 excited. We had our intervals of sanity broadcast today, sorry if I made y'all dizzy. We had our intervals of sanity broadcast this morning and then I spent the rest of the afternoon working on some paintings for my sister's business and her project she's working on so I got a series of those done and now I am going to go downstairs and I don't know, vegetate on the sofa because that's a thing. I'll be back. Good morning. It is Monday morning, February 11th I think. I think I'm in the art room. I don't have all the studio lights on. I just have the overhead. There you go. I am however ready and set up to paint and do my lesson this morning from Pauline Agnew's Expressive Seascapes class which I'm taking all month this month because you know I don't have enough to do. Anyway, so I dug out some acrylics and mediums. I don't have any of the acrylic extender, slow drying medium. There is one. I don't have any but I do have fluid matte medium so I have to use what I have. I don't really want to run out to the store just for a medium that I probably will only use for the one lesson. I like acrylics mind you but watercolor really is my preferred medium if I had to pick one. So that being said I have a lot of watercolors but I don't generally use them with adding a medium to it but in this case for this lesson I'm going to be doing a lots of paint mixing and you don't want the paint to dry up on the palette before you have a chance to paint anything with it. It's a lot to paint so hence the needing the medium. What else? I need to do some laundry probably. That's like a constant thing around here. Finish my coffee. Get out of my pajamas. When you see me in this sweater it's usually either because I'm freezing or still in my pajamas because I wear this as a bathrobe so there you go. There's a secret. I also need to pick a paint color for the guest room. We have a guest room that's empty or almost empty. It's got an air mattress in it but I have this really pretty bedspread we got on sale at Christmas time that has yellows and blues and greens and some grays in it. So and the walls are already this sandy color which is okay with me but I want to paint this wall that the bed is up against like one of the blues in the bedspread and then I did this seascape triptych which you all saw already and we're going to replace the painting that's over the bed with that and I'm thinking in the center of the wall I'm going to paint a dark brown almost charcoal colored rectangle and I'm going to hang the three abstract pores in that rectangle on the wall and the rest of the wall will be one of these shades of blue-green and of course we need to get a bed and I'm already eyeballing one from Ikea. This air mattress is great temporarily but it's not a permanent solution. We have these two metal file cabinets they were from our offices in the old house. You could see one still has a moving sticker on it. Do you see that? Anyway for the moment they're going to serve as nightstands. At some point we'll probably replace them with something but for the moment that works and we have a bedside light. There is a TV up here but it's not plugged in to anything. It's mostly up here because we don't know what to do with it and I want to put a dresser on this wall or a bookcase or something. So anyway this room is a nice guest room because it has a view of the woods outside the window. So if you've been watching the vlog for a while you'll recognize this room because this is where we had all of the art supplies staged while we were waiting for the floor to come in to the other room arts view of the other room. So anyway all right I should probably go get dressed now take a shower and make the bed sort some laundry probably do the dishes you know stuff like that and then work on my lesson from Pauline. All right that's it for the moment I'll be back. Sorry that's the windshield wipers they're obnoxiously squeaky and I live in the Pacific Northwest now land of much rain and many bridges. Okay guys it's I think 5 30 it's still Monday. One of the things about moving I'm having trouble adjusting to. No it's not the stairs. Actually those are seeming to be fine my health is better my asthma is better but I used to have an hour commute so when my husband would tell me he was leaving work I had an hour to get caught up on all those things that I'd been putting off all day. I have like 10 minutes if I'm lucky these days. So crap he was coming home and I was busy doing this. So I had notes in my million pieces a little piece of paper of notes and in my planner from before the move about a watercolor palette containing these colors. I don't remember why but it was very specific about the colors. I don't know if I was trying to put together a muted foresty nature scene or a sea scene muted foresty nature palette or a sea themed palette I'm not sure but the colors are very interesting together and I had them all and I had this extra little master's touch palette and of course some pans I've got a million empty pans so I put the little palette together and we are and I've already swatched the colors. I've got some lessons with the Pauline Agnew class Express of Seascapes to do. I'm taking the class for the whole month of February and one of the things she usually has you do at some point in any of her classes that you take with her is limit your palette and it would be really interesting to try to do one of her lessons with this palette I think. So yeah now I better cook something for lunch because yeah that's gonna be I mean lunch, hello dinner. Oh my god Monday is so bad half the pictures I've taken today are of my feet or the ceiling. I messed up on the postage on the two Etsy orders so I had to go run into the mailbox today instead of waiting to do it till tomorrow because I got the date wrong on the book. Like it's just it's Monday can we just have a do-over or can it just be done in like it's Tuesday? Holy cow. Anyway I'm gonna go back downstairs and have my tea and get dinner started and that's it I will see you all tomorrow. Good morning. It's Tuesday morning February 12th I think and it is raining outside. It is supposed to keep raining for like two days so that's a thing. Welcome to the Pacific Northwest. I do have to go out to the store today. I think I'm gonna try to consolidate all or most of what we need by just going to a store like Fred Meyer target. I think I'm gonna choose target today this time and you know kind of one-stop shopping kind of place. I don't need too much food. I do need some more coffee creamer but I need lots of other random things so I think I'm gonna go to Target out in the rain but I'm not the wicked witch. I won't melt I promise. My thoughts to this morning are with friends of my husband I should say co-workers and his family. They lost their son yesterday who was a couple years older than our daughter. I didn't know him I don't know the family well my husband does but thought I thought of it makes me want to cry. He lost his battle with cancer and so that's really sad and then this morning I found out a friend of mine and her husband are not feeling well and not doing well and they're actually headed to the hospital so at least I hope they are because it sounds like they need to go. So yeah it's just you know the great week. So we're gonna send our thoughts and prayers to everybody involved all of those people and families and hope that they are my friend and her husband are on the mend soon and you know wish the other family all the best. I'm gonna go get a sympathy card it's one of the things I need to get this morning. I feel helpless when these things happen you feel helpless because you can't do anything. We definitely feel that way but the least I can do is send a sympathy card so I'm gonna do that so anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back. I had to make a couple of side trips because there are some food things that I thought Target for sure would have they didn't have so thankfully there's a safe way right over here across the street so I'm gonna go there I'm in Sherwood and I prefer the shops over here versus Kings City anyway. There was also a Dollar Tree nearby in a Ross and I went to both of them because I refused to spend ten dollars or more on a trash can that's right a trash can and that's not an organ thing that's a just everywhere thing it was ridiculously expensive in California too. You know I needed two more garbage cans for the art room one for my husband's little desk because he keeps stealing my can and I go to throw a trash in there's no can there but also we need to start recycling when we can in the art room you know I'm throwing away lots of notes and little scraps of paper thing those are recyclable so I want to have one can that's a different color than the other ones it's just set up for things that are recyclable paper and that sort of thing I'm even going to biodegradable baby wipes I use baby wipes in the art space all the time and granted the paint that's on them is not biodegradable but at least the baby wipe itself won't last in the environment like forever it's not made out of plastic it's made out of plant material so anyway it's a bit more expensive but I think it's worth it and so now I'm gonna go run over to Safeway get the couple things there that I need and then we're gonna just go home and by the time I get home I'm probably gonna be hungry for lunch then I need to watch Pauline's lesson for today in her class that I'm taking and then I need to practice some more with my abstracted clouds because yeah my work sucks Pauline's trying to be very nice and she gives very kind constructive criticism she's very sweet but yeah my work sucked this week so far so only one day in two days in so anyway I'm gonna do that and then I will be back morning it is 744 a.m. Thursday February 14th I only know that cuz I got the iPad right there to tell me and I actually looked it's Valentine's Day happy Valentine's Day everybody I hope you're getting to spend it with someone you love I forgot to vlog yesterday all day I remembered it like 10 30 last night but yeah I wasn't gonna vlog I was tired I don't have a good excuse except that I was busy working on my homework for Pauline ag news class and trying to redo a lesson from last week that I wasn't happy with that I did an acrylic so four more minutes it's 1156 where he 15th don't get all excited I only know that because I've been up for a while I'm in the car so I can see the clock and it's the day after Valentine's Day so even I can't get that wrong hey guys how are you so I watched a video last late last night by channel the name is pencil stash I'll link the video in the description below but it's one of those videos that you watch and as you're watching it you're smacking yourself in the forehead going oh my God why didn't I think of that so I should be doing so many other things this morning I was still taking Pauline ag news class thankfully I'm sort of caught up on the homework in there but so I thought I'd spend the weekend doing some sewing because I have some some pencil bags to make for some friends and then I thought I could I would probably get a little bit behind making the pencil bags but that by Tuesday or Wednesday I could get back on track with the homework for the class I don't think that's gonna happen now because now after I watch that video I have to reorganize all my pens and pencils we're headed out to Michaels and home goods and yeah so anyway I'll bring you with me I'll be back oh my gosh everybody so I got the little plastic trays I got four three packs of white I did get some pink ones because they didn't have any more I bought all the white ones I had left I don't know if I'm gonna use them or not or need them or like the color but I got them if I don't use them I'm gonna just bring it back then I went to home goods which is like two stores down in the same shopping center and I got so lucky the exact gray shelves that she had in her video and again the video is linked in the description below I found at home goods now in my home goods they weren't on clearance unfortunately but the price wasn't too bad and I yay and so I bought both of the ones they had they only had two so I bought them I can't believe it and I have my other little cabinets besides so if some of my markers or crayons don't fit but I can get everything else in there then I can use the little pen slots in the old cabinets to put them by color family in those pen slots like all the yellows and all the you know greens but we'll see what happens I have pared down a lot of my pencils and pens so you know I was not only inspired by the video but I've been doing Pauline Agnew's lessons for her class and she does do quite a bit of mixed media and she's all about mark making and I keep wanting to add pencil marks to some of the paintings and in black and I cannot find my black pens I know I have black colored pencils I can't find them I found the brown one so I use that one so that's another reason for doing this because all the black pencils will be in one bin with black pens the all the black stuff will be in one bin I love that all right so we're gonna go home and we're gonna I guess start sorting mark making tools yeah I'll be back hey guys so that was a detour so I just I said earlier I was just obsessed with this video last night when I watched it and I had to just go do something about my storage I have to say to you I already am in love with it and I'm gonna flip the camera around so I can show you whoops there we go that's better so I can show you what it looks like it's really late in the day the Sun setting but I want to show you what it looks like it looks great I still have one more thing to sort my watercolor paints and I did put some artwork that I've been a meanie to in mats and in plaitin bags so it's ready to sell I'm gonna list it right now before I go down back downstairs I was waiting for the mats to come in from Amazon and they just did today so let me flip the camera around and show you all that and I'll be right back because I had a bunch of stuff that was by the pen and pencil storage because I in front of that because I had to move the painting stuff because I'm supposed it was supposed to be sewing today anyway that desk normally doesn't look like that but this is what the new section of the pen and pencil storage looks like isn't it cool so each bin when you pull it out like this one has everything in it that's orange orange pencils orange gel pens orange markers orange everything right and so each bin is that way so when I'm working on a project I can just grab hello the black one who knew I had so many black things because I couldn't find any the other day the green one some of the bins were really full and I had a number of sort of duplicates of like say colored pencils in the same color I had to went intense and then regular to wear in pencils I don't need both so in some of the bins I purge like I think blue green and red because I had like I said I had duplicates I don't use colored pencils that much so I don't need duplicates this is because I was working on the painting stuff over that way otherwise that would be put away but up here on top are my watercolor mediums my sort of paint blob jar my alcohol my painters tape I use that for watercoloring my rulers and that sort of thing for doodling my random tool jar you know pokey tools and stuff like that tweezers and then over here I had four of these I put one away and I have blending tools and these are all blending tools these are back stock on the black big pens other black pens white gel pens metallic markers white markers black markers and then these are other all my like big markers sorted by color just like the little drawers so if I'm working on the little drawers and I'm working with blues and I decided one big fat marker whether it's a permapake or it's a paper pastel big pit pen I can just come over here and grab those two because they're all sorted by color and then on top I have my organizer that's full of my water coloring stuff mostly this little drawer is like collage like gift cards and frosting spedters and things you use like to flatten out your collage these are not white pencils these are the kind of pencils you sharpen to help you pick up flatback gems and small stones when you're doing beadwork and stuff and then this is a air air thing it's all painting powder pigments my pencil sharpener random wooden stamp I think is cute that just never seems to get away these are all the like big fat paint pens I own anymore I don't have any Posca pens anymore except for black and white I don't like them particularly I'm gonna use these up and then they're gone short graphite pencils and these giant woody Stabila woody crayons and my multi pens some coin multi pencils multi-colored pencils more powder pigments and then these are all of my sort of water soluble crayons and then the drawers underneath have things like pencil sharpeners and blenders paper bead supplies leads and grinding tools empty watercolor pans and that sort of thing and then this one has inquiry fills and how pen nibs and that's gonna work out great for me because everything sorted and organized and when I'm working on a project and I want a black pencil for God's sake I can just come over here grab the black bin and all my pencils are in there I love that anyway over here I still have to do that I have to sort some watercolor paints into a different bin because that bit that box is driving me crazy this I used to have in my bathroom downstairs with makeup and stuff in it I decided to repurpose it for up here and I can already tell you this is gonna work great I had all this stuff like randomly all over the desk and this is much neater and bonus look at all this free space around here normally my iPad's not there and that's free too so that's very cool and then over here my mats came today from Amazon as I said and I had some jelly prints and things that you know they're every now and then you create mono prints that are just too pretty to like tear up and do other stuff with so I have some ones that are frameable they're already matted the mats are 11 by 14 and they come just like this in the mat they're signed in a bag their originals one-of-a-kind and I have I really like this purple one I don't know why and then there's a few watercolors in here too remember I was doing the watercolor anatomical hearts and these are again these are the originals they're all signed and they are all for sale and they are in Etsy store which will be linked in the description below so now that I'm done with all I guess I can get back to sewing right because I am supposed to be working on these each one of these baskets has a bag in it that I'm supposed to be making so I need to do that and then I need to do that so I don't get too far behind on Pauline Agnews class and my painting homework which is right there as you know but now my muse is am you know happy as a clam so glad to accommodate her this time I guess all right that's it for today and it's that for the week my husband is downstairs continuing his work on our pantry cabinet and sprucing that up the old owners of this house you know they did a good job designing and building the house but they certainly took out some wear and tear on it and so he is giving things a tune up and he is fixing it so he's working on another whole big section this weekend and I think we're gonna spend some time this weekend and go out for a drive and go explore the neighborhood too so anyway and when I'm not doing all that I'll be sewing mm-hmm all right so I hope you've all had a great week and you're having a great day and you know if you want to support the free content here in YouTube there's a lot of different ways to do that they're all in my link tree which is in linked in the description below if you click on the link tree link you'll find me every place on the internet my Instagram Twitter Facebook my tip jar my Amazon store my book where if you want to go buy my book that I wrote my Etsy shop all that stuff so besides those paintings you know we've got a ton of inventory down here it's gonna go so and then I've started I don't know what may end up being let's see if I can do this me see the basket right there there we go oh wait there we go that basket that's full of paint and pencils and markers and pens from the sort today that I decided I didn't need and I wasn't sure why I kept so I might be filling some boxes supply boxes and I don't know yet so if you're if you're interested in a random bag of pens and pencils and markers let me know there is some derwent pencils in there some Raffine pencils in there probably some a random Prismacolor pencils some big pens some paper made flare pens they're all kinds of stuff in there I don't really know for sure just things I know I had that there's nothing wrong with they all seem to good I know there's some random Faber-Castell pens in there different nib sizes I think mostly in brown but don't hold me to that anyway they're just a random goodie bags but if you're interested let me know put a comment in the comments below or send me an email my email links in the description so anyway all that's all done I don't think I have anything else to say I think I'm talked out for the day all right that's it for right now go out and have a great day everybody do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys