 it's Sunday something I think it's the 24th maybe I think so just been doing stuff around the house watering plants and feeding the sourdough starter and making bread I was cleaning out some embroidery patterns that I had shoved in a folder like God knows when years ago and I'm doing a little bit more embroidery now as you all know so going through some patterns purging some things I'm never going to make so I don't mind doing the occasional embroidery cross stitch project but usually if it's not slow stitching then it's usually just something small so all those big giant charts that I had there yet I don't need to keep those found some more mini kits I'm going to work start working on one of those ish a night and my husband is upstairs he's absconded with my art room and my computer he is zoom chatting with his masonic friends from California and then we're going to go run a couple of errands and um I don't know cook dinner you know it's just a long low slow weekend right okay so I wanted to show you all what I did so I went and wrote all the color numbers down pulled out swatches of DMC floss and matched up um my swatches of floss with the color number that was on the chart so I know what each one of these is and then what I'm going to do I stuck the thread to one piece of tape see if I can do this if I'm messing everything up I'm gonna be pulled one off oops right where did this one go we'll figure that out in just a second so the idea is to do this with them so I know what each one is okay they're all marked and is this the best solution no probably not but I can use the floss the kit came with and not dig into my stash not that's a big deal I have a lot of floss but anyway it should all come marked you know when you get diamond paintings which is a newer newer craft thing all your little diamonds come marked can you imagine if you got a diamond painting and all the little diamonds just came in a bag all mixed together this is not that different so anyway all you cross stitch kit makers out there mark your floss I don't care if it's a little piece of tape mark the floss all right I'm gonna go back downstairs to stitching I'll be back all right so we're headed out for an evening walk we've had dinner this is take two yeah um I'm still working on the little bear counted cross stitch um kit I will say between these two little kits the mouse loft little small tiddlers kit that's there they have these line of mini kits called tiddlers anyway it went together very easily very quick this one's not going to be that quick and it might be a two-day project just from one little kit but we'll see um none of the kits that I've ever done have the floss colors labeled with the color number I really wish they would do that it's especially important when you have one like this that has six shades of brown in it which is part of what's frustrating me and I've already put one stitch of one color in the wrong place nobody else but me you'll ever notice but yeah all right we're gonna go walking and I'll be back well technically it's still morning so I can say good morning it's 11 44 a.m. monday may 25th memorial day here in the united states so anyway good morning um we're just having a lazy day lay in it is a holiday here in the state so my husband is off of work and I am getting ready to put my probiotic in my bottle of water I'm still working on that stupid little teddy bear from last night and the ada cloth um is just a lot smaller weave than I usually am comfortable working on I like the um so I'm not sure how much you're going to be able to tell but the the little um um texture the squares in the back of the fabric on the seahorse are much bigger than the ones on the bear and um yeah my eyes aren't that young anymore so and even when they were I usually avoided kits like this I think if I ever do this kit again I'll switch out the fabric um but there's a lot of shades of brown and it's a lot of color switching and when I'm done I'll show you the back but it's a freaking hot mess um my grandmother would be ashamed um she always said the back should look as neat as the front and just trust me it doesn't um and I've had to rip the stitches out a couple times because I miscounted and yeah I'm just he's turning out really cute I can see him coming out he's going to be really cute but yeah anyway I've done popcorn bear before who who is the character that this is but usually it's on a little big bigger weave of cloth and he's a little bit bigger and I think that if I do him again it will be on it I'll follow those same guidelines anyway I'm going to get back to stitching today is a finish this stitch day and edit video day so mostly I want to finish the stitch if I don't get the video edited I'm not too concerned I still have tomorrow before things need to air on YouTube so I'm going to get back to it I'll be back okay guys I got the little bear done holy cow so he's pretty cute there are a few mistakes but I think I finished the composition very well he's still very cute and I don't know that unless you sat here with the chart next to it and you counted you would probably find the mistakes and what is that little white thing in his paw over there I don't know I want to say maybe the edge of a blanket or something not actually sure but that was what the way it stitched in the chart so but my grandmother would be definitely disappointed are you ready let me wait so I'm not my backs have never been super clean so here's the seahorse the back of him is not too bad this is the little cat again the back's not too bad this one had so many thread changes and the pieces of thread embroidery thread embroidery floss they sent you were so short that you had to change all the time so here's the front pretty cute but here's the back it's just a freaking odd mess it's a good thing that I'm just going to glue him down to something or use him in a slow stitch or something because yeah that's just anyway on to the next I think the next thing I'm going to do is I have this kit for Winnie it's just Winnie the Pooh's head just his head in a sleeping cap hey guys good morning I think it's morning holy cow it is Tuesday May 26th if I'm not mistaken yes and it's technically still morning it's 11 40 a.m so there you go I spent the morning catching up on all of my writing I should have done yesterday for social media and scheduling posts and things I didn't I forgot I was so involved in embroidery yesterday and getting that stupid little bear done I mean he is cute but anyway that I forgot so I did it this morning and I'm working on some other embroidery and a tutorial and here's a quick sneak peek I've been using my rubber stamp line to stamp on fabric and then create embroidery did you know I have a rubber stamp line did you know I have a stencil line which you can also use to do what I'm doing today and did you know you could use rubber stamps on embroidery so I'm not going to give too many details away here but you can use your rubber stamps that you probably have in your collection and to create a design on fabric that you can embroider and then use in your slow stitching or in your fabric collage or in your art journals or whatever it's just a new different I think way of doing it well new to me anyways I'm going to film a video on it so watch my channel for that and I will be sharing some pictures on social media so if you're not following me on social media and you want to there's a link down in the video description that says link tree and then slash my name if you click on it you're going to find all my social media links and you can follow me you'll also find the link to my Etsy shop where you can buy my rubber stamps or stencils and support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups so yeah so I'm going to film this quick little video and then I need to edit last week's vlog because it's supposed to air tomorrow and I haven't even started yet and I think there's like two hours of video to go through and get it down to like 20 minutes so yeah I better get to it I'll be back morning it's still morning technically it's just before 11 a.m on Wednesday May 27th I think um got some laundry going you can hear in the background got the downstairs floors all swept it's a big house so that was a big job um and I got some computer work done I should be getting started on the day's art projects but I just can't concentrate because I'm starving so I'm gonna go have an early lunch and watch a little YouTube while I'm doing that and then we'll get started with some stitching or something all right I'll be back and Etsy order just came in I've had something to eat I'm feeling much better so we're gonna go upstairs and package upset Etsy order for shipping tomorrow and I've got my iPad in my hand or in my arm I'm gonna go upstairs and after I package up the order I'll sit and do some stitching I'm gonna listen to my friend Mike Deacon's vlog if you haven't heard of Mike Deacon he's a mixed media artist here on YouTube and he and his partner Ian both do art journal videos and things anyway he's got a weekly vlog I'll link his channel in the description below but I'm going to sit and listen to his vlog while I do some stitching and whatever other new YouTube videos I can find all right I'll be back okay stitching will have to wait because I put the wrong date on the Etsy order and now I gotta go run it over to the drop-off box it's only like 10 minutes away anyway I also today changed my Facebook profile picture at least temporarily to reflect one wearing a mask actually I'm wearing a head tube which I've also made knit head tubes to support and encourage people to do that a lot the same when they're out in public and so if you don't follow me on Facebook you won't know that but I encourage you to change your profile picture at least on Facebook pick a social media and change it to one with a mask um let's encourage each other to be safe yeah all right I will go get my thing dropped off and then we'll get to stitching all right I'll be back hey guys we're out headed for our annual evening walk I have a mask there's literally like no people around so I feel comfortable not having it on at the moment I was listening to Dr. Campbell earlier today and he says when you're outside in the fresh air unless it's really people-y you don't need one of these um but if it's very people-y he didn't use that word of course um no he didn't he's more way more educated than I am he didn't use the word people he said yeah he said if it if it's very crowded and there's a lot of other people around then you're unable to maintain social distance and you need to have one of these whether you're in the shops or not probably the fresh air and the breeze you're very unlikely to catch anything it's in the shops and in crowded situations you have to be worried about it's people like people like yeah anyway we are headed for a walk but usually as we get closer to the park that we walk near it gets pretty people-y to use a gina word so I bring one of these with me anyway we're gonna go see what we can see and get some steps in I don't know it's really hot outside but I might need ice cream when I get back you know I gotta work on my COVID-20 yeah all right yeah COVID-20 uh anyway and I have a stitch to work on I need to finish so all right I'll be back hey guys it is 10 30 ish a.m on thursday may 28th um I just got done a few minutes ago with watching um our joy of sharing's live broadcast and mounting a few more slow stitch pieces to um adhesive mounting board we'll walk into the art library and look all done it's a little dark so I mounted um our face our face the face I did to mounting board and it's all signed on the back and I mounted the lemon and I also mounted the feather yeah so now I'm going to I think work on the piece I was working on where sorry I dropped something let's just not film and record and try to move things around like all at the same time because it doesn't work um I think I finally know where the piece I'm gonna do that is um incorporating watercolor a watercolor painting into a slow stitch I know where it's going to go finally so I'm going to finish filming that film part three today um where we finish up that piece and do a tutorial with lots of talking and explaining um what else am I going to do today I don't know hey guys how are you today so I'm in the car again I've got my mask it's over that way got my hand sanitizer there's clock swipes in the back I'm all ready to go so I don't know for those who are unaware and I've got my corona hair um I don't know it's really long I have to get it cut but yeah anyway and you know it's a couple different colors to say that you're precariously perched on some decor on my dresser is probably the understatement of the century just saying anyway we are here in my bedroom I should be doing other things I have plenty of art projects mulling around in my mind laid out on the table parts pulled for different things but what am I doing I'm in my bedroom with a garbage bag I just have this urge to purge some clothes um when we moved like with other things like the art supplies at some point I got tired of purging things and going through things and I just said just pack it just pack it I don't care just pack it I'll deal with it later a year and a half later I solved that with all of it and I think it's time to go through my clothes and my dresser and I've done certain sections like my sock drawer and that sort of thing my tank tops and undershirts and all of that but I haven't done other areas so I think I'm going to do that today and I'm going to leave you purged here while I go through the dresser because y'all don't need to see my underwear drawer sorry um but I've already done that I already said I have already done in there I have a few shirts and I've already done those drawers actually before the apocalypse happened right around Christmas but it's been a while since I've done the closet and there's sections in there I haven't done ever since before we moved so all right let's get it done I know for a fact there's some things in there I'm never going to wear again I don't know if you caught it there's my pile of get rid of it's kind of bigger than I thought it was going to be and I found four pair of pants that are too big okay last saw Shannon green at creativity uh before I moved was that 2017 2018 2017 I don't remember now anyway Shannon I was significantly evidently fatter than I am now I'm still not thin but I went down a couple pants sizes didn't know that found a couple that did fit that I didn't think we're going to so I thought they were going to be too small go figure all right well so the almost sudden law is doing laps the rest of us are just watching them yeah we're watching him do laps he's doing a good job yeah I'm not doing laps anyway we're hanging out at the park we're out for our evening walk and I think I'm going to go sit in the bench over there I don't have my mask on because there's not that many people but also because I was collecting things and they're in my mask I know it's it's corona I know I'm aware it's not the brightest thing but I'll soak everything in alcohol when I get home what can I drink it soak it so yeah I don't know what to tell you uh yeah anyway I'm going to go find that bench and I'm going to have a seat and I'll be back hey guys I would say good morning but as I wake up the computer I am pretty sure it's after one o'clock let's see shall we oh yeah 1 16 p.m saturday ma not march may 30th only go um the space x capsule launched successfully a little while ago congratulations to everybody involved and good luck to our astronauts stay safe um it's been a crazy 24 hours or more it's even a crazy week um a little while ago I posted to my personal page page personal page personal facebook page and my facebook art group a life of art and self expression a statement regarding the current world situation and if you've seen it and you've read it and you've stayed and you've liked it and agreed with it thank you if you have read it and you've unfriended me or left the facebook group well I'm probably not the person for you before you all get in a huff let me read the statement to you and you can decide if you want to continue to follow me here on youtube or not it's up to you it's your choice this is this was posted by me to my art group where I talk about my journey through life and creativity where I encourage you all to do the same where we try to keep politics and religion out of it but in these trying times that isn't always possible I am disappointed in humanity for not standing up and being better about the injustice and the virus the riots and destruction the lack of concern for social distance and masks all of it is disappointing and not constructive your skin color religion nationality or sexual orientation should have nothing to do with having equal rights to happiness health and safety I come from a place where I own my family's historical mistakes one branch has been here in the united states since the beginning before even does that mean slavery was part of the equation yes and I'm ashamed of that but it wasn't my mistake and I definitely don't agree with it and trust me when I say that that branch of the family was batshit crazy some still are in more recent generations only two removed from me one side actively hated the other because they were catholic another choice that makes no sense to me let's try to be better yes stand up for justice and what's right destruction and violence however are not the answer so that's my statement in its entirety and hopefully the majority of you agree with it more than disagree I don't believe in the destruction and violence that doesn't get your point across someone once told me a very long time ago when they were confronted with a very difficult situation that most of us would just go flying off the handle about myself included in her very southern accent which I'm not going to try to mimic she said darling you always catch way more flies with honey than you do vinegar I'll never forget that whether it's true or not I'll never forget that she said that kill him with kindness is another one does that mean we shouldn't stand up for what's right we shouldn't stand up for justice and humanity of course not we should stand up for those things we need to stand up for those things but the destruction and the violence isn't going to help you be taken seriously in fact if anything in my opinion it does the opposite and it's also very selfish I think not wearing a mask in public when you know that you could be keeping your germs to yourself and not affecting those around you whether you think you're sick or not is selfish not keeping social distance again because you don't think it's necessarily necessary because you don't think you're sick is selfish I have very strong opinions about these things I usually keep my them to myself but in light of everything else that's happened on top of the virus I think it's way past time I say something so everyone has equal rights I don't care what you do behind the privacy of your bedroom door I don't care who to whom you do it with as long as it's mutually consenting you have the right to love who you love and that's none of my business and I'm not going to think less of you or not be your friend because it's different than mine because your skin color is different than mine because you're from a different nationality or a different religion than me I have friends of all of those things and I am not closed-minded enough to think my way is the only way in fact I'd like to think I'm not closed-minded at all I think we need to need to be more encouraging and supportive of each other and considerate of each other than way more than we have been especially lately this pandemic has brought out the best but also the worst in our human society and I'm talking about a bigger scope than my country and the world as in general it's about bigger it's bigger than politics racism is bigger than politics although that has a part in it it's bigger than politics and it needs to just stop we need to be done and if you don't agree with that maybe it's time for you to not be on my channel anymore sorry to say anyway I hope you're not like that I hope you're staying in your and you're supportive and you stay for the creativity and I'm really having a lot of fun and exploring my beginnings and my love of stitching and incorporating that into other works I do share what I'm doing daily on social media so if you want to see what I'm up to daily and maybe get a sneak peek about videos that are coming up my social media links are down below in the link tree list of links which is down below so hey guys it's about 9 30 on Saturday night and it's been rainy most of the day it's barely drizzling right now um so yay oh boy you can really see my corona hair can't you uh anyway it's been a weird week again been a weird week I said that already I haven't gotten any art done today um for no good excuse just I had I just haven't we started the morning by sleeping in and then um we just puttered around the house and I did some chores and I had to go check the the p.o. box and it's just been a weird day I'm going to try to do a little bit of stitching and some drawing before I go to bed but we'll see what happens and uh yeah I hope you all had an okay week it's been an okay week it's just it's weird the whole apocalypse is weird let's just face facts but I'm trying to stay creative stay motivated and you know do things that I've been putting off there's no time like the present right um remembering to tell those I love that I do love them that I care about them that I support them in all things and um be there to hear them when they need me to so I hope I'm doing a good job I'm trying I don't know I am filming a lot with my phone for a video for YouTube and so some for patreon too so if the tutorials start looking sort of more vlog style tutorials now you know because I'm filming them with the phone um I don't know what's up with that again it's been a weird week so I'm not exactly sure but it is a thing fly um so anyway I think that's it for now I hope that you like share and subscribe and that um there's not a max exodus from my channel we'll we'll see um that you like the new upcoming content and I guess we'll see if you have any questions comments or concerns please do leave them down below but be nice um I invite discussions even on contrary opinions as long as they're nice polite healthy discussions nastiness is not needed so um if you want to support or can't support the fleet free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups please do so I would appreciate it information on how to do that is down below and if you have some favorite creators I know they would love the support they probably have a way check out their video description and do so if you can and most of us not only do free content here on facebook but we do it on instagram and uh here on facebook holy cow here on youtube but we do it on facebook and instagram and all that stuff so check out their video descriptions and mine see how you can support and if you can't find a way ask because they probably have one they just don't advertise so that's it anyway just for this week you guys stay safe stay healthy stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it maybe do something nice for somebody else because they deserve it too it's been a tough week all right that's it i'll see you later bye