 everyone. It's Monday morning, February 25th I think. We got some more snow. We got more snow not as much as yesterday, but it's supposed to be colder for most of the day today than it was yesterday. So cool. So while my coffee pot's making another cup of coffee, we'll go upstairs and turn the computer on. I've been working in Pauline Agnew's class. I got caught up on my homework yesterday. Hang on, it's gonna be dark for a minute. There we go. Anyway, I got caught up in my homework from Pauline's class. We're learning about a few different artists, including one named Barbara Ray who I'm really liking her style and I'm gonna have to get her book and or find her on the internet. But this is a piece I did based on one of her pieces that we used in class. Then I did another one based on actually the view out my back window at sunset. And then I did this one which is from oops this picture. So I got caught up on that yesterday. Now today and tomorrow I'm gonna be working on filming YouTube videos because I haven't done any of those for March yet and they're doing a few days. So I'm gonna haul behind. There's the computer so we're gonna get our day started. I'm gonna have some more coffee first and we'll get right to it. I don't know if it's cold enough to snick to snick. Hello to stick or not but it's snowing again. I love it but it's a super cool idea to stay in and do some filming today I think. You know I'm trying to fix lunch and eat lunch while things are drying upstairs so I can finish filming for March for YouTube and I'm just snowing. I don't even know if you can see that on camera. But it's snowing. Yes I'm out here in my short sleeves. It's I don't know about 38 probably I'm guessing. I love it. Anyway all right let's go eat lunch. The weather app it's 35. Doesn't seem that cold to me. I don't know what that says. All right I'm gonna eat lunch now I'll be back. Hey everybody it is Tuesday morning February something I have no idea what the date is the 25th maybe uh 26th might be the 26th I don't I honestly have absolutely no idea I haven't looked this morning which is funny because I've already been on the computer for a couple of hours working doing daily posts filling Etsy orders and things like that in fact the first place we're gonna go is McCann so I can drop off said Etsy orders um but I have no idea what the date is because I haven't paid any attention I just know it's Tuesday but you know baby steps um okay sorry about the weird lighting it may be winter and it may be in the Pacific Northwest you'd think it was cloudy all the time but when the sun decides to come out holy cow is it bright um I decided to stop at Dollar Tree on the way to Fred Meyer so I really wanted to start I not wanted to I already did start being smarter about how I'm filming I already filmed for the edit what does that mean so I'll film the intro and then I'll stop the camera then I'll start working on the project after I've started the camera again and I try my best to just cut out the in-between parts sometimes there's still parts I need to cut out or speed up and take the sound out but I try to just not have the camera on and just have it rolling with lots of dead time I also don't always film things in order though so that's a thing because I'm working on multiple projects at once so I was taking a post-it note and a Sharpie and writing on the note and putting it in front of the camera what video this clip that I'm going to film is for and or section I also use a lot of paper so I stopped at Dollar Tree and I got a little small chalkboard and some chalk and we're going to have something more like what they have in the movies well at least oh I don't know I'm not in the movie business or at least they used to show that they had the movies where they had that clapper board and on the board it had what they were filming which scene which take and all of that stuff so we're going to do something along those lines but simpler with the chalkboard from now on when I'm filming so I think that's going to make my editing life a lot easier so they had that of course they had a couple other things I've been looking for that I weren't sure weren't sure that's proper English wasn't sure they were going to have it was on the way to Fred Meyer so I thought let me just stop I figured if they had the little chalkboards and chalk that it'd be a lot cheaper to get it there than at Fred Meyer and I was right so now we're going to head over to Fred Meyer and get the rest of our stuff and then head home I'll be back I wanted to share this with you it's the view of the sun setting out of our back window or our back door of our house it's so beautiful I've painted it a couple of times I'll probably do it again I love the colors so inspirational good morning it's Wednesday morning um February 27th I think I think don't quote me on that but anyway we woke up to some more snow a few inches of it at least and as you can see by the tire tracks on the road the husband tried to go out to go to work and it is just a bit too slippery so he turned around and came home and he's working from home today I hope there's the neighbor's cat she's stalking something anyway so I love the beautiful snow that I am glad I'm working from home that works for me all right that's it I've got a day of video editing to do maybe some zooming with art friends and I've got some sewing projects to cut out and a couple of other projects to catch up on including the eyeball journal which I still have to film a tutorial on I am going to do that busy busy busy