 restaurants and shops. Bob and I need to go back together. If you like yarn and needleworks things, and they have embroidery stuff, all kinds of stuff, go to Maisie Blue. I'll link their website down below. They do have an online shop, so you can order from them online, support them. They're a small long pop. The prices are pretty good. They have really nice yarns and things. I really loved it, and there's a really good thrift shop in town too, Murphy's thrift store, which I enjoyed too, and got a couple things out. So yeah, now we just need to head over towards house, and I'm not allowed to stop anywhere and buy anything else because we don't have any more room to get it home. Okay, I need to drink my coconut water. Can't take it with me, and yeah. Alright, that's it for the minute. I'll be back. Hello everybody. It is Monday, September 11th. It is afternoon already. Let's say 2 29 p.m. It is the day that we, at least here in the US, remember all the victims of the terrorist attack on September 11th. If you don't know what that is, look it up. It's all over the internet, especially today. Anyway, I remember where I was. I remember what I was doing, like it was yesterday. I'm sure you do too. Alright, anyway, that aside, I am hanging out here in the art room, loving that for myself. It's a little bit on the cooler side today, which I'm not mad about, but it means I get to wear one of my newer purchases. Yes, it's way too big for me. I bought it that way intentionally. It's from Walmart, FYI. I just got the vlog edited for last week, and it is rendering right now. I've got all the websites I need to link in the video description lined up for copying and pasting. I've got my knitting bag up here. Sorry, crochet bag. I don't really knit that much anymore. Yes, I know how. It's not my favorite. Anyway, so I'm going to work on that. I've got to do dishes and, I think, take the last load of vacation laundry out of the dryer. Otherwise, you know, it's just the usual. Back to business as usual. Being creative when I can, finding time for things when I can, in between playing OMA because, you know, priorities. Anyway, I did take the new minimalist art bag with me on our quick weekend trip. It worked out so well, you guys. So when I had downtime or I needed to just chill and sort of, that's my version of meditating, I got that bag out. I worked in it, filled up the coloring book again, even though I made it bigger. So glad I have more in here somewhere. I need to find them because I need to pull the one out that I used and I need to refill it. Oh, there they are. Found it. But it worked out super well. I'm very pleased with that. And yeah, it was a fun weekend. I'm glad we got to see everybody. And yeah, now back to our regular scheduled programming. Maybe. No guarantees. I'll be back. Vlog is edited and up and scheduled. Yay, I'll be sharing an Amazon wool yarn find that I'm kind of enjoying. My round yoke sweater, I just finished the pattern where I got that from her Etsy listing. And that's a pattern I'll keep using. That's really easy. I love the way it turns out. The fits good. Anyway, I shared the couple of things I found at Murphy's California, the little yarn shop. They do have an online store. Cute little mom and pop yarn shop. They I'm sure they would love your support if you need supplies. And if you don't see something listed, give them pop them an email or give them a call. Also, the Murphy's thrift store. So if you're in the area, go pay an in person visit to these. If you're in this Sonora, California, this area, they're about a 30 minute drive from Sonora. And it's a beautiful drive. So anyway, now I'm going to work on that. Put the new blank book in. And I discovered that a couple of my pens over here that I took with me are kind of the same color. So I'm going to go through some of my back stock and switch some colors out and get it reset for the next thing. All right, I'll be back. I started to do sweater before I left. And if you saw the clip right before this, you saw me taking out what I did before I left. I like that pattern very much. And I can see doing it out of a different type of yarn, but I didn't like the texture and pattern I was seeing in the yarn that I want to use right now. I did have another pattern I wanted to use, but I didn't think I had enough yarn. But I just found another bundle of yarn from the same dye lot on eBay. So we're going to do the other pattern. It's a little challenging and I there's some stitches in here I haven't done before. But that being said, it doesn't seem like a super heart pattern. And again, it's done in the round. So there's no seams, which I like. Yeah, I may change a couple of stitches because they are a little bit more difficult than I would prefer. And I don't think it makes any difference to how it looks. But other than that, I'll link the pattern down below. I think it's going to be a really cute sweater when it's finished. So anyway, I'm going to keep working on that and watch some YouTube. Yeah, it's almost the end of the day. So we're good. I'll be back. So before I start dinner, because I've been crocheting and it's almost 6 30 and I yeah, lost track of time just a little bit. So this sweater I thought would look better in this wool silk blend yarn is the driftwood tea pattern by yay for yarn. Her I've bought a couple patterns from her website, her Etsy store. I'll link it down below. And this is what it looks like right there. And I got the first few rows done already. And let's let me turn the camera at the first few rows done already. I do like the way this pattern in this yarn looks already. So I go and that's what we're going to do out of that yarn. Anyway, I need to stop right now because I need to fix dinner. I'll be back. It is Tuesday, September 12 10 38 a.m. I am sitting here having a snack, drinking my coconut water, watching some YouTube. I did a couple of chores, waiting for junior to come because it's a babysitting day. So sorry, text from my dentist. I have a dentist appointment Friday. So anyway, so that's what's up for today. I'm going to try to get some more crocheting done. I also have to do another baby set. My husband's boss is having a baby. I need to see if he can find out if it's boy girl or should I just do neutral. So we'll see. I don't know. Anyway, that's what's up for today. And we'll see what kind of creativity we get up to. I don't know. Depends on the mood of junior because he's priority. So there's that. I'll be back. Hey guys, juniors gone home. I got a couple more rows done on the sweater I'm working on. But now Bob is off of work. And so we're going to go get some steps in much needed steps. And yeah, I'll be back. One of the neighbors got too close to the mailbox. Notice on their car. Never seen that before. We got picky post office delivery people around here. We got yelled at at the kids house once for parking too close to the box. She yelled. She yelled. She didn't even know she yelled at you. Anyway, we're gonna go walk the neighborhood see what we can see. I'll be back. Hey guys, good morning. It's 10 32 a.m. Tuesday. No, Wednesday. Yeah, I don't even know. Wednesday, September 13th. And obviously, we're in the car. We're headed out to go run some errands. We have to go grocery shopping too. But I'm going to do that later after work with Mr. I'm going to run all the other errands today while he's working. This weekend is going to be a pretty busy one. So we're going to try to get everything done during the week. This weekend, we got to drive up to my dad's and do some work on Sube here. And yeah, she needs an oil change to I don't know if they're going to be able to do that. But I'm going to remind both of them later today. Anyway, I have a package to mail. I'm going to pop by the two thrift stores that are on the way and I've got to stop at the drugstore and maybe Fred Meyer I've got a bunch of birthday cards to get because it's September and coming up is a bunch of birthdays. So and we also had a nephew who he and his wife just had a baby boy. And we need to send him a card and welcome him into the family. So yeah, it is a thing for the minute. I also have a crocheting I want to do and I want to try to get my sweater I'm currently working on done by this weekend or pretty close because I have to do another baby blanket not for the nephew for somebody else. So yeah, I'm going to do that on the way to and for my dad's I think dad's two hours away. So should be able to make good progress. Alright, that's it enough chatting for me. Let's go see what we can see and I'll be back. I also wanted to say on this last bout of cleaning out the art room and purging more stuff I'm not getting I'm not using and getting rid of it. I found something that I forgot I had. And I want to see if I can incorporate it into my abstract watercolors. So keep an eye out on the channel for that. If you're new to the channel, I do I do paint collage painting an acrylic and watercolor collage. I also started my creative journey sewing and crocheting. I do know how to knit. It's not my favorite thing, but I do know how to knit. And yeah, embroidery needlework. What do they call it now? Slow stitching. There you go. So yeah, I do all kinds of things wherever my creative muse takes me. That's where we're headed. Right now she's been into the sewing needlework and crochet. The other things are always there in the back of the mind. But yeah, anyway, alright, let's go see what we can see. I'll be back. Okay, I've been for a while looking for a thrifted sweater with decent or semi decent fiber content that I could unravel. I've seen a lot of videos on this. I've never tried it before. Other than a project I'm working on that I don't like how it's turning out. I finally found one today. Now is it going to be the perfect choice for this? No idea. Is it going to be too felted to want to pull apart? No idea. It is a really pretty colorway and it's cotton poly spandex, which I mean, it's not like 100% will or anything, but I did like it. And so we're going to I brought it, we're going to try it. I got of course senior discount because you know, your girls of an age. So anyway, that was the one stop Goodwill. I also found two books for junior. So because we read every time he comes over. So anyway, on to the next stop. Got a few I've got to make before I can go home. So yeah. Alright, on to the next. It is almost six p.m. Thursday, September 14. And I am back in my pajamas again. I was babysitting all day so I haven't had a chance to pick up the camera. I did get some more unraveling down on the sweater I thrifted this week. And I have one more sleeve to go and a little bit of another piece and I already have four or five big giant skeins of yarn. So yay. Anyway, Bob has a Masonic Lodge meeting. So he's going to go to that. I'm going to finish unwinding said yarn and just relax at home and chill. I did a color depositing hair mask and took a shower after junior left. Got all the spit up off of me, you know, all the things. So anyway, tomorrow we have dental appointments and I need to go to the auto part store. Saturday we're driving up to my dad's and he is a retired auto mechanic for those who don't know and master machinist and he and Bob are going to change the oil in my car. But there's also one of the seats, the passenger size seat, front seat motor that pushes it back is not working. And we got a new motor. So they're going to try to fix that aka replace it. So we'll see what happens. All right, I'm going to go chill for a second. And when Bob leaves, we'll finish unwinding that sweater. I'll be back. Hey guys, all right. It is 151 p.m. Friday, September, or something 15th. I just got out of the dentist got my teeth cleaned everything looks good. I spent the morning just doing a few chores and crocheting working in my purple sweater. We're headed tomorrow early in the morning up to my dad's. It's about a two hour drive. He is going to work on the car on this car. As I said, before he's a retired mechanical auto mechanic and master machinist. So Bob stopped the hardware store and hardware store. Yeah, auto parts store and got the parts that we need that we didn't already have. And so yeah, we're going to go do that. I debating stopping at the store to pick up some vegetables to go with dinner tonight. Probably can just make it work with what we have. I will see I'll be back. He's figuring out the radio situation. Yes, we're in the car. We're in the Subaru. And we're going to head up to my dad's so they can work on the car. I've got I crochet bag in my lap because of course I do. I'm going to work on my sweater and yeah, I'm I'm guessing we're the whole day up in my dad's house, but we'll see. Alright, I'll be back. You guys, if you just saw this clip, you saw the clip of me changing my outfit and trying on my new sweater. Now, in all honesty, it turned out a little bigger than I thought it was going to I will do the pattern again. It was super easy. I really liked the stitch pattern and everything but I would go down one or two sizes even from what I the size I thought I was going to be but welcome to my journey with clothing lately. But anyway, I do like it very much. And I'm going to block it and I can adjust the size a little bit when I block it. But anyway, it's going to be cute. And you guys, we got my car fixed today. It didn't even take hardly any time. I mean, a couple hours. So for those that don't know the passenger side seat in my Subaru 2011 outback, the motor that pushes the seat forward and back stopped working a few months ago and the dealership wanted 1500 to $3,000 to fix it. They had to replace the seat. That was the only way to fix it. So my dad and husband looked at it and husband found a part on eBay just the motor for 60 bucks. It cost us that and take my dad out to lunch and it's fixed. You gotta love having a retired auto mechanic in the family. I mean, you know, anyway, that was a great end to this week. I loved it. And bonus, I was able to get quite a bit of work done on the sweater coming and going for my dad's because he's two hours away. When we got home, I just added a little bit more to this sleeves. It is sort of kimono style. Again, you saw me in the pictures. I think next time if I tried again, I might make longer sleeves. Maybe? Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. Anyway, that's it for this week. If you have your questions, comments or concerns, leave them down below. Check the video description for relevant links. Please like share and subscribe. I will appreciate I do appreciate that. I am currently adjusting to being OMA and fitting that fitting my creativity in around that and figuring out how to be productive. Today was the first day I felt like I was successful. But I mean, you know, the grandson takes priority. Sorry guys. Anyway, alright, that's it for now. I hope you all have had a great week. Have a great day. All that stuff. Don't forget to go do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you next week. Bye guys.