 about 1.15 on Sunday, almost in February again. June. Is it the 18th, dear? 18th. Father's Day. We are gonna be leaving in a little bit to go have an early dinner with the kids. In the meantime, we're just hanging out at the house and chilling. I was doing some more crochet on my thrifted yarn project and Chevron pattern rainbow skirt thing. Yeah. Anyway, I'll try to put a picture here of my progress so far. And I came upstairs. I was only intending on taking out a couple things to work on a for a project I want to work on tomorrow and I ended up just making the project. Now the seam does need a little pressing because it's a bit wavy, but I know, hold on. So it's just a plain white t-shirt on top, a men's shirt. Well at least it was a t-shirt from the men's department. And then a tie-dye skirt on the bottom, which you can't really see. Hold on. Okay. So and then a skirt at the bottom. How cute is that? I mean, the skirt's a little sheer. It does have two layers, but I mean bike shorts, people. Bike shorts. So anyway, bike shorts and they have pockets, so we're all good. Anyway, it's super comfortable. It's gonna be one of my new favorite ways of making myself's clothing, but yeah, I'm pretty pleased. What are you up to today on Father's Day? I'd love to know. Put something down in the comments. All right, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Headed out to go have dinner into downtown Portland. At a really great restaurant, which ought to be fabulous, but downtown Portland, which ought to be interesting. We'll find out. I'll be back. It is Monday, June 19th. June 16th, I think? 16 p.m. As you saw, I got up this morning and I was doing some painting and I did a couple of art journal pages for ROT Trio. They both came out really cool. I need to edit them now and the vlog from last week, but at the moment that little bit of noise, if you hear that in the background, yes, I'm babysitting Junior, so there's that. I also made another pair of wide-leg pants out of a cotton bedsheet and a lace tablecloth. You guys, I think they're my favorite pair of wide-leg pants yet. I was wondering if I wanted to dye them, but I think I'm gonna just leave them. They're pretty cool anyway. And then I of course had some tension issues with my serger and needed some new needles and yeah, I finally got that fixed. You know, sergers are finicky beasts. When they work great, they're wonderful, but when they don't, like, diagnosing exactly what the problem is is so challenging and sometimes, for me, it's best to just walk away. Yes. Anyway, right now I'm just trying to get little man to sleep. He doesn't really want to go to sleep, so yeah, that's the thing. All right, I'll be back. Hey guys, it is late. It is 445 p.m. Tuesday, June, June something. I don't know. Still don't know. June 20th, 21st. Oh, June the 20th. Anyway, I haven't gotten much done today because I had June knows babysitting at junior, but before he came, I did get my counseling session in and I uploaded and packaged and numbered a bunch of paintings that are for sale that are listed on my business Facebook page, which I will try to remember to link down below if I forget somebody say something. Mostly the watercolor and mixed media paintings. They're about $25 each plus shipping. They come with a plain white generic matte. They just need a frame. And I sold it before junior came. I was able to get them packaged and also I'm going to send my friends and Leslie McGraths a mail. So like I've got that done. I need to vacuum out the sewing machines again. Permanent ongoing thing. And clean floors and all of that. I want five minutes of time. That's just I'm going to drink some water and chill for like five minutes and then I'll do some cleaning and oiling the machines and all that stuff. Although I could spend my entire lifetime in the art room and never leave. Life doesn't work that way and that's not good for you. So we're headed out to go for a walk before dinner. Mr. Bob's gonna be working late because he's got stuff going on but he's got a little bit of break. So we're gonna go get some steps in and we'll go home get some chores done. Have some dinner and all that stuff. Get some fresh air. It's not too bad out. It's not rainy. It's not too hot. Yeah I like it. It's good. I'll be back. Guys it is really late. Let's see. 6.56 past dinner time. I haven't eaten yet. Not that I'm gonna eat much tonight. I'm gonna just probably have bone broth. I'm not hungry but good. Bob went out walking without me because I was in the middle of a project and I didn't want to stop. And yes I have a band-aid on and it must have been a fun good project because I cut myself once that it has a band-aid. This one needs to be cleaned. Not sure you can even see that. And then there's one here. I started cutting out projects to work on tomorrow before journey comes because I'm babysitting and yeah that didn't happen. I got him cut out but then I decided to make one of them today. I am putting together a upcycling fashion inspiration book and I've been finding pictures all over the internet. Mostly Pinterest inspired. This is my book here. And I keep seeing capris style pants bloomers in particular but I don't at the moment think I'm a bloomers girl but I kept seeing like upcycled blue jeans made into capris and then like patchwork I'm like I saw Tracy Myers did and on YouTube. I have some of my dad's old jeans. He said here I was wondering if you could do something with these. He was gonna donate them. Guys I'm wearing my dad's old blue jeans. Hold on. They turned out so cute. I have a collection of old lace and doilies that I've had for a really long time. I'm slowly using it up. I'm gonna have to probably get more but hang on let me set up the camera and I'll get you some pictures. Guys they are... I'm too short for this. Hold on. This is why we have a footstool in the art room. I mean how cute is this? I was gonna do something different but I started playing with the doilies and I have a few of these applications. They're from Joanne's I think. So I took the purple one and I took one flower off of another one and I put them on here with the doilies. I took a little... I cut them long enough that I could fold them up about an inch. Most of it's not sewn down except for this one little pleat right here to make the legs a little narrower. But I mean how cute is this? And yes my dad and I are about the same size. So he is a 36-28. I'm a 35-30. So yeah. Anyway how cute are they? I have two more pair of his jeans. These are adorable. So anyway something you guys can do. What do you think? Alright I'll be back. It's just about 6 o'clock and I haven't vlogged yet today because it's been a little busy. I went out this morning and picked up a second baby bouncer from someone in the Buy Nothing group where I live for the kids to have at their house because little Mr. Junior likes to be bounced around. So and then I came home. I tried to have something to eat. And then Junior did show up to be babysat. And I wasn't able to get a couple of projects done. One was another t-shirt dress. I'll put a picture here. And then I made another bag I know. Another bag. Half circle bag I've been making out of pieces of the quilts that I made a blanket coat for my dad out of. I had some leftover. So I made another bag and I'm using it for my stitching. And it's a good size for that. It's a nice big bag if we go on vacation. I can have my needlework in here. My kindle. Everything else can be up in the bin or checked. Yeah. Anyway I haven't got much else. We're gonna go grocery shopping tonight because this weekend is just gonna be insanely busy. And it's best if we just do it tonight. So we're gonna go do that when Bob's done. And you guys it is 9 16 p.m. on Friday June 23rd. And I don't think I've vlogged all day. Oops. It's been a very busy day between Aaron's chores, babysitting again. And family dinner night. It's just been a lot. And I yeah so I didn't pick up a camera. Anyway I did get a little bit of sewing done. I got another t-shirt dress done. I'll put a picture here while Junior was napping. But yeah it's been kind of crazy day. Tomorrow I don't know what tomorrow's gonna be like. Mr. Bob's working on his two cars because they're going into a car show on Sunday. I have a few chores to do including laundry. But we also I think have some sidewalk sales or those sort of things going on in the neighborhood. So I might go to one of those. I also need to go get some yarn. I forgot our neighbors having a baby. And I want to make her a blanket and maybe a pair of booties. So I need to get yarn for that because I don't have the right yarn in the right color. So yeah maybe I'll check the Lion Brand website. That might be easier than running around town. I'll think about it. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It's 11 o'clock 1 a.m. Saturday June something 21st. I don't know. 24th. I'm only a couple of days behind. Anyway it is not quite lunchtime yet. I'm going to go to the bank first because I'm all out of cash. So I don't have any cash. And I do think we're gonna stop again at the resale shop. I really like that place. I could walk over but again I need some cash. So I gotta do that. I have my dad jeans on today. I'm loving it with this little top. It's very cute. I'm going to go to the resale shop in the bank and then later on I think I'm gonna just sit and watch some movies or some YouTube and work on my skirt, my rainbow skirt that I've been making from the thrifted yarn and plan next week's sewing projects in between other things that are going on. I did make a couple versions of this cosmetic bag recently that I'm using for art supplies and cosmetics. I'll put a picture here. I did take the pattern and enlarge it because I want to see if I can make a bigger one and what that's like. I don't really need it for anything. I'm just curious. Parts that we have try not to buy anything that we don't have to and all of that stuff. So we'll see how it works. The only thing I'm running low on is the interfacing. So I don't know if I have enough of the heavy-duty interfacing for that or not. But we'll find out. Alright, I'll be back. Hey guys, it's Saturday evening. I think it's like 7.30. I'm not sure exactly. Hold on, I need my phone stand. That's to be a busy this afternoon. I was just stuff around the house and I've been working on my rainbow crochet skirt making good progress on that but we're not done yet. To be some online shopping for some art parts for upcoming projects, our neighbor's going to be having a baby in the next month or two and a baby boy, another boy. So I am going to crochet them a blanket and rather than shopping all around looking for a blanket because I've been looking for yarn at shops. I'm enjoying getting back to needlework. I'll explain what the crunchy noise is in a minute. They just don't have a good selection. I like working with lion brand yarns generally and the baby blanket pattern I like to use is an old one of theirs that's not available online anymore. And so I'm going to make another one of those. So I ordered some yarn last night and what else did I do? I ordered some fabric and things and a pattern from Etsy and I got some things in from Hobby Lobby and Michaels. There's just been parts and pieces that I want that I haven't been able to find so I also this morning saw a video for a new something I want to make and I got to see if I have d-rings. I'm sure I do. I have d-rings or something I can use. Anyway I really have been doing so much sewing of thick fabrics. Why is this taped shut so well? That and I have a lot of alls but I really just need something I can keep. Hold on. I really just need something I can keep at the art desk. I mean at the sewing desk to help me push some of the thicker fabrics through the sewing machine. So they have this really inexpensive set of sharp pointy things. So I only really need one but that's okay. Got all of them. And I had to go buy blades for my fabric cutting my rotary fabric cutting thing recently. They're so expensive. God you guys. I never had the 60 millimeter blade sharpener and they didn't have one at the store. I'm like okay I'll buy some blades right now because I need them but I really would like to just be able to sharpen them at least a couple times. So I ordered the rotary blade sharpener for the 60 millimeter. I got that and yes I saved the old dull blade so I can now sharpen it. I needed some black zipper by the yard. I really when I'm making bags and things this is more cost-effective than buying zippers at the fabric store and I can customize it to however long I need for the zipper. Once you get the hang of using it it's really great. That doesn't mean I don't buy zippers but I haven't bought one in a long time because I have a large stash of them but this is just more this is a better deal and I didn't have any in black and it comes. It's just a long strip of zipper tape with a teeth I mean with the zipper pulls on it. So it's seven yards three yards sorry three yards of black with 12 pulls and then I got also got that from Amazon. It's usually where I get it from Amazon. This particular kind I've been using works great. I wanted some of these kind of buckles. I don't remember what they're called. They're really expensive like if you go to the fabric store even if they're having a sale it's still four or five dollars just for one. I got this whole bag for like eight bucks. I never need to buy another one and I have all the colors. I also put buttons on my blanket coat recently and if you haven't seen that here's a picture here and after doing that I didn't I don't really need more buttons. I've got a big giant drawer buttons but I'm enjoying playing with the really big huge buttons of which I don't have that many left because I've used up all the ones I had. So I went online to Hobby Lobby and I know some of you don't like to shop at Hobby Lobby believe me I get why but again for me it was just a matter of being able to find the parts that I needed that I wanted and I just yeah. Anyway they had some of their big giant buttons on sale. These ones are one and a half inch and so I got six of those. Aren't they cute? Aren't they pretty? They're really cute. I got I have one more of these white ones. These are for my coat and I got I got a few more of them. I really enjoyed working on them working with them. I got some in gray because I just made a blanket coat for my dad at his request and in case he changes his mind and wants buttons on it I got some gray ones. I also got black. I got more of these and I got black. I'm gonna save my favorite one for last. Oh is it gonna buy it? I have no idea what I'll do with it but I'm it's in the middle of summer but I'm picturing making another coat once I see the right blanket or quilt. You know I'm nuts that way but anyway I got black and then you guys I don't do these kind of things often and I don't I'm not I don't like to do hauls I don't like to brag and I'm not saying you guys need to do any of this but when you're out thrifting or estate sailing for art parts if you do any sewing these are the kind of things just to keep your eyes out for if you like them because they really do kind of come in handy if you have the room to store them. I just fell in love with this one though I couldn't help myself and it's metal it's a metal button I know right can you picture these down the front of a blanket coat? Anyway so I got a lot of that I got uh garbage on the floor I got a lot of you know laundry and maintenance and stuff like that done I have some another pair of my dad's jeans downstairs and some bleach water trying to lighten up the color a little bit I want to do another pair of jeans cropped jeans like the ones I just did and I'll put a picture here in case you missed it I'm thinking maybe sunflowers on jeans so anyway I also have some things in my closet that don't make me happy but I think I'm gonna pull out and sort through and some of them might go to the charity shops but some of them might just come up here cuz yeah anyway tomorrow Bob is off to a car show with both of his cars the Barracuda and the Mitsubishi the Mitsubishi is for sale he's gonna drive the Barracuda son-in-law is gonna drive the Mitsubishi they're gonna both be in a contest and a show at the local fairgrounds and Rebecca our daughter has some real estate business to do tomorrow I think she's got an open house or house showings or something so guess what Oma is doing tomorrow babysitting I don't know for how long I don't know if I'll get much done cuz that's just been the way of things lately and he's a newborn so it's hard to get too much done in the art room and I knew when I started babysitting that that was gonna happen and there was gonna be kind of a little bit of a pause on some of the art room stuff which is fine I am feeling the need to purge and rearrange again the small bits bank there's a lot of duplicates of things I'm not using right now or anymore and I'm probably not going to use and I also want to spread out the fabric stash so and there's some stuff in the closet outside the art room packing supply stuff that I want to look at because there's some that I think I'm never gonna use so but we'll see anyway none of that to happen in tomorrow and that's for a future vlog or video anyway I really appreciate you guys sticking with my channel sticking with this vlog and I hope you've enjoyed at least part of it it's been fun I do try to come up here as many mornings as I can and sit with my coffee or bone broth in the painting window and paint like you saw earlier in the week and I really enjoyed doing that I have a lot of watercolor paintings that are for sale and they are listed on my business Facebook page well I would which I will make sure is linked down below so if you would like some of my artwork for your wall go check that page there is pinned posts at the top of the page of watercolor paintings and acrylic paintings that are currently for sale and I'll try to get pictures of stuff and list more as I can anyway patrons and supporters you know who you are your names are at the end I appreciate you so much and if you would like to be one of those they have their own private YouTube channel they have ready access to me in a private Facebook Messenger chat and so much more so check out my patreon it's also linked down below I would appreciate the support I also designed for art foemies and they are a USA mom-and-pop business I'd appreciate if you go show them some love I will include their website down down below I was gonna say downstairs it's just been a long day I have some upcoming ideas for thrifting and upcycling clothing involving our art foemies beyond bleach painting some fabric that I think might be really interesting so stay tuned that's it for today that's it for this week don't forget the most important things like share subscribe and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys