 Hey guys, how are you today? All righty, so those of you who followed me on social media know that For all of 2016 I did daily sketches or doodles and for the last couple of months starting in November, I did, I'm sorry October, I did Inktober and then I started, which prompted me to start doing daily drawing again, and I've been doing it ever since. This is, this is my daily drawing kit, the way it is right now. It lives by the sofa. I have the zipper pouch, which has got an elastic band on it, and it's attached to a mini clipboard. And I've got a couple of sketchbooks in here, one that I'm trying to finish up and then the new one for January. I recently asked my friend Shannon Green if she had a smaller custom keeper with the new little tool insert that she's been making that would fit my little sketchbook journals, and she said, yes, of course, I do. I'll send you one. So she sent me this. I got it the other day. I don't need this as a receipt. She sent me this. Now if you don't know, these are made out of old vinyl billboards. So when you get them, the covers, each one's going to have different, you know, writing or pictures or colors or whatever on it. No two are exactly the same and there are two pieces of vinyl billboard fused together. So it's pretty thick and sturdy. It can be painted and collaged on. I actually have one that I've done that to and it's held up pretty well. I think for this one, for the moment, I'm going to leave it plain. I could always change my mind later, but I think for the moment I like to leave it plain. I kind of like the look of the plain natural billboard and I kind of like the writing on the front on this side here. So more likely than not, this is going to be the front for me. When you get them, it comes with directions for restringing because it comes with the elastic untied. This is like a traveler's notebook style cover, one that you can replace the notebooks in as you use them up. This is her new tool insert. I don't know at this moment as I'm filming this what she's going to call this. I have no idea. It comes with elastic threaded already through it in these toggles on either side so that you can make your loops tighter or looser depending on what kind of tools you're sticking in the loops. There's plenty of loops in here to actually have me get all of my writing implements that are in here in the loops. It does make the notebook a little bulky to actually open it and sketch on. I know that because I have a bigger one and the notebook I actually sketch in is drawing because I did some inky stuff to the background, but I only have a few tools in this one and this is for me probably I wouldn't do both sides for me because then that makes it really too puffy to like when you want to sketch on this side it makes it too hard to sketch on so you'd have to actually take the notebook out. So we're going to see what I can do and about putting this together and trying. I really really want to try it. I don't know that I'm ready because of the bulky nature of it to give up my pouch yet or all the tools that are in it so I may see if I can store the notebooks in here and like my main pens and then maybe this whole thing can be clipped to the back of the pouch with the elastic band something like that. So I'm going to speed forward through the process and when I end up doing and I'll be right back. We're ready to get rid of things than I thought I was. I decided not to use the pouch at all. I did transfer my charms. These are actually cell phone charms that I've picked up you know along the way at Daiso and I think the little pink one Cindy Utter probably sent to me and I like I like having them on here. I like the Jingle Bells. So what I'm noticing with both of these custom keepers and having that tool accessory accessory in there when I first tried to fill actually the other one up when I first got it I had stuff on both sides and if you want to actually work in it and you don't want to have to take your journal out all the time you don't want to do that it makes it too puffy. So I would only recommend filling the inside or the outside. I prefer the inside. I have all of my things I need in here. I did have a small watercolor palette in here. Honestly I haven't used it in here at all. It's a cute little palette and I'm not going to get rid of it but it's got some Daniel Smith paints in here but I like using these Bible Gel High Gliders in this journal. I've got a water brush because these can be pushed around with water when you first put them down. So water brush, Stabilo All Pencil. Also the water brush can move that around and I have a couple of white gel pens. My Pilot Varsity Disposable Fountain Pen. I do have a beautiful Fancy Fountain Pen which I could put in here if I'm so inspired. I could pull this one out and put that one in. And a couple of Bic Crystal Plano Ballpoint Pens. The Pilot Varsity Fountain Pen, the Stabilo All Pencil, all of the Bible Gel High Gliders, and this darker, thicker 1.6 millimeter Bic Crystal Pen are all able to be pushed around with the water at least when you first put them down before they dry. So because of that I don't really need to carry the watercolor paints or other coloring materials with me because I can just use these. It works. And the one water brush, I had three in here. I don't know why I had three in here. I don't really need that. So whether I'm just taking it out to the sofa or I'm grabbing it to go because I'm going out of the house somewhere and I want to take it with me to do my daily sketching, this is going to work really well. It's all contained. I can just grab it and go. I love that and I do carry a handbag that's big enough actually to fit this in there. So Shannon Green's Custom Keepers, they're fabulous. I'm going to put the link to her store in the description below. And Daily Drawing, it's good creative practice if you're so inspired. I do recommend it. There's a lot of different places on the internet. You can get daily prompts with. The one I'm using at the moment is Draw Riot Daily. I will try to remember to link their website in the description below and they monthly put out a list of prompts, art prompts. And I'm doing January's right now. I am doing some bonus words because I have a journal here I have to fill up. This one from the last few months has a couple of extra pages in it. So yeah, I'm going to be working on filling that up. But I did, and this one I did, Art Journal Habit prompts. They have prompts from Art Joy of Sharing and then also I did Draw Riot Daily. But there's a lot of places on the internet that have daily art prompts including my own Facebook group that I teach in with a few friends called My Creative Year. We do daily random words that you could of course do as a drawing or sketch. That's it for right now. Think about shopping in Shannon's store if you're into journaling and art art and daily drawing. These are really fabulous and you know if you are the creative type think about trying to incorporate something creative even if it's a quick sketch. We won't show that one on camera. Even if it's some kind of quick sketch something easy let's see acorns in a star. It doesn't have to be complicated. Five minutes. None of these have taken more than ten minutes. All of these are done with a pen. There is no pencil involved and they were all super quick sketches. So anyway do something creative daily. It's good for the soul. I'm a firm believer in that and above all besides like sharing and subscribing supporting my channel and the free content here and over on Facebook by leaving a tip in my tip jar or shopping on my Amazon wish list one of those. The links for all of those are in my link tree link which is in the description below along with Shannon's store and everything else I've mentioned. But above all that the most important thing is go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.