 I wouldn't say good morning but it's 12, 12.20 p.m. just after lunch on Sunday August 27th. I spent some time this morning of course doing the usual Sunday morning chores but I also got my sweater, some granny squares and other stuff blocked. I got the table cleared off except for the current sewing project. I spent some time winding up balls of yarn putting them in their little yarn ball socks. So I have a tray right there of planned projects. Like all of that is like planned projects for the most part. If I can keep myself from getting distracted but you know that's a thing. Anyway good morning everybody. It's 11 45 a.m. Monday August 28th I think. I think so. Anyway I have to go run to the office supply store really quick. Mondays I don't usually like to leave the house or run errands. I didn't even put all my jewelry on but I add a printer paper nearly out of ink and I need a couple other things. So we're gonna go do that and then besides crocheting and trying to finish my sweater I'm currently working on. The only other thing I need to do is edit the vlog which we all know how much I love that. I've already had a quick check-in call with my dad. He's doing good. Getting ready for his October trip to Italy and he's doing another trip this week for a short period. I got to take him to the airport Wednesday. Who knew the man would travel so much in his 80s? I mean you know it's crazy anyway. It's all good. He's having fun enjoying life as it should be. Hey guys so vlog is edited and rendering and then I'll get it uploaded real quick to YouTube. I got a little crochet binder full of favorite patterns hints and notes that I can carry with me. I like that idea because it's customized to just what I need and want in my bag at any given time and I can change it up. There's a lot of really great patterns out there you can get for free but they have ads on them. I usually do that first, try it. If I don't like it I don't pay for the one with no ads that I can print and stick in the binder. If I do like it then I do. So there's been a couple that were not winners for me but anyway now that that's done I've consumed my bone broth, taken all my supplements, all of that jazzy and lunch. I hope I've eaten lunch. It's like what time is it? 2 36 not that late. Anyway I'm going to sit and have some water and work on finishing up this current sweater I'm working on and then figure out which one I'm going to work on next. Yeah all right that's it for the minute. Obviously it's like 80 plus degrees out still and I'm making sweaters at a bull. Yeah I know makes no sense I'm aware. I got you. All right I'll be back. We're gonna head out and get some steps in. We always say we're just gonna do a quick one just to the roundabout and back and then we always do more but I don't know we'll see you tonight. And Bob's got meetings on and off for different things until at least 7 30 tonight. It's only about six. I'm gonna go for a walk so I did get some crocheting down. I'm working on a new sweater with some wool I bought online and it's not as soft as the other wool but it's pretty good. So anyway before I get stuck into that project let's go get some exercise because I sure I did so well during COVID losing weight getting healthier reducing my meds and then we went on vacation to Hawaii and yeah so that was almost a year ago and while I haven't gained all the weight back I have gained a little bit of it back and that in itself bugs a crap out of me so I'm good at keeping my art on track for the most part I'm bad about my health so we need to work on that. All right let's go get some steps in and bonus probably get some art inspiration and see what we can see take some pictures I'll be back. Guys good morning it's 10 15 a.m. on Wednesday August 30th I think took my dad to the airport he's on a California trip to visit family and my brother and people and anyway I am running a couple errands on the way home I want to try a local small chain thrift store of course to see what kind of yarns they have I've never paid much attention when I've been in there before because I'm usually in there for something else but I heard a rumor that they might have one of my new favorite brands of yarn which is Cascade and yes normally I like thrifting for yarn or you know buying it at you know resale shops and stuff like that but I do buy new sometimes but I you know get new to be where I'm really old and picky and I don't like working with acrylic all the time I like the fancy like Angora and wool and yeah so anyway but it's really expensive if you buy it in a yarn only shop I don't know what the prices are like over here uh at craft warehouse but we're going to find out so let's go see and I got a couple other things I've got to do on the way home anyway so all right I'll be back good morning it is august 31st 904am exactly I am babysitting today he's not coming until 11 I have a bunch of things to do one of which is drop off some amazon returns so we're going to do that first and then I've got a schedule right and schedule some posts for the arts at trio group before I forget again because that was a thing and there's always always stuff once junior went home I went back to work on my sweater and took a break for dinner and cleaned up the house and did some laundry and bob went off to a masonic meeting and we did pretty good I got to the part where we have to go under the arms and then sew the body and then you go back and do the sleeves because this is an all one piece kind of no seams kind of thing anyway let me turn the camera go away these little pins are where when I do the next row that's where I do a chain to go under the arm and yeah so far so good I'm liking the yarn I'm liking the pattern I can see doing this pattern again um whether I do long sleeves or I end up doing a shorter or three quarter length sleeve I don't I don't know but the neckline is comfortable it's a nice wide neck and um it's real easy to follow the pattern yeah I really like it I'll link it down below it's from an atty shop so anyway yeah that's what I've been doing with my evening what about you all right I'll be back bob drove my car last night so now I need to spend five minutes readjusting everything the new truck we just bought has a driver one and two presets which when one of you is over six feet and one of you is like five foot two yeah it's a good thing so this Friday has just turned into a day of errands right now we're in the truck in the car again where I would say in the car again in the truck again um when we bought the truck they couldn't find the second key fob and um they said they'd keep looking for it and they did find it so we also discovered that the windshield wiper fluid um nozzle is disconnected or has a leak or they're disconnected so yeah so we're going to take it in they're going to fix it real quick and we're going to get the spare key and I spent this morning running a bunch of errands and it's a good thing I'm just planning on staying home tomorrow because I think I'll be working on my sweater tomorrow I don't think I'm going to be working on it today at all but you know well you know take a break yeah my hands might appreciate it yeah so all right so we went to the dealership they found the spare key they indeed had it they fixed what was wrong with the windshield um wiper fluid um took like five minutes and then on the way home we saw some it's in cars yeah we should have a dash cam I told Bob that I might have to get him one for Christmas we saw somebody who was being stupid and making an illegal lane change unsafely smacked into another car almost smacked into us and a car in front of us and kept driving I didn't have my phone out but yeah I did call the police and let them know we saw it anyway we're gonna go for a walk now you just never know what's gonna happen no I mean idiots in cars are everywhere if we were in that other lane we would have gotten rear-ended uh-huh we'd be having a different conversation right now yeah that new truck oh I'd be so pissed I will say two things yes he'd be very angry and two unfortunately wouldn't be the first time we had a new brand new car totaled within a few weeks of owning it I don't want to do that again anyway we're gonna go get some steps in and then have dinner I'll be back hey guys good morning it is Saturday morning September 2nd I forgot until today to do my monthly posts in my Facebook group and also over on Patreon I just remembered this morning so I didn't just now took some time and did them now Bob is over at the kids house helping them with construction as far as I'm aware I'm off duty from babysitting today unless I get a phone call and I'm gonna go run a couple of errands then we're gonna come back I'm gonna do some sorting and rearranging a little bit in the art room and work on some projects around here I've got chores to do stuff like that so not a super exciting day but that's okay we did start out the day with notification from ring from a neighbor that there was a whole bunch of police out on the road outside our community which is weird because although we get a lot of traffic through the community it's a very quiet community um one time you ever see police is when they're handing out traffic tickets so I don't know what that was about but yeah all right still don't know what that was about I asked on social media but I have no idea so anyway we're gonna go get a couple errands done and I'll be back I rearranged a few things in the art room really quick I got a call from the daughter can I go run an errand and pick something up for her so I got to go do that um but I got some stitching stuff out of the closet's over there and over here and I have a bunch of you know leftover yarn that are in there yarn what does my husband call them ball socks um and also mini skeins of mostly like acrylic yarn so they're in these two baskets here which is great because I can just grab them pull some colors when I want to try to use them up mostly I think these are going to become like granny squares and stuff um and then some stitching and blocking supplies down there ball winding supplies the big pieces that I need for that are in the closet which is fine that's where they kind of should be and that works much better than what was up there which is now in the closet which was a spare sewing machine and a couple other things they didn't need to be up there I haven't used them since before we moved so it's probably time to let them go but anyway I'm going to rearrange a couple more things sit and drink my coconut water and then I guess go run some errands for the daughter so I'll be back guys so yesterday on the way home from going to the dealership for the new truck and doing the couple things we needed to do over there I think I said on video last night that we saw a hit and run or a smash and dash or whatever you want to call it but in the middle of the freeway and not only did the person responsible