 Good Sunday morning everybody. Sunday morning March 31st and we're headed up to go visit with my parents. Dad's going to help with changing the oil in my car so I'll take you along. I get teased a lot about my art room being organized and everything being labeled. My dad's automotive tools are not labeled but here is a picture or two. One is at the inside of his toolbox drawer and I do have one of the back wall of his little tool section of his garage space. He's got a little like cubby in the back and yeah so the OCD thing where everything's got to be neat and lined up and in its place. Yeah it runs in the family. Can't buy it honestly. His drawers aren't labeled. I told him he should label the drawers but he says they've been there for like 50 years. He knows where everything is. I'd still want him labeled but he notes me. Anyway that's it. We're going to just chill at home now for a while and have some water and yeah I had a lot to eat for lunch so I am not hungry. I'm just going to make sure I had drinks and water because the lunch was kind of salty. That's it for now. I'll be back. He's got stuck in front of the computer. Started working on something and lost track of time. It's 10 30. I'm still in my pajamas. I have an Etsy order that's got to go out in the mail today so I'm going to hurry up and take a shower and get dressed and walk it over to the mailbox really quick because yeah that's a thing. All right I'll be back. So I got to tell you all the people over at Silhouette are super helpful. Big thumbs up to them. They have an online support chat and Ricky over there. Hey Ricky gave me a lot of help this morning. We figured out what was wrong with the Silhouette and we fixed it so we are making stickers. Yay. Good morning everybody. It is Tuesday morning April 2nd. I think it's 9 46 a.m. I only know that because there's a clock right there. Don't get excited. Anyway I am headed out right now. I already got my typing and stuff done. Chatted with some friends. I have a bunch of mail next to me on the seat including which includes some Etsy orders and some stuff for the my design team and has to go out today. So we're going to go take care of that first and then we're going to just run to Safeway. Pop over to Safeway really quick. I need a few groceries. I am expecting some deliveries today actually over the next few days. So although they'll leave them on the porch I don't necessarily want them to be there too long. We ordered some new light fixtures for the outside of the house. That I don't think is coming until Thursday so I think I'm good on that. And that's kind of a big order because there's like seven lights. Anyway I think that the rest of the day today is going to be spent when I get back working on catching up my creative year journal which I haven't done anything for any of March. Documenting what happened in my life is what I'm talking about. So I haven't done any March. I have a little piece of paper but yeah so I need to work on that while I'm waiting for the delivery that's supposed to come today. Then once that delivery gets here we'll be putting that piece together. It's something for the art room and I'll be filming the process for that and it'll be sort of a series of storage videos and yes I'm finally going to do a series of videos about the new art room and how I'm storing certain things and how I have things set up. It's going to be a multi-part video series. I'm going to do little sections here and there. I'm not going to try and do the whole thing because the room is really big. I don't have more stuff than I did before. In fact I have less. It's just spread out more which is great because I can get to most of it a lot easier which is wonderful because it's not about the size of the space. It's about how you organize it so you can get to things. Anyway we're going to be doing a series about that and yeah I think it's going to be just a quiet few days. We have a new bed coming on Saturday so we need to do some rearranging of furniture. Oops for that because we're keeping the old bed. It's going upstairs in the guest room so I haven't told almost son-in-law yet but he's going to need to help us get it up the stairs. Yeah anyway that's a thing. Uh-oh cup of head blocking the road. I'll be back. I forgot they're doing construction and stuff down here. I'll be going around the other way to go home and in case you guys haven't noticed you haven't heard Jeeves in the background. I have finally figured out how to get to a couple places that are close to home without GPS so that's a good thing. I still use them a lot so don't get all excited or anything. All right I'll be back. Hi guys it is 19 p.m. Wednesday April 3rd. I only know that because it's already after 3 o'clock. I have been busy all morning working on my new stencil rack. I'll include a picture here. There is a video coming up. By the time you see this it'll already be out. Chatting with friends. Working on what I'm going to do with um excess stencils that I'm purging. Now binders. Cleaning off the table. Missing an important mail delivery that I didn't know was coming. When he tried to deliver it I was in the shower so that took like two hours to get somebody on the phone at the post office and arrange for a re-delivery tomorrow. So I'm not going anywhere tomorrow until the delivery gets here. Anyway it has been interesting day. I'm also working on laundry and a couple other things so we spent the day our afternoon well a good couple hours this afternoon talking with my friends Cindy Utter, Peg Robinson and Vicki Brown at Messy Table Studios about color mixing and color mixing charts and how to play with your paints and I don't know is that something you all like to see or has it just been overdone on YouTube? Let me know because we definitely can do videos about that. I have done some in the past but we can do another one. I do have some ideas so let me know if you're interested. That's it for the moment. I'm going to take some pictures of my new stencil rack for my friends. They're all wanting to see it and they evidently weren't paying attention earlier when I was showing it to them so at least a few of them Cindy. So I'm going to take a pictures and then I'm going to go check the mail and check Bambi's bowl because I haven't done that yet. All right I'll be back. Seems we have a little visitor on the back fence. Not sure who's cat that is. It could be our neighbor's Dick and Jeannie or someone else. I bet you he's watching for birds trying to catch a bird because we get a lot of birds in our yard. Interesting. Hi guys so I got a box from the DecoArt Helping Artist program to be super transparent with you all. Most of my DecoArt products come from the Helping Artist program. If you don't know what that is I'll leave a link in the description below. I love DecoArt products but the transparent part I want to be transparent about is I am only ordering the things I'm out of and that being said I don't remember. I think I ordered more of their pouring medium. I love their pouring medium. I have a bunch of the Liquitex which I also like but or I should say love because I do love the Liquitex one but it's a lot more expensive than the DecoArt one. The DecoArt one is affordable. You seem to get cells a lot easier with it than the Liquitex one. I know there were some paints I was colors I was out of. It looks like those are in here but yeah I don't. Oh yeah you guys. Alright so let's see. I forgot to take the meat out of the freezer for dinner so it's sitting in some hot water which is probably like a no-no but clear pouring top coat which is great. It's a large bottle of the Americana acrylic paint in white titanium white and then yes pouring medium and then I use a lot of white in the pouring and I've been using Michael's artist loft pouring acrylic pouring paint. I wanted to mix up some of the Americana and try that. I got a DecoArt Americana smaller bottles in brilliant purple, aqua sky, Bahama blue. These are colors I was either out of or I'm almost out of. Calypso blue. See a theme there? A lot of blues. Desert turquoise, moon yellow. I think that's the one color I wasn't necessarily out of. I just never had it before and the name was intriguing and that being said that is a pretty shady yellow. So that's pretty cool. I guess I should take it upstairs now and then cook dinner probably. Alright I'll be back. I do also want to say something really weird happened just a second ago. It sounded like somebody was knocking on the window. Only I'm home alone and there's nobody outside in the front or back or side yard. The kids next door are playing on their trampoline. I can hear them. It was a little weird and spooky. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It's Thursday morning. March fourth. I had to count. I don't know exactly what time it is but it is 8.35. The computer just told me so. See there you go. I'm up early-ish and dressed because I'm expecting a USPS delivery that I'm going to have to sign for and I'd rather not do that in my pajamas. So and yesterday he came and tried to deliver it but I was in the shower. So yeah. Anyway that's a thing. Anyway I'm going to get my daily typing done and go check on Bambi's bowl and do my normal morning routine stuff while I'm waiting for him to come. I'll be back. I decided to throw something in the trash and Bambi was literally like right there and he's emptied both bowls or he and his friends. So yeah I'll go put some more food out. We are gonna have to get more deer food tomorrow. That's gonna be a thing. Probably just scared him off because I accidentally hit the garage door open. Oops. Well well well. I didn't scare him. He's just waiting for breakfast or more breakfast or something. Well you go back inside already lady so I can finish eating. Problem with feeding the deer. Well there's probably a few problems feeding the deer. I'm choosing to only think of one. I have visions of someday being here in the garage with the garage door open. You know getting situated in the car to go run errands or go out and do something and have the deer come up to the car window and go hey lady can you feed me before you leave? Yeah because I think they might actually do that. They're pretty friendly deer. I don't think they're really that afraid of anything especially now that I'm feeding them. That being said some of you have been concerned about bugs, insects and deer ticks. We do spray for that and we use a more natural environmentally friendly pest control system. We actually use active and active friendly or active approved type products. We do live next to the woods so with or without the deer insects are going to be a thing and honestly ticks were a thing in San Jose California where we used to live. My husband's been bitten by a tick when we lived in California. We didn't live too far from a county park, a wildlife open area that also had deer and he got bitten by a tick in our backyard so it's you know been always a thing and I'm allergic to arachnid venom. I've mentioned that before so yeah bugs are a thing so we we take care of that. We take precautions so anyway I'm going to go back inside now I guess. Let him eat his food. I'm going to go see if he's eating now. If he's moved now that he thinks I've gone inside. He must not be hungry. He must have just finished clearing out the bowls but yeah that's the side of my house and the woods right there. I just realized I don't think I've vlogged all day today. It's