 Good morning everybody. It is Sunday morning, July 11th, 10.55 a.m. ish 56. Yeah, we are just getting started for our day to be honest and we're gonna start it by going for a walk because It's not 70 degrees yet. It's gonna be another hot day not blasting but hot and And we do want to get our steps in we're tired of it being so hot in the afternoon evening that we're not getting any steps So we're gonna go do it now. I will Take some pictures if I can and all of that stuff and Okay, yet again, I'm having another day where I'm out for a walk and there are creatures in our path for most all birds Some flying right past Bob's head and buzzing his head And they just are not interested moving very quickly. They don't care that we're there So I don't know if it's because it's been warm or I don't know but it's interesting All right. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is Monday morning, July Hold on, like 12th and pardon me while I move the seat up so my feet actually can reach the pedals in the car because Let's just say there's a large height disparity between my husband and myself Okay, so I got my mail dropped off I went by the local little drugstore around the corner From the post office because it was convenient to get a few more and mailing envelopes I also got some foam core. So I guess I am really looking at that Penn situation today Serious enough. I'm serious enough about it to buy the foam core to think about making some drawers. So that's a thing First we have to see if I can get it down to a Collection well enough to fit into the smaller space that I have assigned for pens and markers because I do have a smaller space So I'll be working on all that evidently I'll film some of it for you I do want to tell you that part of the lesson that I'm learning with my art supplies and all this purging that I've been doing is You really don't need a lot to create with and to create Fun fabulous art with and you really just need to gravitate towards those supplies that really speak to you And if you take a class or follow an artist even myself That uses a particular kind or brand of art supply that you don't have that doesn't mean you need to go buy it look and see what you have in your stash that will work and Substitute for what you have or what you can get cheaply if you do want to try something. I Do recommend that you do open stock What does that mean so like Faber-Castell will sell pens in a set But often they will also sell just one So instead of buying a whole set of something you can just buy one pen or marker And that'll work and then you can try that brand or that particular kind of product And if you like it then you can go add more to your collection But you don't have to like spend a ton of money on a whole set right off the bat and there's a lot of things like colored pencils that unless you're a Strict particular colored pencil enthusiast if you're just the basic mixed media artist Crayola is probably fine to be honest That's my opinion If you want it to be like fast and archival, of course, then you want something better than art than Crayola, but Yeah, anyway. All right lecturing enough. I'm gonna go in and look around and get some steps in and I will be back Okay, you guys Oh my god, so the great pen purge happened and Where I used to have pens here here and here Obviously I moved my watercolor palettes up. I used some foam core to make these bins here That hold my watercolor tubes So I could lighten up the collection of mediums and stuff down here Spread things that I am keeping out a little bit I am working through some of the stuff that's down here and going to be Purging or using more of what's down here, but in the meantime Spread out what I was keeping make it more made make it make more sense. I am gonna label these in just a second I Got all of these spare pens that I'm keeping to use that aren't living on the work table over here Over here, so they're by color. I do find I use this system a lot I'm working on a journal page. I decided to want something in brown I grabbed the brown bin. I bring it to the table fish around in it for what I want that's gonna work and go for it I probably have too many metallic pens almost backwards. I just There we go. I probably have too many metallic pens, but you know, it's a thing Anyway, I got all my spare big pens here And I'm just remembering I need to make a label for that my spare water Brushes, you know these these kinds. Oops These kind I do like this particular brush by Pentel in all of its different sizes But I am very hard on them. So I do keep a drawer full of spares And then I have some different kinds of water-soluble crayon and a little bit of charcoal and stuff in here Anyway, it led to me disassembling a bunch of stuff dragging a bunch of bins in from my spare bin board I Would say collection, but that's not true Which I now have to put back because none of them fit fit here None of them fit here. So I had to make something out of foam core So now I have to put that stack away And I'm keeping the inserts that go here. I in case I ever want to put them back so I'll hang on to them. I did make these again out of foam core and I I taped the outside together and then I reinforced the inside edges Here in the corners and the edges with hot glue And that seems to work really well for the moment. It'll work fine. I do wish I had prettier tape to put on the outside But I'm out of white book binding tape. So I just use packing tape. I may change it at some point, but Anyway Now I have to deal with that And I've gotten nothing else done today I just was doing that because you know one thing led to the other I do have now five Hold on Yes five five small very Full priority mailboxes full of extra drawing materials pens pencils Markers each box has two oil pastels oil crayon oil Hold on two of these. These are the extra ones. I couldn't get in the box These are Shiva oils oil paint sticks so Remember what I was saying earlier about not buying stuff for a class just because the teacher says you need it Trying what you have and all of most of my classes. I think I say always say that I'm going to use this But use what you have if you have if you have this try that Don't I always felt like I had to buy what the teacher said I had to buy which is not true So anyway, and I don't like oil paint fun fact So there's two like oil paint sticks in here. There's two Big markers in here. It might be two Faber-Castell pickpens the big pit pens. It might be one pit pen and a Permapake