 out here I have to go do some art tutoring. He's gonna tell me how to get there so I don't get lost because that's what happens. I get lost a lot. Good morning everybody! It is Thursday November 9th. I'm headed over to my student Laura's house for some tutoring this morning and I am bringing her a bunch of stuff I just purged that I think she could use that don't work for me anymore and we are going to after I'm going to afterwards run a couple errands because I'm almost out of tacky glue and I need a couple other things so that's the start of my morning. I've already edited last week's vlog and it is loading as we speak. I did all my daily postings and everything else so all of that is all done. So that's it for right now. I have to run those errands. I've got a project sitting on my table that I want to figure out exactly what I'm gonna do with and then I'm gonna film it. I'm actually gonna film a share. I'm not gonna film a step-by-step but I am gonna film a share and talk you through what I did and why I did it. So that I'm gonna probably try to get done today because here's a hint. I want to use it. I'm going to be filming the video on how to make my little notebooks that I sell in my Etsy shop. Excuse me but honestly I need to wait for my printer to need a new ink cartridge first. It doesn't quite have enough color ink in it to shoot the video because the colors on the cover will come out all funky and yet I just don't have the heart to pull the cartridge out and throw it away like I just can't do that. So I have to figure that one out. Anyway and I have to start filming 2018 next week so gotta work on that too. All right that's it. I'm gonna make my way to Laura's and I'll be back. Hey everybody so I'm all done with Laura and I keep looking at the clock in the car to see what time it is and we had our daylight savings time this last weekend and I guess the car is the one clock we forgot to change so it actually says it's an hour later than it actually is which is driving me crazy. So when I stop I'm gonna have to figure out how to change that. Anyway I'm on my way to the craft store because I need to get some more tacky glue. My bottle is almost empty and I use that all the time and then I need to stop at Goodwill and see if I can find a cheap sweater or two. That's all Cindy and Cindy Utter and Ann Williams' fault. It's your guys fault. Anyway so because I have a project to work on yes I will be filming it but it'll be from my year 2017 and it won't be I mean my year 2017. Holy cow my creative year 2018 and it won't be aired until later next year so sorry. That's it for right now I think. It's cloudy and raining which is good because we need the rain in California but it means that the roads are a little bit slippery so I'm gonna take it slow and easy because I am not in a rush so I'll be back. Hey guys it's Friday November 10th it is late in the afternoon it's almost three o'clock we are puppy sitting again she's outside I had to re-film just really quick here a little bit for my creative year next year because I filmed my clip and then I guess I accidentally deleted said clip so yeah so I'm editing video today and we're gonna be going out to dinner with friends later and I got on the treadmill but I wrenched my arm doing getting the treadmill ready to get on it so I spent the morning with cream and heat on my arm I'm seeing the doctor tomorrow so I'm kind of hoping it's just a physical therapy thing but yeah I'm not gonna hold my breath we'll see though all right okay so the lighting is not super great cuz it's late in the day and you know the dog is black she's like wow grandpa's home who do I play with grandpa or my toys grandpa my toys or grandpa's toys at least she's not running around like a crazy dog like she was the other day grandpa's toes are not chew toys there we go again my camera skills need work to keep up with the dog good morning everybody it is Saturday September 11th which is veterans day veterans day in the UK they give out the red poppies and remembrance for the war veterans of you know living injured dead that didn't make it home so anyway it's a good holiday to remember all of our veterans worldwide and we are headed out to go run some errands and yes I'm finally going to the doctor about my shoulder so we're gonna do that first oh joy and there's a house on our street for sale so we might go peek in there all right that's it for right now though I'll be back all right so good news according to my doctor I just have a little tendonitis so no surgery yay we're gonna go walking down the street now and go look at the open house down the street that's for sale that's just like ours my husband hasn't seen it yet so we're gonna go look go for a little walk and I'll be back so if you guys didn't just hear that the kids are here for our dinner this weekend with the little troublemaker and as you can see she's decided to eat a piece of one of our dead plants I'm not exactly sure what she's eating but yeah I don't know we've tried to take it away from her and she keeps going back and getting it so I'm not sure Paulia said I don't know if she should be eating on that what if it's a piece of rose bush or something with thorns on it hey guys it is Monday November 13th pretty sure only because I checked earlier for a friend when they asked and at that time I was at my desk in the house so I looked at the calendar driving obviously I am headed home from picking up the mail also had to go to the physical therapy place and make appointments for my right shoulder which has been bothering me for those that don't know I have tendonitis calcium deposits so I will be attending physical therapy starting the first week into summer which is actually good because that means that I should be almost completely off of the anti-inflammatories by then which make me dizzy so I would like to not be taking them when I start physical therapy conch myself in the head with weights because I get dizzy would be bad anyway I spent the morning chit chatting with friends and catching up on some business stuff some art avoiding working on the bookkeeping but I do have to do it so I'm going to be either doing it later today or tomorrow I did get one short video filmed which took like six takes so that was fun not and I'm gonna go just sit and chill for a little bit right now I am taking these anti-inflammatories so I am feeling the effects of them combined with my other medications so I am going to go sit and I'm going to just relax I had to get some of these little tiny disposable glad containers I love glad containers but I needed some of the little ones they're not only good for like salad dressing and things like that but I have a tube of essential oil cream that I use on my shoulder when it's bothering me the tube is almost empty but it you know there's more in there and we just can't get it out so I'm gonna cut the tube open and I'm gonna stick the cream in one of these that where we're not wasting any because it's expensive right I think that's it for right now I'll probably think of more in a little bit but I'll be back hey guys it is Tuesday September September holy cow November 14th and saga of the crusty brush no idea if this is gonna come clean or not but we're gonna give it a shot I've been on line chatting with art friends most of the morning so I almost forgot to do this but I've left it sitting here and can you see all of that that's coming off that's all some of that of course is Murphy's oil soap but some of that's paint and yes it's probably despite the fact that I've had it sitting in Murphy's probably damaging the bristles at least a little bit but I'm being gentle as I can and I'm just holding it so you look at all that so I am usually when this happens and yes I have done this I've done this once before with a brush then it's not a fine art brush it's forever than my glue brush my my texture brush that sort of thing that's still pretty stiff a lot of the paint is coming off I'm gonna just make it so the bristles will splay a bit and the last time this happened I had to scrape it so good scrape it so good so we may have to do that again so we did lose a few bristles and it'll be a glue brush probably forever now as long as the bristles don't continue to fall out but it's not crusty anymore so I don't recommend that you do this on purpose but you may be able to rescue something a brush you've done this to at least in enough to use it as a glue brush with by doing this so can get in Murphy's oil so pure Murphy's not diluted for like days three four days and then scrape the paint off with a palette knife be as gentle with you can't as you can I was probably a bit heavy-handed but that's fine this is actually a little secret this is a brush I fixed a couple times with different issues one time I had the whole handle come off so this is not the first time around for this brush pretty bad with my paint brushes so anyway last time I fixed it the whole handle came out and I had to glue it back in so anyway it's rescued for now until I mess it up again all right and I am I am losing some bristles but hopefully after it dries that will stop happening so anyway that's it for the moment I'll be guys it is a little bit later it's a week later in the day than I intended it's 314 as I said earlier I spent a good portion of the morning working on bookkeeping and getting the website updated and email newsletters ready to send out in the morning and chit chatting with friends while I was doing that finishing a couple journal pages and you know the day just ran away for me I will say so we're stopping at the grocery store before we leave to go home and cuz you know we cuz you're with me right and yeah this is not a no grocery store I normally shop out I usually go to another one that's a little farther away that I think it's a little nicer but we're gonna go here cuz it's close and I'm gonna tell myself I'm going in there for green tea which I very well may buy cold already made you know green or black tea but how much you want to bet I walk out with chocolate I've spent way too much time lately talking to Vicki Brown Vicki it's all your fault you and your dang M&Ms and Reese's peanut butter cups so yeah let's go get some chocolate all right I'll be back little pinwheel sandwiches for lunch tomorrow because yes I am lazy and I do not want to stop arting fun stuff even for as long as it takes to make a sandwich we are gonna go back to the house I'm gonna sit and have a snack going to just chill for a bit and let the journal that I just finished it's a small delusions journal dry I started it I think at the end of 2015 so it's been a long time and it's about time I got finished and it is fat and it is juicy and it's just delicious I will show you a sneak peek here after I get the journal flip filmed for YouTube and all right I'll be back with that sneak peek okay had another chat online with friends I filmed a journal flip of this journal and I did indeed finish it woohoo I'm not gonna show you all the pages but I do in the journal flip this journal is a lot of fun it doesn't close all the way but how fun and juicy and delicious is that it's gonna look so cool on the bookshelf alright that's it for today tomorrow is Wednesday the last day of the week I've got stuff to do places to go and people to talk to so I'll be back as you just saw I was on the treadmill chatting with Miss Cindy utter this morning and I've already done my daily writing and posting across all the groups of different ones I'm supposed to do and got ready for some art that I need to do later today art filming I need to do some advanced filming and I haven't showered yet I'm still sweaty from being on the treadmill but you know I I dried off with a washcloth put my sweatshirt on and we're gonna go to the store I know that's gross and probably TMI but you know I have a meeting at 11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time with part of the new design team so I really want to be able to do my few errands this morning pardon me I'm having trouble evidently today getting out of the driveway but I wanted to be able to run my few errands this morning before the meeting so it is 9 20 I've already done all that stuff I said we're headed out to go to the grocery store and I'm gonna run to Michaels to try to find something for Miss Cindy and there's a couple things I'm looking for so we'll see if they have them I'm gonna go do that and hopefully be back by the time that we are having our meeting you know I'm not meeting up with anybody or a lot anticipating it I'm not place or I have to worry about anybody smelling me you know the people at the store I don't know them so anyway let's hit the road and let's see how quick I can be in and out of the grocery store and Michaels because I have an hour and a half it's a good thing I only have two places to go and that I can go the back way and don't have to get on the freeway because it's the end of our morning rush hour and the freeway is gonna be crowded let me tell you all right that's it I'll be back in and out of the grocery store in less than 15 minutes I think that's a record for me seriously there's advantages to coming early in the morning when everyone is on their way to work nobody nobody's taking their lunch break parking lot tap empty there's nobody in the store I love it all right so I had my meeting I am headed back out to some place I didn't get to this morning to pick up a couple of things and get the mail I've got a mail something out again today and then this afternoon I'm gonna work in some of my journals probably try to get some video edited and try to figure out some new promotions for the Etsy shop because like some of my art art friends we are all sort of noticing a sales slump probably at least in part due to the holiday holiday season coming up so figure out what I can do maybe put everything on sale again I'm not sure I'm also designing the new stamp sets for 2018 and I sent off the designs I think I want to do to the manufacturer for the new year have them take a look them see what they think yeah been a busy morning so anyway now I need to try to find a parking I see an empty one I don't have to wait for them to leave see if I can find what I need I'll be back okay that's done let's go get the mail and mail the package and let's hope that people stop and let me back out of my space completely alright it's just so funny here in California it is 69 degrees outside and overcast and we are supposed to be getting some rain storms in and everybody around me obviously with the exception of me is dressed oh and with the exception of the girl I just saw walking by she's in shorts and a sweatshirt but everybody else is dressed like they're going to the snow it's pretty funny it's not really that cold out 69 is not cold I don't think so that was fun I got everything I needed and now I can go pick up today's mail then I think I'm gonna go out and sit on the sofa and just chill and sketch I think that sounds like a good plan I have video to film and more video to edit but I also have a little bit of time before it has to be done so it doesn't have to be done today I'm teaching tomorrow morning I could work on saw the editing and or filming tomorrow when I get back and I may film one more thing later on this afternoon see how I feel if I'm feeling so inspired I need to kind of work out in my head what I'm gonna do I do usually work pretty organically but I generally also need some sort of direction that I want to go even if I don't know exactly what I'm going to make does that make sense or does that only make sense in my head that's how I work I'm filming for my creative year 20 my creative year next year 2018 I'm working with our subjects for over there and what I do has to fit into certain parameters which is more challenging than just doing what I want so anyway I need to get it clear in my head how's that how's that for explaining what I'm doing without actually explaining anything and just confusing the holy crap out of you guys it's been a fun interesting week I don't know it's been it's been a weird week I'm blaming it on the anti-inflammatory medications and my reaction to them I don't know it's been a strange week so anyway I will be back in the next vlog for the next thing and yes for those of you who watch the next vlog I'm filming this Thursday morning because I forgot to film the exit last night oops I sat down on the sofa and I started working on a few mini journal pages and my daily drawing I will try to insert some pictures like here somewhere and I just started creating on the couch and forgot all about what time it was and life happens right alright so that's it this week don't forget to have a great week have a great day and the most important thing go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye