 Sunday morning, everybody. It is Sunday November 12th, I think. Let's see. Yes, 9.42am. I looked at my husband's work phone. Don't get excited. Anyway, he's over at the gym. I'm taking it easy with exercising right now because if he didn't watch my last vlog, my hips been bugging me. You know, I do have arthritis and whether it's the arthritis or I've pulled a muscle lifting up Junior because, you know, he's 27 pounds. I don't know but it is getting better slowly and you can see that I'm walking around. When I first get up in the morning now, it's still sore but once I start moving and get going, it feels relatively okay but yeah, I'm taking it easy on it. We don't want to go backwards. So I am going to just relax this morning now that I've done some chores and while Bob's at the gym, we do have to go grocery shopping at some point but I'm not sure we're going to do it today. We are babysitting. The kids have a date with friends, a kid list date with friends and so we're going to take Junior for a few hours this afternoon and maybe the dog. I don't remember if they said they were bringing the dog or not. So anyway, it is rainy again because of course I live in the land of much water otherwise known as Oregon but that's okay. I like the rain and I like the cold. I'm gonna sit down on the couch and play some YouTube in the background and work on a pair of gloves that I started last night. So let's get to it shall we? I'll be back. I would say good morning but it's just after lunch. It's Monday, November 13th and I've just been lazing the morning away. On the project list this week is finishing a pair of socks I started last night and I have a vacation slash art journal I need to make from our summer vacation to Virginia. That's gonna be an upcoming video. I also have some cleaning and reorganizing and purging to do up here in the art room so those are all on the list this week besides the duties of OMA and all of that stuff. So I'm taking the quiet moments when I can because yeah I also have to edit the vlog before Wednesday morning but you know all right that's it for the minute. I'll be back. You've heard of one of those days where you have lots of stuff to do but no motivation to do any of it? Yeah I think I'm gonna make myself do some of it anyway. I'll be back. I said earlier in that list of things I wanted to do that that was for the week right? I mean I got the journal finished and the video for it filmed which is amazing because I was really like kind of not wanting to do anything today but I didn't get anything else done. I'm gonna be lucky to clean the mess up. I didn't get the video vlog either now I've got this other video to edit so tomorrow when I'm not babysitting junior I will be doing that and I do think his picture showed up on the video a couple times because I had my phone out and he's on my phone on my wallpaper so I'm gonna have to anyway. Alrighty I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It's Tuesday morning November 14th and it's about 9 30 if a.m. I'm trying to get the vlog edited before junior gets here for babysitting so I've got the computer on and it's rendering right now. I do have the vacation journal video that I filmed yesterday to do yet. The SD card is loaded into the computer and ready to go but we've got to let the computer do this before I do that. So I think I'm going to just sit and relax a little bit not push it or the computer and if we get it done before he gets here cool if we don't I'll do it when he goes home you know and then we've got of course more stuff on the table I got my order from Little Knits in Seattle last night they were so sweet it looks like the whole staff wrote thank you all over the invoice when they were packaging the order that was so sweet I will link their website down below I got some Cascade Ario duo yarn which is I don't even remember I don't know it's up it was a pack of five skeins and let's see not only don't have any lights on I mean my glasses are far away okay let's at least put the glasses on okay 47 percent merino 31 percent alpaca 22 percent nylon and there is 240 yards per hank which should be enough for a beanie so I got one in this brown color I have two in this dark variegated gray and two in the lighter variegated gray came as a bundle for under 30 bucks all five Cascades we got Ella Ray DK merino superwash wool and this is in the color mantis dance it's a pretty green and there were five skeins of that in one bag and 260 yards per hank that's plenty enough to do a wearable for me and the last one we got was another cascade it's a 220 superwash 100 percent superwash wool and each one of these has 220 yards I got this pretty blue color is there a name on here somewhere nope there is color number 1944 but it's this pretty blue and I got five of those and it came all came yesterday so I need I need to put all that away and I still have this out from last week and then of course some patterns I think I have a bunch of cotton and I tried making a sweater with some of it and I you know I'm still thinking if I should frog the sweater I'll put a picture here not super happy how it turned out I don't think it's a pattern I think it's the yarn I'm gonna try the pattern again with something else but anyway I do think I'm gonna take my cotton yarn and I'm gonna make some crocheted baskets so I found this pattern from Yarnspirations website it's a Bernay crochet handy basket pattern so I think I'm going to yeah but I need to put like all these patterns away anyway none of it's gonna happen right now I'm gonna just sit and relax and have some water before junior gets here because yeah that's an all-encompassing of your attention thing when you're babysitting so alright I'll be back I should say the three projects I had this week that I wanted to get done were the video editing the travel vacation journal which I got done yesterday and that's one of the videos I need to edit and I have some cleaning and purging I want to do up here in the small bits bank and if I can get the video editing done today I don't really have a ton of errands that I have to run tomorrow and I have to go out on Friday anyway to take the daughter to the airport so I think tomorrow might be the cleaning day if I can get all the video editing done today so we'll see I'll be back it's just about six o'clock as you can see it's dark outside it's winter in the Pacific Northwest and many other places gets very dark very early anyway I did get all the video editing done today and got it loaded to the two channels which really shocks the crap out of me because part of it was done when he was on my lap but I had toys to distract him from what Omar was doing and he was such a good baby and allowed me to get it done and we stopped doing it at the appropriate time I was finished computer was done and he was chewing on my desk so I feared it was time to be done yeah so anyway but I got it done so I think tomorrow I think tomorrow I might not run any errands I think I'm gonna stay home I have some more rearranging and purging I want to do as I make peace with the art the arty crafty creative things I love to do and letting go of those I don't which at the at this point means reorganizing the bits bank which to be honest before I got to the point of realizing I don't really like that I went through the bits bank every now and then anyway because I put things away in a drawer and it's a way way and then I forgot I even have it and it's way past time to clean it out and get rid of stuff and I'd like to consolidate some things I have up on the pegboard wall above the bits bank put them maybe in the drawers and maybe if I can manage to put the stickers somewhere get those out of the closet because they do seem to be referring to them a lot and hang some of my yarn up on the wall I'd really like to do that so and some of my trims and stuff so we'll see it requires taking a lot of that apart we'll see we're gonna do that tomorrow and also I'm gonna work on my socks tomorrow those are my two things so anyway I think that's the plan if I do go anywhere it will just be like real quick to Dollar Tree but I don't think I need to do that so anyway I'm gonna go downstairs and get out said socks and do some crocheting Mr. Bob's in the meeting I can hear him talking and he still so he's still working and after that we'll have some dinner I'm not super hungry but I think I'll just have some soup or something and yeah that'll be good that will be good all right I'll be back it's just about 10 30 a.m. on Wednesday November 15th I think yes yes the 15th you know I've just had a quiet start to the day not mad about that just relaxing today although I did just get in trouble from the husband for moving all the furniture around by myself so that we could get our little robot vacuum hazel to clean the floors downstairs and he's not wrong yeah so I should have asked for help but you know I didn't I didn't want to interrupt him I knew he was working so there's that anyway we're gonna do some cleaning up here in our room and purging today but first I'm gonna just sit and relax now that I've gotten showered and dressed and I'm gonna have a snack and watch some more YouTube and then then we'll get going I'll be back okay you guys took me a couple hours but I got it done and I stopped agonizing over bits and pieces you know there were things in these drawers that I was never gonna use again that I collected to try it doesn't like them wasn't happy with them and you know I had some of them I hadn't touched since we moved into this house five years ago so I had to go and times are changing and every now and then I need to clean out and re-sort the bits bank anyway so it is not unusual for me to do this you've been around for a while you know that but anyway so now all of my stickers are here and my other small bits and pieces paper is in the closet which is where it should be I have journals out that I'm currently working with are on and we have sewing notions back up on the wall yay having them in a drawer was not working for me I did get rid of a couple of things that I was I'd already used most of it I don't need to save every scrap and my pigments because I do use those not only for watercolor but I've used them occasionally for dying fabric and then yarn I love my yarn collection so I'm really I'm really liking the way this turned out and yeah the only thing I did I had to fix was this drawer when I pulled it out it fell out and then it broke and I had to I had to put it back together and I just realized that it doesn't have a label I guess for the moment that's okay but those are all bookbinding threads and embroidery stuff so anyway so I'm pretty happy with that now I gotta decide do I want to do the dishes or do I want to crochet my socks well I don't want to do the dishes but I probably ought to we've been running that robot vacuum on and off all morning so I'm gonna wait until Bob's done with work and have him help me put the furniture back I got in a little trouble when I did it by myself this morning so there's that anyway let's go get the dishes done so I can come up here and crochet all right I'll be back now the leaves were just falling off the trees in the wind and of course as soon as I get the camera out it stops I don't know what that is all garbage it's like when I try to take pictures of birds you know they sit still until they see me and they fly away because why not all right time for dinner okay grandson and his mom have gone home I am helping get them to the airport tomorrow they're going out of town for the weekend and Bob is off tonight to my son Claude meeting so I'm gonna go for a walk it's not too dark yet but I do have a flashlight in my pocket I'm just gonna I'll make it a quick one and then come home and work on my socks I'm gonna work on a another new stitch I'm learning new stitches people because why not all right yeah let's go see what we can see it's kind of dark up but you never know I'll be back everybody it's just after 9 a.m. on Friday November 16 I don't even know hold on it was only a day off are we surprised anyway it is Friday no today's gonna be kind of a busy day I am headed out already this morning because I need to go pick up a few groceries it's family dinner night and one set of kids is headed out of town the other set of kids is busy but it's gonna be Bob and I and my dad so we are it's gonna be just the three of us well and the dog because we're dogs so I'm gonna go pick up some food this morning and then around lunchtime I have to help get Rebecca and baby junior over to the airport Bob might come with us I'm not sure he said something about it last night anyway and then and then just dinner time so which is plenty that's plenty of stuff for me to have on my plate today I have to know when to say when I just can't do days where I'm just like busy every five minutes of the entire day I can't do that so anyway in between I'll be working on my socks I have one more socks to stop one more socks one more sock to finish and then I'm gonna start on another sweater so there's that and I might simultaneously do sweater and afghan we'll see I've got like three afghans to do so yeah anyway that's it for the minute I've had two cups of coffee but I don't feel awake is it just me I write I'll be back hey guys so yes wearing my blanket coat I've got my hat I just made on and my gloves we're headed out for a walk it's just about eight o'clock my dad just went home from family dinner night it was just the three of us tonight which was fine I have a carousel I'm going to be doing for him a travel journal from his trip to Italy sorry it is dark outside so I'll be filming that for YouTube well for yeah for YouTube details detailed videos for patreon and that'll be something to look forward to anyway right now we're gonna go get a few quick steps in if you didn't hear we are dog sitting grand dog Lily while her parents are out of town and we're gonna go get a few quick steps in it is very cold but that's okay all right I'll be back everybody it's Saturday remember 18th I think something like that yeah we just got done picking up some free yarn for my local by nothing group we are now going to take numb nuts for a WALK numb nuts crazy pants yeah I do have to do the dishes today but we're gonna we're gonna put put that off a little bit and yeah deal with that first so anyway I'll be back it is 10 p.m. on Saturday and again I still don't know what date it is all the 18th yeah there you go I've been crocheting all day I can't say I'm mad about it we really didn't do much we went walking and picking up the free yarn this morning and the mr. Bob washed the cars but it's raining out now yeah so yeah well I mean anyway you know we did a couple small chores but we didn't do a whole lot and I can't say mad about it I started another Afghan that someone I already finished back there I'll put a picture of it here somewhere with some chunky bulky yarn I've been getting thrifted or gifted and a couple skeins that I bought inexpensively like at Walmart and yeah I love the way it's coming out anyway I like making scrap Afghans in case you didn't know that so thank now so I'm like sitting next to like this because obviously I like doing that too so you know so thank anyway that's it for this week it's been a fun one I do have some I think interesting videos coming up that I well I need to film it first but I think they'll be interesting and anyway so stay tuned if you want to support the free content here on YouTube and ready access to me chats with me a private YouTube channel with so many videos that you guys never see over here join my patreon think about it so anyway the link is down below don't forget to check out the video description for relevant links and if you have questions comments or concerns leave them down below and yeah like share and subscribe and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'm going to finish my puzzles for the day the night night and I don't know what we're getting up to tomorrow but that's for next week's vlog bye guys see right goodbye