Saturday April 6th I think. It's pretty late in the day. It's 2 32 p.m according to the stove. It's been a busy morning holy cow so first thing this morning the gardener was here and he had some extra bark from another landscaping project and he came over and said do you want it? Of course for a price but it was a pretty good price so my husband said sure so we got unexpectedly got bark laid down in the front and back which we kind of needed anyway. Then we got our new bed delivered yay. Last night the kids helped us get the old mattress and box spring up the stairs so now the spare guest room actually has an actual bed in it. We still have the air mattress in case we end up with extra company. We have an extra bed but yeah so that's a good thing and then we've been working on chores. That noise in the background is the laundry and I was trying to get my email situation straightened out which I think we got the main important parts of it fixed. Thank you Yahoo for fixing it and I also have a workaround for easily checking all my mail in one place because I just don't want to talk to Yahoo anymore right now to be honest with you. Then we had a contractor come by to give us an estimate on repainting the outside of the house. We've got to have lights put up. We want to do something about resurfacing the concrete and the driveway in the back patio. My husband's out right now getting a new battery for his car. It's just been one of those Saturdays. There's one thing after the other. It's just we have a couple of other errands we need to run but we don't have to do them today so we're not going to. My parents and the kids are going to be here tomorrow to help us with some stuff in the garage and then I'm going to just be on overload after that so that's good and I've got a couple more contractors coming on Monday for estimates so yeah we had a vase that took a header last night. Header last night off of a cabinet by the TV. My husband brought this back from business trip to Taiwan years ago for me. It's a beautiful vase and I do like it plus hello he gave it to me so I don't really want to get rid of it so I decided to do the Japanese thing of you know putting it back together and making the cracks gold. It's not the smoothest job on the planet far from it but that being said I think I'm going to add a little bit more to this one right here and I'm going to leave it. I don't think I'm going to clean all that Bumpley Bumpley. Is that the word Bumpley? Bumpley bits off. I think it just added something to the character of the vase. I did this this morning so I think this is dry enough now to go back in and take some of the bad Bumpley's away but also add a little bit more to a few places and just make sure it's glued together well. How did I do this do you say? Because I think the original Japanese way of doing this which is a word I can't pronounce I'll insert it here somewhere and put a YouTube link put a website link to Wikipedia in the description below. I think they use a glue and then they put gold leaf but what I did was I used some schmincky gold pigment powder and I mixed it with E6000 and used that and it just worked like a charm. So I'm going to do some more work on that and we're going to spend the rest of the evening just chilling at home I think getting chores done working on laundry and relaxing before our house is full of people tomorrow. I do think we have some stuff to probably fill my car up with donations from the garage as part of what's going to happen tomorrow so when he gets back with my car I think I need to move some things around so I think that's it for the moment. Okay it's all fixed but no more throwing balls in the house people you hear me? All right the other thing that happened today too is while the mattress for the new bed was being delivered I went outside when they weren't looking and I stole this big piece of look at this how cool of a mark-making tool would that be on the jelly plate like I had to have a piece I just had to I know right anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back. Hey everybody so fun fact it's Sunday morning and I forgot to close last week's vlog oops this weekend's been a hive of activity just been crazy I didn't even film everything that happened yesterday because there was just too much going on but we got a new bed delivered we had an unexpected visit from the gardener as I spoke of we had bark delivery from him and contractors visiting for estimates and there's one I really like so I have some more coming tomorrow before we can make our final decision but there one yesterday I actually really like him anyway it is a brisk overcast beautiful rainy morning here in the Portland Oregon area and yeah anyway it's been a great week and let's hope it continues and yeah I hope that you I remember okay so first of all I hope I remember to put any relevant links in the description below if I forget somebody leave a comment remind me I will try and I hope you've all found this interesting and that you continue to do so there's some interesting content coming up on the YouTube channel for going forward especially for April so at least interesting to me I hope it's interesting to you let me know if there's any things specific you'd like to see on the channel if you'd like to support the free content here on YouTube of course there's a lot of different ways you can do that click on the link tree link in the description below you'll find patreon my amazon store my Etsy shop all that stuff you'll also find some places you can follow me on the internet just see what I'm up to don't forget to like share and subscribe please if you will and the most important thing go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys