 And that doesn't look good. We're supposed to be getting some massive storms coming in. I don't know what time it is. So I got some reports late last night from a neighbor that some of the mailboxes had been broken into. Stolen mail is a thing whether it's at your house or it's in a mailbox bank down the street like it was a thing in San Jose. It's a thing here. It's unusual here because we're in a closed community. Our box doesn't seem to be tampered with but we're down farther in the community at the dead end street. So I'm guessing that would be why an artist looks untampered. So I'm going to walk around and get some pictures. I don't understand not calling the post office and the police. I don't understand that nobody's called anybody and the neighbor in question hadn't checked his mail in 10 days. Is that a thing? All right anyway I'm going to see what I can see and I'll be back. Okay so it has been a fun afternoon but it is six o'clock now so it's time to turn off the computer as soon as I wake it up. Oh there it is. I spent the afternoon doing some more sketches and chatting with my friend Leslie McGrath while she was also doing some crafting. She was working on some, there we are, followed the court for her house. I was looking for something earlier and I ended up, anybody notice any differences? So I had two, I had two of these they were single one, they weren't a four cube. These two here are two, two, two cubes and you cannot put a shelf inside of them to split the cubes into two. So I moved these down to the end and I moved the four cube that was down there down here and I put the shelf in the top sections. So we have the same kind of bins going all the way across and then I replaced out the bins and drawers that were at the bottom that didn't match. Everything matches. I don't know why that's a thing for me today but it all matches. I did used to have some drawers over here for those that remember my bits bank and the drawers had like dry botanical nature things in them and jelly plates and stuff and I've redone it and my jelly plates are still in tins but they're in this big bin here along with my other like stamping tools and stuff like that. Yeah stamping tools and stuff. This one has botanicals and sea shells and stuff in it. This one has driftwood and feathers and rope and stuff in it. Yes I have rope in the art room. Don't ask. And so I like that much better because it's just nice. It's cleaner and it all matches. Good morning everybody. It is just after 11 a.m. Tuesday, October 19th. And it's just a quiet morning because I got most of my work done yesterday and Sunday. So today my time is free to play with some new dyes I got and my Sizzix big shot and play with cutting out some embellishments I want to use for our future journaling pages. So I'm going to work on that today. We're also getting ready to go. Now I'm going to problem tell you this because by the time you all see this I'll be back but we're getting ready to go to my brother's wedding. He's getting married this weekend in Southern California so I have started laying out my packing what I'm going to pack to bring. I am that person that starts packing way ahead. I don't pack at the last minute. I don't pack at the last minute for lots of reasons but mostly because I'm obsessive compulsive and I'm afraid of forgetting something. Yeah and I got also got to lay it out to make sure I'm not bringing too much stuff because my husband and I are chronic overpackers. So anyway those are my only two things to do today. Dad's coming into town tonight he's going to spend the night I've got to take him to the airport tomorrow for the same wedding and we're not leaving for a few days yet but he's going at early so he can hang out with my brother and his fiance and my nephew and all of that stuff. So yeah it's going to be a busy couple of days with dad here so I don't know what I'm going to film or what I'm if I'm going to get steps into even later today I don't have any idea. So anyway that's it for the minute. I'm going to practice with my physics and I'm going to see how thick a paper these new dies will cut because I have no idea. I'll be back. Is just after lunch I got a bunch of die cutting done which was great all the new dies were great even on some of the card stock so that's that's good actually one of them works better on card stock than it is regular paper so good to know. Had a nice phone meeting with the new person from the HOA management company about the mailboxes that got broken into in the neighborhood and told her I reported it already to the post office they're going to do an additional report she said we need to get pictures first I said I got some I'll email into you had a nice chat so anyway uh my dad's coming into town tonight because I'm going to take him to the airport early tomorrow which I think I said already um I'm not sure we're going to be able to do or go walking later my dad can't walk too far he's got a really bad he and I have the same knee problem but his is much worse than mine he is 82 but anyway um I don't know if we will go walking later and if we do how far he can go so I'm going to go get some steps now I don't have any pressing projects to work on anyway so the timing is good so we're going to go do that and see what we can see and I'll be back so my dad will be here any minute but while we're waiting I did some um drawings last night for the people over at patreon and for my own personal enjoyment um and they can use them as digital downloads or they can print them and hang them on the wall I I don't know I did sign them and so um they're two floral drawings based on images I took um this is one and this is the other one so these mats I got in a two pack like this this is this is a pair of the two pack from um Fred Meyer which is part of Kroger and um they were 37 cents for the pair I should have bought more I should have bought more um yeah I should have bought more if I go there again this week I'll be looking to see if they have any more anyway they probably will um I thought when I bought them to take the prints out that are in them because they print they're cute I wanted to use them in other artwork the first pair had these two botanicals that I thought were cute and then this these this pair of course has these but then I also thought wait but these are cute mats you could put some of your own artwork in there and then either sell it or hang it on the wall or give it away or whatever so cute right so here's one so I'm going to do the other one how cute is that how cute would they be hanging on the wall so there you go whether you're thrifting or you're buying things on clearance look around for those things that you can repurpose and create into your own unique home decor like it's a good idea I'm going to keep going I'll be back it's 7 28 a.m Wednesday October 20th and I just dropped my dad off at the airport he's headed down to southern California for my brother's wedding so windshield wipers it's also raining heavily so it's after six o'clock we're headed for a walk finally I spent the afternoon working on some stuff up in the art room while chatting with my friend Leslie McGrath and Cathy Whitney that was a lot of fun and I started out working on some daily drawing and I'm going to be doing a few pages ahead because we have some stuff going on this weekend but that led to me cleaning out the daily drawing bag which led to me realizing it needs washing which led to me maybe trying temporarily and different kind of daily drawing setup downstairs anyway if you guys want to see what I'm doing and why let me know put something down in the comments below all right I'll be sharing pictures on social media maybe so follow me over there look at my link tree list links you'll find my instagram and facebook and all that stuff anyway I made good progress that's all good I got some cleaning done I've got garbage cans to empty tomorrow and laundry still to do but this is all good all right we're gonna go get some steps in and see what we can see it's raining a little bit but not too bad and see you later I'll be back it is what time is it I don't even know 11 oh 2 a.m thursday october 21st I am up here in the art room and I am working with my gel pens to finish up two journals I have been had had sitting around for a long time this one where I was doing noodles on black paper and then this one over here which was the toned tanned journal which started out as these and then ended up with these botanically inspired there's only a few pages left so my goal today is to sit up here and finish both of these and then maybe find one journal in my collection in the closet of colored paper journals to start new and put with it gel pens I do have one gel pen I just put it back over here with the other ones I have quite a little collection I like the jelly roll gel pens mostly I use the regular jelly roll moon lights and then I have a few souffle colors and this particular one although it looks like it has ink in it that sucker is like not coming out it's dried up is I've tried everything that the jelly roll people suggest none of it works like I ripped a hole in the paper trying to like yeah so anyway you're gonna have to see if I can get a new one I don't and I don't have a backup so I just checked so anyway it's just after two it's like 205 two journals I started before the pandemic done I'm so excited this is a Strathmore like softcover journal what does it call it's a Strathmore it just says Strathmore oh softcover art journal the one I was working in is the toned tan paper this one I have another one that was in my closet I don't remember where I got these are when I don't like the covers because although I don't care if my covers get messed up and marked up I prefer it's from my artwork or stickers and not this yeah I don't like them but I'm gonna use them the paper's fabulous just FYI this one is toned gray I like the challenge of doing some of these drawings on paper that's other than white I think that's interesting so anyway broke out a new one it'll probably take me two years to get it done but you know all right all right that's it for the moment on to the next thing I don't know what that is but I guess I'll figure it out I'll be done so we are headed out for a walk to get some steps in before dinner it may not be a long walk one and I may not get any pictures of video footage too because do you hear that it's raining it's not super hard yet but my guess is it's going to get harder and cell phones and rainwater don't really mix so we'll see how this goes I'll be done land of much water and do you think we can easily find umbrellas all the time no we did find two but yeah we really should get a couple more umbrellas because that's a thing all right let's go get some steps and see what we can see I'll be back I don't think that's a good thing I don't know what that means probably flooding but I guess we'll find out it's probably also a good thing I'm not the wicked witch or I'd be melting oh god slippery bridge hold on the sound there on its original volume that's heckle out and I just stepped in another giant puddle my shoes are soaking wet I think it's time to go home it is 10 o'clock 7 a.m. Friday October 22nd we leave to go to my brother's wedding weekend tomorrow late tonight we're celebrating one of the kids birthdays Brian it's his birthday and going to Benihana I think very late tonight I haven't had a dinner at 8 o'clock at night no long time so that's going to be interesting going to do sit up here at the art room do some more journaling I did a little cleaning I've got to take a couple pictures and send out some messages to a couple people ask them if they want some supplies I've been holding on to you and or trying to sell Nancy shop but I purge that I'm not using that should go to good homes that are going to use them um so we are now in Ontario California San Bernardino San Bernardino area sort of I don't know what county it is but anyway you get the idea we are headed to our hotel we're here for my brother's wedding I think I said that in the previous clip um did we realize as we left on the plane we forgot a couple things at home yeah he's forgot his night guard I just realized just now I forgot my little thing to shave my mustache all the time I have a razor too I might be using the regular razor rather than the electric buzz bus so anyway what are you going to do anyway we're here um it's cloudy it looks like just back at home um that's okay but we're headed to hotel we're going to get checked in get cleaned up rest a bit and then I guess sent over to my brother's he's having an open house family thing that I'm here for the wedding so