 before two o'clock Monday afternoon holy cow it's Sunday afternoon just before two o'clock oh my god it's May 27th that I do know um it's a holiday weekend so bob is still home tomorrow we're gonna have the kids over for a barbecue we are headed out right now though to go to the movies and we're gonna go see avengers if infinity wars I think anyway whatever the new avengers movie is we are at the bank and he is I don't think you can see but he's depositing some checks here wait so we're doing that on our way we're going to walk around the mall get some steps in and how are you spending your Sunday that's what we're doing I'll be back so avengers is sold out for like the next three showings so we're going to go see Deadpool instead that's all right I wanted to see that too it is 7 o 2 p.m I only know all this because it is Memorial Day here in the States and it's a holiday and the family is here for family dinner um I would say night but um afternoon we kind of we barbecued this afternoon they're here with the puppy and we've been just talking and playing no games this week um they are headed out to Hawaii for a week starting tomorrow morning and we're going to be puppy sitting until next Sunday yeah it's going to be interesting two dogs I don't know one of them's like a two-year-old pray for me I think I might need it all right I'll be back good morning everybody it is Tuesday morning May 29th and as you can see Lily is here and we're puppy sitting um until Sunday the kids are in Hawaii yeah so far the morning is good so so far um yeah oh I don't know we'll see it's like having a toddler in the house I don't know how much I'm gonna get done anyway she's happy looking out the front window so we're gonna let her do that I'll be back so I don't think Lily has any interest in coming in the house at all hey guys so I gotta go to the grocery store the gardeners are here thought it might be a good time because I have to create Lily because the gardeners are here and we'll see how she does with that if she doesn't try to escape I don't know I don't know hopefully she's still in the crate when I get back but for those that don't know Lily is kind of an escape artist and um yeah she she likes to try to get out of her crate so good morning everybody it is Wednesday morning May something it's not June yet let's see May 30th and I'm trying to drink my morning coffee Lily's chilling out at the window when she's not um over here in my face trying to get up my coffee or my breakfast or standing on top of my chest I don't know she puts both front paws on top of my chest and just stands there looking at me I don't know it's very strange um anyway we are waiting for some workmen to come by for estimates to this morning and I have of course there's always art stuff to do I don't know how much of what I'm gonna get done with that one around um so we'll see and uh that's it I think there's always laundry and stuff so we'll see how the day plays out I'll be back see this is what happens I try to like watch YouTube or do something and she's like behind my head or on top of me or something we're waiting for the contractor to come for his estimate this morning you should be here in about 45 minutes so I'm editing last week's vlog and trying to get it um done so it can upload to YouTube um hopefully I can get it started before he gets here and then it'll be loading while we're having our meeting and walking around but this is where Lily is literally right behind my chair it seems to be where she it lives when she's here and I'm in my office which I am a lot during the day because hello I work from home anyway that's she just stays literally she's like right behind the wheels at least she's not out digging holes in the backyard I did catch her try to dig one hole to china so I brought her in anyway yeah I'm not sure exactly how that's possibly comfortable good morning everybody it is Thursday morning May 31st I think let's check yeah yeah May 31st I was right miracle miracles Lily and I are sitting here on the front sofa she's looking out the window it keeps her calm and quiet I don't know what to tell you she likes looking out the window this morning if you can hear that she's watching the garbage men pick up the garbage I don't know anyway I don't know what we're gonna get up to today it's hard with her around to get too much done it's like having a toddler in the house so we'll see I'll be back hey everybody so I created Lily which is always an iffy prospect because unless it's nighttime and it's bedtime she don't like to be created so but I want to go out and run a couple of shopping errands and I can't take her with me so I've created her I've closed all the doors to the other rooms in the house so she can only get to limited spaces if she does get out I don't know I'll try home Lily did a good job she's all excited to see me I was only gone a little more than an hour and yeah she did a really good job the shirt's a little short for me I like my shirts a little longer but anyway um now she's stop now she's not gonna leave me alone stop I just went outside you don't need to sniff me at all creation all right that's it for the moment I'll be back hey guys I just took another accidental selfie of myself going like this yeah yeah anyway um I left Lily in the crate a couple times today for once for an hour once for just a few minutes and she did actually very well we didn't play escape artist did we she's laying down here on the floor by my feet see there she is because you know it's what we do block the doorway so I can't go anywhere anyway um she did very well good puppy I um haven't gotten a lot of art done today but I did get my heat transfer vinyl in from amazon so I'm gonna try um some heat transfer I want to do on a tank top uh one of a design that I bought on Etsy that I'm gonna try first and then I may try another design I have in my mind of my own I'm also supposed to be working on my Shannon green custom keeper if you don't know what these are they are a traveler's notebook style notebook cover and they're made out of repurposed billboard vinyl they're made by my friend Shannon green I'll link her Etsy store in the description below they come in a lot of different sizes this is one of the small ones we're doing some collab projects with my design team and my product line of stamps and stencils and stuff so I need to film some more videos for that because we have more of those videos coming up and I have more other commitments too I'm supposed to be filming I think we have to wait until she goes home anyway um I did clean off my let's see where is it there I have this table here