 God my hair. Good morning everybody. I don't know what time it is. I don't think it's 10 o'clock yet. Nine something? Let's see. Just before 10, 9 57 a.m. Bob and I are gonna go for a walk before we shower and get ready for the day. We're gonna just go get sweaty. It's a nice quiet Sunday at home and we don't have any pressing obligations which I enjoy. The closer we get into the holidays and months where we have a whole bunch of family birthdays and obligations I like to spend what time I can on days where we don't have any commitments or appointments just enjoying the quiet going for walks and not having you know the TV on and partying or reading a book or I think finding the quiet moments in the midst of the chaos of the upcoming holidays are important so anyway we're gonna start off on Sunday for a walk and do it before it rains because it's supposed to rain today but I don't think it's supposed to rain until later this afternoon so we're gonna go get our walk in and I'll be back from our walk my hair is just yeah anyway I'm gonna take a shower now and then have lunch but we met a very lovely woman out on our walk her name is Patty I'm gonna link her information down below her Facebook page it's an art business page she is an author a PhD and a fiber artist and she was cleaning out her garage studio space when we walked by and so we had a beautiful chat and you know she is really struggling getting it clean like most of us are where your art room and studio just get to a certain point and yeah so I just tried to give her some encouragement and said like if you need some help you know message me I gave her my information but I I did also say I understand if you don't do that because it's really difficult to have someone else help you with your creative space it's like really really difficult and you just wanted to do it yourself totally get it so anyway try to give her some tips but anyway beautiful woman when we walk by her house all the time her dog's always in the window and we always say hi to her puppy and yeah so I'm gonna take a shower now and then eat some lunch and then just veg for the rest of the day I think I'll be guys I don't know if this is gonna work or not but I was just there's an art room getting ready for um I think a quick little project I want to work on tomorrow while videos saving and loading and like all that my normal Monday morning stuff I found some sun print paper and that I kind of forgot I had so I'm gonna use it up I think well um I guess these are two new packs so there is I don't know how many people papers are in here I don't know but anyway I found two oh 12 there's so there's 24 sheets so I'm going to lay out as much of it as I can here on the kitchen island before I turn lights on that window I do have windows open I'm gonna put dried flowers on them you know I'm always pressing flowers in an old dictionary um so I don't think I need my normal sun print thing which is a piece of clear glass from a picture frame that I rigged up with foam in the back so I can put the feather flower whatever here put the sun print facing out on top of it close it up press it stick it this way in the sun and you get a sun print follow the directions I don't think I need this because my flowers are already flat that's really why I use this to keep things flat and from blowing away but we're going to try to do this in the house so we'll see how it works I'm going to put you down but keep you on and we'll take a look and see what happens some UV it's gonna they're going to have to sit here for a while so I'm going to set a 10 minute timer rather than five minutes I'm going to just let them sit here I'm in no hurry and then when they're done I will put all the dry foliage back in the folder it came out of and I will rinse them off for instructions and we'll let them dry sun prints they aren't kind of fun I'll let you know how they turn out I'll be back number 27 to 9 48 a.m don't get excited I'm looking at the computer we have already had morning meetings this morning that we needed to have Bob and I and I have just barely turned on the computer but I did update my video description and scheduling uh links time whatever for a collaboration that's going up on Wednesday the 29th so by the time this comes out it'll be out too um the RT trio I'm going to include a link to the Facebook group it's a collaboration I'm doing right now with Mike Deacon and Bea Grob and anyway so that's happening Mike has also created a animated gif that I can use on social media evidently so I need to do that and then the other Facebook group is messaging like crazy and like yeah my table behind me is kind of see whether it's full I have a project I'm working on some stuff for the patrons and supporters and also if there's any leftover I'm going to put a couple bundles of things in the Etsy shop so I have to work on that today um it's raining outside but just okay and we'll go walking at some point even though it's raining I'll put on my raincoat and um I need to go to the peer check down the PO box and stuff but I don't necessarily have to do it today so that's a thing um I might wait until tomorrow or Wednesday to do it our screen door finally came in for the sliding glass door and so the contractor's coming tomorrow to put that in and we need to pay him and then we need to find out when we can continue with the kitchen project because I need to empty all the kitchen cabinets um I need to figure out some stuff with the HOA it's just there's a lot of stuff it's Monday so welcome to Monday I'll be back guys it's 4 39 p.m and I spent the day making so many I told you I was going to make packages for the patrons and if I had enough leftover then I'm going to put some on the Etsy shop um yeah they're done I have I will have enough I think um but I went down a rabbit hole making uh library pockets like yeah I'm going to link a couple of videos below that I find really interesting with regards to making library pockets but yeah I think I'll be making more tomorrow I know like so I have my table is still full yeah it's but I'm using up some bits that I need to kind of use up I also have to scan all of the um sun prints I did yesterday um which I haven't scanned yet um but because I didn't I'm running I'm running out of time so in the day so everybody it's 11 55 a.m. Tuesday September 28th I think yes because tomorrow's Bob's birthday y'all can wish him happy birthday come on um I am here chatting with my friend Kathy Whitney she friend and supporter she walked away to go clean her art foemies I've been laminating more botanicals um like this and I was using them to make um library pockets yeah I don't know where I put the pocket that I was showing Kathy earlier but I'll put a picture of it here um whether you use them in a a paper cluster or a library pocket or um on a journal page I find it a little easier to have them laminated like this then you don't have to worry about glue or them crumbling or any of that they're already sealed in the lamination pouch and you can staple into the page you can wash you tape them for the page you could use the same kind of glue um or tape that you would use to tape down something sheer paper like vellum but yeah they would stick down really well or you could put it in a little pocket put a little pocket on the page and put it in the pocket so um I've been making a bunch of those because I do have a lot of dry foliage around I'm that person that walks in neighborhood and picks things and brings them home or shoves them in a book sometimes they mold and I have to throw away sometimes they turn out great so but I killed my laminating machine Kathy there she is there's Kathy so I killed my laminating machine she's yeah still laughing it I have to say it's not the first one I've killed and so I just had to order a new one so now I have to wait to laminate any more stuff so I guess I'll make more library pockets while we're talking because yeah I'll be back hey everybody it's 40 am Wednesday September 29th Mr. Bob's birthday everybody say happy birthday plug my dangly dangly thing back in so my sister could use it and that's done we're going to go run a few errands this morning I've got to go check on the peel box and stuff like that I've got so we're gonna go get that done I've also got to pick up prescriptions and all of that stuff the kids are going crazy with text messages this morning trying to figure out what to get Mr. Bob for his birthday they think shopping for me is bad he's worse I just to bring home and dry I forget to clean it off and there's bugs and stuff on it usually it's like spiders or nats or something gross right this time there was a ladybug how good is that anyway we saved her we put her on the flowers on the porch now I can go back and smush my flowers I'll be back obviously cannot stop making library pockets they're just a vert they're a takeoff on paper clusters in my opinion I am enjoying though adding a laminated botanical to it and a little feather I do as you just saw if you're watching this clip dry my own botanical things most of the time and then once they're good and dry then I laminate them into some plastic like this and as you know I burned up my heat laminator yesterday so I ordered anyone and then once I have a stack of those cut out I can use those and some of these anyway yeah so now I have to make a place to put these if you want a tutorial on how I dry found foliage found botanicals let me know I don't really know what I'm doing I know what works for me I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination but I can show you what I do if you're interested I don't know all right I'm gonna finish watching my soap opera and then we have an HLE meeting tonight and then we've got to go to the grocery store when Bob gets up and I'll be right everybody is 20 minutes to 10 a.m. Thursday morning September 30th we're headed upstairs finally after our morning spent catching up on daily drawing because I didn't do it yesterday I was just too dang tired to be honest by the time we got home from grocery shopping and had dinner and everything it was just a lot so anyway I caught it up I did yesterdays and todays which means I finished the journals for September and so one of the first things I need to do up here whoa after I put everything down and try really hard not to spill water on my computer because that would be bad is to put the September journals away prep the October ones and refill my downstairs little ephemera bag for up for next month set up and ready to go word lists have been paced on so I'm going to take these downstairs and then I also because we are nearing the end of the year ish I'm going to start looking at new daily art prompts for next year I know right because I am going to continue with daily art prompts am I going to do two journals I don't know um I might just do one am I going to do my own word list I doubt it but I think I will pick one or two sites and share them in my facebook with the lists that I am doing creating my own word list is just is a pain in the neck to be honest um plus I think there's a lot of other people out there on the internet who have done it better than me so I'm going to pick one or two sites and I'm going to print a bunch of word lists for myself I'm going to make note of the sites that I am printing lists from and I will probably be sharing them now in a post in my facebook art group a life of art and self-explanation I'm going to be continuing with mission inspiration for next year and a couple of other things if they pan out and so yeah I think there'll be plenty of art challenges and prompts for me to share with you all and for me to do every day so I don't think my shortage of that is going to be a problem all right I'll be back about three o'clock I used up all of my library prompts and I had in stock currently and they're all ready to go so whatever project or happy mail or whatever I decide to use them in next will be tags and tickets kind of things to go in there I did put the pieces and parts down here I really really needed to clean off the table for my own sanity but also I have a really bad habit of collecting pallets yes I know you're like what so I just oh that's a cute white plane oh that would be a great paint palette I actually stopped myself last week at the yard sales from buying another one because I really just don't need a lot of paint so I'm just going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to buy another one because I really just don't need another one I have these that are I have all of these then there's more one there just disclosing to you right now I've got one there see that pile oops of lids right there because I really need more they're great little disposable ones though um yeah so I need to I have no excuse I also have like you know I needed a pipette for something so instead of just getting one or two I don't even know if you can do that you have like pipettes for eternity do they need to be in the same box with the pallets so I don't I've got a couple of baskets of sort of art tool part things like these so I'm going to clean the both out because this is yeah this is much too much all right then maybe clean off the table so I can do some filming because I need to do that if not tomorrow sometime over the weekend or Monday or something soon right in between furnace people and discussions about getting a new furnace and air conditioner and yes evidently we're spending a nice big chunk of change doing that next week unexpected um in between all of that I got a good start on any project that I'm going to do for playing with art foamy's part two and I left one of said items blank so I can show you on camera what I'm doing so I mean I got that done I need to do some sketching I'm going to go check the mail just to get some steps and some pressure and dad's fiddling with bob's car and yeah all right I'll be back and bob are downstairs bob's on a little bit of work break you're going to be dad's going to be helping him with some car stuff while he's here we just went to run to the hardware store for some screws bolts I don't know parts for the car and while we were there some paint chips so this is Magnolia home by Joanna games chip and Joanna games they have these not only do they make a beautiful paint if you're going to buy paint for your house but they make these beautiful large paint chips that are great and they're great to art with and they're great to make tags with and they fit perfectly in our library pocket so I picked up some more um between furnace guys I was saying that I was working on some art foamy stuff this is the waste paper from the foamy's I was watercoloring with the art foamy's normally I would just tear that up I'm going to take this downstairs and take some black pen to it and do some drawing on it because it really inspires a particular something to do this drawing I don't know if you all can see it at least the bottom part how are you today it is Saturday morning October 2nd 9 28 a.m don't get excited I've looked already I've had all my coffee um dad is off doing some locksmithing work for a family friend in Canby and um yes my dad is a retired auto mechanic master machinist and locksmith a jack of all trades so to speak anyway he's off doing not this morning bob is working on the barracuda adding a spoiler to the front of time we forgot to get creamer and milk at the store on the other day so and we are almost out of both and I need to have creamer for my morning coffee so I am off to the store it's a few minutes after three o'clock in the afternoon in the evening in the afternoon dad's gone home we got a bunch of chores done at the house including all the Halloween decorations are up and now we're out for a walk get some steps in it's a beautiful Saturday yeah Saturday afternoon I was gonna say warm but it's not cold it's not warm it's just perfect in between I think it's 70 degrees out so 72 it's great anyway we're gonna go get some steps in and see what we can see I'll be back just found another painted rock with a bible verse on the back wait there we go today's my lucky day I found another one a campfire with some marshmallows roasting the back says trust in the Lord with all your heart proverbs three verse five cool I'm thinking it I really do need to like paint some rocks so okay I'll be bad I know it's dark hold on I just wanted to come out here and see what the Halloween lights look like from the front of the house and I'll tell me what you think on the windows we've got three little bloody candle operas and the windows we've got some fake dead people and of course it's us so we've got a fake dog and cat I also have a oops that's too close a dragon you know because you you can't have too many skeletons can you but of course we have our jars that we made last year inspired by Mike Deakin and those are candle operas that we have you can see from the outside we have our zombie people and our four horsemen of the apocalypse out so I think we're ready to go for Halloween well except for the candy part I hope you guys have had a great week and that you have a great week next week I hope stay creative stay healthy forgot what I was doing stay safe stay healthy stay creative holy cow check out the video description for all the relevant links and my link tree list of links has all the places you can follow me on social media ways to support the free content here on YouTube like my patreon and that I'm getting ready to send the patrons out some stuff and I know Sarah you just placed an order I'm probably going to put a note in yours and put yours in in your order and your order will go out tomorrow or Monday anyway I hope you all have a great one and you know if you have any particular kind of content that you'd like to see please let me know leave something down in the comments below don't forget to like share and subscribe and go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it right all right I'll see you next week bye guys