 everybody. So I spent the morning being frustrated out of my mind with my silhouette cutting machine again. It was challenging before I upgraded my operating system but I thought I had all the bugs worked out and then I upgraded my operating system and you know I give up. I have a bunch of new stickers I want to make not only for myself but for the Etsy shop. I printed them and I'm going to just sit and cut them by hand. I give up probably not a popular opinion but it just doesn't work well for me. The software you need to be an engineer to figure out the software and I'm just not I'm not about that. So hey guys all right so it's Monday the 21st. Is it the 21st or the 20th? 21st of September. It's like five something PM five five ten after five. Yeah I forgot to vlog all day. I've been working on editing the vlog which is done and loaded to YouTube and doing the posts for the week for social media and redrawing a bunch of things I've done recently to turn them into digital files so that we can turn them into sticker flakes and other stuff downloads maybe for the Etsy shop and that took up a lot of time I'm supposed to do a live broadcast tomorrow so I have no idea right now what we're doing you know cool we might be making zombie dolls I don't know. Anyway we're gonna go for a walk right now I haven't planned dinner I haven't done the breakfast dishes like nothing. Mom what about him? I know he's been working all day I've just been drawing all day. Are they apples? I don't know anybody anybody know what this is up here? Anyway all right we're gonna go get some steps and we'll be back. The neighborhood cats are out both of them I started to get a little worried because we only ever saw the one but there they are it's pretty funny that the neighborhood cats over here Lily like goes crazy when she sees them they could care less that she's around they just yeah anyway it's pretty funny Lily no grass holy cow we got the tutorial from my creative year filmed and done and I just need to edit it and get it over in the Facebook group it goes directly to the Facebook group and I got a little video speed through video of me working on the September mission inspiration which was a lot of fun and I chose to do it mostly in pencil and with a little sharpie I found I've been talking about it recently in the vlog and also on the lives I found this stash of pencils for when I used to teach at Michaels and stuff and yeah so my project going forward is going to be to use them and try them out and decide if I'm keeping them or not I remembered after trying some of them what I like about some of them and what I don't if you just want to do some pencil colored shading I really like these generals pastel chalk you don't need water or anything just a little smudging stick and these these are great I forgot how much I like them and the derwent ones here derwent graph tint now these are nice too on that paper that I was using them on they don't smudge so well but they do move really well with water which the generals ones don't um so I'm going to be of course trying them on a couple different kinds of paper before I decide and the one I didn't try yet was the Stabilo Carbicello I think they're all like pastel charcoal type pencils but um I don't know why I have so many brands I don't remember anyway that's it for the moment I need to we need to fill out and sign my daughter's birthday card because today's her birthday and we'll leave that at her house when we go get the garbage cans later and I've got a bunch of stuff drying I got the little air dry clay bowl painted that's the outside I got that look at that it turned out so cute I would I had my doubts about it at some point but yeah so I'm going to clean up the rim a little bit um and then let it dry really well overnight and then we'll put a couple clear coats on it and yeah cute little dish so all right that's it for the moment I'll be back so late this afternoon like about an hour ago the power went out in the neighborhood there is a rumor on nextdoor.com that there is a power pole that was on fire and over 3000 customers are now without power some have gotten their power back right away we have not we discovered because of this that our hardwired carbon monoxide smoke detector thing upstairs when the power goes off it's gonna go off like there's a carbon monoxide leak it's gonna tell you there's a co2 leak but there's not a co2 leak we confirmed that sound was annoying yeah so anyway we turned it off we have a backup co2 detector upstairs in that same room in the art room uh just to make sure but yeah that other one's not going off and we know that one's working currently um anyway we are it's raining of course we've got some windows open at the house the dog wasn't happy about being left because it's raining she didn't get to go walking she was crying when we left inner crate anyway we can't cook dinner we've got to go to the kids house and get their garbage cans blah blah blah so we're going to go to the kids house we're going to get their garbage cans drop off Rebecca's birthday card and I guess go find some place to pick up some dinner that that has power and is cooking and that stuff because yeah all right and holy cow do I need to use my purple shampoo my hair because it's turning yellow again all right I'll be back hey guys it is 3 14 p.m on Thursday September 24th so um I have spent the morning doing so much stuff um loading video clips to from my phone to the computer so I can edit a couple of videos catching a big mistake in my creative year oops if you're all members over in my creative year one of the two facebook art groups I have I got October and September's prompts mixed up the word list was correct but yeah my video and prompt and the tutorial video which I just finished filming and editing and I'm gonna go ahead and put it out yet it's the wrong one but that's okay I explained it in the October 1st video so yeah if you noticed there was some confusion there for you yeah you weren't the only one obviously that was confused and I only just now caught it is the 24th of September and I have it written down and everything so I have no excuse I know right working on some more sticker flakes I've been doing some stitching and look at how clean my table is for a change that is the first time in quite a while it's been that clean I'm finishing up the slow stitch book project and I have my cover pieces the back the spine and the front the basics stitched on them I need to figure out what I want to do for trimming and then attaching them to my book and then this project is done and I can focus on other things I got all the bits and pieces that were on the table for this project that I know I'm not going to use to do this last part put away so yay I got to be honest I started off the morning in kind of a funk it's you know 2020 and I have a friend who might be sick with the COVID and we hope that's not the case but you know I'm concerned about her and I was going through social media messages of people that are not no longer speaking to me which is kind of always depressing right so that didn't exactly put me in a great mood but I got it all deleted and it cleared it out and we've made way for good energy right but yeah it's just been it's been a weird day you know we had the power outage last night and power didn't come on until 9 30 I think 9 o'clock something like that so that was kind of weird we had the issue with the co2 thing that one right there evidently it does not like when the power goes out it has a battery backup but it doesn't like that it'll start going off and tell you there's a co2 leak which there really isn't we have another carbon monoxide thing downstairs we brought it up here and it was working and it's a portable one with the battery and it was we tested it was working it was green it never went off so yeah we learned that when the power goes off here mid dishwasher cycle mid dryer cycle they're both way more modern than our old house and so you have to cancel what it was doing and then reset it to start again it's like a big giant the whole thing was a big thing anyway but they got it fixed so hopefully it stays that way anyway it's just been a weird crazy day but the husband should be done in a hour a couple of hours I think and we're going to go for a WLK I can't say the word because crazy pants is over that way and have the rest of our buffalo wild wings so bonus of what happened yesterday we got to have buffalo wild wings for dinner and you know what we haven't had it since we moved and yeah it's good I like I like me a good hot wing and so yeah it's all good it's just weird but I got some you know I got some stitching done and I turned the music on and just stitched away on those covers and you know what that went a long way to fixing my mood so if you're in a funk like I've been in a funk and the rest of us off and on because of hello 2020 get out your favorite art thing and whatever that is turn your favorite tunes up and just start creating and have fun with it and we were going to go walking but it's raining again so I don't know we'll see in a couple of hours if it stops or not so anyway I'm getting some fresh air if only for like five minutes while I'm getting the mail which all I was going to say I don't think there's much but it looks like all the ads came today mostly junk I'm sure but you never know maybe there's a good coupon in there anyway I'm letting the youtube videos load and and later I'll get the appropriate links in the appropriate places and yeah glad I caught the mistake I really needed to just sit and stitch it this afternoon with the radio on which I did it cleared my mind of a lot of stuff and went a long way to fixing my mood so it's a good thing we're out for an evening walk before dinner because little miss crazy pants was driving us crazy yesterday when we had the power outage we'd heard that it was because of a power pole that caught on fire and this is the remnants of had no idea it was a power pole right outside our community literally my house is down that way around the corner holy cow it's a good thing they caught it quickly but yeah anyway it's all fixed yay all right I'll be back early September 25th I don't know what time it is and I can't tell you on the computer because we're doing an update so you know that's a thing I came up to check on emails and stuff and yeah that happened so I guess I have to wait a few minutes I am going to try to do some more work on this low stitch book cover today I think I'm going to go out this morning though first and check on the p.o. box I have a few donations in the back of the car that can go to value village there's a some other stuff in the car that has to go to the habitat for humanity restore so I'm not going to do that one today maybe over the weekend with my husband but I can do the value village one because it's right by the p.o. box so I think I will do that this morning I don't think they open until 11 so I have time so I think I'll do that before lunch and I did I fold I fold a laundry and stuff like that I don't you know today it's I think kind of a chill day we have to go to the grocery store today or tomorrow but I don't think there's any huge rush and you know there's nothing pressing that has to be done today I think it's just a relaxed chill day which is good so I think part of my day is going to be spent with the music on and doing some stitching on the book cover over there I've pulled some trims out this morning that I think I want to use and yeah I think it's all good okay so if you're all watching this clip then you've seen the clip or pictures or whatever little crazy bits of video I got my slow stitch fabric book it's all done I got the cover done today yay turned out really cute we are going to go for a walk now and then it's Friday so we're going to make some homemade pizza and yeah Fred's gonna have a rum and coke first we're going to go for a walk see what we can see try to get some steps in before it rains again because yeah all right I'll be back it's Saturday September 26 I think um it's like about 1 30 I think 1 26 ish yeah I don't know my hair is like big today um we spent the morning running a bunch of errands that we had to run and we got them all done there's a few things that I couldn't get at the store because hello broken supply chain um or um that I didn't stop at that store to get there's a couple things I'd like at Michaels I think I might just order them online and do a pickup maybe um but anyway we got all that done anyway that was a backing up FedEx truck anyway we got all that done came home had lunch Bob is taking crazy pants for a walk um I opted not to go this time no mail yet um just wasn't feeling like going my knee is a little bit sore but yeah anyway my great nephew's birthday party is going to be live in a private facebook in a few minutes Paxton is one year old he's the same birthday as my daughter it's a good day anyway which is the 23rd so I'm going to be setting myself up on the couch with my iPad to participate in that and it's all good we got some sushi for dinner and I think it's going to be a nice quiet evening get my orders in at Amazon and Michaels before the party starts and yeah it's all good all right that's it for the minute I'll be back gotten to close the vlog interesting week 2020 and the apocalypse it's been a crazy week but we made it through yet another week and all's good right maybe steps forward or still forward as I wrote in my sketchbook last night um anyway it's been a fun one don't forget to like share and subscribe if you will if you have questions comments or concerns leave them down below you can also tag me in a post in one of my two facebook art groups you can of course follow me in my daily creative crazy journey on instagram and stuff um if you go to the video description and click on the link tree uh link uh says link tree and then my name there's a list of links that you can find me on the internet including ways to support the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups including my Etsy shop and patreon and all of that stuff so check it out and um not just for me all your favorite creatives here on youtube and in the facebook art groups usually have a way to support them even if it's just an amazon affiliate link or something so check out their video descriptions and find out what way that is if you can support them I know they'd appreciate it if you can't figure out a way to support them ask because maybe they have one in for whatever reason it's just not down there um that's it for right now everybody don't forget to stay safe stay healthy stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys