 Sunday morning again. Oh, I take that back. It's Sunday afternoon. It's 1237. We slept in a bit because we're kind of on Hawaii time still, so but that's fine. I got the last little laundry and the dryer. Everything is put away. You can see we've got some left over water from the plants. We used three of these gallon bottles of water and the plants only used a half of it. So we're gonna use the rest of it to water some outdoor plants. We do have one that didn't quite make it. Maybe it'll come back. Anyway, so we've got everything all cleaned up. We are going to be heading out to the grocery store. Bob's taking a shower, and we've got to go run some errands. We don't have any food in the house, so we've got to take care of that. And I gained three pounds while I was gone, so bone broth for me for the next couple nights for dinner. Anyway, all right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. I'm just waiting for traffic to clear. I'm gonna go to the my doctor's office this morning. Hopefully get my staples removed. And then I've got to go pick up our mail, and I need to go run a couple of other errands. I already posted to Patreon this morning some vacation pictures. I have another special project I'm working on that the patrons will get for free. But it will be available for purchase in my Etsy shop. It is a digital download, so it'll only be a couple of bucks. But I did take some interesting sort of textural close-up shots of things while I was in Hawaii. That I think would make an interesting collection of stickers or backgrounds or something. And so I'm going to work on those. Sometime this week, hopefully today, I'd like to say today, but I have a lot of stuff to do. But sometime this week, I also, it is just before 10 a.m. Tuesday, October 4th. It was the first day since I hurt myself that I haven't had a hat or something on my head or my hair wrapped up in a ball to cover the wound or something. It's all scabbed over. According to the doctor, healing nicely, so we're all good. Anyway, I left the last of my friends know privately about said head wound. I've forgotten to message somebody and let her know. So we did that this morning. I'm going to, did you just hear the clanking? I have donations in the back of the car. So I'm going to go take care of that first. Then we have a bunch of random things. I think I can get all done at Target. And because I have to pick up medication there anyway. So I think I can do it all at once there. Get a big chunk of stuff off of my list done today. And then go home and do the rest of the list. And I got so much. Some more errands around today. I got my pill box refilled up for the month. Then realized I had to order one of my medications and I have just been at the pharmacy today. So now anyways, I guess I got to go back again in a day or two. Anyway, I also got some chores, chores done. I got trying to fix my thing. I got bread made, it's almost done. Too bad it's not smell of vision because you guys could smell it. It's the whole house smells like bread. I know, right? Got a birthday card from my friend who's coming out for a visit and a couple other things. The cleaning lady is here downstairs, our friend Lenny. She's here working and I got some unexpected purging done today after a really great chat with my cousin. I purged and cleaned out mediums, punches and embossing, punches, dies and embossing folders. Like, that was unexpected. I was able to consolidate some things, get some things out of the closed supply closet and put out on the floor out here over there, which is great. Now there's a pile in the big closet in the guest room that said friend who's coming for a visit and my sister will be here about the same time. They're gonna both need to go through and decide if there's any of it that they want and if they don't then it's gonna have to go. Alright, I'm gonna go back to trying to catch up on my soap opera and I don't know what else. Just sit and chill for a minute. I'll be back. So before we left, I ordered a tube of Holbein's watercolor in peach black, which I've never heard of before. So I got that before I left and then today when I was doing the purging, I got out my Daniel Smith Ivory black because I wanted to see what the difference between those two were and then I was like, what other blacks do I have? So I have a Windsor Newton black. I have a dot card from Daniel Smith that also has lamp black on it and lunar black. And then I have Payne's gray and indigo which is like a dark blue and Payne's gray is like a dark blue black and then neutral tint which is like a dark gray transparent like gray. I'm gonna do a comparison of them so I'm gonna work on that maybe tomorrow. I got everything gathered because yeah, I don't use a lot of black in my watercolor so I didn't have a lot of black but if the black is interesting enough, maybe I'll change that. Right? All right. We'll see. I'll be back. So I think I might be channeling my friend, Leslie McGrath and others of you who out there who like to make junk journals today, although I've made my fair share of journals in the past, usually they're not the junk journal type of journals. Usually it's something with my favorite kind of sketching paper because yeah, pretty picky. Anyway, I took all of my leftovers from my vacation. I made this little gem. I mean, it's very cute. So anyway, I'll put a couple of like pictures here. I don't know what got into me but there you go. Anyway, all right, I'll be back. Hey guys, it is Wednesday October 5th, I almost said 6th. It's 3 12 p.m. I spent the morning having a counseling session and then printing a bunch of photos from our Hawaii trip to put into the little junk journal I made yesterday. It took quite a few hours to get all the photos printed. And my paper for my little pocket photo printer is old and so it's not printing great quality full-color but you know what, they kind of look old and distressed and I'm going to just go with it. So anyway, I'll work on assembling that later in the week. I am just sitting here catching up on my soap opera and stuff like that and I'm just chilling out which is usually what I do some form of after I have counseling. I go on the sketchwalk, I just sit and veg in front of a tablet watching YouTube or something because my brain just can't go anywhere else. So anyway, we're going to go grocery shopping later because I think we're going to barbecue this weekend and we need a couple of things. I have more prescriptions to pick up but I don't want to do it right now so I'll probably do it in the morning after I have breakfast. And yeah, I don't think we're going to be up to too much today. I'm not even sure we're going to get walking in. I think the walking is going to be at the grocery store so that's that. All right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. Yes, I'm back in the car. I need to go pick up some more medication. It seems like I don't know why all our medications can't be ready at the same time but anyway, I think this is the third time this week I've been over to pick up medication at CVS. I don't know. Anyway, I'll be really careful with my hair not to yank on my scalp. Hashtag no more staples. Anyway, my head feels bruised. Hello. I mean, you know, but I'm not feeling lightheaded or incoherent or having a headache or nauseous or like any of those things. I haven't been ever since even right after the accident so there's that. I did have a counseling session yesterday and I realized during and after the session since the accident I'm having trouble sleeping again and I'm pretty sure it's trauma from the accident. I have snippets of memories of dreams of the accident that I think I'm dreaming about the accident. According to my counselor, that's totally normal and to be expected so I've just been practicing my breathing exercises that she's given me and that seems to help. So anyway, yeah, fun times. So we're going to go pick up the medication, get some steps in hopefully while we're out and I've got to put gas in the car. My sister comes into town tomorrow. My friend Leslie McGrath comes in Saturday morning and it's going to be a fun week I think. Just going a little bit of a walk before lunch. I haven't done a neighborhood walk since we got back from Hawaii. Not because of my head injury. Other than it feeling bruised, I feel fine. Oh a little tired but that's not because of the head injury because I'm not sleeping super well because of the trauma. I'm having nightmares about the accident to be frank and the time change doesn't help. So anyway, I haven't done a walk since we got back. Because of all of that plus there's just been too much to do but I have some time right now so I'm going to go take a walk. Bob has stuff to do after work today so he's actually not going to be able to go walking and I don't want to miss out on my steps. So we're going to go see what we can see. I didn't bring my sketchbook with me although I was tempted I think not today maybe tomorrow and for sure at least once while my friend Leslie McGrath is here and yeah let's go see what's going on in the neighborhood. I'll be back. And the squeaking is my new pair of shoes by the way. Anyway I have been doing a little bit of an experiment so I understand the appeal of peach black. So I told you all before I left for vacation I bought some Windsor Newton peach black and I was going to test it against at least a couple of other colors that I already had in my stash. I chose the Daniel Smith neutral tint which is like a transparent black gray and then ivory black which is another shade of black. I actually don't have that many blacks because I don't traditionally use black a lot. Ivory black is a very brownie black and it doesn't really necessarily appeal to me. I like peach black. I can see using it going forward. Hold on. This one is the neutral tint. This is the peach black and this is ivory black. I prefer and I don't know if you're going to be able to tell on camera the difference between the colors but this one's very yellowy brownie and this one's very bluey and cool. I do like this one a lot. I also took one of my water brushes. I have some water brushes I got off of Amazon. I was trying a new brand and it came with a couple of flat ones. This one which I haven't done anything to and then one that was wider. I took the wider one and I chopped up the end of the bristles. I rounded them just a little bit and then I chopped into them that way to just make them uneven and that gives you more of a fan brush look and I'm able to get these kind of textures which are very indicative of foliage and you can also get these by just swiping down which could be hair or fur or palm fronds which is totally what I wanted. Now I think I have another one of these white flat ones in my other case of brushes so I'm going to go dig it out and maybe I'll show you exactly how I did this because I can see wanting another one of these. This is great. Okay I'm going to repeat myself because I'm not sure I caught that on camera. So I do indeed have another white flat brush. This came as I said in a set and this is just an off-brand. I'll link both the ones I bought down below. This one is a Derwent. Now they both seem to work fine. I don't have a problem with either one. They don't seem to leak or anything like this. This one I took to Hawaii and it did just great. The only reason the Derwent aren't my favorite. I do love them and I'm a fan of Derwent products is they're expensive but they do have a flat and the Pentel which is my favorite because it's inexpensive. It does not have a big flat one like this. So what I did was I just rounded the tip of the bristles just a little bit with some sharp scissors. I found it was easiest to sort of splay the bristles out a little bit. Now the only difference in doing this between this and the other one is this one is wet because I've been using it. Like I said I brought this one with me to Hawaii. It doesn't have to be perfect because you want it to be uneven. So then we're going to go in at a slight angle. So I'm tilting the scissors that way. Then take a look at it. See what you think. And if there's any spots you feel like you missed or that need more texture, do it one more time. And you should end up with something like that. Let's switch you to this way. Use some of our leftover blacks over here. Get the bristles wet and see that's what you want. Yes you can probably get these with a plain flat brush but it's just a little easier to do if the ends of your bristles are not even and you get something that's a little more interesting. So anyway, I know I'm crazy. I'm aware. I spent most of yesterday afternoon printing photos from Hawaii to put into the junk journal I made. So we're going to sit and do that and I'm going to stick the photos in and I'm going to stick little pieces of journaling paper in and get that sort of all prepped to just sit down one evening and just do all the journaling. That's how I'm thinking I want to do it. But before I do that, I found two fortune cookie fortunes that were from right before we left like the night before I think. I smashed a penny while we were in Hawaii. A hula girl. I don't know if it's going to focus but anyway. And then I found a card from the ABC store and this is a scanner code from a fudge shop in Hawaii. Hawaii fudge on Maui. They had good food. All right so we're going to stick these in first. All right and I'm going to play some YouTube. Well not YouTube. I'm going to play some of my soap opera while I'm doing that. I'll set you guys down somewhere so you can see what I'm doing and let's just get it done. I'll be back. It's October 7 morning everybody. It is 9 55 a.m. Saturday October 8th and we are headed to the airport to pick my friend Leslie McGrath. My sister's here too and we have a few days with my sister here where we're planning on going for some walks, doing some creative stuff. Elizabeth my sister has a journal she needs me to work on for her and decorate and it ought to be a fun few days. Anyway let's start off by getting Leslie at the airport. Hey guys we are here. Look we are getting ready for no that's not all for us. Yeah we're eating eating and more eating. Beck and Paulias are coming over and I'm getting ready for the drinking as well. Yeah they're drinking for those who drink like not me but yeah. We've already done some art. We spent a bit of time in the art room just taught my sister how to distress paper. So fun and easy. I think she might be hooked. I don't know that that's a good thing or not. But yeah it was a fun project. Anyway we're looking forward to the week ahead. It's going to be a lot of fun. We're going to go to the Rose Garden tomorrow. We're going to go maybe to the Japanese Garden which is right there. We have a salvage place we're going to go to. It's going to be a lot of fun. So I'll be back. Kauai coconut. For those wondering we're doing some rum tasting. Rum from Maui. Shout out to Kolo. Yes we love you but I can't have you right now. Some in Oregon. That one smells nice. It smells really good doesn't it? This is pina colada right? Oh yeah. Oh my god. Is that good? Now I can drink that. Oh yeah. Absolutely. That is absolutely a pina colada. If we can get so when we lived in California we used to get the Bacardi mixes. We used to get the strawberry daiquiris and the chocolate. What's the other one? What did I just say? Pina colada. Pina colada. Yes. It was white. And I can't find the pina colada up here. I've looked in so many different places they don't have the pina colada. If you know where to buy a pina colada it makes the frozen stuff in Oregon. Let him know. It's frozen. It's in a can. It's like a juice can. Oh so this one ought to be interesting. This is Hawaiian kauai coffee. But it's in white and it says Bacardi pina coladas. And you open it up and it smells like coconut. I remember that. And it's delicious. You know you put it in a blender with some ice and rum. It's perfect. It's perfect. See Jim's not a coconut kind of guy so this would be like right up my alley. So this is kauai coffee, kawai rum. Oh you've been better. Oh this is good. Oh yeah. Oh this is good. Oh that would make a nice coffee drink. You can drink this on the rocks straight. I would drink coffee with that. Yeah. I was gonna drink again and have rum. This is a really good one. There's two in there. The hashtag not sponsored. But if you want to I'm available. If you make a nice coffee you put some of this in. This would be great. Oh yeah summer. Yep. You know it's 80 degrees outside maybe tonight. You put some of this in a nice coffee. It's in there for you. Absolutely. Hey we are out walking Leslie Bob and I and ending our evening with a walk with Lily. We have Lily for a couple hours and yeah it's been a good week. I can't wait for the upcoming week. Leslie's gonna stay for a week to visit. We're gonna do art and do some other stuff. So anyway I of course will film it what I can for the vlog. I hope and I know it's getting kind of dark you can't really see me sorry. Anyway I hope it's been a good one for you. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe. Don't forget to leave any questions, comments or concerns down below. The most important thing is stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.