 Hey guys, how are you today? So we're here with another vlog and whoever you are out there that just does not like any of the vlogs on my channel or the Periscope videos, just go ahead and stop watching now and give it a thumbs down because you know you're going to anyway. So yeah, every single one of my vlogs and Periscope videos lately, they all get at least one thumbs down. I don't see, I never give thumbs down, FYI. If I don't care for a video that I've watched of somebody, I just stop watching. If I like the video, I give it a thumbs up and I make sure to make comments. But you know, I just, anyway, I don't know. It's puzzling. What's going on right now? I'm doing a few different collaborations. I guess they're collaborations technically. Two YouTube video hops and one Periscope TV thing and with a bunch of other artists. I have coming up on the 26th of September past the brush on Periscope. If you don't have Periscope, go to periscope.tv and download the app for your appropriate smartphone tablet device. It won't work on a desktop. At least not, right now I don't think. I'm doing a DigiHop for Poet Spice here on YouTube with her digital images on October 3rd, which I haven't filmed yet, but I'm prepping for that today. Hopefully I can film that tomorrow because I'd like to get these all filmed and that I can get filmed and loaded and scheduled and yeah, we'll see. And then on October 8th, I'm doing a video channel hop with Shannon Green and a bunch of other artists to promote some smaller channels, some really great smaller channels. I'm one of the biggies on the list. When did that happen? When? And I'm approaching 4,000 very quickly. I just, when I started this channel, had no idea that was gonna happen. It would be really cool if I could get to 5,000 before the end of the year. I don't know if that's gonna happen, but you guys all out there, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe and share with your friends. Promote my channel for me. That would be great. If you have a small channel, you'd like me to take a look at it and maybe add to my featured channel list on my channel's main page, by the way. I have a featured channel list, featured channels list. Holy cow, I can't speak today. And they're all small channels that are at the time of me adding them to the list where 500 subscribers or less. And really some really great channels and I'm gonna keep adding to the list. So the list may get a little long. And every once in a while, I will be probably editing the list and as these channels get to be over 500 removing them, not cause they're not still good channels, but the idea is to promote the little guys and, you know. So if you have a little channel or you know of a little channel that you'd like me to take a look at, send me the link. I'm happy to do that. What else? Lists of stuff that I've got video editing to do and... Always stuff, right? Always stuff. We had an incident, very strange incident with the sugar bowl this morning. All three of us went to bed last. There's only three people in my house. My husband, myself and our daughter went to bed last night. My sugar bowl was intact and one piece was sugar in it. Nobody is claiming responsibility for it, but when my husband got up this morning, the sugar bowl was broken. It was very weird. I only have three people in my house. It's very weird. I had to order a new one and I had to go to replacements.com to get it because you can't just buy one sugar bowl at the store. Yes, anyway, it's gonna cost me like 20 bucks to replace the sugar bowl. I don't know, it's very weird. I got some happy mail though on a less weird note. I got some more happy mail from Stephanie Parks in Auckland, New Zealand. And I love when she sends me these happy mail envelopes because not only do they come with all these really cool stamps, but the bags have this aboriginal design on them. So, so cool. So, let's get this opened. Let me get some scissors. I have no idea what this is and I wasn't expecting anything. She sends me some really great handmade stuff and she always wraps it up so nicely. Nice piece of chipboard. I know that it's just the packaging, Stephanie, but nice piece of thick chipboard. I don't have to say that. And a nice piece of bubble wrap. You know, we mixed media artists who never have enough bubble wrap, right? And then she said, look at this. I mean, this is, she just, everything is just wrapped to perfection. Another really great piece of really thick. It looks like a matte board. Fabulous, love it. Nice piece of corrugated cardboard. And I love, look at that, love that string. Here's an envelope with my name on it. Look at this paper. But you wish it was Feel-A-Vision TV where I wish you could feel this. It feels like a cotton fabric, the paper, like cotton rag. There is some book text in here. It feels like it's painted book text. Oh, they got a little stuck together. Probably because I bet you it got hot. Let me see if I can unstick it. So she's got her business card paper clipped on here and there's a nice note. And I'm going to read this off camera and I'll be right back. Okay, she sent me a really nice note on a piece of book text that she covered with Gesso and then kind of did a painting background, just plain painting background. And then she did her letter on top of it. That's a really great idea. And then she included this little small, look at that little embellishment, little bug. It's very cute. So she saw a video that I did recently where I talked about in-cheese and I had that in-cheese book that's full. I love in-cheese. And she got an idea for making an in-cheese book that she made for me. She also sent me some collage papers, some origami papers. These are all feather patterns. Okay, I have to share with you guys. These are origami papers, she says. Look at this. These are so cool, Stephanie. She also said she watched my lavender watercolor Wednesday painting recently where I did the lavender flowers and she enjoyed that very much. These are so cool. I love these. It sends me the best collage papers and tissue. These were wrapped in this piece of hand-painted, or handmade, I should say, paper that has real leaves in it. So cool. And this must be the book she's talking about. She said she went to the local cobbler and he helped her do some rivet something down on it, rivet the clip to the folder for me. I don't know what that means exactly, but we'll find out. Oh, I feel what it means. So it's wrapped in a piece of, this is the kind of paper I use for drop paper. It's like packing paper. And it's made out of a mucilix bar box, mucily, mucily bar box. More bubble wrap. And I love that that it's made out of a food box. And she, basically it's a little two-ring binder and look at this cover. I love the cover. And then inside, she's got a Tim Holtz. This is a Tim Holtz, I think, two-ring, or similar two-ring binder thing. And she had her cobbler rivet it to the cover for her. And then she created a inchy sheet protector. Look at that. She created an inchy sheet protector so I can just fill it up with the inches. And I could, it's a good idea. And I could make more of these and put more pages in. And then I have a binder full of inches. I love that. I love it. It's a great idea, fabulous idea. Thank you so much. You always send me the great gifts. It's wonderful. And I love the inches she put in here, by the way. Did you guys notice that? Look at the inches. Love that. All right. And yes, that is a great idea. I think that was brilliant. What else is happening today? Well, my desk is full of paper, as usual. I gotta work on Poet Spice's DigiHot video. And I've gotta edit some stuff on YouTube that has, oh, I bumped the camera, sorry, that has some problems with the descriptions underneath the video. I think that's it right now. I can't think of anything else. I need to get my hair done soon because, you know, it's turning white again. I think that's all right now. Anyway, having fun, just making art. You know, getting into a routine now that I am home full-time and just doing art full-time. Finding a routine in my schedule that takes care of myself, has time for art, has time for my family and all of that stuff. It's a big adjustment, but I'm working on it. And I think that's it right now. All right. You guys go out and have a great day, have a great week. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Do smart, go for a walk, eat some vegetables, eat your greens. My family has the hardest time eating leafy greens. They're good for you, though. All right. I'll talk to you all later. And, oh, I gotta film some collage videos because, yeah. All right. I'll talk to you all later. Bye.