 It is Thursday December 28th, and we are out trying to get some steps in after over and dodging over the holidays We are puppy sitting Lily, so we thought we'd take her for a walk, too Maybe she can burn off some energy you think maybe So we're gonna Go for a walk and Enjoy the sunshine We'll be back so Is it just me or do I kind of expect this car to turn into Optimus Prime this big truck? I shouldn't call it a car this truck You know hello. Oh, no, no Hey, hey, you want to say hi to the people? You don't care you're too busy looking out the window Okay That's the way you want it that you've got fans out there, you know Hi guys. It's Friday. It's December 29th. It's late in the day. It's already 516 p.m. I only know that because I'm a friend of the computer editing video I was chatting with the new teaching team for my creative year the Facebook group the videos are always loaded to YouTube but personal interaction with The students and teachers and hints and tips and the community is on Facebook So we provide the content to you here on YouTube for free and the content over in Facebook But if you want to be part of the community environment all you're gonna get here on YouTube are the videos the environment It's over on Facebook So go check it out. I'll put the link down in the description below anyway It's about to start on Monday. So We were working out some last-minute issues we expect a little bit of a bumpy road the first couple weeks because there always seems to be and We try to leave it fairly flexible so that we can Adjust what we plan on doing with what the students want to do which sometimes are two different things So anyway, we're pretty excited. I think it's going to be a great year and Yeah, I hope you all join us there so I'm gonna finish editing my video my house is quiet as you can hear and So I'm able to get a lot of stuff done today and yeah, just chill and relax. I don't have to drive anywhere I don't have to cook anybody dinner Yay All right, that's it for right now. I'll be back. Hi everybody. It's Friday December. No Saturday December 30th 30th Yes, and we are headed out to go spend all of him. I'm gonna help him spend his gift cards Isn't that nice of me? Look I got the gift cards. He's got he's got a bunch of them. That's just too So we're headed out to a couple of different places if anything funny happens Well, I'll film it for you and I want to make sure you spend all of it Not that I have 55 cents left over on a card that I hoard for the next three years No, he's actually got one of those. That's why he mentioned it would just just that just cracks me up Why don't they just give you the 55 cents back? All right, I'll be back Next stop Best Buy Best Buy the land of electronics We don't really need anything but I think husband hubby has some ideas of what he might want so We'll see what we can find it I'll film that camera that I don't need and can't afford but it's so pretty. I'll film it. All right I'll be more and best by looking around and there's the camera It's a Canon Vixia, which I have but this is a big daddy I don't really need it, but it is really cool Talking to the TV people with my husband so he can ask some questions about a little piece of technology He wants and I got totally distracted by the vinyl. Who knew Best Buy sold vinyl? I didn't Very cool. He bucks for a Beatles album. Who remembers when they were less than half that? Wow Okay, so we are trying to get out of the Best Buy parking lot and we're done here Next we're going to Home Depot You have a gift card to there that I think we've actually had for quite a while And we're just not going to tell Polly as my daughter's boyfriend That we're going to Home Depot because he works for one of the subsidiaries of Lowe's So he gets a little annoyed when we shop at the competition. So we're just not gonna say anything, right? That's right. So we'll buy something for $25, right? Well, I think more right All right, that's it. We'll be back. Okay. We killed another gift card at Home Depot We're going to Dick's next Dick's Sporting Goods. Sure Got one more to kill So we're gonna go work on that. We'll be pulling another gift card. We're at the Sporting Goods store this time Yeah No idea what we're gonna get guys. So I'm sitting here in the floor of my office I don't know what time it is. I think it's like six o'clock. I did this big acrylic pour This tray here is from A hardware store. It's what you put underneath a washing machine in case it leaks Anyway, I had this idea to take one of my old canvases that wasn't very well done and Work on repainting it and this is just the first layer and my idea for learning acrylic pouring always was with the thought that I would use it as a background or Or Embellishment or something in my painting and not as a standalone. So this is the first step towards that and You know, I'm inspired by Some of the journal pages I've been doing lately that have lots of white space and negative space on them So I have this very lightly colored swath of color kind of through the middle of the canvas as the first first part of this painting and There are you know grooves and divots and lumps and bumps, and that's exactly what I want In fact, we're gonna be adding more to them In part two and this is gonna be a multi-part video series coming out on YouTube, but you all get a sneak peek So there you have it. All right. It's gonna take a couple of days probably to dry So I'm gonna let it do that and I don't know what I'm gonna get up to tomorrow, but I'll let you know I'll be back. Hey guys So it is New Year's Eve It is December 31st. It is 12 26 Lunchtime and I am headed out to the grocery store The husband didn't really want to go and he was like we can go tomorrow They're open tomorrow. I'd rather just get it over with Like why don't you stay here and also I really can't go do it by myself So that's what we're gonna do Get some groceries We're staying home for New Year's Eve. We are not going anywhere We have a senior dog as most of you know and Like most dogs hates fireworks, so we're gonna just stay home and chill at home And you know, it's been a week and a half or so of just Because it's the holidays non-stop family and friends and parties and dinners and Yeah, so we may go out to an early quite dinner just two of us and then come home and just chill at home before People in my neighborhood start lighting off fireworks or you know drunk drivers hit the road or any of that and no Fireworks are not legal in San Jose, but that doesn't seem to stop anybody So they set them off anyway, and there's so many illegal fireworks going off that usually the police can't keep up. So New Year's Eve, it's a big ball of fun. I don't know why I became such a grouchy person, but yeah anyway All right, I'm gonna go do my thing and I will be back So it is New Year's Eve. It is late in the afternoon Not quite dinner time I've spent a little bit of time here playing with one of my new stamp sets for 2018. This is Hand in Heart number 15 and One that I got for Christmas from Caravella studio Some paint some ink Tim Holtz mini stencils My print I stamped some of my images my stamp set on deli paper and Then also, this is one of my new printouts for 2018 some new words and new phrases And with all of that I created This fun little page So that's how I'm spending my New Year's Eve. I hope whatever you're doing you're having a safe happy one And I will see you in the new year. I'll be back Hey guys, it is Monday January 1st 2018. Yeah Happy New Year I am headed out to Michaels Sorry, the squeaking is a thing in my car after return. So I got For Christmas one of those it's a recollections Desktop marker organizer cabinet, which I love I already have three of them in my office. I got another one for Christmas anyway, my I asked my husband to open it put it together for me and he opened it and It has parts in it for a corner cabinet that I don't even think Michael sells So, I don't know what's up with that. But yeah, I'm gonna go. I don't have the receipt or anything So I'm gonna go see if I can return it. I don't know. I was in the middle of rearranging my office and That sort of thing. So of course my office is a disaster Yeah, so we're gonna head over to Michael's and see if we can return it. Hopefully it's not too crowded Interesting start to the new year Okay, so that was pretty easy. I didn't even have to sign anything or they just gave me a new one The girl said what I did what the hell? so, I Don't know somebody very cleverly took I Think the parts of the proper cabinet out of there saved it put some old parts from some old p.o.s In the box resealed it and exchange it they did it very well so they basically got a free cabinet, but Seriously What kind of f'd up shit is that I don't know Anyway, I've got my new cabinet, and I'm gonna go home Put it together. I went through all the boxes made sure although I did this last time that it was the one that was properly sealed Pray the parts are correct in there this time. All right That's it. You put this cabinet together and have some lunch and then put my room back together because I'll be back Tuesday January 2nd as you saw I've already been on the treadmill. I've been to physical therapy I've filmed a couple short videos But I wanted to show you guys that This dried paint on here On this plastic tray does indeed peel up really easy So I can use this to do paint pourers And then I can save these drops as Like acrylic skins and I can use them On journal pages So that makes me very very happy Oops, nothing was still wet. I just stuck my finger in it. Yeah So anyway, that's it for the moment. I will be hey guys. How are you today? So I've spent the morning doing a bunch of filming and I Found yet another like hidden spot in my art room that hadn't been Cleaned or anything in a good long while a Basically opened a drawer and what do netton was like what the hell? So I spent some time cleaning that out now. I'm trying I was getting my mail And so now I'm trying to get out of the parking lot without somebody Running into my car and no, that's not like a fantasy Stop It's actually happened and here's the guy is like speeding through the parking lot While people are trying to get out of their car And he doesn't understand what the problem is Honestly Yeah, yeah, okay physical therapies all over now both shoulders hurt but you know I'm learning the ways to properly move them and Exercise them and work different muscle used and work different muscles so that going forward they don't hurt me So it's all good. All right. We are Going to my favorite place not the grocery store. All right, so we've got to do that Still pretty early. So there shouldn't be too many people over there Because it's the middle of the morning. It's not quite lunch yet so Hopefully we can be in and out pretty quickly and then Maybe we can stop and see if their mail is ready early on the way back Because I'd like to not have to go out again today. I don't know. We'll see All right. I'll be back. Good morning, everyone. It is Friday, January 5th And I only know that because I've been up for a while and I was doing a bunch of typing and writing checking in my planner for what I needed to do today and Yeah, I've been up since about 615 ish It is time is at 9 49 a.m. Right now and I got all my daily writing daily writing commitments done. I got The website updated I Got a Etsy store add out on Social media every work except Instagram at least Oh, no, no way to take that back. I didn't do Instagram. I've got laundry working. I'm obviously showered because my hair is wet again And I feel like I'm missing something that I got something else done. I did get all my coffee a my breakfast So I'm headed out now to go battle. Hopefully not too bad of morning rush hour traffic It is almost 10 o'clock. It doesn't necessarily mean anything in San Jose traffic could still be horrible But I've got to go pick up some product packaging this morning for the stencils So I'm gonna go do that. Maybe stop at Target and take you along with me. Is that all right? Okay, we'll be back Picked up the pizza. I picked up what little bit of mail was ready I'm so ready to go home and I'm gonna flip you guys around if I can't what it