 Hey Ian Eve Heather. Wow, you guys are like right on top of it Hey mama cats Hopefully the picture is better. The picture I'm seeing on my iPad is great Compared to the other day It has been One crazy long weekend. I gotta tell you guys it has been so insane We found out after I'll explain what this is in a minute We found out after the live broadcast that Yeah, I hate AT&T Anyway, they finally decided that That our router or Wi-Fi box thing was pooping out and so they sent us a new one over the weekend It seems to be working all right Hey Jana Hey Muriel So that got fixed and then we had a bunch of furniture That we sent out for donation got picked up over the weekend. So My house was way too crowded and I'm a clutter bug and so I'm trying really hard not to be a clutter bug anymore and We need to open up some space in our house So we got rid of some sofas and a bunch of extra stuff. We don't need that was just clogging up space So that's great, but then we spent the rest of the weekend doing a bunch of electrical work It has been a crazy weekend moving boxes around. I am tired I haven't got any art done since like Tuesday last week and I I'm feeling it. Let me tell you hey Heather you don't even have to tell me I did we're in the midst of remodeling because why I decided to get it done now You know over the holidays because I'm insane. I have no idea But you know We're due we've been thinking about it for a while and finally I just said let's just do it and so anyway So my house is a state of chaos. I can't get to any Christmas decorations for their stuff anyway so, you know, we painted pine cones and for Thanksgiving Or the fall holidays if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving and I thought for Christmas we'd do some painted pine cones, which obviously you see on the table and I've been making a fabulous delicious mess. Look at that Turquoise paint that's on my canvas underneath there and So I'm going to show you what I did. I tried a few different things and I really like the way this is working out now If you want to do this, I'm going to give you some tips along the way. This one again would be a great craft project to do with the kids If you have children at home or you have grandkids at home get them a bun have them go pick up a bunch of pine cones and Paint them great red craft for them And I'm so glad the sound and picture are good. Yay Alrighty So what I did was I took the pine cones and I took some of this inexpensive floral wire You probably all have a little spool of this in your craft stash somewhere It's just really thin 26 gauge wire and I cut a piece off and I loosely wrapped it around the pine cone To give myself sort of a handle for painting the pine cone. So I did that to all of my pine cones I'm getting used to Mama cats my house being More wide open and a little bit more echoey because I got rid of a bunch of furniture But also because like all the paintings and stuff are off the walls and it's yeah, we're in a state of flux It's a little odd anyway So then after you get your pine cones all set up This is a great craft to use up all of your leftover teeny tiny bits of paint So how many of us have a bunch of these craft bottles of paint? And it's got like this much paint in the bottom and we don't want to throw it away, right? So take all these little bottles add a little bit of water to the bottle Stick the cat back on and shake it up really good And then dump it into a bucket like this now. This is a Best Western ice bucket yes, I probably stole it But I've had it for like 20 years or more. So does that count? All right So just what I did was I took a bunch of craft paint that I had Americana paint that the bottles didn't have too much in them And I put a little water in it just to make it a little easier to get it out of the bottle Shook it up really well and started dumping it in here. I also had one Americana chalky finish paint that was The turquoise color that was this the color escape and it didn't have that was leftover from painting my little table It's in my room, and I didn't have much in it So I put water in there put the lid on shook it up stuck it in here add it a little more water now If you're going to do this and you want your pine cones to be really opaque colored You're either going to have to dip them a whole bunch of times or you're going to have to have less water in here So the thicker your mixture is the more opaque the color is going to be And you could you know, of course I did turquoise because you know what other color what I do You could do any color though But again if you want it to be really opaque, then you want it to be really thick and use less water now If you have a couple of giant tubs of chalky finish paint, and you just want to dip them in that you probably could but Yeah, so my date for the painting of the inside of the house keeps getting bumped which I'm upset about So I'm gonna have to talk to that guy today You know I'd like to have the painting part done. We're gonna be doing the floors, too I don't know what the heck. I was thinking the floors are not my idea. I can blame that one on my husband though All right, so once you get your paint in here now the acrylic paint even if it's thinned down with water The acrylic polymers are heavier than the water, so they're gonna want to sink to the bottom So as you're doing this you're gonna want to just keep stirring it This is just one of those catalyst tools So just give it a nice stir, and then you can dip your pine cones in you know I've done these are all done just once and Then just set them on some paper to dry This would be you know, it's kind of like coloring Easter eggs Yeah, you know it is the worst time of year to try to get work done and make changes like this But I do have to say I am looking forward to starting the new year in an uncluttered environment No matter how difficult it may be and how much complaining I'm doing I'm alive right and the picture is not blurry Right. I mean, you know we are managing. We'll figure this out yet I mean, I've only been doing the live thing for what like a year now Still running into issues So I would recommend doing this also on top of a piece of plain fabric or a piece of You know about a stack of paper maybe packing paper or something Because you're gonna get fun painted pine cones, but you're also gonna get fun drippy painter pay dribble blah blah blah blah Drippy splattery paper Don't wear your good clothes with this or put a or put a apron on because It's very messy It's a cool project. It's easy it would be fun to do with the kids You know, it's cheap to if you live someplace where you have a lot of pine trees around Then you have already access to pine cones and it's a great way to use up some of that leftover paint You probably have hanging out in your art room, you know all those little empty small bottles That have just a smidge in the bottom and you don't want to get rid of it paint some pine cones Dump that paint out into some a bucket of water and paint some pine cones. Hey Gail. How are you? We're just dipping some pine cones right now. We're gonna also give them a dry But you know because you know that just Doing this is not enough So if you're gonna dip them multiple times to just try to get a darker color, you know, of course It's good like with anything else to let it dry in between. Oh Hey, Don Lisa. Hey Yeah, so I definitely you know, just go outside Send the kids out for a walk to collect the pine cones. The only Thing that I would say is make sure before they bring them in the house The pine cones don't have any hitchhikers inside of them. Oh You know, that's funny that you say that Heather because we're not done yet Just bear with me. So put a base layer of color on your pine cones Whether you do it, you know transparent parent color or you want to you know, do it more opaque Yeah, yeah, it's coming. You guys are ahead of me a bit. Of course, there's gonna be sparkle. It's Christmas time I'm not that much of a Scrooge Normally I would say dip your pine cones and then let them dry and then come back to them But we're on YouTube live. So we're gonna dry them a bit No, I call me a Scrooge Um, I've been I was in retail for a very long time like more than 20 years and Christmas is not really my favorite time of the year. I know that's probably gonna bother some people Um, it's only because I think it's too commercialized The idea behind the the time of year is great, but it's way too commercialized That's a good idea apg jamie. That's a fabulous idea if you have a little craft toaster oven Like I do you probably could bake them in there. Just you want to keep an eye on them no matter what you do Let's not start any fires Because that would be bad I'm going to show you a tip in a minute for glittering these up And really getting them extra super sparkly It's way too commercialized. I one of the things I love about this craft is this is inexpensive non-commercial Unless of course you have to go buy pine cones um, and you know It's really kind of more of a down-to-earth Christmas craft. I love that I have a couple more coming up. I'm inspired this year You little spark Um, I have a another idea for another Christmas thing coming up that I don't know if we're gonna do it next week Um, because there's a lot going on, but we will do it before Christmas They do I wouldn't microwave them. No, um Someday I'll tell you guys a story about my husband's paternity in college and what they used to do with the cockroaches They would find in the kitchen. It's not pretty But you know, what do you expect from a house full of guys? Uh, toys are us Me bear creations. That's a horrible place to work at Christmas time Oh my goodness This one needs some more dip Yeah, um, so the last few years of my retail career. I worked for American greetings And the greeting card business over a big holiday like Christmas is really not any fun Um, I do have to say though. I miss working on black friday, but not why not because of why you think I miss watching the crowds of crazy people Rush into the big box store and I was trying to get them reset before the stores would open Those people are crazy They were crazy in an entertaining kind of way So if you're gonna do this with the kids and you're gonna drive them like I'm doing have an adult do this We don't want any kids to get hurt. Okay. Hey, Cindy. Yeah, it's just way too commercialized and and you know Yeah, so I don't why I don't I'm not crazy about that part of it plus, you know, I'm to the age where I don't really need too much stuff You know, if you want to know what I want for Christmas come by and visit me and say hi I don't I don't need stuff, you know I'm trying to get rid of stuff We donated a big sectional sofa this weekend some stereo surround sound speakers coffee table and table Console table a bunch of stuff. Okay, Jamie. We'll be here. I'm still drying my pine cones You know because that's just so riveting drying drying pine cones Now I would probably keep the wire on these until you're completely done with them Because it makes kind of a nice handle and if you have some place to like hang them up To while they dry after we do the next part um Then it comes in handy See I like stuff too Eve But when you have too much stuff in my life, it's too crazy and chaotic. I can't deal with that You know, my grandmother used to tell me she just had way less patience for things than people. I she got older And I didn't really understand Uh, not then I do now Don't know what that says One more They're drippy It was um, my Thanksgiving was good. Um We drove from where I live in San Jose to Sacramento to have dinner with the in-laws Which we do every year My mother-in-law lives up there and so we just always feel like we should Spend some time while we can with her. Um, my brother-in-law and his wife cooked dinner. They did a great job I just made the stuffing My mother-in-law did fall on Thanksgiving day, um, which was not great. Um So I had to brush off the first aid skills But she's okay Look at this once this dries. Let's try not to get paint on the ipad holy cow people Hang on one second. My husband will kill me Okay So I'm going to dump this extra liquid Hopefully without making a mess There we go But you know, you could make some, um, painy papers with this Um or fabric Yeah, so this time of year is rough and you know, we've had two friends that have um passed away One just last night. Actually I found out a few minutes ago. Um I'm gonna dry this a little bit So it's not stopping wet. Um, so if you know, um The holidays are rough. It just seems like things always happen all year long, but over the holidays It's like exacerbated, right? And more focus you focus on it more Um So, yeah, oh, I needed that little dish. I was wondering why that was out here Yeah, thanks. Um, uh, the boyfriend who passed last night had Um terminal cancer and we knew it was coming. He's a very sweet man. Um, he will be greatly missed Um really fantastic guy husband father teacher. He was a teacher school teacher and It's it wasn't a huge surprise I'm gonna zoom in Okay But that doesn't mean it's any less sad Yeah, he had and he had bone cancer. So it wasn't a great kind. Um, you know, it wasn't, um, it's hard to treat Yeah, thanks. He was you know, he was younger. We have another friend who has bone cancer a young man. Um, he's fighting it. Yay But fred didn't make it Um, anyway back to christmas decorations and something more cheery. Um, so this is deco art craft twinkles Um, which is kind of a clear polymer base Um with some glitter in it And so you can see how in the dish how sparkly it is Can you see that? Okay, that's not sparkly enough. Is it not for me? So we're going to take some of our deco art glamour dust We're going to make it more sparkly By mixing some in This is a trick I learned from a friend of mine who I used to do uh christmas craft shows with and she never used um the Craft twinkles by itself. She always always always added glamour dust to it Um, and when I saw her finished ornaments, I understood why so so so much more sparkly after you add I don't even know if you guys can see that on camera After you add the glamour dust to it, right cool simple easy trick I also of course have some More turquoise paint This is calypso blue Because you know, I just like blue. All right So we're going to take one of our pine cones and we've got our craft twinkles And we've got some more blue paint and we're going to hold it by the wire And I'm going to just brush Like the tips And I know all of you probably are thinking You know, she really planned this out really well Um, she must have really thought about this. I didn't think about it. I didn't plan it. I knew I wanted to paint pine cones, but Up on the fly. I knew like two minutes before I went on air exactly how I was going to do it You know, that's what I do. So just that look just that Look at that right So if you want a clear Uh medium to put over your painted Christmas thing whatever your Christmas thing is That's going to be super super sparkly mix deco art craft twinkles. And this is the crystal one. It does come in colors Mixed it with glamour dust So if you mix the glamour dust crystals into the crystal craft twinkles, you get a medium that's super duper super sparkly I have an irish mother too Maureen, but my dad's italian. So my name is Gina He was a big gene a little abridged a fan Still is I think They were just here helping us with the electrical Now you probably should like dip your little edges of your pine cone in paint and then wait to put the craft twinkles on but um We're not gonna So whether you're painting little snowmen Or you're you're maybe decorating a little card or maybe you're putting little decoration decorations on some votive candles Something that you're gonna sell at a craft show and you want to make it sparkly use this trick Because it's fabulous now look at that So a bunch of these on your Christmas table wouldn't they be fun? Um glamour dust is usually see I got blue paint in the glamour dust if that's all right Um glamour dust is usually in the craft paint isle. Sometimes it's by the glues and glitter So if you do this with the twinkles and put the dust in the twinkles Then the glitter doesn't come off. That's the other thing the glitter stays on it's embedded in the craft twinkles You also can put some of your glitters into deco page and mix it into the deco page and then brush it on the pine cones a little bit different in I'm not going to dip my pine cones in nail polish So and you could of course dip your pine cones in one color and then brush it the tips with a contrasting color That would be fun too Go with whatever color like your holiday decorations are These would be cute on top of packages too. Um, you thought what was deco art Cindy. I am using deco art products The craft twinkles is deco art So is the glamour dust their deco art products. You should be able to find them Um, um You know, I think the last time I went to michael's and looked for the glamour dust It's been a while, but I I want to say it was by the glue Yeah, you could totally do paint these with white. Oh, we might do some white. I might do because That goes with what I'm trying to do. I do have some white here So you really just kind of want a dry brush. You don't want too much paint on your brush We're not trying to cover the whole pine cone That's why we dipped it to give the whole thing some color before we did this See you all you all are thinking the same thing But you know, too, if you have like a modern Christmas decor going on in your house, you know, how cute would these be hot pink with white tips or lime green with hot pink tips Um, the craft twinkles does come in colors. Um, the glamour dust only comes in white Um, or it's a crystal. Actually, it's not white So it would actually just add extra sparkle to whatever color twinkles you stuck it in You totally could do that. Um, Maureen and make get some giant pine cones and do this with some giant pine cones It's also like I said in the beginning Um, the the dip to dip them is a great, um way to use up all of those tiny little bits of leftover paint That y'all I know are like me and have hanging around your studio um in crafting space Because you know, we don't want to throw it out because there's a little bit of usable paint down in the bottom of that tube You know, this is a great um way to use up that all of those little half empty tubes or mostly empty tubes and um Just get all the you know blues or pinks or whatever color scheme that you want to do get all of them out A heck if you probably if you have some house paint you probably could do it with house paint But I I don't I wouldn't let the kids do it if you're doing house paint Let's do a couple with white tips because I do have some white out and I got it out to do that with I need another brush See that's one of those almost empty bottles I can't get rid of No, it's not it's actually a craft product But I mean if you have any it's a super fine dust Glitter dust It's a super fine glitter. So if you have any super fine glitter in your stash, it would probably work I love glamour dust because it's super sparkling and it's crystal And that's not just because we're doing monday with deco art. That's just because I'm honestly I love the product. I've been using that product since before I became a deco art helping artist It is easier to do this on the open pine cones than it is the closed ones just fyi The the beauty of them is they don't have to be perfect Yeah, I like the idea of the white tips. We're going to add some glitter to them in a minute We've rearranged our house so that instead of a family room in a living room We have one giant living room space Which will have a little library in it And then a bigger dining room in the old family room Which means we can use my grandmother's dining room table Which she would just love look at isn't that cute? And these are going to go on the dining room table It better not be because of me if you're getting a fuzzy picture because I'm going to like go Shoot up AT&T or something. I shouldn't say that out loud. That's so bad. I won't really but I'll be very pissed off and yell at them It's hard to shoot up a place when you don't own a gun But I'll be very annoyed Look at how cute that is Yeah, and um, I I'm looking back at the, um, um comments Okay, I live in California We don't get white Christmas We're lucky if it's rainy and sort of cold I actually love the winter We don't get it very much here though I can shoot bananas. There you go. Yeah, they just you know, it's AT&T. They annoy me It doesn't take much though to annoy me some days. So Some of that might be me I don't think it is but So then when you have them done you can hang if you have clips like I do above My um table then you can just hang them like this until they're dry If you don't have clips you you could have the kids do this and then just lay out a bunch of parchment paper or wax paper and and omit the wire and just you know, leave them sit on the wax paper to dry And then when they're dry they can decorate the tree and the table with them I'm going to do one more with white and then I'm going to switch back to the turquoise Now you could probably You know do some of the pine pinecone some of the acorn techniques that we did on the acorn painting last week in that you could Probably do a marbling technique with um water and nail polish um You really need something like nail polish to float on top of the water um But you can get the nail polish it like dollar tree I see the comments scrolling by but hang on because i'm not paying any attention One more and this is a messy project. You're gonna get Paint everywhere We're ready for glitter glitter glitter. I like glitter. Okay All right, let's catch up on the comments first Yeah, so um if you're um, and that's fine You also could go to your craft store and i'm gonna have to make up some more glamour dust without turquoise paint it um, you could go to the craft store and um Buy some pine cones um That's always difficult for me because i've got to Hold my breath around the cinnamon ones and try to find ones that are unscented, but they do have them Yeah, the drought is um here in california is not great So i'm just Those of you who missed it I put some craft twinkles in here and then I dumped in a bunch of the glamour dust And then I just mix it up with a palette knife now this kind of thing is not the kind of thing I waste So what i'll do with it when we're um done broadcasting is i'll take whatever's in here and spread it out on like some deli paper And let it dry maybe through a stencil Okay, now I need another clean paint brush holy cow Okay, hugs to you too. Cindy talk to you later So now that we have the paint to tips on here. I'm gonna go Back with the glamour dust And honestly i'm going to be way less careful with the glamour dust than I was with the paint Because the glamour dust and twinkles mixture will dry clear Um, and it's just going to leave it sparkly. So if it's kind of blobby when it goes on it doesn't matter But look how pretty that is Whoops It would make pretty deco posh paper. I agree You could do little bunches of these pine cones for your package tops. You could hot glue them together Um and use them to decorate your presence with If you have bigger pine cones that sit up straight You could maybe use them as place card holders if you're um cooking christmas dinner Okay art guard they are not going to have at michael's or Um, um Hobby lobby heather you're and I forgot to put some on but I'm using craft products. So it's probably okay Um, I you're going to need to go to the fine art supply store In your area or just order it in amazon. I agree with, um, Eve So in my area, I would have to go to university art or lens art and santa cruise um Or drive up to san francisco to dick blick Which I enjoy going to dick blick, but I have to drive in san francisco and that's not ever fun If you've never been Yeah, it's just not great I'm not pretty I'm gonna love these Oh, see you later maureen Yeah, so if you have amazon prime and you're like me and it's just really hard to get out This time of year is really hard for me. I was out this morning running errands Um, but I had to be medicated because between the perfume And the cinnamon pine cones and the scented candles I do more coughing and wheezing than anything else when I'm out So it's really difficult and you know, maybe you have something else going on So then I would just go to amazon prime I also just get playing get tired or running all over creation looking for something That you know, nobody's gotten stock Of all things this morning. It was one of those fireplace cleaner logs like duraflame, you know that you put in your fireplace to Get rid of all the creosote in the fireplace Nobody had one probably because it's california and like nobody uses their fireplace, but Now that we've rearranged the house. I can use my fireplace and I'd like to clean it first So you literally can just chunk this stuff on And the glitter is not going to come off everywhere on your table because it's embedded now into the craft twinkles But you're going to get this fabulous twinkly sparklyness going on on your pine cones Put some on the bottom of this one And how fun would these be in a bowl? On your table, uh, maybe with some of those battery operated led lights mixed in with them Um, that would be really pretty and I might actually do something like that Target has led string little strings of led lighted stars in white and turquoise In their dollar bins. I think it's five dollars for a strand fyi okay My hands are bright and sparkly Yeah, my closest dick blick is also an hour away. So I tend to Not go there unless I'm headed that way for something else Then I make a point of stopping the same thing with lens art and Santa Cruz That's about 40 minutes away, but still kind of a long drive But if I'm going to head that way for something else, I usually make a point of stopping But in the meantime, amazon's way easier and if you have amazon prime, it only takes a couple days to get How pretty is that that's the turquoise one Yeah, blick blick is dick blick. Um you trekked is another art store and it is owned by um dick blick For those that don't know they're the I don't know owned by or maybe you trekked owns dick blick, but they're they're the same company Yeah, if you have to pay shipping, I would think about just getting it from dick blick if you don't have amazon prime um and Clear section or see if there's something you need to get for a christmas gift for somebody And pad the order a little bit so you can get free shipping. Um, I don't know what the free shipping is right now over there It's usually like $50 I do um, especially um some um Times the watercolor half pans the little empty half pans They come from china, but they're a lot cheaper Um, and they're all the same side. They seem to all be the same size Um, but they're a lot cheaper on ebay And also too, you know, if I want some vintage stuff to use in my art, um I usually go to ebay to ebay for that again. I don't I can't really frustrated shopping around all over creation. You know for that one thing It's easier to shop online Am I the only one that thinks that Several thousand miles e and you're funny Well, my nearest um jackson's art supply, which I also love is you know, a few continents away So it's a little expensive to just go there and go pick up stuff It's easier to Order it. Okay, and I'm getting this idea Don't want to put this here. I guess I do So you can easily just take I didn't wrap these very tight or very Um much around it's just on here very very loosely So they come off easy and the other thing you can do is um, you know, you could Dip them Because how pretty is that my hands are so messy. I don't know why I bothered to try to keep my hands clean today Yes, please. Thank you So you can brush it on and just leave it at that or after you're done if you have leftover like I do um, you can of course Paid it on deli paper, which we're gonna do But you could also take some of your pine cones and just dip them You know just a little bit not too much that one might have too much I'm gonna have sparkly fingers when this is all done Because look at my hands my hands are crazy Oh, man I'm gonna dip a couple of white ones See you later Don. Have a good day at work. Really pretty I'm running out of room here. I should hang them up, but I'm not going to okay So what the other thing you can do with this this here. Let me grab a stencil This is a fun one and I know somebody's gonna ask me what this is. I don't know It's all covered in paint. I don't have any idea It's well loved So you can kind of make your own sort of sparkly glittery Paper if you wanted to have it not be clear and sparkly You could throw some of your paint water in one of these or something like that. I have this one's kind of got Paint contaminated in any way, so it's not really a big deal And you know if you don't get a perfect stencil out of it, it's kind of really not about that So it's not a big deal It's just about using up the leftover paint Stop worrying about if your work is perfect. I just went and grabbed a makeup sponge These are great. You can get them at the dollar store big bag of them See look at that. Can you all see that? Let's see How fun would that be like even on uh, you could use it on a greeting card. You could use it on a collage page Okay. See you later, Ian Oh hobby craft that I've heard of hobby craft Ian Sounds interesting Somebody's calling me a smurf because I'm blue Very blue today and not in a blue mood. Well, I shouldn't say not in a blue mood Fred's passing is sad. Anyway, I'm not going to talk about that And this just even makes you not want to wash the cup out, right? Is it just me? But literally just scoop out your extra twinkles And spread it on some deli paper Spread it on a Christmas ornament Spread it on a sheet of card stock so you can make it little gift tags out of it Anything like that Look at that That is really cool that I love Let's hang that up And then there's still some on the stencil now when you use Any kind of thick like modeling paste or glue type mediums like the twinkles is really kind of a glue Then you want to make sure you watch your watch your stencil well after you're done So when I'm done, I'm going to soak my stencil in Murphy's oil soap But in the meantime, I'm going to try to get all of the Twinkles off as much as I can There we go. So here's the other one. It's so cool Now the twinkle craft twinkles does come in colors The glamour dust does not but you could get colored craft twinkles and then add any super fine glitter to it It would work great No, I'm not um You know, I could be one of those. Um, um, I don't know what you call them people that never leave the house easy That's part of the for me. At least it's part of the anxiety thing See, there's you know, this is the time of year to bust out the glitter box and to bust out the collection Of sparkly things and use them in your art projects Use them to make some homemade gift tags Some homemade christmas decorations Maybe homemade gifts and make them a little sparkly a hermit. Yeah, there's another Proper term for it. Heather um agoraphobia. That's it. Mama cats Yeah, I could be that real easy We have a little bit of a shadow because I've got paper hanging right here. Um And I'm getting some um Shadows because it's the lights hitting the paper just fyi But see I didn't wrap these very, um tight with the wire Yeah, I could be a shut-in real easy I still have to go out and put gas in my car today another not fun thing. I don't like to do Uh and get the mail Mail the old broken A wi-fi box back to AT&T Look at these wouldn't these be fun on the table in a bowl or on um one of those plastic silver chargers Put some little craft twinkly craft lights in amongst them um Maybe some glass balls. I'm going to do something fun with mine And I'm actually going to mix my sparkly pine cones with seashells On a platter on my dining room table And if I can get these dry today and get that all set up today I will post a picture to social media later so you guys can look for that Yeah, so I'm the same way with crowds me bear creations. I have the same issue Um, all right mommy and cat. Yeah, so mine is um mild Um most of the time and so I try when I can to just not think about it and just go do stuff But if I focus on it too much, I it would not be good Yeah, it's the more you avoid doing it the harder it is. I'm going to zoom in a little bit more or as much as I can Let's see if I can anymore Nope, that's it So here we go sparkly pine cones. So I hope you guys have some fun with this now if you have leftover paint Water like I have you probably could use it to Um, you know paint something else that's absorbent like fabric or Something like that. You probably also could just put it in an airtight jar and Save it for when you have some more pine cones the water will evaporate so the thicker it gets the more opaque It's going to get but that's not necessarily a bad thing And I may try to save this so I can do some more stuff with it You guys help keep me from Not talking to anybody Um, you guys are a big help with that. Um, you force me to be social Which is a great thing and um, yeah, otherwise I would have a hard time with it So next week I'm going to try But it might be the week after so next week there may not be a monday for deck with deco art because I am visiting my sister in utah and I get home sunday and I'm not sure what monday is going to be like But the next time we do monday with deco art, we're going to do little vintage houses Um mixed media style using deco art products. How many of you grew up with your grandmother having the little houses our little village under her christmas tree or maybe she had them hanging in the tree um They're just made out of cardstock and covered in paint and glitter Sometimes they had little pine trees outside and things like that. So we're going to make a little sort of mixed media style houses to go in our tree or on our table And we're going to we're going to make some of those kind of decorations I found an article article from an old cloth paper scissors when I was cleaning and purging over the weekend I went, oh, I wanted to do this a long time ago and I forgot So we're going to work on that and totally you can so I don't see why not now some of your seashells have a slick A slick hard like a shellaki finish Because they're you know seashells are hard like they're I think they're primarily like calcium So they may not absorb this paint the same way the pinecone does because it's very absorbent But I don't see why you couldn't You may want to use less water in your paint water if you're going to just dip them But if you're going to just paint them use straight paint and then mix up your glamour dust and your craft twinkles And I would like with these you notice you still see some of the brown poking through I didn't want to cover up the fact that it's a pinecone I wanted some of the natural color to show through and probably if you're going to do a seashell I would say do the same thing Maybe give it a little tinge of Just the clear craft twinkles with the glamour dust in it Maybe brush do a little bit of dry brushing of whatever your favorite color paint is But I don't know why you couldn't I'm going to mix raw natural seashells with the Colored pine cones on my table. I think that's going to be a really great look So I'm going to work on that later today Although I did get home and you know, it's funny like the frugal crafter She bought a bag of seashells at her Dollar store and she got home and one of them Was broken because the clerk slammed him on the counter. I had the same issue this morning So Oh, thank you. Yeah, you guys help keep me from You know just hiding You know, I do have anxiety disorders so my natural instinct is to just go hide But you know, that's a constant battle that you just Try not to think about too much. You just go make yourself do stuff Because the alternative is you just shut yourself away and that's not fun Oh, I will so I'm going to um let these dry of course and I've got to go kick gas in my car and All that stuff um and Later this afternoon when these are dry, I will reset my table And I got some of the led star lights at target and I got this Small artificial christmas tree because we probably won't be able to put the big one out and um, I'll get it all set up And I'll show you guys what it looks like All right, this is it for today So go out and do some fun non-traditional Mix media things You know have some fun with the crafty side of your craft supplies We don't always have to do um You know journal pages and paintings We can't just go back and do a craft every now and then there is nothing wrong with that um, especially this time of year and um, you know, don't forget to just enjoy yourself And we're mixed media artists so we can break whatever kind of rules we want You know, I did think briefly about crunching up some of these pine cones and mixing them with a modeling paste or heavy gel And wouldn't they make great texture on an art journal page? So there's a whole you know mixed media painting alternative Um, and thank you. I will I haven't been to utah to visit her in a while. I'm overdue for a visit She's been coming here for a few years now and I haven't gone there. So it's past time And yeah, so pumpy gas is uh, not my favorite thing But it's got to be done. Um husband's gonna borrow my car tonight I know and if he does that and has no gas I'm gonna hear about it. So I'd rather not hear about it All right Go out and if you can give me a thumbs up like share and subscribe and don't forget the most important thing Besides supporting my channel in those two ways And if you can maybe shopping at my auntie shop or go over to amazon and buy my book Search my name. It'll come up in kindle and pet paperback form But also don't forget to just go out and enjoy yourself Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Have some fun get crafty get painting get messy and Don't listen to all the rules or what you should and shouldn't do just have fun All right, and stay out of them all the come this season's to commercialize Do some old-fashioned crafts and have some fun All right, that's it for today you guys. I'm gonna go have some lunch and I will see you later. Bye guys