 which should be no surprise to anybody who knows the pacific northwest it rains all we just found fabric shop called here in where we beaverton and it reminds me of a chain of stores we used to have in the san josebe area in california called bevelese fabrics and crafts and they had a little bit of fabric and some craft stuff this place is bigger they have less fabric than bevelese did but they have lots of other things and it seems like at least it could just be because of the time of year it is and maybe they're having a massive store clearance or something but a lot of things were marked down at least 20% if not more um i don't really need anything that being said i bought nothing i did come out with an ad so i can remember the name of the store but when i do need something i think it's one of the places i'm gonna go i really was impressed and we got what we needed at best buy and now we're gonna go home and have lunch and let lily out of her crate out of the crate because she's we're puppy sitting and she's in the crate right now so i'm sure she's not too happy about that probably not probably not so well we're gonna go home and we'll be back okay so my cup i've been working on all week is finally done it's not bulging at the bottom it's even and level it stands up the way it's supposed to doesn't let go this way clean off the top i put the lid back on we're good to go it's supposed to be for a christmas gift but i kind of like the way it turned out i don't know we'll see i'm gonna just set it off to the side and i'm now working on the other one and it's over here with its first coat let me turn the light on so you can see there we go it's got its first coat and then i'm gonna put the decal on and then i'm gonna put at least one more coat but if it's like the last cup that i did i'm gonna need like four coats so i don't know we'll see and my husband is putting up our new ring doorbell and the whole island is covered with tools i don't know why you need that money to install one little key tiny doorbell oh no we'll see i'll be back all right i'm like an hour later and then i was planning on being to get out of the house and go run the errands i need to run because i got an email or a message facebook message from a friend about one of the collaborations we're doing next year and she said can you talk do you have a minute i'm like oh yeah i guess so um you're looking at the garage ceiling there you go um so i was online with her and a couple other friends and we were brainstorming but now i'm an hour later than i intended for getting out of the house whoops and i'm just hitting buttons at random anyway so we're gonna go i've got to get some etsy orders dropped off i want to go by joann's i want to go by walmart so i'm gonna do all that and then come home so i'll be right back should say to you all we have some exciting stuff coming for next year not only for my etsy shop and i'm working on the new stencils and new stamps for 2019 and they're pretty exciting um yeah um anyway if you want to support this channel and my art and the free content here on youtube and over on facebook you shop in the etsy shop you can put something in my amazon my paypal tip jar um or you can go over to patreon i do have a patreon the links for all of them will be in the description below and we have some fun interesting um i think exciting free content coming not only to youtube for next year make sure not hit anything on the way out of the driveway but to my creative year which is a facebook teaching facebook group with free content and we have got some great teachers coming to the group and some new ideas we try to shake it up a little bit every year so if you want to join us in that journey not all of the content will be put on youtube fun fact some of it's going to be direct to facebook so if you want to be a part of that then you can join the facebook group the link is in the description below i'm also going to be doing explorations of me again next year with cindy udder um i did it this year too i've got to put everything in a playlist people i so need like an assistant it's so much work anyway oh crow's on the garbage can okay so anyway we are going to head out to run some errands and i will link some of the channels uh like cindy udder's channel in the description below i'll try to create an eom playlist um and before that she and i did negativity smackdown so i'll try to like playlist everything and um link it in the description below for you all one of my neighbors i don't know she's didn't look very happy um so anyway we're going to go do that and i will be right back okay i got some fabrics at joanne's i got this one this one those are both i got those both big enough to do a journal cover like the base of the journal cover and then these three i got for embellishments and i'm inspired by a video i saw recently that i will link in the description below very talented young lady and um yeah so i needed i have i have a lot of what i can use to do journal covers like she was doing um but i needed a few other things um i have lots of canvas but i wanted to use some kind of tapestry or quilted fabric for the base of at least some of them so that's why i got these so anyway we're gonna go over that walmart now because i need to get some more metal tumblers to make some more cups and then i'm gonna go home i hope i remember to close the garage door i guess we'll find out when we get home all right i'll be back so we went and i went and ran all my ran all my errands i kind of rushed through some of them i didn't have a nah or take my time or do anything extra because i couldn't remember if i closed the garage door so that was a thing anyway i did get the errands i needed to do run mostly i forgot to get bottled water but that's okay um i've had lunch so and um i'm gonna go upstairs now and check on the cup that's up there and put away some stuff i got i need to start some laundry and i want to put a little bit of paint on the two canvases that are upstairs i had a nice long chat with um friend and a supporter of my youtube channel donna hand hand and um she um called me um and messaged me to let me know that she got the edsie order that that she um placed not long ago it got to her house safely yay um so happy for that and she and her husband have gone through some hard times but i think things are getting better for them so whoo um and the mail came and i'm still waiting on a payment for some custom artwork i did for somebody and i know i should have gotten a deposit in advance but i didn't and live and learn and i don't care who you are i'm not doing that again you need to pay me half before i get started and you need to bounce before you get the paintings otherwise you don't get the paintings this would be why uh i don't yeah anyway so i'm waiting on that so hopefully that'll be in soon and what else what else what else i i don't know i can't think of anything else right now i'm so i'm gonna go switch some laundry loads around and get some more stuff in the washing machine and we'll see what other trouble we can get up to all right i'll be back good morning everybody i literally have the phone propped up in an empty tissue box because you know we just roll that way high tech camera gear and all that's um anyway um i don't know it's tuesday december 11 maybe i have no idea what time it is it's morning that i know i don't think it's nine am yet but i could be wrong i am in the entryway obviously and i'm going to put some shoes on and before i do anything else today or at least too much more today i'm gonna go for a walk around the neighborhood it is doesn't appear to be rainy but it is wet outside and um it's windy though but that's okay i'm gonna put on a sweatshirt and my pink raincoat and i'm gonna go get some steps in trying really hard to get back into a normal routine my diet and exercise routine totally sucks since we moved um i think i'm getting enough steps in but you know i'm probably getting less in than i think to be honest i'm eating way too many sweets so yeah i haven't really gained any weight so bonus i think like half a pound um but we're gonna work on getting better and i'm gonna try to start my day off after coffee and my daily postings uh most days anyway with a little walk i'm also gonna try to be better about putting my fitbit on since we moved i suck about just putting the fitbit on it's either not charged or it's upstairs or something um i have an excuse so i'm gonna stop with the excuses i've already got it on we are putting on my walking shoes and then we'll get a walk in we'll see if we can get any cool nature pictures and then we'll come back i've got another cup to work on and the two paintings and i've got a bunch of video to edit um that i took last week so i'm gonna try not to go actually out of the house today other than walking i mean and by out of the house i mean like shopping or anything i don't really need anything we need um some bottled water but i think i'm gonna just ask the husband to get some on his way home so anyway let's go for a walk shall we it's not too bad it's a little bit drizzly brisk it's not too bad but i like cold weather so you probably ought not to judge by me i need to go home later and what are the things i have to do today is edit the vlog for last week um which involves bandit passing away so that's going to be tough not looking forward to it but you know what i'm going to get it over with i'm going to rip it off like a band-aid i'm going to sit with my cup of tea i'm going to turn on some soothing music and we're going to just get it done and then afterwards i'll make some art and we have his paw print to do something with that the vets took at the time of his passing we're going to frame it with a picture of him and maybe his dog tags so anyway let's get some steps in first good afternoon everybody it's wednesday december 12th i almost said november it is december i actually know that um at 1 35 in the afternoon i only know that because i looked at my clock before i turned the camera on so don't get all excited or anything i've been up this morning finishing up projects basically i put another coat on a cup a coat of resin on a cup that i'm working on that's on a tumbler it's cup number three of how many i don't know um at least one of the ones i've made is for christmas for a christmas gift for somebody so i know that the ones i'm planning on giving maybe as gifts we'll see what happens um i was also working on some paintings to go up the staircase and when we first moved in i had um three paintings i put up on the staircase my daughter came over and said mom i love that but you need two more to go up the rest of the staircase and of course and i just got to be in my bonnet about it yeah so i did two more i'll show you hang on wait um i made two more paintings for my stairwell or staircase i have three of them like this mostly blue tones at the old house these were part of a life book lesson by tomorrow the port i want to say like three years ago maybe um pita thompson um who was taking the same class at the same time did them on canvas and i thought that was a great idea so i did when i moved in i hung them in the stairwell or staircase here and i love the way they turn out so much but my daughter said bonnie need two more so i did two more and i just finished um here's one of the new ones this is one of the old ones i need to go downstairs and make sure they all look straight and even and all that this new one that's another old one so let's go downstairs and see what it looks like from down there looks pretty good okay morning it's thursday morning it's 9 20 something uh i only know that because i'm standing here in the office it's thursday december i know it's thursday december 13th um i'm just upstairs i was doing my daily postings i still have to do my positive affirmation card for the day i think i've forgotten kind of a few days in a row but anyway um i also wanted to take this off of the spinner this tumbler and the resin coating is dry there appear to be no defects no bubbles no i don't know two coats i got it yay um i'm gonna have trouble giving this one away i really love this one i might need to keep it anyway um i want to make at least one more i think before christmas so i just don't know what i want the decor to be on it and so i don't know yet um so far i've made these three uh my husband hopefully doesn't watch my vlogs i don't think he does but i made this one for him uh it's sort of hiding in plain sight it's got his masonic logo on the cup i don't know that he'll ever use it and if he does it'll probably be to keep his rum and coke cold but you know i don't know he might not like it but we'll see anyway um i need to go run some errands i'm having one of those days where i'm just kind of having trouble getting started i need probably need to take some more coffee with me it's not great for my blood pressure but um yeah i'm not really i'm not i'm having trouble getting going today i feel like i feel like i didn't get enough sleep last night and i don't think it's like last night i think it's like a few nights in a row a few days in a row i'll try to do this way where the lights last crazy um i think the lack of sleep the last few days in a row or weeks um has just finally caught up with me so i think maybe tonight i'll take some melatonin or something before i go to bed so i can just crash so anyway uh so yeah i need to go to the grocery store and i probably should go check on the p o box i need to get some wrapping paper so i may just go to fred mire uh i like fred mire some of you already know that i've mentioned it before um and it's handy because i could just get wrapping paper and groceries and if i need hardware and if i need you know i don't know craft paint um if i need hardware they have it all there so it's just easy um so i think i'll probably go do that today and get some steps in walking around the store and probably the neighborhood and yeah so that's exciting i know um just as mike deacon said recently in his vlog uh i live an ordinary life it's not anything unusual um and if you don't know who he is and you haven't watched his vlogs or his particular last vlog i'll link it in the description below um he's a friend of mine i i love mike and ian and their dog bentley is just so cute um and the steampunk machines that ian makes are just phenomenal um anyway um i follow their uh his channel a lot so uh yeah anyway i'll get on with my ordinary life and bring you with me if anything interesting does happen to happen all right we'll be back can you see that i'm still in my pajamas i just unexpectedly spent almost two hours updating the christmas card address list messaging back and forth with my sister-in-law about um our upcoming um the the upcoming holidays and communicating about that because of course the boys have not said anything to her or at least my husband hasn't i don't know anyway um so now i've been updating her this morning and catching up the address list i think it's good now but before i waste any more labels and print any more addresses i'm gonna have my husband check it because i think i think i probably missed somebody uh you know every year i send out christmas cards i've said this in the past and every year i seem to catch one or two people who have passed away um sending christmas cards to dead people while it is good in thought the you know you're sending the energy out there but it's a waste of a postage stamp because the post office will send it back to you just putting that out there um i know by experience so anyway i'm going to have him double check the list before i print it on labels i may go ahead after i take a shower and print it on regular printer paper i could just set it to do that now before i go downstairs and then he can review that and then i can make any changes and then we can print it on labels it's a good idea all right the lighting is obnoxious but okay so if you're watching this bit you saw the previous bit we're making chicken broth so i when i roast a chicken i generally save whatever leftover bits nobody wants including the carcass and if you're vegetarian i apologize turn off the camera right now um skip ahead um i'll try to put time stamps somewhere in the fast forward part where i'm putting the vegetables for you all to skip ahead um for those of you who are vegetarian and this offends i don't intend to offend you but anyway so i do diy chicken broth frequently i haven't done any since that we've been to organ that being said um so i throw chicken in there again i roast some chickens for dinner whatever bit leftover bits people don't want to eat um or don't get eaten i put them in a ziploc bag i