 So, over the weekend this last weekend, I really had the hankering or inspiration to make some little custom doodle embellishments for my journal, our journal is going forward, not just for the My Year 2017 program. And I started out doing this little mason jar, isn't he cute? And I printed a whole sheet of them and then I sat in front of the TV the other night and I just cut a bunch of them out. Now, this was just plain white computer card stock. I got it wet, I put a couple drops of acrylic spray ink on it and that's the blue color that you see on there. Once it dried, I ran it through my printer and then I cut them out. I did some with the blue, I did some with the white. Then I was thinking about the videos for my year and I thought, well, I may or may not use some of these little mason jars, but holy cow, I have another idea. So I did another doodle. This time I did a thermometer. I did it, it actually was very large, I did it on my iPad and I reduced it down in size and I did a whole sheet of them and I sat and cut them out. So I have a whole bunch of them. So now I want to take one of them and I'm going to use, this tag is just a tag from clothing that I bought and you could use a store-bought tag, you could use a piece of card stock, use what you have. I like this gray side of this, so I'm going to use that side and I'm going to probably glue this down on here, but before I do, we're going to color our thermometer and I'm going to pull it up as high as I feel like right now at the moment. I'm feeling temperature-wise cold and flat or am I feeling warm and I'm going to think about not my actual temperature, but my mood. Am I in a cold mood and flat or am I hot and fiery and crazy and maybe annoyed or I could think about my artistic mood. Am I feeling flat with no inspiration or am I hot and fiery? Right now I feel like I'm sort of somewhere in the middle. Like, yeah, so not super hot on it, but not flat either. So I'm going to start by, I'm just using a light blue ink pad. This is one that I had and I just want to do this with a Q-tip because I want to kind of prove to you you don't need anything fancy. Use what you have, use a Q-tip or if you're in the UK you call these ear buds. Now this was printed on a just jet printer, so the black ink may run a little bit okay with that. If you're not okay with that, you may want to print these on a laser printer or you may want to, I'm going to zoom in so you can see because I just realized you can't really see what I'm doing, or you may want to cover the paper with a sealer. You could also probably do this with a crayon. And that actually, you can see that with the ink that ran a little bit. If you do it with a crayon or like I have the Jane Davenport watercolor markers, what are they called? Mermaid markers. I actually haven't used them yet. But use what you have, you could, I would do it with something that's not opaque because you don't want to completely cover up the thermometer doodle. I am going to sell these doodles in my Etsy shop, but if you're in the My Year 2017 Facebook group, you're going to get access to the doodles free in the group. So I got a little bit of that blue ink on here and then this is, I should really do this on a scratch piece of paper first. This is one of the markers. This is Byron Bay, I bet you have to take this spacer out. Yep. So I'm going to just color it up. Again, you want to use something that's transparent, not something that's opaque so you can still see the original clip art doodle through it. I do want to add a couple of little white highlights, except I need a pen that actually works because this one's not working. Grab a different one. There we go. The fatter one. OK, so that's cute already. So I have myself that at about 60 degrees in my artistic and creative mood. I think that's about right. So let's get this glued on here. This is Aileen's Turbo Tacky. I like it because it grabs quickly, but not too quickly. And then I'm going to take, I think, some flat back gems. I've got this box full of stuff that I never use. How many of you guys have that? I'm going to zoom out. There we go. No, I know I'm not the only one, but I want to put gems that reflect my mood. I want to just feel right. I don't know how to explain it otherwise. I'm thinking about my creative mood, what kind of creative mood am I in? I'm in a mood that I feel fairly creative, focused on getting my art business to make some money. The green stones kind of reflect that. I'm not super overflowing with ideas or inspiration, but I'm not completely lacking either. Mostly, that's because my world is kind of still topsy-turvy with the construction on my bathrooms continuing ongoing. It's hard to be creative when you have workmen constantly in your space, in your face all the time, but it's getting better. I think I like this. The same kind of gray background of the tag for me is representative of some of the blandness and frustration I'm feeling about the fact that the construction is taking so long. The colors on here really reflect the temperature of my mood, which is what I'm going for. Very much they do. I also have a box of brads, and I kind of want to stick a brad in the top. I have this one that has a little green on it that might be the one that needs to be the copper one. Yep. I'm going to just put that up there. My creative mood thermometer. I don't know if I want to throw that away, so we'll just put that up there. We're going to take the journal and we are going to put this probably right here in the front. The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to clip all these open, because if I don't, it's going to slide like that while it's wet with the glue. Do that. I think we're going to put this, it'll cover up the owl a little bit, but that's okay. All right, so let's get that bunch of the turbo tacky on there. These are weights I used and I use them all the time in my room. You've probably seen them before if you've been watching my channel for very long at all. They are actually the ends from barbells, an old pair of barbells where the bar was threaded inside. You can see I took them off the barbells and I've been using them for craft weights ever since. I've had them a really long time, so I'm going to just put that on there so that it can dry and doesn't like go sliding around too much. Put one here. I'm going to take my pen, try to position the weights so that I can finish this part. Do my journaling here at the bottom. Okay, that's cute. I didn't know for sure what I was going to write until I was writing it. So it says, let me take the weights off really quick so you guys can see. So this month we're talking about hot and cold, that's our prompt, and what I've done is added a creative thermometer to my journal. And I did the journaling around it says, my creative temperature is mild right now, things will improve when the construction storm passes, that's true. And you know the quote at the top of the page also applies to this, if you believe you can you will. So so so so true, I definitely agree with that. I may write something right here too, let's see make sure our clips are, my creative temperature is never cold, but it's been hotter. That's also accurate. So I love that that's a great start I think to the month in my journal, I love it. So you guys think about downloading the temperature doodle and printing something out to use in your journal, you can print it whatever size will work in your journal, and if you would like a sheet of the downloads or of the mason jars, you can buy it over in my Etsy shop if you're not a member of the Facebook group. That's it for today, don't forget to check out the video description, there's a lot of stuff down there 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.