 Oh that's better. The going in and out is going to make me crazy. Hey Lisa. So I'm going to take it off of autofocus because that going in and out thing is going to make me nuts. Let's give it a second to catch up to what I just did and see if that helps. Maybe that stops the in and out. I've got to learn the new webcam because now it's all different. I bought it and went out to go out and buy a new one because evidently one of the problems was the old one died. It's still going in and out. Maybe it's the follow my face. So let's try that. It's still going in and out. I don't know how to make it not do that. There's my room behind me cluttered messy. Oh maybe we fixed it. Maybe? Maybe? No more in and out? Oh my God. I have such a black technology thumb. I got to tell you. It might just be you and me chatting Lisa, but that's all right. We fixed it. No follow my face. So the old one is under. I've only had it a couple weeks. So we're going to be taking that back. So anyway, I'm scanning all the pages from this morning because you know I'm like way behind. It's a good thing that I'm not in a hurry this week to get like my to-do list done because it's just not happening. It's just not happening. Holy cow. Did you have any questions from the debacle that was Watercolor Wednesday this morning that you didn't get answered? It's just you and me right now. That's okay. I don't mind. I like chatting with you and I am able to scan and be live at the same time. That's a new thing. I was worried that my computer wouldn't have enough resources to do that, but that's not the case. I have to update this all these pages later. I got to tell you guys I really like the way those Sennelier colors turned out. Let me see what you guys are seeing. So these are really pretty and this is, you know, this test here, we used three different, there we go, different watercolors colors besides the standard yellow, red, and blue. We used one that was more of a pink and more of a turquoise with the yellow. I like the color range that we got. I might have to try this with some similar Daniel Smith colors. Yeah, I've only had it a couple of weeks. I just have to fill out the paperwork and it's going to get sent back. Then I just went across the street to my local staples, which I should have done in the first place. They know me over there. I bought this Logitech one and I just had to fiddle with the settings a little bit to figure out how to work it, basically, because, you know, me and my black technology thumb. But I got it figured out. So I wasn't sure what was going on this morning. The husband helped me remotely from work. He's so funny. He said, well, did you check this and isn't that? No. Well, why don't you do that and then call me back? Yeah, I like those colors. When we do these color tests, we usually use something that's more like a true red, a true yellow, and a true blue. But like I've been saying all along, we should use other colors and see what we get. One of the things I like about this test that we are doing is this unexpected like this, where we used more of a pink and a turquoise with yellow and look at those colors that we got. So I can't wait to do that with Daniel Smith. Yeah, let's hope so. It's technology. So it should be okay as long as it's under 30 days. I get the square, what is it? Square trade warranties now on everything. Electronic stuff, because me and my black technology thumb. So I'm not techie either, but I'm married to a techie. So that helps. And then one of my friends and admins, Michelle from Lady Blue Studios, is very techie. I just wish she didn't live a few states away because during the day, she's home like I'm home. So it'd be nice if we were closer. She can come help me when I'm like, Michelle, because I can paint your pretty pictures, but as far as the rest of it goes, uh-oh, did we freeze? I think we're unfrozen. Give it a second. Let's see. I'm not frozen in Google. Am I just frozen on? Here we go. Yeah, thank you. I was, my anxiety was starting to get the better of me, I do admit. Those kind of stresses I just don't handle well anymore, but I did my best. Trying to take a lot of deep breaths is what I tell you guys to do all the time. Oh, I know, you know, I keep being told that I should switch to a Mac book or a Mac desktop for all this video editing and everything. And while I don't disagree with that, the idea, the thought of it terrifies me because that means I have to learn all this new stuff. Um, I'm, I'm not sure about that. I don't know. And to top it all off, I might be going back to school. So, um, I don't know. I think I can only do one big change at a time. It's going to be have to be school or the computer. And that's it. Hey, Cheryl, we're kind of on the air live for just a Q and A for a little while because I had some major technology issues this morning. I don't know if you're aware of my new webcam decided to stop working. So I had to go out and buy a new one. Yeah, Lisa, you know what? I have trouble with auto correct, much less with, um, um, the auto typing by your voice thing. Like, are you kidding me? I can't, I have trouble plugging wires in the right place. Like, let's just not go there. I still like envelopes at the ATM machine, keys in the car and paper, paper calendars. So, you know, I don't know. Well, I wanted to come on once I bought the new webcam and just do a little Q and A. We did get all of our, um, tests done. Um, I finished up the broadcast on Periscope, which means that some of the video is going to be, you know, the screen will be small. Oh, okay. I haven't, I actually am able, being at the desk, the nice thing about being at the desk is that I can be, I can look at Facebook and stuff. But if I do that, then I don't see what you're typing. Um, so anyway, now I forgot what I was saying. Oh, so because I finished up the broadcast on Periscope, the screen is going to, the picture will be a little smaller than the screen. But I'm going to download the live video and I'm going to attach it to the Periscope video, except that I did have the HD camera on, so I may use that footage. If I do, there won't be any screen resolution issues. It's just a matter of getting the footage off the camera because, um, the new camera works great, great picture and everything easy to use. But downloading the footage takes a million years in a day. So I figured I'd just wait a little bit. I'd do this, kind of chitchat with you guys, you know, kind of drag my feet a little bit and then, you know, in a little while while I'm watching General Hospital and getting ready for whatever I'm going to cook for dinner, which I have no idea because I didn't pull anything out of the freezer because I thought I'd do it after I was done broadcasting and that just blew up in my face. I don't know. Anyway, I'll get that all taken care of hopefully tonight. And also the links on the website for the two, for the three brands that we did today. And Lisa, for what, what, Lisa, I'm not sure what you're asking. I saw your post, Cheryl, in Crazy Island Family, right back at you. I love you guys too. You put up with me and all my craziness, so it's not to love. Let's see. So that's caught up on all the comments. You know, I haven't done anything. This is me with no makeup. I barely put product in my hair. I've been just trying to eat better and go to the gym three to six days a week and get on the treadmill. And just, you know, that honestly, that's it. I haven't done anything else. I barely got like any cream or anything on my face. Yes, I do use a little face cream, not a lot. But as I've gotten older and now I'm in, you know, menopausal, one of the things that you find out that changes about you is if you had oily skin, you like get dry skin or you can. And that's definitely happened to me. My hair used to be straight. When I was a kid, I could show you pictures. I had straight hair, a little bit of a wave, but not too much. And as I get older, it just gets curlier, which is hilarious. That's how you can tell. As the years go by and you see me on YouTube people. Oh, I'll answer that in a minute, Lisa. As the years go by and you see me on YouTube people, my hair gets curlier. It's not because I've done anything to it. It's because it's grayer. So I am going to be going back to school. It looks like I think that I'm going to choose to take classes that will benefit the art business part of art. And I think that I am going to do things like maybe take an Adobe class. Back in the day, I was taking classes, trying to get a degree in early child development and counseling. And I had my daughter and stopped that. I'll answer that in a minute. Hello. So I'm really not in the same space I was then. So I don't see me going back to try to finish that. But I could see me taking, although I might end up with more gray hair or pull some out, computer class or to photography class, maybe something like that. And my daughter is in social media advertising. And she's getting a degree in advertising and marketing. And so she's helping me recommend class and classes she thinks that I could benefit from. As long as I go to a different school, she said, we don't end up at the same school. Yes, menopause definitely changes your skin. You know, it's one of those things that I don't remember any of the doctors ever saying anything to me. And I'm leaning down because I'm scanning the pages from this morning's craziness that was Watercolor Wednesday. It's one of the many things that I don't remember the doctor saying. I mean, they talked about, you know, weight gain and mood swings. Nobody mentioned my skin changing so much. It's a lot drier when I do get patches of breakouts, which I still do in my 50s. Can you believe that? And that's not abnormal either. They're harder to get rid of. It's harder to lose weight, but that's a known common problem. Let's see, let me crop that a little bit. Save. We have 20 pages of tests now after this next scan. Okay, last page is scanning now, and then I'll be able to put them up on the website. So yeah, so that's different. And your hair, the gray hair when it comes in is a different texture usually than what you had originally. And that's definitely true for me. It's way curlier than it used to be. But yeah, I haven't done anything like, ah, I'm having a checkup in a few weeks. And I was going to ask about that. So I might have to get some of the vitamin C. If I can just get video downloaded off the camera today and I can get the website updated, I'll be a happy camper. Doesn't mean I might be spending all day tomorrow editing, but that's okay, I guess. So so far, I still am, I still love Daniel Smith. They'll always be my favorite, but boy, there's so many other great paints out there. Yay, last one. Woohoo! Oh, thank you. Well, you know, I love sharing the art. You guys all know that. I'm not on YouTube to make tons of money or anything. It's nice if I make some, but it's not, I just like sharing about art. If I didn't, I wouldn't have the Facebook group. Okay, so now our book is all scanned. My book. I have to do my inventory things in the back. I haven't done them yet because of everything else that happened. Let's see. Okay, I don't want to take a chance on downloading the video camera because I have a feeling that might fight with the webcam. So we're going to wait on that. I did remember to take the tripod little thing off of the webcam before I boxed it up. The old broken one. And you know, I live in San Jose, California. So I toyed with the idea of just exchanging the broken one for another one to have a backup, but I literally live two blocks from Staples. Like I could walk there. So I'm not going to do that. Best Buy is not far away. It's like two miles. Who else? I think that's all. You guys have any questions besides me going back to school? Let's see. Oh, I am looking for more from local people than from people mailing them to me. But if you want to mail some to me, then I would send you back one of them with something in it. So I am looking. So I wanted to make up more of these little watercolor sample kits for Etsy. Like this one here. Oops. Oh, that one's going to have to be not be sold. That one tore, got stuck. Oops. All right. Well, I might have to give this one away because now it's got stuck. But I'm looking for more of these little gum things. And Michelle and I found a place where I could order them from, but you have to get like a container full. That's that's a lot of gum things. So if you guys eat gum, save me the little trays. And if you send me a box full of them, I will send you back one with some paint in it. This one might be have to go in Happy Mail. It's all sticky. I don't know why it's sticky. Hopefully the one I just mailed out is not sticky. Because I just mailed one out. Let's see. Let's sign in to Etsy while we're here. Oh, my rubber stamps are stuck in Pennsylvania. I'll hold it up closer, Cheryl. My rubber stamps are stuck in Pennsylvania. They're supposed to be priority mail. I was supposed to get a Monday. I still don't have them yet. You know, these kind of gum things, these little trays, the little blue. This one got all stuck. So it might end up in Happy Mail because look, it got all, when I opened it, it got all stuck to the yellow, got stuck to the purple swatch. Or I'll have to make a new color key or something. So I have to fix this one. So yeah, so my rubber stamps, those of you who have ordered the rubber stamps, they're stuck in Pennsylvania. I don't know why they're stuck in Pennsylvania, but they're stuck in Pennsylvania. I don't know. I don't know what's up with that. It's supposed to be priority mail, you know, two to three business days. And that was Monday. It was supposed to be here Monday. Still in Pennsylvania. I don't know why. Yeah, it's just, it's aggravating. It's just one more thing this week that didn't exactly quite go is how I was expecting it. And, you know, I'm learning to just let that go because anything else just stresses me out too much. There's nothing I could do about it. Let's see. Let's find the webcam on here. There we go. This is cool because I can like chat with you guys while I'm doing other stuff. Yeah, I have everybody on my desk here who ordered. And as soon as, you're going to all get some kind of little gift in there too for waiting, not only for pre-ordering, but now for waiting. Yeah, for waiting, for having to wait now is now that they're like in Pennsylvania. Every day I check multiple times to see if they've like departed Pennsylvania. They're supposed to scan them in each step, you know, like UPS does. They don't always though. But I checked with my girls at my postal place where I pick up all the mail and yeah, she said, no, we haven't gotten anything yet. Thank you so much, Lisa. Yeah, I could use some more. I want to, I want to, I may sell some of these little sample paint sets, but mostly I want to share some of my favorite colors and happy mail, but I don't chew gum. And my husband does. So I may go pick up a couple packs and just pop all the little gums out so that I can do that. But I would sure like some more and like to have like a back stock. So yeah, if you guys chew gum and you want to save me some, that would be great. No worries, Cheryl. I haven't, you know, I signed up for a life book and I have not yet started its March. So talk about behind. I understand. Of course not. You know, it's kind of like, I think that I haven't looked at the website yet, but from what I've heard that Koi has basically the same thing where they say, yes, our paints are light fast, but they don't tell you how much they're light fast or anything else, not from what I've heard. So I have to look and see if that's true, but I wouldn't be surprised. And they may not know from the manufacturer. So I can, I can choose to return said item. I have to decide how I want to reach return said item. UPS pickup, Amazon drop off. If I do Amazon drop off, then I don't have to make sure I'm home because with my luck, they'll come when I'm picking up the mail. Holy cow. UPS pickup. Let's see. Is there a drop off near me? Okay, I can drop off at my postal place. I like that. Yeah, see, I was talking about this to Cindy utter my friend Cindy. She's one of the ones meeting me in Las Vegas. And we hate we've decided we hate the post office. Oh, I thought, you know, I always send little thank you notes and stuff in all of the packages. So whenever you're ready, Cheryl, I hate to say this because I'm already my, but this is all my brain works. You'll see in April a explorations of me page come out here on YouTube with Cindy. And as I was doing the page, I accidentally I think started designing a new set of birds. So it's not going to be coming out anytime soon. But yeah, holy moly. Let's see, let's do UPS drop off. Let's do that. I love my UPS man too, Mr. Mark, our favorite man in brown. We love Mark. But he's he services my post office that I pick up at too. So postal annex. So I see him there a lot. I don't get things to the house here anymore. Now that I am on YouTube, see how many times do I have to hit print? Oh, there we go. Okay, printing my return label. Yay. So the one I bought, I once I I should have done this the first time, but the first time I was even more frantic than this time. I googled best HD webcam. And according to a couple of different surveys, the best one is by Logitech, and it's the C920. It is kind of a pricey webcam. But that's the one I bought. And I'm going to get the square trade warranty thing on it here in a minute. I'm going to do that next. Thanks. I'm just me. I get excited when things go right. All right, so that's that. Holy moly. Okay, anything else? I think that's it right now. That is it on my desk anyways. So yeah, so I'm meeting a few art people in Las Vegas that was mentioned kind of this morning in between the craziness that was this morning. And we're going to be visiting and chatting and sightseeing, but we're also going to be doing some art classes, little mini art classes and stuff like that. Maybe some, what do they call it, plain air? Plain air mixed media. Not plain air watercolor, plain air mixed media. I want to take the girls to Red Rock Canyon. So we're going to there's one space that's very handicap friendly and it has a bath, not a bathroom, but a little, you know, outhouse thing right there. Just in case, because we're all, you know, well, most of us are of an age. So I think we're going to do that. And it's a really pretty view so they can take some pictures, maybe if they want to sit and draw or something like that. So I think that would be a lot of fun. And of course, we're going to, you know, hit Dick Lyft and we have plans and we're going to film them. But some of them, not all of them, but some of them. Yeah, so I think it's going to be a good idea. Wow, this yellow paint that's in here is like totally like screwed up everything. Yeah, yeah, we're going to, we're going to, we're, we're all bringing our HD cameras. Not something I don't normally do because I don't normally bring my HD camera on vacation. I take pictures, but I use my cell phone. So that's different. But I think in this instance, because of where we're going and what we're doing, that I'm going to go ahead and take the camera. Now I have yellow paint stuck under my fingernail. Yeah, exactly. Well, I always journal on vacation. Okay, now I've got like yellow bits of paint stuck to me. I was supposed to do a journaling crazy island style page today for April and get that filmed and in the can, but that didn't happen. All of those, quirky, all of those Vegas trip and art trip and a girls trip. No husbands. And one of us is having a 50th birthday, not me, I'm already 50, but so we'll be celebrating her birthday while we're there. I'm already well past 50. Well, not well past, but a little bit past. Although if one more Las Vegas mall lady asks me if I want to have any face cream, I'm going to just smack her. I swear to God, every time I go there, it's like I get it every five steps. And it's not like I have horrible skin. So I'm not sure where they're coming from. Okay. Yeah, it just makes me crazy. All right. I'm going to just take this off of Etsy. My shop listings deactivate like yellow paint book boogers stuck everywhere. All of them every time I walk by a skincare place or a beauty shop, much less as a fora or anything like that. They all try to give me cream like little packets. They got to stop doing that. It really makes me mad. I can let the first few of them go. But after that, they make me annoyed. They're probably just doing it to everybody. It just annoys me. Probably annoys me because I'm 52. Let's see. So I want to email this person. Yeah, it's just annoys me. I know it's just me. It's so irritating. And it probably always annoyed me. I'm just probably more aware of it now. It's going to be a lot of fun, I think. Lisa. I don't necessarily fly and travel well by myself without the husband, but that doesn't mean I've never done it before. But it'll be fun. As long as I don't get lost inside the any of the airports, I'll be fine. Let's see. I want to email this lady who just bought one of these. Okay, you guys, how do I how do you spell oozed? Yeah, I don't do by myself super well, especially because I get lost a lot. Oh, boy, you really annoy me. Oh, the last time I took an ardor craft creative trip was to go attend and teach at a machine knitting. Oh, thank you, machine knitting retreat in Indiana. And I had to fly into O'Hare and then get another plane into Indiana and to South Bend. And I got lost in O'Hare. Our plane landed late. I had to run across the airport. And if anybody has been to O'Hare, it's huge airport. And I literally got on the plane five minutes before it was taking off all the way to Germany. While I'd be petrified, I'm petrified. I'm just going to Las Vegas. Usually I go with my husband or somebody. So and once I land there, it's going to be fine because I'm with people. It's just the whole flying process is just not my favorite. Okay, let's change that s to z. Oh, yeah, that's right. Okay, so we've got a message off to the lady who bought one of these little kits in case hers oozed like that one did. She'll let me know. I pulled this one out of inventory so I can just send it in Happy Mail or something. Somebody's going to get the oozy one. I don't know. And let's see. So I can go out of here. The Amazon return thing is done. I just have to go drop it off. I have to do my website still have to find the to find the website for Sennelier. I've got to find the website for Koi and I've got to find the website for Grumbacher. Yeah, I don't even that this was years ago and I had I had trouble then and I don't have didn't have asthma. So I barely made it to the other gate. It was just ridiculous. And then I get on the plane and it's a little puddle jumper plane and I don't fly well. So and we hit turbulence over the Great Lakes. Go figure. Not often. I I don't do idle well. I never have my mom could tell you stories. If you're in my Facebook group, you could just tag Kathy Bronzini about me. And I'm sure she has plenty of stories, but I never did idle well. And at the same time, I always had kind of a motivate motivation problem. I was really easy for me to retreat to a book or into the TV set or want to go in the corner and just draw by myself rather than interact with the family. And I didn't like not having enough stuff to do like fun stuff to do. I didn't like that. And I also at the same time hated being told what to do. That's probably because I was the oldest child. I had to take care of all the other ones. I still hate being told what to do. So probably the biggest thing with me. If you really want to get on my nerves. But I just today, even still today, I don't do idle well. And if I'm idle too long, I just go to sleep. You know, that probably has to do with the fact that I'm of a certain age, you know. Okay, there's the scenario website. Oh, yeah, it's not in French. But I'm happy to answer any questions like that that you guys have. If you have questions like that, ask them. I don't hide too much from you guys. Let's see. Let's find the grumbocker one. And here we go. Found it. They will want more colors than I thought. Okay, that's the Academy Acrylic, though. Finest watercolor. Let's see. Okay, have a decent amount of colors. See, one of the things I still like about Daniel Smith over a lot of these other brands, they have over 200 colors, like nobody has that many. So now we've got to sign into the website place. And I can edit. So yeah, one of the biggest ways to probably get on my nerves is to try to tell me what to do. I don't do that well. How do I stay motivated? That's a really good question. For me, doing art, holy cow, that's my, okay. For me, doing art is the way that I keep control of things. And I, including the anxiety disorder and the depression, and it gives me purpose. And that keeps me motivated. And I'm trying to think how to word this. And no, it's not. So also sharing and expressing art with you all also helps keep me motivated to keep going. It's so easy to, it's easier to not do it than it is to do it. That's harder. Whether art block is different where you want to create and you just can't because there's just nothing there for, you know, you can't think of anything to do. But having a million ideas, but just not being, being able to get yourself motivated to do it, that's different. I try not to stress myself out about what I am creating. And I honestly don't plan too much ahead of time. I just play. And sometimes I do plan and I do have an inspiration photo to work from and all that. I don't always. It's probably, now it's probably 50-50. And I've gone through certain periods where it was all just whatever happened. And then other periods where it was all completely planned, I think if you get too wound up in feeling like you have to create perfect art and it has to look a certain way, then you just don't create it because you feel like no matter what you do is not good enough. And that, so don't do that. Just play with your products, play with your supplies and have fun and express how you're feeling in, even if it's just in the colors you lay on the paper, because the colors all can suggest a certain feeling. So red is a very passionate color. Black is a very depressing color of solitude almost. So even if it's just slapping a bunch of colors on the page to express how you feel, then do that. That's more important than creating perfect pieces of art. And my goal always for me is to do something creative every day because that helps keep me sane, not depressed, and helps me feel like I have a little bit of control over what's going on with me when honestly I don't really, because no worries Cheryl. So the world, you know, we don't really have control in the world, but when you have anxiety disorder that's a problem because you want to feel like you have control over everything and when you don't then you kind of have a spiral. For me doing a little bit of art every day and making sure I do it, even if it's a doodle, that helps me feel like I have a little bit of control over what's going on and it helps me keep the anxiety under control. It just can be a doodle, it can be anything. Just every day make it part of your practice, part of your routine. That's the thing. It shouldn't be so much about motivation as routine. It could be just playing with color blending. It could be planning a big project. It could be doing a doodle. Just do something every day. And yeah, Cheryl, I hope you feel better. But for me, I have to create and it's not hard for me to get motivated to create because I know in my logical mind that it helps keep me on an even level. When you think of art as when you have issues, if you think of your art or mixed media as your form of therapy, it's easier to stay motivated. I'm not medicated, I've chosen not to be, at least until I it's a problem and I have no choice. In replacement for that, I do lots of self care, which includes art. It also includes eating better and getting some exercise and spending time with my family. Normally, like on the weekends, I do a little doodle, but the rest of the weekend is for my family. Yeah, artists should just be for you. Yeah, well, that's what I'm here for, Hina. If you need a little push, I'll give you a little push. But you know, just try to get yourself just even a little notebook and just sit and do a doodle every night at night. And if you can get yourself into a routine and start to recognize that you need this for your soul, that you need this, I think it'll be easier for you. And don't stress yourself out about having to look a certain way or be a certain way. You know, none of us are here or Picasso, including myself. And it's not about that, not for me. If I create something fabulous, somebody wants to buy yay, I'm all for that. But that's not my focus. And I don't think you should anybody should put that stress on themselves. Yeah, good, I'm glad I still have to write my daily thoughts for today. You just reminded me. I haven't done that yet. And that's one of the premises behind the group. My aunt one of the things my aunt who passed away recently wanted to be a focus in the group. And that and all of us staying motivated to continue on our art journey and not let it go. If it's something you truly enjoy and you truly want to pursue, whether it's just doing it for personal reasons or for professional, it doesn't matter. But to not drop that ball when life gets in the way as it will to continue on, even if it's a doodle every day, it doesn't have to be a big piece of art, just something. And the Facebook group is there to help support us all in that forward journey. That's what it's all about. It's not about, you know, prompts or swaps or, I mean, we have prompts. Those kind of happened by accident, to be honest with you. And I do have them planned out for the year now that we did it by accident. Now I've got them planned. I thought I should do that. But it's not about swaps or anything else. And, you know, you can share other Facebook groups, YouTube channels you find inspiring. You can share teachers with online courses. You know, all of that stuff, free stuff, budget friendly things are better than the ones that cost a lot of money. We have files for some of this over in the group, too. So if you have something you want to add to the files and you're not able to edit it, then let us know and we'll, you know, we'll put it in. There's me and three admins, so. And I don't even go on vacation without electronics, like rarely. So I usually, I don't check in like I do when I'm home, when I'm on vacation, but I do check in. So I will be doing that while I'm gone. Eight people. Not bad for something that wasn't planned. And yeah, I hope Cheryl feels better. I was exercising so much that I pulled a muscle in my upper thigh. So I had to stop for a few days. That's kind of a funny ha ha story. And of course, I didn't get to the gym today because of all the unexpected webcam issues. Oh, I'm so glad. You know, maybe I'll do some of these unexpected broadcasts where we're just chatting. We're not doing art or anything. We're just chatting. We added some more swatches to our swatch book. We added, let's see, we added three more paint brands and I'm going to, I just finished scanning the, all of the pages from this morning. And I'm going to download them to the website along with the links to the manufacturer's websites. But we added, let's see, I'm sitting in front of a window when I'm here at the desk. That's the only thing which is weird because the lighting is odd. And at this time of the day, it's late in the afternoon. Let's see. I'm trying to, there's a delay. So I'm trying to see if, there we go, maybe. Yeah. Okay. So we added Grumbacher, Sennelier, and Koi to our book. And the book is heavy, but I'm trying to hold it up to the screen so you guys can see. So we did these three new brands in our book. And I was pretty impressed by the Sennelier, although I've tried them before. They have this pack, a sample packet they send out with just those three colors in it. And I'm going to post the link to their website on my website. And you might want to write to Sennelier, see if they'll send you those three colors. And then the Koi, I got asked a lot about, I like the Koi. These are colors I carry in my travel kit. And they're a student grade paint, similar to the Prima in that they're, you know, you're told they're light fast, but we don't know exactly how much light fast. But for my travel kit, that's fine. And those are colors that I carry in there. And you can get them at Hobby Lobby. You can get a set, their new set I think has 30 colors in it. And you can use a coupon. This is my, this is my travel palette. And it is a metal watercolor palette that's meant to hold 12 paints. But I took the insert out and put magnets on the bottom of my pans so that I could get more colors in it. And then there's a little sponge in here and a little brush, which is all icky now, because I closed the lid and everything's wet. But anyway, this is what I take. And this has the Koi in it. And it has Daniel Smith. You know, the Koi aren't bad. The Koi are very well pigmented. They're a little more chalky and opaque than Windsor Newton. You know, Windsor Newton is a really good brand, artist brand of paint, but it's also very affordable. They're nice, most of their colors are nicely transparent. But you know, they're still what, $5 to $10 a tube, whereas Koi, you can get a whole set of like, it used to be $24 for like $24. I don't know what the 30, the 30 set is going to be, but probably about the same. So the Koi are more friendly to your pocketbook. But if you can't find them in Dubai, then that's an issue. So I like the Windsor Newton. And the Windsor Newton comparison chart that I already made is up on the website. Let me see. Can we add files in the chat? Nope. That'd be nice if we could put like a picture in the chat, wouldn't it? Yeah, they dry sticky. Well, I like the Sennelier too, but they have the same issue. They dry sticky. And that's not my favorite thing. And some of the Koi are also stay sticky. I like, because I keep my watercolors in a pan set like this that I close, I like them to dry and dry completely. And not be sticky, because that just is, you know, makes a big mess. That's one of the things I don't do well with, opening up my box of paintings and having a bio messy everywhere. But I've heard good things about Emgram. And I did write them. I never heard back. So I may try to pick up a few tubes while I'm in Las Vegas to try. Because, you know, I've got a watercolor horde, so what's a few more tubes? I mean, you know, so I'm working on that. I do want to add them to our list. And I'm glad this is a great wind down for you from a stressful day. I'm glad or or art is either way. So we added those three new brands to our book. And I did a bunch of tests. And I'm going to I scan them when I was still scanning them when we got on live here. And I'm going to add them to my site here in a second. And here is the Sennelier website. There we go. And you could probably just hit I think what I did is I just hit the contact list, the contact contact list, the contact tab. And I asked them for samples, and they sent me this little packet with three little pouches in it. And also I know when I've been to demos in the past at my local fine art stores by Sennelier, they've had samples there that they've given out to everybody in the audience. In fact, the company that markets Sennelier here in the US carries some other brands and they had we got Sennelier samples, we got some pencils, water soluble pencils, Fabriano paper samples and something else all in the one thing that was very cool. So that's the other thing is check out your local art supply stores, especially as we go into spring and summer, they're going to have lots of demos going on for all different products, but especially watercolors, because it's kind of the watercolor season. So look because a lot of times in these demos, the demos free and then they give you samples. And that's a great way to try some watercolor. So check in at your local fine art store and see when they're going to have product demos or just go there shopping and ask them if they've got samples. That's how I got my Quar watercolor sample booklets too, was at the store. I just asked, do you have any Quar samples? All right, let's see. So after four o'clock, I still haven't figured out what I'm cooking for dinner. Oops. Well, Hina, even though you're in Dubai, I would still write some of these companies and ask them and they may have a local distributor to that part of the world that you need to write to. You might ask them in the email that, you know, I'm interesting getting some samples of your products. Can I get them from you or do you have a distributor over here that you use that I can write? Some of them will ignore you and you won't hear anything back. Some of them right away will just say no. Some of them say no nicely, but they say no. And others are very nice and they will chit chat with you and they will find out what it is that you need and they'll hook you up. So it doesn't hurt to try. All they can do is say no, but I would try and see what happens. But we have this Lens Art in Santa Cruz. I'm a big fan of their store and they have year-round weekend demos almost every weekend. I'm sorry. That sucks when you're into something like art and you can't get supplies for it. That's terrible. That's when you need to start writing companies, Hina, and see if there are companies that will send you things. And I would write them all. I'd hit Mgrams and LEA, Daniel Smith. I would hit them all and ask them. Or some of them like Daniel Smith may have the sample dot card that you can order and have them send you. So you have a little bit of all of their colors of paint that's way more affordable than buying tubes and stuff. Demos are great if you can find them. And if there is a local art supply store in Dubai, I'd look for them high and low. If you have a college near you and they have an art department, where are those college students getting their art supplies? You might call the art department at the local college or university, whatever you call it in Dubai. We have both over here. And I love demo demos are so much fun. You always learn something new and meet new people. It's so much fun. All right, let's see. I can only add one image at a time, which sucks. I'd love to just click them all and put them all in there. But you know, my website is being hosted by a new company. Again, it's no longer hosted by Yahoo. So I got to work with what I got. Let's see. Where am I down here down at the bottom? You know, Chochetta, I would just try. All they can do is say no. And okay, you're not out anything, but they can't say yes to you if you don't ask. And you know, you could say there's lots of different ways to word it. But if you don't do lots of social media or videos, what I would say is there really aren't a lot of art supply stores near me. And I really want to try your product. Do you have any samples that you can send me? Send them your social media links that you do have. If you want to offer to blog about the samples and share about the samples that they do send you and create like a form letter. And that's what I did. I have like a basic form. And then just go email it to a bunch of different companies. Oh, I definitely will be sharing a bunch of stuff with you guys while we're in Vegas and before and after, you know that I share everything. So I'll try not I try not to have too many of these surprise things because I don't like surprises to be honest. So you know, yeah, see, so that's, that's, you're not the only one I know who has that problem. Either it's because there isn't a lot of them or they're really expensive. So then when you travel, you buy there, I have a teacher of mine that when she comes to the US, she literally fills up a suitcase with golden products because she cannot get them where she is where she lives without paying a lot more money. And I would he not first before you start like buying a bunch of stuff when you're on vacation, I would just write a bunch of these emails, create yourself a form letter. If you've got social media and YouTube links and blog and stuff like that, put those in there and explain to them that you're looking for samples of their products to try because you'd like to try them, but you can't buy them where you are because they're not available or they're just way too expensive. And see what they say, all they can do is say no, word it nicely be, you know, very gracious, of course, they're more likely to say yes that way, but some of them will just out and out flat out tell you no. But some of them say yes and you'd be surprised, including, you know, don't not just paint manufacturers. So if you're into art journaling and you have a favorite pen brand or something like that, try that too. And especially if you do YouTube videos, you should do that. You never know, like I said, they might say no, but you never know what they're going to say. All right, I think that's it for today. Unless anybody has more questions, I'm going to just hang on here for a little bit. But I'm going to be updating my website. And if you guys have questions, you can ask. If I'm at the desktop, I might as well have the video feed turned on. Not that it's going to be super exciting or anything watching me update my website. But let's see, I got to turn the images right side up, because they be sideways. Rotate counterclockwise. Sideways images will not look good. Oops, got it. Vegas is going to be a lot of fun. And you're welcome, Hina. I'm always willing to help. And I hope that, you know, just write a bunch of these letters and see what they say. You know, you live in an area of the world where it's hard to get stuff. So that's sort of got to be points in your favor with trying to get some things out of the company, some free samples. And it's not like you're asking them to just send you a bunch of free art supplies. You're just asking for samples. And I know companies like Sennelier, they have these little pre-made little packets with samples in them. Liquitex is another one, you guys. I got a bunch of little packets of samples. Some of these videos are coming up if they aren't already. They're coming up on YouTube, because I filmed them. Let's see. Liquitex is going to be on Monday. Royal and Langnickel is on the seventh. When is the seventh? Oh, Liquitex is on Wednesday. Royal and Langnickel is on Monday. And that's it right now. Everything else is aired already. So those two are coming up. But Liquitex had these really great little packets of different mediums in paint. So and a little small mini Montana liquid, blah, blah, blah, acrylic paint marker. So write them too. Write Liquitex. You're welcome. No worries. You guys all have a great day. I'm going to stop now and I'm going to save this so you can replay it if you forget something I answered. And I'm going to update my website and then I'm going to go watch General Hospital. All right. I will have a cup of tea. No worries. I enjoyed this. So when I have a day where I have an afternoon and late into the evening free, where the family and stuff is not coming home, I may decide to just do these. But I'll try to give you guys a lot more than like five minutes to notice. All right. I will talk to you all later. Have a great day. Don't forget the most important thing. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Yeah. All right. I'll talk to you later. Bye, guys.