stick them in the freezer when i have two or three bags i fill up a pot add some onions some carrots and celery some herbs and enough water to cover bring it to a boil turn it down to low let it simmer for a few hours and then you've got chicken broth um you can do this in the crop crop crop pot which i've done in the past but i have to say although i do have a crock pot i'm really really enjoying using my new gas stove so we're gonna do it on the stove the old-fashioned way so i'm gonna let that simmer away for a while and i'm gonna go about other errands and by errands i mean chores i would never drive away and leave the stove on that's really stupid so we're not going to do that when i started my day today that i was tired i believe i've said that if i'm not mistaken i didn't have that extra cup of coffee but it may be coming shortly or a strong cup of black tea or something anyway i sat down on the couch for a minute to look at my ipad and if i don't get upstairs and film the one last video for january i'm gonna end up falling asleep on the couch not that there's anything wrong with that but i got stuff to do so i'm gonna go get that one um last video filmed its explorations of me for january for january 2019 uh cindy udder and i and i believe leslie mcgrath and barbara clark are all doing it i think that's the lineup so anyway um keep your eye out next month and um anyway let's go get that filmed and then i can go downstairs have some more caffeine and watch my soap opera and if i fall asleep it's no big deal it's friday i want to say march 14th only it's not march and it's it's i know it's december and it's 9 34 a.m i only know that because i'm in the car um we are headed out this morning to go mail christmas cards and i actually have to get some more cards because every year i think we meant we talked about this last year on the channel every year i sent a lot of christmas cards and this year we we bought 80 i was kind of hoping that was enough it's not enough i need 22 more cards um unfortunately it used to be where we would send out around 150 cards but you know over the years um friends and family have passed unfortunately and so you know the list gets a little smaller every year um i do have a really bad habit of forgetting to remove people who have passed from the list and every year sending to at least one dead person one thing one year i think we got five dead people uh in the list which is really sweet that i'm thinking about the christmas but some of their family members i think got a bit disturbed so we're going to try not to do that this year it's it we we try every year but every year inevitably there's one person we didn't know passed and so we end up sending a card so i don't know i had my husband help me edit the list so we'll see what happens so we're going to go to mccan's first and get all the cards in the mail i've got a stack of international ones that have got to be sent and i need to get some more stamps and then i need to run to target and get some more cards and i might get a few things for the pantry closet in the way of food stuffs like canned goods and things you know we didn't we ate up everything that we had in california before we moved for the most part we didn't move much food with us which you know i've known people who have moved and they move all their food and they put things in coolers and you know i wasn't going to do i was stressed out enough about the move i wasn't going to be worried about moving food so i should say i'm trying to get to mccan's without the gps i don't know if it's going to work or not we'll see it might i think i turned on the right street so we'll find out so we have an unexpected detour mccan's is out of stamps they are expecting a shipment of more postage stamps but they aren't in yet and the tiger post office the person who runs the stamp room went on vacation and took the key with him so yeah so they don't have stamps either um fun times christmas times a bad time of year to do that so i'm headed to safeway hopefully they have stamps i'm going to try not to go to postal annex because i like postal annex we use the one near the old house that's where we had our pure p.o. box but they do charge you a service fee for everything above and beyond what the actual cost is of say the stamps or shipping so let's try not to pay that fee if we can help it and let's hope that they have stamps inside safeway and they're not sold out yet so good morning it's saturday december 15th i almost said september i know it's morning but i have no idea what time it is i don't think it's 10 o'clock yet but i could be wrong what time is it dear oh see 10 to 10 i was right it wasn't 10 o'clock yet i was looking at with my uh new watch it this his new apple watch got an apple watch see i say hi fred hi fred see got an apple watch anyway so we're headed out to go do some christmas shopping not my favorite thing but we'll bring you with us i don't know might be interesting might be boring but we'll bring you where's your ball it was right there reach the ball okay hi guys it's sunday i forgot to film an exit yesterday oops anyway i hope you've all had a great week and have a great day that you're not getting too stressed over the holidays i know it can be really stressful more so for some than others but in any case try to take a deep breath and enjoy them and not let the stress get to you that's it for this week we will see you next week have a great day do something nice for yourself maybe somebody else because you deserve it so do they that's it for right now bye guys