me and some of those bins and up there Which also at some point will be um used in projects and I don't need yarn going forward unless something wild and crazy happens or Yeah, I have a couple orders that are coming in and that's gonna be it for a while. So anyway Um I think we're gonna go out for a walk in a little bit. We're in our flood warning, which is weird, but okay um It's been raining for a few days. Um, not super hard, but Yeah, I don't know. I guess the streams between the rain and the snow or they've had enough That would be my guess. Anyway, we're gonna go for a little bit of a walk before we have dinner and I'm gonna start on a blanket. The granny squares are blocking for um The one of the sweaters I'm going to be working on the I'm making one out of the cyber green red heart granny square yarn And that one I'm going to go ahead and make and then the other one is the what color is this? Of course, I don't my glasses on because you know um frigid That one I'm going to show you how I make the little granny rectangles to make the sweater. Um I'll show you that on camera and assembly and stuff But I want to do the black one first and work all the bugs out because you know Anyway, I think that's it for the minute. We're going to go see what we can see and I'll be back. Okay. We're finally headed out for our walk um I don't think I mentioned yet. We're under a flood warning So if I see anything interesting, I'll take a picture. Yeah, let's get onto the river and see Yeah, it's not raining at the moment, but you know I might be hot because I've got my blanket coat on and it's 59 degrees outside You're gonna be complaining in about 10 minutes. Yeah, he's not wrong But I don't want to get soaking wet. So anyway All right, let's go get some steps in I'll be back It's just supposed to be a little creek Not supposed to have giant waterfalls It's probably a little bit flooded It's not normally this much water over here In this field even in the rainy season We're headed down to the toalatin river Which is I guess one of the areas of concern Let's go take a look. I don't think I've ever seen it this high Since we've moved here Um Yeah, I guess that's a problem Holy heck man Yeah, that's pretty high I guess we really are on a flood watch Yep, pretty cool Uh, okay, don't know ducks But last time we were here it was frozen And the drainage Creek is usually empty And while it's kind of empty down there The water is Headed that way because there's a lot of water over there Yeah Oh, yeah There's another drainage thing over here Which doesn't usually do that So you guys just got back from a walk and One of my packages I wasn't expecting until next week came in. This is from lion brand And It had some sort of Like mystery bag thing You could only get one and you don't know what's in here. Ooh pretty Okay, and it was 1299 I think for a bag plus shipping So the first thing I'm grabbing is touch of alpaca And it's 44 yards 90 percent acrylic 10 percent alpaca. That's pretty dark blue And this one Is ice cream roving Divigation. Hmm. It's a funny name. It's all acrylic but super soft. I love the color Schitt's Creek yarn Yep, it's a pretty sandy color. These actually would go nicely together There's a cake. It's a mandala cake sequins, so it has a little sequence in it. There you go um 295 yards 8% acrylic 2% polyester, which is probably the sequence and I'm sorry. I didn't say on this one It is 372 yards And 100% acrylic. There's another mandala Uh Sequeling one different colorway nice There's this thing This is huge Ice cream big scoop look at those colors And then there's more in there There's a journal in here. Let's see. That's cute. So it'll be good Um, I do make notes on patterns and things that I write. So that's cute I like the fact that it's got holes in the cover and there is a little pack of Uh embroidery floss So cool Not a bad purchase if I do say so myself So I have one more box coming in and then no more yarn for a while until I get some projects finished Yeah, no more yarn I must Mr. C some yarn. He wants a sweater out of But yeah All right, I'll be back. Hey guys. We've been just watching Netflix and stuff Um after our walk and dinner The walk was interesting. I did get a few shots that you saw Things were sort of flooded um And we're expecting a bit of rain in the next few days. So I guess the flood warning is justified. It's just weird um There were even a few backyards that were a little bit Watery Swampy swampy. Yeah, so anyway, it's been all good. Um I started a new blanket And this is some red heart yarn along with I was gifted a bunch of this I think I talked about once already Um It's a lion brown yarn. It's like boucle. I think or something in a bunch of different colors So I am crocheting it together With the worsted weight in brown We'll be all through the blanket and then the boucle will be in different colors paired up And so we'll do a nice kind of thick chunky blanket out of that And And yeah, otherwise, it's been a good day. Um son-in-law and grandson And grand dog are coming over tomorrow to watch football with mr Um, so I guess it's a good thing. We went grocery shopping Because yeah anyway That's it for this week. It's been a good one. Um, it's good to get things now back to normal hopefully after COVID and the holidays and All the things It'll be good to just get back to a normal schedule But anyway, I hope you all have had a great week that you've been able to find some time to be creative Even if it's five minutes here and there sometimes it's all you get so you got to take the time when you can and Um, just enjoy life. Um, if you have questions comments or concerns, leave them down below If you would like to support the free content here on youtube, I do have a patreon. The link is down below I um have a Ready conversation with them and facebook messenger. Also, there's a new thing like that in patreon I do posts all the time for them and my Etsy shop at the moment is closed And the digitals that were over there are being given to the patrons and supporters So if you want some of that go join that Um, I also have rubber stamp designs at um, rubber moon and art foamy stamps over at designs over at art foamies Um, there's a bunch of great designers at both places Go check them out really great companies to work with Um, even if you don't buy my stuff go check them out. Um and support them both are both mom and pops Anyway, I think that's it for right now go out and have a good day Have a good week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. We'll see you next week. Bye guys