 missed filming anything for this week's vlog yesterday. It is Friday, September 15th. And I don't know, the day just got away from me. I don't know, Thursday just, yeah, has been in gone. I don't know. I've been to the gym obviously this morning. I'm home right now watching a live broadcast by Tracy Bautista. She's just about at the end. A very inspiring artist. If you don't know who she is, I will link, try to link her website in the description below and you guys can look her up. She's got a lot of really great classes. She actually is one of my first teachers in mixed media, so yeah, I really admire her and her work. And it's just, you know, it's been a couple of weeks of, I don't know, today, the September edition of Explorations of Me went live on YouTube and evidently the way I explained the prompt and what I thought of the prompt was offensive to at least one person in an extreme way and I don't know. I don't know. So initially I responded to the comment and then I thought better of that and I deleted it. I did put a pinned comment at the underneath the video. I didn't intend it to offend anyone. I filmed before, yes it was the end of August, but it was before I knew the effects of Hurricane Harvey and I didn't know anything about Irma at that time. And everything I said was in reference to my own life and I never intend to offend. That doesn't mean I never do. I do. I'm human. I'm not perfect and I don't try to be and I don't try to tell you that I am, but when I do make a mistake I own it and I, you know, and if I offended I'm sorry I didn't mean it. And if it's extremely offensive I may have to stop all the comments and if it's really bad I might have to just take the video off. I don't know so we'll see or edit that last part of the video out and reload it. I don't know. So that's it for right now. I am going to take a shower and try to do some art and try to, I don't know, get back in a positive mood or positive, I don't know. All right I'll be back. It's still Friday and I have been putting together my little sewing machine table extension from my mixed media machine that I do the art sewing on and I'm loving it. I made my own table because nobody made a table I could find that would fit this little genomy machine. So I went to my local tat plastic store and had them cut some pieces and then I put them together and yeah it's working great. So anyway I'm also going to film a fun experiment video. Yes that's paint on the floor. So we're going to do sort of an extreme mixed media, no an extreme abstract painting. I have no idea if it's going to work. It might but it might be really messy. We're going to find out. All right I'm going to film a little bit of this for the vlog and the rest of it will be in a tutorial that probably won't air until April but you'll get the idea. All right I'll be back. It is Saturday, September, I don't know what is it, the 16th? I think so. This is our toe painting that we did. It's all done and dry. It's been hanging up since last night. I really love the way it turned out. It's too funny. I really really love it. Anyway the video for that is coming soon. I really did paint it with my toes wait until you see. Part of the video is filmed with my phone and part is filled with my camera because I forgot to turn the camera on. I was having so much fun so forgive me if there's some quality issues. And I've spent a lot of the weekend playing with my little Genomy mixed media sewing machine and I put a free motion embroidery foot on it and I made this little a little table extension and I've been making working on everything from simple shapes and words to more complicated eyeball. So I think it goes that way. And arrows and look at these girls. And you know I did them without lifting the needle up and cutting the thread. This is all in one continuous line. Words flowers like all kinds. I'm having a lot of fun with it. And there's a name for drawing like this where you don't lift your pen up on the paper and you just keep drawing. And I can't think of what it is right now. Maybe some of you will remember and you can put it in the comments. But it's the same for me. It's the same principle. Once I get started with the stitching I don't stop stitching and cut the thread. I just keep going and just keep going. Just like when you do that style of drawing. Whose name I can't remember. So I have a lot more pieces of canvas torn into bits over here. So I'm going to be stitching a whole bunch of them. I'm probably listing some of these for sale in the Etsy shop. So there are yeah there are a lot of fun. And you know doing a few random things around the house. But that's it today. Did you hear my knee pop? That didn't feel good. All right that's it for today. I will be back tomorrow. Yeah I don't know what we're doing tomorrow. But it's Sunday. It's just a quiet weekend at home. All right I'll be back. Hey guys it's Sunday September 17th I think. We've spent the morning doing laundry. Dishes you know household chores. Hubby is in the process of rehanging our drapery rods. And we're going to put the curtains back up in the master bedroom. Which is the one thing in there we haven't done yet. So we're gonna get it. It's Monday September 18th. I'm on the treadmill but I'm not at the