 It's Sunday afternoon, about 3.40 ish. My husband had to go out. He had a Masonic thing he had found out about late today that he had to go out too. So he's doing that. And I'm home, I'm just gonna stay home. I don't need to go anywhere. I've been playing in my Dina Wakeley Journal, media journal. The one, not this year is the new release. I have the smaller one that she released last year. And I haven't played in it actually and even started to until today. I did do one page in it, which is dry and I flipped the page and I'm gonna do something else in it. I'm going to share those videos here on YouTube. I don't know yet if I'm gonna do speed through or I'm gonna do a voiceover. I do have another little series about art journaling that I'm gonna do voiceover on that, I know. And I just downloaded all the clips off of the phone here for the vlog for next week. So I have to edit that. So, you know, I may do some of that while he's gone, but I also donated blood yesterday. And so I'm still feeling kinda, ooh, from donating blood. So I may just sit and I may just do it tomorrow. I don't know, we'll see. That's it for the moment. I'm going to sit here with my iPad. I'm gonna watch some YouTube. I may do some drawing. I have those Muji pens that I was playing with yesterday. I shared on my Instagram and social media. So if you haven't seen that, you should go follow me on social media. You can look at my link tree link in the description below and it'll be a list of all the places on the internet that you can find me, including Instagram, Facebook, my website, the Etsy store, like everything. That's it for the moment. I am going to sit and do some drawing, have some more water and I'm eating, trying to eat healthy to replenish my blood supply and all that jazz. So, good morning. It is Monday, January 29th. And we're headed out for a walk to go get some steps in and I've headed over to physical therapy. It's my last week of physical therapy. Woo-hoo. I'm not gonna do it today, but when I go again for my last visit, I'm gonna bring my folder with me. Here's a tip. If you're doing physical therapy and you know it's something you have to continue on with going forward, have them print out your exercises. They have sort of how-to tip sheets for your exercises. They can print out for you to take home. I actually, of course, I have crappy shoulders so I have a folder of exercises. So, Thursday, I'm gonna bring it with me and have them update it so I know what I can do to continue to strengthen my shoulders going forward. Anyway, so we're on our way to go do that and it is Monday. I probably should go to the grocery store but I don't really want to, so we'll see how that works out. All right, I'll be back. One question, how do you lose your shorts? Maybe I don't wanna know. It's not like, I don't know, we're in the middle of a neighborhood. I don't know, it's very weird. All right, so that's all done. My shoulder hurts now. We're gonna go home and have either another cup of coffee or a cup of tea or something and just chill and be for a little bit. I've got video I need to edit and some business emails to send out, website editing, maybe make some art since that's actually part of my business, you know. Anyway, I think that's it for the moment, I'll be back. This morning, I didn't sleep well. Probably because I have a doctor's appointment this morning. Doctors make me nervous and on a good day and this is a new one for me. I'm headed out to an allergy clinic to hopefully try to control my allergies enough so that I'm not so dependent on medication for my asthma and my reactions to things. That's the hope anyway. But the whole process makes me nervous and yeah. So we are headed out that way right now and I have to drive a little bit of a ways and of course my shoulders are bothering me this morning because I have to drive so of course they're bothering me. So anyway, we're gonna go do that. Today morning, January 31st, it's around 9.30 ish and I've spent the morning doing all my daily posting and writing, it's all done. For those that don't know, I post daily thoughts and I share the duty, sorry, that's the windshield wipers. I share the daily posting thoughts with my two friends Ann Williamson and Cindy Utter and we post daily thoughts and quotes across all of our Facebook groups and also in our friend Ian Campbell's Facebook group. So I did that already today. I also teach in a Facebook group with Ann and Cindy and Ian and Lisa Swank and today was my day to post the daily creative word which I did. We have a daily creative word we post over there to encourage everybody to do daily creative practice whether you paint or you do mixed media or you write or you do photography, whatever it is. So anyway, we have a daily word, random word and I posted my word today and I chit-chatted with Cindy Utter a little bit and I didn't really do much else. I am getting back into my normal routine of taking my daily asthma medicines and allergy medicines. I had to cut back on some of it because I was going through allergy testing which I did yesterday so now I can go back. According to the breathing doctors, I can try to wean myself off some of the cortical steroid but when I try that, I don't feel good. So I think I'm gonna let that go for a while so I'm not gonna do that and I'm gonna continue to take the daily allergy pill for a while, that's recommended. I just feel better when I take them so you gotta do what you gotta do, right? So we'll try again in a few months and see what happens and that's it right now. Gotta go to the grocery store, not my favorite place but when you're running out of stuff in the refrigerator and there's all these blank empty holes and nothing to eat, you gotta do what you gotta do, right? So we're gonna head to the grocery store and we're gonna get that done. It is the golden hour I've discovered to go to the store, 9.30 to 10.30, there's like nobody there and nobody in the parking lot so we're gonna go do that now and I'll be back. I'm only going to the grocery store and I already almost turned wrong, the wrong way once, I'm in my own neighborhood people. Aye, aye, aye. When I say I can get lost in my own neighborhood I don't need to go far, I'm not really kidding. I have absolutely no sense of direction. I did catch myself though. I don't know about that but we've got Chuckie in the front seat and the back seat and then I think that's Bride of Chuckie, the target first before we go to Safeway because I need a couple of minutes. So we're in my office, I'm gonna turn some music on, turn the lights on and see if these curtains I got fit my closet so you all can watch and hopefully I won't fall off the ladder. All right, let's go. 54 inches wide by 15 inches long. Before we start running out to a different target store I'm gonna tackle the window here and take the balance down here. I might not put another one back up but I think I should figure that out before I go back out to the store. All right, I'll be back. And I don't like to go out past 12 o'clock. There's too many people. I am venturing forth to the mall. I took the balance down and moved some artwork from the wall by my doorway to above the window. I actually really like that a lot and I put some feathers that you all have sent me into, I have these two little clay hanging little pockets and I think Barbara sent them to me. I don't remember though, I think it was Barbara. Anyway, one of you sent me an happy mail and I'm sorry if I forgot who it is and it's not Barbara. I'm sorry, remind me in the comments. But then I stuck some of the feathers you all have sent me in the pockets. I love that. And then if we go around the room slowly and I'm not gonna show you the table because it's a mess. I got the new curtains up and the new balance up in the closet. And then I rearranged the wall here by the entryway, which I love. I do have to clean out this cup of feathers because I've just been randomly shoving stuff in there and yeah, I need to clean that out. So anyway, I love it, looks great. All right, that's it for today. I'll be back. It's bright out here. We're headed off to my last physical therapy visit and again, I decided to walk so I can get steps in at the same time as going to the visit, you know, the whole killing two birds with one stone thing. So yeah, we're gonna go do that. I listed two new stencils this morning for sale on in my Etsy shop. So we have two brand new designs for 2018 that are up for sale. And more to come. I've got four others in stock right now and there's more coming. And what else? I already send out all my social media obligations and daily thoughts and quotes and editing a couple of things quick over in the My Creative Year Facebook group, the teaching group. I did a commitment video that's supposed to air tomorrow. And yeah, so we're gonna go do this and then I've got chores to do like laundry and dishes and, you know, exciting stuff. I'll be back. Hey everybody, it is almost three o'clock actually. I sat down and started watching some YouTube video and researching a new project I have to work on that I can't talk about yet. And, you know, like three hours flew by. I don't really think I got a whole lot done but anyway, we're gonna go get the mail and see what's over there. And then when we get back, I think I might work on my project that I need to work on that I can't talk about. All right, I'll be back. Good morning everybody, squeaky chair, sorry. It is just about 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, February 2nd. And anyway, it's been a morning. I've already got all my daily writing and everything done. I've had two cups of coffee. I'm working on my first bottle of water. I woke up with my old neck injury bothering me yet again. And so one of the things I learned at physical therapy was a self-massage exercise to help massage the neck muscles and work all the tension out of there. You need one of these or two tennis balls taped together. It kind of looks like a peanut. But anyway, then you put that under the back of your neck and then it's hard to explain but you put your chin down until basically you can see all my double chins and then roll my neck around on this thing. It actually really does help a lot. So it hurts the first few times that you do it. And then by the time you've done 30 of these, it feels much, much better. So it helps so much. I went and bought one of these. And so I got on the floor this morning and did that and that helped a lot. We got the Friday focus product share up today for those that don't know on social media. Every Friday going forward, I'll be sharing a product or listing or type of product with the listing in my Etsy shop with all of my social media across the board. Today I shared two new stencils that are out this month. And right about here, I'll drop in some photos or something and put the listing in the description below. So every month this year, there'll be at least two new stencils that are released and the first two are out. And so I got that out. I'm working on trying to edit my website, the blog, it's got to be edited. The videos for my Giant Life came out today with myself and Williamson, Cindy Utter and Eileen McKinnis and so they're out. So I've got to share that and I need to put it on my blog. So I'm going to be working on that. I just barely got started. And I think that's it for the moment. I really need to edit the website. I'm kind of stalling because I'm kind of, I'm not exactly sure how I want to get started. Once I get started with writing, it's usually not a problem. It's the initial sometimes getting there. I'm also working on a secret project that I can't discuss yet, but I'm working on it. And I'll be sharing with you guys as soon as I can, but it probably will be like a month or so. Really exciting, fun project, I think. And I think that's it for the moment. I really just have to finish up the secret project. I need to finish my website updates. I need to do a little bit of cleaning in here. And I have a couple of just journal pages with no camera that I want to work on and get ready for tomorrow's product and or book review over in my creative year. I have to gather all the links so I can make the post from all the teachers tomorrow. So I need to do that. And if you don't know what my creative year is, it's a Facebook group. The videos are aired here on YouTube, but all the support and shares and links and personal interaction is on Facebook. So if you want to be part of that group, I'll put the link in the description below. Go over and join. We welcome you, it's free by the way. We have daily art encouragements and you get help not only from the five teachers, but from your fellow students. There's a lot of help out there and it's a safe, hopefully inspiring creative community. And yeah, I think you would all really like it. So go check it out. That's it for the moment. I can't think of anything else, but if anything interesting happens or, you know, Lily does something cute, you know, I'll catch it on camera. So I'll be back. I think we need a pallet, we're buying bricks. And I was like, what the hell are you doing in my pockets? Giving me the gift card, I see. Working on the backyard finally, because it looks like crap. So anyway, that's our day today. I'll be back. Getting ready to shut everything off and turn off the computer. We spent the day as you saw working on the yard at a gardening service that was helping us take care of the yard. And they just weren't doing what we needed them to do. So we let them go. And now we're doing it ourselves with the kids' help. So at least while they are around to help us. So when they're available, we ask them, hey, can you come over and give us a hand? So anyway, so we did that today and then we went and I'm trying to shut my computer off while I'm talking to you. Just, I can't multitask right now. Shut down, yes, shut down. Okay, so and then we did all the yard work and then we went to the grocery store and got caught up on that. My husband is going tomorrow with friends to go watch the Super Bowl. I'm not interested. I'm gonna stay home. I've got videos to edit and work on the secret project to do. So I need to work on that. It's more important. So I'll be here, which I'm okay with. So that's it for tonight. That's it for the week. I hope it's been an interesting one for you. I hope you've had a great week and a great day and are being inspired and being creative. And if you have any questions, comments or concerns, leave something down in the comments on the video. All the relevant links and information where to find me, my Etsy shop. All my social media links, my Facebook groups, all of it's in the description. There's a link that down there called Link Tree with my name at the end. Click on it. You're gonna find me everywhere I am on the internet. So it's down there, check it out. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe if you're new, welcome. And that's it for right now. I am going to go. You all have a great day, have a great week. Don't forget to do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.