 still morning. But if you've seen this clip then you already know I've been, my mom is coming over, I'm going to help her with some more sewing stuff. In the meantime I'm using the opportunity of needing to clear my table to cut out some more stuff for myself. I also drafted a pattern already for a pair of pants and that's already done. I don't have enough test fabric to test the pattern on. So I'm gonna have to get some inexpensive knit to try it on when I have the opportunity to go by the fabric store. Always test your patterns when you're trying something new, especially if you've drafted a pattern on something inexpensive like a sale fabric, something you haven't spent a ton of money on. Anyway, so that's what I'm up to today. I've already got the postings done, ATC's done, paperclips done, I need to photograph the paperclip that is drying and yeah, so that's a thing. All right, I'll be back. Sunday evening, it's after 8, isn't it? It's 10 after 8. 10 after 8, still bright as daylight because you know we're in the Pacific Northwest. Doesn't get dark until like 10 30. Anyway, we're going out for a walk. We spent the day with my mom and dad helping. I helped mom with the baby blanket she's working on for the new great-grandbaby. I barbecued. You barbecued? It was delicious. I picked my favorite. Yes. Potatoes, green beans, some nice salad. It was good. Lots of ranch dressing. Lots of ranch dressing, homemade ranch from Buster's Barbecue by the way. Love ranch. Love, you know. I know. Anyway, we're gonna go for a walk now and we'll see what we can see. We'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is just before 9 a.m. Monday, June 10th. It's like 8.42 or something. Don't get excited. I checked. Anyway, obviously we're headed upstairs. I need to put these on my desk that I doodled on last night because we're gonna scan them and make them some digital downloads. I've got four or five more of them downstairs I'm gonna make. They'll be a bundle. Anyway, I need to turn on the computer and do my social media thing and then I need to run a couple quick errands. One of which is check on the P.O. Box this morning before I get caught into doing any thing up here in the art room today. I need to update the website. That's like a priority. I need to do an ATC card and a paper clip today and I have one of the many shirts I cut out over the weekend that I want to work on. That's on the agenda today. I better get to it. Hey guys, I'm working on another sewing project today and this is one of the Hey June tops from that pattern and you're probably not going to be able to see the seaming super close because of the fact that the fabric is black but it has its I don't know it's a tank top but it's raglan. Anyway, it is a swing top which means it like goes out at the bottom. I just took off two and a half inches on each side and tapered it up towards the armhole because it was just a little bit wide around here for me. I like my tops loose but I don't need to look like I'm pregnant like because yeah so this is much better. I'm trying it out of this fabric first because to be honest this was I don't know why I bought this. I mean it's okay but yeah so I'm gonna do this one first. We'll see. This is a little thicker too so it didn't drape. Some of the other ones I want to make this top out of our thinner and they may drape better and I may not have to make that adjustment but I'm gonna mark the adjustment on the pattern and then we'll just see. Alright I'm gonna finish it. I've got to put the banding around the armhole on the neck and then hem the bottom and we're done. I'll be back. Hey guys it is Tuesday evening June 11th. Yes I said evening. I haven't vlogged all day. I was busy fixing website issues. My web site host decided to update their web site editor and the only problem with that is they broke five other things. So things weren't formatted correctly. Things were clickable. It shouldn't have been clickable. So yeah it should be fixed now. Check out the description below. I don't know. Anyway it's like 88 degrees outside. It's kind of hot for me but Fred and I decided to go walking anyway. It's a cold 88. It's a cold. I don't think there is such a thing but anyways I put my hair up and what does Ricky call it? Oh yeah the hamsters. They're back. They're back yeah. So anyway we're gonna go walking. It's Wednesday morning June 12th. Don't get excited. I looked at the computer already. I've had at least one cup of coffee. I'm working on the second. What time is it? Got no clue. No idea. It is going to be hot today again. Computers on. It was in the high 90s yesterday here in Oregon and it's gonna be that again today. So I am trying to get my day started early. I've already been out to water the tomato plants and the lettuce and everything. They got a little scorched yesterday so I'm gonna water them this morning and probably again this afternoon and right now I'm gonna do my social media bit before I head out to the grocery store because I think it's right around 8 a.m. 7 50. See I was right. I was close anyway. It's 7 50 a.m. I want to get out to the grocery store and home well before lunch because it's gonna be hot again so let's get to it shall we? Here's booty guppal. I'm gonna look at the table here. Got a stack of papers over here. I need to scan for backgrounds but this is my table as it is at the moment. I shared a social media post last night of these. I'm trying to make copies of the wax seals I was playing with the other day which these are some of the wax ones and I casted the actual seal so I got a reverse image in resin. That's the mistake bin. Here we go. Turned out pretty cool but I wanted to try to get the positive one like that. So I did Sam Tim and Clay and baked them. I swear I followed the instructions but this is what happened with the old Primo clay that I had in my cabinet. I'll show you all the package in a minute. I don't know. Does polymer clay get old? So that obviously didn't work and so I did stamp them into this is like Crayola Air Dry Clay. I don't think this is gonna mold well because I have to push it into the molding putty and this I don't know if this is hard enough to be honest to get me a good mold so we'll see. I'm gonna try it that I used. Okay polymer clay get old anyway. Let's get back to it. I got to do the social media stuff so I can get my butt to the store but yeah. Epic failure. When the rear windshield wipers and washer fluid aren't really cleaning they're just pushing the dirt around. I think it's probably time to get the car cleaned. Yeah that's a thing. So all the new stencils came in. This one is called Splash. This is one of the modern atomic stencils. I'm gonna link all of these in the all of these. I'm gonna link the stencil section of my Etsy shop in the description below. I have 28 I believe new stencil designs that are in stock. Quantities are limited. First come first serve. The new manufacturer has the designer's name and the design model name or number etched into the edge of the stencil which is really great. This is one of the ones that's based on the black paper doodles as is this one. This was one that you guys have all commented on called it sort of a flower shape which I guess it is. The design team will have some of these as they wish. They're gonna be picking certain ones and playing with them soon so you'll be able to see videos from them on these. I did take some of them and put them for to the stencil. For those of you like myself who like to work small and they're intended to be layered so for instance you would do this one first and then this one or you could do it the other way. This one first and then this one on top. This one first and then that. This one and then that. So they're intended to be layered. This this these all four can be layered on top of each other. So anyway I'm gonna go sit down and relax for a minute turn on the air conditioning and then I guess I'm coming back upstairs and I guess I'm packaging stencils. Hopefully I have enough packaging supplies but I guess we'll find out. You see that that's all the new stencil designs and inventory. I just spent like two hours packaging them. I ran out of the package inserts. I don't have any. So there's a few designs that have they're naked. So in the listing description there'll be a notation if you would prefer to get a naked stencil without the product packaging and save a dollar to let me know in a notation on your order and I'll send you one of the naked ones. Anyway now I got to get them all listed. Holy cow. This is the last time I do this. By the way I do have a lot of new stencil waste. There is some listed in my Etsy store but now I have a ton more so I need to make up some new bags. But if you're interested in stencil waste and using it in your mixed media work and on your pages you can use them as masks. You can add them to your page for texture with gel medium. I've done it before on different journal pages. It's really cool. It's just you know it's the part that falls out when they cut the stencils. So usually you get a mixed bag of designs. Anyway alright that's it for the moment. Holy cow. I need to get to Etsy now. I'll be back. It's Thursday morning June 13th. It is 9 37 a.m. Don't get excited. The computer's on and I've been up for a while. So we are having house guests starting this evening until Saturday I believe. My nephew from California is coming to visit. He's in a band. The band's name is Bad Mother Nature. They play according to him and their self-described 70s rock and roll. I don't know what that means but we're gonna go listen to him play on Friday. They do have a Facebook page if you want to go check them out. I'll put the link in the description below. The little bit of clips I've heard online sound great and I love that he's following his dream and I'm all for supporting that but it's gonna be hectic few days. It's also Father's Day weekend and we are spending the day with Bob doing a bunch of stuff he wants including walking around downtown in a park downtown and going to visit Portland's Chinatown and there's a burger place he wants to check out so we're gonna be doing that on Sunday. We've been having more estimates on little jobs around the house by contractors so we're gonna be gearing up for some of those jobs including hanging the big paintings in the living room. I talked my husband into not doing that himself so I'm gonna hire somebody. Our general contractor said he can do it as long as I put the hangers on the back and the upstairs toilet is leaking because you know so I called the plumber this morning and hopefully they can squeeze me in in the next couple of days. I told him I'm having house guests but thankfully we do have two more toilets but yeah so he'd see what he could do and he'd have his girl who just is scheduling call me back. In the meantime in the midst of all of that I think my nephew is coming over sometime this afternoon he's showing up he's they were playing in Seattle last night so I think he's coming over sometime this afternoon but I need to go put gas in my car pick up liquor at the liquor store and mail some Etsy orders. I already got my daily postings done on the internet and I got my ATC cards coins done I actually did them ahead through Monday because Monday Monday the week is gonna be crazy like for the next week I'm gonna maybe have a quiet day Wednesday maybe Monday the awning people are coming to finally fix the awning Tuesday I'm getting my hair done Thursday is mammogram Saturday we're flying to California for the day to get our teeth cleaned at my uncle's dental office I just yeah I'll know what I mean but it's good that I'm busy and that there's tons of stuff going on because I won't dwell on and stress about the mammogram whether they find stuff or not I always try it's one of those tests as women you know we always stress about it I do have a benign system one side so you know and it's a new doctor it's a new place so you don't know what they're gonna question what they're gonna find you just don't know anyway I'm too busy to worry about it right now on top all of it off we got 28 28 new stencil designs in last night I know you saw that part already I was packaging a fiend yesterday and I think I only had two meals I think I forgot to eat dinner I was too tired anyway go shop at the Etsy store I need you to like clear out some inventory and any of this stamp sets that you would like you know go check everything out yeah anyway all right that's it for now I better go get my button gear and get my stuff done I'll be back guys it's Friday yeah June 14th yes I almost said January anyway it's 9 22 a.m. hello the computers helping me so my husband has a day off we're gonna go see our nephew play tonight he and his band and we have other than that we have the rest of the time today and tomorrow to ourselves it's the first time we've had kind of a weekend where we don't have obligations or something we need to do we can spend it the way we want so I think today we're gonna go to Ikea get a few things for the house do a few things around the house maybe take a drive do some fun stuff Sunday is father's day so we're going to go do some exploring on Sunday I don't know exactly what but we'll figure something out so yeah it ought to be interesting I'll bring you with us where I can I'll be back saw my nephew as if you're watching this clip you know already we went and saw my nephew and play bad mother nature they played at the Hawthorne Theater lounge last night they did a great job I wasn't sure to be honest what to expect although I do have a couple of his CDs to be honest I didn't listen to them I'm kind of glad I hadn't because I was pleasantly surprised they're actually pretty good I really liked their music a lot so that was a lot of fun we came home and had a very late night snack snack of mochi ice cream which if you don't know what that is it's like little ice cream balls wrapped in a rice flour pastry mochi pastry anyway they're really good I don't think they're traditional mochi which I think is made a different way but they're like an ice cream version anyway we had those last night late today we just are relaxing around the house I've got set the IKEA pegboard I want Bob to help me hang up in here in the art room and I do have that painting over my shoulder right there I want to start and yeah I don't know I don't know what we're gonna get up to today and that's okay we don't have plans tomorrow's father's day and we're gonna figure out what we can do and explore with the kids and the dog and not leave Lily at home locked up in a crate all day because that's not fun and I think that's it for the moment for right now anyway I'm gonna do my daily social media postings which is why I'm up here and get it get to it and if you can't hear the noise in the background I've already started laundry so all right that's it for the moment I'll be back hey guys so I know I just today aired a studio tour but I've already made a change it was one that I was thinking about since before filming but anyways we did get it done today it's a small change so I'm gonna share it here with you in the vlog we took the little wall next to my sewing table and put up two IKEA pegboards and some of the pegboard accessories so I could sort and organize my threads so I'm not digging in a bin for thread which was driving me crazy hang on I'm gonna turn the camera around I'll show you a studio tour that this light here that was on a stand on the table that it needed to be in the corner but that the stand was kind of driving me crazy and I really wanted to see if Bob could put it up on the wall so we did rig something and figure out how to do exactly that and I have command strips and Velcro attaching the cord to the wall so I can just hit the button and turn it on and it does still move a little bit side to side and also there's a little wing net on the side so I can tilt it back or forward so that part all still works it's just no stand love that saved a lot of table space and as you can see we have two of the tall skinny IKEA pegboards on the wall just behind the light and I've sorted and organized all my threads the threads for the serger and the threads for the regular sewing machine by color families and now it's going to be really easy to find thread that I need for a project and not buy thread in a color I already have because you see I have this oops sort of gray blue searcher thread because I thought I didn't have anything in a light blue and I already had that so yeah that's a thing and then I took some clips and I hung my stay tapes on the side this is going to work great for me and it cleared some clutter out of the drawers and some clutter out of the window so because that was getting pretty bad and now it's really a proper sewing table fabulous I love it and I can't think my husband enough for helping me with that he did a great job and now he's downstairs just playing and washing the car and I'm gonna just chill for a bit and have some water because I'm really thirsty all right that's it I'll be okay and I made another hey june top here it is here and I will say after making two of them now I would definitely for myself and my body shape and how I like to wear my clothes I would definitely taper in the sides and make it a little less swingy it's described as a swing top it's wider at the bottom than at the top I would take some of the width at the bottom out and add two inches to the neck bound so I'm gonna make permanent alterations to the pattern now that I've made two of them and I ended up making the same adjustments to both tops that's how that works right so anyway and the new setup for the sewing machine is working great so I'm gonna wrap this up and I'm gonna cook dinner I guess we're gonna go out to go see Avengers Endgame which we haven't seen yet after the last one I don't know how excited I am to see it they killed off all my favorite characters I'm sort of hoping a miracle happens they bring some of them back but I don't think that's gonna happen anyway that's it for the moment I'll be back I forgot to close the vlog last night oops we went to the movies to go see Avengers and Endgame that was a good movie I really liked it we didn't get home till late and then went to bed so yeah but it's been an interesting week yeah the next couple weeks are gonna be interesting too I'll keep you all posted when I can anyway I hope you've had a great one don't forget to like share and subscribe check out the description for any relevant links and my link tree list of links where you can find the places to follow me on social media and support the free content here on YouTube and over on Facebook the most important thing go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it it's been another week and we'll be back for the next one bye guys