 Good morning, everybody. It is Monday. I should say good morning. It's just after lunch. Good afternoon. Happy Sunday morning, everybody. It is Sunday morning, March 7th, 943 a.m. Don't get excited. I'm looking at the computer. So before we go faucet shopping or anything else, we've decided to go for a walk. We need the fresh air to clear out our minds from the stress and everything else. So we're gonna go get that done first. I don't know about you, but I need some walk and some fresh air. What about you? I'll be back. Hello. So it's Monday, March 8th, and obviously we're in the car. Gotta adjust all the mirrors and everything. My neighbor's got a giant car sticking out of his driveway, so hopefully I can get around it. Hey guys, how are you today? I don't think I vlogged it today, and it's 2 p.m. Wednesday, Tuesday, March 9th. I did my live stream this morning. I've got a couple of journal pages done. Put some pictures right about here. Finally putting my round journal together. My friend Leslie McGrath cut me a bunch of these watercolor circles, and I had some of these coffee filters that are from my dirty paint water bucket. Straightening the paint water through these. I usually throw them away, and then these two particular ones. I thought, you know, I wonder how they would look as journal covers, round ones, and so it might be a little bit better picture of the color. Anyway, so they look really cool. I am going to use some cinch coils to bind them. I used my zutter binded all punch to create sort of a template of where the hole should be. And then I used that to wind it up on that curved edge and marked it where to punch the holes with a regular paper punch. Because these are round, they won't punch in the zutter. That's not going to be something that happens. So I just wind it up like that and then punch them out. And then I'm going to just sit here and listen to some YouTube. I'm punching a bunch of holes. And then I will get this all together and I'll show you when I'm done. I don't know what time it is, so don't ask me. Sometime Tuesday afternoon. 50 degrees out, but feels like 46. And it's raining. Did I mention that? We're going walking anyway. Obviously you can see I have an umbrella. Bob has changed his mind about not having one and he's going to grab one and probably grab hot hands. And then we're going to go for a walk. I'll be back. It'll be Wednesday morning people. It is Wednesday morning just before 11 a.m. The rain keeps going off. I think it's the cats. Anyway, I have a table full of stuff I should be working on. So I have two bad envelopes of purge artwork and two boxes of artwork and supplies and stuff that aren't selling. Y'all aren't interested. So I'm going to repackage them, throw some stuff in the trash, something. And then of course I have to film the user. I'd lose it for February, which I still haven't done. So now it's like part of February, part of March because it's the 10th. Good morning people. It is 10 a.m. We're just there after on Thursday, March 11th. I have my appointment for my big hair chop today. So in a couple of hours before that I'm going to go run a few errands like check on the PO box, pick up a few things at the drugstore. After that I got to go to the grocery store. So it's going to be a day. I do want to ask you all, how are you all doing? Are you taking care of yourselves? Aside to doing art here on this channel, we talk about life and life struggles and those kind of issues. So are you all doing okay? Are you managing? Do you have safe place to go, safe people to talk to that you can trust? Healthy ways to vent your frustrations, art of course is or should be one of those but there's lots of other ways to do that too safely and healthily. If you have tips or tricks for people who might need some advice or new things to try, put them in the comments below. That would be great. Hopefully you have some friends and or family members that you can safely talk to. That's always helpful, meant to get your frustrations out. I have been saying for a while now for me besides doing art, listening to music, turning off devices, going for a walk, just being able to clear off my head for more than a month now I've been turning my computer off early and I mean early I get two thirty three o'clock at the latest my computer goes off. I do sometimes have the tablet on downstairs but it's not for like our business or watching the news it's literally for watching YouTube videos and or Netflix and something like that entertainment kind of stuff. Nothing depressing, only you know cheery things I can get lost in or art tutorial videos I find interesting. I don't watch the news or the ever anymore and that it's just too much it's just too too too much what do you do I would love to know all right I gotta get over it and I gotta go to Walgreens. By the way I know you've seen my hair like for the last few months up like this a lot on camera I'm gonna put a picture here of what it looks like when it's down clean and combed out I really do look like Einstein's sister and then the next shot's gonna be a picture of me post haircut so that'll be fun all right I'll be back so there you go I kind of like it I haven't had my hair this short you're really really really long time if ever as an adult but I like it yeah it looks good and this is after you know the beautician she like kind of straightened my hair um yeah because it normally wants to kind of go every which way but I like it very much I'm gonna eat lunch now because I'm starving and watch some YouTube I'll be back that's them quieter than they were just a second ago glad that's not my house oh my god all right I'll be back good morning everybody still getting used to the short hair it's very weird anyway and to stop and feed Bambi before I could leave I need to run to the hardware store I'm working on something for my easel the painty easel you need a drip tray there isn't too many of them made mostly they're made in regards to children's easels which is fine but even those are like 25 bucks nobody's got them in stock anywhere that's just kind of a lot of money for a drip tray I'm going to be and have the itch and urge to paint more at the easel which is great but I'm a messy painter I want to be able to spray water on the painting have it dripping things and not worry about it getting on the floor so that means I need a drip tray I did rig of a rag with the last painting I did which worked great but it was a perfect by any stretch so I am going to head to the hardware store there has got to be something for less than 20 bucks whether it's a window box planter I can adapt or something I can use that will work so as you can see I got my DIY drip tray mounted underneath the easel I didn't film any of it because it was I wasn't sure what I was doing and every easel is going to be different I will put the brand name of my easel that I have in the video description it is made by the company M A B E F this one I think it might be this one which is their M 12 maybe liar easel that sounds about right I know when I bought it I was just brand new to painting didn't know what I was buying it was the least expensive one I should have gotten a different one a bigger one but I'm just making it work because now I have it and I'm not buying another one so I have a one of those giant art clipboards wedged into the back of the easel and that way that's always there and that way if I want to use the easel for paper and I want to do watercoloring or something back here I totally can do that and now I have this drip tray here which is wedged between the wooden tray I actually took the easel apart and I put the some holes into this wooden this is a window planner box and I wedged it in between the pieces of wood and screwed everything back together which was a pain in the neck the husband said you know I'll do for you tomorrow if you want to wait this little piece came out while I was doing it which I didn't know where it went to I didn't find out where it went to I don't know that it's a huge deal that I put it back I think we're going to just leave it out for the moment um the husband feels so inclined he can take it apart again and put it in for me I don't know anyway I'm going to love working on this it does have some holes in the bottom because it's a planner but there's a tray down here um so the water's not going to go far I'm never going to put that much water on the canvas that it would like fill it up and overflow anyway plus I've got can you see chamois in here um I've got a couple different chamois cloths I'm going to line into the bottom that'll catch most of the water I just wanted to have a secure place where it would go and not like drip off the chamois onto the floor yeah because that's a thing I may fill the drainage holes up with hot glue or something at some point but for the moment I'm going to just let it go and I'm going to take it as the order to the mailbox and I might go get a little bit of a walk and get some extra steps in today because the last few days besides yesterday um were kind of slow step count days where I did seven to eight thousand and I'd like to have for the week close the week out with um my normal like 60 000 and I don't think I'm very close to that at the moment so I'm going to go try to get some extra steps and I think I do have some projects I want to work on but that was adding that was the big one for today and I got that done um I have some water coloring ideas and things I want to do but tomorrow's another day all right I'll be back okay so this year I've made a choice the choice is to put myself first yes my family and art are always a priority but if I don't make myself a priority I can't do those other two so eating better monitoring my blood pressure and my blood sugar because my mom's diabetic for those that don't know um getting my steps in getting exercise losing weight getting healthy all of those things they're a priority I can't control everything but I'm going to control what I can I'm going to be better about taking care of myself and to that end we're going to go get some steps in because it's been kind of a slow step week I like to have 60 000 steps by Friday and I only have 49 so we're gonna go get some extra steps in and hopefully by the end of the day I have 60 000 or close but yeah I'd like to end the week which my weekend's tomorrow on fit bit I'd like to end the week with something over 60 so we'll see I'll be back out walking taking a new path trying not to get lost oh boy we'll see what happened good morning it is Saturday morning 10 31 a.m it's been a busy morning already I got laundry started I cleaned out the bathroom cabinets my side anyway got rid of a bunch of expired stuff reorganized what is staying in there makeup I'm just not wearing anymore and is so past expired um most of which I'm not replacing um I wear a little bit of eye makeup anymore a little bit of blush stain and lip stain and that's pretty much it anymore um what else feels like I got so much else stuff but stuff done besides you know showered and dressed and all of that um I got all the garbage we got all the garbage cans emptied I got bambi fed um Bob did the dishes love love that guy um right now I'm trying to stay out of his way I'm coming up here I've got netsy order that came in overnight so I'm gonna get that packed up and wrapped and scheduled to pick up and because I'm staying out of his way because he's putting in a new kitchen faucet yeah he's doing some DIY I'm staying out of his way unless he calls me to help him hand him a tool or something because yeah but I got it we got a new kitchen faucet so he's putting the new one in today and then the one that's there now is going to go in the laundry room when we have the sink put in the laundry room which will hopefully be in a couple of weeks and yeah I have to feed the sourdough starter still and I want to try starting a gluten-free sourdough starter which I have the recipe for I have no idea if it's going to work it out but it's a king Arthur flower recipe so I'm going to give it a shot and um there was something else I needed to do and I can't think of it besides walking I do want to get some walking in today I can't think of what the other thing was I came all the way upstairs for something and now I can't remember what that something was don't you hate when that happens holy cow that took 15 minutes longer than it should have I just remembered I was going to go upstairs and open some windows while it's nice out duh okay I'll be nice early spring day and a great day to get some ventilation in the house and that was what I wanted to do when I headed upstairs holy cow anyway I'm going to go back to watching YouTube I should say we've had cats and deer and birds and snakes visiting the house today all the wildlife is out it's just such a bright beautiful day I'll be back okay we got the faucet in and it looks great I'm so happy we changed it out we found a couple of interesting things under the sink so I'm glad we actually did it for more than just look and operation of the faucet let's put it that way um but it's all fixed now and we learned a few things along the way that we probably should know anyway looks like the new laundry room sink will be coming in or being installed at the end of the month hopefully and the new doors for the back patio will be on order I hope probably next week and we're going to go get some steps in I'll be back accidental pictures of myself that's always fun hey guys it's 901 p.m saturday march 13th did I even say what the date was this morning I have no idea it's been a busy day but we got a lot done and yeah the sink is looking good I don't even know if you can see it from there but there's a new faucet back there it's all looking good Bob did a good job good job dear anyway and his car his car park came in for his barracuda that he wants to um try to get on tomorrow so yay all right that's it for the minute I hope you all had a great week and that you enjoyed the video please like share and subscribe leave any questions comments or concerns down below don't forget to check out the video description there is always links to ways you can support the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups there's a link tree list of links in particular that has my email newsletter my instagram at the Etsy shop all that stuff so check it out and I'd love to have you join the facebook groups or follow me on instagram or whatever works for you and don't forget to stay safe stay healthy stay creative please wear a mask and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it we'll see you next week bye guys