 day morning June 2nd 11 27 a.m. it's almost lunchtime and we're just getting started but we had a long tiring day yesterday my husband because he was traveling all day me because I had to get to take him to the airport so you know and pick him up anyway we're gonna head over to Costco we need to get some stuff over there some groceries the kids are coming over for dinner tonight and I ain't got a clue what I'm gonna feed them so and yeah so that's a thing and in case you haven't noticed in past videos I have very sensitive skin and I have like red spots frequently that pop up especially postmenopause and they turn into like scabby sores and this would be why I don't use new skin care products often or masks or anything on my face see all of this yeah popped up in the last like 48 hours after I used a new thing on my face so yeah fun times so if you see this in a video yeah I have a super sensitive skin anyway hasn't gotten better with menopause it's only gotten worse all right we are gonna get our day started and go over to Costco I guess we're having lunch at Costco snacks maybe all right I'll be back I'm not sure what we're thinking big box warehouse well grocery store called Costco for those who aren't in the U.S. and aren't unfamiliar on Sunday is pure madness there is so many people here it's hard to get even get in the parking lot even in little podunk Oregon even in yeah the teeny little suburb that we live in in Oregon holy cow we're insane I hope they at least have good snacks today yes I need some snacks yeah it's lunchtime we're oh that's the other mistake we made became hungry we're hangry we're hangry yeah so anyway we're gonna try to hit the farmers market on the way home too so we'll bring you when we can I'll be back good morning it's Monday morning June 3rd don't get all excited it's already after 9 a.m. I've been downstairs on the tablets watching YouTube and stuff I already know what the day is I don't remember exactly how much after 9 a.m. it is like 9 17 or something but I do know it's June 3rd anyway my asthma is a little bit off today so I might need to take an allergy pill but anyway as you can see we're vlogging for once after I've taken a shower and I'm already dressed I'm not in my pajamas woo I think I've spent the morning doing everything I should be doing everything except what I should be doing which is editing video okay I'm back upstairs and I'm allowing myself to be distracted and I did another sewing project you know right so there was a video that I saw this morning as I was seeing it in my recommended on YouTube a friend of mine sent me the link and said hey did you see this anyway I was meant to see it today I'll link it in the description below she made a sort of a paper trim on the sewing machine with scrap of papers and scraps I did it but only with fabric I know right so yeah and I got another paper clip done and I got my next artist trading card done there will be a video compilation on these I don't know if it'll be once a week or if I'm just gonna save it all and do it at the end of the month I don't know yet right now and then I also sewed a bunch of scraps of fabric I've had I mentioned this earlier I actually started the center portion of this back when I lived in California still and then never did anything with it but was still saving the fabric scraps so I took it today and now my scrap bin is not completely empty but it's virtually empty it was puffy and overflowing before and it's not that big on purpose because if I let it be too big I'm just gonna not ever do anything with the scraps so literally literally my fabric scrap bin is this big and it was like jammed overflowing spilling onto the sewing desk it was crazy so anyway that's that's all that's left in it now just a few bit actually kind of big pieces that probably should be put away with the rest of the fabric good morning it's Tuesday morning June something fourth I think it's already late it's technically still morning oh yeah but it's 11 28 I've been up this morning for hours obviously doing the social media thing chatting with friends working on some stencil inventory stuff ordering a bunch of currently unpublished designs price for that's gonna sting ouch so I'd appreciate it if you all stop shop in the SE shop hopefully by the time you all see this some or all of the designs will be stent new stencil designs will be in stock if they're not they will be shortly but some of the old ones are back in stock so the link is in my link tree list of links in the description below so go check it out wow anyway it's helpful if I remember their list off the refrigerator is it a full moon because yeah anyway I'll be back so we're out for an evening walk and Bob's been looking for the king what is this King City Park community park community park he's been looking for it for a few weeks now he found it once by accident and then couldn't find it again anyway we found it it's not far from the house and look this is what we live next to pretty cool good morning sorry for the horrible light right here it is 9 25 a.m. Wednesday June 5th I am obviously dressed in in the car way to state the obvious anyway I am I've already done the social media posts and stuff for the day checked on all the online stores and stuff like that except for a teespring and some of the other merch sites which I still have to do and I need to update the website but first we are headed out to McCann's I need to drop off a graduation cards card for mailing to one of my cousin's daughters Catherine I can't believe you're graduating high school oh my god where did the time go anyway she's graduating high school and headed off to college I think you see San Diego maybe make a couple of tops from the pattern I will give you my opinion about it but at first blush it looks really good so the pattern is by Hey June patterns and it's the Santa Fe top here's the picture of the pattern now this pattern has six different views there you go of options that you can do with this pattern which I am interested in I'm going to make this one for sure that's right at my alley but the you see the one that's here with the sleeves but I'm going to make it without the seam in the front just one piece you know I have an idea for using some of the knit scraps I'm putting them together in sort of a mosaic pattern and then that would be a great basic pattern to cut that out of so yeah so what I'm going to do right now is I printed the front of the pattern and this part that has the views and sizing information and fabric requirements on it two pages to one sheet so that I could glue it to the outside of the envelope here are the instructions it seems to be a very detailed pattern which includes printing instructions and printing options so you can do like I did and use a copier or your home printer to print out the pages the pattern pieces on standard copy paper or you can she has a couple pages at the end of the pattern that you can take just those I want to say six pages and take them to the office supply store one that has a large plotter type printer and have them print those sheets for you I chose to just do it at home it's easier so and that's the clip that you saw so I've got them all taped together so what we're going to do for right now because I'm not going to really cut the pattern out today but I did want to get it put together because that was sort of a daunting task or at least I thought it was going to be I think it was easier than I thought it was going to be I'm going to kind of stack these in some kind of semi random order that makes sense she also gives you options in the pattern for only printing the size that you're interested in making the pattern does come from small I'm sorry extra small to 2x and all the sizes are included in the one pattern and then in her instruction she has um pretty clear easy to follow instructions for only printing the size that you want to make instead of all of them random piece of paper um I'm pretty impressed so far again we haven't made the pattern yet so you know we shouldn't rush to judgment but I hope this all fits in the envelope otherwise I'm going to need a bigger envelope we'll see how glad I can get it let's see I said all of it okay holy moly all right let's see what we can do about folding it holy cow I'm going to need my bone folder for this a lot of paper seriously where's my bone folder so I've had another pretty good day I was chatting with my friends online I think I mentioned that earlier and then I went and mailed the graduation card and then I came back and was chatting with them some more I did get some chores done I also have so far managed to get projects done which is great this is not going to fit in that envelope um I've managed to get some projects done which is great um I need a bigger envelope uh I've gotten my artist trading cards done every day so far I've gotten some paper clips done every day so far let me get a bigger envelope hang on we'll just keep going progressively bigger till I find an envelope it fits in I could have just cut out the pieces that I knew I was going to make but I chose to do all of them cut out and print because it fits in because you know I don't know in the future which ones I'm gonna want to make or not so I'd rather print them now and then not have to worry about it and have them all in the envelope put the instructions in there or as my husband would call them distractions that'll work and we're going to cut out this glue stick I tend to do this whether it's a pattern I've drafted myself or one I've downloaded I put them in some kind of envelope or file system generally but like everything else in your art room it's just going to keep it neat and clean and easy to find all the pieces and that being said um when I want to make this I can easily look at the envelope and know how much fabric I'm going to need and it says it takes all views and sizes require 1.75 yards of knit fabric um which is not that's not much using an old envelope there we go so that works now we have the Santa Fe that's mailing labels we're going to take that out there all right the Santa Fe top pattern so now I am ready to cut it out it's going to be a little while before I cut it out but again I wanted to get it assembled so that I could cut it out like one of the afternoons like today after I'm done doing my coins and everything else I can push everything to the side which is what I've done here on the table everything's that way and then maybe cut out some of the fabric I've got six seven cuts of fabric I need to cut out like maybe one top out of each and then whatever scraps are left over we're gonna I think we're gonna do some kind of mosaic thing so um there are different weights of knit though so I will do all the thin ones together and all the thicker ones together so see what happens it will be interesting all right um I think that's it for today it's kind of a dark cloudy drizzly day it's not really raining hard but it's drizzly uh the internet's kind of been foggy it's been kind of weird I was having trouble loading and scheduling a video to the youtube group that I teach in my creative year I tried since yesterday and I tried like eight times finally out of the blue I thought I'll just try one more time and it went through but I don't know what the deal was it was within the time limit file size was fine I have no idea but it finally went through and then I was chatting on zoom this morning with said friends and I finally had to get off after being on with them later in the day