 hey guys good morning i think it's still morning um 11 o'clock yes technically still morning it is sunday march 22nd we are in the car headed to the kids house which we can do and maintain social distance because they live with us and there's not going to be nobody else there so yeah we're going to go help them with some more demo and bring them some lunch and all of that we do need to probably brave one or two markets on the way home this afternoon and try to fly and find flour and sugar because nobody has any my grocery delivery came this morning and i wasn't surprised to not see it in there so we might if we're brave enough and not too tired we might stop and try to find that i don't know what else to do well anyway okay we're going to go help the kids and we will bring you with us if we can and i think we're tearing a a wheelchair ramp out today the old the old owners were owner or at least one of them was um handicap um at least one of the people live there because there's wheelchair ramps all over the place so um we're going to take out the one in the front porch and um i think the boys are going to try to get out some old bush stumps we took the bushes out yesterday so and then we're going to power wash the front of the house yeah it needs it really bad so all right loss a lot of dirt yeah yeah it's a little neglected so all right it needs some tlc it does it's going to be a cute house when it's done though the neighbors are nice the neighbors are very nice so so far and they're happy to see the kids they're fixing up the house that was the impression we've gotten so far so anyway but we learned that that if we park in the street we have to be 15 feet away from the mailboxes otherwise the postal lady gets she wasn't too happy my mom and dad were there um again maintaining social distance because they don't live with us so we kept a few feet apart the whole time they were there because my parents are in their 80s so uh but dad insisted on driving down from where they live in washington state and changing the locks so the funny part about is that they parked their car their van in front of the house which was only about maybe five to ten feet from the mailbox yeah she was not happy about that she had to put it she had to put a car in reverse and go around it yeah and that she didn't look yeah she had to do extra work she wasn't too happy about that so all right that's it for now i know right that's it for now we'll be back okay guys so we got done at the kids house and went and ran a very minimal number of errands there were a few things we couldn't get by ordering groceries online so we chose a few sort of out of the way lesser known food shopping spots they were virtually empty so it was a good choice there was hardly anybody there we were able to get what we needed to and stay safe and found everything I needed shocking late up so we did that and then we came home and put everything away of course resanitize the entryway and the kitchen countertops wash our hands now we're out for a walk getting some fresh air trying to maintain our social distance which is quite challenging oh baseball diamond kind of children very cool yeah you can't go to the park so you bring bring a park to your house i love it so we're all making it work or at least most of us right and those that aren't y'all need to get on the ball because the longer you take to do your part the longer it takes to nip this thing in the bud more annoyed the rest of us are going to get at you so anyway i'm going to get some steps in and do what i can and then go home and put my knee up because my knee actually does hurt today but i got to organize the kids garage they assigned the two of us jobs when we got there and both of them said you're so good at organizing can you organize the tools in the garage i was so happy to do that for them that was cool so it's all done and it's looking good slowly but surely it's looking like home for them so we're happy about that it's a crappy time to in the world to be doing what they're doing but what are you gonna do right all right i'll be back never thought i'd start off a vlog this way holy cow so it is Monday morning this is still morning it's not morning it's 1246 i spent the morning uh working on this pattern yeah let me talk let me take this off um working on this pattern for this face mask it's not my video i'll link the original video in the description below i did have to fiddle with the um sizing of the pattern a bit to fit my face and um i've worked out how to get a nose wire in there so i just took 20 gauge wire that i had it's jewelry wire it's probably not waterproof so i made it so that it can come out so i made the wire so i wrapped uh the little ends in some tape um i have actually have hockey tape but whatever tape you have i wrapped the little ends in some tape so that before i wash the mask i can pull the wire out and set that aside and sanitize that a different way because it's just jewel 20 gauge jewelry wire and i don't think it's probably um waterproof i seriously doubt it um i had to make the pattern um when you download it she's got a link in the her video description and the video is not in english so you have to kind of just work it out but i made the pattern about an inch wider and about an inch taller um then recommended and then for the ear loops i only made them seven inches and because when they i did the recommended it was too big and i you wanted to fit tight um and the pocket on the inside fits my existing p.m uh 25 um charcoal filter mouse it's not perfect but anyway this is better than nothing so i'll probably be making a couple more of those but now that i've got the pattern worked out i can clean up my mess and take a break and have some lunch maybe all right i'll be back so in case you can't hear it in my voice my allergies are going haywire no it's not the virus it's allergies i'm very mucusy uh anyway i didn't think i was going to make so many masks today but i did make six of them um and once you know after you did the actually i made seven um the first one was sort of a trial failure slash it's too small for me so i resized the pattern and once i got the kinks worked out then making them was pretty easy my sister knew i was making them she's like can you send me and my husband fill her husband's philip can you send me a philip one so anyway i'm sending them some masks oh yeah yeah anyway i need to get the mail i still have to edit the vlog i haven't done that today the kids are over at their house doing some more demo it's like the one thing they can do right now while we're all doing the stay at home thing um yeah we're gonna eat dinner in a little bit and then i haven't turned the computer off yet because i'm thinking i might um go back upstairs after i eat some dinner and have some water or some tea and edit the vlog tonight so i don't have to do it tomorrow i did get a call from physical therapy for my knee i haven't been going because of the virus and because i have asthma and i'm you know susceptible um they're doing telehealth um for that so i will be getting some coaching on my exercises via telehealth tomorrow afternoon i don't know what that means but i guess we'll find out all right that's it for the moment okay so we decided to take advantage of the fact that most people are eating dinner right now so we have no problem maintaining social distance and it's still light out because we're headed into spring and summer yeah spas is going crazy aka lily so we're gonna go get a little walk in i don't know how far we'll get it's kind of chilly even though it's sunny it's kind of chilly out but my allergies are going haywire i've got a cough drop in my mouth it's allergies people it's not anything else anyway that's it for the moment we're gonna go get some steps and i'll get some pictures and you know the routine by now i'll be back hey guys it's tuesday morning it's just before lunch which i was sitting and eating after doing a few things upstairs and it just started pouring rain outside we just had the leaky window fixed so let's hope it holds um what a crazy morning what a crazy world anyway um as you all saw if you're watching this i made a bunch of masks yesterday that will hold my carbon filters that i already wear because of my asthma they're not perfect protection against the virus um but they're in my opinion for me with my health issues they're better than nothing the new masks do fit very tightly around the face and nose to provide a tight seal there's four layers of cotton and then the carbon filter right in front of the nose and mouth um it's not an n95 mask but it's what i'm gonna wear um and if nothing else it prevents me from touching my face which is a good thing because i don't really believe um that we don't need to wear masks i'm not i'm not so sure i believe that so that's a personal opinion you can debate it in the comments below if you want um anyway i did also film a kids art video um yeah i'm probably gonna have to make a video about the masks i'm getting a lot of questions about the mask i made masks i made and how i made them and uh so i'll think about it today i may not i probably won't film it today i'll film it tomorrow hey guys so we're out for our evening stroll got a big giant hair on the film uh anyway we're out for our evening stroll it looks like it's gonna rain let's see see that over my head anyway we'll see how far we yet and i got the mask video done edited it's up on youtube uh i got another kids art video done i didn't do one yesterday because i was too busy making masks anyway it's all done what else um i got my telehealth physical therapy session my first one done that was interesting i need to order a couple of things to do exercises at home when we get back i also probably gonna need a big giant cup of tea so yeah all right let's go get some walking in and i'll be back hey guys it's march 25th i think i think so let's see yeah it's the 25th of march it's 2 25 p.m it's wednesday i spent the morning chatting with some friends and clearing off my desk which was like piled i renewed two listings in the etsy shop i got stencil inventory in um from the person who uh the gal who manufactures them for me in north carolina and um i got a bunch of the mail that was sitting on my desk done uh and ready to go some of it's out already some of it my daughter's gonna drop off for me and i got an eyeball done in my eyeball journal and i'm waiting for the white house again i don't know that they're gonna say anything new but we'll see um my eyeball is drying i want to my goal is this week actually to finish the eyeball journal so i'm gonna try to do that and also i need to start filming for april but i think i'm gonna wait until like saturday and sunday to do that because there'll be nobody in the house but me so i think that's a good time maybe and that's pretty much it no selling today um i need to do something for the kids art series but i haven't done that yet either so we'll see it's just a weird wednesday right every day is weird right now right it's not just me all right i'll be back all right guys we're going out on our evening stroll one of the few things right now i feel okay with doing unmasked we'll see how long that lasts i don't know but we usually don't run into any if many people so and everybody's really keeping their distance so should be fine we'll see i'll be back hey guys it's thursday march 26 i think 121 p.m or so uh i've been working on some art projects this morning paperwork social media stuff laundry dishes you know the normal routine or as normal as it can be considering the world circumstances right sorry that was my neighbor she obviously i've been a tank top she's like aren't you cold it's about 50 degrees i think um while i'm not warm i'm not cold either so i don't i don't know what to say about that anyway obviously we're out for our walk it's a little chilly but that's good because there's not that many people out and that means we don't have to worry as much about social distance um the one good thing about the coronavirus is i've been getting re in touch re acquainted with some friends i haven't spoken to in a while for sure since i moved i just got done texting with one sandra uh and she's in california she's in san jose where they're having a big problem uh she's all good her family's all good she's going to be a grandmama congratulations sandra uh anyway that's a benefit getting in you have time to get in touch with people robo caller i am not answering that you know that is red cross or spam phone spam anyway yeah no thank you no or they want to know if i've taken it in for the um recall notice right now we're under coronavirus stayed home how am i going to take it in anyway we're out for a walk with crazy pants trying yeah trying unsuccessfully to keep her from eating all the grass around it's not really working anyway we're gonna go home and have some tea all right that's it for the moment i'll be back hey guys it's friday the 27th of march and i am outside it's only 46 degrees it's raining a little bit and i have no coat on i know i have been filming a little bit for april uh i just started that a few minutes ago i'll be working on that over the weekend and hopefully trying to get all of that done tomorrow hopefully i'm gonna have just a filming day tomorrow we'll see what happens in the meantime we are just staying stuck in doing our bit only going out when we need to and when we do go out making sure we're taking precautions to stay clean and sanitized not touch my face which is one of the many reasons i will probably start wearing a mask when we go out in public um and not that that's going to be too often but yeah and yeah all that stuff anyway i am working on clear coating all the rocks i painted yesterday they're turning out so cute i can't really do anything else on the art table until those are done because they're taking up all the table space but they'll get done today i can't wait and uh once the last coat is on there i can transfer them to a drying a cookie sheet for drying to the drying rack and then i can work on something else like and i i need to do another eyeball so what are you all up to today i hope you are staying busy and creative while you're stuck in and using the fact that you have to be home to your advantage and to do some things you've been putting off reading a book creative projects spending time with family whatever it is there's always something right all right that's it for the moment i'll be back hey guys i thought i'd take a break in filming for april here to vlog a little bit it's saturday i was gonna say saturday morning it's not saturday morning saturday afternoon 1 23 p.m march 28th um rebecca and poly asen bob are over at um the new house the kids bought a house finally if you don't know and um it's a fixer so they're in the midst of um getting it fit to live in there you go they're doing some reconstruction deconstruction deconstruction demolition um they need to put in a new bathroom before they can move in and polys's dad is in construction thankfully um so the kids and bob are going to demolish some things and then as soon as polys's parents came head up this way from california they're going to put things back together however we're in the midst of the pandemic right so it might be a while but uh in the meantime there's lots to demolish and the kids are going to do what they can and we'll see how far we get um they have they can stay here i mean this was completely none of this is planned right so anyway uh i have i decided to stay home between my asthma and my knee i am not good at demolition anymore so i am here and i've been filming for april while they're all out of the house and the dog is totally not happy with me because i'm not downstairs on the couch she's down there and she keeps coming up here to find me hold on there she is curled up on the sofa yep she wasn't too happy when i came upstairs but i still have stuff to do um the good news is i got let's see how many videos did i get filmed one two three four five six five no five i'm about to do number six um for april um so that's good i do have a list of things that i would like to do and or commitments so i really don't have a ton of commitments this year every month of course i have my creative year and then um i have art joy art joy sharing and every now and then i have more digital background swaps with bae agrob and her friends other than that there's a few other things that i've been doing um i've been doing a journaling with balance series and working on the four faces journal i don't know that i'm going to film those two today but i've filmed everything else i wanted to today i also want to film another paperclip video um i might do those during the week next week and i want to work some more in my gene haines book which is downstairs which i have to read yet so i'm going to film um what am i going to film junk and art uh yep you want to see what i did you need to watch the video anyway it'll come up sometime in in june i don't think we'll actually be creating things as much as talking through things that i've saved and why i've saved them and what i intend to do with them and yeah doing a little cleaning there's a hint um in the meantime i'm going to film that video then i'm going to go check the mail and i'm going to sit and try this vitamin water what is this ocky blueberry pomegranate um you know this is a time in history when things are just completely out of whack right between the pandemic and everything um you can't get the groceries are normally used to and so uh you know it's all about doing what we need to staying safe and trying new things it's an opportunity to try new things so instead of getting my regular water which i couldn't get or drink i got some vitamin water and yeah so you know all right that's it for the moment i'm gonna get things done and i will be back hey guys i have finished filming most of april um seven or eight videos or something there's a couple others i kind of want to film that i might do but i don't have to do them today um i don't even have to do them next week um i just need to get um the first couple videos edited and the vlog and i'll do that all um tomorrow or monday i am a little bit behind in the kids art drawing series um so i might film two or three drawings tomorrow yeah something like that i might do a little painting one if there's anything that you guys would like to see for kids art while your kids are home and don't have anything to do let me know we could do a little painting one we haven't done that yet we've just been doing drawing and stuff anyway let me know uh i'm gonna sit and watch some youtube and the kids are at the house still they have torn out the bathroom i will put a picture here of polyus standing in what is now the empty shower area um so things are progressing there and uh yeah lily is not happy because everybody's gone except me and yeah she's not happy so anyway i will finish my week here i don't know what we're doing for dinner i don't know i don't know i don't know what we're doing when they all get home if anything i have no idea but i'm gonna sit and i'm gonna work on a little bit of more artwork downstairs i would like to finish the eyeball journal um this weekend so i'm gonna be working on that and i've got two pages left um four eyeballs and so yeah that would be good and then next week we can start on the next little journal i think we're gonna do lips maybe maybe um yeah it's been an interesting week we're gonna have a lot of interesting weeks going forward um the new reality is just weird i'm not i know i'm not the only one that thinks so i'm not gonna even ask what are you doing to stay safe do what you need to and stay sane during this crazy time i'd love to hear let's start a conversation leave something in the comments below or go over to my facebook group a life of art and self-expression and start a conversation over there i am doing daily drawings and always and i do have a list of words to do art by our drawings by prompted words for kids and i will link that in the description below and i'd love to see what you are doing with any of them and what little projects are you may be doing around the house things that you're catching up on that you've like let go i've got a lot of those so i have plenty to keep me busy but what about you i'd love to know don't forget to like share and subscribe check out the video description for relevant links and places to support the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups and the most important thing stay safe stay healthy do your due diligence with social distance and go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it i'll see you later bye guys