 everybody. It is Sunday, November 27th, 107 p.m. Yes, my hair is still drying. Anyway, we had the two little ones and their mom over for Thanksgiving. We told you that because dad's a firefighter. He was on duty. Nobody, including my daughter, wanted them to be home alone, so we invited them over. And it's not the first time, but it won't be the last time that we've been around little kids that have then graciously given us something. In this case, a cold. I, as you can tell, am not really sick. I don't sound that different than normal. Mr. Bob, however, is really not feeling well, so he has taken some meds and he's napping in his office. I am taking some mubu boosters and staying away from him because I don't want to get sick. Anyway, I also had, was going through laundry. It's that time of year. And our local Fred Meyer, which is part of the Kroger's chain of grocery stores, once a year, you know, I'm sure there's a store by you, they have like socks and stuff on sale on clearance, right? And so that's the time of year that reminds me when I go in there, I see the big sock tables, I'm like, ooh, socks. And I try to remember to clean out my old socks before I do that and pull out all the ones that's holes in them. I sometimes forget. But anyway, this year, I found three pairs of socks with holes in them. So I did buy new socks. Generally, of course, the old socks go in the trash because what do you do with them? I found something. I made some wristbands for when I'm out doing my sketch walks. I have something to wipe my brush on and it's around my wrist, so it's very handy. So I just cut the toe and ankle off. And then I took two socks and I zigzag them together on my sewing machine. And two layers of sock thick. So that's perfect for wiping my brush in between uses. Perfect. And I'll have to worry about carrying a rag or something with me. And I've got two spares. I have another one that I made out of an old towel that works too. And then this morning, while Mr. Bob is napping, I realized after doing my last round of pigments, which included beetroot and red cabbage, that I really needed to split up the earth pigments and lake pigments because I had, they weren't fitting in one box anymore. And I can't see myself, at least for the moment, stopping because there's no way to get the pigments that you think you might want to use or figure out what's going to work and what's not without doing this. I'm experimenting and I had my one experiment sample palette. I had everything in one palette, but I have split them up. I was thinking I was going to have to buy boxes. I'm like, okay, wait, hold the phone. Take a deep breath. Don't let the anxiety win. And immediately jump on that. Oh, let's buy something train. Let's look in the art room closet over here. Let's look in the organization closet if needed. And let's see if we have, I had something. Let's see if we have something I did. I had these two boxes, they were both empty. I do remember buying them for something else in them, them not quite being the right thing. Anyway, I have them. And so I set those two up, they're kind of drying. I'm going to need to do new color swatch cards for them. But for the moment, that works just fine. So yeah, that's all good, I think. I'm trying to get some stuff done when I can. Next week's going to be busy. We've got people coming by to measure flooring for Mr. Bob's new office redo. And I have to take my car and have service done on it. It needs to know all change. But now of course, as you know, if you're watching the vlog, the passenger side seat motor or something is broken and it doesn't move back and forward, it's stuck in a position. So we changed the switch and it's not helping. So I don't know if there's something jam down there that we can't see or I don't know. So I'm going to take it in. It's not my favorite thing to do. Anyway, I'm going to finish my water, which has an immune boosting tablet in it because we don't want to get sick. And I'm going to go downstairs, have some bone broth and some lunch and maybe do laundry. All right, I'll be back. It's Monday, November 28th. It's just before 10am. I'm going to finally take a shower and get dressed. We had a flooring guy come by to measure Bob's office and they'll get back to us in a couple of days and we'll go down there and confirm which flooring he wants and get that paid for and scheduled everything to get the flooring done in his office. His desk from Uplift came, not sponsored, but if you want to, I could use a new table for the middle of the art room or a desk or something. Anyway, we bought a desk from Uplift. We have a lot of people in our personal lives who have them, they love them. Again, not sponsored, but I'll put the link below. Anyway, I'm supposed to take my car in to have the passenger side seat looked at tomorrow morning and hopefully I can sweet talk me to changing the oil while it's there. So I think I'm going to go run a couple of errands today, assuming at the very least I don't have my car all day tomorrow. Worst case scenario, I don't have it for a couple of days. So there's that. I have another car I could drive. We have another car I could drive. It's not my favorite car to drive because it's a little tiny sports car, but you know, I don't know how to drive the big Barracuda because I don't know how to drive a stick shift, fun fact. So here's that. Anyway, I guess I better get dressed and get on with the things I need to do today. I'll be back. I do want to say Bob is sick. He has fluctuated the last 24 hours between 101 and 103 fever. So he is on lots of medications and vitamin supplements. I still am not sick. I have no fever, no nothing. So I'm trying to stay that way. I'll be back. Kind of proud of myself. Not only is it cold and I'm not getting steps in. I brought my sketchboard with me. I got three quick sketches in despite the fact that it's what it was at 42 but feels like 38 something like that. You can tell my nose is red. It's cold and it's starting to drizzle. But I've been reading, trapping with the color box. She talks about getting out anyway and if it's cold and miserable, just be quick. So that's what I did. We'll do the journaling when I get home. I hear ducks. We'll see if we can get some pictures. I'll be back. This is more than a little bit precarious. I only have two hands. Anyway, yep, all the ducks are back. Hey guys, we're at the elusive dropping off my car. It's going to be a couple hours before they diagnose what's wrong with the seat and I just told them no hurry. I'd rather you get it done. Take your time. Anyway, Bob is feeling better today although he's still sick. He's going to come get me. He was way less flummy when he got up this morning than he's been but he still has a fever. So we're going to take it easy. I'm going to let, I'm going to have him come get me because I don't want to deal with Uber or Lyft but after that he can just stay home and we'll take it from there. I'll be back. It has been a day. Let's see. It's 4.33 p.m. Same day. My car has been at the shop all day. They're fixing what they can. The seat is stuck. The motor is just toast and the part through the dealerships just ginormously too expensive to not only get the part but to put it in. My dad is a retired auto mechanic and so we're going to try to find a part on the second hand market, secondary market and we'll drive the car up to my dad's to put it in. So free labor just the cost of the part and we should be able to get a better deal on the part than the dealership wants to give us. Anyway, in the meantime, as long as I'm not too close to the airbag, that seat's safe to sit in. So there's that. Son-in-law's got the same thing as Bob. Sick. The little ones next door. They're sick too since like the day after Thanksgiving. Whatever this cold flu thing is like is crazy. It's definitely not COVID. Bob and I just both tested and it's not COVID. Kat's probably going to test the girls but we don't, none of us think it's COVID. It's just whatever this crazy cold flu thing that's literally going around the world is. So anyway, it's hard for me to get too far into new projects today because I'm anticipating like the phone ringing all day or something or worried about Bob drinking enough water or taking his meds or like it's just a thing. I did get a couple sketches done but yeah anyway. All right, I'll be back. It's 2 17 p.m. Wednesday October October holy cow November 30th. I'm going to make some lunch. I have been up for a bit this morning. I made a couple of little quick little stuffed bears for the little ones next door because they're still sick not feeling well and the parents are starting to get it anyway. Put a couple journals in there some color pencils that kind of thing and got that done and then I spent some time this morning um figuring out what I'm going to do with the Etsy store merchandise that's just sitting there clogging up my space in my Etsy store and my space in my closet and so I think I found a place if they are interested to donate said items to where they might be useful for them and what they do and if they want them then I have to not only clean out the closet, take an inventory, have a receipt, make some kind of inventory list and receipt. Yeah, it's not as easy as pulling stuff out of the closet and bringing it over there so anyway we'll see what they say and uh yeah thanks for the encouragement Mike. I think I needed to kick in the butt to get this done anyway and not like my brother Mike Deacon. All right I'm gonna make some lunch. I'll be back. I didn't intend on doing that today but I did. What did I do you ask? Well all of that is Etsy store inventory. I left up the digital and some original artwork everything else is down. I wish some of y'all were local because I tell you give me 20 bucks you can pick whatever you want. But anyway I pulled it all out I'm gonna have to inventory it before I do anything else with it but it's out and down there I've got a pile of trash and I did rearrange the closet a bit and lo and behold I've got breathing room in there. I also rearranged the paintings that are for sale in the other room. Again original artwork that is listed in other places not on Etsy. Can't stretch canvas so if you want a canvas that you've seen on social media somewhere check my Facebook page and my Instagram if you see something you like message me I'll let you know if it's still available how much it is and what shipping will be. Anyway yeah I need to get the trash out of here now and step away for a minute because wow. All right I'll be I don't know how well you guys are gonna be able to see this we thought it was just raining really hard yeah it's a rain hail mix I don't know if you're gonna be able to see oh there you can see the little icy lumps on the patio table wow Bob's finally feeling better and wants to go walking but I'm not sure that's gonna happen yeah I think snow is coming. I will say