 I think I already said good morning to you, but anyway, it's Sunday 13th, maybe I think I know it's Sunday, I'm pretty sure it's the 13th. Anyway, getting ready to actually go out and meet with the family just across the border about an hour away in Washington State. And celebrate my dad's 80th birthday. Everybody say happy birthday dad. We're going to go out to eat and have some family time. They want to do a family video conference call with my siblings who can't be here, which is going to be interesting because I think we're going to be in the middle of the restaurant. So yeah, anyway, and I get to teach them all how to zoom. If you don't know what zoom is, it's a video conferencing app. I'll link it in the description below. Yes. In meantime, the kids are coming with us. Lily will be here created while we're gone. She is an escape artist, so we are closing all the doors just in case she gets out. Yeah, usually she's okay here, but just in case. Usually she escapes and eats things she shouldn't at her parent's house. And by things she shouldn't, I mean, oops, shoes, Christmas ornaments, socks, you know, so we'll see what happens. All right, I'll be back. Sherry's in Kelso, Washington. We just got done. See that guy back there? That's my dad. He just got done celebrating his birthday and now we're headed home. So it's been a good morning so far. Good morning, everybody. It's Monday morning, January 14th. I only know because I looked. It's 10.06 a.m. again. The clock is like right there. My dad is coming to spend the night for dinner because we're taking him to the airport in the morning. I think I said that yesterday. He's going on a visit to go help with my stuff, car stuff my brother has going on. They're both auto mechanics and occasionally he needs my dad's input and expertise from years of repairing vehicles and building hot rods and that sort of thing. So we're going to take him to the airport in the morning. We're much closer to the airport than he is and he can leave his car here rather than leaving it in airport parking. So anyway, now that we're living in the Portland area, but he's coming tonight so I need to get something for dinner. So I'm going to go head out and see if I can find some ravioli, some decent ravioli. I'm kind of debating if I want to go to the thrift store. Do I want to just go to Safeway? Not my favorite store up here or do I want to drive to Fred Meyer? I have no idea. I'm clueless at the moment. So I'll decide and I'll let y'all know. I'll be back. Since I don't really want to go out today and rather be doing other things, I think I'm going to just go to Safeway. It's not my favorite store. The Safeway up here just doesn't have, I don't want to say good quality food, but I don't think it's everything. But for some reason, every single time we buy lunch meat there, every time it goes bad before the expiration date. So I don't know what's with that, like at all, but maybe it's the refrigeration section where the meat store, I don't know. But I have just found that we need to be careful what we buy there. So that being said, it's not my favorite store. But it is close and they do have a decent selection of pre-made raviolis and rather, I don't really want to make ravioli. If I was going to do homemade ravioli, I should have started like two days ago because it's a labor intensive thing to do. So anyway, I'm going to just go buy some. I could use a couple of other things too, so we'll see what they have. That's good quality. If it's going to be eaten right away, then that's fine. It's going to be in the fridge for a couple of days. I don't trust it, so it's weird. Anybody else ever have that? Because it's just new to us. All right, I'll be back. Tomato sauce. First batch of tomato sauce in the new house, anyway. Cooked for him and my husband took him to the airport really early this morning. And tomorrow is his birthday. Happy birthday dad. So anyway, it is currently 7.37 in the morning, but I've been up since 2 cups of coffee. I might need a third today. We're going to finally go get all these white roots taken care of later this afternoon. In the meantime, I'm going to go upstairs and do my daily postings and then take a shower and actually put actual clothes on because this is part of my pajamas. I should also say that this is a weird week. I had Mark Montano tag me in a Facebook post yesterday, which is weird. We don't know each other. When famous or semi-famous people do things like that or try to contact you, it's odd and off-putting. I always immediately think it's some kind of mistake or that there's something fishy about it. I've done too much work over the years with and for people and companies that they expect me to do for free. I am trying to make a business or a living at doing art and I watched a broadcast from another YouTuber recently. I'll link it in the description below. Anyway, about how companies and corporations just expect us now to do work for free for them. I'm going to do free stuff and share with you all and my Facebook groups. But if you want me to do some artwork for you or for your company, I am trying to make a living at this. The whole thing was just weird and it might be innocent and it might just be fine. It was odd. We'll see. I don't know. Anyway, I'm going to do my postings. I'm upstairs and I'll be back. I lost track a little bit of what I didn't say because I was editing the vlog and getting some morning work done and then straightening up to house a little bit, getting the morning dishes done and hoping against hope that I had time to leave the house a little early for my hair appointment because I really, really, really want to go to Dick Blick and spend my Christmas gift card. I don't really need anything, but I did sign up for a painting class with Pauline Agnew that starts in February. She has this abstract landscape and seascape series of classes that I've been wanting to take at least one of them for ages. Of course, during the time that she had the last one, we literally were moving. We didn't get to anything, much less have spare change to spend on a class. She's a great teacher, but her classes are a bit pricey. That being said, I would recommend her if you want to learn more about how to paint interesting paintings and improve your skills. Her classes are for people of all ages and skill levels. I would definitely recommend her. I'll put her link below to her website. Anyway, I don't think I really need anything for the class. I got a lot of art supplies. Let's be real, you've all seen my room. If you haven't, I'll put a picture here somewhere. But I'm going to review her class list just in case. And I may pick up a couple of things for the class. I don't really think I need anything. We'll see. And then, you know, there's always something I want. It doesn't mean I need it. We're going to go do that. And then I'm going to go get the hair done and finally get all my white crazy roots covered up and have my color done professionally so it looks decent. And no more DIY jobs. So Cassandra is going to help me out from the Mint Lounge in Beaverton. Pretty sure it's Beaverton. Anyway, she's not too far from Diggler. I will include her information also in the description below. Really great hair girl. And she does a great job. She did my trim the last time and she did a fabulous job, by the way. Hey guys, how are you today? It's very late in the evening already. It is Wednesday, January 16th. My dad's birthday. Everybody say happy birthday dad. His actual birthday. We did celebrate on Sunday as I already said. I have been all day working on projects, chatting. It's dark in here, well. Going through some pens and markers in my collection of things that I'm not using. That I'm going to pass along before they get so old they're not good to anybody. Anyway, short story is it's been really busy today. I haven't gotten any mail today, which is weird. And I'm getting a text message from my husband and evidently he's finishing up some stuff at work. Okay. Anyway, it's been a crazy day, busy, but one that I didn't have to leave the house. It's weird not getting any mail. It does happen occasionally, but it's weird. Tomorrow's an even crazier day because I have doctor appointments. And they're on different sides of town. And there are a few hours apart from each other. I'm kind of hoping I have time to run home and get a little bit of lunch. And if not, that I can at least run to the grocery store, grab a couple things that we need and something for dinner on Friday. Come home, drop it off quick, grab a bottle of water and go out again. Or something like that. We'll see how it goes and how it plays out because it'll bring you all with me. But I have no idea. So that's going to be fun. And I don't know how much art I'm going to get in. Maybe some doctor's waiting room drawing. That's something that may very well happen. We'll see while I'm waiting. All right. That's it for the moment. I'm going to go back downstairs after I turn off my computer right there and do some laundry. Anyway, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Hey, guys. It's Thursday, January 17. I know the day. That's only that's only because it's already after lunch and I've already been out once to a doctor's appointment this morning. And I have to go to another one later this afternoon. Nothing, no big deal. Just checkups, you know, and I'm getting new doctors and, you know, the whole routine. So anyway, the only sucky part is their new doctors. So they want to do their own, you know, battery of baseline tests. Yeah, that's not fun. Anyway, I was saying before in I think my blog and social media posts that I really needed something to store all my different small rulers. And a while back I got a shipment of paint stuff from DecoArt. I'm a DecoArt helping artist, by the way. I'm loving their pouring medium. That's not what this is about, but I'm loving their pouring medium. So I'll link it below and it's very affordable. Works really well. Anyway, when they sent me the shipment, they, and no, I'm not saying that because they send me pouring medium. I'm saying it because I really like the pouring medium. Anyway, when they sent me the pouring medium and some other stuff, this box was in there and it was flat. It had never been used. It was brand new. So I set it aside thinking I would use it for packing materials. And I realized it might be the right box to fit in a space where I want to put the rulers and that the rulers might fit in it. And they do. I did have to masking tape into shape and I put the flaps up because it was only about this tall. So it's a little taller and a little more stable with the rulers in it. I glued the interior flaps down and taped them. I'm not even sure you can see that. And then I put E6000 in there and I taped it and then I put a bunch of weights in there and let it dry overnight. Now I'm going to cover it with contact paper and make it look pretty. I got some contact paper at Walmart today and it's by Pioneer Woman and the print looks like this. Isn't that cute? A pretty office supply label or go into your spare metal bits or make a pretty tag and put it here on the end. And then you could just make a whole series of these on your art room shelf that are storage. And you could probably just use, you know, boxes from your Amazon orders or of course you can buy boxes that are all the same size. If you're like me, you don't go and get a lot of art supplies at the store. You get a lot of them shipped to you. So you probably have boxes you can use or you have an office supplier someplace close by you can get some. And I have a video that I did before for my creative year where I used, I have a currig coffee machine and I buy a certain kind of coffee that comes in a box about this size and I've used it before for storage. So anyway, how cute is that? So ruler storage. It's a good thing. Okay, so I have these little kid sized, not little kid sized, they're little child sized, well child's watercolor set. They're like teeny tiny. It's eight mini disc set. It's made in China. You can find these in a lot of different places. I actually got these online. I don't remember where and I got them a really long time ago. I recently saw one that's of similar size but oval shaped when I was at Dick Blick. And they had it on one of their like spinner racks, impulse buy racks up in the front of the store. So the next time you're at maybe Daiso or the art supply store, look and see if they have these. I really like this because it's great to pop into my travel drawing kit or I can put it downstairs in my daily sketch kit. It doesn't take up a lot of room and when I want to add just a little bit of watercolor to something, I have just enough to do that. You aren't going to fit a ton of watercolors in here. Here's one where I took the original paint out and I put some tube colors in and let it dry, which we're going to do to the other one. I remembered last night that I had two of these. I was watching a new channel, new to me channel, Meow Meow Kapow I think is the name. I'll put the link below. And she does a lot of different kind of travel kits. She likes making palettes, she said. And she did one of these like 11 months ago or something. I did this a long time ago and I saw that somebody else did it. So it wasn't her idea or mine, it was somebody else's. And right now I don't remember who, but there's a lot of different videos about doing stuff like this on YouTube anyway. It has a little mixing area in the lid, just enough if you want to mix. But I tried to have a palette that I wouldn't require too much mixing. That being said, it has two yellows, two blues and two reds. And then I have a green in here because that's one color I really detest mixing. And then I have Payne's gray instead of black or brown. And there's enough colors in here. I can make a nice purple or a nice brown. So anyway, I decided I really want to keep moving this particular one like around into different bags. So that you know, that's silly. You have another one. Let's just do it to the other one. So we're going to set that one aside. And the first thing you want to do is take the brush out because you don't need the brush. It's a cute little kids brush, but yeah, I'm never going to use it. I'm going to grab my jar of weird water. So when I have a fountain pen cartridge is almost empty. A big ballpoint pen that's empty or just about empty. I take the ink cartridge thing and put it in here. I take the big ballpoint pen apart, cut the nibs off, stick them in here so that all that stuff dissolves in the water. And at some point I get something that's dark blue or black, inky water. And then I will use that for other things. Anyway, I've done it before, I've done it many times. So we're going to take these little kid water color cakes. Pull some of the glue off, try to get some of it off anyway. It's like rubber cement and we're going to drop them in. They'll dissolve in here. This is by the way a makeup tool. It's good for things like this. Especially when you have one like this one that doesn't want to come out. So when you get your pant palette, your little kid's travel palette, or mini palette, pull the old paints out. Usually they're, you know, they're kid's paints, so they're usually like a bit chalky, but I mean they're not horrible. This one isn't, it's not, you know, quality I want to really work with, but they're not bad. If you want to do something like this with your water, then you probably don't want to mix colors in the