 It is Sunday afternoon, January 15th. We finished what I can help with of Bob's office is all done. He needs to find two things up there, but he'll get that done. We are just kind of hanging out, finishing up some chores, waiting on family to come for dinner because Bob and I are finally feeling better. My dad's gonna be spending the night so we can take him to the airport at five o'clock in the morning. That's gonna be fun. Anyway, yeah. I don't know that I'm gonna get too much creative done today, but we have lots of other stuff to do. So that's the way it is sometimes. I'll be back. Hey everybody, it is 9.25 a.m. Monday, January 16th. It's my dad's birthday. Everybody say happy birthday. Happy birthday. He says he's older than poop. Dirt. Dirt, and he is kind of old, but anyway. We have been up, if you feel like we're acting weird. That's because we are. We've been up since five o'clock this morning. Taking my dad to the airport. He's flying to Southern California to spend some time with my brother. But holy cow, he needs to get later flights because yeah, that was too early. Anyway, we were so early getting him to the airport that restaurants and stuff weren't even open yet. So nothing was open. So we're gonna go drop off some donations now and then we're gonna go get some food and then we have a couple more errands to run before we go home. So we'll get it done. I'll be back. I think they figured out that we put out a corn bowl. Squirrels have been setting off the security camera all morning. I think they know he put out corn and feed. Oops. I guess we are better because we're going out for a walk. That hasn't happened in a while. I don't know how far we're gonna go because it has been a while but we're gonna go get a quick one in. I got another great painting done as you saw. I'm also playing with textured shapes on wood boards or wood canvas out of spackling before I paint them. We're doing something simple to start with. I keep seeing this all over social media so I'm gonna try it because spackling, we needed some anyway. It's not expensive. I don't need that much of it. We'll try it. All right, let's get some steps in. I'll be back. It is Tuesday afternoon, January 17th. It's like 3.39 p.m. Have I vlogged yet? I don't think so. I got an episode of Artsy Trio filmed. It's over there drying. I'm not sure it's my best art journal page ever but I do like what happened but I did it with absolutely no plan and those are my most favorite kind of pages and they sometimes work out and they sometimes don't but they were fun. I also played with some liner pens and some ink and I did just a scribbly pre-form abstract thing. I'm gonna let it dry and then we're gonna work on it with some color. I didn't film the scribbly part but I will probably film for the vlog, the painting and coloring in part. We may use alcohol markers. I also cleared off the board to do another abstract watercolor painting. I haven't done that yet but I will be. And working with the spackle, creating some shapes on some boards and I jessed them today. And other than that, I've been sitting in my chair in the corner. I'm gonna turn a few lights off in here. I turned some extra lights on for filming. My daughter gave me back some stitching stuff, some of which was borrowed, some of which she thought she would take because she wanted to try some things and then she never did and now she's having a baby. So at some point I have to put those away and I've got to fix a dress for her because it's got a hole in it but I could do that tomorrow because I don't feel like doing it right now. Anyway, I've got a couple of things to put away up here and I'm making go downstairs. I have to do dishes in the laundry. So that's a thing, chores. Don't you love it? I'll be back everybody. It's after 9.30 AM and yes, I'm still in my pajamas. I'm actually gonna go put clothes on really quick. We have a, oh, let me go this way. Sorry, I don't mean to make you dizzy. This is our living room, our great room with 20 foot high ceilings. And yes, burned out label. I convinced my husband to pay the kind of expensive price it costs to have an experienced electrician come out and replace the light bulbs. But it's something hopefully that's LED in there that will last a long time. We won't have to do this again. Who knows what he's doing rather than my husband getting on a 20 foot ladder. But because the young man already came by this morning, I'm still in my pajamas. I'm gonna go take, not take a shower. I'm just gonna put some actual clothes on rather than pajamas really quick. Looks like a slob when he comes back, maybe. And yeah, I'm not worried about it until later today. It's always great when you start a day like in a rush. I hate that, which is why I'm still in my pajamas. All right, I'll be back. So it was quite a few hours this morning, but our new friend, Jacob, the electrician and light bulb guy got all the light bulbs replaced out in the great room. Watching anybody get on a 20 foot ladder is not my favorite thing. But anyway, that was done. And then I got the first one color challenge video filmed. I got two shorts in relationship to that created. One is gonna air in a few minutes. The other one will air in a couple of weeks when the one color challenge video goes live. I also got Artsy Trio edited. Everything is edited and loading to YouTube. Kinda surprised I got all that done, but you know. I'm gonna let the computer do its thing. I'm gonna stop hovering over it. It's got about, it says 20 minutes. It always takes longer than that. It's about 5.30, oh sorry, 5.40 p.m. Wednesday, January 18th, in case I didn't say. So yeah, I feel good about what I got done today because I was kinda worried I wasn't gonna get any of that done today, but you know, it's all good. All right, I'm gonna turn a couple things off and we'll go downstairs. Morning everybody. It is 10.03 a.m. Thursday, January 19th. Anyway, we are headed out to the store to thrift some stuff for the upcoming baby shower. I need some more teacups. Sort of a party favor, thank you gift that I wanna create to thank everyone for supporting my daughter Apollyas. We hit all three of the thrift stores and I found some more teacups and some more plates. I also found a really cute brand new still with the tags on it. Sweater, V-neck sweater for myself. It's gonna be a little bit on the big side, but that's okay, it would look really cute with leggings. And I stopped at Rite Aid and got a couple things I needed there. Anyway, it was all good, successful. We still have to buy a few more. We're not done yet with the teacup dessert plate thing, but in the meantime I did do pretty well today and I'm gonna go home and I've got a Hunter round in life for the baby shower. Let's head home and see what we can get up to next. I think it's still morning, hold on. 11, 4 a.m., huh. Friday, January 20th. Started off the morning with business investment meetings and flurry of messages and phone calls and like it's been a crazy morning anyway. Yeah, I got it all done. My brain is just like all over the place this morning. Yeah, family dinner nights being rescheduled to Sunday because of people's schedules, which is cool. I have a YouTube video short to edit me painting that. There will be a little bit longer version of said short over in the Patreon only YouTube channel. So if you wanna see those videos and there's a heck of a lot of them over there, old Crazy Island family content and stuff too, then you need to be a member of Patreon and the link is in the video description. So I would sure love the support for the free content here on the main channel. Anyway, so I have to do that and I guess since we're not doing dinner with the kids tonight, I guess that means we might go grocery shopping, maybe anyway, we'll see. That's it for the minute though. I need to finish the said bone broth and maybe have some food. I hope the wildness of today's morning has calmed down a little bit because I think I'm done with craziness today. I'll be back. It is just before 11 a.m. Saturday, January 21st. It was actually snowing this morning, but as you can see, it didn't stick. I don't think it's gonna stick. It's supposed to rain on, snow on and off today. And we might get more snow flurries on and off over the next week because temperatures are dropping again. We'll see if any of it sticks at all. That all being said, I think Bob and I are gonna go out and drive around, maybe do some more thrifting for stuff for the baby shower. Oh, non-thrifted thing. We need to find a teddy bear. So, I need to count tea cups to figure out how many more we need. And, because by the way, we're having a tea party for the baby shower. That's all I can think of at the moment, but it's possible I still need more coffee. Okay, I'll be back. Guys, we're out thrifting for the baby shower and we did actually, we stuffed the Good Will in McMinnville and we got all the plates that we need. We need some more tea cups, but we did pretty well. You guys, I found a Peshad box. $12.99. They cost a lot more than that and this is a proper heavy, thick wood one. I just, I'm not gonna stop using what I made because I like what I made, but I mean, come on. And I kind of wanted to set up one for my abstract watercolor painting, so I think that's what this new one will be because when I do the abstract watercolor painting, I use a larger wood block, a wood block, paper block, and larger format. So this I think will work really well. We'll open it up and I'll show you when I get home. Anyway, we have to go to a few more thrift stores. I'll be back. Hey guys, it is late, it's late, I don't know. 10.42 p.m., still Saturday. I love, oh, and we have a little stink bug in the house, dear. What? Stink bug. Bug, stink bug, stink bug, stink bug. There. You have the chair. Yeah. Anyway, we're getting ready to close the house up and go to bed and all that stuff. The kids are coming over tomorrow. I love my new art box. Oh my God, you guys. I never in my wildest dreams expected to find a box like that at the Goodwill. I mean, things like that do happen. They don't happen to me. $12 for something that is well over $100 brand new. I will link the new one down below. It is a great box. I've already set it up and done one painting on it. It is something that I can use here at home. I can take with me. It's a little bit on the big side. So if I'm doing sketch walks and some traveling I might still choose to take my smaller one, but I love it nonetheless. Anyway, it's time for bed now. We also got, we did really well on the tea cups. Everything's drying. So yeah, it's been a good day. It's been a good week. Anyway, I hope it's been good for you too. If you have questions, comments or concerns do leave them down below. If you wanna support the free content here on YouTube and other social media, join my Patreon. We do a monthly special thing with them. I do and some shares. I have a running chat with them constantly on Facebook, a private Facebook chat. They also have their own YouTube channel and they get copies of videos you guys don't get including some unedited things on how I do my abstract watercolor. So if you wanna see stuff like that, join Patreon. It's not that much, I swear. And it really will help me out. So anyway, that's it for right now. I hope you like, share and subscribe. I hope you go out and do something nice for yourself because you do deserve it. And I'll see you next week. Bye guys.