 because I'm bringing you with me. I am headed over to my friend and student Laura's house and we are gonna do some more arc tutoring and coaching kind of stuff. I don't know what to call it. Anyway I'm gonna be over there for a couple hours and it is finally raining outside. We need the rain in California but I am worried about all my friends and loved ones who are in or near the fire areas that we've had recently because now there's no vegetation to stop landslides so anyway but we're getting water. I may go run an errand after I'm done with Laura. I may not. I may decide to just come home because the weather is kind of on the icky side. We'll see. I do have a flannel shirt on today because I'm just I'm not cold exactly but you know it's just a flannel shirt. I have flannel shirts on shirt on with a tank top underneath it. My stretchy pants and tennis shoes because you know that's a good fashion statement right. Oh and wet hair again. It is what it is. I don't know what to tell you. Alright that's it for right now. I'll be back. Hey guys so it is Friday morning 10 30 ish. We just my husband's working from home today and we just had the furnace cleaning people service AAA furnace and air conditioning actually to be exact. I'll link their website in the description below for those of you in Santa Clara County. Anyway we had them out to clean the ducks in our house and you know check the system and make sure it didn't need any service or anything that everything was working properly. The guy was super nice. If you're gonna call them ask for Gilbert really nice guy anyway. So he just left so now I'm going to run to the grocery store again because I need a couple of things for lunch and so the husband is at home working and I'm gonna go run to the store and go get that done. I've also been chit chatting and working on art business things with my creative conspirators Cindy Utter mostly this morning but also zoomers chat which is a group of us artists who chat weekly in the zoom app. It's a online conferencing app in the description below if you so choose if you do any online conference calling or anything like that. I do recommend the app at the moment because it seems to be way more stable than most of your other apps that do the same thing. All right so anyway we had all the doors and everything open in the house while they were cleaning out the central air system the heater the furnace the heater the air conditioner that definitely works. So I'm a little bit chilly so I've got to switch it on but how much you want to bet by the time I get home hot probably a good bet. It's a safe bet. It's Friday and I have yet to edit days over at minimum. All right that's it for right now I'll be back. Okay the vlog is finally saving. I'm a day behind getting it edited and loaded and stuff yeah so anyway it's happening right now. I'm gonna go run and get the mail and see what is over there. I don't expect a lot but you know I did order some things from Wish so they take forever to come in they just kind of trickle in when they do so there might be one or two things. If you don't know what Wish is it is a discount website most of the goods that are sold on the website are from China I believe and I will include a link to it in the description below. There's two big ones that everybody that are everybody shops at that are pretty popular. One is Wish and the other one is Aliexpress. There's loads and loads and loads of video on hauls from both websites. I would recommend before you go shopping at either website that you watch the videos to do something with big sheets of like watercolor paper and I have these inks from Wish that were supposed to be like super metallic that aren't really but we're gonna use them up and I've got a spray bottle of water and two big pieces of old watercolor paper almost as scrapbooking paper watercolor paper. I'm gonna try to do this before it rains again I don't think it's going to the sky is blue but more importantly before the little demon devil dog comes over we do love her but oh my gosh my daughter's dog is crazy all right so let's spray down our water and let's play with some inks let's see what happens she might just equally having fun we'll see. I'm at the gym and I've been cleaning and purging and getting ready for the holiday season and I just finished this is the guest room by the way has some of my artwork whoop there you go see you can see hanging up in it these down here those are pieces waiting to sell they're in my Etsy shop so if you'd like a piece of artwork for your house the Etsy shop it's all for sale and if something that you've seen here in this video is not listed let me know the one in the black frame is done by a friend of mine isn't it fabulous he is his name is Jim Campbell he's a fabulous pen and ink artist he's been on a few US postage stamps like he's a yeah he's kind of well known anyway these are all mine we spent yesterday cleaning out the guest room closet and putting trying to show you here things away there's some gift wrap spare coats we were trying to get the games together for family game night there you go so we got a shelf to go in here so we now have all kinds of games and I've got where is it way up there can you see it yeah more artwork for sale so if you need some art you need some artwork I've got some artwork if you want to get some for a Christmas gift go look at the Etsy shop the originals are for sale so anyway that's what I've been up to today and there's all the kids Christmas gift wrap is out ready we're not expecting company until after Christmas so I can just leave this out here and we can use this as like the gift wrapping room which is ideal I forgot where I was going with that but I got a bunch of business stuff done this morning and I have a video conference in a little while so I'm gonna sit and just chill and get some water and I now have an empty Ikea cart the rolling three-tier cart that had the gift wrap in it but we're not putting it back in the closet and we're just keeping the one little box of gift wrap and the rest of this what we don't use is being given away or or gotten rid of at the end of the holiday season I don't need to store gift wrap anymore that's just ridiculous so now I have to figure out what I want to do with the key Ikea cart I really love it so I really kind of don't want to get rid of it so I'm gonna find a purpose for it I just don't know exactly yet what that purpose is gonna be maybe something in the art room but maybe not I'm thinking about using it out in the front room so we'll see that's it for right now I'll be back just picked up all the mail at Pulse Linux big giant pile of mail you can't even see it on the camera I guess all the Christmas gifts I've been ordering started coming in at least I hope that's what that is as you saw my husband and I went out to lunch we went to five guys love that place and I just sent out the first of the packages to the design team so whoo you guys are some of you guys are got your stuff that's on the way I also had a couple of early morning meetings with Mike Deacon about the stencils working on some things for that and also chit chat with Rover Moon about the upcoming stamp sets I've got some drawing to do if I have any designs I think I want to be submitted to those sets otherwise they have to wait so I think I'm gonna sit this afternoon and do some drawing and we'll see where I how far I get that's it for right now I'll be back in case I forgot to say it's Monday November 20th yeah cuz you know it's one of those days kind of bummed because they have not too many customer refreshments next you know customer appreciation refreshments this is what they're for right I thought so but we didn't have too many I was bummed I know so anyway we've been to the doctors already we've been to drop the car off for tires already now we're gonna buy pie go grocery shopping at home that's it for now forgot to get the liquor yesterday for Thanksgiving it is Wednesday November 22nd we're at the store looking for wine get this one because that's a cool label I like that one I do too I do mixed media so yeah you know I want to like soak the bottle and get the label off I don't even drink so that's kind of the funnier part ooh see look at this one with all the elephants like the labels the labels are cool creepy cool silk soft blend this one like the label I don't care what the wine tastes like I'm not gonna drink it would be funny if I asked Maria if I could take a bunch of empty wine bottles home with me Thanksgiving dinner these are the big bottles these are the big giant bottles of cheap wine yeah I just like the labels are cool hey guys that was our week this week it is a holiday week I'll be honest with you I'm filming the week's ending instead of Wednesday evening or afternoon it's Friday morning it was Thanksgiving here in the United States and Thursday and Friday as you saw we spent some time at Costco and the grower at I'm sorry not Costco at Lucky we are Costco lot at the grocery store buying wine and liquor for the holiday making sure we have the pie and everything else and you know they're just the preparation for the holiday I forgot to film anything so that happens but anyway that was our week it was a good one and to see how our holiday went I do have a little bit of footage for the next vlog it's pretty funny there's one clip of all the kids and I was gonna take the sound out but it actually was pretty funny so I may leave the sound in but anyway you'll see it don't forget to have a great week everybody and if you have any questions comments or concerns leave them in the comments below and that's it for right now check out the video description for any relevant links and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys