 always fun to start the vlog off for the new week by having to close off last week because you forgot yes oops anyway we have I don't know oh there there you can see that so we had to empty out I don't know what do you think do you have the kitchen uh yeah yeah a bunch of cabinets including the big pantry closet that one right behind me um we're having some repair work um done on some of the kitchen cabinets uh and um that's coming up this week so we spent some time emptying them and boxing things up and while we're doing it taking them out taking stuff out and also putting back we're doing a little bit of purging uh getting rid of things we don't need they get shoved to the back of the closet and then you don't know that you have them like the balla ramen that I had that was expired in 2019 that I found today yeah that was a thing anyway pigments are drying upstairs and I need to do some sketching today but we're gonna go try in a little bit and see if we can get the broken dining room chair uh repaired so anyway otherwise it should be a pretty quiet sunday I'll be back I'm tied in a state sale really quick on the way back to the house after dropping the chair off with a local woman who does woodworking and um she doesn't does a hobby and she's gonna take a look at the chair and see if she can help us fix it but on the way back home we saw a state sale and I got a set of metal measuring spoons and look at these two who remembers these little metal aspirin boxes one of them actually still has aspirin in it I wouldn't recommend taking them but anyway I think they would make cute little mini watercolor pallets so anyway I'm gonna put them down and we're going to go for a walk I think really quick and then come home and try to get some more stuff done so I'll be back I don't have to just stay home and be a lazy couch potato but we're going to go for a walk and those little aspirin tins uh anison brand there was about ten bucks each it's not my pay form wow all right yes I brought my bags with me in case I find more stuff to make pain out of we'll see what happens I'll be back hey guys welcome to monday it is monday october 31st halloween it is 11 o 3 a.m typical monday got a lot to do um we rearranged the drying pigments so that they are out of my way and over there anyway so first things first let's edit the vlog we also have to do our weekly posts write them all and get them scheduled so let's take care of that first well after I did a couple chores that have already done all right let's do one thing at a time I'll be back I have one more chore to do but I got prompt where are they back there I got prompt lists printed for next year that we're going to continue with daily drying um I was tempted to go the easy route and order some molesk and kaya journals I do enjoy working in them however I have I might choose to use what I have and or make some journals so there's that and if I do decide to get some molesk and I can get them a target or the office supply store or order them later so I might try to just I use what I have I am going to continue making little collages on the page doing a drawing that kind of thing and I'm gonna just probably do one instead of two um what else um I ordered some date stickers for next year and I took these at the estate sale bob and I went to yesterday I got two of these I think I put a clip about them already this one actually still has the anison in it um anybody who's of an age remembers and most of your aspirin or pain reliever companies have these including Bayer aspirin and obviously anison um and there are little containers and you I don't think I can do it one hand but you put your hands like on the red dots your thumbs and you push and they pop open and there are so I took one of these to I have an obviously a dump the aspirin out of this one yet but I took one of them today I have these mini um watercolor pans they're about the size of a half pan but they're only half as deep and I used some plastic and e6000 to create a divider so I divided the mini in half which gave me eight colors look at that how cute is that and that would be great for traveling or my daily sketch walks I have something else I use already but I mean if you want to carry a small notebook watercolor pad and a water brush and like this in your handbag I mean it's so little I mean that totally fits in your bag really well anyway so anyway uh I think we're gonna go down now because I have to stop stalling I've got a vacuum and I don't know if you can see you can kind of right there there's a like thin spot in my hair from where I hurt myself so I'm trying to keep it covered and I did divide some divide some extra of these mini pans because I think I might want to be doing this again I like the idea now I have a watercolor collection that's big enough that when I want to I can say I want to go on a sketch walk or I want to take a journal and some um pants with me and I want to just like pick one so this one is just neutrals um I have this one they all have slightly different colors in them um I have this one which actually has a lot of colors in it this is one of those originally one of those credit card cases so I love that I can do that but I have enough paints to do that with I am currently making some of these tins out of the tubes mostly this one over here I'm trying to use up some of the tubes of paint and get them dried up into a palette because I'm more likely to use it that way but anyway I I just like making palettes I also have these over here these are from Hawaii so this is from the Aloha Cookie Company and I know it looks like a little lunchbox right it would be a cute little mini travel kit but also we went to um Kauai Estate is that Kauai? K-U-I-A and we got some chocolates in this tin that would be a cute palette too right so I know I have this thing for making palettes you guys if you've watched my channel for a while you know this it's nothing new anyway all right enough of that enough stalling I don't want a vacuum but it's got to be done someday I'll be done this Tuesday November 1st our contractor is going to be bringing by some pieces and parts for the cabinet fix up in the kitchen and I just looked out the upstairs window after doing a few things in the art room and realized we forgot to bring the garbage cans in yesterday oops better go do with my downstairs it looks like we just moved in we're just getting ready for some kitchen construction issues but yeah hold on I can't even show you the part that's under there because you can't see it but yeah it's pretty crowded with boxes down there instruction starts tomorrow and it'll take a couple of days again we're not ripping out the kitchen but they are fixing up some of the