because my internet suddenly was choppy and freezing and it was very weird so I don't know what's up with this it's been a weird day it's like it's a full moon or something I don't know it's really odd anyway all right that's it for the moment I don't know what's on the plate for tomorrow except more it's not a bad thing all right I'll be back it is Friday June 7th 1246 p.m just after lunch don't get all excited I've already tried to film this three times so I've checked anyway um there will be probably video shares coming out of at least of the atc all the atc cards because I've been filming a share I'm not filming a tutorial but it's just a share uh anyway and so there'll be some kind of thing with all 30 days of June atc cards and if you want one on the paper clips um a share I can do that too um the paper clips are inspired by Lollipalooza's um youtube channel and facebook group I'll link her channel in the description below she does a lot of different like swaps and groups and things and um paper clips are one of them and I also did some more little halfway art bundles inspired by my own video on halfway art called halfway art and um I saw in the last like two days I've seen a video by treasured books I think she called them collage bundles or art bundles I don't remember and then robin marie smith treasured books videos on youtube and so I'll try to link it below robin marie smith's channel um I'll link below she has I think a paid four class um making some sort of collage bundle embellishment thing I don't honestly remember what she calls them um but she does have a class on it I don't think it's on youtube um but I'll link her channel below anyway I was reminded by or inspired by all of those things to do some more of them and I thought it might be a great way to use up some of the million little pieces of scraps that are still on my art desk and so I did that today I got a lot of stuff done today um my mom is coming on sunday and I'm helping her with um some projects for my niece's baby so I need to clear off the sewing tape I mean the work table upstairs tomorrow so that we can do the sewing on sunday right now Fred is gonna go donate blood I'm not not after what happened last I'm gonna yeah take a break if I ever do it again he's gonna go donate blood I'm gonna read and then we're gonna go get barbecue right I got it on camera see yay right I'll be back morning everybody say hi Fred hi Fred says hi we are headed into Sherwood um Oregon they have a car car show what is it it's called cruising Sherwood 2019 we're going to that now cruising cruising cruising without the g no g cruising okay it's on hot rods right it's it's a classic car it's a classic car show we're going to that an old town Sherwood so we're going to go to that and then we're going to run some errands and if we see anything cool of course we'll bring you with us so we'll be back it is saturday evening june 8th I almost did june 10th it's just after 10 o'clock I almost forgot to close the vlog again anyway it's been a fun day we spent a lot of time today at the car show cruise in Sherwood I think that was the name of it anyways that was a lot of fun there's a lot of pictures from the car show which I will insert now for you all I do have a little videotape uh videotape hello I did do a little video um that if you're watching this you probably saw that if it was any good I left it in if it was if you didn't see it it's because it was crap and I cut it out um anyway we have a lot of fun with that we planned on doing some other stuff but we spent so much time walking around Sherwood and getting steps in and seeing all the really cool old cars that um we were exhausted that we were done so we went to the grocery store and grocery shopping and then came home and we've been home doing stuff around the house ever since and now a star is born is on downstairs so we're watching that and just wrapping up the evening I need to post on my evening social media posts and then I'm done for the day so it's been a good one it's been a fun weird interesting strange week um I hope you've had a good one it's um it's been an odd week but anyway my parents are coming by tomorrow and I'm going to help my mom with another sewing project and probably while the table is cleared off I'm going to get some sewing projects cut out that I want to do for myself that I've been putting off because there's other stuff on the table but the table will be cleared off tomorrow so I'll probably get that done I may draft a pattern too I have a pair of pants downstairs that I want to try making so I may try my hand at drafting another pattern so we'll see what happens with that that's it for right now if you would uh like to uh like share and subscribe I sure would appreciate that I'll leave any relevant links in the description below if you're watching this on a device that doesn't allow you to see the video description the links are here and they are there they are uh in the description if you go to a computer device you can see them if you all have a need for me to create some of a some kind of a thing on the screen here with links I don't even know if I can do that but if I can would you be interested in that anyway the video the links for the any relevant links are in the description below if you can't 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shoes to choose to send me any can you tell it's late in the day hello should you choose to send me any happy mail yeah my address is in the description below that's it for now it is really late I need to get those posts done so I can get my but to bed I think there's a lot going on tomorrow so I'm going to go do that you all have a great day have a great week go do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys