 everybody i think the lighting is bad no matter which way i turn let's turn some more lights on i don't know i don't find out maybe a little bit hey everybody it's sunday morning april 25th it's still morning but it's like 11 something a.m i don't know what time it is exactly um you know i slept in a bit which doesn't happen too often but probably because i was tired from the covid shot but other than a little bit of fatigue and a sore arm i'm fine uh anyway i've been up for a while doing tours and starting laundry cleaning out a few drawers and getting rid of some things that i never wear anymore which i seem to need to do every year or so um hundred piece puzzle but it's deceptively hard i think it's time to go take a walk now i'll be back good morning everybody it is monday morning april 26th 9 40 a.m i'm looking at the computer don't get all excited or anything um so we had an early morning visit from the groundskeeper for the school because he couldn't find where the dead deer carcass was and so we pointed that out to him so hopefully that's getting taken care of sometime today or soon um no word yet on the tree although the school has informed me they've called in an arborist to look at the tree that we are concerned about that's right next to the house so now the only other thing to do this morning is get somebody to call us back about the leak in the seal or the drainage system or something in the sunroof of my Subaru because yeah that's a thing it's not a bad leak but it's a leak and i live in the pacific northwest so yeah it's an issue anyway that's what's going on right now this morning i'm going to edit the vlog and i'm gonna answer that dinging because that's a facebook message or something and uh yeah let's hope let's hope we make some progress today on some of those things because that would be nice all right i'll be back april 27th 10 40 a.m um as you can see i'm checking on youtube comments and that sort of thing i if you saw this clip there's a little clip of me i think working on these yesterday so these are um dryer sheets and i um don't really use them too much anymore but um i do have actually half a box downstairs i use wool dryer balls instead but i'm going to use up the half a box and then when i'm done doing the laundry i save them and i iron them flat yes you can iron them and then i use um fabric paints to doodle designs on them and then i use them in my journal and let's see if i can show you a page i can't find the page i'm looking for and i don't want to just keep looking through the whole journal but um this is these circles here are actually um a handmade paper but it's the same idea and then you can use it in the background of your journals to give some texture and interest and these these work out really well they work out just the same and it's easier to collage the dryer sheet to your page than it is tissue paper or napkin because they're it doesn't tear as easy and um i usually just do black and white but this time i decided to do some in brown and i have a green and a blue tealy color and so yeah so i'm very well stocked up now um there's a lot of them yeah but after i got them all done i had the idea that i do have a little bit of leftover fabric paint what if i um did a couple of different designs than i normally do which is just a scribbly circle so i might have to use up that other half of the box of dryer sheets and work on that not right now of course because it'll take a while to use them but you'll get the idea okay i got a couple of short videos done for the folks over at patreon i'll be sharing still images of said work to into social media later instagram and facebook got another journal page done and that video will be here on youtube like the others it'll just be music no talking and going back to an old form of sort of art journaling slash documenting my life style that i used to do i used to do it a lot when traveling but hello covid nobody's traveling so i've decided to do it and document the things that are happening and so like getting my second covid shot yay all right 10 15 or so am on wednesday april 28th computer um i am loading some patron only video um two dropbox this morning i have a dropbox file full of videos and some are listed here on youtube before patrons only and so yeah they get some video content y'all don't get so if you want to see what that is go over to patreon it's very inexpensive to support the free content here on facebook and over i mean here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups by becoming one of my patrons plus you get the free content you get downloads periodically from me and every now and then once or twice a year more if i can squeeze it into the budget you get actual snail mail for me i did have a another video that i wanted to do or i thought i filmed doing this page here so i used to do pages like this in a journal this is um one of my favorite uh what is it um you know it's that ranger holy cow this creative journal it's this small one um i do like it for this particular thing i do is something i i have been calling my life journal and i actually haven't done one for a little bit and i decided when we got our second covid shot that maybe it was time to do it it's just kind of my way of creatively um journaling um what's going on in my life i had some pictures um tickets stubs if we've gone out somewhere usually i do this kind of thing when we're traveling um but in light of the pandemic of course we're not doing that but i did get my second covid shot and i wanted to document that so i started a new one so i'm sure i can find stuff in life that i want to document in here so i've started a new journal didn't really need to but you know i thought i filmed it but you evidently i forgot to turn the camera on at least at the important parts so anyway i don't have my days these days just never turn out as planned sorry about that i'm kind of holding the phone with one hand i'm trying to check the mail um expected sort of a quiet day upstairs doing art things while that cleaning lady was doing her job and doing it so much better than i can um and then the poop hit the fan again with my my mom my parents her health care and trying to get the doctors nurses hospitals like to actually talk to each other is just like pulling teeth in our rhinoceros a wild mad one it's just it shouldn't be this hard she was supposed to have a procedure tomorrow to relieve some pain and maybe give her some slight mobility improvement um keeping in mind there's not a lot they can do but they can do that um it's not going to happen it's being rescheduled for at least a week because of some miscommunications between the doctors that we're all having to make phone calls and straighten out because they can't be bothered to accurately communicate to each other my dad's given the nursing care place three copies of the same paperwork like three different times that they needed like just it's so bad i could go into more detail but i'm not going to it's just it's bad you guys it's just so bad morning everybody it is thursday morning yeah yeah i would days it april april 29th 9 11 a.m i woke up to an early morning message from my friend mike deacon over a mission inspiration i'm working on some stuff with him and he um he forgot and i kind of forgot to to get me some um stuff that i needed so i could do some recordings for him that's all coming up for may and so we got that done i think and i've got my my copy of that i need here um and the video clip for him