 morning everybody it's just after 9 a.m. Sunday August 7th. We're taking that job for a walk. Not Bob the dog. Yeah yeah it's gonna be high 90s low hundreds today so despite the leak we'll probably have to turn the air conditioner on. The kids are gonna come over later and we're gonna do a belated birthday dinner with them for my birthday and in the meantime we're gonna do this at some point today we have to probably go grocery shopping because we're running low on stuff and you know it's my family so that there's a never-ending extended family drama but we won't go there on YouTube. Anyway lots of stuff to do but we're gonna start the morning off doing some self-care going for a walk and getting our exercise and some sunshine before it's too much sunshine and I'll be back. It's still morning still morning 11 31 a.m. it is Monday August 8th and yeah anyway I got the video edited it's saving for the vlog last week I got that plants out backwatered dishes done called the post office about our mail hold that should have been released on Saturday and some of the mail's missing so hopefully that shows up today and I also rescheduled my counseling appointment so that I can drive up to my dad's on Wednesday and go with him to the doctors at his request by the way I'm not just barging my way in so anyway despite what some of my siblings may think but anyway it's a whole different conversation and probably not for YouTube anyway so I am going to work on getting the vlog saved and posted scheduled out on YouTube and I need to do some social media posts I also make it need to make a list of what my dad symptoms were so that I can make sure that we review everything we need to at the doctors and yeah kind of list of stuff that I want to do this week so and over today obviously I'm in the car I wasn't planning on leaving the house today since I literally have to be out of the house almost all of Wednesday but we put our mail delivery on hold while we were gone which I don't know about other countries because I've never lived there but we can do here in the US and the idea is that the post office will hold all your mail and they'll deliver it on the day you designate after you get back so anyway and there's a kind of an important box in the mail and it still says it's being held I don't know where it's being held but I don't have it and nobody answers the phone so I'm gonna I need to check the PO box anyway because it's been almost two weeks so I'm gonna just go down there and see if I can speak to somebody and hope they have my box and other mail I guess we'll find out I'll be back at the mail yay including this you're all ready let me cover up my recognize I just got off work it's about six o'clock this is the first time in about three weeks I think that has only been 83 degrees outside and that when he gets off and work we can actually go walking yeah that's been a thing speaking of which he's gonna start his his thing to track how fast we're walking anyway so we're gonna go for a walk before dinner and yeah it'll be good nice bright sunny day but not too warm love it I'll be the neighborhood that paint rocks and leave them out somebody in the neighborhood does little like rock sculptures and spells out names of the local dogs like Betty and Gypsy and stuff like that hang on one and spell that Mac flowers the funny thing about this one is you see that rainbow yeah I painted that they must have picked it up and then they used it in this sculpture I love that all right let's see what else we can see cool it is Tuesday morning August night I think lost track of a day here and there I don't even know yesterday what day I said it was but it was Monday the 8th obviously I'm dressed in stuff I'm not leaving the house today but I need to come out back here and water my plants before it gets in the warmer and check on things the blackberries those vine that right there are coming over the fence again hold on see that big giant vine right there yeah so anyway see if I can get Bob to do some trimming this weekend if you want thing if they actually had berries on the end but they don't they just have big giant thorns yeah anyway so we are going to so funny so I had a friend years ago who passed away she was the mother of another friend of mine and she had this rock on her front porch she was like a crotchety creative well crotchety old lady she was sweet but anyway she had to go away rock and I'd forgotten that we brought it with us when we moved and there it is right there I forgot all about it there it is thank you for me for showing up this morning anyway we're gonna water some plants this morning and check on everything and then I'm gonna go try to catch up on my sketchbook I only got two drawings done yesterday because I had to make a trip to the post office to get my mail that they were still holding on to even though they should have not anyway let's get to watering I'll be back and you forget the key working on a couple more things with our fromies people so I got that done checked on the YouTube channel social media all that stuff the rest of the afternoon my goal is to do today's daily drawings but also just touch up on my soap opera big secret or not so big a secret I am a general hospital fan from way back when when it was still in black and white I know anyway we're gonna check the mail and I get to it it's not too hot today at least not yet so hopefully we'll be able to walk again but we'll see tomorrow's the big day we have to do all the driving so you know that'll be fun not I'll be out walking without me because I already did some yard work and stuff today aka that was my exercise for the day and got hot and sweaty once and yeah had to change my clothes so I really didn't want to do it twice and we're supposed to get thunder and lightning for a couple hours tonight and maybe some rain the rain is good the thunder and lightning maybe not so much yeah anyway when Bob gets back we'll make some iced coffee and yeah anyway it's the weirdest weather this year but I don't know why I'm surprised it's COVID you know I will say the sky is a bunch of pretty colors hang on I mean you guys hear that I didn't really believe it was gonna happen when it was on our weather report but it's raining outside everybody it is 923 yeah 923 a.m. 923 a.m. on Wednesday August 10th I am headed two hours north to take my dad to the doctor or go with him to the doctor at his request I'm not barging my way in he he's getting older and he's you know yeah anyway and you'll know if he watched last week's vlog he got sick while at my sister's and I think it scared him into hopefully taking better care of himself and anyway he wants one of us to go there and make sure he doesn't forget to say anything and regarding his symptoms and illness and all that stuff so hey guys so obviously we're out walking obviously obviously got home from dad's had a little bit to eat because up until that point I hadn't had much to eat today feel much better sat and watched a couple of videos we're gonna go get some steps in now get some much needed exercise before the weather turn makes another ugly turn because next week is supposed to be gross again let's hope they fix our leaky air conditioners soon I'll be back it's 1034 a.m. Thursday August 11th looking on project upstairs I think I hear gardeners outside not at our house community gardeners trimming bushes and cleaning up their mess that they left yesterday that I complained about because I'm Mrs. Kravitz and if you're too young to get that reference I'm sorry but you should look up the old TV show bewitched like yeah anyway I'm Mrs. Kravitz hold on it's getting there you guys it's 109 p.m. and I think it's time to stop for lunch I got some more work done on this I love where this is going by the way it's not done I need to bring out the rocks some more I need to probably I have an idea for it like some focal colors like right in here in the middle first I have to bring the rock this part back because it's faded from these colors anyway that's coming along nicely yes it will be for sale the rolling hills are still for sale I'll put a picture of it here if you're interested let me know private message me they're both going to be about 135 plus shipping anyway I also filmed the next artsy trio I filmed a couple of playing art with our foamy's so I redesigned we redesigned the celebration stamp which is the three women together their hair was really hard to cut and so but at the same time it's a really good seller so we decided to redesign it and this is the new one which I love I love I think I like it better without the hair you could put abstract designs behind the heads for hair you could put flowers behind the hair you could do just about anything I also came out with some new designs some of which were prior stencil designs and I have limited stock on those I won't be making any more for the foreseeable future you can get them in the Etsy shop if they're still available the shop is linked down below anyway as is the art foamy shop so go shop over there it's a mom-and-pop made in the USA company so go check it out lots of really great designers over there I have lots of art foamy's not just mine fun fact anyway new designs first we have this one and then we have ones that I've used already that are wet we have this one we have this one I don't know what the names are at the moment but I'll try to you know put something like here if I know if there's no name it's because I don't know yet but go again go to art foamy's you can search by designer search my name Gina Aaron's it'll be probably she doesn't alphabetical order so I'm probably right at the top we have this one and we have this one I have some interesting videos coming up with them I also have an idea with them so I've asked for a couple of extras of them I won't say why it'll be coming up on my channel I will probably be doing maybe a Friday night live stream for our foamy's I'll probably be joining into one or two of those I always want to join in on them in the audience and I always forget and Friday night's our family dinner night but when she does talk about my stance I'm gonna try to be there what else did I do oh I painted some rocks I want to do a rainbow rock stack I know you don't get it but they're painted and I have to do another coat on some of them but they've got to dry first and I will show you all probably in the vlog if I can get it done so anyway I think it's time to have food cuz it was kind of a lot all right I'll be back I got Artie trio filmed the next two of them I wish I could show you the October one which is one of the ones I filmed because oh my god I love the way it turned out I'm also doing this little rainbow rock sculpture thing that's drying which I'll show you maybe tomorrow when it is dry I'm gonna just leave this sit for right now it needs obviously more contrast down here it needs yeah it's not done yet I love where it's going but it's not done yet anyway I am going to go downstairs I need some more water my glass is empty and sit and watch the YouTube video probably finish laundry cuz that's like a thing it's not gonna do itself I wish it would but it's not going to dang it and I think the kids are gonna be here tomorrow for dinner so when Bob is off of work I have to figure out what we're having because I might need to go to the store if we're making the homemade pizza I don't have enough stuff I need none for one thing so I mean you know I'll be guys it is 940 a.m. Friday August 12th I'm a crap ton of video editing to do because I just got on a roll yesterday and filmed a bunch of stuff so I need to work on that in my free time between now and Monday but first I've got to go to the grocery store so we're gonna go get that done I did a rubber stamp purge I've been meaning to do it for a long time I knew there was quite a bit of stuff up there that I wasn't using I did do a purge well before removed but I knew it was time to do another one and I wasn't wrong and I have a medium flat rate box for sale and the information about it is down below if you're interested it is on all of my social media if it has sold I'll put some here I also have a painting for sale that's also in social media I'll put something down there I hold on I got it I gotta close the book because you can't see that so I took one of my little white trees and put all my paints these are my mat acrylic paints that I use for art journaling because they were just sitting on top of the drawer boosts and every time I would bump something paints would go flying off the back so now they're in a tray so I have to bump it pretty hard to get the whole tray to go flying so that was good what else I am doing some things with the Etsy shop and everything in the Etsy shop right now is on sale I know right so the link for the shop is down below digital's artwork stencils rubber stamps whatever's left I do still have purge boxes some of them have stamps no man's and well I shouldn't say some most of them have stamps and stencils and look at that stack of boxes the description for what's approximately in the boxes in the listing so again check out the Etsy shop down below I appreciate the support I am waiting for art foamies to go live and I think they're about to do that right now so I'm gonna watch their live broadcast with the current new artist and the new releases and I'll be there everybody it is Saturday morning I believe it's August 12th it's 8 16 a.m. that's right 8 16 a.m. we're supposed to be headed to the DEQ otherwise known in Oregon is the Department of Environmental Quality to get our cars smogged and registered because they're due only I guess we're making a pit stop at cars for coffee first because it's British card I don't know so yeah anyway then I sold my rubber stamp purge very quickly thank you to the person who bought it very much and I have to mail that out today and let her know and then delete the post I might go thrifting so and then I have a video to edit a crap ton of video to edit but you know mental health wise I'm doing okay this week of course we have upcoming dental and doctor appointments in the next few weeks and so that has me always a little nervous because medical things are one of the things that set my anxiety off but I'm learning better how to handle the stress so there's that all right that's it for the minute at least that's all I can remember I mean I've had all my coffee but you know I'll be back and coffee is done DEQ is done and both cars passed Bob has a 1999 I think or 98 Mitsubishi sports car little red sports car much older than Subi car we're in aka my Subaru anyway which also isn't young anyway they both passed that was a lot of money but they're done and I got the package mailed I sold some rubber stamps I got that package mailed thank you Marion it's on its way now we're headed home because I'm starving so I need to eat some food I do maybe want to go garage sailing or thrifting this afternoon so we'll see where we go from here I'll be back and food lunch and Bob finished up some chores around the house especially in the backyard he's off getting my car washed she's Subi is constantly just sap covered and dirty because she parks in a driveway so he's off getting that cleaned don't get the dirt off won't get the sap off when he gets back I'll get the sap off we still haven't been like thrifting or doing anything else today which I kind of want to do but then I kind of also I'm just like not I'm just really tired today I don't know if it's a full moon or I have no idea but anyway I'm going to check on some stuff on the computer while he's out getting the car washed and we'll take it from there I'll be back yeah Saturday night let's see 10 45 p.m. there he is over there he's so excited to be on camera can't you tell so while I kind of wanted to go thrifting or something today we didn't do that we ended up staying home Bob worked in the yard and then I helped him make a rug for the trunk of his barracuda and we worked up a sweat doing that and afterwards I was like I'm just gonna go in and sit on the couch but it turned out pretty good by the way for two people who don't really know much about what they were doing it actually turned out pretty good I'll put a picture here so for y'all anyway not that you're interested huh yeah we'll put some pictures right here anyway so I caught up on my drawing and I got everything done it was a pretty good day cars passed the DEQ easily there was no line which was shocking like it was a good day it's been a good week I think except for having to drive tuned from my dad's by myself but he's gonna be okay so that's all good too I did yeah and yeah next week will be another week hopefully we get the air conditioner fixed and hopefully when I go to the dentist they don't find any more things that need fixing but you know it is what it is and we'll deal with it when it comes up that's for next week's vlog anyway I hope you guys have had a good one don't forget to like share and subscribe check out the video the video description for relevant links if you have a question comment or concern put it down below I've got Facebook groups if you're a patron or supporter you get early access to things you get access to things you guys don't get on this channel because they have their private channel I know right anyway that's it for today stay safe stay healthy stay creative go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it we'll see you next week bye guys