 It is Sunday, August 18th. I only know that because it's already very late in the day. I'm 4.57 PM. We spent the day moving things around and purging. And I think we almost have this front room set up how we want where we can do puzzles and play games in it. As a family, we have some memorabilia and glassware. We're gonna put a table out here so we can also use it as a dining room. So anyway, we're exhausted. I've gotten no art done today. I did get my post done, but no paperclip or anything. And I don't know that one's gonna get done today. So we might just have to skip it today and do two tomorrow. So we'll see. All right, I'll be back. We're finally sitting down. Fred's marinating the chicken for the barbecue. And I've gotta plug my new lamp in and point it my way. I almost forgot. Oops. Our future son-in-law Polly has just got back from a school trip to Vietnam and Japan. And he brought these back to us. I don't know what that says. Some kind of cheese flavored pie flavored cookie. I don't know. There were two little bags of them in here. So we're gonna both try it. I'll let you know what I think. I'm gonna turn the camera on here because we're both opening it right now. While I opened mine first, my husband's doing it now. I just took a smell. It smells like cheesecake. Yeah, smells just like cheesecake. Yeah, cheesecake. Mmm, cheesecake flavored cookies. Like Pocky, but cheesecake flavored. Thank you, Pollyas. They're good. Yummy. Cheesecake on a stick. Cheesecake on a stick. Cool. All right, I'll be back. Good morning. It's Monday morning, August 19th, 9.51 a.m. Don't get all excited. I'm in the car. I'm looking at the clock and I already checked the thing on the phone. I need to go out, kind of would like another cup of coffee, but I need to go out. First I need to adjust the seat so my feet actually hit the pedals because my husband was driving my car before. He's six foot one. I'm five, two and a half on a good day, so. Yeah, that doesn't work. Anyway, I've got a, so I made another big, painy mess and there's painy fingerprints all over my cell phone, but holy cow. Let me turn the camera around. I like it. I'm gonna sit with it for a little bit. I'm gonna let it, it's gonna take a couple days to dry. I use some of the wax medium on some of the colors. I'm not sure I wanna add anything else to that. What do you all think? I'm gonna take some pictures for social media and if you follow me over there, you can let me know. All right, I'll be back. A lot of deer around here, obviously, because I keep showing them to y'all. Y'all. Evidently, we also found out this weekend that Oregon is or was the skunk capital. Spud the Portland area anyway. So, that explains the other night. All right, we're gonna continue on our walk. We'll be back. Morning, it's the 20th of August, Tuesday morning, 10.59 a.m. Don't get excited. I've already been like up for a few hours on the computer, straightening some stuff out. I didn't get done yesterday because I had a USB hub that was failing, which I don't remember at this point if I've mentioned or not. Anyway, I had to go to two different stores to find one that works for my computer that had enough ports in it for everything I need being plugged in. It's all taken care of. And things are, the computer's doing its thing right now. I needed to do some stuff actually yesterday that I didn't get done, so it's doing it now. Anyway, I'm gonna go out and run some errands. I'm supposed to help a neighbor with something, but she's gonna let me know when she wants that done and then in the meantime, I've got to run errands, so I'm not gonna hang around for her to call me. We'll see what happens. But I'm dreading running errands, not because it's too peoply out there, it probably is, but they're still doing construction outside my little community, and that means getting in and out is gonna be a bigger pain than normal. They're repaving, putting in new medians. It's a pain in the neck. All right, let's go get it done. I'm gonna hit Dollar Tree first. All right, I'll be back. I don't know if any of y'all have been watching my channel since I moved and set up the art room, or you watched any of the art room organizational videos, but I have a medium-sized Target Y-Weave Basket, this one that normally sits over there in the blank space. That holds the majority of my painting tools, my brushes and things, and what most commonly use mark-making tools, found objects, Dollar Tree objects, like these sort of nylon scrubby things. I just got myself a new finger brush. I wore the old one out, old eyebrow brush, things like that, along with my paint brushes and different things. I had it organized, not too dissimilarly from what you see now, but the containers or dividers in the basket that were holding everything were various kinds of jars, which worked great, but there was some lost space in the basket, and it wasn't quite organized the way I want, and it was a little too hard to get things. And I donned on me this morning, I've got all these half-gallon plastic milk jugs that aren't recycled at all. If I'm gonna toss them in the trash, I wanna toss less of them in the trash and try to repurpose at least part of it. So I, last week, broke. I talked about breaking one of my glass water containers. The milk jug fit perfectly. I cut the top of it off. I'm reusing the bottom. The only part that went in the trash is the top part that I cut off. So that's a little bit of a step in the right direction. It dawned on me today I could get milk cartons in the wide-leaf basket. Now you can get nine of them in here. I only have eight, because number one, that's all I have. But number two, I wanna be able to fit these right here and they don't really need to be in a milk carton. I just cut the tops off. And they fit perfect. So there's a little tip for y'all. Half-gallon milk jugs for storage in the art room. They work like a charm. All right, I'll be back. I just wanted to tell you all about, update you about the wax and acrylic paint experiment. The deco art cream wax dried pretty quickly within the day or two. The PowerTex wax is finally dried. I did this on 8.14.19 at 1.17 p.m. We're now August 20th. So the PowerTex, which is the wax medium that's intended to be blended with oil paint or acrylic is actually dry. And this is a pretty hefty size, thick blob of that. And it did take almost a whole week to dry, but it is dry. The Dorlands, which is the one that I have, I actually use it as a finish coat on paintings. It's intended for using with oil paint. If you use it alone without mixing it with anything, it works great as a protective sort of waxy matte hard finish on paintings. And it doesn't reactivate. It's not like your traditional wax. So it doesn't reactivate when it gets hot. So I generally use it for that. Here mixed with acrylic paint, which you're not supposed to do is not recommended. The flat parts are dry, the streaky parts. That big giant blobby part, that is still wet. So I don't know, let's see. I don't know if it will dry eventually, but it's definitely still wet after a week. So, yeah, I just thought I'd give you a little update. I'm gonna leave it sit on the shelf and out of the way and just let it just sit and chill. We'll see if it ever does dry. I'll let you know. All right, I'll be back. But power techs, power wax, wax medium, works great with acrylic paint. And I've been using it in the last couple paintings I've done, I'm hooked. All right, I'll be back. Hey guys, it is almost one o'clock on Wednesday the 21st. I spent the morning working on the big painting again, the new one. I added some more colors to it. I was gonna leave it muted, but maybe the next one, I just wasn't able to do that. Anyway, I like the way it turned out and I'll put a picture here somewhere. We're gonna go check the mail. Hopefully I actually got my mail today. I didn't yesterday. I do have informed delivery and I let them know though. So we'll see. Anyway, I spent the morning chatting with friends and stuff like that. So let's go check the mailbox and I'll be back. Looks like I got yesterday's mail and today's mail. I think the mailman just didn't want to be bothered getting around the construction that's out on the road outside of our community. So he didn't deliver anything yesterday. That's my theory anyways. I'm gonna go sit and have lunch. And then I still have to make today's paperclip and maybe do a couple other things upstairs. All right, I'll be back. Okay, I'm gonna start a new canvas and I'm going to use a page out of my color inspiration journal as inspiration. That's what it's for. I'm gonna really challenge myself I think this time because the colors on this are these. So I'm gonna be mixing and blending colors to come up with these. And I'm gonna try to stick to that, which will be interesting. And it's, you know, the images on the page are very abstracted. What is it gonna be? I don't know. But yeah, this is where we're gonna start. All right, I'll be back. The good start, I think. We'll see where it goes. Just after 9 a.m., August 22nd. I only know that because I've already been on the computer. I have some computer work to do, some things to do I can't do until 10 a.m. and I'm just driving myself crazy sitting in front of the computer. So I'm gonna go downstairs and do the dinner dishes from last night because I didn't do them yet. And empty the dishwasher, which is clean. Do some chores. And yeah, hopefully that kills some time. And then I can come back up here and get done what I need to. And then go run some errands. All right, I'll be back. I wanna try a few experiments on it. Those are the wrong glasses. Holy cow. Those won't help me with the sun. Let's try these, shall we? There we go. Okay. Okay, so we got some happy mail from Connie Kruger. Thank you, Connie, very much. The ladies at the PO box were so excited for me. They said, can you open it now? We wanna see what's inside. I did take a quick peek, but I'm going to not delve too far into the box and we will open the rest and read the letter when I get home and I'll open the box on camera. I won't read the letter on camera, but I'll open the box on camera. And yeah, now I need to go to the grocery store. So I'll be back. Hey guys, good morning. It's technically still morning. It's Friday, August 23rd. And it is, what time is it? 11, 15 a.m. Yeah, wow. So my Future Sun and Lost Facebook page, I think it's been hacked. So I'm just letting him know. I've been off the phone with Best Buy's Geek Squad and the Apple Store people. And the short story is I'm taking my phone into the Apple Store people tonight and I'm gonna get the cracked screen fixed finally. My husband's gonna do his too, but I think my phone needs a new battery. So we're filming on it right now. We filmed a vlog on it. Anyway, I think the battery's having an issue and it's having problems keeping the phone charged. And I'm going through the entire phone case. I have a charging phone case and I'm going through the entire battery on that too. So that's a problem and it says service on it under settings. So yeah, I may not get my phone back until Sunday, Monday. So we will be filming the rest of the vlog with maybe the digital camera. We're supposed to hit the road tomorrow to go and have lunch with my mom. She's a few hours away. So thankfully my husband's driving because I don't know directions for crap. And we will have at worst case scenario, his work phone and our old out of date Garmin GPS. So he knows where he's going. I'm not doing any driving around or road trips till I get my phone back. Cause yeah, that's a thing. All right, that's it for the moment. I think I'll be back. Okay, so we're definitely taking my phone in tonight. I already said that I know. I'm gonna be without it at least for a few hours. Worst case scenario, a few days. Anyway, I was just working on some projects, painting some paper, well painting a canvas and then I had leftover paints. I'm painting some paper with the leftover paint. Always moving things around. So this is our wax experiment. And while the other two are completely dry, the door lens, which is this one in the middle, is drying. It's still soft to the touch and it's still able to be moved around. So I would probably say that if you're gonna use door lens with acrylic paint, which it's not meant to do, let me say that. It says it right on the label. It's not meant for acrylic paint. It's meant for oil paint. It's an oil paint wax medium. But if you're gonna use it with acrylic paint, I mean, you'll get an interesting blend. It'll maybe kind of work, but it's gonna take forever to dry. So anyway, all right, I'm gonna continue on with my bits and pieces and experiments. And I think I'm kind of, I think I have to wash brushes because I have no more space to like work on anything until something dries and I can get it out of the way. So that's a thing. All right, I'll be back. Hey guys, happy Saturday morning. It is 9 57 a.m. August 20 something. I almost said April 24th. I think it's the 24th. Anyway, we're on a drive north to Washington State to hang out with my mom and take her out to lunch. We are back home from visiting with my mom today and it was a fun day, but a long one. And yeah, we're gonna just sit now and watch some YouTube while I'm going to. He's gonna watch TV. Right, Fred? Fred says yes. So we hope you've had a good week. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe. I will put any relevant links in the description below. And yeah, go out and have a great day. Have a great week. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and we'll see you later. Bye guys.