 Hey guys! I am just up here in my chair in the art room crocheting. I have been most of the day. Bob is off taking a class with some of the kids and yeah, I am just here working on my blanket. My goal is to get it done this week and start on a new project or two or three. Yeah, anyway. So yeah, it's just a nice quiet Sunday and I'm okay with that. Yeah, all right. That's it for the minute. I might make myself a cup of iced coffee because I'm kind of feeling like I'm in the mood. And yes, if you remember a while back I made this dress and some bloomers to go underneath it. I have that outfit on today of course with a sweater because it is like in the low 50s outside and yeah anyway. Yeah, you know, the more I think about it, a cup of iced coffee sounds like a good idea. Anyway, I might just be addictive caffeine but yeah, there's that. I'll be back. It is Monday morning October 30th I think and it is just a few minutes before noon. Mr. B is headed to California for work. His ride is picking him up in a few minutes. Again, I have no problem telling you all that because about the time you see this he's gonna be back so there's that. Anyway, as soon as he's off I'm gonna go run a few errands. I usually do errands on Wednesday but there's gonna be a lot of stuff going on around here Wednesday before he gets home so it's better. My car is full of pine needles you guys. It's been not really raining a whole lot but it's been windy and the trees are pooping pine needles everywhere. Driving is gonna be interesting. Anyway, that's it for the minute. I am gonna while he's gone my goal finish the Afghan and I cut out another carpet bag. I have one more frame and I want to make another carpet bag so yeah. Anyway, we'll see if I manage all that. I'll be back. Okay, Bob is off to the airport. I have just mailed a couple of bills. I've got to call one more bill in and then we're off to run a couple of errands. Of course one of them being Joanne's but you know. Alright, I'll be back. So I'm down to my last two balls of yarn. Actually I'm almost done with this one and then I have one more in a dark gray color that we're gonna use for the edging. I think I'm gonna do a half double crochet around the entire edge until the ball's used up kind of. But I think I'm gonna give my hands a little bit of a break. I do daily word, well, daily brain puzzles with my husband usually every night. Of course he's out of town. He did some of them on the plane. I'm going to go ahead and do mine now and sort of do this with my hands. Stretch them out. You know all of that. Really hoping I can get this afghan done tonight. That would be really cool. Junior comes tomorrow for babysitting. I think I'm gonna forego editing the vlog today and try to finish the blanket. I can edit the video before he comes or after he goes home. So I think I'll do that. I also have to make a point of making myself some lunch either before he gets here right after he gets here while he's quiet because Bob's not here to like have me text him. Hey honey, can you get me a glass of water? So anyway, it's too quiet now. I thought you know COVID happened and he started working at home full-time which is something he said he never wanted to do. We both really got used to it. Liked it and now when he's gone in the office just for a couple of days, it's just too quiet now. So that's okay. I'll get over it. I'll be back. Chores are done. We're downstairs on the sofa. I've made myself some iced coffee because why not? I never sleep well when Bob's not home anyway. So what's the difference? And I started the half double crochet around the edge of the blanket. So let's find some YouTube to watch or listen to and get it done. All right, I'll be back. The blanket's done. Hang on a second. It's yeah, this is the master bedroom and the lighting is not super good in here. We've never found a light fixture to replace the one the house came with that we both can agree on. But anyway, this is a queen-sized bed and it fits on here but it would probably fit better on a double. It is just a giant granny square with a couple of rows around the edge of half double crochet. You guys hold on. So there we go. That's a little better. We'll use the light on the camera. So each one of these colors is a different ball of yarn. Approximately 22 balls, skeins, leftover bits, thrifted, gifted, a few purchased not too many. Most of it was thrifted or gifted and yeah, I'm pretty pleased with how the blanket turned out. What do you all think? Anyway, on to the next project now. I do have to say I forgot how much I like making afghans and they're especially if you don't do a complicated pattern like you just do a giant granny square. It's an easy pattern to do on the go and traveling or at home and to use random yarns on. It's also a really great stress relief to just sit and crochet, turn some music on or a podcast and yeah, I really enjoyed myself. So this won't be my last afghan not by any stretch. Alright, I'll be back. Vlog is edited and rendering. What do I do with the other half? Half of this. If it was a spider, it would have bitten me. It was right in front of me. Anyway, vlog is rendering right now. So it's all edited and I had to update some videos that are coming out soon with links