same jar. I don't care. So every now and then I make a bunch of homemade inks out of plant material, things like this. And then I will bottle them. Last time I gave them away, which I kind of regret doing, but that's a long story. I think next time I will be selling them or passing them on to the design team. So now I'm going to put the lid on really tightly. And so you've got red, green, blue in there, along with the black and the white. So look what's happening to what was blue, blue water. So they're going to continue to dissolve in the water. And I'll keep adding things to it. And at some point it's just going to get thick and inky, which is perfect. Baby white. And I'm going to clean out the watercolor palette as best that I can and then pick some colors to put in here. I'm going to go by the colors in the old one, which I don't remember the brand. I usually mark the brand on there, but I didn't in this case. I don't know if they were, I have a random sort of random box of watercolor paint. They were probably either Koi or out of the random box. So I'm going to get this really clean and I'll be right back. Okay, I got it as clean as it's going to get, which is fine. It'll work. And just looking to see if that was glue on there. No, I think it's just water. And I cut a little piece of watercolor paper to fit in the lid. I used the other one as a template. So now I'm going to just pick colors that I think will work. I think I'm going to pick from my Van Gogh colors, at least to start. I need my reading glasses because I cannot see what I'm doing. So I'm going to find all the colors. I'm going to, again, I'm going to use the other set as a guide for what colors to pick. I found what I'm pretty sure are the colors. And I was right. So I used mostly Van Gogh colors and then one Grumbacher. So in this mini set, I put Van Gogh, Azo Yellow Light, Azo Yellow Deep, Permanent Yellow Green, Grumbacher Turquoise, Van Gogh, Ultramarine Deep, Permanent Red Violet, Permanent Red Deep. Yep. And Payne's Gray. So I'm going to fill up this new palette and make my swatches. I'll be right back. Okay. So now we're going to just let it dry. I did add a little bit of the turquoise to this one. That tube is almost empty. If I could fit the rest of what's in here and that I would just empty this out. I don't think I can. But anyway, you don't need much in these because it's really not intended to be a full, gigantic watercolor kit. It's only intended to add a little color to a simple sketch in a small journal. And when they dry down, they will not look so full when they dry down. They'll dry down to about two thirds of what they are now. So anyway, there you go. I hope that gives you some ideas of what you can do. I am going to, what time is it? Go get ready to leave for my next doctor's appointment and I will talk to you all later. I'll be back. Okay. Doctor appointments are all done. Yay. At least for now. Unless God forbid they should find something wrong. I'm not aware of. So I don't know. We'll see. So fun fact. I was born with mitral valve prolapse. If you don't know what that is, Google it. My dad, and I'm red here because of the ultrasound. My dad has it. His aunt had it. My great aunt. One of his siblings has it. One of my siblings has it. A whole bunch of cousins have it. All on the same side of the family. But it's not hereditary. So I don't know what that's all about. Okay. So I have to have it checked every few years or well once a year now that I'm getting older. And so last year I had a stress test, which I need to do every few years. And then once a year I need to go in for echocardiogram. So that's what I did today. And then I also went to consult with a new gastroenterologist. The doctors that do a colonoscopies. Because I may or may not be doing for one of those. They're reviewing my records and we'll find out across your fingers. I don't have to have one. They're not, I've had two. They're not fun. If you've had one before you know what I'm talking about. It's not the test itself. It's the prep. The prep is not fun. Anyway, I'm all done with all of that for today. As you saw, if you're watching this clip, I got a little bit ardent. Yay for me. I'm going to go into Fred Meyer right now. And I'm going to go try to find something for dinner. The husband's not in a good mood. I guess he hasn't had a great week at work. So I'm going to talk to him for a little bit and see what he would like. And try to get something easy. I don't want to buy too many groceries. We can stock up on stuff that we need over the weekend. But I just want to get something for dinner basically. So I'll be back. Good morning everybody. Good morning everybody. Technically I can say that because it's not noon yet. It's 1122 a.m. Friday, January 18th, I think. I think. I spent the morning straightening up the house and I did three more acrylic pours. If you're watching this clip, you've probably seen the clip of the pours. Not me doing them, but the results of them. And I really like the way they turned out. Anyway, I was trying to just keep myself busy. I had doctor appointments yesterday, which I think I said mentioned already. And I got some of my old