cabinets and we've emptied the ones they're going to work on um so yeah I'll be up here in the art room making myself scarce downstairs and staying out of their way where they get it done and then putting things back as I can so anyway I'm gonna drink my bone broth no it's not beer it's bone broth see I swear I'm gonna drink this I'm gonna watch some youtube and then see what else I can get up to the pigments aren't ready to scrape I do have one that I put the alum and baking soda in and forgot to film it that's gotta sit now for 24 hours and I prepped a journal that I'm going to use the paint markers I got sent by rdq I don't know that's how I pronounce it but anyway um so that's all done and I printed and cut out my um drawing prompts for next year for daily growing anyway I try to keep myself busy because you know otherwise I eat it's bad right I'll be back get supplies I've done two watercolor drawings but I think I think it's I think I think I do think it's time for me to go get some lunch it's a little bit early but it's a good opportunity because he's not downstairs so let me go run into everyone it is 9 20 a.m on Thursday November 3rd I'm going to be making some paints this morning waiting on the contractor to get here I'm gonna go actually downstairs and make my bone broth a little early so that I'm not in his way um he's going to continue work on the kitchen and uh yeah pretty much that's what my day is going to be hanging out around the house while he works on the kitchen keeping myself busy upstairs not that I don't have stuff to do there because I do um I may show you all what I did to the small bits bank wall I rearranged some things I am still doing my research and or experiments with making pigments figuring out what colors I can get out of what materials you know it looks like it's gonna rain again um and yeah having fun with that whole process and I do need to film something so of course I'm not walking before it starts raining any harder before anybody says anything yes our friend and contractor Ruben is at the house looking on the kitchen he's like family not worried about it anyway I am also picking some things to do some earth pigments from um and or uh one of well one of them I'm gonna do uh lake there some of the red roses I mean I got this really pretty mossy green didn't expect that so I want to make some more not some more blackberries so we're in a oops not there we're gonna head home I gotta pay attention to what I'm doing so we don't get lost before it starts dumping which supposed it's supposed to do so all right I'll be back kind of winded but I found everything I wanted to find starting to rain a little harder so we're gonna go home before it really starts dumping and I end up having to change my clothes I'll be back good morning it is Friday November 4th 10 14 a.m I looked on the computer don't get excited um I have what is I think gonna be for the moment the last batch of lake pigments working uh these are doing their soaking lit laking thing um and I have some over there drying um we have what I think is a outside the front door we have what I think is a um trailing dark purple verbena and I didn't have too many flowers on it but I did pull what was on there because I knew we were getting some storms that get knocked off anyway and I got two big pans of pigment and the edge of the coffee filter that's underneath there has this dark blueish purplish tinge to it and that's the color that we get you can't really tell by the color of um the pigment right now what it's going to be it changes as it's drying it also changes as you make the paint with it so I don't know our blackberries are still drying so don't know don't know about that and um we've got some red roses because I got this really pretty mossy green out of the red roses and I'm hoping I get that again and then I've got some more barks including uh let's see tree bark oh cedar I've got a tag on here that's not verbena this is the verbena anyway but I do masking tape tags so I know which is which anyway I'm gonna go downstairs now and I think I'll start putting the kitchen back together ick all right I'll be back everything except the bar where it's put away I'm gonna let bob do that because hello and a klutz um I found two boxes of expired food some of its weight expired was it this one one of them expired before the pandemic maybe it was this one oh no it was one of them can't find it now oh october ninth 2018 yeah anyway never got opened never got used you know august 25th 2019 they're gonna go well away now I'm probably lucky there was no bugs in the pantry anyway I guess it's time to make five million trips to the garbage can because I also have that I'll be back it is 3 31 p.m. saturday november 5th you said think that's a day I think I already said this anyway I'm headed over to the local hardware store real quick to pick up some parts the chairs of course are missing a couple of screws and I'm not running all the way back to the warehouse I'll just go to the hardware store it's a day of chores can you tell there's just lots of pieces and parts to do and I'll try to get some artwork done later I do want to sit and see if there's any pictures from life that I want to draw in my watercolor sketchbook I have a sketchbook I'm trying to finish and then I have a new one already prepped and ready to go so uh anyway if you want to see videos on that or anything else leave some leave something in the comments below what you'd like to see me do videos on and uh see if we can get that get that done all right no who's honking so many people honking today I miss COVID traffic I either wasn't any anyway all right I'll be back guys as bob just pointed out in 10 10 minutes late closing the vlog on saturday it's 12 10 a.m sunday morning yeah we're headed to bed it's been a long day but it was good we got a lot of stuff done we had dinner with the kids and Polly is his parents we went to Ancestry here in the Tigard king city Portland area if you're in the area try it out they have some good food there and uh yeah it's been an eventful week it's been a good one but I can't wait to get on to the next thing we got pigments drying I've got stuff to do yeah anyway don't forget to like share and subscribe if you want to support the free content here on youtube check out the video description for the Etsy store patreon all that jazz some of it's in my link tree list of links and um comment uh tell me what you think what you'd like to see in some videos uh if you have questions comments or concerns leave them down below and don't forget the most important thing stay safe stay healthy stay creative go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it we'll see you next week bye guys