for my other partners. So I did that and I've had two cups of coffee and some breakfast. Junior is coming today so I'm trying to get some stuff done before he gets here. I'm trying. I have a million projects lined up. I have to get through some of them. I have things I want to clean and reorganize. Like the list is endless, you guys, as it always is. So anyway, I am going to finish getting this saved and loaded to YouTube and I think I need one more cup of coffee. You know, mister's not here so I didn't sleep super well last night. So yeah, it's gonna be that way till he gets home. Anyway, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. By the way, it is Halloween. It's Tuesday, October 31st, which means I get to pass out candy by myself, which is okay, I guess. We don't get tons of kids, but it's a really Mr. Bob's thing. He was supposed to be here. Just saying. All right, I'll be back. Okay, so far we've had quite a few kids for Halloween. We do only have one bag of candy so I need to make that stretch. They all look so cute and so happy. Anyway, I started another sweater for myself out of some Madeleine Tosh yarn. I will link her website of her yarns down below and if I can find the one that I'm actually using, I'll link it. In a pattern I've done already, which I'll put a picture here. I really love the fit of this sweater. It's simple and it was easy to make and it fits me pretty well. So this yarn, of course, that I'm using is very colorful bright because, you know, so yeah, I did that. We're passing out candy. Mr. Bob's not happy. He's not here. I'm so tempted when he's not here to drink all the coffee. I used to drink two pots a day by myself. I'm not going to do that. I'm boiling some water, going to make a cup of tea. Caffeine-free herb tea. All right, and I didn't even turn the kettle on. We do have one. I just used the microwave because, you know, I'm not the frugal crafter. That's Lindsay Weirich. I'm the lazy crafter. Emphasis on the lazy. So there's that. All right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Okay, it's already been an interesting morning. Our friend and cleaning lady, Leti, is here. She's upstairs. Gardeners here. I've paid them both. I asked the gardener to take care of some blackberries that are coming through the fence in the back. If you've never been to Oregon, we have a wild blackberry problem. Anyway, and yes, they're edible as long as they haven't been sprayed. Anyway, I also had counseling this morning. Bob's still not home. He's still in California, but he gets home late tonight. And I have two main YouTube channels. Well, I have three. One is for patrons and supporters only. One is my broadcast channel that you're watching right now. And one is my watch channel that I watch everything on. And my watch channel, I barely comment on anything. I just watch, have things playing in the background while I'm crocheting or painting or something. I watch it instead of TV. I don't really watch TV. So anyway, I barely comment on anything. But somehow I got a violation for spam, spam, and a bunch, a list of other things. I'll include a screenshot right here. I don't know what that's all about. I can't get through to anybody at YouTube to tell me what's going on. I barely comment on anything. I think in the last month I've commented on two crochet videos. So I don't know what they're talking about. And anyway, I'm banned from commenting on anything for 23 hours, 24 hours. I don't know. Anyway, oh joy. The automatic algorithms caught me on something. I don't know, what did I say? I have no idea. Anyway, as soon as everybody is done, I'm going to go upstairs. I'm going to rearrange a couple things that I've been wanting to rearrange. And I'm going to sit and just listen to some more YouTube and crochet. And hopefully I don't come across something I want to comment on because I can't. I'll be back. Hey guys, I did a mini rearrange, rework. Okay. All the paint is now in this corner. Watercolor paint. Let's see, wait. There we go. Watercolor paint and pigment powders and some ink. Of course, the painting station. Acrylic paint, regular acrylic paint to use on canvas. But also there's a basket down there of matte acrylic paint, which if you've been following my channel, you know I prefer to use returnally. I moved some stuff off at the back of the table. I have my journals and things up there at the ready and things I need at the table when I'm doing various kinds of projects. The things I didn't need to have on the table but did have on the table are now over here. For the most part, things are relabeled and reorganized. I really don't have to buy anything for a while because paint or tool-wise at least because I have a lot. I got to work through what I have. In fact, I think I have a couple of tubes of golden paint that actually smell bad, which means they've gone off. Yeah, so anyway, oops, missed a paint palette. Yes, it's an egg plate. I have too many paint palettes. I don't need any more paint palettes. Anyway, all right, I'm going to go sit and chill, have a snack, have some water, watch some YouTube, enjoy the quiet in my house right now. And hopefully I don't come across anything I need to comment on because I can't and I don't know why. I'll be back. Okay, I have no idea what time it is. Let's see, just before six. Besides doing a mini rearrange of the art room and making the flow work a little better for me, I have one more of fixing the flow videos to film. I will do it at some point, I promise, soon. But anyways, once I was done with that, I made another carpet bag. I had one more of the frames and I had enough leftover material. Now, this is the same material I used on the other carpet bag, it's just this is the wrong side. But I thought it was interesting enough to make a bag out of and that tan color is something I just had left over. I didn't buy anything for this one, others in the frame, I had the frame. So yeah, I got a spare, not mad about it. All right, I think I'm going to, I don't know, Bob doesn't get home until we're very late. I'm not super hungry. I may make a cup of coffee, but I have to stay up anyways until he gets home. So somebody's got to let him in, he doesn't have a house key. All right, that's it for the minute, I'll be back. Hey guys, if you hear some murmuring in the background, I left my tablet on downstairs and it's playing a video. I was gifted today via our local Buy Nothing group some wool and I have the three skins here. Now, when I first opened the wool bag, it smelled very dirty, sheepy. If you know, you know. And so the first thing I did was give it a wash. And then the more I thought about it, you know, it's all soaking wet. It's soaked for about 20 minutes in a tub of hot water and some soap. It smells still slightly sheepy, but fine. I'm going to try dyeing it. And I've got some rit dye here already mixed up. I've got dark brown, teal, pearl gray, petal pink and lemon yellow. I'm going to set you off to the side somewhere where you can see what I'm doing. And we're going to try this. Yeah, I'm pretty excited. I'll be back. Okay, I think I like it. It's darker when it's wet than it's going to be when it's dry. We have no idea how it's going to turn out. I am probably going to go downstairs and grab a bucket and put it into a bucket. It's going to have to be rinsed off. I was thinking about just leaving it overnight, but I don't think I'm going to do that. So yeah. All right, let's get to it. Choose to do this on a day when I've got a white shirt on. I'm really lucky so far. I haven't gotten anything on myself. You know, go me. I'll be back. Okay, let's rinse off the yarn and see what happened. It's looking pretty interesting, you guys. Hold on. Let's go get this laid out on the drying rack. Okay, it's going to take a little bit for things to dry. And then I'm going to wind them up into cakes, but they're looking pretty good. For my first time, I'm not mad about it. Did they come out more brown than expected? Well, yeah, but I did put a lot of colors in there. So I kind of knew that probably would happen, but very hints of teal and pink and yellow and green because blue and yellow make green. I don't know how I have any idea how many yardages, how much. I do have the skein labels and there is, do I have my glasses on? No. It's 100% fleece and shetland wool, which is probably why it smells like wet dog. And they appear to be new unused skeins each weighing about two ounces. So that's not a whole ton of yarn. I don't think it says on here how many yards or anything made in the USA. Botany yarns. Of course, I'm doing this without my reading glasses on because that's smart. Nope, doesn't say how many yards. Just says two ounces. I don't think it's a lot of yards. Like there's maybe 300 yards there. Maybe if you're lucky. I doubt there's even that much. So, but maybe enough for a beanie and or a scarf. There should be enough for that. So that's probably what'll happen with it, but it's pretty cool. So anyway, botany yarns. Thank you to my buy nothing neighbor. I appreciate the yarn. We're going to let it dry. Yep. And I'll be back. I have so many pairs of reading glasses. Most of them on cords and I still put them down and misplace them. And this is a big house, you guys. Like I'm not complaining, but Jesus, I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached. Got them. I'll be back. People of the internet, there is actually a list of discontinued yarns and the specs on the discontinued yarns. Anyway, found it. It's botany yarns Scotty and two ounces, approximately 170 yards per hank. And that's 500 and something should be plenty enough to make a beanie and maybe a scarf. So there's that. We're good. Okay, now I can sit down and relax. It's like my third or fourth time upstairs. I don't think I'm going to have any problem getting steps in. I should say just in like the last hour, third or fourth time. Anyway, good morning everybody. It is Friday morning, November 3rd, just before 10 a.m. I got to go run and get some stuff for family dinner night. And Mr. Bob's got to make some phone calls. We're going to go out at about lunchtime. He doesn't have any meetings today. We've got to go pay our property taxes. You generally in the U.S. don't have to do that in person, but we do. We just find it fun. I don't know. We're twisted that way. Anyway, I have moved the yarn I dyed downstairs to the laundry room sink with a rag underneath it to let it drip dry. And that way I can let the drying rack upstairs dry out a little bit and then put it away in the closet. I like using it, but I don't like that it takes up so much room. Small problems. I need to make some bread today, but I'm going to do that after we get back from paying our taxes. And I think that's it. I think it's a pretty quiet weekend. I think the only other thing we have going on is Sunday evening, going up to Portland airport and picking up my dad. He comes home Sunday from his trip to Italy. And I can't wait to hear all about it. He looks like from the pictures that have been sent out on social media that he's having a great time. So good morning everybody. It is Saturday morning, November 4th. We are headed out in a minute to go for a drive, run some errands, all the things, and hang on. Outfit of the day. Some patchwork pants, a blouse, one of my sweaters. It makes me happy. So we're all good. And yes, I'm carrying a bag today because it's just, sometimes it's easier. I do love pockets and no bag, but you know. All right, let's go get to it. I'll be back. Okay, Mr. Bobby is downstairs napping on the couch with the TV on. It is almost 10 o'clock at night and I've almost forgot to close the vlog. I came so close. I took some of my mixed media bits off of the peg board wall and hung some yarn because why not? I like having it there, at least for the minute. Anyway, and I got done enough with my current sweater project that the whole round, it's crocheted in the round with no seams, but the whole yoke is done. So now it's time to do the body of the sweater and then we can progress to the sleeves. And I want to, it's a pattern I really enjoy making and I like wearing. So I'm going to keep making it because why not? Yeah, I still have my blouse on from today, but I've got sweatpants on because again, you know, yeah, anyway, it's been a good day. It's been a good, we got a lot of errands done, but we also did a lot of fun driving. We drove all the way down to McMinnville. We didn't really need to go that far to run errands, but you know, it's just such a nice drive. Why not? So it was a good, nice, quiet day. Mr. Bob cleaned all the gutters out. I didn't even know he was doing that because he didn't like tell me or come get me to help him, but evidently he did it all by himself. I was just in here futzing around doing the crocheting. I, you know, anyway, it's all good. We got all the chores done here at home and all that stuff. And it's just nice, quite relaxing weekend. Tomorrow we have to go pick up my dad at the airport. He's coming home from Italy, but that's for next week's vlog. Anyway, I'm having a lot of fun rediscovering my love of crocheting and needlework. And the past few months, I've been really focused on that and not on painting and drawing or journaling. And for those of you who miss that content, I'm sorry, I do have some stuff I want to film coming up. And you can't really see it right now because the lights aren't on, but I did rearrange this corner a little bit. And I think it is working much better. I'm going to go over a few changes I've made to enable me to sort of sit in my chair and crochet or come over here and paint or be over here and cut out a project or do some journaling. The ironing board is like right here. It's not going to get put away. It's just right here. The more I work in the space, the better it gets. I am a person that definitely needs to be in a space for a while. It's been almost five years since we've been in the house or it has been five years, I think. I don't know exactly. But anyway, I need to be in a space for a while and I'm living it before I can really refine the workflow in the room. And we've really gotten to a really good place where the big pieces are perfect and they're good. And other than a few minor changes here and there when my focus shifts to something else, like the crocheting in the yarn, it's good otherwise. And that's perfect for me. Anyway, and the rest of the house is kind of the same too. Every now and then things get out of hand, but that's life, right? I mean, you know, anyway, we've had a good week. We've really enjoyed ourselves and life and I'm enjoying all the crochet projects and working on the new sweater. And it's I'm using a Madeleine Tosh yarn. I'll link their website down below. It is a wool blend yarn and it's hand dyed and it's beautiful, beautiful to work with. So I'll link them down below. It's not budget friendly, just FYI. The next one I'm going to do is budget friendly. And it's a beautiful acrylic yarn, so soft. And I'll talk about that when I start that project. Anyway, I hope you've all had a great week and have a great day. Don't forget to please like, share and subscribe. Check out the video description for relevant links, ways to support the free content here on YouTube. Myself and many, many, many others on YouTube have ways you can support the free content, whether it's joining Patreon, buying merch. I'm a designer over at ArtFomies. You can go support them and me at the same time by buying an ArtFomi. I'm not sponsored by them or anything. I just do work for them, but they're a great USA based company and I know they'd appreciate the business and they make some great stamps, you guys. 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