pen. It might be two permapakes They're all sealed now that random the smaller pens might be Um Muji pens and colors they might be Uh posca paint pens. They might be a generic knockoff. They might be crayola pencils. They might be duran in 10 pencils It's just a huge variety of stuff. And again, the boxes are already sealed. They're at random I'm gonna listen for sale in the Etsy shop. The link is down below. So if you want one grab it now while they last What else that's it for the minute. I better print that other label get everything labeled and then I guess start putting stuff away All right, I'll be back Things are relabeled and put away the mess on that desk over there. It's gone. It's all put back to rights in the storage bin closet and Yes, I do have a storage bin closet It's not only storage bins, but Yeah, anyway, um, I also took one of the old pen sections that was over here and these racks behind me where I put the new drawers And I'll try to do this slowly so don't make y'all dizzy I put it here I love that It'll be a few days before you all see this vlog and before I list those um stuff those pen boxes of pens i'm getting rid of on Etsy and So that's okay because it gives me a few days to do some work up here and see if there's anything in those boxes I miss I really seriously doubt it But I guess one never knows I just realized it's 405 p.m Tuesday, July 13th, and I forgot to log today oops Well, that's at least partly because I think I'm getting a delivery Oh, I think that's the ring. That's part at least partly because I was Yes, that was Amazon with another book. I ordered um This one is called birds in water color collage and ink this one Which I will be reading next after I finish it uh philx um shine burgers book urban watercolor sketching which I'm It's like right here on the sofa. I'm still working my way through um anyway, I spent most of this morning in a zoom chat with some friends and supporters of the free content here on youtube and the facebook art groups and um working on some More drawings. I'm trying to finish up one of my drawing journals So, yeah, it was just a busy morning doing a lot of Nothing in particular just chatting and making art um I had a late lunch watching my soap opera right now general hospital and then I guess I'll probably do some chores because I probably should at some point Hey guys, so we're out for our evening walk It's very late in the evening I don't think it's nine o'clock yet, but it's late but 17 minutes to nine But it's finally cool enough to go walking. So that's what we're doing I have this idea from chatting with everybody today in that art chat And watching a couple of videos afterwards that I think tomorrow I'm going to work on paper clusters If you don't know what those are I'll either explain it here in the vlog or in a future video if you want to see me work on them Maybe become a patron or a youtube membership person But I think they're intriguing look up my life mitts I'll link her video down below where she's working on a journal page She doesn't show how to make them, but I like her little tiny paper clusters and I'll link a couple other videos that I saw Anyway, I'm going to go to get some steps in and I'll be back Good morning everybody. It is 9 a.m Wednesday, July 14th, maybe Oh, holy cow. I'm 14th I am headed out to Walmart to go pick up a couple things really quick I want to get it over with in the morning I have my mask With me just in case I've got actually a couple of them Cases are surging around the world again because of the delta variant and Yeah, I don't want to get sick. So even though I'm vaccinated. I'm going to be cautious As I can where I can And all of that stuff So anyway, we're going to go get our errands done really quick just one errand Walmart and Um my car is full of leaves and tree parts. Anyway, there goes one. Um Then we're going to come home and I think while I listen to some youtube or music or chat with art friends or something I'm going to work on some little small paper clusters inspired by my life mitts Um I really like that idea and I've got some random ephemera bits downstairs that I had downstairs in my downstairs drawing bag That have been honestly living in there for quite a while and I haven't used up and so I think I'm going to turn the majority of them into Paper clusters and I've got a lot a lot of stickers and stuff so I can decorate with those and washi tape You know you get the idea. I'll film some of it for a youtube video I might put a clip here and there in the vlog. We'll see At the time of filming this. I don't know what I'm going to do We are again going on another evening walk I kept meaning to vlog this afternoon and then I started chatting with my friend Leslie McGrath and I'm working on some paper clusters And I'll put a picture here of some of them. There's a number of videos. I talked about them earlier Yesterday, I think Anyway, yes, I'm addicted to them now I even made a foam core Sorting tray for some bits and pieces As I'm working on other projects in the art room and I find things. Oh, that would make be good on a cluster Yeah, so anyway I'll I'll put the picture of the tray right about here It's not my best hot glue job I've ever done, but it's serviceable and it'll do just fine And it cost me nothing because I had all the pieces So anyway, we're gonna go get some steps now and I don't think it's even eight o'clock yet. So early for us Five out of five after anyway still early But it's nice and cool. I'm gonna go get some steps get some walking in See what we can see I'll be morning everyone. It is Thursday morning july 15th 10 o'clock 6 a.m. Don't get excited. I'm looking at the iPad um I am just upstairs here I was trying to clean the hot glue off the little ceramic dish I used to rest the glue gun on last night when I was making This tray It's not the best glue job I've ever done by any stretch. You all see this like mess of glue down here like It's really not but I do like it overall. It is going to work very well. It's very functional So anyway, it doesn't have to be pretty. It just has to work well um But then I was trying to get the glue off of the dish And am I the only one that knew that rubbing alcohol? Which is what's in here Dissolves the adhesive properties of hot glue Popped right off wiped right off with a I put some on there Let it set for a couple seconds wiped it off with a paper towel like seriously I had no idea Where have you been? It is Friday morning, July 16th 9 44 a.m I had a late start this morning, but you know not for any particular reason just because I didn't feel like getting up and taking a shower Some days are like that anyway, I am Going to be working on some more paper clusters and my paper cluster tray Um, which I love the tray, but I made a mess And it's working great But I made a mess with the hot glue on the inside of the tray and or didn't quite catch all the holes I want to make sure each little well is like sealed up And I had an idea To use some fast dry caulking. I actually happened to have up here in the art room So I'm going to actually take everything out of here and put it in neat little piles caulk the inside of each one of these And then um, while that's drying work on some paper clusters because you know, why not while I'm watching some youtube Because why not? All right, I'll be back. Okay. That was messy, but and it's still not the prettiest thing on the planet You can see where it's lumpy and gluey and messy But at least now all the um different sections are sealed And from each other and glued down and that's all it needs to be it doesn't need to be pretty It just it's like a sorting tray and honestly when I'm not making clusters. It's going to sit Um on the bookshelf somewhere I can't get this one handed. Hang on So when I'm not making paper clusters, it's going to sit right here with scraps and bits and pieces in it And honestly, it doesn't need to be pretty, but yeah, you can see how lumpy it is It's not my best glue job but It is functional of course if I knew somebody who worked Had a giant 3d printer or worked with wood and it could build me one out of one of those that would be better than foam core But I don't and this is what I had and so it didn't it didn't cost me anything and it'll work Let me get you some measurements. Hang on one second There is nothing quite like thinking that you're filming and you're not really filming you're doing something else Anyway, I was just measuring my tray and um, it is about 22 and a half inches long and about 10 and a half inches um deep this way it's got three rows of um compartments and um, I didn't do a super great job of measuring them, but Compartments are approximately three inches square some are a little less some are a little more Um, which is great. It gives me 21 different compartments. Now the caulking I just used to seal upset compartments dries in about 20 minutes. So we're going to set this aside We're going to make some paper clusters while I watch some youtube I'll be back. Okay paper clusters. There's a million ways to make them. There's a lot of videos on youtube. Um, I will link Um a few down below if I can find something good if you all have a good video link, um By all means put it in the comments anyway Um, ideally we would have of course our tray out here sorted with some scraps and bits and pieces But I disassembled it as you know to seal up the little holes Um, but I have like piles on my desk and the idea is you grab things at random and do little mini compositions That can later then be used on a tag or an art journal page or um I may put some of these in etsy orders and stuff like that like yeah, so they can be used for lots of little things and um You can glue them, um I've been stapling like I have a bunch of the I have the tim holt's tiny attacher. Is that what that's called? I think um, and I've got A lot of staples and so I yeah, so I've been just stapling. I'm quick easy To the point so let me show you let me do one and then I'm going to fast forward. I'll be back My process for making a paper cluster I'm going to make a bunch more of them. I'll be back buddy. It is saturday morning july 17th. I think 11 13 a.m. Sorry 11 13 11 14 Yeah, um, we are going to get the car washed I'm going to turn the camera around in just a minute and then we're going to go out and drive Maybe do some garage sailing and thrifting maybe go drive I don't know We're going to go drive around. Just why not? All right, we'll take you with us though. I'll be back. Okay, so We found the local of veterans thrift shop so I was telling you all uh Previously that I kept saying seeing donation trucks around or maybe I meant to tell you what didn't I don't know yet until I review the footage anyway, it was Pickupplease.org I kept seeing their trucks around town and they're part of the veterans And so they pick up for the veteran store, which is the red white and blue store And we went there today and it is I like it and the prices are good You have to dig a little bit but and because it's saturday. It was really crowded, but I like it. I'll be back um We didn't find too much today, but we did find some cool things Just a few things. We don't need too much to be fair. I was looking for another old dictionary to rip up but That's the one thing I didn't find so Anyway, we're in Lake Oswego now and We just had some ice cream at salt and straw, which was really good, but now I'm really full. We stopped Uh an hour or so ago and got lunch at Togo's There might only be like one Togo's in oliverton because it's really a california thing Uh, but anyway, I had a sandwich there and that was good, but anyway, I'm really full now Just waiting for bob and then we're going to go get some steps in and we're going to go Do some more driving around maybe? Yeah, hopefully I'll find a dictionary if we stop anywhere else I'll be back Okay, so while we would like to be couch potatoes since our driving and shopping adventures this afternoon And we kind of did that for a little bit. We're headed out for a walk instead It's probably the smarter move we did come right out the front door and It's either skunk or skunk weed, but I'm pretty sure it's skunk because we do live next to the woods The whole front yard smells It's not massive deadness. At least I don't think so That's a skunk. Yeah, it's definitely a skunk. So anyway Trust me. They smell different All right, so anyway, we're gonna go for a walk get some steps in I'm gonna see if I can get any more pictures today I hope you've enjoyed the week and that you've had a good one that you're Making whatever is going on in your life work and making the best of it Don't forget to like share and subscribe check out the video description for relevant links ways to support the freak content All that stuff. Follow me on instagram. You know all the stuff. It's all down there always Anyway, yada yada Anyway, go out and have a good day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you all next week. I'm gonna go get some steps in Bye guys