 Hey guys, happy Sunday. It is Sunday, May 10th, just after 3pm I think. Mother's Day here in the United States and it's been a good one. The kids came over for brunch and we had waffles and mimosas and I got some really great cards and gifts from Natalie the daughter of the husband. I got some gift cards for places that have good online sites for creative supplies. Yay, always my favorite thing. So I hope you're all having a good Sunday. It's nice to have a nice peaceful day. My corona hair is getting more and more obvious. I do think I'm going to have about that much chopped off the bottom when I can get in to get my hair cut. No, I'm not doing it myself. Hello. My hair is getting pretty long and it's getting pretty long anyway. It's pretty long and so I think I'm going to have quite a bit of it cut off. It'll grow back so I'm not too concerned anyway. Okay, so I wasn't sure I was going to do this but I'm going to do this. So I cleaned off my table behind me which it was way past time to clean the tray system out which is where I keep current small parts and bits that I want to use or projects that I'm working on. I cleaned it off. I also cleaned out the round tool caddy. There was a lot of stuff over here that didn't need to be. It does tend to sort of try to be a landing pad or anything that comes in the room. So and plus I'm still doing paper clips and of course watercolor but I'm also doing a lot of stitching. So I wanted to make room for my little stitch toolbox and a few other small bits on here and clear it off. The things I knew I was never going to use and are not going to go back over here into the small bits bank. So I have this, what size is this, medium flat rate priority mailbox. It's full of all the junk and bits off of the tray. There's a lot of junk journaling supplies in here, papers, magazine images. There's some painted papers by me, at least two pieces of artwork of mine, little bottles, stencil waste. There is so much stuff in here. I've forgotten all what's in here. Anyway, it's going to be for sale and if you're interested I'll put it in my Etsy store and you can, you know, pay for that. I'll send it to you. It's really heavy. I also have this which I'm going to let go of. This is a adult coloring book kit that I put together quite a while ago and I've discovered I really don't like adult coloring books. Probably the only one out there, right? There are two small adult coloring books in here. They're both the mindfulness coloring books and I have had them spiral bound. There is two big sets of these colored markers, Stabilo markers and then one small set of their neon colors. There is a bunch of, all of these are mini gel pens. There's also a box of color pencils. There's a pencil sharpener. So it's a complete adult coloring book kit with the case. You get it with the case and so that's also for sale. I'm going to list them in the Etsy shop. I'm going to take some pictures of at least of the coloring book. I already sealed the box so I don't know how I'm going to list that one but I'll find out. Anyway, the listings are below if you're interested. Let me know and when they're sold I'll mark them so and yeah. It's been an interesting morning. I had to call the post office about 40 times this morning. I think it was like 38 or 39 anyway because some packages that should have been delivered over the weekend were not delivered and then they were miss marked on informed delivery. One of them was marked that I don't live here anymore which obviously I do live here and our local post office just doesn't answer the phone and it's not a pandemic thing. It's just a our post office thing because yeah I had a problem with them a few months back before this whole pandemic thing started and I had trouble getting through to somebody then so and if my packages aren't in today's mail I'll be driving down to the post office to speak to them in person to find out where they're at. All right I'll be back. Okay, table cleanup is done. Rearrangement of said table is done and the junk journal art table cleanup mystery box along with the coloring book kit are both listed on Etsy and I found a piece of artwork while two that I want to scan so I found this one in a journal that I want to scan. I forgot I did that one. I love the way that turned out and then this is one of the two I did in the kids art painting video I'm going to scan that. The other one is in the junk journal mystery box so anyway. I also found my traveler's notebook. Well I'm going to finish that today that's going to be a project today before I do any more slow stitching or anything. I also have to catch up my positive affirmation voodoo doll for a mission inspiration and my deacons group and I also have the vlog and a couple of other short videos I filmed with my phone that we're filming on now that I need to edit so I'm going to have lunch first before I do all that and I'm going to check the security camera see if maybe I can see if the mailman's been here yet before I walk all the way down there again all right I'll be back today say before that it's Monday I don't think I did it's Monday May 11th I don't know if I did or not yeah this is one of the reasons why we love where we live this is like a couple blocks from our house one of the many creeks yep we just had some rain so it's full very pretty hey guys so it's I don't know what time it is it's Tuesday March 12th I think March holy cow May I wish I could blame that blame that on corona brain but I can't anyway in bo peace I finally got my thread in that I was waiting for this is Lisbeth Lisbeth size 10 crochet cotton color 184 it's a rainbow I will put the link to the site that I get this from below I've ordered from them in the past back when I did a lot more crocheting and I have a picture of my drawer of crochet thread which is sorted in rainbow order I'll put it here somewhere anyway they sent me my stuff I ordered in a very timely manner they sent me a couple samples of colors I didn't have that I was fun fact that I was looking at on their website but didn't order so thank you ladies for sending that or gentlemen for sending me that I appreciate it I will be tagging them in this post but yeah so I got my little spool of rainbow thread so I am going to do blanket stitch around the edge of this rainbow spool piece and then I'm going to I do have one of my steel crochet hooks out and although it's been a while since I did any crocheting especially this little I'm going to do something simple simple I might just do single crochet around the edge with a little pico I might do a shell stitch I'm not exactly sure yet I'm going to play it by ear and we'll see what happens and but I am going to do a little bit of a crocheted edge on this and then this piece will be done I did show in a clip I just filmed whether you see it or not I don't know but I did cover the center of the spool with a leftover piece of batting just to in the long term protect the fabric against anything that might be leaching out of the wood it will still be touching here but this has been sealed so I'll be doing that to all the spools I don't know if I need to but you know why not and then I don't know if I'll get to it today I might have to wait until tomorrow but this is the piece I just finished and I'm going to add some words to this piece which I haven't done yet so I picked out three fabric words to add to this piece and then I kind of have to decide if I want to do anything with the edge I might not on this one I might leave it undone I'm not sure yet but we're going to leave it sit for a minute while I finish the rainbow piece I also took apart a lace tablecloth I put together a very long time ago with a bunch of old pieces of lace and lace doilies and things that things that my grandmother made and my great-grandmother made I inherited when my grandmother died and we in the new house aren't using it on the table at all so I I had put it together in a way before that I could take it apart if I needed to or wanted to which I did so I sat today and took it apart and these are some of the little pieces that I'm going to be saving out to do with probably my next slow stitch piece probably on another spool and we do have the spools for sale in the Etsy shop and we have a couple of different fabric and trim bundles for sale in the Etsy shop if you want to get into some fabric collage you want to use it for junk journaling you want to do some slow stitching I'm collecting different things and making some packages if you're like me you're having you can't go thrifting I know some areas of the country things are open where I am they're not and maybe even if they are you don't feel safe doing that so I've been finding that I enjoy ordering things from the Etsy sellers and for the most part I'm getting really good service and good product and things are coming in a clean sanitized timely manner and that's been sort of my saving grace for for things you just in a prior clip saw me putting some fabric away I was running a little low on different colors of cotton fat quarters and so I ordered some tulip pink fabric which I'm really enjoying not only her video tutorials on YouTube but her fabric line is wonderful I love her designs and the quality of the fabric is really nice so I ordered some fat eights which is half of a quarter of a yard instead of half of a half of the yard which is a fat quarter so it gives me enough to do a slow stitching project and have sort of a variety of colors which is perfect anyway I love the idea of being able to order all of these things from Etsy which is what I've been doing so I am going to be making my own sort of fabric and trims section or slow stitch section in the Etsy store I don't know what I'm going to call it yet but I will link whatever it is I'll link it in the description below and as I go through my stash of things and decide what I just have too much of that I can package up for you all maybe it's fabric I've painted on or I've designed which I have in the fabric bundles or some fabric I've designed maybe it's trims maybe it's some grandma's lace in the packages I did today there's some of grandma's lace in there so I'm going to share the wealth and yeah there is a link below and a coupon code so I sure would appreciate the supporting of the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups we do through the end of May have stamps and stencils still on sale in the store it's just an inventory reduction I'm not going to stop designing stamps and stencils but we do need to have an inventory reduction a little bit so anyway I'm going to get back to blanket stitching I'm going to turn some music on I'm going to do some stitching we're coming up on two weeks since we've been to the grocery store so it's been like a week and a half or so we need to go again I don't know if we're going to go tonight or if I'm going to get up early and go tomorrow morning I don't know yet but I'll let you know I'm not looking forward to it either way I didn't look forward to it before the apocalypse happened no I really don't like it all right that's it for now I'll be back the desk at the computer y'all should know this by now anyway I've spent the entire morning making a bunch more I'll insert a picture here I am giving away and or selling them to friends and family asking for compensation for materials and things I can't afford really to give them away too much but I'm doing what I can when I can there's a lot of homemade masks out there in