 So I have spent the afternoon here chatting with a friend cleaning out some more bins arch flat rate priority mailbox I'm going to be putting in the empty store this week That is filled with painting papers copies of painting papers Some Texturey things like Produced netting bags colored netting bags There's some embroidery hoops in there a few cross stitch charts some old jewelry some beads Some the said jewelry and beads are in some storage bins like the box is so full you guys Anyway, I'm in a listed Nancy shop. It's it's a low price And it's that price plus shipping and so yeah If you're interested go check it out, I'll put the listing in the description below I'm going to edit a couple more videos and try to get some stuff edited before dinner. It's like three o'clock and That's my goal for today get video edited and I need to film something real quick for my creative year for tomorrow morning Because I kind of forgotten tomorrow's the first of June, so That's a thing. All right, I'll be back. Hey guys, it is Monday afternoon June 1st. I Don't know what time it is sometime after two o'clock. I think what do you know? It's not as late as I thought it was it's only 155 Not that's a huge deal Anyway, I'm headed to get the mail You know Can we just have a do over on 2020? Holy cow Okay, if you've been watching my channel for a while, you know, I don't normally do haul videos or things like that I don't want to make you all feel like you have to have certain products To create art and be creative That being said, this isn't really a haul clip. This is just oh my god Michaels. What are you thinking clip? So the kids got me and Michael's gift card for Mother's Day, which I used quite a while ago And they're taking their sweet time getting me my things and literally I'm gonna show you the box in a minute But literally there are three spools of button and carpet thread Three in this box. Do you want to see the box? This is the box Can I even get it all there we go for this Literally other than air bubble. There's nothing else in really really. Oh my god Do you what are you thinking and they sent me some I have I ordered fabric too and not all the fabric is shipped yet, which It's a whole other conversation But I ordered some muslin which also came today in a separate package when they could have put it in with the thread I don't understand and the little box has three spools like this in it Again, that's the box Holy crap. Okay guys, sorry about the weird lighting, but I've got the light on my computer desk right there The other table is full of stitching a stitching project Had my friend Lisa Swink who I knew was gonna send me what I thought was just she found some Spools of silk buttonhole twist and some embroidery floss. She said she wasn't gonna use what I like it and I said sure so she says I'll send it to you and Holy cow. I got this box This is more than a couple Thread Lisa. Oh my gosh, what did you do? And it's in this really great egg drawstring bag Really full so there is some embroidery floss in some great colors including some greens which I'm Running low on I go with Comes in cycles of different colors some burlap and What is this stuff called Which is great, I haven't actually been of this kind of thing. I love it Lace and ribbon and trims and things which some of which I might be able to use in the stitch that I'm working on right now Some seam binding which is lace I see fabric in here More ribbon and it looks like white seam binding. Isn't that ribbon pretty? Oh, and here's the silk buttonhole twist and yes, Lisa. That's the exact same kind. I've been using So yes, fabulous the wooden ones Yep, that's what I've been sewing with. I love it. Here's another spool of thread Is this new buttons? It says codes and Clark Zipper neck opening zipper. It's an old Isn't the container cool And it's full of buttons That's cool, all right, I don't have my reading glasses on some more buttons and some Fat quarters. I'm not sure if they came together or not But there's some pretty boutique print fabric Great colors and there's buttons there Buttons there or ribbon and trims on the cardboard spools There's some more plastic Always use that right now So there's a bunch of different kinds of Elastic and believe it or not even though it's vintage elastic It's usually still print really good. I mean, I've only run into one. I think that wasn't good enough to use Some more elastic and that is one that's a wide one, but Sometimes they make elastic in a way that you can cut it apart to make it thinner see that so I can cut it apart into thirds to make masks Bias tape and look at all look at this Lease Seam binding and more bias tape. Holy cow. Lisa. What did you do? Thank you so much. This is wonderful There's another little package here But I think she said in the note was maybe some watercolor paper that I might like to try Stitching I do like watercoloring and everything was wrapped in this tissue paper stonehenge Aqua cold press Ooh, it's some black watercolor paper. I do have some black, but it's not this brand And I have some metallic watercolors. I want to try on that That is wonderful It's not the only one that's in here. I Only expected a couple spools of thread Oh more black paper this one is Van Gogh Watercolor paper black fine-grain Cold it's cold for us. They could tell me feeling it So I will have to do some metallic watercoloring and try the different papers out and dig out the pad I have because I don't remember what the brand is There's not a lot of companies that make black paper, but it would be nice to do a comparison Do some little paintings. So anyway, thank you Lisa so much for the happy mail. I appreciate it so much I'll link her channel in the description below go follower. She's a talented mixed media artist and Good friend. All right, that's it for now. I'll be back. Okay, so we of course are gonna go out on our evening walk We're going before dinner, which I'd like to do when we can Of course, I have one of these with me We're just outside the house. There's no people. So I'm good Anyway, how nice of that was was that of Lisa my friend Lisa to send me all that happy mail Right away. I pulled some things out till you work on the slow stitch. I'm working on the slow stitch journal and If you want to make one I'm not gonna film it because it's not my idea But I'll link the video where I got the idea down below and you guys can follow along So anyway, we're gonna go get some steps in and I'll be back. I like walking between five and six Because the few people you do to run into well all the people you run into around here are super nice We just talked to a very nice young man. He was sitting on his front porch with his computer. He looks so comfortable I told him I think I need a front porch He did he did He looks so comfortable Anyway, it's also not very people-y at this time though Everybody's having dinner So I don't have to wear this because there's like literally nobody around So yay All right time to get some steps Hey guys, good morning. It is Tuesday morning, June 2nd, and I'm obviously in the car I have some Etsy orders that came in. I've got to go take them to the post office box please My cans is still open until the 1st of September So I'm gonna use that opportunity to just run down there and drop them off and not have to go to the main post office And then we're gonna go home and do some stitching And I gotta finish my little embroidery thing. I'm working on it's another little bear So he's taking me a couple of days longer I don't think the next one's gonna be any shorter because it's a little bunny and he's got a lot of change thread changes also It's okay. I'm having fun doing it. So anyway, it's gonna be a quiet day I think I don't think I'm gonna get up to a lot I do think I'm going to like I said get some stitching done. We'll go for a walk later But Just a quiet day at home. There's nothing much to do because of the pandemic and The protests going on We're under curfew And I am not physically able to participate in a peaceful protest. I can't take any I've got bad knees for those that don't know and so physically I literally can't take any I'd end up sitting Hey guys, so I'm out again this week the second time I have more etsy orders that have to go in the mail that are too big for my little dropbox. It's the house so When that happens either I or Bob have to take them in and they drop them off. So I try to use the opportunity of leaving the house wisely and Only leave the house a minimal number of times. So while I'm out I'm going to check the new p.o. Box I'm going to Get some groceries and I if Joanne's is open I might pop into to Joanne's for a couple things that I need for the current slow stitch I'm working on that. I'm he's laugh. He's laughing You did go get him Yeah Anyway, it's another weird day because you know, hello apocalypse I don't know what to say I spent the afternoon finishing our little bear friend I'll put a picture here instead of I love you on the blanket. I put hugs. I thought it just seemed to fit better right now Um, I brought my slow stitch book downstairs with a a tray of basting supplies And I'll be working on getting that basted together Tonight at least some of it tonight. I haven't had a good question about that Somebody asked me On it slow stitching by the way is just hand stitching and embroidery Somebody asked me about pinning everything together. Don't you find that gets in the way of the embroidery so I do sort of a running stitch basting thing on my slow stitches if you haven't watched any of my slow stitching videos I do that first and take all the pins out and then I go back And add maybe more pieces of fabric and embroidery stitches beads buttons and that sort of thing So right now a lot of the pages are pinned together. So I'll be basting them together later I cleaned up and reorganized my dies for my scissor's big shot And I was having trouble finding my little thin thin lids dies It was making me crazy. So I reorganized that a bit so it's all better now and That's about it did a lot of grocery shopping, but we should be good for at least another week or so maybe longer and The only time that we really have to go in between is for fresh things. We run out of you know milk and creamer and produce and That's that sort of stuff the fresh stuff Anyway, we might actually brave Costco this weekend maybe So we are running out of out of a few things that we haven't bought in like Two or three months that we usually get at Costco Yeah, yeah, so Yeah, that might be a thing and no not toilet paper Anyway, all right, that's it for the moment We're gonna go for our walk and I'm gonna get some steps in hopefully I won't need this and there's no people around But we'll see I'll be back Hey guys, it is Thursday morning June. I think it's morning. Hold on Yeah, it's 11 26 a.m And so I spent the morning Hold on There we are. I spent the morning getting the house clean and Cleaning bathrooms and toilets and wiping down the kitchen counters and you know It's normal stuff um, and then of course I came downstairs to check on social media and the youtube channel and everything and the The statement in my vlog last week so far has been taken very well um, thank you all For support of said statement if you want to know what it is you got to go watch last week's vlog um, and again my thoughts and prayers go with the floyd family and Anyone else who has experienced that sort of violence towards them? That's just unacceptable Unacceptable. I have police officers in my family. They're they're the good guys And they're they would be the first ones to say it's unacceptable um Anyway Much less the pandemic and everything else that's going on in the world, right? So if you've been following me for any length of time, you know, I've been Doing slow stitching and Watching anbrook's um channel. Um, I was doing the slow stitching spools I still am and right now we're working on a book with her channel I'll link her channel in the description below One of the things I learned from her is English paper piecing which I I've been sewing for Literally since I was like seven or eight. So I'd heard of it before but I'd never done it and um Because of the slow stitching adventure I've decided I decided to take it up and on our last one. We did hexagons So I figured out how to Use my silhouette to cut a bunch of hexagons that are the exact same shape. I have a silhouette cameo Cameo the little one Which I don't use nearly enough because fun fact I've discovered part of my journey that I not only don't like making junk journals I'm really not a huge fan of paper crafts I do them occasionally, but it's not my jam Um, but I do enjoy making things like this and stencils with my silhouette and um, so I discovered uh, I created a file That I could cut a bunch of these little small hexagons With it and um, then I have uh templates Then I have a bunch of these little card stock templates with which to make these little Fabric hexagons now when you sew them together after you get them all sewn together then you take the paper out Now the paper is generally hand-basted in Around the shape and then you press it. I discovered because a tulip pink whose channel I will also link below um this um This is by sew line and it is a fabric glue stick. It's a fabric-based ink glue stick So much easier than stitching it and I've literally like these are all finished ones and I have to literally push it let's see hold on I have them stored in this jar and I have to push it down like this to get the extra templates in And then hold it and try to get the lid on because I have to I have to use some of them up. Oh See what I mean There we go Someday that's going to just explode. I think but So I try to have them pre-made and then when I'm working on a stitch I can just grab the jar and take them out and I have them But it dawned on me after watching a few other stitching videos and quilting videos and blah blah blah I wonder if I can do a circle because that would be cool and there is a Tool that's being touted around the internet. Um, that's basically two washers that fit inside each other And you put the fabric in between and then press it and it makes a circle and while that's all well and good I'm not going to spend 30 bucks on a tool What I don't have to and I did set up a silhouette file so to cut a bunch of the same size circle about the same size as the hexagons and Figured out how to make some circles So I'm going to show you I'm going to point the camera at the table So you're going to need Some circles any size these are I don't know Just over about a half an inch. Let's see. Oh, I take that back They're like an inch and a quarter Yeah, they're about an inch and a quarter. Um, which is a good size for what I'm going to do with them either on a um in the slow stitch journal or on a composition slow stitch or On a spool. This is a good size. I like working with this with this size but whatever size you like working with cut a bunch of circles the exact same size and if you have a um silhouette or cricket or something It should be pretty easy to set up a file now For those who have a silhouette if you want the um svg file, I can give it to you Um, I can put it in a draw box. Let me know in the description below and I can we can work that out I can do the hexagon one too But I think the file only works with silhouettes. So And I'm really a rookie with the silhouettes. So anyway So you need a bunch of these and you need some fabric. All right, hang on. Let me point the camera at the at the ironing board Okay, you're going to need a scrap of fabric that's uh, big that's slightly bigger than your circle And then just hold the two of them together And take some scissors and just roughly cut around your circle leaving about a quarter of an inch of fabric all the way around It doesn't have to be perfect by any stretch Just like that Then we're going to take our basting glue stick Now this washes out Not that any of my slow stitches ever get washed, but this is intended for fabric I don't know how a regular like glue stick would work um I don't have any experience with that And you could of course instead of gluing it you could stitch it Um, but you want to glue all the way around the paper and then you want to push The fabric up against the cardstock All the way around there is sort of a Technique to it. I found doing it flat on the ironing board Is better than holding it and you sort of Push it up where the fabric is going to want to fold over on itself around the circle And you'll get less bumps around the edge of the circle And then once you have that done give it a press and voila So let's do one more Now for my people over on patreon. I will give you guys the hexagon and circle template Over there it will be easy for you to get If you don't get enough glue on it see it wants to just stick up a little more glue there If you have too many bumpies While it's warm you can like push them in But I think that's pretty good Are they perfect circle circles? No, but am I okay with that? Yes So there you go Easy applique circles using what I have Which you know that's kind of the name of the game, right? You don't have to spend any extra money to be creative. I keep saying that uh, and of course I've been saving the what do the costumers call it Cabbage I've been saving the cabbage Uh, and using it for stuffing and things like the little owl that I made recently So all these little tiny scrap I cut the scraps up tinier the unusable scraps So ones that are too small to use I cut them up pretty small and then I put them in this jar And this becomes stuffing for a pin cushion or if I do a little solicitude animal like the owl Which I'll put a picture of the owl here somewhere Um, then I grab this and it's cheap free because it's free uh stuffing for things So, yeah You can use polyfill of course you can go out and buy polyfill But why buy polyfill all the time when you can just use cabbage? So they're my tips for the day All right, I'm gonna get back to it and I'll be back You know, it's June 4th, and I finally got May's mission inspiration done. I'll put a picture here anyway, um I went and looked to see if Mike Deacon had posted the June one yet and he hasn't so But I got the May one done I got some more pages Based it together in the slow stitch book and I got the positive affirmation doll caught up again Although he's quickly running out of room and the longer we stay In this stressful locked up situation Uh, the harder it's going to get to find places to sew words to him So that's going to be a thing House is clean I should probably do some laundry I don't really want to though. I'd rather veg in front of the iPad maybe read a book Good morning. Technically it's still morning. It's just before lunch Friday June 5th Yeah, June 5th Um headed out to go get the mail bringing a pen with me. I need to put a pen on the mailbox key We keep getting this one piece of mail back Um from a person who as far as I know has never lived at my house Um Keeps getting set back. So I'm going to write a very clear message on the envelope Um about the person not living here should it be in the mailbox But one of my goals this weekend if we go out anywhere is to get a key a pen You know, they have little mini pens that have like a key ring in the lid a pen to stick on this Because yeah, that's the ridiculous anyway I'm going to check the mail have some lunch And then I think we're going to go for an early walk because the kids are all coming over for dinner And I don't know if they're going to want to go walking or not. So Yeah All right, I'll be back So we're not walking at lunchtime Because all the kids are coming over later and we're not sure if they're going to want to walk or not Uh But we'll see But we thought we'd Make sure we get our steps in We're down here by the little creek It's a little bit peopily down here. So I've got my mask But not too bad lunchtime during the week Even though everybody's home. I think most of the kids are doing lessons and that kind of thing Most people are working from home. So It gets less peopily than it is in the evening Anyway, it's a pretty view So, yeah, I'll see what kind of pictures I can get and we'll See what we can see. I'll be back It's saturday morning june 6th, right? It is 10 o' six a.m. They're about Um We are headed to costco Which for those who don't live in the u.s. Is a big box warehouse Store grocery store And We haven't been to a costco since this whole mess started. I think it was maybe january Since we've been to costco so The pandemic happened and then the protesting and rioting happened and Things at costco have been insane and along with a lot of other places and yeah, we've been avoiding it like the plague Like the plague Anyway, so my post office has yet again Said they delivered delivered today for whatever reason. That's what they do here in organ And hopefully it shows up monday and there's nobody for me to call till monday anyway, so hopefully it shows up we're gonna go take this opportunity of being out of the house to run one more errand that we need to run and Yeah, it's been a weird week Has been super bad for us personally, but it's been bad for the world a weird week. Everybody stay safe out there holy cow I hope you like share and subscribe If you have a way to support the free content here on youtube or over in the facebook art groups Not only for my channel and my content, but other creative content That would be great Most of us have something in the video description. I know I do there's a number of different ways If your favorite creative doesn't have something ask them because they probably have something maybe they just don't have it in the They're not advertising maybe So Stay safe everybody. Stay healthy. Stay creative Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And we'll see you next week