leave without stopping but the person they hit followed them so that was interesting I didn't call and let the police know that that's going to go anywhere then on the way back from picking up a porch pickup for the daughter I did stop at two thrift stores no I didn't buy anything but I blatantly saw someone right in front of me running about light lucky they didn't have an accident they almost did and then a couple blocks down the road after that there's some person in front of me and to the right who the person who was driving waving their arms out the window I am not sure what was going on with that I don't I don't know I didn't buy anything at either thrift store and I feel like I just need to go home now because yeah that's a thing we're gonna go home we're gonna take our pills we're gonna have lunch by we I mean me but by all means if you need to do that you do too sit up in an art room and chill I need to go through a stack of books and magazines and I need to work on my sweater that I'm working on I also have some thick and chunky yarn that I had and or thrifted I think three of them are the same color one is black I think they'll all go together but I don't know what to make out of it so I also need to do some research for possibilities I think one of the skeins has a label on it hopefully but it is a chunky yarn so I know exciting and riveting but anyway all right meanwhile Mr. Bob is over at the kids house with my daughter's in-laws they the in-laws are in construction and architecture and all three of them are over there framing the new addition along with Paulias so well the men the guys are all framing I think the other grandmother is babysitting and daughter is working so and daughter's in real estate by the way here in the state of Oregon and if you are in the state of Oregon and you need a realtor let me know because I'll hook you up so there you go all right let's go home I'm hungry and it's very people-y because it's holiday weekend so yeah let's go home I'll be back all right for those that don't know because you're new to the channel and you think I just do sewing and needlework I don't I do do I do paint and draw some of those paintings you see behind me most of them are mine I also like to make I love watercolor primarily and I like to try experimenting with found pigments and pigments from things that I use every day or that I find nearby or on my travels and I had two items that I had gone through the whole process with and we're sitting in a corner of my art room for literally like three months two months I don't even know how long they've been sitting over here in this dark corner on the tool desk what was some red tea and the other one was dandelion flowers and finally today I took them there were plenty dried out believe me and I ground them up I took the tea and I added some butterfly pea flowers to it which you can drink and make tea out of but you can also they give you a really pretty like blue color so I added those to the red tea and I got this interesting like dark blue green colored paint with it and then the dandelion flowers I got this dark yellowy gold color so and those aren't proper swatches they're just like leftover from the mixing so I got finally got that done yay and I started going through some magazine I got a stash of magazines you guys I started going through them I need to do dishes I need to clean the kitchen so I'm going to head downstairs I'll probably do some crocheting down there and I think there's more magazines down there that I think I'm going to at some point bring up here and sit up here and go through them all but anyway yeah I got things cleaned and straightened on the table here is strictly my two sewing projects one I'm currently working on one I want to work on and the other thing is drying I've got some travel collage stuff over there on the ironing board I need to work on at some point I'm not doing any of those today but I do need to do that at some point I think that's it for the minute I'm going to check in with the husband see how the build is going at the kids house yeah it is seven or eight p.m. Bob is on his way home he should be here any minute I got a bunch of chores done I got the pigments that have been sitting forgot us how long done I'm just surprised got a few minor things rearranged in the art room to make me wait for current projects and inspiration the big fixtures in my room are perfect because when this happens and I'm focusing on something else I can switch out what's on the fixtures and that's perfect for me anyway I am sitting here listening to some YouTube and working on my sweater and I've got a couple of little goodies on the counter for Mr. Bob when he gets home for his new truck and it's all good we've had a good week always and enjoying life enjoying our grandson and all of it looking forward to next week we've got some fun stuff coming up so stay tuned and I'll get some creative videos out to you as soon as possible in the meantime don't forget to like share and subscribe check out the video description for relevant links ways to support the channel including my patreon we have our own private youtube channel a private facebook chat I send them links and downloads and stuff all the time so check that out and wow you know what I even have a happy mail address if you choose it's all in the video description but the most important thing is to go out and have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys