 guys it is uh sunday afternoon and we are gonna go out in a little bit and go meet the kids for something different i don't know you know we're just gonna try things one of the kids brian the adopted son has always wanted to go to um he's very food oriented and he's always wanted to stop at a particular truck stop on i5 and aurora oregon that has both subway sandwiches and cinnabon i don't know why so guess what we're doing today driving down to aurora to go to subway sandwich and cinnabon i don't know anyway i've been upstairs in the art room doing some cleaning i need to put some clothes in the dryer i think did a little bit of rearranging so that my crochet patterns i'm not actively using are here an easy to reference to pull out what i need they're not clogging up and weighing down my bag i did reorganize the bag a little bit dug out some i have this thing for jingly charms on most of my bags and so yeah and moved to some stuff that didn't need to be in here into the other room there's a few more things over here that don't really need to be over here or they could go somewhere else i don't know if i'm gonna deal with them right now but yeah i did also sweep the floor because i kind of made a mess yesterday so yeah we've also been updating our christmas shopping list because the kids um we're doing name exchanges uh secret santa that's it so we don't have to buy gifts for everybody you just have to buy gifts for your name and so um that means that we all have to put gift lists together which bob and i are doing uh today before we go have subway instant upon i don't know if we're gonna go anywhere else i don't know if i can talk mister into going to anywhere else we'll see we're gonna take the truck though so that ought to be a fun ride i don't think it's too far away so i don't think there's any need to bring my bag unfortunately but yeah quite sunday but there's nothing wrong with that i'll be back how does that look um i'm gonna try to talk mister into stopping by a walmart on the way home i not only want to check out some different walmarts and see what their yarn and craft selection is like ours seems to be lacking all the time and they may all like be that way right now um but i don't know and um more importantly i'd like to add a pumpkin to my collection so there's that i have a collection of outdoor pumpkins we did break one last year and i do love pumpkins and so yeah we'll see i'll be back hey guys it is monday october 23rd 4 30 p.m i know right i have been up here in the corner all day today other than doing a couple of quick chores working on mr bob's sweater and um altering the pattern to fit him i really wanted the sweater to fit well so i've only gotten one sleeve done but i only have one more to go i was hoping to get the sweater done today but i didn't really think i would because i knew the first sleeve would kind of be a challenge um for he has long arms and then the way they wanted me to do the cuff um was just not tight enough on his wrist so i took had to frog that a couple of times anyway i got it to fit him finally yay i need to make a couple of notes and um take a break do do a couple other things like quite a huge list of stuff i've got to get done this week uh art and youtube stuff so you know besides i want to get this done for him so yeah all right i'm going to make some notes set this aside for the moment um and um get my bag ready i think if i do any more crocheting tonight i think it'll probably be the granny square afghan um maybe i don't know on my keyboard i don't know um but i'm going to turn the computer on i try to get a couple quick things done there before mr gets off at work um and yeah anyway it's just it's been a quiet day and i've been able to crochet all day and i love it and i forgot one of the reasons i prefer crochet over knitting yes i can do both um knitting i have to think more about and knitting makes my hands hurt crochet i've literally been here in the chair all day i haven't probably taken as many breaks as i need to and my hands feel fine so yeah i do have compression gloves in case i need them so and i will now that i'm done i will do some you know finger exercises so all right that's it for the minute i'll be back i got two of the scheduled posts for november done after i finished the one sleeve on the sweater i got my november daily drawing and journaling journal done it's all ready to go it's all prepped it's just drying i have to film the arty trio video and edit it and then edit the vlog tomorrow also having some work done on a leaky window that's under warranty tomorrow so will i actually get the filming for the arty trio video film tomorrow i don't know i'm not babysitting so we'll see and the old arty trio video journal she's done she's empty i can't put any more in here i just realized i did the last page last month so gotta get a new one out anyway we'll see how tomorrow goes it's time for dinner and i think we have to move some furniture out of the way for tomorrow morning when the window people come to fix the window all right i'll be back but it is tuesday october 24th uh pretty sure yes at 9 46 a.m if the gentleman is here from the window manufacturer to clean and reseal the window um because we had a problem with it leaking and it's covered under lifetime warranty and um so that's being done right now i'm just relaxing here at the moment and i got a cup of coffee sitting next to me i'm gonna work on bob's sweater today and edit the vlog those two things have to be done today um we'll see what else i get up to i do have an arty trio video to film so there's that sometime this week ish sooner rather than later probably anyway uh yeah i need more coffee can you tell all right i'll be back so i let the daughter know that the window people were here fixing um what they needed to fix and gone done and gone already and uh she's still going to keep doing your home because they have a baby play date with some of her friends and their kids and he has swimming lessons he's already taking swimming lessons he's doing very well um but she might need help tomorrow so that works for me i told her just let me know because if not i will like run errands and stuff tomorrow um i am going to since i've confirmed that i'm not having him today i'm going to go ahead and film arty trio today and try to get that edited and the vlog edited and that way that's done one and done and then the only other thing i have to work on for the rest of the week is bob's sweater and getting his sweater done so that sounds like a plan to me all right i'm gonna put a few things back because we had to move stuff out of the way for the window guy because that transom window was leaking that's what they were fixing it wasn't sealed properly at the factory so they sent a um workman out to reseal it and so hopefully that's fixed no more problem it does have a lifetime warranty so if it's not well yeah anyway all right that's it for the minute i'll be back table by myself so i got a way for mr bob to be done with this meetings and be able to take a break so anyway and meanwhile i guess it's been a while since i initially initialized erased properly my sd card for my video camera so that's doing i also got tired of moving my tripod out of the painting corner and realized i got two more tripods in the closet that i picked up at the goodwill so now we have a table tripod and a painting tripod this one cost me like 12 bucks so if you're all wanting to film a video you need a tripod for something maybe just doing plain air and you want to set up an outdoor painting stand there's a million videos on that on youtube um thrift for a tripod don't go by one new anyway all right that's it for the minute i'll be back cards wear out who knew good thing i have another one great way to start the day okay it's about 3 30 ish i got the artsy trio video filmed it is now edited and saved and i got the vlog edited it's saving and i'll get everything scheduled before i turn the computer off today and i'm going to make myself a spider web thing for halloween a crocheted spider web thing and i had this old baroto knitting scarf kit i've had this so long these and these are the instructions for knitting because i do know how to knit it's not my favorite i think i'm going to split the yarn i'm never going to make the scarf so i'm going to split the yarn up and i don't know if i have enough but i'm going to take some black acrylic i have and i have this was in the kit and i'm going to put those together and make a sort of a sparkly spider web thing to wear and then this is also yarn in the kit this is baroco optic there's enough for a scarf here which i could make a scarf out of it but i think i might do something else to say what exactly i don't know yet but it's interesting yarn um so but that's not a today project um right now i am going to let the computer do its thing and i'm going to continue work on bob's sweater i started the other sleeve so that's a priority so anyway i'm just going to snuggle up in my corner in my chair under my blanket and crochet because why not all right i'll be there you guys it is wednesday morning october 25th pretty sure anyway um unexpected babysitting this morning because the daughter had a client she had to help with a property inspection and my daughter's in real estate for those that don't know i'll link her website down below if you're in the state of oregon and you need realty help she can do that if she's too far away from you uh for her and you to help you she can recommend somebody so anyway uh she did that this morning polys was working and so she's like mom can you babysit i said sure because you know um as you all know um if you follow me on other social media i got bob's sweater done last night i'll put a couple pictures up here turned out really cute the fits really well i took a little longer with it than i would have for a sweater for myself because i really haven't made one for him in a really long time and i wanted to make sure the fit was right so anyway it is all of 47 degrees outside and rainy yay i love that because i get to wear sleeves um we're gonna go run out and run our errands that we usually do Wednesday morning but we're gonna do now we're gonna run to the peel box check it it's been a couple of weeks i'm gonna go to value village because it's literally right there i need some more thrifted or scrap yarns for the scrap blanket i need variegated yarns so i'm going to and we're making this blanket out of scraps thrifted bits bits i'm gifted and inexpensive yarns if i have to buy anything it's an expensive yarn so we're gonna go to value village and see what they have if they have anything and then i probably will stop at walmart i'm kind of checking out all the walmarts near me to see who has sort of the better stocked yarn selection although i think they're all pretty much the same it just depends if you hit it when they've stocked the shelves well or not so yeah anyway we're going to go check it out this morning we have two walmarts near us but i'm going to go to the one near to the po box today bob is going out of town for work next week i don't have a problem with telling you all that because by the time you all see this he's going to be back but while he's gone i might drive over to the other one okay headed over to the last stop which is picking up a prescription um my walmart was pretty well stocked for yarn today um although the yarn department is constantly a mess and i guess i looked like i worked there which okay because somebody kept asking me questions i said i'm sorry i don't work here i did try to help her anyway that's probably why she thought i worked there so anyway um i'm planning another afghan so they did actually this time have the colors i wanted so i did buy them because it's cheaper to get it at walmart than anywhere else and now i have them i can just set it aside with the other crochet projects i have planned um blankets are good for me to work on when we're um on a road trip or you know i'm dealing with anxiety or you know i just need to keep myself busy then i stopped at joanne's they had i did find two balls to add to the thrifted and and gifted and scrap bits afghan i'm currently working on one was on clearance one was on sale they're both variegated um because i'm alternating variegated and solid i have four of them now i need to sit and look through them all anyway um kind of looking for a good crochet magazine so if you all have a particular one that you like if you crochet let me know because there used to be a lot more of them out there than there is but you know i think crocheting's not as popular as it used to be i don't know anyway we're going to go pick up their prescription then i got to go home and have lunch it's one o'clock and i'm starving so yeah i'll be back guys junior's here today i'm babysitting hopefully you can't hear that music in the background i'll try to drown it out if i can and uh anyway i am boiling some carrots for him because we're going to make some baby food and i have some leftover applesauce which i already made and he by the way he loves apples um i was up here for a bit before he came i know dark hello um and i decided to add a spider web to the back of my halloween shirt so spider web on the back spider web on the front spider necklace yeah i even have some plastic flies i'm thinking about gluing some flies on there i know it's really but you know yeah flies i have flies flies so anyway but we'll do that later i don't can't do it right now because junior's here so anyway all right i'll be back bob is still at his masonic lodge meeting um but while he's been gone i made great progress on the scrap yarn afghan we went through four balls of yarn that were in my bag four set afghan so yay um the balls that are left are all fairly large um i'm anticipating when the afghan's done it's going to fit it at the very least a double bed but probably a queen yeah it's going to be it's going to be big um and then then on to the next i do have a sweater for myself i want to make actually at least two but yeah we won't talk about that anyway i'm gonna play some puzzling games now give my hands a little break and uh wait for mr to get home that's really all there is to do now so i'll be back good morning everybody it is 10 o 2 a.m friday october 26th i think or 27th i don't know it's friday though it's family dinner night so i'm gonna go run out and get stuff for said dinner not going to do the full grocery shopping um because i don't want to and during covid bob and i got used to grocery shopping together and i kind of dislike going by myself now to be honest there's always stuff that he wants that he doesn't write down and he forgets to write down and i don't know to get because i don't have esp anyway and same for me there's always something one of us wants the other one has no idea so it's easier to just go together but we're having family dinner night i made a list i need to get some stuff for jr and um we're having pizza so nine times out of 10 family dinner night is pizza um it's been that way for the entire almost 40 years i've known mr b um he loves pizza sometimes we make homemade pizza sometimes we buy pizza we don't rarely we rarely anymore do frozen pizza that although that is the thing occasionally um today we're going to do pop and murphy's pizza which is a taken bake style pizza so kind of half and half sort of following somebody looks like they might be getting a ticket anyway um so i'm gonna go pick up the pizza i'm gonna get a few groceries gonna get some stuff for jr and i need to go on the buy nothing group today and see if anybody has a spare stroller because jr is big he doesn't fit in his old stroller anymore and it would be easier for everybody if we just had a spare stroller our house so um we don't need a car seat yet because i am not comfortable taking that baby anywhere in the car so there's that and we're babysitting tomorrow because mommy's got to work and daddy's working on their addition on their house so uh pops and i um our babysitting so here's that anyway let's go get our errands done see what we can see okay saturday afternoons just before five o'clock i have a vlog before now because we've been babysitting all day um both kids had to work and somebody had to watch the baby so um that was us so we are going to uh go grocery shopping at some point tonight i don't know if we're doing it right this second or i guess we're doing it now so and i have to work on or i want to work on my blanket some more we're gonna clean up the house a little bit and then head over to the grocery store i'll be back okay bob is downstairs watching tv and i am already in my pajamas because jr is already six months old and well he's and he's switching from formula to food baby food and well he spits up a lot so there's that and oh my god nailed a couple of times i am checking a couple of project bags where i'm kind of saving up yarn for more afghans yes this is going to be one of them i have and or was gifted or thrifted do they even make these yarns anymore this one is joann's sensations confetti and then there's also a ball of lion brand fancy fur anyway i'm gonna pair them up with something planar and at some point that's going to be another blanket um in fact i have some um yarn coming for that i ordered last night that'll be the main solid calm color there's some black in that ball in that bag but we'll see um then i have this which is just chunky yarn hold on let's go over here this is the one i need to look at because of course my glasses came off because why wouldn't they um will you stay there maybe hold on how about there that's a little better so i have a bunch of this chunky yarn from just different places um thrifted gifted i didn't i don't think i bought any of this um and i think i'm going to make it into a blanket like the one i'm working on now i'll put picture here um so i have random balls different kinds of stripey variegated tweedy they're all chunky so what i do is i do multicolor solid multicolor solid so i wanted to make sure um i have enough solids at least to get started so like these two could go i have a teal one that i'm going to order oh that's funny these two look like they're the same yarn gifted thrifted so interesting i need a purple i probably need more blue and gray or pink okay i have i there's yellow okay i have a clue now i also have this red i don't i don't know we'll use the red somewhere maybe we'll use the red with um rainbow this doesn't work all right so anyway that's going to be another blanket so have a good sale with some coupons on the mary maxine website so i think i'm gonna order just a few balls so now that i'm sure what colors i need anyway our day was mainly spent um taking care of thomas and paying attention to him and not really doing anything else which is as it should be and um then after he left we went grocery shopping real quick and i came home and put my pajamas on and yeah anyway he nailed my shirt i didn't even notice so i walked around the grocery store with babies spit up all over me yay me anyway tomorrow is going to be a quiet day at home so i'm going to work on my blanket and hopefully get some walking in we do have another storm coming in but i want to try to get some walking in before that um bob has um something he's doing with the kids and um they're going to go out and do that and they're going to do it like first thing in the morning and i am not about that i'm going to be here with my coffee and my crochet yeah anyway that's it for the minute i have lots of project bags filled with yarn ready to go and paintings i'm going to work on i'm getting commissioned for some journally travel sketchbook things from trips people have already gone on and i actually want to do one for myself for our virginia trip and i figured out where that safe place was in the art room where i put all my virginia bits and pieces and found it and put it over here on the table so if you're interested in fiber content sewing i've got a sewing project right here i've got a few of those lined up um i just finished making myself a halloween hairband hair barret um and um you know just wherever my creative muse takes me it could be anywhere if you're interested in contact like that then i sure would appreciate like share and subscribe maybe help that bell notification icon for new videos because i seem to be vlogging every wednesday but the other videos just come at random so you never know anyway uh questions comments or concerns are down below relevant links are in the video description and i do have a private facebook group for patrons and supporters of facebook messenger group so if you would love to be a patron and be into that chat and have ready access to me i also post things on a monthly 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