 It's Sunday, February, not morning, let's see, 12.55 p.m. We've got bison bacon chili going in the crock pot. It is a altered version of our recipe because I made it a lot less spicy than Bob generally likes it. I will include the original recipe down below, but keep in mind if you don't like spicy food you want to take some of the chili powder and the habanero peppers and stuff like that out of it. So adjust the spices to suit. Anyway we've got that going. We've got some other Super Bowl food going. It's Super Bowl Sunday and I'm not watching the Super Bowl. I'll be watching YouTube or something, but you know got the cooking apron on because yeah. Anyway now I'm in the art room and obviously vlogging. I'm going to be moving some paint around down there and I have some there in clear bins. I'd like all the bins to look the same and be white. I know that's a weird thing, but yeah. So I'm going to have to change that. And then what else? I did use up all of the spray inks that I wanted to use up and our box for February is getting pretty full. So I saved and I couldn't remember last night what they were called, but I saved let's see six bottles of this one. Mixed Media Art Spray by Meraboo. I'm not a huge fan of spray inks, but it is the one when I want to use it that I do like. Generally though if I want to spray something, paint or ink on something, I have a big thing of inks of which I still need to go through and I'll just get a some kind of disposable or reusable little spray bottle. Do a little bit for that project and then dump the rest out and wash it out. The sprayers get clogged on all of them, so it's a constant struggle. Anyway, they drive me crazy. I have all those cookie sheets have papers in them where I dumped the ink. The non-stick mat has some glitter glue where I squirted that out and it's drying so I can use the dry glitter glue as embellishments on paperclips and stuff with which I have a stack I need to do right there. Oops, right there. Anyway, a lot of projects to do. Never enough time to do them all. I added a second face to our big piece of paper. Yeah, I don't know if I like her or not, but she's there and that's what it is, so you know. Anyway, so yeah that's it for today. I will keep you all posted if anything else interesting happens. I'm not anticipating it. We're just taking it easy at home. We may go for a walk later. I don't know, but my knee's like a one maybe, so we'll see. All right, I'll be back. So I don't know what time it is. It's like three o'clock or something. 3.49. Football is playing and everybody's drinking or watching. I don't like football and I don't drink, so I could spend time with my family of course and I will in a bit, but I thought I'd come out and get a walk in first while it's still light out. I'd rather not wait until football's over. Everybody's been drinking too much and then try to go to for a walk in the dark. Just seems like a recipe for disaster to me. Hey guys, it is Monday. It's already well after lunch. I think it's, I don't know, probably almost two o'clock. I have no idea actually what time it is. I spent the morning doing all my writing and editing the regular vlog, editing the chronic pain vlog. If you want to see the chronic pain vlogs, you have to be a member of Arthur Chronic Pain. I'll leave the link in the description down below. I put some of the videos up here on YouTube public and some are unlisted for the people over in Facebook only. Anyway, I got that done. I got my face for today drawn. I decided after reading Jane, Jean Haines book last night, Paint Yourself Positive, I was inspired by what I read in her book to take another piece of watercolor paper that I had that had tons of inky marks on it that I actually started, I think, back before we moved to Oregon. I've had some collage and stuff on it too that I started last year. Anyway, I'm going to write on it one positive word a day to try to just focus on positive things and not negative things in black paint pen, black Sharpie marker, paint something. So every day I'm going to write one positive word on that paper and then I'm going to take that one down and I'm going to draw a face on the other one for the whole month of February and we'll see what happens. I think it might create something that's interesting and also might help me change my mindset about a few things. So it's all good, right? Anyway, if you want to follow along with those videos, the videos are only going to be for YouTube membership supporters and patrons over in Patreon, sorry, but the still images of the progress on the boards will be available on social media, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and over in either my Facebook business page or my Facebook group or both. So follow me on the easiest places to follow me on Instagram because I'll all be on Instagram and you can follow along with that and we'll see where it gets us. All right, I'll be back. And yes, even though I looped already, I almost said September. Am I going to get them all done? I don't know, but I'm going to go to Michael's first and Kavella's. We're almost at a deer corn, so I'm going to do those two things first. I also want to pop by the library. One are both libraries that are near here and I need bottled water and I actually need some vitamins. So we'll see how many of those I get done before the appointment and then I might be doing some of them after the one I might put off is the library and might just wait until the husband can come with me on Sunday. We'll see. So anyway, I will take you with me where I can and we'll see what happens. My knee feels good this morning, by the way. It's like a one or a zero this morning despite the fact that I went to the gym last night. So it's working. All right, I'll be back. Just the whole coronavirus thing going on that my husband texted me this morning that this company has suspended all international travel, non-critical international travel without they've suspended all non-critical international travel and critical international travel requires executive approval. They've never done that before even in half a mile. China, they have some employees that are Chinese citizens and you know, we're all concerned. So and as of this morning, there's 20,000 people infected and almost 810. So far none in Oregon cross your fingers. Anyway, I mentioned it as part of my chronic issue. So that's why I'm mentioning it. And if you're like me, then you understand and you know, we do art. We try to keep busy and do other things to stay on top of it if needed. Yeah, do what you have to so it doesn't send you off the deep end. Right? All right, I'm going to go run some errands and I'll be back. Out of physical therapy and it didn't hurt what going in. It was like a zero or one. Of course, now my knee actually still doesn't hurt. It's a little bit sore. But of course, the muscles and things they were pushing on around the knee are now sore too. So anyway, I've got the brace back on. I'm going to go run by the two libraries and then I have to go to like Rite Aid or Safeway or someplace. I need some I'm running out of one of my vitamins, one of my supplements. So they didn't have it at Fred Meyer. I got everything else except that, but I'm literally out of one of my supplements. So I need to do that before I go home. I think the one thing I may not do is drop off the art supplies at the family shelter. I may put that off just another day or two. But I think I'm going to try to get everything else done and then go home and have lunch. All right, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. It's Wednesday, February 5th, 308 or so p.m. to be outside and cold. And that's how hence the terrible lighting. I'm in the Pacific Northwest. I don't know what to tell you. Anyway, I spent the morning doing a lot of artwork chatting with my friend Barbara Clark. And my table is covered in stuff. All good because it's all art that's drying and stuff. And I got my word on my piece of paper. I don't mean to make y'all dizzy. There we go. Got my word on my piece of paper for the day. I got a face done for the day. I finally, after day five, figured out I think a good place for the tripod back there that I think will work going forward. I am filming the faces for a, I'm filming the faces, doing the faces, vlog style. And I'm putting the video over in Patreon and and or for YouTube members who are both of whom are supporting the free content here on YouTube. So if you want to see the footage of me actually creating the faces, you have to go. One is $1 a month. One is $2 a month. So yeah, whichever one works for you, do that one. I'd appreciate it. You can also shop in my Etsy store, put some money in the Amazon, PayPal, Tip Jar. There's lots of other ways. So they're all in the video description, no matter where you're watching any of my videos. There usually is a description attached because they're usually on YouTube and so click on that and yeah, if you can't find it, message me. I'll get it to you. Anyway, I think I'm done up here for the day maybe. I think I probably should go downstairs and do some actual chores like dishes and laundry. Yeah, but I am, I was sorting out my stash of words and sayings and I took almost all the fortune cookie fortunes I had in my stash and I covered two pages. So that is drying and I'm going to have ideas for creating an art journal page on top of that where all our most of the words will show. So that's going to be good. I took the extra page from creating today's face and I covered another journal page with that which is drying and I'll be creating a journal page on that one. Worked some more on my Jane Haynes book making these flowers, the abstracted flowers today and I'm working on a bunch of paper. Yes, I haven't given up on the paper clips and I still have some more of the painting papers drying from using up a bunch of ink sprays. I did go through my regular ink basket, some more stashes of acrylic paint that I found and I'm going, I purged some of it and cleaned up, cleaned up. I made things make more sense and I'm going to take what I'm getting rid of over to the family shelter. On Friday I think after I have physical therapy I'm going to take a bag of art supplies over to them and I did get rid of the little drawers of words that were up there right there. If you don't know what I'm talking about in my old video I had a small set of drawers in my old video, my old studio, a small set of drawers which is where I kept all my words and my fortune cookie fortunes, my tea bag words, my words clipped out of magazines and that because as you know I use words a lot in my art. Anyway I found that I wasn't using the words that were up there on the shelf in this new space for those that don't know. I moved about a year and a half ago. Instead I've been using, let's see if I can get it out, words out of here. This is a series of pencil pouches put together with binder rings and I have my word stickers, my words that have been clipped, my tea bag words, everything sorted and organized in there and it lives right here by the table. I find I use that all the time and I wasn't using the words that were up there. So I cleaned out the little shelf thing that was up on the up high that was up there, purged a bunch of words, sorted and organized what I was keeping into the one that's here and I put three little baggies of the extra words into that box that we're saving in the closet. So remember that box I talked about last week that I'm filling up in the closet, I'm going to purge and send off to somebody's words. There's three bags of words, some of them are word magnets, yeah there's all kinds of words. So anyway so that's done and I decided to on these faces to keep my people notebook out where I have like reference photos of faces and facial expressions. It'll help me I think in making the faces on the on the board this is my word one. These are the faces so far. I do share them on social media so if you want to see them every day as I do them follow me over on like Instagram or something you can click on my link tree list of links and follow find all my social media links there. It'll take you to link tree website and then that'll give you a list of links anyway. I'm going to change some laundry and do some dishes and that kind of stuff. All right I'll be back. I also think we're going to the gym tonight so I think I need to get done before we do that. All right I'll be back. Good morning it's February 6th it's 10 15 a.m. Thursday and I've decided I'm gonna go take whatever they don't want to Goodwill. I checked the PO box and stuff like that. I already did my face for the day and my word for the day I'll insert pictures here somewhere. You want to see the video of me painting all the faces you need to be so I already did that. I decided tomorrow I don't know how many he's going to feel after therapy so maybe it would be better if I ran errands today just in case I feel like just going straight home tomorrow. That's a thing. All right I'll be back. Okay so I've mentioned it before it's the Good Family Shelter here in Tigard and they took all of it. They took the media medium priority mail flat rate box full of strange bits and everything else so yay. Yeah so anyway they took I said I have this crazy box full of collage bits and cut out words and you know strange stuff. I'm a mixed media artist. I said do you want that too? She said sure so I dropped it all off and there you have it and for those who are thinking it no I didn't get a receipt. No I'm not doing it for a tax write off. I did it anonymously and I didn't get any receipt or anything for it. It's just a good deed and you know it shouldn't be about getting something back always so anyway that's it for the moment. I'm going to go I have one other bag of like clothing so I'm going to take that over to Goodwill. I'm kind of thinking and wondering if there's other things I can do today. I do have my list of things that I was supposed to do the other day but I got all this done I think. Friday morning February 7th it's 7 13 a.m. don't get excited. Obviously I'm in the car and so yeah I've been up for a while. I have physical therapy this morning and I think the only thing on the agenda is physical therapy this morning and then took a home and get some stuff done in the art room. I don't think I have anything else on the agenda today. I don't know what we're doing for dinner. Generally Friday is some kind of pizza night. We don't I hate to tell everybody at home we don't have enough pizza at home but I'm not stopping at the store to go get it so we're like we're gonna just have to work it out. Anyway I'm too tired to think of anything else this morning. I do have my coffee with me because you know yeah. Okay holy cow I'm done with physical therapy. I feel like I'm a mess. I went in my knee was probably a zero or one and I came out it's probably a one two. I expect the pain level to go up a little bit if only because there after you do your exercises they do some manipulating of the knee and the leg and so actually when he does that what hurts is not the knee it's the muscles in my thigh because he pushes on some of the muscles and the tendons. Yeah if you all have had knee surgery and you've had physical therapy you know exactly what I mean and you're like naughty your head. Anyway I was texting with a husband while I was laying down on the table with ice and we're gonna just do take out probably probably pizza caboose so anyway we're gonna do take out tonight some kind of take out or something that I don't have to stop and pick up on the way home so I'm gonna go home I'm gonna finish my coffee I'm gonna have some breakfast and go upstairs and turn the computer on I'm too smart sounds like a plan to me what are you gonna do crush your fingers people I've been trying for so long to get my old iPod which is still working but dying a slow death and the music that's on here and more importantly the playlists that are on here I got them synced to my iMac desktop but then I couldn't get the playlists on my other devices I got the music library but not the playlist and I couldn't figure out what was wrong is driving me crazy Apple tech support people were absolutely no help and I think she actually might have given me the wrong information I might have just figured it out cross your fingers yeah give it a few minutes and we'll see what happens okay while we're waiting to see if that is going to work with my music situation and my playlist I've been doing a lot of touching up on projects lately we're working on the face of day as you all know and that's where we're currently at for February it's day seven we're doing a word a day on a different sheet of paper I've been doing a lot of watercoloring and art journaling which I need to work on a journal page this afternoon I turned the camera nothing like recording all of that not having the camera on so anyway I've been doing a lot of watercoloring and lately along with art journaling and other things one thing I'm noticing with this really big palette which I love because all my colors are here but the lid was always flopping down backwards I don't use it to color mix I kind of wanted it to stand up and especially to have the color key up against it so that I could easily see which colors are where down here but I was propping it up with water bottles and things behind it it was very inefficient it was falling down and I realized I thought I wonder if I have a book stand or something and I realized I had this this thing here it's an embroidery stand it's for holding up your embroidery charts your color keys for embroidery when you're working on a piece of embroidery you can get them at any sewing and craft store in the embroidery department they're widely available they're not expensive to begin with and if you have a 40 off-cube on they're even cheaper anyway I had this one so I used a big binder clip to clip it to the lids the lid stays resting against it and then I used two smaller clips to clip the color key to said lid so now the whole thing stands up it's very stable and I can bring my journal down here I can quickly see which colors are where I've got if I'm working out of a book which I am right now I got that there my brushes my water my rag and surplus tools all readily with in hand perfect so my point of that is not to brag but when you have situations like that in your art room try to think outside the box and what do you already own that maybe can solve the problem without spending any money you might have something you never know all right I'll be back so I gotta say it's working you know I got frustrated doing the googling because I couldn't figure out what I wanted so I thought I'll call I'll I should not call all instant message with Apple support and see if they can help me figure out why my playlists aren't syncing with my other devices my playlists that were on my computer and at the same time make sure the computer music and playlists aren't synced to the cloud which is what everything else is connected to because I thought maybe it wasn't but I didn't know where to look to see to check that anyway she said oh you can't do that in reference to the playlists they don't transfer over she says yes they do and I figured it out without her and it's working anyway it's transferring over I have a lot of music so it's going to take quite a while but it's the point is it's working yay all right I want to also tell you I was playing with some embossing powders I have a bunch of Seth Aptors big textures and different kinds of his embossing powders and I didn't have any idea if you could emboss through a stencil especially a detailed one and if you could which of his oops which of his powders would work and which wouldn't and I was working on the page that I covered in fortune cookie fortunes which I think I showed you all already and so I used one of my new stencils coming up silence and the answer is yes the finer textured powders will give you a better impression than the thicker more coarse ones which this is a couple of different ones but this is one of the core the main part is a coarser one but I like the way it turned out anyway but the point is you can there is a trick to it and you do I do recommend some experimenting if y'all would like to know what the trick is and you want me to film a video on it let me know in the comments below all right that's it for now I'll be back hey guys it's like 6 30 in the evening went to the gym this morning I got some if you're watching this you got that you saw the footage I shot there or still images I shot there because I'll put some things in and then we spent a long time today out just running a bunch of errands going to a big box discount store Costco and here in the States for those that don't live here Costco it's like Sam's Club if you have Sam's Club near you so I hear I've never been to one anyway um we went to Fred Meyer which is Kroger owned by Kroger we went to the mall we went to um somewhere else I can't think of right now oh the Portland running company to get new shoes anyway it was a really long day and when we came back I was so tired and my knee was bothering me so I sat with ice on it I got the art I wanted to do done today before we left the house so that was done but yeah my daughter at Costco I guess found these she says they're really soothing so she gave me one she went a whole big bag uh box of them at Costco and she says she hasn't seen it in a long time and it was something she got in a beauty box at one point a subscription box that she hasn't seen in a while so she was surprised to see them at Costco so anyway I was in the bathroom putting it away there's TVs and stuff on out there and yeah so anyway so it's been a long day but it's been a fun week I got a lot of really great art done this week um I know I wasn't going to get too much done today because it is Saturday and it's kind of family day um tomorrow I might go out to the craft store I have a coupon so I might want to do that we'll see if I get out and do that or not I don't know anyway it's been a fun week if you have any questions comments or concerns please leave them down below um I will leave any relevant links in the video description as 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