all right that's it for now I'll be back anyway I want to just sit on the couch and be a potato all day get lost in youtube videos dr pimple popper because that's a thing oh yeah or you know watch my soap opera or something but that being said I am gonna go upstairs and I'm gonna clean off my table I've got some stuff on there to clean off I've got to clean work on a closet upstairs and get some stuff cleaned in there I need to message my husband and ask him to get packing tape on the way home because he took my car and I am not driving his car um I need to get some stuff ready I need I have a couple journaling things to catch up on I also have a sewing project another sewing project so I need to get set up for those and yeah I should be doing laundry or dishes but I'm gonna put that off for a little bit because you know why not all right I'll be back everybody yes I'm vlogging in my pajamas again with my hair like yeah anyway it's Thursday morning it's really early it's like a quarter to eight a.m and it's 28th of February I only know that because tomorrow's March 1st like yeah so anyway was up kind of late ish last night getting video loaded to youtube and scheduled and everything one of them comes out tomorrow anyway today um I'm past all that I've got all the March video commitments filmed so today I have my traveler's notebook journal that I'm gonna catch up on which I'm behind on and then I have a couple sewing projects to cut out and I need to um catch up on the lessons from pulling egg news class because I'm behind again because that's a thing so um I also need to catch up on the eyeball journal because it's been a few days since I did any eyeballs so I need to work on that too okay so we got it all of our mail off at McCann's I haven't been out of the house and like I don't know two days or three days two days I think so it's good to get out even if I'm just coming down the street to the post office I did stop at grocery outlet which is right next door to check it out but I also was looking for a couple things I need a couple of plastic cutting boards that I can use for paint palettes for acrylic paint now for watercolor paint and small acrylic projects I prefer my porcelain palettes but when I'm working on a bigger project with the new art room and the new setup that we have they can be um a problem so to speak so I don't have ready access to a utility sink this house was built without one which is weird and we'll be fixing that hopefully soon in the meantime even if we did have one but also in the meantime I am going to be more mindful of how I'm disposing of paint products that I that you know dried paint on the palette I'm not just going to rinse stuff down the sink I have a whole setup in the upstairs bathroom for rinsing out brushes and disposing of the sludge in a safe manner if you all would like to see that let me know put something in the comments the palette leftovers are I want to do the same thing so if it's a small palette of watercolor I can just leave it dry and keep using it um or wipe it off with a baby wipe the same with if it's acrylic I can just wipe it off with a baby wipe and throw the baby wipe in the in the garbage and then that's not going down the drain and into the you know water system with a larger palette it takes a lot of baby wipes so that wasn't really a great solution it worked but it took a lot of baby wipes and I'm also switching to a baby wipe that's biodegradable after using Kirkland wipes for years so that's going to be interesting to switch um so I really wanted to use some sort of paper on a palette um for the larger projects that was you know I could just lift up the paper and I could you know let it dry and use it for collage or I could throw it in the trash it's easier to clean the cleanup is easier um so okay that worked but I didn't really want to just have a loose paper piece of paper on the table um palette paper is really expensive so I didn't think that was a good viable solution um I like to just use wax paper from the dollar store to be honest or parchment paper again from the dollar store that works great but then you need something underneath it I have lots of cookie sheets in the art room that I use for drying different things um but when you're mixing paint the lip on the cookie sheet kind of gets in your way and it's frustrating so I thought what about something flat like a cutting board you know cheap plastic cutting board that would work so I just went to the grocery outlet I was looking for something that's fairly sizable that I could use for smaller big projects and they had one I think it was like four dollars or something um they also had a ninja blender and it was cheap too why do I need that that has nothing to do with painting I'm going to be collecting a few different supplies not too much but I want to make my own paper I want to use junk mail newspaper maybe um Etsy store printing mistakes and dried things from nature I do live next to the woods so dry tree moss and things like that to make my own paper how cool would that be so I already guys it is still thursday did I even say that earlier I don't even know it is cold hello I live in the pacific northwest but it's not snowing anymore in fact the snow is mostly melted that hasn't completely all melted but mostly so anyway it is just about three o'clock I've had a snack didn't really need the snack but I ate it anyway you know how it goes um I'm going to go grab a sweater because I am a little cold and I refuse to turn the furnace up any hot any higher it's at 70 so I like it there because well I'm still menopausal and you know one minute I'm cold the next minute I'm hot although since moving to portland I am more cold than anything and you know what I'm okay with that um but it's not summer yet so they don't get as hot up here for as long as we did in California but they do have that happen um anyway I am getting my fat ass off the sofa to be honest and I'm gonna head upstairs I got the sewing project I was working on all cut out I got the fusible fleece fused and all the pieces pressed so we're ready to go so I'm going to start working on that probably tomorrow I haven't caught up on my homework yet with Pauline's class class is over tomorrow so well the live portion of the class is over tomorrow she gives you like lifetime access so I'll be catching up over the weekend as will other people I'm sure but right now I'm gonna check on my computer and I'm going to finish catching up on my traveler's notebook journal and do the actual writing journaling part in it for February and then pace I have to paste in the calendar for March because tomorrow's March and that's it I can't really do much else until I get the sewing project out of my way because it's taking up the whole table but that's okay and uh yeah quite afternoon here but I'm good with that all right I'll be back morning it's Friday March 1st 8 59 a.m don't get all excited I'm at the desk that's how I know I've already been up for well over an hour filling etsy orders and I went outside and went for a little walk to the mailbox to send some things off had two cups of coffee and breakfast but I really really feel like I need more coffee so I may have to go downstairs and make some more you know it's it's been an interesting morning without getting into it too much I keep seeing me uh Facebook posts that were in between some sort of supermoon thing and mercury and retrograde and like I don't know I just know this week's been interesting I've lost my phone twice once was inside of one of um the sewing projects I was making good thing I didn't send the project off to the friend I was making it for and I checked before uh you know that's a thing I've lost my phone like three times this week that hasn't happened in a while I had to unfriend somebody I'm blood related to on Facebook because I just can't take their political posts anymore I you know it's been a week so anyway I'm going to sit and do some more computer work for a little bit maybe make that other cup of coffee and then I'm going to get some sewing done because I've got some more sewing to do and I've got painting lessons to catch up on because I still haven't done that yet so we'll see what happens hey guys it is Saturday March 2nd don't get all excited it's already 11 o'clock well technically 11 o'clock according to my car um I've been up for a while since about 6 30 this morning the second time I woke up long enough to check calendars and clocks and anyway I was out already early ish this morning not not butt crack of dawn early but um early ish taking my daughter and husband to the airport they're to california for an overnight trip to celebrate my mother-in-law's birthday everybody wish betty erin's a happy birthday she is 90 years old that is a that is a great accomplishment I am home working I've got I've got projects that have got to be done uh paying paying projects and um so I stay home turn left then turn left yeah yeah yeah jesus is telling me where to go again um anyway so I'm drop them off at the airport and now I'm out running a few errands and then I'm going to go home and work on set projects hey guys it is still Saturday it's really late what time is it 10 38 p.m. I got all of my sewing projects done that I was working on they're all finished and we can clean up all the thread off the floor and pack it away for a while whoo I can now catch up on my last week of homework from Pauline Agnes class which ended yesterday and I haven't done any of the work so I need to do that that's my priority right now and then I need to revisit my clipboard I think is the next thing I do have a couple of journals to catch up on and I've got my live broadcast with intervals of sanity tomorrow so busy busy busy but that's okay the sewing was a big project and that's out of the way the next biggest thing is the logo and design work I'm doing for a client and concept drawings so once I get word back from them on the current batch of concept drawings we'll do some more drawings have them look at that make sure they like that and then put everything together make sure they like that then do the real thing so you know it's a process um that's it right now I think I will make sure to link any relevant links in the description below like always I did spend some time late this evening updating a few pieces of artwork um in red bubble and society six shops I have them in my link tree so you can look at them um and all the other places you can find my merchandise support my free the free content on my channel um by art my artwork by my rubber stamps all that stuff you can find all the links for all that uh follow me on social media all those links are in my link tree which is in the description below and that's it for right now so it's been a fun week a little tired it's kind of late so I think I'm going to finish watching this episode of law and order yes I'm a fan and then I'm gonna go to bed with a book and that's gonna be it for right now I hope you all had a great week and a great day and don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys