 Good morning everybody. It is Sunday morning, September 4th, 11.36 a.m. We are dog sitting for a bit. Hi. All right, Bob's back from dropping the kids off and we're gonna take crazy pants for a walk. Maybe we can get her to burn off some energy. I doubt it, but maybe. All right, I'll be back. Morning. It's Monday morning, September. It's 9.54 a.m., September 5th, I think. Let's boot up the Cupid Peter and find out. Yes, September 5th. Anyway, we slept in a little bit, which is all cool. Everybody's been fed their breakfast, including Lily. Bob is in the shower getting dressed. Obviously, you can see my hair is wet. I'm already dressed. We're gonna take her for a WALK in a minute when he's done. In the meantime, I've been sending out text messages to the kids about reminders and things I need to put on the calendar, I think. It's gonna be a pretty quiet chill week, which is good. Bob is leaving this weekend to go down to California to see some friends, but also his mother who has fallen and hurt herself again and she's in care. So I'm gonna be here with crazy pants by myself, which is fine. And Rebecca and Paulias are in Lithuania. As we speak, they landed safely, so yay. Yeah, otherwise, I'm not gonna plan an excess amount of stuff for myself this week. My anxiety is kind of under control. I normally would be a basket case about Rebecca traveling, especially to a foreign country, but she's with Paulias. And my anxiety is, you know, it's never gonna be completely normal. I don't know what that is, but it's under control. And I know she's with Paulias and he's gonna keep her safe and happy and healthy and so all that. She's not there by herself. Like when she went to school in Spain, that was like, anyway. So that's all good, but yeah, I'm not gonna actually push myself too far. I'm gonna let myself just chill this week. I have some editing and stuff to do, of course, because it's Monday and writing, but it is Labor Day, it's a holiday, Bob is off. So I think before we do anything else, we're gonna do the WALK and we're gonna, I don't know, maybe go for a drive or something. I will get the editing and writing done at some point, but it doesn't need to be done like this second. I may do the writing first and then I can just leave the editing, something like that while he's getting dressed. All right, enough blathering on this morning. Let's get to it. I'll be back. Just decided to wait for Mr. Bob to feed him his dinner. He doesn't look very old. Hi, baby. But evidently we're a safe place. And you know what? I'm okay with that. Morning. It is almost 10 a.m. Tuesday, September 6th. And I am just now getting my day started. I have laundry going downstairs. I'm gonna download all the vlog footage from last week to the computer and get it edited. Yesterday was a holiday, so I didn't do it on my normal Monday. We are getting pictures in from the kids from there. Visit to Lithuania, gorgeous views, gorgeous country, beautiful blue skies. It looks great. Anyway, they're having a good time. They got there safely. Yay. Okay. I guess things aren't gonna edit themselves so I better get started. Yeah, I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. It is, what time is it? 9.41 a.m., Wednesday, September something, right? I was gonna say September 8th, but it's September 7th. So there. Anyway, we are out. Out. We are out. I've got a handful of errands to run. Bob is going to visit his mother this weekend in California and it's gonna just be me and the dog. So I need to go run a few errands before he leaves on Friday. So I'm gonna go do those now and I need to go water the kids' plants and stuff like that. So we're gonna go get all that done. It's been quite the day. I spent most of the morning running five million errands. Right now, if you hear that noise in the background and you see that, it's because the robot vacuum is AKA Hazel. She's doing her thing and cleaning the floor for me. I love Hazel very much. I reorganized a few more things upstairs, some stickers and things. Also made a few of my own stickers, some DIY printables for myself, not anything I can sell. I do think I'm gonna scan one of my distress dictionary pages from the old dictionaries that I always have around the art room. And I think I'm gonna turn the sheet into stickers. Sounds like a good idea to me, right? I think I'm gonna do that tomorrow. And then I'm traveling around with my sketchbook or my journal and I wanna put a little bit of that. I don't have to worry about having a glue stick because it's a sticker. Kind of like that idea. I can't let the idea go. I'm gonna go dig out some dictionary paper and print it out to some label paper. I can do that without turning my computer on just using a printer. It's a good idea. All right, let's go try it. Hang on to the right sheet of dictionary paper to do that with. Bigger drawers in my small bits bank have bigger stuff in them. And so one of them has dictionary paper. Plain and magazine paper. I think some of it is distressed. Yes, it is. So I'm thinking we'll do one that's not distressed. I like this one because I like the little mushroom on there. And then I have some down here that's been distressed and has some of my stencils on it and other people's stencils, let's see. I actually have plans to just have coffee. I'm not really feeling the red one. We'll put the red one back. That's still probably too many, but that's not easy way. Now we'll be able to put these back in the drawer when we're done because we're basically just gonna make copies of them. So my printer does have the feature of just basically using it as a copy machine. So that's what we're gonna do. Hang on. Now to find the labels that we're gonna use. I think I'm gonna do mall and smaller labels. These are clear and they're just little strips. That would be okay, I think. I'm gonna use what I pulled out. I'm gonna go with it. Okay. So first things for you is put the sheet face down. My only problem with doing this is it's gonna copy it. I have limited capabilities of having it fill the page. I should have my glasses on for this. Maybe a chair. I can make it fit the entire page. Yay. Okay. Confirm. We're gonna do two of them because I'm gonna do one on that and one on the clear. Ha ha. Now I can just do that. I love it. Okay. DIY stickers. It is my new thing. I'm gonna get all these done and I'll be back. Guys, I think this might be my new favorite thing. Wow. I do lots of like daily sketch practice and stuff with quotes and like simple doodles and stuff like every day. I usually don't do it in the art room. I usually do it downstairs. And I usually always use dictionary paper and stuff like that. Then I have to have a glue stick and if I'm away from home and I wanna do it wherever I'm at then that's kind of a pain and this is a great idea. Oh my God. You can get sometimes old packs of Avery labels or off-brand labels at the thrift store. I've found them at the Habitat for Humanity Restore at Savers at Goodwill for like a couple bucks. You don't have to buy brand new. They can be kind of pricey. Maybe you have like me, you've got an old stash of them from back in the day. Like I keep, I moved and I kept all the labels. Use them, get them out. You don't have to use them for traditional labels. Why can't you do something like this? All right, I'm gonna figure out how to fold these up so they're smaller in size and I can fit them in my little bag of stickers downstairs and I'll be back. I got them done. And I printed enough that I have a stash. This is just part of what I printed, which is fine. And I don't have to print them all the time. But I am so happy I did those. Such a good idea. At least I think so. What do you think? All right, I'm gonna go watch some YouTube. I'll be back. It is Thursday, September 8th. It is just after 10 a.m. And I had to reformat the list of video links for the patrons and supporters. So for those that don't know, the patrons and supporters have their own private YouTube channel. Videos which cannot be found if you don't have the links. And anyway, yeah. So I had to reformat that so that it made more sense to them because I did it the way my brain wanted to do it and it only made sense to me. Anyway, there were a couple of things at the store that I couldn't find yesterday because they were out of stock or I didn't know we needed milk. So I'm gonna head back over to the store this morning probably just go to Safeway because it's close. I could walk there but one of the things is dog food. And I don't wanna walk back with a big giant bag of dog food. So anyway, I got some more stuff or she saw a squirrel. Got some more stuff organized today. I got all my errands done, got some chores done. I was sitting down to look up a couple things I needed to look up on the internet and the little girls from next door came over to chat which led to me bringing Lily outside because they love to see the dog. They brought me some homegrown carrots and that led to us taking Lily out for a walk. At least the short one even though Bob's got meetings and stuff tonight. So we're gonna go do that. I'll be back. Everybody, it's 9.08 AM Friday, September 9th, I think. Lily and I, Lily, there she is, you see her. We have just dropped off grandpa at the airport. This is not something I do much but we're back from the airport. I had the rest of my breakfast. Lily's a little depressed and doesn't wanna eat her breakfast. But anyway, I'm taking her for a walk by myself. I don't do that often. She's a strong dog. But anyway, we're gonna go get it done and get some sips in. I'll be back. I had visits from the neighbor girls next door. They brought Mr. Bob some candy and they brought me a doll because they know I put the little toys they give me into my plants. This time it was a large Barbie doll. I think it's the girl from Frozen. I don't really have a plant big enough for her but I stuck her, here's a picture. I put her here with this little succulent. Anyway, I spent the afternoon and finally finished this sketchbook. I share the sketches I do in here right away with patrons and supporters. And then eventually you all see them. So if you'd like to see the kind of sketches I do, let me flip forward to one that I've already showed in my Instagram and stuff. Hold on. This one's already been on there. So if you'd like to see these and follow me, you can follow me on Instagram or other social media. All that stuff is in my link, treat list to links down below. Anyway, I have, this is number six. I don't remember when I started these but I think it was like last summer. So it's been about a year. I think I'm actually not really sure. I just looked it up. So this was my first one that I did as I whacked myself in the face. And I started it July 4th, 2021. So it's been about a year and here's my stack. Got a new one downstairs. All set and ready to go. Anyway, I got the current one done. Yay. I got a few tours done, but nothing big. Mostly I just sat and sketched all day. The girls came by. They're so cute. Some other little girls came by. They're doing some kind of fundraiser for school. I asked them to come back next week. I'm here alone with Nutjob. Can you see her little head there on the floor over there in grandpa's office? She's all mad because he's not here. Anyway, they can come back next week. I asked him to come back. Bob loves to do school donations and stuff and all that. So I'm gonna let him do that. He was always that guy at his old office. He still works for the same company, but at the old office, anytime any of his coworkers had, and not just at the current company, but he used to work for Hewlett Packard when he worked there too. Anytime they were doing fundraisers, they all knew, go ask Bob. Cause he was always the guy that would buy like eight boxes of Girl Scout cookies and, you know, all the things. He was always coming home with some sort of school fundraiser thing. I don't know. Anyway, so I'm going to check on the desktop, which I actually haven't done at all today. I've just, again, been sketching. You've seen the little clip. Yep, I'm gonna check on the desktop and then I'm going to turn it off and we'll go back downstairs. We've got some cleaning up to do down there and it's almost time for dinner. Okay, it's almost 9.30 and it's still weirdly yellowy hazy outside, which means smoke from some of the fires that are going on in Oregon right now, probably more than likely. But before it gets any worse, and yeah, I'm already wanting to clear my throat, but, you know, I've got this. I need to grab a cough drop. I need to go water the kids' plants and stuff and I need to go to Target. Yeah, I made a list so I wouldn't forget. So I need to go water their plants and check their mail and then I need to go to Target. I've got some medication to pick up and stuff like that. So we may not be walking today. Air quality is like this. I'm gonna stay inside. I'll be back. As you saw, I've got clear coats going on the two finished paintings and I have these two canvases I'm gonna do a painting on, a two part painting, behind side by side. I don't exactly know what it's gonna be, but I think it's gonna be very abstract. But I wanted to paint a black background, so we went with that because I'm painting how I feel, right? All right. I'm about to post my art posts and things for the day and realize I haven't closed the vlog yet. So Lily and I are here on the couch again. We have gotten some chores and things done once I got home from doing errands, but the air quality went from 77 to 104, which is not good. So we ended up having to stay in the house. I got a few things done. I got, well, if you're watching this, you saw that. I got a background of black on a couple of canvases. I got the two other canvases clear coated and signed and all that jazz. And yes, they're for sale. If you're interested in any of the paintings I have for sale, message me my emails down below. I'll put some pictures here of all the ones that are for sale. Anyway, we are going to do our posts and sit here and stream some TV shows. I've been watching Royal Pain, which is a TV show. I guess it was on from 2009 to like 2016. I've never heard of it before. And I don't know if it was straight to the internet show or if it was on one of the network. I don't know, but I am fascinated. So I've been watching that and I have a book I'm going to read. And you know, I got some chores done that needed doing and all that stuff. We've got our, because of the air quality you can see that thing right there or a little HEPA filter thing going. Yeah. So anyway, but anyway, it's been a good week despite all that. It's been a fun week. And Bob comes home tomorrow. I can't wait. I don't sleep well and he's not home. But anyway, that's for next week's vlog. So I hope you've all had a great week. I hope you've made some great art that you've had fun, that you're doing things that make you happy, that you're staying safe, staying healthy, staying creative. Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Lily, Bean and I are here. We're gonna sit here on the couch and cuddle and I'll see you in the next vlog. Bye guys.