 good morning from california it is 10 18 a.m on sunday february i almost said 20th we are headed home from the baby shower we made a stop in hildsburg so jenny adopted daughter could see her grandmother who's not doing well um and they're off doing that bob is looking for the restroom and then we're gonna call a friend of ours and check in on them because she's not a friend of ours is also not doing well um we're gonna head home today we're gonna make a couple of stops i've gotten some beautiful video and pictures from the car of this beautiful farm country in the middle of california there's some beautiful farm country here i don't want to live here but it's a pretty state um anyway i'll insert some video clips and or pictures here okay so i also did a shopping trip at daizo which is buried under there we are buried in baby gifts back there can you see that yeah um and i got some things at daizo that was fun for those who don't know that's a japanese dollar store um they have them in california and they have them in a few other states but not oregon so when i come to california i try to go to one um so i picked up a few things there and um some snacks and some other things i have trouble finding in oregon and we're gonna make a couple more stops before we leave the state and head home so uh yeah and bob has tomorrow off which might be good because we have to get ready for the baby shower at our house and we have to get that stuff to the kids house so many things so anyway all right i think that's it for the minute i'll be back guys good morning it is monday not january holy cow february 20th i believe let's see 10 37 a.m um anyway while we were in california went to daizo and i don't do hauls anymore because i don't like feeling making you guys feel like you have to buy stuff you don't but i'm sorry i dropped something i do want to share what you can get at some place like a dollar store to use in your art and um yeah so daizo is a japanese dollar store it's actually not a dollar never has been over here it was a dollar 25 now thank you inflation it's a dollar 75 um anyway i picked up some things to make painting marks with which no matter what dollar store i'm going to is something i always do when i'm doing abstract painting like i've been doing like that i do use paint brushes but i more often than not don't use paint brushes so i found a couple of um tool this is actually a hairbrush um i wouldn't use it on my hair necessarily not because there's anything wrong with it but i mean i can see scrubbing this over the paint and what that would do i found this is a brush for cleaning your shoes it looks like a nail brush so that'll be fun and then i found this one i won't take this off of here this is another shoe brush shoe brush for cleaning the inside of your shoes evidently and it's got these bristles here it's got this pointy end with some teeth on it so that'll be fun to play with i found a folding clipboard which i've kind of been walking wanting but they're too expensive um and this is a plastic one but i want to try doing a very small urban sketching thing with a folding clipboard so i got this to try it it was dollar 75 so um i found some double sided tape i needed some more i'm going to be working on a scrapbook for the grand baby to be uh aka jr this is youtube name um and yes it's a hymn um i found another mini dustpan and brush i do have one that's a bit bigger than this i use in the art room all the time um i got another one because that we use it upstairs and down um i found some stickers i didn't really need them but you know they have really cute stickers at um daizo almost always i and i'm really into botanical things right now and i found these floral ones i found these two i got two of these i found these this is some kind of tape says remake tape and it says leaf pattern but it looks to me like an art deco inspired pattern i got two of them i don't know if i needed two but they have lots of like little mini note cards and envelopes there always and i do use them in some of my journals and things um and so i got two they had this one with a feather pattern and they only had one of these or i would have probably gotten two of them and then they had this one with just lined note paper and then some different colored solid colored envelopes i did get a chopstick rest because i want to use it actually for our brush rest i got a metal one and they had this cute um sticky note box it's a sticky note storage box i didn't really need it but it was cat it's cat themed it's so cute um so they have this they had it in different colors i got the white one it has notes in it and then i found some of the associated sticky notes with the black cat on them they're just so cute i didn't really need them but anyway um daizo does have a website i do think you can order and have ships from their website i don't know that everything will be on the website it isn't always but i will link the website down below um you may have a different version of a dollar store near you whether it's dollar general or um dollar tree or what's the other one five below um or you may have daizo or there's another version of daizo um i know from shannon green that was in texas and i don't remember the name of it um but anyway if you have another source for this that you never maybe go to go check them out you might not find anything um but you might find some you know cute stuff and stationery is expensive so one of the main things i get when i go there stationary so anyway all right i have lots of stuff to catch up on today now that we're back and things to put away and the baby shower here that we're gonna have next week to get ready for so that's all i think all right i'll be back morning it is 11 16 a.m on tuesday february 21st and i still have a lot of catching up to do i've got to clear off my desk i'm working on laundry um the table behind me is full there's just a lot to do plus i'm going to be filming the tool desk for the fixing the flow in your art room series so yeah and i'm having trouble getting motivated to do that desk i'm not exactly sure why but anyway i'll work through the video stay tuned um anyway i forgot to write yesterday's social media posts because there was just a lot going on yesterday and we just got back from the california baby shower so and getting ready for the next one that's going to be here on this coming saturday so anyway i'm going to write the posts now try to get some stuff put away and cleaned up and then biting the bullet and get the filming done i'll be back okay guys we filmed a fixing the flow video installment number three i have to edit last week's vlog but i'm i'm gonna go do some cleaning downstairs first the vlog might be late if i don't get it edited tonight so i don't know we'll see but i think i'm gonna put my earbuds in i'm gonna place some youtube or my soap opera or something while i clean the floor because i'll be back by vlogging today i don't think so it is wednesday february 22nd 207 p.m well you know i started off the morning with an early morning counseling appointment and let's just throw the schedule off after that um got some stuff cleaned up here in the art room got some photos printed for my watercolor sketchbook which i need to start back on and i think i'm gonna do another one of these really quick i've got to take this off and otherwise i'm just having a lazy day enjoying my space not necessarily creating anything in it but enjoying it nonetheless it is rainy outside and cold we have a slight chance of snow although right now all i see is wetness i need to go check the mail but i'm dreading going out there not because i'm worried about getting wet because it's cold out so anyway exciting i know i've got video to edit but i don't really want to do right now so anyway all right i'll be guys can you see that yeah that's not rain it's snowing okay i had to turn the fireplace on to help the furnace warm the house it was only 66 in the house that's cold and oh yeah it's been snowing on and off but now it's starting to stick i have to admit i'm not mad at it okay you guys i literally just woke up i look like a hot mess and oh my god yeah it snowed some more last night and let's just say it was more than an inch hold on that's a lot of snow wow okay you guys it's 11 30 ish we still have quite a bit of snow outside so i was guesstimating we got about four inches but weather reports reporting that portland got 10.8 inches we are southwest of portland so yeah anyway it's pretty crazy outside hang on do this quick because i don't want to be outside long that shit's cold outside it's only 29 degrees i think hold on yeah it's just a little cold and it's been windy on and off and it is not melting and my poor car holy cow i'll show you guys the parents next door with the two little ones are pregnant again and they just asked me to set up their gender reveal uh things no pressure oh my god i'd have bob help me because i had a little mini anxiety attack about it and getting it worried about getting it wrong but anyway they don't know it yet but they're having a boy must be the year for boys anyway so that's all started holy moly all right i need to go upstairs and do some art or something calm my blood pressure down a little bit i'll be back i would say good morning but it's after lunch it is friday february 24th it's 12 47 p.m i have already gotten some artwork done and some paperwork filled out for my daughter which i needed to fill out and i needed to do without any mistakes and it's taken me three times but i got it now i gotta get it notarized anyway um we're supposed to have the baby shower second baby shower here at the house tomorrow it's not going to be a whole bunch of people i'm but i'm hoping it's some people because of the snow um it has started to melt a bit it is taking it sweet old time melting though so if it doesn't all melt before it starts getting cold again tonight i don't know it's i don't know anyway i guess we'll see if it's not one thing it's five others i know i'll be back is that better that's terrible anyway it's uh just about 330 i think we're as ready for tomorrow's baby shower as we can be the snow is melting thank goodness um a few more things i need to sort of put away hide in the master bedroom that sort of thing before we go to bed tonight but otherwise we're pretty good we've talked to both bob's mom and a friend of ours who are both not doing very well health wise in the last 24 hours and could use some good thoughts at their way if you don't mind anyway i've done some artwork for the day i should do some computer stuff to get ready for march first which is next week but you know what i just don't have the brain power for it right now so all right i'll be back almost six o'clock and i haven't logged all day today because there's been a lot going on so it was second baby shower day and uh baby shower is down it went really well we do have some extra party favors in decor but we know at least two other people that are heavy baby boys so anyway we'll make it work we are headed obviously in the car out to the grocery store tonight even though it's a bit late for saturday to be shopping because we might get more snow tonight and if that's the case we're not going to want to drive tomorrow 11 inches of snow in the area where we live we're expecting somewhere between two and seven more inches sometime tonight if you have questions comments or concerns leave them down below i do answer all my comments you can leave me uh send me happy mail my address is down in the description um patreon is down there if you want direct contact with me i am helping a few patrons out with um fixing up their art rooms and uh yeah that sort of thing so anyway i think that's it for a minute my brain is just on overload can you tell anyway go out and have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and i'll see you next week bye guys