test results for things emailed to me because it's a little faster for them to do that for some reason with some doctors. And then I sent them on to the new doctor. The problem with that is then I see them and then I don't know what understand what they say. And then I get freaked out and my anxiety goes off the chart. And I think I got it straightened out now with the help of the nurse over at Dr. Sax's office. Thank you very much. I think I'm okay now. Anyway, the cleaning lady is coming today. So, of course, I straightened up before she came because, you know, it's what you do, right? Because honestly, because I don't want her to clean up the clutter. I want her to do the other cleaning. So there is a reason behind that. So anyway, I was cleaning up the clutter and I ran out to go get some pizza for dinner tonight from Papa Murphy's. She's not coming yet until about noon. So I had time. I messaged her. I said, when are you coming? She said not for like an hour. I said, oh good. I got to go run in here and I'll meet you at the house. And what else? I'm working on my eyeball journal. I'll insert some pictures here and I've got to do another eyeball today. I'm having friends and family send pictures of their eyeballs in. It's so funny. And I'm not really asking or confirming what colors I think their eyes are. I'm going by what I see in the picture, which is interesting. And I'm doing one sort of more traditional sketchy watercolor. And then I'm doing one more doodly and crazy. I'll debut years. And if you don't know who she is, I'll link her Facebook group or something down below. I don't know that she has a YouTube channel. I don't think she does. But she did create a book of her art, which is fabulous. And I do have my copy on order. And she does have a Facebook page. And an Instagram too, I think. So I'll link what I can below. And I'm going on today. I've got to finish laundry. Exciting, I know, right? And then once these acrylic pores are dry or dry enough to move to the drying rack, I need to clean off my table desperately because it is just acrylic pouring is fun, but very messy, even when you have stuff under your artwork. That's all I can say about that. Today's a quiet day. So will the next couple of days, I think, which is good. I'm all right with that. I'm not super excited about things I've seen that are coming out for 2019. All the CHA online video shares have started. There are a few things I've purchased for myself and by few, I mean, few, like three. Some things from Seth Aptor and then a couple of Tim Holtz dies and one Tim Holtz stamp. That's all I've seen so far. I don't understand why we need more ink or so anyway, I haven't seen a lot. I'm still looking. I wish it was there, to be honest. My friend Shannon Green is there. I'll link her store below. She is and her husband have created a new company and a new product that they've got the copyright on, I believe, and I wish them all the best. I wish it was there to not only attend the show and take all the inspiration in, but I wish I was there to help them. It didn't work out this year, but I really wish I was there to help them. I hope I can get into my house. We're having construction on the street, outside my house. It is not fun getting in and out, but the guys are doing their best and they're being accommodating and they're getting it done as fast as they can. Welcome to Oregon. Anyway, I've lost a couple pounds on the Lose It app and I'm working on doing that, continuing to do that and getting healthier. I'm in an environment that promotes that, that I love in Oregon, and I am in a place that I'm very happy, and although my anxiety is not always under control, it never has been. I feel less the need to eat my way through my anxiety than I did before, so that's a good thing. And I think my husband is loving our new place too. I hope he is because he can't go back now. I'm trying to get in the garage and leave him room to get in. It's a challenge. It's Saturday morning, February, I think February, holy cow, January 19th, I think. It's not February yet. Walking some mail to the mailbox that is for the old owner. So anyway, we are headed into Portland today. My little travel art bag is ready to be picked up from being repaired, and we need to get groceries and run some errands. My husband is going out of town for an overnight on Monday, so by the time you all see this, he'll be back, so I'm not worried about putting that out there anyway. He's going back to California for work. So anyway, we need to go get some stuff for him to do that, and yeah, I'm going to go get some stuff done. I'm going to let him drive because I don't want to go into downtown by myself, because yeah, the driving makes me crazy. And it is a beautiful, damp, chilly, crisp morning. I love that. My asthma loves that. And I've got some art things cooking and drying, and I've got some more doodles to do. I want to do some more eyeballs. Somebody posted in one of my groups they did an eyeball on a rock. I love that. I'm trying to get her to share it. It's a great idea. I might have to get a rock out of the garden and wash it off, and I might need to do an eyeball on a rock. It's just going to be a thing. Yeah, I should say. There was something else I was going to say. I don't remember what it is. It's gone. Hopefully I'll remember later. So for those of you who may not know, when you have a YouTube channel and you get to be a certain level, there are companies called multi-channel networks that will ask if they can help you basically be a talent agent and help you with your channel, help you grow your channel, help you maintain things. Anyway, I've had a multi-channel network for a little bit now. To be honest, they haven't done much for me, and I'm done. So February 3rd, I'm taking back control of my YouTube channel and keeping what little bit of a few cents I make here on YouTube to myself and not giving them any percentage. So there'll be maybe some changes. The most drastic thing I'm thinking, unlisting all my videos on the YouTube channel, I know there's over a thousand and only bringing back the ones you request. That's extreme thing. I doubt I'm going to do, but it was a thought. I want to take some pictures before I go back inside. It was a thought. Improving the content. If there's anything in particular that you'd all like to see, tutorials you'd like to see, things you don't care for seeing anymore, I want you to let me know. I want you to leave something in the comments below. I'm going to post something over in the Facebook group of Art and Self-Expression also. So I would like you to let me know what changes you'd like to see to the YouTube channel and how we can improve viewership on the channel and all of that stuff. Let me know. Give me your opinion. I am anxious to hear. But you know what? After this morning, it's an ultra-nasty comment that I had this morning. I'm not against negative comments, but have them be comments that provide good criticism and growth and not negative nasty comments. Because that doesn't help me. It's just unproductive. So I'm not against comments where you say, well, I don't really care for this, but maybe you could do that. I'm okay with that. Let me know. Just don't be nasty. There's no reason for that. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. All right. That's it for the moment. I'll be back. I also want to say that I'm not leaving the multi-channel network because I'm angry with them or anything. It's just not productive for me or them. And it's time to step away and try something else. I was tempted to, if they weren't going to release me, do something drastic, which is start a whole new YouTube channel. I think they're going to let me go, and we should know. It's supposed to happen on February 3rd, on or before February 3rd. If I was going to start a second channel and this one remained art and vlogging, what would you want to have on the next second channel? Like all these are questions I want to know. So let me know in the comments below or over in the Facebook group again. A life of art and self expression, the link is below. The husband came upstairs to help me put my new chair together. He sort of took over the project, but that's okay. I'm going to let him. Hey guys. So I wanted to share with you. I got my little suitcase back from the repair shop. The leather has been reconditioned. Some of the hardware has been fixed or replaced. A bunch of new stitching has been done. He did a great job. I am going to need to update my little luggage tag because it has my old address on it. But I'll probably be reusing the same tag and just popping open some stitches and inserting a new business card, which I have to order. So I haven't done that yet. The secure strap fits really well. I should say secure strap slash decorative strap. Fits really well. This is just a piece of painted canvas, by the way, sewn with loops on either end. And these are just plastic clips you can get at the fabric store. It's measured to just sit around here fairly snugly. And it's sort of an emergency thing in case I have it too full. A disaster happens and this pops open. I don't lose everything. One thing he had to do was replace the handle. He did a very, very good job. His name is Bruce. He works for Portland luggage company. I will put his details in the description below, but he did a great, great job. And it looks really good. Of course, it's still got marks and it's got some wear. It's a vintage bag, so it's showing its age. I'm okay with that. That's one of the things I love about it. Opened so much easier. And for the purposes of this video, I have actually filled it with what I usually have in there when I'm traveling. It had all this is all the original lining. It's still in here. And it's dirty and well worn and used. And I shouldn't say dirty, stained. I love it. So generally speaking when I'm home, this is not in here. This is my Chic Sparrow Traveler's Notebook. And I keep it in this pocket to not only protect the leather, but to be honest over the month, which I need to work on January, but I can just stuff things in here. They don't get lost. I know I want them in there, you know, whether they're parking receipts or movie tickets, or I have a letter from my aunt that she sent me that I love, a card from a friend. And I just stuff them all in here. And then sometime towards the end of the month, two or three times a month, I'll go through it and I'll fill up the notebook. Whether I'm home or I'm traveling, it's usually in this pocket that I made to go with it. And then when I'm traveling, everything else that's in here is what I usually take. I always have a small thing of baby wipes. I always have some sort of small jar of a gel medium, usually extra heavy gel because I can actually attach really heavy objects to my journal like smashed pennies with this. I've done that and they stick really well. This is one of the golden, small sized sample jars. And when it gets to be sort of empty, then I just refill it from a bigger jar here at the house. Of course, it's always in a ziplock bag for when I'm traveling in case it explodes, which it never has. I have my Faber-Castell folding water cup for watercolor. I do have a spare palette in here, which is fairly a new thing. I should take it out of the closet. Sometimes when I'm traveling, I need extra mixing space other than what's in my small watercolor palette, whichever one I've chosen to bring with me. So I got this to do that with. I sometimes use the hotel room plates and things, don't tell them. Yeah, so I thought I'd better have that. I have a couple of these Art Toolkit small watercolor kits. I do love them. You can get one at art-toolkit.com. I will, again, put a link in the description below. It comes with its own version of a small, like watercolor palette you can fill that's made from a credit card holder. I opt not to do those. I prefer to have these small-size watercolor palette boxes. I buy them empty, and then I'm filling with the paints that I like. This one happens to be my graphite. Yeah, graphite. And depending on where I'm going and what I'm doing and what I'm inspired to paint or think I might be inspired to paint, I grab a different one. I do have one that I usually take with me. It's downstairs right now that's filled with Koi and Daniel Smith watercolors. It's got a good basic selection of colors. But I also have one that's sort of muted desert colors. I have one that's bright. I have one that's metallic. So it just really depends on what mood I'm in and where I'm going. Most of the time I just take the basic one that happens to be downstairs. But it fits in here in this pocket. Now when you buy this little container it also comes with a small journal which I also don't keep in here. I use this just for my tools. So I usually have a Pilot Varsity Pen which is water-soluble. A Sharpie Pen which is not water-soluble. It's waterproof. A Uniball Signo. I usually carry a few regular paint brushes and a couple of Koi traveling water brushes the ones with the stopper in them so they come apart in two pieces for traveling. I've never had one leak before for me. I always have a small mini mister. A few small short mini pencils, colored pencils, a graphite pencil. This comes with it for filling up the water brushes. But I generally don't use it. I may actually take this one out of here. I did take it out in the other one too. I do have these brushes that are Raphael Precision. These are small mini watercolor brushes but I don't really use them a lot. I either use the Koi which I have to order a few more of. I have these are Midas Touch traveling watercolor brushes. You get them in a set. It comes with a round. I don't know what size I can't read it. I don't know. It comes with a flat and it comes with a filbert. You can tell I've used these quite a bit. These are really nice. I usually have these in here. I do have them in this small zippered pocket so that in case whatever I'm bringing in the watercolor, if this gets really full, I can take these out and they're safe and protected. But usually I just have these in here this way. And then I just kind of squeeze it, zip it, and you know, you get the idea. Sometimes I get it too full and I've got to take other stuff out. But I don't need this in here. If nothing else, this holds all your tools really well. So even if you're watercolor palette you want to bring with you is bigger than the case. Then this holds all the tools really well. Then I have my travel. This is my travel journal. It lives in the suitcase. The other one is just for documenting life. This is for documenting my trips. I actually put all my luggage tags in the cover. I do paintings whenever I'm gone on a trip. Did I do one for South Carolina? I did. This is the art retreat I just went on in South Carolina. So this always lives at the bottom of the case. Then I have this is a bag from Muji and it's actually a toiletries bag. But in it lives the rest of my basic supplies. So a travel pair of scissors. A selection of pens including a uniball signal. I probably have way too many brushes in here because I'm just noticing there's even more brushes in here. I have some R2 pens. There's a scarlet line pen. Honestly, I haven't really been in here since this South Carolina trip. So it's probably too much stuff in there. And then on the other side is where I have the glues, tape runner. Spare her reading glasses because I am that old and that's a thing. A mini stamp pad. A mini stapler. Some staples. A date stamp which I'm constantly forgetting to use. A couple of binder clips. Some Neocolour II crayons. A few pocket stencils and that sort of thing. You would have to really gear it towards what's going to work for you and what kind of art you want to do. But I like that for me all of my regular tools are in here. All of my watercolor tools are in here and anything else that would maybe cross over between the two. Put the reading glasses back. It is loose in between. Put it here. The gel medium fits inside the folding cup and that fits here. What's here. And this when it's in here fits right here and the whole thing closes up really nicely. Now generally speaking when I'm on the airplane I don't open this. But that being said, it doesn't leave my site. It stays with me. It fits under the seat in front of me. It fits very nicely. And I can fit my backpack or handbag next to it also under the seat in front of me without getting yelled at because my stuff is not far enough under the seat. I don't like it being out of my sight. But when I am on the plane I have to have something to do. So in my backpack I usually have of course my electronics and my iPad. But I usually have this bag which is my daily drawing bag and it's the bag where I keep my journal where I write my daily pages. Which are also downstairs because I do them every day. But this is the kit where I take this and I put the journals I'm currently working in in here and I don't need to grab anything else because this pencil case has everything else in it. So this bag is a Delfonics bag. Again I'll link it in the description below. I don't really use the outside pockets often because things fall out especially for what I use this for those in my backpack and traveling with me. But I do keep a clipboard back here in case I'm somewhere where I don't have a hard surface to draw on. I do have a piece of an old t-shirt and a chamois tucked in one of the interior pockets. And other than my journals everything else is in here. And in here I have a mini I told you I like watercolor, right? Mini watercolor palette made out of a kids watercolor palette that's my husband fixing things downstairs. I have a pencil sharpener and I've got a selection of pens that I like. So I've got a Feud ball I've got a ballpoint pen it's a uniball signal a couple of water brushes in different sizes a mini mister my favorite Bible gel high gliders some Muji gel some Muji markers uniball signal white in a couple of sizes and that's really it I really don't need anything else that works for me and if I'm bringing this with the other kit when I land wherever I land I can combine the tools out of both of these to create some interesting art. So I just wanted to give you guys a brief show of what I bring with me in my travel kit and brag to you about how a good job Bruce did again I will link his information in the description below he did a great job taking care of my little case he said he may be able to make me another one I don't know how much it's going to cost it's probably expensive because this thing is made out of leather but I'm going to ask him. So I put my new chair together it's in this front window so I can sit up here in the mornings and have my coffee it does work at the work table slowly over there so we'll be able to pull my desk chair over and if I have company we can pull the chair from the window over and also my husband's desk chair which is out there in the corner there we go so we did that today too I love the idea of just sitting here in the window with my cup of coffee in the morning and I think that's a week I think so anyway it's been an interesting week full of highs and lows, stress and anxiety and happiness but you know, normal week right? alright that's it for the moment and by the way the humming and tools you hear in the background are my husband continuing work on the pantry closet because you know, he's trying he's doing a great job so that's it for right now I'm going to go if you ever have any questions, comments or concerns about any of my videos don't forget to leave something in the comments below you can always message me on one of the many places I am on social media there is a link in the description below called linktree and then slash my name if you click on it, it's every single place you can find me on the internet and places you can support the free content on this channel including my Etsy shop a tip jar, patreon and so many mores so many more so click on it and check it out I also try to leave a link to my Facebook group where you can share your art and artistic endeavors and get some support and feedback positive of course and also I try to make sure that the link for our teaching group my creative year is in there too although as I'm filming this I'm not sure it is in there but I think it is if it's not somebody let me know so don't forget to do that too I'm going to go put my stuff away go back downstairs and draw some more eyeballs I hope you are all having a great week I hope you are having a great day do some art make someone smile do something fun and enjoy life that's all for right now don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys