 I think it's 7.30 a.m. Sunday, July 5th and I'm making my first cup of coffee, haven't had it yet. The security system goes off and it's a bambi crossing the driveway. That's a nice way to start the day I think. Do I either? I think it's a nice way to start the day. I'm gonna go have some coffee so I can speak a little more clearly maybe and be a little bit more awake hopefully. All right I'll be back. All right it's just after lunch which I haven't eaten yet so I still need to do that. I got everything done today that I usually do on Monday including my to-do list which is mostly done I think it's fairly short this week. I'm thinking I'm missing a whole bunch of stuff but I guess we'll see. The vlog is loading right now to air on Wednesday at the order just going in the mailbox. A bunch of chores done. I'm ready for the appliance delivery people tomorrow. I've got a dentist appointment early in the morning so hopefully they don't want to come when I'm supposed to be doing that. I don't really like going to the dentist every time I go now that I'm almost 60 they seem to find something else in my mouth and needs fixing so you know there's that. I know some of you feel my pain I know you do. Anyway we'll see what happens. Okay it's just a quiet Sunday I think I said that already. Anyway I had two small bottles of art resin that's the brand art resin brand resin. It's a low odor resin anyway I used them up you know I'm gonna use it or lose it kind of thing right. We're doing project pan art supply style was reminded by my friend Michelle Mitchell. Thank you Michelle. Anyway so I poured a second batch of little embellishments. We've got our first batch here that's dry so they are working. I do also have some easy mold so I think I'm going to try to make a resin mold of buttons and see how that works rather than buying a mold. I'm gonna see if I can make mold. I have plenty of molding compound the two-part molding compound and I got a giant box of buttons let's be honest so I'm gonna do that and we're gonna let that dry and then I will be back. So we're next to the woods in case you all didn't know that and we get these striped garter snakes in the yard sometimes they're yellow striped like this one sometimes they're red uh they like the barbecue and they like the pond right now he's not too happy with me because I'm trying to get his picture I don't know there he is it's funny enough I'm not that scared of snakes as long as they ain't rattling I'm not scared it's not a rattler I know that that's my point anyway we're gonna leave him in peace I don't have any problem with him as long as he stays outside they eat bugs yeah they eat bugs he can eat the spiders I'm good with that I think there's one on the wall that might be what he's after good morning people we are in the car it's 741 a.m monday july 6th and I have a dentist appointment so we're gonna head out to do that and then the new washer and dryer come later today am I nervous about the dentist yeah COVID-19 hello and also you know every time I go now like I said before you know they find something new to fix so that's a thing anyway let's go get it done I'll be back okay let's mask up and go in get our temperature checked then at some point I guess we have to take this off because I have to clean my teeth but I don't know how this is going to go I'll let you know I'll be back so I'm all done I got my cleaning I do have to come back Wednesday because I have two fillings at night repaired one of my newer fillings and next to it a tooth with an older filling so they're going to repair both of them and um stabilize the fillings which hopefully will mean that I don't need to have um guess we don't you know get infections in the teeth and all of that stuff so let's fix the fillings yeah I'll be back Wednesday okay it's just turning out to be a weird Monday it's not a bad Monday it's just a weird Monday the dentist didn't go too badly I do have two fillings that need fixing I'm going to go back Wednesday for that um one tooth is probably going to eventually need to be crowned but you know let's try to fix them first and not like have to have a root canal because you know been there done that once and yeah anyway um then I came home and I um been doing some purging of embossing powder and glitter my little box down there I see that it is full including a Tupperware container of UTE I just I don't use it anymore to be honest people like rarely do I emboss anything and when I do I don't use UTE description um and then I got an email from Samsung part the Samsung parts people which are refrigerators of Samsung the lid on one of the um pull out bins broke and so we ordered a new one I ordered it I received it we installed it it's all good that was like two weeks ago I just got an email they're sending me another one yeah so that's weird using up some resin and some of the glitter before I put it in the purge box to do a rainbow tumbler that's coat number one of the glitter and glue I didn't do a base layer of paint on it um this time I think the last two times I did I did do a base layer of paint acrylic paint in the same rainbow colors this time I didn't bother so we'll see how it turns out I don't know I'm gonna let it dry overnight and then I'll put some more glue and more glitter and do two layers of glitter and then it will do some resin so we'll all see it's an experiment I had the stuff we might as well try it right um got the uh final coat on that oops where are we where is it