looks like outside It just looks like it's gonna just start dumping water any second. So Let's go home before it does. I have to wait for people to let us out of our parking space Because they don't want to let me out. You will notice in this week's vlog. I've included a few more days than normal because I'm gonna try to do it instead of Wednesday to Wednesday or Thursday to Wednesday try to do it like Sunday to Saturday like a normal week So anyway because I get confused about when I should end it and to be perfectly frank Wednesday night I forgot to do an exit clip and I just kept filming the next day. So I Figured at some point yesterday when I realized what I was doing that I would just go with it So we will do that. I've been doing my daily drawing in three different Journals every day Since Christmas, but I haven't done much in the way of painting or collage or anything in my other journals. I Think I'm just needing to sort of get into a routine for the new year, you know, there's been Disruptions up until this week and now this week. I just feel like I'm playing catch up Things will calm down eventually and I'll get back into a normal arting routine That doesn't mean I'm not filming for you guys here on YouTube because I have been in fact, I'm booked out on videos or scheduled on videos through mid-February, I believe And we've got a new Little series that I've already started and another one that I'm gonna be doing So I haven't filmed yet, but I'm sort of at the formulating plans in my head stage so anyway You're propped up at a funny angle because my hands are dirty. I Was cleaning out the fireplace. Oh Yeah, yeah, I Think I better clean that off before I touch anything else Don't you think? Everybody's gonna be here in a few minutes or so It's Friday night family dinner game night. So it ought to be fun and Lily is coming the puppy So of course if we get any cute footage of the puppy, you know, I'll have the camera close by All right, I'll be back eyes. It is Saturday afternoon. It is about 12 30 ish 12 39 to be exact says up there somewhere a Week or two back here on the vlog I was cleaning out my studio and I said I had a couple of ephemeral boxes to give away and I did pick two winners Neither one of you has responded in the affirmative with your mailing address or anything So if you could please do that and get back to me Wendy I might actually have yours, but just let me know if you want the box and Yeah, congratulations to both of you leticia and who Wendy for winning But yeah, get me your address so I can mail the box Boxes one to each of you. That's it for right now. I think we're gonna head out to Costco in a little bit I'll be back. We're visiting the circus otherwise known as Costco. Yep You can see what's Go through the jungle On the other side they were in front of us when we came down the aisle I guess they didn't like our parking spots that go all the way to the end turn around I think the spot we parked in is bigger and they got a big old truck. I know we're fine. We're out the car Just like I said, we're at the circus known as Costco Yeah, these bags of food are all like way too big There's only two of us will have food for the next 20 years Like that's like I like gamehands and all but that's six gamehands. What are we gonna do with six gamehands? Yeah, it's too many we only have one kid and she doesn't live at home anymore, so Right I Do think the secret to shopping at Costco is eat before you come I'm not interested in snacking this time I think at this point we're just like trying hard to find things that we don't need to put the cart Right Now we're by the protein powders, so I don't know we don't need it I don't need I don't need the pens You don't need lasting hydration lip care collections. No no You need your breathe right strips Okay, how cool is it ladies when your husband wants to take you to Tuesday morning? For dog for dog stuff Right, he says it. He says I can't buy well. He hasn't said but I bet you I can't buy art supplies I don't really need any art supplies. We're getting dog toys dog toys But it was his idea to go to Tuesday morning, so that's where we're going because we got dog toys here last time We did yeah for Christmas So anyway Next off down here really quick. I doubt I'll buy anything But you never know That sounded like it fell in it broke Where did you buy it? Yep. I didn't break it. I ain't buying it In and out of Tuesday morning. I bought no art supplies. Ah, I did get a little strainer thing to try some pink things with but And we got oops. We got dog toys Got a bunny Really we got a goose got a goose and a dog in this big long hot dog thing Hot dog dog thing So it has been Just a week a catch-up week, right week first week of the new year we can sort of take a deep breath and hopefully have things not be too bumpy on our new journey and Yeah, I just kind of take a deep breath after the holiday We spent some time this afternoon as you saw putting away Christmas decorations and you know all of that sort of thing and cleaning up after the puppy because Yeah, between she and our dog they both right now because it's rainy outside track a lot of mud and stuff in the house, so Anyway We hope you all have had as I said last week a very merry Christmas and a very happy new year it's been Interesting adventure in 2017 and I and my husband look forward to 2018. I think it's going to be a lot of fun So that's it for right now My new stencils and stamps for 2018 are out and available in the Etsy shop And I will try to remember to put some videos some pictures here At the end of the video if you're interested go over to the Etsy shop the links down below and Check them out There are videos coming out here on the channel with me using them talking about them I have one kind of semi-big project involving this all of the stamps and all of the stencils Yes, I said all of I know I'm crazy Little crazy, but anyway, we're gonna do it anyway. All right, so yeah, go check it out And get yourself a little something maybe that's it for right now. Have a great day. 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