 Just sitting home at the moment in the new house, and of course as you see no floor yet Don't get me started if you are in my group a life of art and self expression on Facebook Then you've seen my daily thoughts for the past Few days, you know How I feel about the floor and uping and and if you've been watching my YouTube channel for a while you could probably guess The San Jose house also hasn't sold yet again, don't get me started We're completely stressed out Bob's not feeling well on top of that partly probably because of the stress We were gonna go do some family stuff this afternoon But it involves a lot of driving and honestly Bob and I just aren't up to it So we're gonna stay home and chill I'm gonna be live on intervals of sanity later because I'm home. I wasn't gonna be home So it wasn't gonna be there, but I'm gonna be home and Yeah, if you all want to see the house, it's for sale if you're maybe interested in buying A home in San Jose I'm gonna include the MLS listing in the description below check it out and also there I have a video here on YouTube. Well, there's a few of them, but I'll click the latest video for the house down below At the time of filming this clip My cousin who still lives in San Jose is going to be doing a video walk-through tour for me and I'll be re-editing The current clip to include the video walk-through tour So when I have that if I have it before you guys see this I will be changing that and I'll make sure you have that link and if the house sells I'll put a text message here Let's hope it does. Yeah, that would be great Moving and selling homes is not for the faint of heart. That's for dang sure All right, that's it for the moment I'm gonna see if I can scrounge up smart supplies to play with because I needed outlet for all the stress I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. It is Monday morning October 15th 825 a.m. Don't get excited I'm sitting in front of the iPad and I almost still didn't know I Forget to look to be honest. I am waiting for the Contractors to come and continue working on our fence and retain surprise retaining wall that we didn't know about So they're gonna continue fixing that today tomorrow. Hopefully they get it done by tomorrow I don't know. We'll see then I've got a couple other things Associated to that that I want them to repair. So we'll see what happens Still waiting on a word from Lowe's. I'm gonna give them a little bit and If I don't hear from them in a little while, I'm gonna call them. We'll see I just want my floor in Anyway, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Hey guys. It is I Was gonna say the butt crack of dawn, but it's not even the butt crack of dawn yet. It's about 4 30 in the morning I'm at the Portland Airport and I am flying to San Francisco for an NPR conference for Yahoo small business That they called me at the last minute So I'm flying down there just for the day. I'm just completely insane. Anyway, yes I do do where some work for Yahoo bought small business every now and then so I anyway I'll be back. It's 6 23 p.m. I only know that because I'm sitting in the car. My makeup's past it Anyway, it was a good talk. I thought I did pretty well The Yahoo team seemed happy with I Would say my performance, but it wasn't a performance. It was just me being me There is another sort of NPR NPR. Yeah NPR. I think Entrepreneurship Building event something Yahoo small businesses participating in and coming up in February. I don't think they know where it's gonna be I may get invited. I don't know. We'll see We'll find out if they really like me they might invite me to do this again. That would be fun All right, that's it. I'm gonna go home because it's a way past time for that. Oh boy All right, I'll be back. Good morning everybody If I look tired, it's cuz I am It is Wednesday morning October 17th 828 a.m. The Computer helps me know what that is sometimes I Got in last time last night from San Francisco after my speaking engagement If you're seeing this you've seen some video footage and still some clips that I was able to take Anyway, I got in After six, I don't know. It was like 6 30 ish or something. I think it was seven o'clock before I got home Had some dinner did a couple things and then crashed This morning, I got a whole bunch of stuff to do because I'm headed out on another business trip tomorrow morning. I Know seriously, I don't even like flying Anyway, I'll tell you all about it when I can and yeah, it's gonna be interesting I'm editing last week's footage for the vlog slash moving diaries And I realized that I didn't film an ending. So that's fun So now I'm sitting here trying to decide if I should film an ending or should I just put a still frame? I think I'm gonna film a quick clip. So anyway, I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. It is again It's not even the butt crack. It's just still night 415 in the morning a.m. What day is it Thursday, October? Some October something 18th October 18th 18 I had to count We are headed to the airport again because yet again I am taking off on another business flight this time for a week and yeah This time week more than a week. It's like nine days eight nine days This time I got Fred to drive me Fred's driving so I don't have to leave my car Fred's got the house to himself, too. Yeah, so anyway Fred's partying. Fred's partying. Yeah, Fred's gonna be partying. Fred's partying. Bring up the lampshades. I will check in with y'all when I can It's gonna be a all-day flight. So yeah, I'll be back And can you all guess whose house I flew to yesterday to visit and for a working Retreat and collaboration for YouTube? Okay, can y'all guess? Y'all watch your channel. I'll give you a hint I'm in South Carolina. You guys guess in the comments below Anyway, I am sitting in her art room. She's getting ready for the day and then we have some packing and stuff to do Before we meet the other youtubers for the collaboration Retreat that we're having for the week. We'll be doing a lot of filming so there'll be video content coming up on my channel and others So yeah Anyway, that's a thing. I'll be back. I'm sitting here with the person who I was see I know most of you know who that is artsy endeavors. Yes So we're here picking up some more YouTube cohorts and we're here for a working vacation. So We're gonna just sit here and have some coffee We're in the Myrtle Beach Airport and we're gonna wait for the rest of them to get here I will try to catch them all on film We'll see what happens Some of them aren't crazy about being on camera. So we'll find out. Yeah, well, they're gonna get a pleasant awakening this week too late now All right, we'll be back. It's Monday October 22nd We're in South Carolina With the intervals of sanity art retreat Let's take out the garbage and I just saw that so I thought I'd film it and oh I promised I wouldn't get her face on camera, but one of my art cohorts is right here There you go. Anyway So, yeah, I couldn't resist filming this because I had no idea it was out here. All right, I'll be back So the retreat got off to some craziness remind me not to do any more retreat scare Halloween again We were given products to teach with and share and explore by Deco art Pentel stencil girl foilables among others and yes, we did dress up in costume Um, one of the other teachers at the retreat was Carla McCants and she paints these fun tumblers and We got to try the Deco art products on the tumblers and I decided to see if I could do a painting on one in the round Which I did it was a lot of fun to sit with all of my art students and teachers and Really explore the idea of painting these tumblers Most of us had never done it before so it was really fun to learn how to do it the proper way of painting them and Resonating them with epoxy resin when you're done and which is what Carla is showing here There's really an art for it's all it's not form all its own and it would be interesting to explore it in the future I look forward to maybe trying that. We'll see Then I realized we had some of the Deco art pouring medium and I thought one morning that I would sit and play with it because I have done quite a few pores But I'd never used the Deco art medium and I decided that I would play with it I will tell you that It was really fun I didn't have nearly as much time to play with it as I thought I would and it led to an impromptu class and At one point everybody was sitting around the table working on acrylic pouring. I will be Comparing it to Liquitex pouring medium Which I have here in the art room at home and I because I brought some of the Deco art home with me So look forward to future videos comparing the two The two or three little paintings that I ended up doing with it really turned out really interesting This one came out a little muddy But as it dried it actually turned really really red They do continue to change and to move around as they dry this one also did a lot of changing and I will share them in a future vlog I Do have them here somewhere. I think I put them away Using air quotes. You can't see me Anyway, it was a lot of fun and all of them got into Doing acrylic pours and learning how to do it learning how to mix the paint We didn't have exactly the right tools for it because it wasn't something that was really planned But we used what we had and we had a lot of fun doing it So I would tell you all if you want to try acrylic pouring and you're looking for a good affordable paint at range and pouring medium Check out the Deco art products. I'll link their website in the description below Their media fluid acrylics the traditions paints the Americana paints that we had and the pouring medium all worked really well All we had were these little cups were which were from making the tumblers and These cocktail stirrers which weren't Exactly what you should be using. I really do need a craft stick But anyway, it was a lot of fun There'll be a couple of still images of some other pours that were done right after this and a picture of the bottle of the pouring medium and Some of the media fluid acrylic paints Then I decided to try some of the Pentel products that we were given which included the pocket brush pen and I did a doodle with it impromptu doodle. I love this pen you guys by the way, and it is waterproof I also got to try the Americana mediums and Stencil girl stencil I do love stencil girl Karla McCants Decided to paint this little cabinet with one of my stencils and I also got to try foilables Which I'd never tried before and they were a lot of fun I also got to in some downtime sit and paint this face in my journal It was based on a peony and parakeet video I'd seen in some of my downtime while I was away I'll link the video in the description below along with the links to all of the companies that aided us in our retreat We also got to go out to a nice seafood restaurant with Jeff Utter Cindy's husband And just hang out and it was a buffet. So we ate way too much. We also painted our panties for the ovarian cancer fundraiser we're doing and then Chelsea Pegg Robinson and I took off to the beach One day and we happened to get there at just the right time between rainstorms It was a bit windy and chilly, but it was beautiful nonetheless I didn't realize being a west coaster Even though my husband had told me how green the ocean is on the other side of the country I know that's a weird thing, but my husband's from new york city He's been telling me the ocean on the other side of the country is green. It's not blue I didn't really believe him. Don't tell him. I said that anyway. It's a green. It's very olive green We had a lot of really great food out at a number of different restaurants while we were there I will try to link them in the description below along with all the companies that sponsored our trip Or gave us products to play with the trip home was a bit long and arduous, but I am Home finally and I came home to the new floor in the art room. So that's always a good thing I have been setting up the room since I got back and I will be sharing it with you all next week So it's been a long week and a half or so Filled with lots of plane flights and things like that. I didn't film all of it There just wasn't time to be honest, but I did take some still shots, which I have included if you're seeing this I'll try to do some little voiceovers of things too, but anyway, I am just exhausted Six planes in like a week and a half a lot of plane flights for somebody who doesn't like flying But I'm home. I'm going to stay here for a while. My art room floor is done So I'm going to spend the next few days just sort of hibernating and getting my art room set up and Things like that. So anyway fun adventures a lot of new things I've never done before Speaking at an NPR conference. Who knew I'd ever do that Flying to the east coast for an art retreat. Who knew I'd ever do that So anyway, it was really fun to meet up with people like All the ladies, but you know pig Robinson shell see Cindy udder Messy table studios scrap in life away Uh, I'm missing somebody. I know I am but I can't think who it is right now. I'm too tired So anyway, I'm gonna catch up on my sleep. I'm gonna have a good cup of coffee You saw the beautiful rain outside So, yeah It's a thing Have a great day. Have a great week everybody Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll bring you along on my adventures sitting at my art room and That's it for right now. See you later