 It's just after 12 noon. It's like 12, 10 or something. This is a sweatshirt. This is my favorite sweatshirt. It's a large, oversized, like Mosimo is a old Target brand. It's a Men's Double XL. I love this sweatshirt. I wear it a lot when I'm out walking, when it's chilly out. It's really old and I don't wanna get rid of it, but yeah, I got a hole in the pocket. So I picked up some shirts at the thrift store recently and I'm going to make some hexagons, English paper piecing style. And I'm going to sew them to my pocket to cover the hole and then I'm gonna embroider a little bit on it. So I will get that done and I will show you what it looks like because my clothes either have holes in them or paint. I'm gonna do the t-shirt next. I'll be back. So I also fixed my black t-shirt. It's just a simple old navy t-shirt. But I think this might be one I got at the thrift store. Anyway, I got a hole in it. Down by the hem. There we go. Down by the hem. I could have just repaired it with black, but I thought, you know, pop a color. So it had a hole in it, a little tear in the hole and I took some of my plaid fabric and backed it and then I did a few little just French knots in black and then this variegated teal-y blue color. I mean, you know, yeah, why not? Just a little, where are we? A little pop of color. So, and again, wait, turn this the right side out. You can see my favorite sweatshirt is all fixed. So, you know, you don't always have to get new. You can repair it and you don't have to try to do a repair that doesn't show why, why, why. So, slow stitching and repair together. It's not an original idea, people. Don't get excited. There's a lot of video out there. Anyway, I think it's time to eat lunch. I'll be back. And the shirts that I picked up at the thrift store the other day have all been cut up and parted out. I will probably be taking some of the excess and putting it in fabric bundles in the Etsy shop again, probably sometime this week. So watch for that. Those will be something I think going forward that will be periodically in the shop as I can get supplies to share. And as long as they sell, I'll be offering them as long as you're all interested. Anyway, right, we're waiting for the kids to come over. They're gonna be dropping the dog off because I think we're puppy sitting for a few hours. And it's Monday morning, June 29th, 8.53 a.m. I'm in front of the computer. Don't get excited. As you just saw, I was doing my weekly list of to-do things that I need to do. A lot of little note carry. Gonna start off the week by booting up the computer and checking on social media, doing my writing. Those are a couple of things I can get off my list right away. And I will probably go through all the vlog clips from last week and get that edited this morning also. I need to check in with a friend who's having a hard time right now. And I have other things I'd like to do today, but those are my priority. So remember a while back when I was saying that I suck at getting pictures of wildlife? Yeah. You still do. I still do. So as we were coming around the corner from our house, just like two doors down, two deer ran in front of us across the creek, across the road from one side of the creek to the other side of the creek. I couldn't get the phone open fast enough. I know. Anyway, we're headed out for this evening's walk. I didn't expect that I was gonna do all the purging that I did today, but I got all the purge items listed up on Etsy. So that's all done. I thought I was gonna end up doing something else, but that's okay. I needed doing this week. Tomorrow I've got a bunch of watercolor paintings to do and film, so yeah. All right, that's it for the moment. We're gonna go walking. The only wildlife I can catch a picture of is that cat back there, right there, that black dots, a cat. I couldn't even catch the bumblebee on camera, because you know, the only ones I can catch are the sleeping cat and the slugs. That's it. And Lily. And Lily. I'm useless at wildlife photography. So you know, I guess we're all bad at something, right? All right, we're headed back. Haven't run into any people, so I've needed this, yay. Hey guys, it is Tuesday, June 30th, like 2-11 p.m. I had to look, cause I have no idea. I was going to concentrate on filming the some more of the 30 paintings and 30 days series. And I did get some of that film, five more episodes, but I spent most of the morning updating all of them different merch sites my artwork is on, which I haven't done in a long time, so I needed it. All the sites are a little bit different in what merchandise is available, how they format the artwork to be printed on their sites. But I do have merchandise on Teespring, Redbubble, and Society 6. I will link all of them down below. Redbubble has a bunch of my artwork available on masks. There is a few on Society 6 too. And so yeah, anyway, I got all that done and then I had lunch and then I filmed. In the meantime, I am fascinated by watching all of the crazy drama that's going on in the beauty community here on YouTube. Holy cow, glad I'm not in the beauty community. That's just insane. Hey guys, so it is about six o'clock. I'm Tuesday evening, the 30th of June, and Bob is headed out really quick to go drop off a package for me at the mailbox and I'm cooking some pasta. He asked me, what do you want for dinner? I said something I don't have to cook. Was anybody else just getting tired of? Yeah, tired, just getting tired. Anyway, hey guys, good morning. It is, I don't know, after 8 a.m. on Wednesday, July 1st. I don't know exactly what time it is, 8.30-ish. It's not nine o'clock, I don't think. Anyway, if you remember from last week's vlog, I put some twill tape into my Camellia flower dye on Saturday. I meant to only leave it in there until Sunday, but it's Wednesday. So we're gonna take it out now. I've got a cookie sheet to hopefully try to control the mess I've got gloves on. And I'm gonna put it out on this rack on top of this cookie sheet to dry. The idea is to take it out of the water, kind of squeeze it out over the container as much as I can and then lay it out on this rack to dry. It may pick up a little bit of old water-soluble ink or dye or paint or something from the rack. I'm okay with that because I haven't used these racks before for like dye and paper and stuff. So that is a pretty pink color. I'm not gonna rinse it off. I'm gonna just let it dry naturally and then we'll see what happens. It's a pretty sort of light, well, medium pink color. Might be a happy accident that I ended up leaving it in here because maybe it is darker because I did that. I'll do you. I'll show you all in a minute. Can you see? Oh yeah, you can see it on camera. It's a pretty pink color. Now I do have some scrap packs available in my Etsy shop and I packed them up and listed them without putting any of this in there. I may go back if they don't sell before I get done with drying this and everything. I may go back and spool a little some of this and add it to those scrap packs. I think so. I think that's it. Nope, that's it. Okay, so I really, really, really don't wanna get pink dye on my ironing board but I'm gonna see if I can do this. And that's my art friends chat that's like digging in the background. So sorry. All right. Yay, I did that without making a mess. Woohoo, yay me. Hey guys, it is, I was gonna say Wednesday, it's Thursday, it's just after two o'clock. I spent the morning chatting with some friends and last week if you saw me sorting through my stickers I had some that I kept that were in small little storage journals that I had made using like happy planner rings. And it just wasn't working for me anymore and it had to change. So I spent some time while we were chatting today sorting through the stickers that were in those. They're not all the stickers I kept but the ones that I'm gonna be actively using were in there and also I had another one that had post-it notes in it. And so I hold on a second. Okay, so I had this travelers' notebook, style notebook from, these were from Michaels, I think. And I had this one, it had a journal in it. So it's about this, the journal cover is about the same size as the journal I'm drawing in for this month, which is great. Cause if I had to, I could just take the two of these and a pen and go, not that I'm going anywhere cause where are we gonna go? And that's my lunch yogurt. But this travelers' notebook cover worked great. I have some, what are they called? Invoice pockets? I don't remember, but they're these thick vinyl pockets I got on Amazon. I'll link them below, they were wider and I cut them apart down one side, took like about an inch off. And then I taped two of them together at the center where they were not open, left the opening on the outside edge. And then I made a whole bunch of them and I'm able to put my stickers in and sorted some sticky notes that I wanna use in the drawing journal. I purged a little bit from those old disc bound journals I had them in, which worked at the time but they weren't working anymore for me. And I had two of the disc bound journals. They were very fat, very bulky and not super convenient to get to and to have downstairs. This way I just have this. That works for me. I do have more stickers upstairs but for now I'm gonna focus on getting through these and I do have a couple of particular styles of stickers. I like if you took, I didn't kind of a slow look at that. I like the Hida stickers in particular and the Japanese sort of planner type stickers. And that's kind of what I used yesterday I used. Oops, one of them down there, see? So yeah, so anyway, so that worked for me. So I spent some time while I was chatting with my friends working on that and getting some stuff done in that regard. I have to go through scrapbooking paper soon and also I need to get some resin projects finished and go through the resin stuff and maybe work on that section of the art room. Yeah, and stuff like that. So I'm just gonna eat some lunch and watch some YouTube and then we'll see where I get to from there. I'll be back. July 3rd, yes, because she's still there. Tomorrow's 4th of July. So I woke up this morning to, well I kind of knew what was happening last night. My family having a Facebook disagreement. That's the nicest way to put that. About the current state of things in our country, in politics and with the virus. My sister, Elizabeth, faced the page. Cause that's a proper place to have that. I don't know anyway. And Bambi's outside. And she didn't seem to care. One little bit that Bob left a few minutes ago and pulled the car out of the driveway to go to the gym and drop off. An Etsy order this morning. Ron win your boxes being dropped off as we speak. It's just before 10 a.m. And you should have it. I would think by Monday and you probably got an email with a tracking number if you didn't message me, let me know. Anyway, Bambi didn't seem to be bothered in the slightest. She was too busy eating breakfast. And I'm guessing when she's done those bowls are gonna be empty. There's two bowls out there. She seems to be like counting down on both of them. Hold on, I'll get you all a picture. There she is. Let's divvy you out my front window. My driveway is open to the woods next to my house. So we have lots of wildlife that come through. Lots of stray cats, but also deer, raccoons, coyote, possum. It looks like those bowls might be empty. She's rooting around all the ground. Anyway, as soon as she's gone I'll put some more corn out. Right now I'm gonna go upstairs and turn on the computer. I've got another Etsy order to fill that can actually go in the drop box here by the house. So I'm gonna go take care of that. I'll be back. Okay, the Camellia Died Ribbon is dried and spooled. I'll put a picture here. We've got the old coffee grounds in a jar, soaking in water. If you have old coffee grounds, cheap coffee maybe from the dollar store, just soak a bunch of it in a jar of water until the water gets black and then drain it off, saving the water. And you've got coffee dye. I have a lot of coffee grounds in that jar. I'm gonna let it soak for a couple of days and then I'm going to drain off the water to save. And I'm gonna refill the jar with more water and see what happens. So I'll keep you posted. Anyway, we're gonna move the washer and dryer out so I can clean the floor and get ready for the new washer and dryer to come in because yeah, a washing machine broke the other day. I think I, I don't know if I've logged about it right now, but yeah. Anyway, husbands moving the cars around so that when the kids get here for dinner, we have a place to put the washer and dryer in the garage so that we can clean the floor because yeah. Hey guys, it is Saturday afternoon, just around lunchtime-ish. I think it's like 1230, 1240, somewhere in there. We went and dropped off an Etsy order at the post office, checked on the Pia box. I picked up some envelopes. He's closing the garage door, we fed Bambi. Dropped off some donations. The kids are coming over later. Only Rebecca and Polly is, Jenny and Brian aren't coming. Brian ate something I think last night that he's not feeling well today. So yeah, but we have a little bit before they all show up so we just thought we'd go for a little drive. And yeah, I'm gonna go downstairs and have some lunch and relax for a little bit and I'll be back. Hey guys, it is 11, 12 p.m. Fourth of July evening. I'm sure at some point you'll still be able to hear it because it's loud. The neighbors behind us, more than one of them are still setting off fireworks. I don't think I'm probably gonna be able to get to sleep anytime soon. Right, dear? Right. Yeah, Fred and I are still awake. I was just posting to social media and all that stuff. Anyway, it was a quiet Saturday, a quiet fourth, but that was all right. The kids came over, we barbecued some hamburgers and for those that don't know, we do still see our daughter and son-in-law up until recently they lived with us. So we feel like being socially distanced kind of a little bit pointless since they used to live here recently. Anyway, I hope you've all had a good week. See, popping here. I hope you've all had a good week. We've had it, you know, decent week considering the world situation. It's not been bad. It's different, it's not bad. Anyway, it's been a good week. I hope it's been good for you too. And don't forget to like, share and subscribe. If you'd like to support the free content here on YouTube and get things like digital downloads for me, occasional snail mail for me, tutorials that you don't get here on YouTube, join my Patreon. Think about doing that. If you don't wanna join Patreon, you can shop at my Etsy store or one of a number of other things to support the free content, not just for my channel. A lot of your favorite creatives have ways to support their free content both on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups. If you can't find store links or something for them, ask them, I'm sure they've got a way. Anyway, stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative. Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. We're gonna hope they stop sometime soon so I can get some sleep and I'll see you next week. Bye guys.