 Alrighty, we need to work on my year of my life journal for October, and I haven't been putting too much of the creation of this on camera, but I thought I would today, because you know, why not? I'm gonna pull all the little extra bits I have stuffed in the pocket out. I've already done September, hopefully, because we're halfway through October, so hopefully September's in. And let's flip to October. All right, I started October. I stuck this sticker in here. There's a calendar, there it is. Calendar in here somewhere. So the first thing I wanna do is grab a pen. Let's see, Halloween. October's generally a quiet month for us. We don't usually have tons of stuff going on, but I did have the official book release on the 10th. One of these days, I had the Kindle book go up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I don't remember which day it was. I think it was Monday. You know what? I can look it up. Let me do that and I'll be right back. Okay, it was October 18th. The Kindle version went live. The Amazon print proofs come in Monday. So I'm gonna put that on here. I think that's it for right now. Alrighty, so that takes care of that part. I did receive my winnings from DecoArt this month for the painting contest that I did. Actually, yeah, it was this month because they mailed it at the end of September, but I didn't get it till the middle, blah, blah, blah, till the beginning of October. So we are gonna stick this in here. I think we're gonna just tape it down. I need my tape runner. So I think we're gonna just tape it down. I like to use glue sticks or tape runner when I can in these kind of things because the paper is all different kinds of paper. And then I'm gonna write a note. Then I have some little bits and pieces from today. I was out running it with my husband and today and yesterday, actually. And we stopped and had breakfast at Denny's yesterday, which we're gonna open this and stick this in here. I did pick up a straw. It's always good to have in the studio because I can use it to blow ink around my pages. So that's just gonna be an art supply. Today we went to Starbucks and I got a cup of tea, but while I was there, of course, I picked up some extra of these because, you know, they're great in the studio too for doing different things. So those are actually gonna go over here with my stash of those types of things. And the first thing we're gonna do is this. And so I'm gonna grab an exacto knife and a piece of paper. And we're gonna cut a slit in the little, this is a sugar packet and cut it open and about the sugar, because we don't want the sugar. I just want the paper. There we go. So that can go in the trash. I don't wanna stick it here, which means this is covered with resin. This is like a resin paper and the vinyl sticker from my sticker collection will stick on here great and it's not coming off. It's like, it's a vinyl label. So it's gonna be, you can get it off, but it would take some work. This would, I could stick on here with glue, but then I won't be able to really write on here. And I kind of just like to leave that. I might stick another sticker on the back actually. So I think we're gonna stick it here. Oh, again, we're gonna use the tape runner. Stick it here. We also went to my cousin's office, who is a dentist to have a hour night guards checked. So I wanna stick this on here. And I love this little piece. This is like a survey paper. They have in the lobby and it just says, have thoughts, we're listening. I, there's something about that I just love today. So I wanna kind of lay those over each other like that. So let's put this one down first. And then let's put the business card down. Have the bag from Starbucks that my sweet treat came in. And I'm thinking that I want to punch holes in it and stick it in here. And yeah, I think I wanna stick it back here. So let's get the paper punch out. I do have a three-hole mini binder pouch that's the exact same ring sizes as this. Got my pen. Before we do anything with this, let's go back a couple pages. These are some of my stickers that came out and were released at the same time as the book. These are full color vinyl labels and they're large. They're $5 each, but they aren't just journaling stickers or planner stickers. They're big for planner stickers, but you can also put them on the back of your laptop, your smart device, all kinds of things. They're that kind of sticker label paper. I wanna take one of them. I wanna put another one of them in here somewhere, maybe on this like flash card. Let's see. Maybe that one. And these are the original proof set that I received that I'm using. When you buy them, they don't come with letters or anything on them. This is the original proof set. I think I wanna put that one on. It's not going anywhere. So now we have this. So when I order the spiral bound copies of my book, and when you buy the book from my Etsy shop, instead of Amazon, you get it spiral bound and I also take and I sign the inside front cover for you. This is a copy of the front cover and when I get the shipments of them in, this is taped to the front of the box. I'm assuming it's so then when I go to pick up my order, they know which one is mine and what's in the box without opening it. So this was off the front of the box. I'm going, so I saved it, of course I saved it. And I'm going to cut it down. I'm gonna cut the white border off of it to begin with. So let's do that first. This is thick glossy card stock, FYI. So if I just leave this as is, it's a little too big for this binder or for that pocket I just made. Cut the side a little bit more. I cut it crooked. So it's, as you can see, it's actually doesn't, it's not too bad, but it definitely doesn't fit in that pocket we made, which is fine. Cause I can bet you I'll find something before the end of the month to stick in the pocket. But it's not too bad to fit here. So we could actually stick it in here. So then the question is, where do we wanna stick it? I think I wanna stick it, I think I wanna stick it here right after the stickers. All right, let's do it. So we're gonna put it back in our punch and I'm going to eyeball it and look at where the last hole is gonna punch here on the left side and right side. And I'm going to just try to center. So I have approximately the same length of space on either end. I'm just gonna eyeball it. If you were really anal about it, you could measure it. This punch is from Staples, by the way. Oh, see, and I punched it off. It wasn't shoved in all the way. Oh, that's just lovely. So this is how we're gonna fix that. That's just lovely. Alrighty, so we need some tape, washi tape to the rescue. We'll use this tape, because I like this arrow tape. Alrighty, let's try that again, shall we? Make sure it's in all the way this time. There we go. All right, so let's get it in there. Love it, love it, love it. We might need to round the edges, if I'm gonna put it in that way. So let's do that. Use my, we are memory keepers, crocodile thing. We'll open it all the way, and we'll use the half-inch side. We'll try this first, and then if we need to, we'll cut it down a little bit. We'll see. Nope, see? Rounding the corners did the trick. All right, so then I can journal on the back about the book release, and about my breakfast at Denny's. It's looking good, and I'm thinking, I'm thinking, you know, we pulled out this piece of deli paper, and you know, I just had leftover paint in a stencil, and now I'm thinking maybe I wanna use that on here, see what it looks like. Of course, these little paint-y bits of deli paper, I don't, you know, like this, I don't throw that away. That could be used on some really cool projects, or a tag, or something. So we will save that, but I'm thinking I might wanna put this back here. So let's use some, slap it on, Indigo, blah, blah, blah, Indigo blue. Super thick, slap it on. It's one of my new favorite glues, and I am loving it. Going to get out a something card. This is a frosting spreader from the Dollar Tree. You can find them in the kitchen section. Make sure all the edges are glued down. So that's sort of how I do it. Now I go through and I do some journaling, and I do doodles. I put in artwork, postcards, and write about why do I have this Denny's thing in here. And I don't necessarily write this way, but I will on this one, let's see. I usually do some kind of doodle-y thing. Let's see, anything else? Let's go this way. This is still, there's a little bit of damp glue here, so I'm gonna just stick that there, so the pages don't all stick together. And the other thing I do is I print pictures off of my telephone using my little printer. So I'm gonna get that, and I'm gonna print a few, and I'll show you how I do that and stick them in, and I'll be right back. Okay, one of the things I like to do is add photos into my yearly journal. My yearly journal's less about art and more about documenting what's going on with me that year. Sometimes I do art in there, but one of the ways I get pictures in there is I have this small LG pocket photo printer, and it connects via Bluetooth to my cell phone, and I can then print whatever photos I have on my cell phone on the printer. And some of the paper I have is sticker paper, and I don't remember if that's what's in here or not. Some of it's plain paper, but some of it's sticker. I don't know if you can hear the humming. So it's printing a photo of the painting I did for Decowart, so now I'm gonna go back and print a couple of the photos about regarding my book. Notifications on my phone, they drive me crazy. And I take this with me even on vacation, and I just make sure I take a couple packs of paper, and I can take this with me anywhere. I like the way that printed so that can go there. And yeah, I think this is the sticker paper. I'm gonna switch pictures here. I like this one of a box of books that I was picking up because it has the name of the local printing company that I use at the bottom, and I love that. I don't know why my computer's making noise. I don't know. Sorry. I was pretty sure it was on mute, so. Okay, my printer is doing something, and my computer is rebooting. I don't know what it's doing. That's interesting. All right, so I'm gonna get all my pictures printed, and I'll be right back. It's printing the last photo, so then I just take all the photos, and I think this is the sticker paper because the regular paper has a blue backing. I like the sticker paper for this application because there's no tape or anything needed, which is fabulous. So I'm gonna take that one, and then, oh, there's my pen. I almost asked you guys where my pen was because that's what I do. So I think that I wanna just do a little doodle here, a little bit of a messy sketch. I like that. And then I'm gonna take, I love these for working in here because they're dry, and you don't have to wait for them to dry down or anything, before you can turn the page and keep going. And how would you not love that? It looks like it's out of paper, so we'll have to put new paper in there. But, so what I wanna do is I wanna take, I think the blue, use it to look like the brush has been dipped in paint, and maybe like it's dripping. I like that. And let's see. I have this one, which is about the book. So I have two photos about the book. I can get that paper off. It would probably be easier if I had my reading glasses on. All right, see, I can't. Really? Okay, got it. And then I got these really great lipsticks with Frida Kahlo's artwork on the packaging at CVS today. There's a video on that, if you haven't seen it yet. It'll be coming out before this one, so go back in my videos and go look for it. It should be titled something like Lipstick Swatches in a Review or something. So I'm gonna put this down here. I had one more picture I wanted it to print, but it's out of paper. All right, say what? So, failed to connect to the device. Yeah, no kidding. So I have my picture of my tea with hubby. So let's get some paper. This is how the paper comes. There is no printer cartridges in here. It's all about the paper. So we're gonna unplug it here. It's running low on juice. That's why it's plugged in. Push the button in and get it to open. Put the paper in without touching it too much. With the blue paper in it, the blue paper helps, you know, align everything. Plug in the case, plug it in, turn it on, and it should spit that blue paper out after it's done aligning, and then we can print our last photo here. Oh, except I have to tell my phone to connect to the device again because we had to turn it off and back on again. So I gotta go into settings. I have an Apple iPhone, by the way, go into Bluetooth, find where that printer is, and click on it, and it should connect automatically. Yep, connected. Then I'm gonna go back to the pocket, LG Pocket Photo app, and the picture's already there, so I'm gonna click on the little printer icon, and then click OK, and the blue paper should come out first, and then the photo will come out. And while it's doing that, let's go back here and let's make a note about what this is about. I already have an arrow on this page, so let's put another one. I have a stamp that looks very similar to this in my state rubber stamp line in my Etsy shop. You could use that on here, too. So you can see that it's aligning itself. I'm gonna use the purple pen, and I'm going to take this out, color in some of our little arrow with the purple pen. I love these are called Bible High Gliders. They're a gel highlighter pen intended for Bible art journaling. Sometimes I just do something like this, and then take one of these, and we've got our Starbucks. I had a day of the dead cookie. So cool. Oops, I love that. So I would just continue on that way as the month progresses, decorating my pages, and adding notes about what the little bits and pieces are in here for, adding little, it's not wanting to stick to the deli paper. Adding little bits of artwork and drawing, doodles, color. Whatever I'm just feeling at the moment, there's really kind of no right and wrong way to do it. I'm kind of liking this washi tape. Let's put a little piece here. Use your washi tape. Maybe you've got a bunch of old stickers. Maybe you want to fill it up with less stuff that you pasted in, and maybe you want to do more drawings. Maybe you want to keep track of some food journaling or your reading list or whatever you want to do. Just think outside the box. It doesn't have to be, it can be what you want it to be. Now I always add lots of extra pages in here. Does that mean I'm going to use them all? No, it doesn't. And at the end of each month, I frequently end up taking a few pages out that I haven't used and sticking other things in. I do have this pocket in here. Now normally towards the end of the month, there's four little pockets in here. I usually pick out four of my favorite memes from a box of Instagram prints I have. I have a lot of them. I started having things printed by Instagram before I got the LG Pocket Photo Printer. And I still like to do these because they are nice to send out in Happy Mail. But I might want to, this particular little pocket thing is a little bit on the small side. So I generally have to cut the sides down. I like this one because it's very appropriate right now to this month with releasing the book and everything as a way to raise money, to support my art, habit and business. Support living artists, the dead ones don't need it. I love that. This is a cute one too. Blessed are the gypsies, the makers of music, the artists, the writers, dreamers of dreams, wanderers and vagabonds, children and misfits for they teach us to see the world through beautiful eyes. Love that. This one also is cute too. Call the police. There's a crazy person in the house. No way, nevermind, it's just me. I love that. Okay, let's see. Yeah, so we're gonna take these four because they're right in front and they seem very appropriate. This one says my goal in life is to build a life. My goal is to build a life I don't need a vacation from. That is my goal in life. So what we need to do is we need to cut these. We need to cut these a bit. So generally what I do is I start with just cutting off the white border on either side and then see if it fits. Now, I think with the lower pockets, I think I also cut out the top and bottom. Oh, need to cut a little bit more. And I'm gonna cut the bottom off. So by the end of the month, I try to also put four, I try to put two in each pocket so that by the end of the month, it's double-sided and double-faced. This one's gonna be tough to make skinny. Hopefully I can get it to work because I'm cutting it down now. It used to be hilarious though. I might end up having to paste it in somewhere. It's a very me losing track of what's going on in the house. That is very me. Those of you who only know me on YouTube have no idea. I really have no idea. It's tight, but let's see. Find a little bit more to trim. Support living artists. The dead ones don't need it. I love that. And it's true and it doesn't have to be me. Whatever artist is your favorite, support them. I hope it's me, but if it's not, that's cool. Just shop handmade when you can. That's the message. I'm not gonna do too much editing on this video because it just feel like you guys don't always wanna see speed throughs. Some of you do. This'll probably get a thumbs down from somebody. That's fine. But not everybody likes speed throughs and I'm okay with doing a few speed throughs now and then, but also a few of these. So let's take the next four. I like this one. Yoga is not about tightening your butt. It's about getting your head out of it. Oh, yay, yay. I should probably do yoga more. Well, I can see. Say about that. Probably free. Probably like the people around me less insane. So we're gonna just put it in backwards. Your mind is your private sanctuary. Do not allow the negative beliefs of others to occupy it. These are not something I sell. These are for private use only. And I do have a few of my own memes on some of them. Pictures of my artwork, things I've found interesting. And I don't remember where I picked up this little page of pockets. I picked it up on a clearance rack from somewhere. I have no idea where, before any of you ask. There's a lot of these little things that are, I like that by the happy planner section and stuff like that. Look around and see what your local Arts and Craft Supply Store has. I don't remember, honestly. I think it was at Hobby Lobby, but I wouldn't swear to that. And I had bunches of different kinds of them and I've been this year in these journals trying to use them up. So then I take a little bit of washi tape and I just wanna make sure that the little me-me things are not gonna like slide out and flop around. The little squares of cardboard that they stay in their pockets. So I take the top ones, I try to get it on there straight and then the bottom ones. Just need it on the front. I like that. Call the police. There's a crazy person in the house. Oh wait, it's just me. That's so me. All right, so there we go. So that's good enough for right now. I'll keep working at it through the month of October and I'll see where we land with it. And yeah, hope he gives you something. We do have the free journal link program coming to my Facebook group and it's three sister groups. The links to all those groups are in the description below. If you wanna follow along with the journaling program, get the prompts, get the tutorials, get the share videos, you have to be in the group. It's not something that's gonna be on YouTube. So, and I'm doing my journal a completely different way next year. Those videos have already been shared with the group. So, if you wanna see that, join the Facebook group, ask today and you can get ready for next year with us. All right, that's it for right now. Don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.