the community wherever you live I know but but some of people I know have trouble getting them or have are not leaving the house because they have medical issues and so they have trouble getting a hold of them so they're mostly the ones I'm making them for anyway I have a decent sized stash I won't say large because there's people I know around who have bigger ones like in the hundreds I don't have that many but I have 30 maybe if you're interested and you want to acquire a couple let me know fabric patterns are limited and I'll insert a picture here somewhere of the current ones I just did there are a few other patterns but if you're interested email me my emails down below anyway I am going to cut up the scrap fabric into little bits and there's some costumers and dress makers out there that do this and then they use the hold on small bits of fabric and thread and whatever as stuffing I like that idea and I actually have a slow stitch project in mind that if I can gather enough stuffing like I want to show how to do it using what you have like really really using what you have some of the bigger pieces of muzzle and I have a slow stitch spool project in mind I might save some of these for but a lot of them I'm just going to cut up into little pieces so yeah anyway that's my other thing for today after I get the mail it's raining outside again but it is Portland so what do you think is going to happen you know it's the land of much rain so anyway that's it right now you know staying at home doing art it's all you all we can do right all right I'll be back the costumers call it cabbage anyway it's a huge miracle that I got all of it into this jar that already had some in it if it doesn't explode at some point I'll be surprised cabbage you can't even throw the scraps away now because you might need them for stuffing I'm going to take a break from the art room and go get the mail and then I'll be back I got another spool project done I put this um edging on this piece I had some of this it's tatted handmade lace vintage piece of lace um I'll share with you my little stash I said before that um in a video or vlog or something you know I started out my creative life um in stitchery and seamstressing and both my grandmothers were steamstresses on both sides of the family and my dad's side I'm second generation Italian fyi and um they all um hand stitched and crocheted and tatted and knit and machine sewed all that stuff all those old world um embroidered and all of that stuff and I learned how to do that when I was um from a young age and that's how I started out my creative life was doing stitchery and over the years as I've done purges of craft things that I've tried and I don't enjoy anymore the one thing I usually don't purge very much of is the sewing needlework um um that includes my collection of vintage trims and vintage threads I wasn't quite sure why I'd hand that to my grandmas sewing box and all her old vintage threads um but I've discovered the love of silk buttonhole twist I've said this before on my channel I didn't know where I was living that I didn't know about silk thread and silk buttonhole twist um but I enjoy it in fact I used up a whole spool of grandma's buttonhole twist um so yeah that was a lot of fun I I used it up on this one and hang on one sec if I can get you here a good picture um these two large jars are from my family's store they my family when they first came to the United States had um um a store in San Francisco and actually the other side of the Italian family which is also second generation I'm second generation on that side too um they all had a store also that's how the family's met and they were in produce and the grocery business and these are from there I think my grandmother also had a lot of friends in the restaurant and deli business so when she passed away I found three of these in her stash um one is um living with my sister Elizabeth I've saved my two and I filled them up with vintage trims and over the years I have not purged anything from them in fact there's probably things in here I've forgotten about but as I am doing this love stitching thing I am going in here periodically and pulling trims and things out I have them stored on old-fashioned wooden clothes pins for the most part and um when I need to trim for something I go in here and I look around for something that'll work in fact I see a couple of trims if I'm not mistaken that might be from my wedding dress yes I made my wedding dress back in the day um so anyway so I keep them in here um yes they're in the window and that's probably not great for them but they've been in in a window for a long time and I'm facing the the woods near my house and there's not trust me this is Portland Portland woods there's not a lot of sunlight um so they're fine and if anything gets a little faded well that's just distressed right so I've got velvet ribbons and I've got vintage ribbons and new new things they're all mixed together anyway that's a fun way to store them and then on top of them live this that's all um stick pins decorative stick pins and this one is just sewing straight pins and um as I'm doing the spool projects I'm pulling out some of these decorative stick pins and that's what's what I'm holding it together with on the spool I figure I might as well use them I have a lot of them so anyway I'm enjoying rediscovering you know some of these things over here um that I've saved over the years and that I loved and I didn't have the heart to get rid of and now I know why because I wanted to use them on future projects so it's a lot of fun anyway it's probably pretty late and I probably ought to think about cooking dinner maybe all right I'll be back I haven't started dinner yet um I wanted to talk about him really quick so this is the bad boss voodoo doll I got a good will a few months ago um and when this whole pandemic apocalypse thing happened and Mike deacon over mission inspiration started putting out his quarantine quickies um as an art prompt for people when they're shut in um um I immediately thought well let me turn that quarantine quickies into some kind of positive affirmation word I can transform my little doll into a crazy positive affirmation doll and which is what I've done and he's boys he's running out of room I'm gonna run out of space pretty soon I have noticed on here that there's at least two words that are on here twice laughter and comfort I think those are the other only two it could be wrong um evidently I need those two really bad because they keep popping up um strength might also be on here twice so that's interesting it's my subconscious trying to tell me something anyway if you want to join Mike deacons um facebook group and um get his art prompts his mission inspiration prompts and be part of his community over there I'll link his group down in the description below of course my two facebook groups my creative year and a life of art and self-expression also have daily um drawing and art prompts in them all the time and my creative year has um video tutorials that only are seen over in my creative year so anyway um for which I need to film one more for me uh anyway uh good morning I think it's still morning yeah 1146 technically it's still morning uh Friday March 15th is that right oh yeah yeah okay so okay we got the ballots dropped off we got the package with masks in it mailed off to my sister we found out that the little p.o p.o the little post office in the um stationary store around the corner from our house with where our my business p.o box is at is actually closing and moving as of September and when the store reopens there will no longer be a post office in it so I need to get a new p.o box which requires going down to our main post office um which doesn't have the best customer service record yeah and so that's going to be fun so I'm gonna hey guys we're out walking uh the kids came over for dinner and we have lily uh with us we're trying not to get her we're trying to get her to not eat grass but you know it's an effort and futility anyway I got the old happy mail address deleted out of all the videos today I was able to use the bulk edit feature thank you youtube and I'll be going tomorrow to go get the new p.o box um I'll add that one to have it anyway that was an unexpected surprise today I'm gonna be working on some more slow stitching I set it up today I'll put a picture here with the birds and yeah it's been a quiet day but that's good all right I'll be back hey guys it is Saturday the 16th of May it's sometime in the morning I don't know what time the car's not on I don't know it's 10 30 ish I think anyway we went to the main post office here in town and got a new p.o box for the um art and etsy business because as I said I think yesterday that my little postal office annex is closing um I did find out last night that the lady who ran it passed away and the uh little card and gift shop that it's inside of is moving but they're not going to move the post office all very sad news but anyway I got a new p.o box so we'll be changing everything up today and then I need to go sometime next week to the old p.o box and turn in my keys and all that stuff so the husband taking a little walk to the mail box to check and see if the mailman's been here yet I've just been puttering around the house since we got home we are going to order take out from a restaurant we've been meaning to try since before the apocalypse started and um the husband asked earlier what's the worst that could happen and he should know better than to ask me that question because without even thinking you're batting an eyelash I said food poisoning with a dash of COVID-19 and he gave me the side eye and rolled his eyes at me all you wives out there who have husbands that do that you know or maybe husbands that have wives that do that you know exactly what I mean um yeah so that was a thing anyway we ordered our food and we are going to go pick it up we just ordered some basics like shrimp chow mein if they can't do that right then I give up on them for the other stuff um I will insert a text message or picture or something here and let you know I'll know how the food was and at this point I don't know but in editing I'll put something and uh yeah it's been a fun week I've really enjoyed slow stitching and finding new things to do at home and although we haven't gotten as much walking in as we would like because it's storming here again in the pacific northwest because you know land of much water is Portland I still managed to lose three pounds not sure how I did that but yeah so anyway hope you've had a good one don't forget to like share and subscribe check out the video description for ways to support the free content here on the youtube channel along with the new happy mail address we had to switch p.o boxes so the new address is down below if you want to send me happy mail I would I enjoy happy mail so you know um all of your favorite creatives here on youtube and over in the facebook all art groups all have ways to support them whether it's an Etsy shop or a patreon or a paypal tip jar myself included so check out mine if you can support I would appreciate it but also go to your favorite creatives and check it out and see if they have a way if they don't ask them because they might have one and they just don't advertise uh that's it right now stay safe stay healthy stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it we'll see you next week bye guys