 I'm trying to turn the sound off people. Hello. I don't want to hear myself talk. All right, hopefully some of you are there. I think I'll be able to see the chit chat maybe. Hello. Yes, I'm still sick before anybody asks, but I really wanted to be on at the end of the month and do this. So here we are. My desk is still kind of a mess. Hey, Kathy. I wanted to share some stuff with you. Hey, Jerry, and kind of show you guys some of the stuff, a little bit of the stuff that I brought back from DHA. I'm not going to show everything all at once, but we're going to go over this pile first. My desk is a disaster. So you know, if you've watched my CHA video, you've been following me on social media. This is something you already know about me, unless I'm sick. Like, right now, I do art all the time. It's my way of dealing with life in general and things. So CHA was no different. I just made more art than normal than I normally would have when I was away from home. And again, if I sound funny, it's because I'm sick. I came home with whatever flu or bronchitisy thing is going around right now. And I just ate a cough drop so that I don't cough and like hack stuff up on camera because that's just going to be super attractive. One of the days that Cindy and I were in Phoenix, we had some time to ourselves and we, one of the things she and I love to do when we're on vacation is go visit the local arts and craft stores. Maybe one of the big chains, if we can, especially the mom and pops, which we did, Arizona art supply. If you have a chance to go there while you're in Arizona, two thumbs up, really nice guys, really cute little store. Prices were really decent. I did get a few things from them. I think a lot, but I did get a few things. It was a really nice store. So thanks, Ambex Creations. I'm hoping it's been a week and I'm still like dragging. But we also went to Michaels and I picked up the new collection of, where did I put them? Recollections has a new watercolor crayon set. Similar to the one they had last year, different colors. These are all metallic, I believe. Well, I think the other ones are too, but they're different colors. And again, I sound funny. I know I sound funny. And I sound out of it because I'm sick. And I'm just dropping stuff all over the floor. Did you hear that? Okay. So this is the collection they came out with last year of crayons. And these are the ones they came out with this year. The colors are a little different. The one that I knew when I saw it or two that were the same or the pink and the white. And I knew they were at least probably pretty close. And I actually haven't pulled these out to compare because, you know, I'm sick. Yeah, I sound sick. So here is the old pink and here's the new one. There is a little bit of a color difference. And they have white, which I can't imagine the white is that different. Okay, I'm glad that's I just sound sick. And then they have this like peachy flesh tone, sort of a gray or blue, a green and a purple. I really liked it. I like these crayons. They're fun to use. So of course I had to get it. It wasn't expensive. And I had a coupon. And this is me sounding better than I did, by the way. So of course, while we were at lunch at CHA later that day, I still had my crayons with me because we went right from Michael's to CHA. So I was bored and I was opening up some stuff that I bought. And this was the back of a piece of packaging from the Jane Davenport little head to have it, right? The little pouch. So I was just playing and I was goofing around. And of course I drew this little face. That's one of the little pieces of artwork that I made while I was there. There we go. So she was just quick, like a two minute face. They are like gelatos. They do, you can see smudge. I didn't have any, you know, water with me. I just had iced tea. I didn't really want to stick my finger in my iced tea. But they do smudge and work very similarly to gelatos. And they are a watercolor gel crayon. So they should dissolve decently in water. The original set at least did. These were some things that I did right before I left for CHA. This is Tyvek painted with Tattered Angels Hight Impact Paint, melted and then sprayed with Tattered Angels Sprays. And they just, it makes this fun texture. And I'll be hopefully using these in some future art. But these were actually, some of these were on display in the booth. They used some of them for display. That's why it's in this pile because I haven't put stuff away yet. A little bit of it. And these, by the way, and these are really affordable. This original set I think was Canadian 24.99. That's not how much it was in the U.S. And you can use a 40% off coupon. This set I don't think they have any more, but they do still have this one. You have to go to one of the bigger stores. Not bigger, higher volume stores to find this. I have a couple of stores that are super close to my house. I've got like six or eight of them in my general area, but the smaller volume store didn't have these, the bigger volume store did. So you know what? The part number is the U, let's see. Item number. I have the UPC number. If you call the Michaels.com 800 number, you could probably give them this UPC number and have them look it up. The UPC number is 886946170102 and have them see if they can find it. They should be able to find it at a store, tell you which store local to you actually has them in stock. Again, I was at the Phoenix. I was in Phoenix, Arizona when I bought these. The store that's on Camelback Road had them. And it was a really nice store actually. Try and pick up off the floor. My oil pastel dumped all over the floor. Okay. SQ number is at the top of the UPC. Is it the really long one or the short one at Bex Creations? There's a short number that's 501101. That's to the left. So the SQ number is 501101. And if you call the Michaels 800 number on from their website, I know for a fact, because I've done it before, they can tell you what store near you has them in stock. On this one is 463351. Again, they're super affordable, easy to get, nice colors. They do dissolve nicely in water and you can use a coupon. So 40% off. Here I go with a coffee and a leek cow. All right. So this is some of the artwork we did in the booth at Creativation in the CanvasCorp booth. And we got to play with the CanvasCorp supplies and create and showcase how some of their products could be used, new and old, and also work with customers and encourage them to also play. I'm going to hold on and see if I can get my resolution to be better. Hey, Amy, how are you? I'm going to zoom in just a little bit. Okay. I haven't gone live since the new year because we are still waiting on utility work from AT&T. What should have taken two weeks so far has been a month. So I don't know how this is going to work. I have done a video on the original big set of Recollections crayons, but it's been a while, and I haven't done one yet with the new ones. I will be working with them in the future, but not yet. I'm recovering. I'm sick. Yeah, it's a bit fuzzy on this end, too, and now my thing is thinking. Okay. So these were made with bits and pieces from the CanvasCorp booth. This is actually product packaging from their new Recollections line, and the back of the packaging is just as interesting, if not more so, than the product itself. I'll show you a sample of what that product is exactly. I have a little piece of burlap, and this is from one of the Tattered Angels little packs of coloring embellishments, a quote from, again, the inside of some of their other packaging. The painted papers that are stapled on here are actually were gifted from Carolyn Duby. I have that basket. Wait, okay. The Recollections are their newest line of stickers and embellishments, and they come packaged like this, and they have your standard embellishments like this dress form that you can use. It's basically a dimensional sticker, and you can use the dress form. You can also use the border around the dress form, and the product packaging in the back is printed so that you can use the packaging both front and then there's things printed on the back that you can cut out and use or use it in whole. It's probably the internet connection. We are working on a temporary line that's supposed to be high speed, but you know how that goes, you guys. This is probably the best I can do. They have a lot of different designs and high Travis. They have a lot of different designs, and these were some of our favorites. These were packs of just basically textures and borders and backgrounds, and all different ones. This is one that I have, and you can use them as they are. You can cut them up. You can also die cut them, and then of course the product packaging is always printed in a way that you can use the whole thing, which I love that. These are one of the things we were showcasing while we were there. They're called, again, architectures. They have these stickers. I can't get that back in right now. That's just not going to happen. They have stickers. They have paper and a bunch of things. These were created with some of those. They also have this really great watercolor paper that's not super new. I didn't know about it. It's got a really high cotton content. It's really nice paper. You literally can get it wet, crumple it in a ball, flatten it back out, and it doesn't rip or tear. It doesn't warp when you work with it as it's drying. If you don't get it too wet, the watercolor doesn't bleed through. We will be doing some practice things with this in upcoming watercolor Wednesdays. This is just a little piece of one. We had these little square samples out. This is one of the little square samples we had that I painted. I was practicing with some Daniel Smith watercolors on it to see how they would react to the paper. By the way, they did fabulously. Yes, I did a Tyvek video. I'm not sure if it's aired yet, Jerry. If you search my channel and see if it's not out yet, then it's coming. I did it before I left. We have the little square of the paper that was just a little sampled again that I'd played with, some product packaging, some cardboard, really trash, a piece of canvas and a piece of burlap. I made this really cute thing that was on display in the booth. Here's some more. All done in a similar way. We had very limited supplies. We were really working with what we had. This is one of the architecture's pieces here in the corner. It was a lot of fun to kind of challenge ourselves. We didn't have a lot in the way of glue or tape or really or anything, not even lots of pairs of scissors. We did discover some new products that we really love. Again, these are just made from found objects, trash, although I did get in trouble for calling it trash. It's art made from trash. Just some really fun, interesting pieces that I really like that I think really say some really fun, profound in some ways things, let the magic of art still surprise you. I love that. Really, it's just made out of bits and pieces that we have laying on the table. Here's another one. Now, these pieces here collage down, but these are actually their new collection of rub-ons. Some of the quotes that I've used are from the inside of the packaging of the rub-ons. They are huge. They look like a piece of tissue paper. They are super easy to use. You can use them as a rub-on or you can also obviously collage them down. Fabulous stuff. I can't wait to add them to my stash. I'm not saying this because I'm on the design team, guys. If I didn't like the products, I wouldn't be sharing them with you. You all should know that by now. If I'm not happy with something, I will just tell you. Hey, Lisa. This is another one that I did with the Daniel Smith watercolors. I really was intrigued by this paper and trying to watercolor on this paper. I was trying the Tattered Angel Sprays and Daniel Smith watercolors and things. I really wanted to see how they would react to this paper. Then once I did a few of these samples, I'm like, okay, now I need to make something with them. Here's a double-sided, really large tag that I made again with bits and pieces that were on the table. Can you all see? I know the picture is not as clear as it should be, but can you all see this little bit of stuff right here? That is some of their architectures. Yeah, I know it's blurry and I don't know why it's blurry. It's very weird. Let's see. It's probably the internet connection. Did that help at all? Let's see. We have a little bit of a delay. That didn't help. I think it's the internet connection. I'm working with a temporary cabling outside. I don't know. I even tested. If you tap on your screen, you go to the three dots that show up in the upper left corner and you tap on the highest resolution it'll let you, then it should improve the quality. Facebook Live does sometimes work better. YouTube Live is just funny sometimes. So this is a double-sided tag I made. In the middle is a piece of ugly product packaging. I think it was from one of the tapes that we were using to stiffen it and then I covered it with burlap and then I used, again, just bits and pieces that we had on the table. Yeah, it's probably on my end, Jerry. It's probably the wiring, I'm telling you. This is why I haven't done live, you guys. This is a big one I did. Now, this paper here in the background, this is Carolyn Duby. She gifted us a few pieces of paper, so I really wanted to use one. This is what I did with it. It says, Go on an adventure, which I love. I use some of the architectures. They have this new one that's just chicken wire. I know, right? I know it's a bit blurry, you guys, and I'm sorry about that. Again, we're working on a temporary internet wire. And yeah, this is, you've got a clear visual. So yay, somebody's got clear. I think it has to do with storms and internet connections. So we're going to, you know, I don't know, we're going to work with what we can do. But this is just a piece of, this is literally, look, it's a piece of trash, you guys. And then I layered, there's a piece of canvas back here. Can you see that? And I got it wet in the bathroom sink. And then I sprayed it with a bunch of touted angels to distress it and make it antique looking. And I have the autofocus on, so it's going to go in and out a little bit. This piece of jelly printed paper is from Carolyn Duby. And by the way, she's as nice in person as she is on camera, just so that you know. So if you have a chance to meet her in person, I would go for it. I'm going to catch up on the comments in just a minute. This is a piece of the architecture's product packaging. This and the chicken wire are part of the architecture's line of new stickers. This is some from their embellishment paper pack. And then this is their rub-on. There's a piece of architecture's back here. I don't think you're going to really see too much on camera. And then some burlap. And look at the fun piece of art that I made with it. And really, we had like no glue or anything. We had, Beacons has a new to me glue out. I don't know if it's new to them. It's called Beacons. If you know, if you've been doing Mix Media for a while, has a really great glue called 3-in-1. The problem is, it's super thick and super snotty. And Shannon Green, who I met at CHA in person, finally, calls it what did she call it? Mucous looks like mucus. I don't know. It was really gross the way she described it. They have a new one called Mix Media Glue. And it's less mucusy, but works just as well. And I used that on this. I really like it. It works super, super well. And this is just with Mix Media Beacons glue and staples, honestly. And GlueDots has these new, look at these tape runners from GlueDots. These put little glue squares on there. And then I have this one, which actually I didn't use. This says super strength glue dots. And I do think it's dots. It's either dots or tape runner. No, it's tape runner. They were so generous. They sent me home with tape to use on camera for you guys. And look at all the stuff they sent me home with. We'll move the art out of the way. So they sent me home with all these tape runners. And look at all these glue dots. So the GlueDots guys were a couple booths away from us. Super nice guys. And again, really, I really liked the little glue squares runner. So if you have a chance to go pick one up and try it, you know, we only have like this, the three and one, the beacon glue and a stapler. That was all we had. And that's what we made that stuff with. I'm not going to go too far with the GlueDots stuff, because I might need it. All right. So, yeah, so switch to the highest resolution you can at Vexen. And hopefully that clears up some of the visuals for people. I do have the autofocus on to try to give you guys as good of a picture as I can, so it may go in and out a little bit. And thank you, Barbara. I'm actually not feeling that much better, but my head feels less like it's going to explode today. So, but I'm coughing a lot without medication. So, and the chicken wire art journal guy, the chicken wire was one of our favorites, just FYI, we love the chicken wire. It was everybody's favorite, the chicken wire and the dress form. And again, they look like this when you get them. The chicken wire actually comes on a big sheet. And they have lots of vintage designs. And they have these, you know, these packs of textured backgrounds. And there's a lot of different designs. They will be hitting the store soon and the website soon. So look for them. I think you guys are going to like them. Again, I wouldn't tell you about them at all if I didn't like them. But I do. Yeah, so Shannon Green is just as funny in person as she is online, just FYI. She's pretty funny. But Cindy, Utter and I showed up for CHA. And I think the whole crew was already was sick. And this cold thing, as you all probably know, is going around everywhere nationwide, if not worldwide. And it's pretty bad. I went to the doctor yesterday and half the people in the doctor's office had it or had had it. So it's yeah, pretty bad. Sorry, I'm going to try not to do too much of that on camera. Yeah, I'm not I'm not better. I started taking some antibiotics and stuff yesterday. Okay, so this is my January journal, which, you know, Cindy, Utter, good friend of mine, who was there with me as CHA, she's so funny. She says, honey, you need to just not carry so many months around with you in your book. Because literally when I came home, my book looked like this. It was pretty fat. So I need to only carry one or two months around with me because it gets to be too big. But this is January and it's just about finished. I put a pocket here in the front so that in the pocket, I could put, you know, business cards to things or people or places that I ran across things that I made, things that people gave me my art snacks bookmark and I could stick them here. I put in some pictures, pictures, pictures. And this is so this is how it turned out for the month. Let me just do it a little flip through different things like our word for the month. And, you know, places that my husband and I went to go eat. And I when we go out for Chinese food, I always save the fortunes and stick them in here. I know I'm probably not the only one that does that, right? I really don't document every single thing that happens to me in my life during the month. I only document the important things. Close family and friends, birthdays, new years, the trip of course to Phoenix and CHA. And then this is, we tried to talk our friend Aaron Blazovich. If you don't know who he is, he's from the channel Imperfect Impulses into coming with us, but he couldn't. He had to work. So he sent me a sad, Cindy and I a sad face. So then we sent him a sad face. So, you know, and then my luggage, when I arrived, had this weird caution when lifting tag on it, but it didn't appear to have been searched or anything. It just had caution when lifting, but then the belly band on it was loose and there was something missing out of my case. So, but there was no like we searched your case, your case tag inside the, I don't know, it was very weird. Hey, Katana, this was the genius. We're inside the box of my new mood cards that I got for the show, which are a small mini business card. And some of you who order for me for my Etsy shop will be getting some of them in your, in your packages going forward. Yeah, we love Aaron. He, by the way, he's another one as nice in person as he is on camera. Love him. This is a postcard from Dina Wakeley. Yes, I saw her at the show. Some really great street art we had to stop and take a picture of and of course journaling in all the nooks and crannies. This is Dina Wakeley's business card. This is the rest of this part actually looks like this. I don't know. Can you even see all that on camera? Oops. Let's go that way. So this is, this is the rest of it. And I really, I just spent some time cutting out like the creativity from one of the, you know, flyers they gave away. And this is a strip from my luggage pictures using my small mini printer, things like that. It's nothing complicated. It doesn't have to be complicated. And oops, this is the little folder that your room key comes in. And then I put it in here. I put some stickers on it and I put some more of the business cards that I acquired while I was there. Arizona Art Supply, again, love that place. We went to the one, I think on 16th Street. Great place. This is Wands, which we ate out while we were there. I had decent Mexican food. It was pretty funny that all the East Coasters were like just dying over the Mexican food. Oh, Gitana, no worries. I, you know, if and when I ever move is going to be a huge deal. I understand completely because I haven't moved in over 20 years. So that's just very stressful. This is Tim Holtz little card that says Tim Holtz alterations on it. This his cityscape bit here was actually at the top of the Ranger booth. It was part of their booth. And this little blurb was in the magazine about creativity. So I put it in here and I backed it with the architectures postcard that we were handing out at the show that had a free gypsies, seven gypsies wagon sticker attached to it that we were giving out to people to bring them and encourage them to come over to the booth and look around. This is the Creativation Map. I saved the show map and stuck it in here and has a list of all the vendors that were there. And these are all the booths and Canvas Corp was in the back by the bathroom. There's our booth number 1769. Right there. So I put this in here. I saved it. I want to save it in here. So let's put it back. Okay. And then put these down. There we go. And then in the back here, I put some pictures of some people that I met while I was there, including Carolyn Dooby, Andina Wakeley, my new friend Lena Holmstrom from Finland, and Chelsea, really nice ladies, by the way. And I left a little bit here blank to do some journaling with on the last day, which we're going to do today. And again, I took it out of here because this is just way too big. And we'll start February tomorrow. I'm going to put this on my table. My room is a mess. Okay. I've got a few leftover travel sticky luggage things. Now these are stick basically stickers. So I don't usually throw these away. I usually save them. And if I can't use them right away, I put them kind of in my scrap bin to use later. I love the barcodes and that kind of thing on them. I just dumped my scrap bin on the floor. Okay. So let's do some journaling right here. I know. Dina Wakeley was so nice. She had this cold during the show. The poor thing lost her voice after the first day, I think. So I'm going to do some quick journaling right here. Okay. So now it's all done. And now it can be put in its storage binder. And if you missed any of my setup videos, they're all here on YouTube. And if you want the link to all of these setup videos for my year 2017, they're in the Facebook group. So go over to the Facebook group and join up. And ooh, why is it not in the description? It's not in the description on this video. Oops. So the Facebook group is called My Year 2017. And if you use the hashtag that's in the title of this video, you'll find the setup videos. And I know the link to the Facebook group is in the setup videos. I will put it here after we're done broadcasting live. So oh, yeah, picky. So if you're seeing the recording of this, look in the description. Told you my desk was a mess. Okay, let's get this off my hands. Maybe. I don't know if that was from the pen or something else. I touched something that was black. Oh, no, of course, it doesn't want to come off my skin. All right, that's all right. So I want to decorate the cover of this before I do anything else. I have these rub-ons I want to kind of want to use. I picked these up before, way before Christmas. A long time ago, I think I got them at Hobby Lobby. But they're like these copper colored stickers. Of course, I can't get it open. Does anybody have any questions about the My Year program if you're doing the My Year program? Something I've learned from, and I knew this before I went to CHA, but it just got emphasized at CHA. Don't throw the package away. You know, make yourself a spot in your art room to save a certain amount of packaging. When that gets full, then use it up before you save any more. You know, don't go crazy, but you know, look at this nice piece of chipboard. It would make a nice tag or a base or something. So I'm not going to throw it away. But see, I have these really great, yeah, they're rub-ons. So I want to put some of them on the journal cover. I also think this is from some washi tape I picked up actually today. Today? No, not today. The other day that I didn't really need from Michael's. And I really like the packaging is cute. So I'm thinking I might want to use this on here. If not, I'm going to save it for something else. It's not set up how you want, Jerry. Mine's pretty good. So first thing we're going to do is we're going to take some of these rub-ons and let's let's put some of these on here. I need something to rub them on with. Let's see. I need a stick. I need a stick and a stick. Aha. So let's see. I don't have any idea how these work. If they're going to work well or not, I don't know. Oh, easily. Well, let's just do the whole sheet. I don't know. Because it seems to want to stick down. These are going down really easy. I'm going to tell you guys. Well, not that one. Now that I said that. Now that I said that one didn't want to go down. Yeah, there we go. That was easy peasy. I've been squeezy. You know, I kind of want to put the other sheet on the back side. So my journals for my year always morph into something other than what I think they're going to be always. That that always happens to me, Jerry. Especially because I take literally take it with me any time I'm going to be away from home. I take it with me. And every time I travel with it, I realize something I should change. I'm getting the tape off the packaging so I can keep it hot. So it's always morphing into something new. That's not a bad thing. Change is not bad. So I'm going to take this other one. And again, I don't remember exactly where I got these. I think they're from Hobby Lobby, but I don't remember. I will tell you that if you're going to use them, I think you have to use the whole thing because it's sticky back here. And once you stick it down, it's not coming up unless you pre-cut them apart, which you could probably do. I'm not going to. And this is a traveler's notebook binder. It's intended to store your traveler's notebook notebooks when they're finished. But it fits what I'm going to do. You can order these at Amazon. I picked them up. I think I picked them up at Amazon. I have a local store too that has them. I will tell you that the canvas corp rub-ons are easier to use than almost any other one I've ever used before, although this one's not too bad. They're pretty finicky. I don't generally have patience for finicky. We must be willing to go with the flow. I agree with that. I kind of want to put this up here. I don't know why. I have this basket of pieces and parts though too. I got these. These are from Michaels. It's part of their new collection of stuff they have out. They have these like feather die-cut shapes that I picked up. I'm wondering if we should use some of those on the cover. And I have some more luggage stickers. What else do I have in here? A bunch of paper pieces of parts from Miss Cindy Utter, who's also sick at FYI. She and I both came home sick. All right, let's see. Aren't these are so cute? I love these feathers. They're so cute. I'm kind of wanting to stick one on the spine. My hand is itchy. I don't know what that means. Ooh, that one might be nice. We need some glue. Ooh, glue dots might work. Let's try the glue dots. I'm telling you guys, I really like these glue dots. I should say glue squares because they're squares. And they work just like any other glue dot or tape runner. Yep, see? Works like a charm. Let's get some of the extra packaging off the backside if we can. I'll show you in a minute. This actually leaves little squares of permanent glue adhesive, the glue dots adhesive on here. So can you see that? Alrighty. I really kind of want to put a quote on there somewhere. Ooh, but I have these other fun things. Where are they? See, this is how the feathers come. The feathers are item number 502-305. They're also from Michael's. I think I want to use, so let's see, to just grab a stack of words out of the quote box. That's a box we haven't been in in a long time. Ooh, that might work. So I'm taking a Zithromycin, which, oh, I like that. I have generally mild allergic reactions too, but yeah, so I was up lately last night. All right, so I think I like, I like a gallery of dreams. I like draw therefore, I draw therefore I am, but this one says, wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. I kind of like that one. I don't know why I like it. I just know I do. So we're going to just go with that. See, I have an idea for the little, this part. One of the fun things you can get while you're at CHA or catalogs, I don't bring them all home with me. I don't need to do that, but this is a Tim Holtz ideology catalog. And, you know, there's lots of good things that you can cut out from here to do quotes, you know, reuse the pictures, but also, of course, figure out what you want to do, put on your wish list. Somewhere around here, I have the catalog from 2008. I don't know exactly where it's at right now, but it's around here somewhere. Oh, they melted in the sun. Oh, that's so sad. So this is one of my, a copy of one of my little drawings. It's printed on a sticker sheet, the digital downloads in my Etsy shop. And I'm going to stick that right there. And then we're going to put this up here. So yeah, glue dots, like, like a lot of things shouldn't be left out in the sun. But I love a good glue dot or good tape runner. Always been a fan. So I like that. And we're not quite done yet, because I always like to put, when it's sitting on the bookshelf, I like to put the months on the spot on the spine. Okay, Jerry. So we're going to get out my brother P touch labeler. This is an older version. Had it like seems like a million years. So first I'm going to type the year, and then print, and then backspace. And then January print. And I'm going to put January, February, and March in the same folder. So how is everybody liking the my year journaling program? Hopefully you're all doing okay with it. And if you have any questions, please let me know. And you can always tag one of the admins. Jerry, myself, Cindy, or Ann in a post over in my year. So now we just have to cut them apart. This is the skinny label tape from them. P touch. I forget why I had this in here. Oh, no, I don't. I remember I was marking some watercolor palettes. So on the spine, I'm going to put the year at the top. This is just how I like to do it. There's no wrong way. I mean, I'm always telling you guys, there's no right way, there's no wrong way, there's only your way. Just do what makes you happy. And I don't even try and get them straight. Like, it doesn't matter. Looks more interesting if they're crooked. And this is the permanent storage binder where the months will live. The leather folder is the one that I'll be carrying around with me during the year that I'll be working out of. And then once I'm done with the month, like I'm done with January today, then they'll go in here for storage. Someday my daughter will look at it and go, what the hell, mom? Why are you saving all this stuff? She already knows I'm nuts, so I won't surprise her too much. All right, so then you just slide it up underneath the water. You can take these wires out and do it that way. I should probably do it that way. There we go. And you can fit five notebooks in here. There's five wires. I don't plan on that being possible. I plan on only being able to get three months in here because the one month is already pretty fat. So I don't see how I would possibly get five in here. I don't see that happening. So there you go. January is all done. Aren't these feathers fun? So I did get these while I was in Phoenix. Put them in my basket. I also was able to play at the... Hey, Angela. I was also able to play at the Environmental Technologies booth at CHA or Creativation, and they are the makers of EasyCast resin. And casting resin and... I have some other stuff over there, what's it called? I think... Is this theirs too? Amazing mold, probably? Maybe not. I have their casting resin and their silicone paste. They do make a mold putty. Anyway, at their booth they had... They were showcasing this new product, which is FastCast, which it dries in only 10 minutes. So you have to work quickly. But it has no odor. And I have been intrigued by epoxy and resin for a long time, but it stinks. And I have asthma, so I wasn't really willing to go there. This stuff has no odor. At least not one that I could tell, and that was before I got congested. So we got to cast a mold. Where's my mold? Here it is. So we got... So it was so funny. I walked up to the booth and she said, you know, do you want to do a make and take, which you make a product and you get to make something with their products, you get to take it with you. And I said, sure. She says, are you a Game of Thrones fan? And I said, no. And she just looked at me because that's, you know, everybody likes Game of Thrones, but well, everybody in my household accept me. I'm not a fan. So she said, well, we're doing Game of Thrones. I said, that's okay. Everybody in my house is a fan. So I casted this dragon egg thing. I can't think of the name of it right now. See, because I'm sick. This is to put into a bezel, you know, to make a necklace out of it. And it looks like a dragon egg. And I got to make a cast of it. So here's my cast. And then I got to, I got to make, make, I've actually made two of them. I've made one in white and it has to be painted and finished yet. But so I got to do that. Then we got to go to the other side. And this was with this product called Easy Mold, which you actually brush on. And it actually, in my opinion, because I have the mold putty, I think you get a better cast with this stuff than you do the putty. Because I think that you get more detail. There's a little piece of something that's stuck in there. Let's get that out. What that is, something that's in there. It's going to stay in there. Okay. So, so I really liked working with this. It was really easy to work with. Then they had the resin, which again, sets in 10 minutes. And with that, I made a stark family, one of the families in Game of Thrones. I don't know. And yeah, I've seen the whole series of Game of Thrones from beginning to currently the last season. Because I'm always here with the family when they're wanting to watch it. And they had HBO had a marathon or something one weekend. And we ended up watching all of them. Anyway, I watched a lot of YouTube while it was on, to be honest with you. But so I made this one too. And it's really, it's done the same way. And then this is just like, you know, like the Viva Decor metallic cream waxes. I have some somewhere. You guys know what I mean, don't you? These. Ink of gold. So, and it's just rubbed on the resin after it's dry to get this kind of finish. And then it's glued into a bezel. So we got to do these. This is really fun. And at the end of the show, I got to take some of the Fastcast and the Easymold home with me. So this will be coming up in some future product projects, all here on YouTube. I've played with it a little bit, but I didn't film it because I'm sick. But it is really fun to work with. I really enjoyed myself. And what else do I have on the table that I can share? I'll have sets to play with the resin. A medicine dropper. They gave me for one of my medicine, but I think it's going to end up an art tool because, you know, this is like a five year old's medicine dropper. So I'm way older than five. I have these. So these are just, you know, the little shampoos and conditioners from the hotel. They gave you new ones all the time. And Cindy and I both brought some home. We thought they might be interesting to see if we can clean them out and put like travel size, like gessoes and mediums or paint or something in. I don't generally carry acrylic paint with me, but it would be nice to carry some gesso with me, which I've done in the past. But these bottles might be a little nicer to pack than the one I've traditionally used because they're kind of rectangular and flat. So we were wondering about that. So I brought them home. Yeah, see, everybody's got this. Everybody that I know that I've talked to, everybody's like, Oh yeah, that thing, you know, we've had it or, or, you know, we know somebody who's had it or yeah. So, so the lid just pops off. And I'm thinking if I wash these out, and then, you know, I can refill them with acrylic paint or gesso or something. And that would be fun to be able to take just a teeny tiny bit with me. So, you know, that's a possibility for, you know, these kind of travel size bottles. I also make baggies up for the homeless. I do generally take stuff like this home. And then I make little sandwich bags up with, you know, a toothbrush and that sort of thing. And actually my drawer that I pull those supplies from is overflowing. So I need to do that again. And I think that's it. Does anybody have any questions? I hope I get better soon too. I'm not a, I'm not a good patient to be perfectly blunt and honest. I'm kind of a sucky patient. I don't like being sick. I hate coughing. My dream is to just not cough someday. Everybody I know either has been exposed already knows somebody who's been exposed. There's just a little piece of resin stuck in here. It's going to just live in there because it's really stuck in there. Oh, there we go. Got it. Got it. So this, this rubbery stuff is really cool. And I'm not too worried about if I just poke the hole in it, because what I could do is put another layer of this easy mold over the top of it. But anyway, it's fun to play with. Take air, what I can tell you guys wash your hands a lot, use Purell, and and take airborne. If you are around anybody who's got this, it's really virulent. It's easy to catch. I'm trying really hard not to cough. Everybody who gets it has getting over it quickly that I've heard of. It takes at least a week, if not more. And some people like Miss Cindy, you all have to send her some good, some love. You know, they end up getting pneumonia. So she's got pneumonia again. So all righty. That's it for today. We are accepting inspiration photos over in the My Year Facebook group right now. There is an inspiration photos folder in the under photos under albums. You can put photos in there that you've taken yourself or that you know for a fact are royalty-free and copyright-free. They have to be free for people to do artwork with or from. And you have to be really to relinquish those rights. And if you are, there's an inspiration folder for you to go ahead and put pictures in. I've already gone and added a bunch and some of other people. So use them how you will in your journals. I encourage you to just, you know, this is the last day of the month. So, you know, wrap up your month today or tomorrow. Start your new journal. I have to actually finish my inspiration. What do you call it? Not inspiration. My book club book for next month. You know, while I'm sick and I can't really get up and do too much. I should probably work on that. So I have some things to do. But yeah. So scrap and life away. So I get that. I'm usually pretty meticulous about, you know, washing my hands because I'm an artist, right? And my hands are like always dirty and grungy. So I wash my hands a lot. I still caught it. Cindy and I were trying, doing our best to stay away from everybody who was sick and coughing. We still caught it. So we were literally at one point in the back seat of the van. Shannon Green was in the middle and she was sick. And Cindy and I ended up on either side of her, but she was here. We were like this, like faced away from her. And Cindy had her shirt up over her face. We still caught it. All the precautions. We stopped and got airborne, you know. So we still got sick. It's pretty virulent. I will be having some mystery boxes coming up on my channel. I'll be putting some of this artwork. I don't know which exactly, but I'll be putting some of this artwork in the mystery boxes. I'll be videotaping it here for YouTube. And some other stuff from the show and from other places in my studio. There was this other lady there. What's the name of her company? Let me find out. Relics and artifacts. Her name is, artist's name is Sandra. She creates these resin embellishments that are unpainted to use in your art. It is part of a new part of Canvas Corp. Again, I don't know when they're going to be available, but she gave me a few pieces to art with as we were leaving. So I have this one to play with and then I have this one. So these will be, I'll be working with these on camera. We'll see what happens with them. I don't know. I don't know. It's very different. So I don't know. Blame it all on Shannon. Poor Shannon. Shannon didn't start it. Somebody else that was there was sick. And she kind of brought the germs with her. And then by the time the show was, you know, halfway over the whole Canvas Corp crew was sick. And then by the time that we were getting ready to leave, Cindy and I are getting sick. So there was just no hope for that. All right. I think that's it right now. I probably should go take some more cough drop and drink some more tea. I'm trying to think of what else. Oh, I wanted to show you guys some more of the architectures. So here's some more of the architectures designs. These are the ones I have as part of my design team package. Look at these dip pens. What these stickers scrap and life away these stickers. These are a dimensional textured sticker. It's part of the new Canvas Corp line that was shown showcased at CHA that's going to be available soon. And the whole thing is usable. Not only the stickers, but also the packaging. And so they're fabulous. And these bigger sheets that have are just like textures. They can be die cut. And I'm thinking these little ones, you know, if you have these little ones and say that you like the fan and you like the shape of it, but you don't like the color, why couldn't you just so over it? So I will be probably trying that. And like I said earlier, not only can you use the sticker, but the product packaging is printed in a way that you can use it too. And lots of them have quotes on them somewhere. There's a footstool. Not a footstool. What is that bar stool? Wine cork. And this is just a sampling. There's a million of them. Well, not a million, but there's a lot of them. My favorite is probably the chicken wire. I might have to order that one. And these are some of the new things I saw at Michaels. Look at these elephants. I had to go get some more. And then these. And then they had these. I actually have used up a whole pack almost of this one already. I had to buy a new one. And then this one is these are also stickers. These are like planner sized stickers. It doesn't say how many sheets are in here, but I know there's at least two. Yeah, so you're going to love them when you get them. And there's two sheets in here. You're going to love them when you get them. Our favorite was the chicken wire one. So the name of the company that makes these is Canvas Corp Brands. And these are from the Seven Gypsies line that's owned by Canvas Corp. And these are their new line of architectures. They are coming out soon as of right after I got back. They still weren't on the website yet. That may have changed now. I'm not sure. Honestly, I've been sick. This is the first day where I have felt like talking to any of you guys to be. I love you guys, but I've just been too sick. And I'm not feeling super hot today, but I got tired of just sitting on the sofa and doing nothing. And this is just a small smattering of what they have. They also have paper and embellishment packs and the rub-ons and some other stuff. So I would definitely give them a shot. This is the new Seven Gypsies. Yeah, I'm right there with you. I think so too. I think February 2nd, they're going to be available on the website. And when they are, you can go in and peruse them and take a look. They're all 3D and very textured and like a puffy sticker, but they're more than just puffy. The dress form has the seam lines in it and the rips and tears in the bodice. And it's like this foamy vinyl material. So they're pretty cool. Like I said, even the even the backer card, you can use that too. And probably if you're creative, you probably could figure out something to do with the plastic packaging. All right, that's it for right now. I have to stop talking. I hope you guys got something out of that. I hope the picture wasn't too blurry. That's a small smattering of what I came home with from CHA. So look up Canvas Court Brands and Seven Gypsies. Look up the GlueDots people and their new GlueDots adhesive runners. They have, of course, the square one. And then they have this new super strength one. And they're, they had a few things that were like experimental that weren't even out yet that aren't even on here. But the GlueDots guys were super nice. And look up FastCast if you're interested in trying something with resin, but you've, you've stayed away from it because of the curing time, which is usually like 12 to 24 hours and the odor and everything. This is still a chemical harmful product. You still need to wear gloves, but there's no odor and it cures in 10 minutes. And it does dry white. So if you want something other than what you have to tint it. All right, that's it for today. You guys go out and finish your journals. If you can, don't forget to like share and subscribe to this video. And if you can support my channel by shopping over in the Etsy shop, I certainly would appreciate it. The list is in the description. As soon as we're done, I will put the description, the link to the My Year 2017 Facebook group for those of you who aren't members yet. The links to all the My Year videos from me and everybody else are over in the Facebook group along with freebies and all kinds of stuff. But this is my January journal. So I will be tomorrow starting on February. I might have to add my medicine labels in there as the first thing. And that's it for right now. Go out and have some fun. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I'll try. Everybody is so sick. Oh God. All right. Wash your hands, cover your face, take some air board so you don't get it. All right. Bye, guys.