 it's father's day here in the US and a few other parts around the world too. Anyway, you know, it's just, the world is just so weird right now. Anyway, I started off the morning losing the back to one of my earrings on the floor somewhere in my bedroom as I was to be honest and graphic changing, taking my clothes off so I could get in the shower. I couldn't find it and rather than wandering around the bedroom naked I just said, forget about it. I grabbed a spare earring back, went in the bathroom, went to go put it on and then hop in the shower, dropped it and then couldn't find that one either so I got a third one. Took a shower, came out, the first one was right on the counter where I was standing trying to put it on, not the first one, the second one and then I grabbed that and put it away and then I went to go get in the closet to grab some clothes to put on and stepped on the first one. And since this whole like pandemic apocalypse thing started, I've broken like six dishes in my house and cups combined. If that's not a sign that changes the foot, I don't know, I don't know, it's just so weird. 20 seconds I think. I'm headed out to, I need my sunglasses, I'm headed out to the hospital to get my mammogram which in itself is nerve-wracking if you've followed my journey you know what I'm that I freak out about mammograms every year and if you are similarly like minded but haven't followed my channel you know exactly what I mean. Anyway and top it off this year of course we have the apocalypse and the hospital I'm going to is a testing center and treatment facility for those affected by the virus. So yeah that's fun. We do normally at the house take all precautions. Everybody who comes in the front door is going to spray their shoes with Lysol and wash their hands and we really don't have anybody in the house who doesn't one need to be there and two we haven't already seen through this whole process in the door but today we will be doing all of those. No I won't film it. So yeah because it's a testing center because I'm nervous about coming in contact with the virus all of that stuff. So I'm leaving probably a few minutes earlier than I really need to leave because I'm not sure about getting into the hospital. Okay so as I suspected it took longer to get into the hospital than it did to actually get the test done so yeah that was a thing. I won't know for a few days what the images say cross your fingers. My anxiety about it doesn't usually let up until I get the results. So I'm gonna head home now and strip off and take a shower and have some more coffee and some breakfast. Okay guys so it's yeah 10-19 so I think my process process project for today is going to be this over here. So this is the printer office supply area of my art room and my husband's printer died a few months back and we've just been using my printer and when it dies we will just replace it and just use one shared printer which is working fine for us but what I need to do is I need to rearrange the supplies under the printer and next to the printer so that the paper supply and shipping supplies make sense to more people than just me. I also need to take that pile hold it and that pile and combine oh wait and that pile and sort through it get rid of what we don't need to keep and organize what we do need to keep over there because that paper stuff is from the husband's office so but anything that is printed intended for a printer doesn't need to be over there there's no printer so yeah that's my project for the day. All right I'll be back. Hey guys all right so we already have the mammography results from early this morning it is still Monday it's Monday afternoon it's I think just after two o'clock or something around there. I already have the results already and they're normal thank you thank you Jesus and thank you Legacy Health and the hospital and doctor system in Oregon everything pretty much is online you can get your test results very quickly they're very prompt unlike California where I'd have to wait a week if you got to call this quickly or notification this quickly it's because they found something wrong so yay so happy. Anyway I rearranged everything over here so fun fact my husband has a bad back he's got severe rheumatoid arthritis of the spine and so I kind of wanted to make it so that most of the time when he's using the printer he doesn't have to bend over to get paper so all the labels and printer paper and card stock are there on the top of the Akiha card the next shelf down is the small you can see in the back there's some small cards of photo paper and index cards in the front is more printer ink the postal scale and some tape the very bottom is sort of random office supplies including like scotch tape and paper for my pocket printer and stuff like that and then over here we have bubble small bubble mailers and spare tape for packing packaging electronics cables the box of cables I know right so thank you cards and things in the back is a a slide scanner and some slides I found a few months back before the pandemic started of they say my high school graduation so that's going to be a project that I'm going to try to scan them and maybe turn it into a video I don't know it depends on what I find on there and I did get a little scanner device for the slides for Christmas this last Christmas so I just haven't done anything with it yet so it's back there in the back of the yellow thing back there we've got the postcards the art postcards and post-it notes of which you get one minimum in every order when you place an order and then the cardboard mailers so I think that's going to work really well it's nice and sorted and there were a few things we needed to perjure get rid of that I don't yeah when you're questioning why you had it and where it came from needs to go away so I had some lunch I got my results yeah so now I'm going to work on that slow stitched canvas piece that I started yesterday that I was pulling threads out of I'll put a picture of that here somewhere and I also need to edit the vlog so I better get to it I'll be back yeah it's 85 degrees out it's in case it's peoply which it isn't right now I already have my mammogram results they're normal it's all good ending the day with a little bit of family drama on my side but you know it's the name of the game with my family so what are you gonna do yeah I think our cleaning lady is coming on Wednesday so that's a little bit stressful because of coronavirus but she's very safe I trust her and she takes all the precautions so I'm not too concerned and I appreciate her help keeping the house clean so there's that she does such a good job we love our letty um and at some point this week we'll have to go to the grocery store again so you know that's a thing but in the meantime I'm going to stay at home and get some stuff projects done some stuff for patreon hopefully and another video for my creative year I'm hoping to get both of those done tomorrow but we'll see and uh made myself a project list haven't done that since the coronavirus started so maybe it'll help me keep me focused anyway that's it for the moment we're gonna go walking I'll be back hey guys I don't think I vlogged today I have been filming again with my phone but I don't think I vlogged at all I filmed three videos for YouTube with my phone I don't know what the deal is with that since this whole thing started the pandemic thing um but I'm enjoying not having to get out the big camera to be honest um we filmed a few painting videos this morning in fact we have a 30-day challenge coming up there's a hint so stay tuned for that some of the content is filmed in such a way that I can create unique content for the patrons over on patreon they get more chatting and instruction from me then you all are going to get here on youtube sorry um at least right away I might release the talking versions at some point on youtube but at least right away so if you want to hear those or see content before it goes live on youtube you need to be a patreon uh whatever I filmed the July challenge for my creative year so that's done now I've gotta I've gotta go to the bank I keep forgetting I've had this check from a friend since May 25th is the date on the check um for he sent me some money to make him and his family some masks which was great thank you Andy um I would have done it anyway but thank you um anyway but I've never cashed the check so yeah so I'm gonna go to my bank has a drive-thru thankfully so I can stay safe and all of that so I'm gonna go do that I have a mask in the car I'm gonna use the opportunity to be out to go run and get a couple things at the grocery store that we just forgot we're completely out of and I don't know why we didn't have it on the list like subconsciously we just I don't know what the deal was so I'm gonna go grab those I might go grab some thread real quick at Joanne's and well we're not gonna go too many places because you know hello COVID-19 okay I spent the last I don't know a few hours chatting with friends rather than finishing the crackers which I have to finish I gotta get the dough out of the fridge um and I did but I did prep some fabric pieces for a couple of upcoming videos that have to do with mixed media stamping stenciling and all of the above stay tuned anyways um and I have um some more ideas of other things I need to do this week so I do have my to-do list I'm able to cross a lot of stuff off first thing I'm gonna try to do tomorrow well maybe not tomorrow maybe Thursday is I'm gonna try to film this week I want to film five of the videos for painting a day for 30 days I'm filming them ahead so that I can um maybe do them as a as premiere videos every day and I'll be like in the chat with you all as you're watching so anyway um I think that's it for the moment I'm gonna gather some laundry and start some laundry and then make my crackers and I will be back good morning everybody it is Wednesday June 24th 8 22 a.m don't get excited hello computer I'm checking you on youtube and having my breakfast cleaning off the table a little bit straightening things making piles my ironing board's now covered with project piles okay so I got the first two videos for the 30 paintings and 30 days challenge um edited and they're loading to youtube and scheduling out right now I am going to try to film most of them ahead I am sort of toying with the idea of doing the very last one live I'm not sure but let me out know what y'all think about that I might do one or two slow stitch lives to in July sometime I don't have anything set in stone or scheduled out yet so you guys let me know what you think I also got the July challenge video filmed and loading for my creative year and the last tutorial for my creative year for July uh June filmed and loading so there's six videos all together anyway I'm gonna try to get all the 30 day paintings or at least most of them done sometime between now and this time next week so it's going to be interesting and very busy so we'll see I am headed out for an evening walk by myself first time in a while definitely since this whole COVID-19 thing started Bob is at the gym he's taking all precautions but I don't feel comfortable doing that yet so I'm gonna go walking instead it is kind of late we haven't had dinner yet but it's all right it's all good we're gonna end up with a late dinner but that's fine and I've got a bunch of video loading to youtube and yeah I'll be scheduling posts after that's done and yeah it's all good I'm gonna listen to some music and go for a walk and all these hey guys it's after two o'clock I don't think I've vlogged it all today I went right away this morning upstairs and started working on the 30 paintings of 30 days project and getting that all straightened out which was for the next few days or a week or so it's going to be a lot of work but I'm going to get it done I'm doing it in a much shorter amount of time than hopefully you all are going to be doing it but anyways we also had my dad who came to pick his car up which was here and a couple of other things and we had to do it while being socially distant because he's been traveling and what that is I think Bill's he's been traveling and he had a COVID-19 test while he was gone it is negative but he says he had it out of an abundance of precautions but we gave him his car keys back very socially distant and I stayed in the house and my husband stayed six feet away and basically threw the keys at him so yeah it was good I talked to him through the window and he's he shouldn't be home by now so anyway I'm going to head in the house and sit down and watch some youtube while you while the videos I filmed this morning and edited are loading and just relaxing I need some water I'm like really thirsty so have some water in a snack and maybe go for a walk later and I'll be back well the lighting's kind of bad huh can you tell that it's a really bright and sunny out and hot um it is friday january june 26th I believe I think it's the 26th but I know it's friday um sorry I'm backing up I'm not having a good multitasking day it's just not not a good day for that today blaming it on a corona brain june 27th 11 26 a.m don't get excited computer hello guys we're at the ironing board I'm going to cut off about quarter inch cotton twill tape and I don't know if you remember but I have all of this camellia flower water I made a a few weeks back when I was eco dying with camellia flowers and I boiled the rest of the flowers I had and made this sort of pinky red dye so I want to take some of this cotton twill tape and soak it in here um overnight at least overnight and see what happens I'm going to take about five yards maybe a little more because there's a lot of water in here um and I'm going to soak it in there and see what happens I'm going to add some alum to the dye first because honestly I don't remember I don't remember if I did it already or not um but the alum will help set the color in the fabric so I was going to say if I can get the lid off holy moly it's not that way that doesn't want to come out let's try this way nope it's kind of bumpy put the lid back on give it a shake forgot to say make sure the lid's on good before you do this okay now I'm going to cut off I've got my yard stick out which I'll be honest it took me a few minutes to remember where I put it because I haven't had it out for so long I have oops I have a measuring guide on the on the art table so I usually use that and if this works I might also brew up some coffee and try this with some coffee and just soak the ribbon in the coffee actually I can I'm I'm going to do another one too I can put more than one in there need a paper towel okay and I have this giant spool of twill tape so there's plenty it was very inexpensive on amazon I'll put a link down below five so if this works I might be selling some of this dyed twill tape in my etsy shop along with some fabric scrap packs for lack of a better term I've I've had some on my in my shop already and they've sold they may be completely sold out there may be one I don't remember but usually a combination of found and vintage items things I've dyed things I've painted I think this is going to be one of them if it works I'm going to do one more piece okay we're going to just sit this in a corner and leave it for at least a day maybe longer let it soak up that color from the camellia flowers and then dry it we'll see what happens but you're not going to see what happens this week in this week's vlog you're going to have to stay tuned so you'll have to watch the next vlog so to see my adventures with dying the ribbon and whatever else I can figure out to stick in there you'll have to stay tuned so that's it for today and that's kind of a cool picture that and I might take a picture for that on instagram let people guess what I'm doing um okay so that's it for today and for this week it's been a fun one it's been a weird one because you know a whole lot of apocalypse and all but um you know we're still chugging along and we're being creative and we're thinking of new things and they're having fun doing a lot of stitching so there's that plus getting back into watercolor a little bit so it's all good um if you have any questions comments or concerns please leave them down below don't forget to like share and subscribe if you have a way to support the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups I sure would appreciate that there is my etsy shop link paypal tip jar if you want full tutorials on some of the videos that are speed through here on youtube the full tutorial videos over at patreon it's only two dollars a month so you might think about supporting over there and not just for me though there's a lot of really great creatives on youtube and over in the facebook art groups and I know they're all looking for ways for you to support them whether it's buying a piece of art from them through their etsy shop or um taking a class from them joining their patreon something like that so you know if you can't figure out how to support them check it out uh check out their video descriptions maybe send them an email and ask and I know they I know I would appreciate it I think they would too so that's it this week stay safe stay healthy stay creative don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys