 Good morning everybody. It is Sunday morning, June 25th. Bob and Paulyus, the sun in law, are out at a car thing with both of Bob's cars. And I have Junior, he and I are out for a walk to not only hopefully put him to sleep but get some steps in so we'll see. Anyway Oma only has so many hands so I don't know if I'll be able to take any pictures, but we'll find out. I'll be back. Do I look tired? Anyway, we're back from our walk. Little Mister is doing well. He's not crying so that's a bonus. He's a newborn and you can already tell he's a newborn that does not like to sleep although he gets really tired and cranky. So yeah, that's the thing. You guys got any tips for either Oma or the parents? Put them down below. We'd love to hear them. But yeah, I've tried everything I can think of. And I guess the last two days he just hasn't wanted to sleep so there's that. And he's not colicky so yeah. Anyway right now we have to wait about another 45 minutes or so and then he gets breakfast. In the meantime he seems to just be happy and content. So Oma might try to make her morning bone broth while I can. And then we'll sit and watch YouTube or something. We'll all watch YouTube. Well he just stares in fascination at the ceiling fan. Alright, I'll be back. It is Monday morning June 26th. It's 11.03 a.m. Oma's day off. So I am going to work on a sewing project. I've got a bunch of computer stuff to do. But of course I'm sewing first but you know. Anyway, I took this spring roll pouch bag of which I've made a couple of them now and I'll put some pictures like right here somewhere in the original size and then I reprinted the pattern in a bigger size. And I don't need another spring roll pouch but I kind of want to see how it turns out like I do have some ideas rolling around in the back of my mind if this works. I'm using fabric I have. I'm not buying anything. So we'll see. I think first I drew some grids. I don't know if that's going to show up on camera. On the plane canvas fabric I had in my stash from another project. And I think I'm going to sew like faux quilting marks on the outside before I do anything else. And I might even use rainbow thread because why not? Rainbow or green? I have to decide. I'll be back. And this is bone broth. Trying not to snack. Because you know, trying to lose the couple pounds I've gained back. Yeah. I'll be back. It's done. Are you ready? This is the regular size one. This is the big one. Again I printed the pattern and when I printed it I told my printer to print it at 150% of the original. And then pieced it together and otherwise it's the only change I made. Now the pattern is not mine. I'll link the Etsy shop the pattern is from down below. But other than increasing the size of the pattern I didn't change anything else now. In the big one I chose not to add to all the extra pockets she talks about in the pattern. Different options. I just kept it pretty basic. But let me show you. The regular one. This is supposed to be a toiletries or makeup bag. I use it as an art bag. I have quite a bit of stuff in here. It does open flat which I really like. In this one I added some pen loops on the inside which you can't see. Hold on. Pen loops. Which I don't really use to be honest. And on this side besides the elastic pocket there's an extra zipper pocket. Again I have stuff in there but I don't really use it that much. So on the big one I just kept it pretty basic. I am kind of curious how much stuff it holds. So this is the big one. I used what I had which was this tan colored canvas. I did some decorative stitching on it or quilting on it with rainbow thread. I used a light blue zipper. I've got some botanical fabrics on the inside again with light blue zipper on the interior pocket. And some more rainbow thread around. I did the regular pocket here. In the littler bag it's only two pockets. This bag is so big that it's three pockets. And then the elastic pocket in the little bag is just one pocket but I divided it into two. And I think you can fit a lot in here. I kind of wonder I like my other two art bags but it just makes me wonder how much I can get in here. Maybe we should see. Alright hang on. I like it at least for the moment. That doesn't mean I'm getting rid of anything else. If you all have been watching me for a while you know I have an addiction to art bags. Someone call it a problem but I don't see it that way. It's part of my purging and churning and gathering inspiration. It's part of my process. Cleaning and rearranging. It's inspiring. Anyway alright I'll be back. Hey guys it's 5.51pm that I'm dying of thirst. My cup is empty. It has been for a bit but I got July and August mood boards and word lists done for patrons and supporters. I do one every month for them along with a few other things so if you want to be in on that go check out my video description. The link is down there in my link tree list links. I also got scheduled posts for social media done for July and August. I got, what else did I get? I got the vlog edited and it's loaded and scheduled. Yay! Everything's scheduled. I just have to add the other word list to my daily drawing books for July and August and then we're done and we can turn stuff off up here and I can go get some water. Yay! I didn't think I'd get it all done today but yay! I'll be back. I also found I wasn't keeping up with my mood board reference book so I just printed a bunch of things out and added them to the book. I'm not quite caught up because there's some artsy trio collaboration stuff. We've like done mood boards through almost the end of the year so I haven't printed those out yet and put them in there but I'm gonna consider it caught up because I mean it's not caught up until like the end of the summer. I also have my fashion and upcycling reference book. I found a couple more photos in my camera roll I forgot about. Printed them, put them in my book. I can delete them off my camera roll now so that's done. I found the baby blanket booties and hat pattern I want to make for the neighbors next door for their little baby that's coming. And I got my two journals for July and August ready to go. I found some stuff from the last time we went to the beach that I need to go through, pull a few things out and I didn't quite clean my desk off. It's not super dirty, it never is but there's little piles of paper that you know when I don't want to deal with things I just like stick them in a pile cause yeah anyway but the video is loaded everything's done. I think I can put the rest off for right now. I think we can call it good. Alright I'll be back. It is 11.33 Tuesday June 27th. Don't get excited I looked at the iPad. It's baby sitting day so Junior's coming over and we're all ready to go. I was able to get upstairs for a little bit and print some things that I wanted to print and also work on a mock up. I had a knit dress that I bought for another project that ended up not working for that but I only paid like two bucks for it so I used it as mock up fabric for a new short pants pattern that I want to do and I'm glad I did because my initial thought was the shape was right but the pant the size was too small and too short so I did make some adjustments I made a pet paper pattern. Now I just need fabric so we're all ready to go. In the meantime I'm sitting having some bone broth and Junior's on his way over and yeah we're all good. I think I have to do the dishes but yeah. Alright I'll be back. Junior's gone home and I haven't been about an hour until Bob gets off of work and then we're gonna go for a walk and I'll probably need to take a shower and then dinner for the idea before taking my mock up of the pants I want to make and adding some more fabric from another knit piece that I have that I bought to do mock ups and stuff with to make sure the pattern's gonna fit the way I wanted to which is like a smart idea and yeah I think I'm gonna do that really quick before he gets off work. I'm gonna turn on some music and just have at it. I'll be back. The mock up looks terrible because the fabrics do not match but the fit is what I wanted kind of like my wide leg pants only fitted around the calf so yay that means that the paper pattern I drafted is gonna work more than likely I am going to cut these apart carefully sort of and make sure that they are the same as the paper pattern are fairly close and I think of them were good and it's just a matter of me finding knit fabric that I like at the thrift i.e. a really long big maxi dress or two that match or clear and sale knit fabric at the fabric store because we're not gonna spend full price on that but again these two fabrics do not go together but cute pants. Alright I'll be back. Going for a walk yeah it's hot I brought some water with me. I got a pocket full of cough drops. I finished this day so we're gonna go get some steps in. I haven't said yet but I'm gonna take a shower tonight before bed because I have an early morning mammogram. It's time for that daily check up. Have you had yours lately? I have not. You have not. No men need another check it's called prostate check. Have you done that? And if you're of a certain age, colon screening colon cancer screening. Get your checks people they're not fun, sometimes uncomfortable, very scary but you gotta do what you gotta do. Alright anyway back in the end. Yeah Mr. Bob gets his colonoscopy next week. Me first then him. Alright I'll be back. Starting off my morning with the mammogram it's not my favorite way to start a day but it's gotta be done and it's just an annual test to everybody. Alright now we're headed out to go run some errands. I need some parts for some projects gotta check the PO box. By the way if you want to be happy male I'll put the PO box address in the video description. So I went out and had the mammogram this morning. It's negative by the way I already have the test results I had him within a couple of hours ran a few errands and some sunflower fabric came in that I wanted plus I had a little bit of a different one. I'm gonna make another pair of dad jeans and I'm gonna cover my sunflowers but I had the idea while I was looking at that I should take a bunch of fabric that I have in my stash that I'm not really using and isn't necessarily my favorite and patch work it together with the raw edges showing wash it let it fray and then make stuff out of it. A pair of pants a shirt a jacket something. So I've spent the last like three hours patch working things together. Again not being careful about raw edges letting them show. This is a big piece of fabric you guys hold on. You ready? I mean it's huge. I don't even fit in the camera. I literally just zigzagged the pieces together. The raw edges are sticking out layered them on top of one another with white thread. I'm gonna wash it and have it to make stuff with. Again maybe a pair of pants I'm not sure yet but I like where it went. Alright it's time for some more water and a snack I'm really thirsty I'll be back. It is Friday June 29th yes I want to say January to June and it is 6 37 p.m It's been a wild crazy long day we started off the morning with going downtown with a family member who was not yet as of then a US citizen but is now. So that was a nice way to start the day. Then I babysat Junior most of the afternoon most of the day actually and I did get some crocheting done on the rainbow skirt but you know when you're watching an infant you can't get a lot done. Bob has his Masonic Lodge meeting tonight and I really forgot about that. Junior went home at about 5 10 or something and I thought I'll come up here and I'll sew for a little bit till he's done with work for the day which would normally be about now. And except that he had a meeting so he stopped work early, went downstairs and got dressed and left for his meeting so I could keep sewing. So I did get some sewing in just now I finished my other pair of dad jeans that I wanted to make. These ones are covered in sunflowers. I haven't washed them yet but I will be so things fray and everything. You ready? Okay hold on. I don't have the right shirt on with them but what do you think? I mean I love the way they turned out. They were so much fun to make. I have one more pair of my dad's jeans and I'm going to cover them in roses. Yeah I guess I better clean up now. Put these in the laundry and then probably go have some dinner. I'll be back. The pants are in the laundry in case you can't hear that. I guess I should go get the mail. I haven't really thought about it all day today and I think there's a sewing pattern I got from Etsy out in the mail box so let's go see. The new sewing pattern I could probably draft it but I'm not that confident in my skills. It's definitely something I want to make so yay. It is what time is it? 10.38 a.m. Friday June 30th I think. I've been sewing I'm not babysitting today so I'm catching up on projects so if you're ever thrifting going through your stash or even going through your closet of old clothes and you see some thin gauze or scarf material or in this case as you can see from the shoulders probably this is Halloween gauze netting stuff and I just thought well let me see if I can make something fun. I'm going to call it the mummy shirt because that's the thing that comes to my mind first thing. It's probably not going to last more than a couple of washings but paired with a little tank top like I have on right now in maybe a bright color under it with some of my dad jeans would be maybe kind of cute although I might look homeless but I know I don't care. Anyway, hang on. This is me in my mummy shirt. What do you think? I mean I didn't try to make it look perfect because this thin material again whether it's a scarf or it's some kind of gauze or something when it's really thin like this it's really just nerve racking to try to get it to be perfect. So I didn't even try it had some holes in it and I stitched around them which gathered it a little bit I'm cool with that. I mean yeah I'm pretty stoked. What do you think? Hey guys I made another one. This one was a scarf and it's a little bit more finished and less raggedy. That doesn't mean it's going to last you know through lots of wearings and washings this is very thin delicate fabric but yeah I do like it and layered over a tank top or even a pair of bike shorts in a top or my dad jeans or yeah hold on I'll get a picture for you. What do you think? I did shorten it put a little hem here use the like raggedy edge of the scarf because it was really long and I didn't want it that long but you definitely could buy one of these big scarves and keep it long and use it as a bathing suit cover up I mean that would be cute but what do you think? It was very easy and I like it alright I'll be back. I had a really nice conversation with my friend Leslie McGrath and she is going on a little vacation and I wish her a great time she deserves it. Anyway as I was talking to her I was sewing I of course lost my cotton strapping I was making some bags as you can see I did eventually find it after I got off the phone with her but I got the idea and granted I was just going to do one I did four but I got the idea to take some of the pant legs from my dad's pants that I've been upcycling refashioning I don't know to wear and taking the bottom part that I cut off and making a bag I know right so I didn't just make one of course not I made two three four I mean yeah anyway I'm gonna go sit in the corner and have some water and just chill for a bit I'll be back. It's just a little handbag of course but it could also be used for a little urban sketching art journaling bag because it's big enough to put a small journal in a couple of pens and some tools so and it was cheap I had everything I didn't buy anything yeah I'll be back. Everybody it's 10.52 a.m. Saturday July 1st so a whole bunch of posts should have gone out this morning to Patreon and social media getting ready for daily art inspiration for the next month and Bob is off at the kids house they are doing some construction at their house they're actually planning an addition and right now they're digging for the foundation so Bob is over there helping along with my son-in-law's parents and all of that stuff I am going to go as soon as I back up the car I'm gonna go I have to pick up some prescriptions and I am planning out my next pair of dad pants my last pair of dad pants at the moment and some of the parts I want to use on the pants are coming in the mail today but I'm looking for something else that I can't find easily online and or you know you order something but it comes and it's not what you expected I had that with an Etsy order recently it's not that it's not good quality and all that it's just not what I expected so I'm gonna stop by Joann's because hopefully and there's another little sewing machine repair place that sells fabric there in the same mall so I'm gonna stop by the two of those and hopefully find what I'm looking for and not come out with too much extra stuff baby alright we're gonna see I'll be back remember right now if I said it on camera or not yesterday but I know I said it to my friend Leslie and to my patrons and supporters but when I made the Halloween gauzy gray sort of tussy through top raggedy top I'll put a picture here I pictured it with spider web pants or something along those lines so and I know I said I'm calling it my mommy top be so cute anyway so yeah I am kind of on the lookout for something like that alright I'll be back I've been home for a little bit I did find the parts I was looking for for the next pair of dad pants I also went through and sorted some fabric getting rid of some scraps I don't need to hang on to before I did that I cut some strips out of some of them because I'm gonna make some fabric collage belts I also have a black knit cardigan that I don't wear much and I pull a bunch of sheer and knit stuff out I might try to upcycle it it's kind of sitting in the corner and on the mannequin I cleaned up some fabric bins and reorganized things to make stuff easier to find and started getting I think what's gonna be my next needlework project ready I also found two watercolor paintings that were hiding under some patterns that I forgot were down there so there's that house is very quiet I'm gonna sit here and watch a little youtube and then I'm gonna go do dishes in the laundry Bob is still at the kids house digging holes cause yeah anyway alright that's it for the minute I'll be back hey guys alright it's 842pm on Saturday July 1st it's been a good day as you can see behind me I've got some stuff laid out to do my last pair of dad pants at the moment and found this really cute bee fabric I'm gonna put some bees on it thanks Kathy Whitney for the idea I went to the local resale shop and picked up a couple more balls of yarn because I think my next needlework project is gonna be a sweater and I wanna do something with the like wavy pattern in it again I found a pattern on Etsy I'll link it down below and I'll put a picture here I did start I only got like 5 or 6 rows down on the front but so far so good and I'm enjoying just using random yarn balls of yarn thrifted stuff for my stash you know and all that stuff so it's been pretty good I did a little bit of rearranging up here I think I mentioned that earlier I had some slow stitching stuff that could just patterns that didn't need to be in a bin so I put them somewhere else with the rest of my patterns actually and this is just applique fabrics fabrics with images on it like big flowers or birds or the bees will go in there whatever is left of the bees so I did that earlier today and I did something else but I don't remember what it is anyway it was pretty good I also did some closet cleaning downstairs found 3 more items I can do something with I also ordered some bins for sweaters gonna do a little bit of reorganizing in the closet so anyway it's been a good day Bob's exhausted he helped the kids with their construction project they're doing which at the moment they're getting it ready for the foundation so it involves a lot of digging yeah so he's exhausted he's downstairs he's taken some meds he's got a bad back but he helped anyway God bless him but you know yeah so anyway I'll leave any relevant links down below if you want to comment with any questions comments or concerns please do do so down there too and I do answer all my comments if you'd like to support the free content here on YouTube I do have a Patreon and it is listed in the video description and in my link to the list of links they have ready access to me in a private Facebook chat and if you do become a patron and you want to be part of that chat please message me and I'll add you I also post over there minimum once a month with monthly inspiration lists of words that they could maybe do some art with they get access to free stencils design images that I've been created some old some new I'm not cutting stencils anymore but I do share the images with them in case they want to create their own maybe they've got a Cricut or something like that so you get three a month and once you become a patron you have access to the current ones and all the past ones so yeah alright that's it for now I hope you guys have a great day and a great week and have a happy 4th of July it's 4th of July here in the United States and um yeah go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it don't forget to like share and subscribe I do appreciate that and I'll see you next week bye guys