 It's... is that right? 7.58? Yeah. 7.58 a.m. Oh, that's right. We're getting ready to go out to the shops. I really just tested grocery shopping before the apocalypse happened and I really did test it now because it interrupts my morning coffee. If you hope to get most of the things on your list, you have to go early in the morning at least where I live. Hey guys. Well, after a early morning run to the grocery store, I decided to do something that's been on my mind for a couple of days and sort of has kept me awake. I have discovered over the years that there's just certain arts and crafts, things and styles that I've tried and I just don't care for and at some point that doesn't mean I need to keep the excess stuff around. Maybe I keep a little bit, but I don't keep too much. And then there's other things that I find I really enjoy, but I get tired of digging the parts out of a closet over, let's see where are we, over there. You know, fabric projects and slow stitching and embroidery are one of the ones I get tired of digging stuff out of a closet. So I spent some time today at the Small Bits Bank behind me, which if you've seen my studio tour videos, you know what that's all about. If you haven't, I'll try to find the videos on it and link them below. Anyway, I spent some time cleaning out and purging some things, setting out some things. I don't need to keep every single size of envelope on the planet. I really, really don't. I found four, let me see, four bags of stuff that have to go. And I combined some other things, like I had one bag of envelope, one bin of envelopes, one bin of tags, one bin of bags. That's a lot of envelopes, tags and bags. I thinned them out enough to get them all into one bin. I did the same thing with a few other items that were on the Small Bits Bank so that I could put out five bins of fabric. I have one bin now of just cotton. Let's see, let's turn around. Sorry, I don't mean to make you dizzy. So I have one bin here of cheesecloth and metallic fabrics and burlap and things with texture. I have a bin of vintage fabrics, denim, distressed fabrics. There's some silk in there. My bin of cottons, which I don't have all the colors in the rainbow, but I did Rory G. Biv as close as I could get. And some large pieces of fabric along with custom printed fabric with my artwork on it from Spoonflower in the back there. And then a bin of lace. And that's gonna make me very happy. I still have my two drawers on the other side of the camera. One has wool in it and things I use for the bases on some of the slow stitches and then the other one has the smaller scraps that are sorted by color and they're in little bags. And so anyway, that took a bit today to do, but I am very happy that I did it. And this is gonna make me very very happy and I'll be able to get some slow stitching done. So now I just have to figure out what I'm gonna do with the excess that's not garbage and yeah, there's no place to donate anything right donate anything right now. So the only thing I can do figure out to do is start a box or a bag and hang on to it until there is. I hate to just throw it away. So yeah, that's gonna be a thing. All right, I'll be back later in the afternoon and I was just re-watching my clip from earlier and I should say to you that I am able to lessen my inventory of envelopes and bags and tags and because I one of the things I've discovered over the years is I'm not a huge fan of junk journaling why while I do do it now and then it's not my favorite thing and I do have a lot a lot of junk journals that people have sent me dear friends have made for me and I like using those when I need to use junk journal and if I want to make one I do have just enough to make some stuff But I don't need to have bins and bins and bins of like envelopes It's just not necessary. So yeah, that's a thing Hey guys, it's Monday afternoon. I don't think it's three o'clock yet, but it could be. I don't know anyway It's after three o'clock. I was wrong and I thought I filmed this already and I didn't have a button push And then I went to go listen back to what I did film and my phone was still connected to the Bluetooth speaker upstairs. Ah Yeah, yeah, you know, it's just I'm calling it corona brain I've never been good at the date and day and time You all know that if you've been watching my channel for a while But you know lately, it's things like this or it's did I wash my hair this morning? Did I take a shower? Shit, I lose the English the words for things like hello. I lose the English I You know, I just Mind I'm not doing it. That's doing it. My husband's doing it, too. We're just we're calling it corona brain So tear here it says Sealable bag it says Bullpucky I say it is not opening Foster farms you lie Okay, so remember what I said earlier about corona brain So Bob and I realized today at about one lunch time That there was a whole bunch of things we should have bought at the store yesterday That we forgot about or things that we thought where we had that we didn't have Yeah, so we need to get steps in tonight. So I guess we're doing it at the grocery store So he's got his head tube. I've got my mask Yeah, so Corona brain. I'm blaming it on that anyway. All right, we'll be back. Good morning, everybody. Have I checked in today? I don't think I have my corona hair is Coming along nicely My corona brain is Yeah, also Holy cow Anyway, I was just watching the vlog for last week and Which I have to do during the editing process Which I hate watching myself on camera. That's why I most most creators I know do like they have they hate having to go back and listen to themselves speak I Even Bailey Bumble Bailey Her other channel is Bailey J. I think she's a much bigger channel than mine Anyway, she mentioned it in a recent vlog that she really hates listening to herself talk. I really can really relate Anyway, that's done and it's saved and it's loading to YouTube and there's a spot on my sunglasses So that's all done and I had some lunch. It's just about noon. I think Yeah, it's just just before noon. I've had some lunch. I Found out that someone very nicely sent me happy mail from Canada and I think that's the package that I just found out is there Over at my over at my PO box, which I okay guys So as I told you I had some happy mail from Darlene and I don't usually Do haul videos anymore on on camera here on the YouTube channel And I don't do lots of happy mail videos either I do of course thank the person and I'm always very appreciative of whatever you all send me believe me and I do use it I just don't want to feel like I'm bragging Because it's not me but anyway, I did want to share this because she sent me a really great Bundle of stuff and I wanted to share her work her so her name is Darlene and Let's see Bromberger, I don't know if she has a YouTube channel, but if she does I'll link it below I don't think she does actually She sent me a very sweet card with a sweet note in it And I had a suspicion when I saw the front of the card So I turned it over to look at the back and sure enough She did the work on here, and I don't know if you can all see that's not drawing That's paper embroidery on there. How cool is that and then She sent me a junk journal, so I said recently on camera that You know I felt okay about getting rid of some things and making way for more strictery things because Although I do the occasional junk journal It's just not my thing and I just I kind of always feel like you all do a way better job than I do just because I Don't have the patience for it. So first of all it was wrapped in this envelope Which is made out of a bag and some paper how cool is that with a with a tie on it I think it's a silk piece of silk yarn And then here's the junk journal How cute is that and then it's got I think this is a leaf from one of her trees in her yard In cash, she's from Canada and then there's a pocket here in the front How cute is he and then there's something with a coat on it here Oh, it just has her name handcrafted by BB creations It's her Artney artist name. How cute is that with some? distressed papers and then it's got some more pockets in the back and another like a bookmark Most people who know know I love to do art and I love to read that's my two things There's another one with some of her leaves on it and then what are these here? Like all the pockets have something in it. It's so cool. Oh Yeah, some pressed leaves and flowers And then Some images maybe from her yard. I'm not sure maybe from a magazine it's a perfect little journal and a good size to like fit in back into the envelope and Into my bag and forever allowed to go traveling again You know to take with me somewhere to do some Botanical sketches in or some writing in it's a really great size for that and it's yeah It's nice and small fits in my travel art case really well. So I love that. Thank you, Darlene Of course, she knows because I've been sharing Images and things over in a chat group that we're on in on Facebook with some other people That I've been doing a lots of slow stitching and at this point you all know too and I keep running out of Embroidery floss colors, so she sent me a bag of embroidery floss now I don't it's not DMC floss. I'm kind of wondering if it's a Canadian brand. Let's see Prism six strand floss I don't know it's from China, but I've never seen the prism brand now that doesn't mean anything they might have it at Joanne's I haven't bought embroidery floss and for a long time until recently and Recently I just buy it online because you can't go in the shops So I haven't done this much embroidery in a really long time But she sent me a really nice big bag of floss a bunch of great colors, which is wonderful because I'm running out of some things again She sent me this tag laminated tag. It says It's an am your maple from her tree last fall and your AM you are I don't know if that's how you pronounce it But anyway, it looks similar to the other leaves Which made me think they were all from her tree What else is here cuz I don't know she sent me some elastic Thank you, darling cuz I'm you know running low again. So elastic is always great right now. I need to make some more masks She sent me this little I don't know what that is Looks like another journal Handcrafted by BB creations looks like another journal Matchbook style Yep It sure is matchbook style. That's cute. These are cute little Quick journals to do like on it in a single day to do Little mini collage In they're really great for that She sent me she made these I know she's making these so this is a variation on the headband that I make This just you can do the ear loops and then put this in the back from one ear to the other So the elastic doesn't rub on the back of your ears I actually am thinking about switching one or more of my bands to ear loops rather than head loops because the head loops Get really tight. This might solve part of the problem. So thank you, darling. I will be using this The next time I go out which I've been out Three times in as many days, so I'm kind of hoping I don't have to go out for a while But when I do I'll be using that She sent me some buttons I just went through and cleaned out a bunch of my buttons And I'm using them There's some cool ones in here. You can just never have too many buttons. Can you when you're doing stitching and stuff? I shouldn't say that. I guess you could But there are some cool buttons in here Looks like they're all plastic buttons But there's some great colors like ocean theme colors. Sorry, I'll show you guys on camera rather than staring at the buttons So I'll have to I do have my buttons now separated by color I know so I'll have to spend some time sorting them out. There's one Sparkly one. See that? I love that So cool Okay, she sent me some There's notes on everything. So this says ice dyed cheesecloth And old arm sling. I don't know what ice dyeing is, but the look of this fabric has me intrigued darling So I can see stitching with this and adding it to some of my stitching. Look at this piece This says cheesecloth. It's just it's all folded up, but it's a big pretty big piece. And then we have She sent me a few different colors So we have this one Orange, you know fun fact. I don't have enough orange or yellow. She sent me two different oranges One is a little brighter. This one is more of a gold orange I don't know how to have enough orange or yellow. Fun fact and look at this pretty green Those will go with the fabrics. I have that are separated out by color. I know I know Stop shaking your head. I'm aware All right. She sent me some little mini bags Which is great. I when I was cleaning out my bag bin I got rid of a lot of the bigger bags because I just don't use them But I do use the mini ones because I use them for pockets and stuff like that. So These are great and then these Show me this these kind of look like the elastic loops or knitted loops that you do weaving with I haven't opened yet, but let's look No, it looks extreme I'm intrigued. It's not stretchy. Darnie. What is this? It's very cool A little piece of a dark red color There's a bunch of blue And some white What is this Darnie? I'm intrigued I wonder if I could stitch with it I wonder what kind of french knot you'd get So I'm going and then she had some vintage fabric in her stash It is so cute. She said she made herself a neck wrap neck What did she make? A neck band She says it turned out so darn cute. Well, I get the fabric is adorable So this is some vintage fabric covered in in bees Look at this That's going to be fun to use on a slow stitch Not only just in random pieces, but I can see cutting some of these bees out And adding them to a piece Very very cute And I have a bag of fabric. That's all be a nature nature inspired I know Anyway, thank you Darnie and I do appreciate it so very much. Everything is great Now I wasn't supposed to go out of the house today I was out for like an hour and a half because they went and picked that up and then I went and did a few other things and so Now I have to catch up All right, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Oh, if you want to send me happy mail Um, my happy mail address is in the description below Um, right now I'm not going over there all the time. I go there maybe once a week Ish So if you do send me something if you could send pop me an email My email address is also down there and let me know that you sent it and that way I'll keep an eye on the p.l. Box Um, right now with the world situation being what it is. I Um I'm not over there a lot. So Anyway, all right, I'll be back Okay, guys, we're getting ready to go on our evening walk I spent most of the day slow stitching, you know when we went to go leave during dinner We said we should go walking as soon as we're done It was bright and sunny out You all see that gray cloud? Yeah, I do have a mask with me my rescue inhaler those that don't know I'm asthmatic Anyway I'm gonna put this on as soon as we get out of the little neighborhood where we're at And it gets peoply Uh, anyway That's it. We'll be back. Hey guys, it is wednesday afternoon, it's about 3 30 I spent the morning making some fabric buttons out of scraps of fabric scraps of cotton batting Some embroidery floss and some washers I stole from my husband's stash in the garage I will include some pictures here somewhere. Anyway, they were fun to make and I will be making more of them But I'm gonna need some more washers. I think I took all of his Don't tell him All right. Good morning everybody. It is technically still morning. It's 10 20 I have my mask, of course Um, yeah, yeah, it's one of the filter masks I did change out the head loops for ear loops just because if I'm out for any length of time at the shops Um, I start to get a headache and while the none of none of it is comfortable This is more comfortable than the head loops, but the head loops it's more secure, but You have to decide what's good for you for right now. I've decided ear loops Um, I didn't use any extra elastic. I just cut apart the elastic that was already on here Um, anyway, um, most of the you know time you're spent out at the shops right now standing in line waiting to get in um And yeah, so anyway, so I've got a mask It's a filter pocket mask. So I've got a filter in there and I'm ready to go. I need to go to the hardware store for parts at some point, you know light bulbs die and Things like that. Yeah. So anyway, I need to go to the hardware store So I'm going to go over to home depot stand in line wait to get in get my stuff that I need I'm while I'm there. I'm going to get some more washers to make buttons and I'm going to get some Um, vegetable seeds and some things that I've been wanting, but I didn't want to go there just for that And hello corona here. That's my natural color. Just FYI right there I'm very very silver. So my natural color is very dark was very dark brown so the silver gray really kind of shows up and actually it With the brown it kind of looks like a mousy silver. I don't know I wish it was pure white, but what are you going to do anyway? I'll be back. Well talking to the camera. It's not on Uh, I would blame that on corona brain except that that's something I kind of have done before coronavirus so Um, I probably won't be back to the hardware store for a while I was a bit disappointed I was trying hard to maintain social distance and I still got yelled at by another customer in the store because she thought I wasn't Maintaining social distance and I was in her way I think she was just more not sure where I was going and she kept trying to go around me And I wasn't sure what she was doing and confusion, you know Anyway, um, and yes, I'm scratching my face, but I've already sanitized my hands um What really disappointed me though was not only were At least half if not more of the customers without a mask on which I find disappointing And purposefully not maintaining social distance unlike my accident At least half the employees if not more Allergies sorry, um, at least half the employees if not more we're not we're not covered And we're not maintaining social distance and we're not caring And the store wasn't limiting how many people could come in or or anything And while I understand we might be lifting some restrictions That doesn't mean we can lift them all and we should be still being cautious and I yeah, I just don't get it. I don't get it. Yeah, I want to say personally as I Find out about businesses that are not Taking precautions to prevent further spread of coronavirus whether we're still in lockdown or not um They probably won't be the ones that will get my business often because unless I need something that no one else carries I'll be shopping other places. We do have for instance a grocery store chain here called new seasons and They are requiring everyone to wear a mask before they come in For instance, um, unless they have a medical reason not to they need to have a mask on so Uh employees and customers alike so Yeah, I I think I'm going to be Following those guidelines more often than not Um, I'm not okay with not only not getting sick, but not I'm not okay with helping spread the virus. So Um, yeah That's going to be a thing friend. Hi Fred Hey guys, it's um just before three o'clock on friday afternoon and i'm going to go get the mail uh Spent the most of the day Not only doing some slow stitching but working on the sd shop Pretty much nothing else. I did sleep in this morning for the first time in a long time Um, can't say I'm upset about that um How because you know haven't been sleeping well Yeah, goes with the whole menopause and stress thing Um tonight we're going over to dinner at the kids new house Uh For the first time in a very long time. We have been doing friday night dinners with our daughter and her fiance almost since they met and For years other than when they moved up here before we got here Um It was always at our house now they have their own house and it's going to be at their house I think more often than not going forward. So that's pretty exciting. I think All right, so to my surprise I got all the basics of the new slow stitch Done i'm working on another spool piece that's going to be on one of the Spools that fred made no way. Yes way Uh, anyway, I got all the basic parts the background. I'll stitch down. So I'll put a picture of it here Tomorrow, um, or whenever I have time I'll start adding bits and pieces to it Now we're gonna go have our first ever family night dinner at the kids house I don't think we've ever done that before even when they were in apartment. No Yeah, so And I think like the first time in like 20 years or something. We're not having pizza on friday You okay with that friend? It's it's been long enough or ever mixed in food. I guess because I was sick of the mile on tuesday Probably yeah, we're having burrito. So daughter's cooking. She's a good cook too. So I'm good with that All right, I'll be back Saturday may 9th. I only know that because I'm at the desk looking at the computer I was listening to pandora stray cats is on right now I'm doing some more slow stitching. Of course. I'm actually working on um Adding some hexagons to my current slow stitch um Try I would say practicing trying for the first time um English paper piecing and it um using getting this sort of honeycomb pattern I set up a file with my silhouette this morning to cut out a bunch of paper hexagons That I can use for patterns out of cardstock And that took quite a bit of time, but I'm glad I did it because they're very precisely cut and I've got a whole bunch of them And if you do it right, um, you can use the patterns over and over again I'm going to link a video by tula pink In the description below she has um, she's a quilter and she does a lot of uh, paper piecing and Um, I she has a couple of really good videos So I'll link hers down below if you want to see how I'm doing this because it's not my technique. It's hers Um, but anyway, I'm just working on that and getting the pieces sewn and attached To my new piece that I'm working on this one Hey guys, we are out walking I don't think it's five o'clock yet. Is it? Oh well, we left the house before five getting our walk in a little bit early It's 85 degrees. It's too warm for me. Fred's loving it Um, it's very warm for this thing when people aren't around. I take it off Right now. It's kind of people-y anyway We're doing our due diligence and getting some exercise and vitamin d. What about you? It's been a fun week I'm gonna go back and have dinner after this and Continue on some slow stitching. I'll put a picture here somewhere. I'm loving paper piecing Holy cow That's a problem I do did come up with the hexagon Silhouette cutting file to create a bunch of little hexagons that fit on these spool projects um If you guys want the file, let me know Anyway, I hope you have a good week have had a good week And uh, don't forget to check the video description for relevant links and ways to support the free content here on youtube I'm not the only creative person on youtube or the facebook art groups that have ways to support So check out their video descriptions If you can't find what you're looking for ask But all of us who have free art content on the internet Have some way to support whether it's an etsy shop or PayPal tip jar or whatever anyway Don't forget to like share and subscribe Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay creative Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. We'll see you next week. Bye guys