there there it is final coat on that tumbler right there that needed to be fixed because I had a crack I needed to put one more coat on it so it's spinning and drying and I've got some don't want to make y'all dizzy on the ironing board I've got some more resin stuff I made a mold last night of some buttons so we're trying making resin buttons I have a little bit of resin left probably enough to do maybe one more set of buttons and or the tumbler probably not both um so we'll see how those buttons turn out and then we'll work on the tumbler I'm not gonna buy any more resin right now because I'm not using it and it's turning yellow before I'm having a chance so I do have some UV resin down there um I don't know if it's good or not or if it's dried up in the bottle I guess we'll find out at some point when I get to there I was able to sorry you're gonna get dizzy again purge enough that that little space right there under this shelf had stuff in it under it and it was yeah anyway it's empty now I'm gonna leave gotta leave it that way I like it empty so anyway it's all good but you know I've got too much stuff and it's got to go all right I'll be back it is Monday five oh five I wow what is with my hair um I am obviously in the kitchen and I am working on some homemade chicken pot pies and got it going over there years and years ago like in this day in here 2012 a very good friend of mine and former boss Cindy Simmons um and her boyfriend then boyfriend then now husband gave me a Wolfgang puck well pie and pastry baker and I haven't used it as much as I would like over the years but when we moved I fully intended to use it a lot more and so I pulled it out today oh quiche oh I love quiche um and there's some recipes in it and things I'm using the chicken pot pie recipe that's in it um with my own feeling I had some leftover barbecue chicken some potato some rice some peas shallots arugula homemade chicken broth garlic salt garlic pepper I think that's all it's in there and then I just heated it up until things were re-heated and cooked and not frozen and all of that stuff and that's that's it kind of looks like dog food but trust me it tastes really good um I just um cooked that up and I'm using that for filling and uh yeah they're gonna be very good I do have this little teeny tiny piece of pie crust left so I'm gonna see at the end if it'll let me just cook a little piece of pie crust anyway I think we're gonna go walking I'm also watching on YouTube I turned her off so because I was gonna do this and say I'm watching costuming drama on YouTube and um I'm so tempted to message her and tell her I know exactly where her p p o box is because it was walking distance from my old house but I don't want to scare her and be a stalker fan so but anyway she is a really talented seamstress and costume maker and I'm watching her video on sewing regency short stays part two I don't make costumes that much anymore but it is fascinating and I like to I like sewing so as much as painting watercolor it makes media so there you go all right that's it for the moment I'll be back all right so we're headed out for a walk I've got my mask just in case I got eight little pot pies out of a bag of leftovers some peas and random things and the pie dough that I had no I didn't make the pie dough miss Pillsbury help me because you know she's she's better at it than I am so anyway they turned out pretty good um anyway we're gonna go get some steps in before we chow down on pot pie and uh yeah we'll be back hey guys so if you're watching this clip you've seen the clip of me doing some more purging and filling up two more mystery boxes I will have details in the Etsy listings for the two mystery boxes in in each individual listing with a generalization of what's in the boxes but one is full mostly of glitter and embossing powders and the other one has like stickers and salvage and scrapbook and paper basically there's a little bit of other things in each box but basically that's what's in them um anyway hello it's Tuesday afternoon I almost said morning uh July 7th I think um almost said January so you know corona brain I wish I could blame that on that but I've never been good with dates you all know that um anyway so I got the purging done this morning I wanted I moved things around a little bit in the art room I got a second coat on the rainbow glitter tumbler that I'm working on and um I got all the social media checked up on I've had lunch already mail came like it's been good so far so we're gonna go back upstairs and check on things a little bit maybe do some stitching and yeah see what else we can get up to I'll be back okay that was interesting so we did a test of YouTube live and that was successful I changed out a couple of cables so that I can move the webcam and microphone from here over to there for live streams which we will start doing soon maybe once a week I'm not going to commit to that right now but I will be putting out a schedule soon um I got another coat of glitter and then a final coat of glossy mod podge or deco page on the rainbow cup so now it's just gotta dry and then I'm gonna let it dry overnight really good and then I'm gonna put it on the turner and we'll um use up probably most of the rest of the resin if not all of the rest of the resin covering the cup um if there's any leftover I'm gonna leave the button mold out and I'll make some more buttons I did find this I'm not exactly sure what it is pencil shavings or crushed rocks or I'm not actually quite sure so if we have any resin left then I'll put it in some resin and make buttons out of it I'm not actually what I don't know what it is so it might be crushed rocks because I know I crushed a lava rock a lot back to add to some paint made it a real pretty red color by the way um I think that's it for the moment I'm gonna plug my mouse in because it's gotta be charged and I think I'm gonna go downstairs I might start stitching that stupid bunny project that's down there it's a Christmas bunny I'm not super excited about doing it can you tell but it's gotta get done so all right I'll be all right husband's headed to the gym I'm headed for a walk I'll see what I can see and get some pictures along the way there's some exciting stuff coming up but I'll talk about it okay so two things well a few things I forgot a mask but hopefully I can stay away from people so it's not an issue um so I had a choice between not having a website anymore at all going forward or moving the site to a free post um because my old well current website is an online store which I'm not using it that way it's expensive I everything's over at Etsy Etsy's easy it's not cheap but it's easy and I'd rather be easy so um take that how you want I don't know so my daughter who does graphic design and all that stuff is going to be helping me move the site over so at some point you'll see uh when you go to the website coming soon picture you'll notice a little bit different domain name it's we're going back to my old domain name which is just my name so I'll be changing it everywhere and we're going to be consolidating I think some of the Facebook art groups at the end of the year I'm still going to be doing daily monthly prompts and things but we're going to be changing it up and doing it differently maybe new people coming on board we'll see and I'm going to go back to doing some live broadcasts we did a test today so you know in the meantime I need to go get some steps in and I have a dental appointment tomorrow to get the two fillings fixed hopefully that goes well and uh yeah one thing at a time right all right I'll see you guys good morning it is Wednesday morning July 8th I only know that because I'm headed to the dentist I have to drop off an Etsy order first and then afterwards if I'm not feeling too much like crap I've got it I need to go to Rite Aid so I've got a mask in the car a hand sanitizer and all that stuff so yeah thank you Terry for the Etsy order this morning that was great it was a decent size Etsy order I put a couple extra bonus things in there some of which I always put in the box if you've ordered for me you know what I'm talking about and then one sort of little extra bonus thing I'm putting in with people who are ordering scrap packs from me and Terry did that so in fact I've got to make some more of what it is so anyway I'm not going to give it away but okay so the good news is they were able to fix the two fillings in my mouth and as you can tell my mouth is my face is like all numb the bad news is if I have any more symptoms in those two teeth then I'm going to need two more crowns and a root canal fun times huh all right I'm going to go get some errands done and then go home and I can't eat anything till this all wears off and so yeah all right I'll be back hey guys what a day it has been so it is a gorgeous blue sky day out my jaw hurts from the dental work I had done earlier I'm hoping these fillings work we can put off a little longer crowning and or root canaling the two teeth or one tooth well there's two teeth but anyway we'll get into that we're going to go for a walk right now uh it's a little bit late to be doing this means we're going to be eating dinner late but again my jaw hurts I might be eating scrambled eggs because yeah so we're going to go walking and see what we can see and I'll bring you with us and I'll try to capture pictures of wildlife but y'all know I'm stuck at that so we'll find out what happens I'll be back I don't think I vlogged all day it's 5 31 p.m on Thursday we're getting ready to go to the grocery store they're spread and so yeah I was chatting with my friend lisa swank and yeah it's been a good afternoon my teeth feel great by the way my jaw is not sore anymore and I've switched my skincare up a little bit and I'm using all cd fill products um things that are very gentle and not going to irritate your skin and this is already looking better already so anyway we're going to head over to the grocery store and try to get our shopping done and hopefully it's not too people-y but I guess we'll find out anyway get into the house for a little bit and have it not involve the doctor's office I'm all for that all right I'll be back we're getting ready to leave I'm waiting on Fred and look who's in the driveway Bambi came for lunch hang on Bambi's eating my bushes again tank nabbit the corn bowl's probably empty she is a bit bothered by the fact that we walked out the front door and got in the car I think her only question is where's my corn so maybe when we get home we need to fill the corn bowls yeah okay all right we'll be back good morning everybody it's Friday morning July 10th it is my friend Mike deacon's birthday my happy birthday um I'm obviously in the car you know it's never really good when you have to do a three-point turn you get out of your own driveway that's what happens when my husband parks my car in the garage anyway um headed out to mail off some etsy orders I've got to check on the p.o. box you know sometimes the day starts out all right but then it turns out it sucks partially my own fault though for speaking up in a situation with my family not my husband and daughter they're fine um that I knew wasn't gonna probably ultimately do any good so what was the point but I did anyway it is what it is so you know anyway I got an etsy order in so we just dropped it off it'll get picked up tomorrow kids are coming for dinner I think we're barbecuing chicken it's a beautiful blue sky out and I don't know if we're gonna go for a walk later or not I hope so and yeah we'll try to be better about today right all right I'll be happy Saturday it is Saturday July 11th 207 pm according to the computer I'm transferring some video clips from um the cloud from my phone basically to a file in one of my external hard drives for all of the 30 and 30 paintings because there are a couple of them for the patrons over on Patreon that I've screwed up the editing for and if you're one of you are watching this I'm sorry I fixed them as soon as one of you all let me know um thank goodness I saved all the clips but I'm gonna be taking them off my phone because that just seems way too dangerous to me and then as soon as I get all the files transferred the clips I will check all the remaining videos before Monday so the next day or two if there's any issues with those videos you all let me know um anyway so I'm gonna check all the videos before Monday I'm gonna start filming the final few um videos maybe this afternoon I'm not actually sure I am all set up back there set up kind of the table yeah I'm set up tables and mess again dying more fabric um oh I want to show you all so I've been practicing with dying fabric and slow stitching bits with things I have already or things that are cheap right cheap or free now I did do green with some we talked about this I did it with some leftover inks that I had acrylic inks mostly and um that worked really well this you see that that's turmeric from the spice aisle at the grocery store you could just pick up turmeric like at your local dollar store if they have it there and look at that color now I put it into a large I have a couple of these large jars this is the one that I'm using here it was filled to about here with water and then I put a bunch of white vinegar in it and some alum mixed all of that together then added a whole bunch of turmeric and then mix that all together and then I just shove I just shove the bits into the jar and I leave it sit for at least 24 hours that was only sitting for a day that first batch that's over there that was just sitting for a day um and that's the color I got so yay um it's drying it'll lighten up a bit as it dries and change color a little bit as it dries um but yeah I'm super happy this is some coffee fabric so yeah it's pretty cool I'm gonna be looking for a DIY for blue dye next and I was doing some internet search and some but one internet site said black beans will dye things blue really I might have to try that if you all have any tips or tricks or things that will dye certain things certain colors that are cheap or free like organic kind of things not chemicals like food or plant material let me know anyway coffee does this really nice brown coffee or tea and depending on how strong the coffee how is how darker brown this pink color that you see is the chamelea flower dye that we've done I didn't soak these in here as long as some of the other so they didn't come out as pink um with the chamelea flowers the longer you leave it in there the pinker it'll get when it's fully dry it's about like this like it's really pretty sort of dusty pink color um and then the coffee and then the turmeric hello yeah that's great so anyway yeah that's what I'm up to today I am currently transferring all those files and then we'll see where I get with that oh and Bob has got to make more wooden spools for you all because I think I only have one left in the etsy store or and I have somebody who wants a whole bunch of them so he's off at the hardware store buying wood it's not one thing it's 10 right all right I'll be back to close this week's vlog last night so here we go I hope you've had a great week it's been an interesting one the more the apocalypse drags on the stranger the weeks get the more stressful certain things get um as you all know because I said in the vlog I had some dental work done this week and hopefully what they worked what they did works for a little bit at least I'm probably going to need to crown both teeth and and root canal maybe one of them I'm hoping to put it off a little bit and if I do have it done I'll probably do like I did last time right before the apocalypse happened and try to get him to do both teeth at once and just go in and do it one and done rather than each tooth on a separate day yeah anyway I hope you've had a good one it's been fun um don't forget to like share and subscribe support the free content if you can there's a bunch of different ways in the description below you can shop in my etsy shop you can support me over on patreon there's free content for patrons over there a bunch of different things so check it out and your other favorite content creators here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups I'm sure most of them that I know of all have ways to support them so check out their video descriptions and if you can't figure 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