gym. So a friend of ours had a little while back his wife passed away. Lou is a very sweet person and art is also a very sweet guy. And he asked my husband recently if he knew anybody who might like Lou's old treadmill. And Bob said uh yeah Gina might like it. So he gave me Lou's old treadmill. So we're here out in the garage. And I'm getting my steps in. I like not having to get up and go drive to the gym. I gotta say that's pretty attractive. So we're gonna give it a try. I'll be back. Hey guys so we are out running errands. I got off the treadmill and there was a kind of a burning smell. I think the treadmill had been sitting for a long time and needed some oiling. So I got off of it and did that and I put the bed of the treadmill up because it's a folding one. So that it could cool off and we'll see what happens to with it tomorrow. errands and getting parts for I'm gonna straighten the camera a little bit. You're a little crooked. Well I guess it doesn't matter. I'm getting getting parts for some upcoming videos and going back to the plastic store. Tap plastics because you know I like that place. I needed a couple more things and I've got to go to the hardware store and I've got to go to the grocery store. We're out of like I think the only fresh fruit or vegetables or anything that we have is one red onion and a half of a flat of figs. I like figs. It's fresh and we have nothing that's clean. So I'm filming done this afternoon too. I don't know. Typical Monday. Lots to do but I don't know where to get started. I'll be back. Hey guys it is still Monday the 18th of September and I've been working on this today. It's not quite dry but it's dry enough that I need to add more epoxy to it. Now back in my what do you call them artist cooperative shop days. You know those little shops where a bunch of artists get together and you rent a booth space and you sell stuff. Yeah I did one of those for years. I worked there as a cashier and I had a booth anyway. Back in those days I used to make a lot of like candy dishes and stuff out of seashells. I did it a lot. I saw a Instagram post by Green Leaf Blue. I believe is the name. I will try to link them below where they and I'm sure they just did it for Instagram but it was just something that I went ooh ah. They make handmade watercolors and they showed some of their newest latest watercolors displayed on a seashell and that's why I'm saying I went ooh ah. I really like the way it looked and so I am working on just a little like watercolor palette made out of seashells. That's you know I'm sure well to be 6000 is dead. I don't know that it's going to be you know super useful. I don't really need it. I just thought it would be fun to look at on my desk even if I never actually use the paints in it and when I did the candy dishes this is exactly what I did. I put some e6000 and did a base glue of the shell arrangement that I would want and then when it was mostly dry went back in found the weak spots where things weren't quite as glued together as I wanted them to be and squirt some more glue and then now the e6000 adhesive takes a while to dry. Let's see I think we need some more glue here. I just bought some random shells from the craft shop. Let's see do we actually need glue there. I want to try to get the glue in there without it showing too much. I also did a lot of like candy dishes and business card holders and stuff not only out of seashells but old metal like license plates and stuff like that too they sold really well. Okay so this has to dry and while it's drying I'm going to prop some things up so they stick but I'm also going to glue it to this and it's going to be able to turn around pretty cool right so let's stick a couple of blobs on here glue. I picked this little plastic lazy Susan thing up at the tap plastics store when I was there today. I got a little felt foot stuck on there but you know what I'm going to just leave it on there. I'm going to use some spare shells to prop things up so that that one's not going to work so that it gets glued the way I want so that when it's as it's drying things are really touching really firmly. It feels like it needs more glue over there. No it just needs to dry better. Okay so we're going to stick this one over here. I'm going to try not to have too many glue threads. I'm going to you know what I think if I put something right there it'll stay really well so a little small weights. Okay we're going to let that dry and we'll be back. Okay it's not completely dry but I think it's dry enough for me to put some paints in it. I have made 12 spaces and I have these Marie's watercolors I got on Wish and they're just a student grade watercolor but they're pretty good for the price I paid. I'm going to use them all up and this is like I said this is just like to really to make my desk look pretty. This is a paint tube squeezer thing to get like all the paint out of the tubes so this crimps the tubes. I might actually save these and let them dry because that how cool is that. Can you see that like in some kind of mixed media project? Headed home and I think I need more coffee. Hey guys it's Wednesday almost five o'clock. I don't think I've gotten a whole hell of a lot done today. I had kind of a long chit chat this morning with my dear friend Cindy Utter for we probably talked way longer than we should have. We probably should have both been doing other things but you know I did get my workout in. I did get laundry started. I didn't get the dishes done. I should have done at least one journal page in one of my many journals I'm trying to finish. Yeah I haven't done that. I did get a gessoed and I might get it done before my husband comes home. I don't know. Ran a couple errands, got the mail. I don't know I just feel like I could have done more. I got stuck watching Restoration Home on the computer. It's a BBC TV or well I don't know if it's by BBC TV it might be but it's a UK TV show. I really like it but you know I get obsessed with these things. Anyway I don't know the day's gotten gotten away from me. We'll see. I'm gonna see if I can try to do at least a journal page and I'll be back. Hey guys I just spent some time talking to my video camera and you guys on my telephone. I filmed the vlogs with my telephone and the only problem with that was the telephone wasn't on. So I don't know anyway. So it's still Wednesday evening and I just finished this cute little mini journal page from some pieces and parts from my friend Mike Deakin and one of his new stencils I just bought. The process video will be out soon on YouTube but it's not too cute. I took total license and inspiration with his work on a thank you postcard he sent me with my my stencil order that I got from him which Mike I'm sorry I cut up and yeah totally cute page I love it. So it's still drying it's still kind of wet but I have some paint left over so I thought we would take the same stencil. This is one of Mike's stencils. His video his website will be in the description below. I'll link it for you guys. I'm going to just try to use up some of this leftover paint. This is my another one of my journals. I'm trying to finish the small delusions journal. I have so many of these you know half started journals. Some of them only have two or three pages in them and then I don't do any more work in them. Some of them are almost done and I just I don't know I just didn't get them done. So you guys if you guys are feeling like you know man I never get any of my journal work done you know I start these journals and never finish them and you don't you feel like you're the only one that does that okay stop feeling that way because you're totally not the only one that does that. I do the same thing holy cow. We all do. Cindy, Utter and I are both trying hard to finish our some of our backlog of journals. I don't know. So I'm going to use the same paint colors obviously that I used on the page I just did and maybe some similar techniques because there were some things about that page I thought turned out really interesting. I've got some of these pages here that have already some paint on them and this is one of the journals that I just wipe paint brushes off on and at some point I'll go in there to one of the pages and I'll start creating something from the paint that's on there the wipe off paint that's on there and I'll stencil on it or something like that and so that's kind of what we're doing so I don't mess up the page that's underneath and my goal is to just use up the paint and one of the things you can do with these stencils you could go in with a baby wipe and do some reverse stenciling I almost stuck that paint brush in my mouth to hold it I probably shouldn't do that since there's wet acrylic paint all over it you know sometimes I just don't think and you can create a design in the wet paint that way which is interesting but you have to like do it right away so you should have the baby wipe or whatever you're using out and do it before the paint dries I like the stencil mic I like it a lot that's a good start to a background there I like that have another one here let's see that we just did so I'm gonna take my stencil brush in my water my water cup is overflowing and I just I'm picking up the paint with the baby wipe this is another like quick easy fast way to um color your page quickly and because you're doing just a thin coat with the baby wipe it's gonna dry pretty quick you can really get it well blended and um yep see quick easy so that's it for this week I think I am going to clean up some mess and I guess try to do the dishes before my husband gets home maybe I don't know all right I will see you guys later don't forget to check out the video description there'll be the link for Mike's um etsy shop the link to my own etsy shop if you want to buy any of my um tools supplies artwork embellishments any of that in fact I've got to do another listing tonight and um the link to my tip jar if you want to support the free content here on youtube or the free content over in my facebook group art groups there's also a link to a site that has all of my places on the internet linked in one big giant list so there's no more hiding from anybody that's it the most important thing is to go out and have a great day everybody do something nice for yourself because you deserve it have a great week I don't know how many weeks I can keep this up because this is a lot of filming all the time but I will do it as long as I can all right that's it talk to you later bye guys