at the entryway of my um art room that has um I don't know what you'd call it but an altar space I hesitate to use that word but it has memorabilia on it and trinkets from different things it has the blue bowl is full of the positive affirmation cards I just made on our recent video um well I just made them and there's a video coming out I don't think it's airing until next month uh it's like it I'm filming this on the last day of May I think the video airs in a few weeks but anyway there's some positive affirmation cards and the it's a digital download by the way in my Etsy store that you put together yourself after you print them and um it's in my Etsy store I'll at least put the listing in the description below but I have mine in the bowl here and then there's some stones and feathers feathers there feathers some um pet memorabilia from pets of mine that have passed including a couple of old dog collars some old dog tags things like that um some crystals and pine cones from different things that I've gone on with my husband and I've picked up you know little things here and there I seem to always find feathers in my path so there's lots of feathers some from my friend Lisa Swank who owns birds and some from ones that I've just found in my path different little memorabilia things like that so anyway that's what lives on there I did just clean it off because it got really dusty and kind of junky and I kind of you get in the habit of just throwing stuff on there and it was time for some of it to go so it went anyway I think that's it for the moment um I want to try cutting out this heat transfer vinyl but I think again I have to wait until that one goes home because I need to be able to concentrate on what I'm doing and I can't when I'm worried about what she's chewing on yeah so there's that all right that's it for the moment I'll be back hey guys how are you it is Friday June 1st and hopefully I vlogged yesterday because I don't even remember I think I did I don't know it's been one of those kind of weeks it's already 11 14 in the morning it's just about lunch I created Lily for an hour so I have to go to the grocery store so she's usually good in the crate for about an hour so she is more comfortable at the house now that she's been there for a few days I think that's what was going on and so she's better about just being outside playing around and running around playing by herself teasing bandit and his he's in a separate part of the yard we do keep them separated because they're okay for a few minutes but she's young and wants to rough house and he's old and can't be bothered so yeah anyway um but they run along either side of the fence and they both think that's fun so that's good anyway I'm gonna head to the grocery store I did get a little project done this morning that I've wanted to do I'm gonna have to do a voiceover or something that I did get that done and I have to finish May and my traveler's notebook and set up June so I'm gonna film try to film that today too while Lily's outside this afternoon after lunch so hopefully that goes well anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back why is it as soon as you get in the car and you start driving your phone which has been silent all morning suddenly starts pinging and dinging and ringing I'm gonna go to the grocery store now I'll be back okay here's my rant for the week I don't know if it's my first one or my third one I have no idea I worked in retail and or customer service for a long time almost since I graduated high school in 1981 there that dates me I was 17 there you go you can figure out who I am there's really not much that humanity does that shocks me but I'm still constantly just disappointed in humanity it's not always big things sometimes it is sometimes it's just little things I understand you may be in a hurry or having a bad day but don't take it out on the world around you take a deep breath try not to invade other people's personal space wait your turn and don't be a jerk and I'm really watching my language because that's not what I usually say I usually say don't be a the a word don't be a a s s h o l e or as we funnily on purposely mispronounce it don't be a showly that won't get me bumped from youtube you know I was only running in for a couple things and the people behind me in line were in a hurry or something they couldn't wait their turn they were right up against me they went around me and moved my card out of the way like really really rude really rude I just the nicer I am the ruder everybody else is is that a word ruder more rude I don't know anyway good morning oh sorry good afternoon it is saturday january second and I am obviously home on the sofa again Lily there she is she goes home tomorrow night be happy and sad to see her go she's a really sweet dog but I do have stuff I need to do that's hard to do when she's around so anyway um I am just sitting here at home with Lily my husband is out doing a masonic thing and I chose to stay home with a dog rather than us trying to bring her with us I didn't yeah I wasn't up to that so I said you know I'll just stay home with the dog you go so he did and um when he gets back later I want to do some more purging so I'm hoping we can get that done and um I have a few art projects I want to try to get done or worked on um today later today or tomorrow some things I want to film as my neck is like yeah anyway um and of course there's always laundry and stuff nothing super exciting it's kind of a quiet saturday but I like that so anyway in the next couple weeks we're going to be having more people in the house doing repairs and work and yeah so in between when I'm trying to film I told them all I need to I need a week off and then y'all can come so anyway all right that's it for the moment I'll be back okay oh the phone is sort of precariously sitting on the edge of the table I'm going to do this here as part of the vlog I was going to film it as a separate video but I don't think I'm going to so this bundle of things here I was really inspired by Helen Colbrook and some things she had from the store London Gifties she had this like pad of papers that were just state roughly attached together I don't remember if they were stapled or sewn um that was just like a bundle of um vintage papers ephemera papers and I thought that's really cute and it kind of reminded me of a couple of things that we did I did way back when I was teaching as part of crazy island family any of you who remember that there were a couple of giveaway swap videos that we did over there and if I can find the links here in my channel I will link them in the description below so look for them one of them we did these little small junk journals and these were intended to be something that you either actually worked in or better yet you could grab this and your regular journal and this was full of interesting um vintage and hand painted papers that you could use in your backgrounds in your collages and it was just um simply pamphlet stitched together and this is one that I did um that I had left over at the time and it's filled with scrapbooking paper and painted magazine papers and tissue paper mulberry paper all kinds of stuff right so it's pretty cute then on a separate time we did these sort of big matchbooks these are two that I got in the swaps that I did not make um you this was about the size that we were doing them but you could do a lot of different sizes it was a similar idea in that it was sort of a matchbook style little folio filled with um papers and stickers and I haven't opened this in like forever but this one has um handmade sticker paper in it and it's got images and tissue paper and and all sorts of things with oh with a note oh this one's from Mary Maradale Abrams um and so it's a really cute idea and a cute way to bring a few bits and pieces with you you could again you could grab this and your journal and sticks in your travel bag real easily if you're do a traveler's notebook these kind of small things are really cute here's one that somebody sent me that's a little bit bigger does this one have a note in it too no no and this one they did um these were obviously was just a trifle piece of paper you put your papers in you put a couple staples in the bottom to hold it in and then you were good to go and in this one she um just kind of slipped in a doily and there's a tag in there and um yeah so anyway really cute um then inspired by the london gifties thing and those let's see if I can get them on camera here there and these um and things I've done in the past and the fact that I was cleaning out and throwing away and getting rid of old greeting cards today we still had christmas cards from christmas time I know it's june but you know so I had all these christmas cards some of them were cards that we sent out and they came back returned to sender because the person had moved and we never did find out where they moved to or maybe they passed away I have this reputation in the family for sending to christmas cards to dead people because well I lose track of who's passed away and who hasn't anyway um so literally today I took a pile of scrap papers that were in my cart that I was just humming and hawing about and I cut them up into bits and used the greeting card as the outside it didn't have to fit within the parameters of the card I wasn't too concerned about that and I just put enough in there that I could staple it across the spine I do have a long pamphlet stapler you need a special stapler to do this but you could you could stitch it um you could put brads um something like that um you could even just use an elastic hair tie and put an elastic hair tie around the spine of the greeting card and then slip the papers in like a um quick easy traveler's notebook anyway I had enough greeting cards and papers on my desk so right oh wait there's one more so now I have a nice collection of these and I actually have a stash um of these where these live and when I want to take one with me or I want to refresh my selection I can just grab one and have this little booklet of papers on my desk rather than a giant pile of papers which I do like uh and I do have a small bin of small scrap bits that don't really aren't appropriate to put into one of the booklets they're like cut out shapes like butterfly wings and and stuff like that um and then when this box gets full I need to either purge it and throw things away or put them actually put them away away um or use them up so I try to use up this first so then because I'm lazy and I want to put stuff away but I also can take this with me when I'm traveling so I can just grab this box and it's got a nice selection of stuff in it and if I wanted to these would fit in here one or two oops one or two of these would fit in here so anyway just wanted to give you guys some ideas of some cute things that you could do I hope this gives you those ideas and if you have any questions comments or concerns don't forget to leave it in the video how did I have this done I don't even know I think it was like this and that was like that so I those most both maybe from Mary I don't know that that was like that in my stash of things and like I said one of them does have a note inside if you guys do send me stuff it's helpful for me if you stick a note in there because otherwise I get I lose track if he was giving me what I'm really bad about it it's not that I don't appreciate your stuff I'm just disorganized anyway um and you could always so if you save things like this like I do you could stick this in there too or you could just if you have the other bits box you could stick it in there so anyway all right that's it for today um I am still here with Lily and we are just sitting back having a good time relaxing and yep waiting for grandpa to get home I have a bunch of these too I'm going to stick them in the box anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back well give me this ready there now she thinks the towel is a toy how pooch hey guys how are you it is 855 Saturday night I'm in the office I gotta it's been a kind of calm quiet day got a few things done but not too much I can't multitask like I used to all right there we go we're in see so I can shut stuff off anyway um it's been kind of a calm quiet day I did get a few things done but not too much I have a lot of stuff to do tomorrow though and um but that's the start of another vlog um anyway it's been a interesting week having Lily in the house full time I hope to get back on to my schedule next week and get a bunch of stuff done so we'll see how that goes um I'm also as I said doing some more purging and we have some things to uh gift to people I think some of them are being picked up Monday so um things we're not using anymore and if we ever need them we'll just buy a new one um so we're going to work on putting piles of things together tomorrow so that that can happen um next week that's it for the moment and I can't wait to pay it forward and give some things to people who need them because I don't need them anymore um that's it for right now I can't think of anything else don't forget to um leave a comment concern or question in the comments 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