 Good morning, everybody. It's Sunday morning, September 15th, rainy Portland morning. In case you can't hear that rain. We are, what time is it? 844 a.m. We're about 15 minutes later than we wanted to be but we're headed up to my mom's to help them with some stuff and they're gonna also change the oil in the kids car so the kids are gonna meet us up there and yeah we're gonna spend the day up with my mom and dad and we will film what we can and we'll be back. A little crooked but that's better I guess. Anyway, good morning. It's Monday morning, September 16th, I think. 943 a.m. according to the computer. I'm just now logging in. I'm a little late getting started this morning. You know, I didn't have a good excuse. I was just tired. Had a busy weekend. I didn't get any art done. We spent the weekend with family the whole weekend helping my parents out with a couple small things and spending time with the kids and yeah busy busy busy so we did that. So this morning I've got to do at least three paper clips. I've got three days of drawings to do today and I want to do a bunch of, sorry the computer's talking to me this morning, that was the wrong thing I clicked on. And I've got to do a bunch of pages in the two inspiration color, the color inspiration journal and the art inspiration journal so I need to do a bunch of that and I also need to reply to YouTube comments because I haven't done that either. Almost the whole weekend so that's gonna be the focus of my day is catching up on all that stuff. I still have to see that right there. That's receipts, paperwork. We're gonna pretend I did it already. I need to do that too this week that's on the agenda so let's try clicking on this browser well shall we? I have had my two cups of coffee and breakfast I swear and you can see I moisturized up you can see by the shiny bits. No that's not sweat and yeah so let's turn on the internet, turn on the YouTube comments and see where we're at shall we? All right I'll be back. Okay I don't know what time it is but I got three paper clips done I got a couple pages one in each of the inspiration journals done I'm going to let those dry and then do at least one more in each journal maybe two and I didn't get any paperwork done. I did answer all the social media did my postings and all of that stuff I'm gonna go now bring up the garbage cans and put them away because it's garbage day it's Monday and then I'm gonna eat some lunch because I'm pretty sure it's like around lunchtime somewhere so you know it's at least 11 30 if not later so yeah that's where we are at right now anyway all right I'll be back. I'm outside in the side yard I was taking out the garbage and it just started dumping rain that's what that sound you hear in background is and it's actually lightened up a little bit welcome to Portland all right I'll be back I was gonna try to go walking tonight when Bob got home from work but and I don't mind walking in the rain but not if it's a torrential downpour it's a little different so let's see if it stops sometime soon I've got about an hour and a half or so before he gets home maybe we'll see I'll be back. Whether in Portland is so weird now it's all but stopped raining and the Sun's trying to come out and it's literally only been five or ten minutes seriously Portland is so weird all right I'll be back. Good morning everyone it is Tuesday morning September 17th I think yeah because my niece is set to have a baby any day now and if Paxton doesn't decide to come before Thursday he's gonna be born Thursday the 19th so that's how I know what day Paxton you need to be here already anyway I am obviously headed out of in the car again I have some Etsy orders that need to go and most of them are international so I don't feel comfortable just putting them in the dropbox not to mention the fact that they have the Yin Yang ruler drawing guide set in them and which is selling out quickly yay people thank you I gotta figure out how to get some more made I don't feel comfortable putting those in the bin and because of the drawing guides it's a stiff package and I don't want to take a chance of breaking them so by bending them to get them in the box so I'm gonna go drop them off and I'm gonna run a couple other okay I'm gonna head downstairs for a bit one of my inspiration journals only has one more page in it and then it's done and it can be permanently used as a reference book so yay and then I'm gonna I'm working on the sky one that I started art one is called color inspiration because it's just all about color groupings and and color themes the other one is just all about skyscrapes so I'm working on the skyscrapes one and I probably will start a third one at some point soon I don't have any images I want to put it in it immediately but I don't see I know me and I don't see that lasting for very long so anyway things are drying and I'm going to head downstairs now and yeah get it done I'll be back okay I spent the morning chatting with friends and getting some paperwork done I finally got the accounting done whoo and then we had a furniture delivery so this is our new dining room table and chairs let me move to away from the French doors there we go that's our new dining room table and chairs and it actually opens up it has a butterfly leaf in the middle you open it up and the leaf is in there folded and it pops out yeah anyway and it'll actually seat six and we do have we only got four chairs because we do have other chairs around the house so we use when that happens and then we got a new bar cabinet here and that means I have my kitchen counter my cutting station back so I have my cutting station back whoops where we there we are and I cleaned out the drawer of sharp pointy things I've got those knives on the counter that are okay for anybody to use but the ones in here you use them I break your fingers unless you know what you're doing and then I moved some of the things that were in there that are kind of in the sharp pointy category but don't necessarily need to be in the drawer and until I can get this drawer made into an actual drawer they'll fit in here this is a knife drawer but my knives don't fit in here and I do want to have our contractor make it into an actual drawer but he's super busy right now until I don't even know when so that's a thing anyway so that's all done yay so we're all good and we still have lots of nice open space it's not too cluttered I don't think that's what I wanted I don't want it to be too cluttered too crazy I know what that anyway so yeah now I just have to figure out what I'm gonna do with the wine fridge the bane of my existence I love it it's useful for keeping my husband's wine stash cold but I really don't want it in the front room it should be out here somewhere but then where all right that's it for the moment I'll be back good morning it is Thursday September 19th I almost said October because yeah anyway it is 9 19 a.m. and I obviously been the car I'm headed out I need to go to the shops I've got some stuff I need to pick up including printer paper which I'm out of and then we have somebody coming by for an estimate on gutter cleaning and the zinc stuff on the roof for preventing moss growth roof maintenance I'm a roof maintenance guy who hopefully works out and we can use him going forward we live next to the woods so cleaning the gutters out at least twice a year gonna be a thing okay we're back home and we're upstairs I got home and I was really hungry so I ate an early lunch I have been for a long time eating perfect bars in the morning with my coffee which is a sort of high-ish calorie protein bar they're not bad for you but they have a lot of sugar in them and I'm just I'm really trying to break myself of the habit the one good thing about them is I would eat one and then I wouldn't be hungry until like one o'clock I am noticing not having one I have one I have like yogurt or something with my coffee at 7 7 30 and then by 11 o'clock I'm starving so anyway I had an early-ish lunch it is 1242 I have some blueberries downstairs for a snack and a little bit because I do find that I'm wanting sort of a mid-afternoon snack and I'm the type of person if there's nothing healthy in the house I'm gonna eat what's in the house yeah so anyway we try not to keep too much chocolate anyway I'm upstairs in the art room I'm listening to Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride and I have Pandor on and I did another page in the art inspiration book the skyscrapes book so I did another page I do need to let it dry and then I have a few more skyscrapes I need to print out and stick in here what else I need to do a paper clip today I haven't done that yet I did do all my postings oh sorry for the weird light we're standing underneath the ceiling fan I did when I was out earlier go to Michaels and picked up a few more craft paints I like swatching the inspiration books with craft paints rather than sitting and mixing stuff when it comes to using these inspiration books in an art piece or a journal if it's a journal I'll probably use the craft paints but if it's an art piece like on canvas I would take my artist paints and that page from the inspiration book and I would do my best to color mix from my art paints like for instance if I was using this color on this on the inspiration journal page I would mix this color for my art paints which I know how to do but for the inspiration books that's a lot of mixing so I picked up a few more colors to add to my stash of things I felt I didn't have so I didn't have enough sort of more muted grayed-out tones not I have a lot of brights and Oceany colors but I was really finding especially for this skyscapes journal that I need gray I need more muted tones so I did get a fire coral this is folk art fire coral I prefer folk art and deco art FYI I did get one Martha Stewart paint and I think it's her watercolor paint just because it was the right color I'm never using it for watercolor I didn't don't see the point in having watercolor in a bottle that's just me I'm just using it because it's the right color and it was the only brand that had the color I wanted anyway that's not one of them I got another folk art in tangerine because I needed a light orange and I also needed some sort of light sort of grayed-out pinks so that's the coral orangey pinks I also got another lighter pink caught this is deco arts cotton candy so those were my pinks that I picked I needed some more gray blues I have folk arts French blue which I love and I use that one a lot and I also have folk arts blue lullaby which works for some of the lighter blues yeah but I needed some other ones so I got deco arts winter blue and if you put it next to the French blue they're almost the same color one is more in the blue tones and one is more in the green they're pretty close and that wasn't this one wasn't one that was on my list it just looked interesting so I picked it up because you know I can't help myself this is one that I wanted so this is deco art this is our multi-surface satin again for what I'm using it for I wasn't paying any attention to what the finish was on the paint I just want it for the color to do the swatches with so this is their multi-surface satin this is night sky so it's a nice dark gray blue which is what I was looking for and then I got this sort of medium gray blue this is deco arts blue harbor and then I needed a dark like foresty green so I got deco arts houser dark green and then the Martha Stewart one that I picked up because it was I needed a light orange light orange and light pink were on my list and this one is a Martha Stewart this is her watercolor and this is wild salmon was the perfect light orange for what I wanted so yeah those are what I got today and I did get some tape runner because you know how you can be at a tape runner in an art room I found one roll of glue dots glue dot roller thing I got these at Creativation a couple years ago the glue dots people gave me a bunch of them which is great and I've been using them up that by the way if you see them these work great they work really great they just don't have a ton on them and I don't know if that's because that's a sample and not the actual one you get at the store it might be anyway that's it for the moment I'm going to sit and do a few more things up here let this page you dry then make a paper clip and maybe go for a walk husband has a Masonic meeting tonight so it's just me myself and geez otherwise known as my navigation app on my phone to get me around so I don't get lost actually getting to the park walking is not a problem getting home sometimes I get lost so yeah that's a thing all right I'll be back probably should grab the iPod because I'm gonna want music can pretty much guarantee that all right and I will say also too I do use an eye when I said iPod I meant iPod I think it's second-generation maybe third I don't remember it probably says on the back somewhere but yeah I don't have my reading glasses on anyway can you see there we go see the dark spot it's got like a moisture spot it still works fine it doesn't affect anything but and there I've tried everything to get it out of there that you can think of all the DIY hacks nothing works so at some point it's gonna probably die and I'm gonna need a new one and they don't make them like this anymore I like this all right I'll be back it is just before noon on Friday September 20th my niece is in active labor so baby Paxton my great my net yeah great nephew should be here hopefully sometime today but you know labor and deliver you know different for everybody so we'll see anyway I'm you know rocking a not a great fashion statement here today but we're headed out to the library and actually a couple of libraries and we have to go pick up some things in the mall she doesn't need a party at the hospital so I'm gonna go get stuff done what I need to get done with Fred and we'll be back Fred was shaking his head I don't think you guys saw that on camera because yeah I'm vlogging again and he's shaking his head we also had Bambi visit and hang out at the house for what an hour this morning the place and of course Bob finally went out in his pajamas and put corn out for her and you know scared her and she wandered off hopefully she'll come back the bowl is full now so maybe she'll stop eating my flowers no no we'll see all right we'll be back good Saturday morning everybody it's Saturday morning in 700 it's Saturday morning September 21st I think we are headed out to go hit up a farmer's market one thrift shop I've been I keep driving by and I'd like to go in and then we're gonna find some place interesting for lunch go on an afternoon drive I'll bring you with us we'll be back still hasn't had her baby yet she was induced Thursday evening and little baby Paxton our great-nephew isn't here yet he's taken his time so anyway yeah we'll help everything goes well but I guess we'll find out the next day or so it's been an interesting week next week it's gonna be busy busy busy so I'll bring you with us when I can assuming Paxton is born in the next 24 hours if not sooner there's gonna be family that's already planning on coming in to visit some of which is staying with us and so it's gonna be very busy and we have other things going on around here before then so it's gonna be crazy town anyway it was a fun week and a fun day we really enjoyed the Beaverton farmers market it was the last one that they're having of the summer but they're gonna be starting a fall one so we'll be making that a regular occurrence as often as we can I think and that's it for today don't forget to check out the video description for any relevant links my link tree list of links with all of my social media stuff and my Etsy shop in it my happy mail address is down there and all that jazz check it out don't forget to like share and subscribe leave a comment if you have a question comment or concern and above all go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'm gonna go to bed I'm exhausted I'll see you later bye guys