he loves it yay sorry jiggly old lady arms sorry oh oops that's not what we want there explosions sounds that's mike's video okay so um so that worked so yay okay so we got that done it only took like 20 takes and yes i put a little bit of makeup on because i thought i don't want to look like a complete slob on video for everybody all the time um i do have an appointment to go get my hair trimmed today and so we're going to go take care of that i've got to put my desk back together because i had to rearrange things to get the best lighting for the video clip for him that was a thing it's just a lot and there's lots of stuff going on with my mom i'm going to turn this light off which means you're going to see my bags but that's okay these um there's a lot going on with my mom and miscommunications between doctors and the family and anyway so the short story is her procedure is being put off for a week which isn't a super great idea but we don't have any choice so that's a thing um so i'm headed home now this is how my hair looks it never is this straighter decently curly unless i see Cassandra but this is what i think we're going to do something similar for the wedding celebration so looks good i think i'm starving now so i'm going to go home and have lunch i'll be back so it's almost lunchtime and it's yet another one of those days where i forgot to vlog um i added a few more layers yesterday once you cut my hair so that when i do just let it dry like this naturally by the way i didn't this is how my hair goes by itself um there's it's less flat in the front which i i like um when i was younger my hair was bone straight and as i've gotten more gray it does this so anyway i decided to spend some time this morning starting a new puzzle i'm going to stop right now bob and i'll work on it some more later um i need a prescription refill for my prescription with my doctor and i sent an email off yesterday and i don't wait usually more than 24 hours if i don't get an email back then i call the office good thing i did because she's on vacation for two weeks and i explained the situation so they're going to have another one of their doctors look at it and see if they can approve the prescription um um let's see what else emails back and forth through the hoa because i'm trying to get our front yard relance re landscaping plan approved so she's going to check on that she hasn't heard anything yet and um got confirmation from my mom's doctors that finally the paperwork's been done and approved so they can go forward with the procedure she needs next week yay now we just have to make sure that transportation is arranged and one that's covered by insurance and not ridiculously expensive so that's a thing i think in the meantime we're going to have lunch right fred yep and he's going to move the cars around for me too because i don't drive his little red sports car um i don't want you to drive the barracuda it's a stick shift so yeah we won't even go there um but no but the red sports car is the one that's safe to be out in the weather and so we need to switch the cars around since mine has a a water leak somewhere in the in the window or the sunroof or who knows where and it's supposed to rain this afternoon so or mitzi i mitzi is gonna have to get rained on i'm sorry um so that my car stays dry and doesn't get moldy until we can get it fixed yeah which is next week so anyway it's a lot of stuff going on i'm gonna eat some lunch i'll be back it is saturday morning may 1st it's just before 11 o'clock 10 49 a.m and i um you know for no particular reason bob and i had a slow start this morning we didn't need to go anywhere we don't need to run any errands bob's got a couple of things around the house he wants to do so he's outside doing that i am getting my journals ready my daily drawing and our journals ready for may um because well it's may 1st and i need to put um the april ones away i need to add some little bits of ephemera to refill the ephemera pack for my daily drawing bag downstairs and or change out a few things i changed out some of the washi tape already and um prep the cover for my um old skin kaya that i use for um um my creative year and i am gonna do all that and i'm gonna let you watch me so we'll do it to music right about here i'll be back okay so we got all of our morning chores done so we're out taking crazy pants for a walk she had to go for a walk we came inside to sit down and chill for a bit after doing morning chores and she immediately got the wrong idea so yeah anyway yeah it's overcast but not too cold and not raining at least not yet so i don't even have a coat on but you know anyway i don't know what we'll get up to for the rest of the afternoon but i'll let you know i'll be back doing laps around the house i'm only a few hundred steps short of 10 000 so i'm doing laps right now we're over here in the front room because it's quiet dude's got the tv on we're grilling up some steaks before it starts raining again got some salad we've got some grilled asparagus should probably turn the lights on so i'm not talking in the dark anyway we're still puppy sitting and it's been a good jam packed today i'm not sure we're going to go for a second w al k after dinner or not looking like really crappy weather not that that's ever stopped us before but you never know in the meantime i want to make sure i have 10 000 so i did already close the vlog for a week and right about here you just heard me say we're probably not going for a walk yeah me and my big mouth i lied we're going for a walk i think a crazy pounce kind of is insisting on it she's just insane for the walking and she's really trying hard to catch herself a bullfrog because she's hearing them every time we take her out and she is obsessed anyway i also have an idea i think for the may mission inspiration tutorial video if i can get it to work i think it'll be cute so we'll see so watch for that anyway we're going to go for a walk and we will continue with the closing of the vlog right about here anyway it's been an interesting week i am going to film some videos hopefully tomorrow and monday um for me i'm behind again like i'm always behind lately including my take on the mission inspiration this month for mike deacon's art group and um yeah there's a post over there with my thinking behind um the mission this month which by the way i i did the mission this month mike asked me to i said i'd be happy to um so if you want to see what that's all about go join mission inspiration the link is down below um anyway i hope you've all had a good week or as good as you can make it because you know life is challenging on a regular day and this is covid so you know anyway please uh don't forget to like share and subscribe if you have questions comments or concerns do leave them down below i reply to all my comments um if you'd like to support the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups of which i have two ways to do that like shopping my anti-store join my patreon join said facebook art groups are in my link tree list elix which is down below along with my link to the art filmies i've designed and the class i'm teaching with baeg rob and a bunch of other really great talented artists all that stuff is down in the description check it out all right that's it i think for this week please stay safe stay healthy stay creative please go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and i'll see you next week bye guys i'm gonna agree it's more steps in i'll be back