I kind of like this being a couple of weeks ahead on the vlog thing it's nice to not have to rush every week to get edited and loaded not that I don't enjoy doing that for you all but it's nice to not have to rush the process so anyway I'm uploading the latest vlog we'll get it up on YouTube and we'll get it scheduled on all of that stuff and I've already sold one box full of the purged Etsy store inventory to one of the patrons I filled her box over here thank you Wendy appreciate that if you want to join Patreon for access to video content that is not accessible to anybody else but them free downloads and things for me the occasional free gift for me when postage is outrageous and good deals like this where I can say hey I'm clearing this out would you like a box join my Patreon and you can also support the free content here on YouTube but we also have a private for patrons and supporters YouTube Messenger chat I'm YouTube Facebook Messenger chat and they get ready access to me all the time they know before you all do if I'm out doing something extra fun like when I was in Hawaii they do before you all did that I got hurt but anyway um oh that's just Wendy anyway if you'd like to be a member over on Patreon the link is down below I would appreciate the support that would be great all right that's it I guess I have no excuse now but to go do the dishes an artist has got to do chores every now and then and someday I've got to finish that over there I do know where it needs to go I just haven't gotten a chance to get over there anyway I better get to it I'll be back everybody it is just after 9 30 a.m Thursday December 1st anyway I don't really need to do anything in particular I just kind of want to get out of the house so I'm gonna go there are a couple things in the back of my mind I might want to get but I also need to get some cash because I only have five dollars on me that's not what anyway somebody else to go down to Hobby Lobby be very judicious about what I'm buying but I might see if they have a good deal on another one of those clipboards I made the urban sketching board out of I'd sort of like a backup board but for some reason when I paid $8.99 at the art supply store it may be really really really not want to spend 16 dollars on it on Amazon you heard me right 16 double the price anyway and Columny art and drafting is on the other side of Portland on the east side of Portland it's not the best side of town and I don't want to go there by myself and blah blah blah blah so I'm gonna go see if they have something on Hobby Lobby that's close to home plus I kind of want to go to Dollar Tree check and see what they have especially for holiday decor and then I need to come home and I need to make Monday's mood board for December for moody Mondays for a life of art itself especially my Facebook group if you're not a member why not anyway so I need to do that I'm not sure if I'm going to continue it for next year but I am I have one more to do for this year if you're a member of the group and you have an opinion about the daily creative boards or the mood boards let me know in the comments below all right and if you want to join the group links are in my link tree list of links for the group which is down below and there's also links there and in the video description for my patreon to support the free content here on youtube and all of that jazz all right wait for the minute I'll be back I'm turning the corner to get into the Hobby Lobby parking lot uh a Mr. B update so he is feeling better his fever this morning is finally under a hundred this is the first time since sunday saturday it's been a hundred over a hundred or higher since sunday so that's good he also had a second cup of coffee this morning and was hungry when he woke up which he hasn't done that all week and yeah so um and he's being sarcastic you know it's normal self anyway so yay he's feeling better he's supposed to have a masonic meeting tonight which I even though he's feeling better he's probably not going to and then there's supposed to be an event this weekend at the lodge that I was supposed to go with him when the kids but it's gonna depend if he's better or not he's got to talk to the guys and see what they think anyway we'll see I'll be back oops okay so I'm going to take my face out of here now and we're looking to build yourself an urban sketching kit some sort of um mobile art kit whether you're traveling or you just want to go down to the park and do a little art mix media whatever um a really great way to get a small kit to put things in is to get one of these inexpensive art kit and really just buy it for the box um especially if you get it on clearance or you're at a store like I'm at right now Ross Dress for Less um the art supplies in it are probably garbage which is fine because you're just paying a couple bucks for the box the wooden box actually all the boxes were very nice the wooden one was really nice anyway I don't need anymore so I didn't buy anymore but yeah it's a great way to get sort of an urban sketch kit box bag pochad box whatever you want to call it yeah they also had a bigger um pochad box art urban art box at hobby lobby um this morning that was only $30 some of these boxes can cost hundreds of dollars not that they're not worth it but when you're on a budget you just can't spend that and to be honest with you I don't want to spend that I saw a watercolor box the other day on amazon I'm sure it's a great watercolor box it's empty mind you and it's not super huge it does have a water container and two small pots in it but an empty pan for watercolors but it was $300 without any paint think twice about what you're buying and make sure it's going to be useful it doesn't have to be the prettiest thing on the planet it just needs to be functional let's head home I'll be back guys so I was sitting in the living room creating some new stencil designs for the painters supporters because going forward they're going to get copies of the designs old ones new ones they can cut themselves or use however they want anyway this is our driveway after they've cleaned up the leaves it was a hell of a lot of leaves you probably could have filled up one truck with yeah now they're working on the backyard it's just as bad welcome to Oregon anyway all right I'm still a little bit hungry so I'm gonna have a snack I'll be back December 2nd it's late in the day it's well up 227 pm I moved vlog before now just because it's been kind of a busy morning I got seven journal pages done today and filmed um one is a little bonus page making a tool out of garbage you'll have to wait and see it's all I can tell you um hi so I heard a thing from somebody I thought was a load of crap to be honest burn from somebody from somewhere who had a friend yeah brother-in-law sister's aunt told you right or something like that so it said that if you have gloves on and you're trying to like open your iphone your cell phone and you don't have the grippy things on your gloves like these don't have lick your fingertip of your glove and then swipe it across your screen it should let you open it and open apps or whatever I didn't really think that would work because that sounds weird very but you know what it worked you got grippy things I don't have grippy things anyway we are headed over to uh mod pizza I think one of those one of those build a custom pizza where you get just a little personal pizza and they'll put custom toppings on it it is pizza friday yes we do pizza a lot yes we've been doing pizza on fridays for almost the whole 40 years I've known Bob like for a long time do I get tired of pizza yes anyway any more pizza questions leave them down below I'll answer them for you um so we're going to go do that we're not seeing the kids tonight um partly because we were supposed to see them tomorrow um we're better Bob's better he doesn't have a fever today he's still as you heard coughing and a little bit congested I'm coughing a bit and I have a sore throat but I don't have a fever either so I don't know what that means for tomorrow but we'll find out I'll be back it is saturday december third yeah third 155 p.m we've spent the morning doing some chores around the house um fixing hazel up the robot vacuum she was having a temper tantrum yesterday but we got that straight down she did her her job today and um just doing some stuff around the house despite the coughing you just heard he is better he's no longer contagious he doesn't have a fever there's a little bit of a lingering cough but I understand with this flu thing that's going around that's a thing so my cough amounted to nothing it's just my normal allergies asthma whatever anyway we're going to go out and run a couple of errands um maybe we want to do something to my car um they left a piece trim off on the inside on the passenger seat at the dealership if I'd known when I picked the car up I would ask them to fix it but anyway we can put it back together so we're going to do that hopefully and pick up a Christmas present and then we have a masonic lodge thing tonight I can't really film that because that's like a no-no but I will film what I can and let you know how it goes anyway we're going to go get our stuff done I'll be here on our way to the masonic lodge I heard from Bob earlier that I will be able to maybe get a couple of video clips film the whole thing because that's like evading a bunch of people's privacy and I won't put the sound in but I may do a few clips here and there um anyway and yes my hair is actually looking decent now that you can see it real well because it's dark I actually have makeup on so you know I even have a dress on in pantyhose well tights I know right are we are you guys as shocked as I am and yes Mr is in a tuxedo anyway and he owns the tuxedo he doesn't rent it anyway it's dark that's better so we are on our way home it's about 9 30 ish um after the masonic event the installation then we went out with the kids for some dirt dessert and drinks I had coffee of course and oh that's cute wait hold on you guys are going to be able to see this uh yeah there it's a park full of like lights lights yeah that's cute uh anyway sorry squirrel um we're headed home now and we're gonna get warm and put on jammies and all of that stuff we've had a pretty good week despite being sick um we came through the other end it's all good tomorrow's gonna be an errand day shopping day maybe a little thrifting but we've got to start getting christmas stocking stuff first and all that anyway but that's for next week's vlog we will see you next week don't forget to like share and subscribe leave any questions comments or concerns down below what are you all doing for christmas anyway oh what else dear that's it that's it I think that's it check the video description for relevant links for my patreon I've got some exciting stuff 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