 Happy Sunday morning. It's 9.55 a.m. Sunday morning, May 23rd. We started off the morning with a flurry of house cleaning and getting the two guest rooms back to rights for the next round of guests and the bathroom's all cleaned and all of that stuff. So that's all done. I just need to do this morning's dishes, which I haven't done yet, but I'm going to check on social medias first. That's why we're upstairs and do that. I also have to bring the neighbor her mail because they were out of town for a few days and she got a package and so I've got her package. I need to bring that over there and I need to do the breakfast dishes, but I don't want to right now. So yeah, I also want to do some art stuff. I've got a bunch of stuff on the table that Jenny and Brian actually did for me while they were here that actually needs a clear coat. So Jenny and Brian painted a few rocks for me to leave around the neighborhood. There's this one that Jenny did and then Brian, he's so cute. He did one to look like a potato. I don't know, but that's cute. And then he did one to look like a cat. So that's interesting. And then Jenny put together, well, Jenny painted and I put together this little Home Depot kit that's like a desktop pencil and paper holder thing. I don't know what I'm going to do with it. It was a free craft kit, but all of it needs clear coat. So that's got to be something that's got to be done this week. I also have three masks to make for the wedding. So I've got all the fabric over here on the sewing table because that's actually got to be done pretty quickly too. So those are the top projects that need to be done. Top things. Anyway, I'm going to check social media and then I guess I'll go do the dishes. Yeah, we do. It's raining again. I mean, I do live in Oregon, so land of much water, but I can tell it's spring. I woke up with itchy eyes, which I have. I went to bed with last night. A little bit of a, I don't like to take too much allergy or pain medications because it sometimes messes with my blood pressure medication sometimes. So, empty afternoon, working in my art journal and my slow stitching journal. And you know what? Can't say I'm mad about that. It was a nice way to spend some time. I still have a little bit of time before Bob gets off work and I don't know if I'm going to sit over here and do follow from watch the iPad or sit over here and work on my puzzle. I might work on the puzzle and do follow from the iPad at the same time. All right. I'll bring everybody. It's about 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 25th, I think. And it took a little while after massive deadness was here and then removed for them to come back. But let's see, do you see them back there? Maybe not. I'll turn the camera around, but they're back. I just gave them some corn. I put an extra bowl out. I'm so glad they're back. So I'm in Walmart and fully vaccinated people are no longer required to wear a mask, plus I forgot mine in the car. Rather than doing the walk of shame, the new walk of shame, I am seeing how nervous I'm going to be about being in here without a mask. Let's see if they even have what I need. Okay. They did have what I needed. Got a cute pair of pants and it's like bluish mint, green colored, sleeveless, like summer dress that was really cute. I need a few new like summery things, something yeah different in my closet. Anyway, it was weird to be in there without a mask on. I did stay well away from everyone. I was only one of like maybe three people that I saw with no mask on. It's weird and it's not that I don't have a mask in the car. So it's odd. After over a year of wearing one everywhere you go, it's yeah. All right, next we're going to go to Fred Meyer. All right, I'll be back. It is Wednesday, May 26th. Wow, 1 30 ish p.m. I think. Anyway, I got a bunch of daily drawing done because I'm why is this layout here on? Good morning everybody. It's Thursday morning, May 27th I think and that sound was my windshield wipers because you know of course it's Portland so it's raining again. And then we're going to have like at least a week of warm summery ish weather before we get any more rain. It's supposed to be in the 70s and 80s so that'd be nice. Hopefully it doesn't get so hot we have to turn on the air conditioner because I would prefer not to and to have the windows open instead. So cross your fingers. Anyway we are in the car obviously. I need to go pick up my wedding videotape that's been converted to digital. Yes videotape you know like these. Yes I have more. These are from when Rebecca was little. So I'm going to pick up the first round of tapes and files and then I'm going to drop off some more videos and then I've got two more after that. It's going to be a little bit pricey to do but in the long run for posterity I think it's the best choice. So we're going to do that and I have to go deal with the post office because our mailbox is supposedly fixed but we're not getting mail. So what the hell is wrong with that picture? So we have a raccoon friend that he set the cameras off out here three four times three times so far it's in the space of a few minutes. We've ripped all of our front yard plants out so I'm not sure what he's after and he's not going very far he keeps coming back. He's in the woods we saw him holy cow I still want to know what he's eating out my yard. It is 11 27 a.m. I'm going to go downstairs and get myself a cup of bone broth and I got a bunch of sort of internet paperworky things done this morning including some billing issues because we had fraud on one of our credit cards and had to get a new one and then you know there's always those like accounts that you have automatically billed that you forget about until they go to try to bill and then yeah it doesn't work so yeah take care of some of that this morning. Scheduled the post for June 1st the wedding week is coming up so I'm trying to do a bunch of stuff ahead including scheduling posts ahead and stuff like that so I'm also going to be doing some daily drawing ahead. Make sure the doors closed and now that I'm thinking about that I need to get the June journals done I should say prepped that's the bone broth that sound. I need to get the June 1st. I need to get the June 1st journals prepped and then I'm going to do like I don't know the first few days ahead of June because it's the wedding week and there's going to be lots of stuff going on believe me as the mother of the bride I thought oh it won't be that bad I'm not getting the one getting married ha that's all I can say ha there's a lot going on so yeah so I'm going to do some drawing ahead that way I have things to post for you all um yeah I think I have some laundry to do and and and and I need to get the grocery list together working on a to-do list of things that need to be done at the last minute this weekend we are going to be having a open house brunch thing on the Sunday after the wedding June 6th I think anyway so that's going to be a thing so I need to get a menu together I need to figure out who's coming yes in case you didn't get that idea all right that's it let's get our bone broth go upstairs get some drawing done and I will be back we are out for our evening walk with the kids after dinner and the pond has watering it again because we got some rain and the ducks are back yeah I don't think she quite knows what to do with the ducks she just looks at them like yeah and Saturday morning guys so um it is um approaching the wedding week for Rebecca and Paulie's their wedding celebration week they've already been legally married but because of COVID they couldn't have the big wedding celebration party they both wanted we're going to be doing that now um there's Paulie's for those that don't know Paulie's is Lithuanian he was born in Lithuania and um there's something about the Lithuanian culture called the fire ceremony I know nothing about it I know that Paulie's parents I'm not sure if it was a relative of her friend made this beautiful lotus shaped candle holder a very large one and sent it over and it arrived broken and so I am trying to fix it his mom is crafty back his mom is crafty so we're trying to fix it and um yeah I'm propping it up with tin foil and masking tape and I'll show you hang on so this is the lotus if I can gently let's see parts that are already fixed or glued that's what it looks like on the underneath but yeah it's broken I've got some here that are taped that aren't glued yet because that way I can know kind of where they go I did a few of the petals last night I have to do a few at a time because of the way the lotus is shaped and everything we also have the rest of the landscaping going in today I think um family friends slash one of the adopted kids Brian husband of Jenny is coming by today and he's picking up the rest of their stuff that's here and I think at kids house there's other stuff going on today it looks like I'm breaking out the dress making bridal sewing skills this week because there's at least two dresses and eat altering my daughter doesn't know about both of them one of them just needs a ham the other one might need major stuff and then I'm not sure about adopted daughter Jenny's dress oh boy there are no camera issues um so yeah it is going to be a busy week so I will film what I can for next week's vlog and you are just going to have to stay tuned so as previously stated our gardener has had problems with his truck and because of that he is delayed today so he will be by tomorrow to hopefully finish the front yard so you don't get to see it until next week's vlog sorry but bonus same week is the wedding so you know um I got decently far super far decently far this puzzle we have to stop every now and then because my neck starts to hurt although I will admit I'm tempted to just keep going because that's who I am until it's finished I may put a couple more pieces in and then after that I'm going to take a break but thousand piece puzzle all sugar skulls and it is a difficult one it is this one so yeah anyway keeps your mind off of all the stuff that makes you crazy though right that's it for the minute hey guys so I forgot to close the vlog again last night I think it's a second week in a row that I've done that uh that just means things are hectic anyway um it's been an interesting week you'll get a little bit of bonus footage here and this morning I finished repairing the fire ceremony lotus thing for the kids and I've got a couple of scraps of fabric in the right colors I'm going to need to be doing some last minute bridal alterations for the wedding so I need to go get make sure I have the right thread colors and to be honest I wanted to make sure I remembered how to properly do a rolled hem on this like sheer chiffon um I was pretty sure the needle that was in the machine was way too big because they usually I just do more mixed media handbag kind of stuff and yeah it was because look what it did to the material can you see that yes so I switched to a number nine ballpoint and yep perfect I didn't remember took a minute but I remember um so anyway yeah it's kind of a busy crazy hectic day we've got to go pick up some more stuff that we didn't get yesterday and the gardener is supposed to finally be by today and all that so anyway I hope you all have had a great week that you're having a great beginning of your summer and that um sorry I'm getting messages from my sister that you're having a great beginning of your summer it just it seems for us that no matter what's going on in the world and in life summer is always hectic every single year no matter the decade no matter it's not a COVID thing it's just a bobbin Gina thing and so this year's shaping up to not be any different so we're going to take our peaceful moments where we can I need to try to finish the sugar skull puzzle today so I can get it off the table I need to go like I said pick up this thread I need to um work on some more daily drawings in advance I've got a video to edit I've got like lots of stuff to do so it's going to be a busy Sunday but it's all good anyway I hope you've had a great week please don't forget to like share and subscribe hit that bell icon if you want notified notifications of upcoming videos I do have some art videos not just vlog videos on the SD card in the camera which is can you see it from here I don't think you can see from here because it's like over there um on the table and my class that I'm teaching with Bay of Grub and a bunch of other students is coming up June 1st really quickly you can still get a seat so use the link in the description below to sign up today um there's some good deals going on in the Etsy shop right now too because I'm trying to lower uh shop inventory and I've got bundles of things together including stamped brand new stamps and stencils uh so look for that and uh yeah just check out the video description if you want to follow me on Instagram or anything like that you use my link tree list of links because all that stuff is in there all right that's it please stay safe stay healthy stay creative please go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you next week bye guys