 Hey guys, how are you today? We are here with another, the last, I shouldn't say another, my last video for my year 2017 for the year. I'm here with my December video as with last month where I only made the one video and the book review and then we did like one online chit chat. We're gonna keep it light this week too because it's a holiday this month. And right now as a filming this, I don't know what month I had. Last month I had literally I had Thanksgiving week so glad I kept it light. I probably don't have Christmas week this month but you never know and I haven't looked yet so to be honest. So we're gonna keep it really light and we're gonna do a little chit chat. This month the prompt is, wrap it up and let's celebrate. Yeah? So you can of course do this a number of different ways. You could do it literally and or think of it literally wrapping up the year. Let's celebrate our year. You could do of course the standard resolutions list. I just went through some of my Jane Davenport washi tapes and stickers and I found a few I thought were relevant that would work well. Creativity equals joy. That really for me kind of in a way sums up the year. For me that's totally true. Paint till you faint. Don't you just love that? Let's see. Trust the mess and let your imagination flow. Painting, dreaming, learning. And I'm learning to fly. So I just kept it positive. That's what I really want it. I do want to again do another like little illustration tutorial with you all this month in my signature. We're gonna do a book review list at this moment right this second. I don't know exactly which book I'm reviewing but I'll go look it look one up. And I decorated my signatures with some more of the Jane Davenport washi tapes and stickers. I put a little post-it note this things to do. You know it's December. There's always like a million things to do before you head off to your mom's house right for the holidays. So I want to leave lots of blank space because there's always a ton of stuff to do and I'm gonna put a little piece of washi tape there because it's lifting. You know that's to be expected it's the holidays and there's always a bunch of stuff to do. There we go. So it doesn't hurt to have a little place to keep it track of the things you have to do. I may keep it funny and you know write funny things to do. We'll see. I don't know how it'll we'll see how the month goes but let's do maybe we should just do it right on the cover on the front. Yeah let's just do it right on the front like we did last month where we did our here's last month's where we did our pumpkin stock. Yeah so this month we're gonna celebrate we're gonna wrap up the year. Let's picture a gift. Reading glasses on. It'd be helpful. Okay let's picture a box. You remember from school when you were first learning in art class how to draw in perspective to give things sort of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional shape. So if it was a box that'd be one side. Let me zoom in so you can actually see what I'm doing because I think I'm a little far away. There we go. So we drew a square and if it's angled the right way then I'm not gonna see this side but I'll see this side. It's gonna be up angled up and this will be the same angle. Don't make it too long and then draw a line down and then for the top you want this angle to be at least similar to that one. As with the pumpkins just keep it loose and sketchy and that way if you get it you know a little bit off it'll be okay. Just adjust it. Go with the flow. Right now if there were a ribbon on the box it would be angled on the top and then go straight down. We'll draw another ribbon going across the top and down the side. It would appear a little bit thinner across the top and down the side because that's farther away from you. This front part is closer to you. I think I'm gonna just I'm gonna put a little dot there and a string. I'm gonna put a little tag. You could put a bow on the top. This part's the inside of the ribbon, the bow, so I'm gonna shade it and that also high disguises some of the lines. Yeah, so that's pretty good right? So I'm gonna give some you know kind of details to the ribbon. It doesn't have to be perfect guys. Just use some of your gel highlighter crayons if you have them. Something I like these because they're transparent. I'm gonna take my white gel pen first which won't show up as well on here as does on the pages that I've done in the craft card stock because this is more of a manila color but that's okay. I want to put the gel pen on first because it won't write over the gel highlighter. Now inside the box you could make a bigger box and inside the box you could write all the different things this year that you want to celebrate. The improvements in yourself that you've made or in your art that you've made, the connections with people that you've made, you can just you know if you're doing like I am and you're sharing it on YouTube and Facebook you can keep it empty. And then I'm gonna, I'm going to, I think I'm gonna do it in pink. No I just want to. And it's not about coloring the whole thing. Up here at the top man who, let's see, I'm gonna, I think I'm gonna write something. I think I'm actually gonna frame it first. Am I gonna, I think so yeah. So up here at the top we're gonna go around a couple times. Then in the corner right here so that's like a ribbon surrounding something with a bow and a give tag right? I'm gonna write art on the tag and on this tag down here I think I'm gonna write dream. So in this square up here what are the things that you want to celebrate this year? The steps forward in your life's path that you've made, the improvements that you've made in yourself, in your environment, in your health, in your management of your issues, in your whatever it is, whatever it is. Think of the positives not the negatives right? And I want you to put those in this box up here. So for me let's see connections. I'm so grateful for the connections I've made this this year. I've improved my technique on some things this year so I want to celebrate that. I think that's the right way to spell that. It might be wrong. I don't know. It's there forever now if it's wrong. Okay let's see. I want to celebrate family. Family's always important to celebrate. Love. That's also important. I want to celebrate the fact that y'all inspire me so much. Especially those of you who are dealing with serious chronic issues. Improvements is a good word. It's a good word. It covers a lot of things for me. Art, health, lots of things. I want to celebrate my life's path. I think it's a good path. I'm real happy with it. Pretty content. These are all things that apply to me. Your words might, they'll probably be a lot different. I love that. Let's celebrate the year's journey with gratitude and light. I look forward to a new adventure. So I want you all, let me zoom out so you can get a picture of the whole thing. I want you all to think about just create, do some journaling, do some doodling, do some art if you will and that's what you're inspired to do in your journals over the holiday. If you have something small like this you can take it with you. You just, you really only need a couple of things, right? Have some fun with it. Express yourself. Be yourself. Be true to who you are and I look forward to seeing you all in the new year, in the new group on our new adventure. Have a happy holiday everyone. I will be back with the book review. If you're not a member of my year 2017 or the new group going forward, my creative year, they will both, the links for both are in the description below if you're watching this on YouTube along with links to every place that I am on the internet. There's a, there's a link there that says linktree slash genobiarans. If you click on that you're going to find every single place I am all over the internet. My happy mail address is down there in a bunch of stuff so check it out. Have a happy holidays and above all go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.