 Sunday morning October 4th, ready to watch my regency life. She's cleaning and reorganizing her craft room, so I like to watch videos like that. I started my Christmas list last night and on it I put a table that I found that's the right size, I think, in height for a new sewing table, art room table upstairs. I'd like one that's just slightly bigger and a new cutting mat, so I doubt I'll get it, but you know, one can only help. Anyway, my face is looking a bit better. I'm going to keep putting vitamin E oil on it every day while it heals, so but I didn't get black and blue. By now, if I was going to get black and blue, I would. And the swelling, there's little to no swelling, so a little bit right here, I think. I'm just lucky I didn't knock a tooth out, to be honest. We both woke up late. I woke up later than Bob. We both ended up unintentionally sleeping in. I woke up like an hour ago. He woke up slightly before me and he's already had his coffee and breakfast and off to the gym. Being safe, of course, and wearing a mask and all the things. So I got another zombie doll done. Pestilence is finished, so we're going to go walking now. First time I've been really seen out in public without a mask with the scrapes on my face. It's about 2.30 p.m. on Monday, October 5th, I think. I think. I spent the morning working on some business changes, actually. Logos and branding are changing, and you will notice that on some things already. Some social media things are going away or have already, or will be in the future. I've discontinued any further subscription to certain services. I will still be on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, FYI. Etsy stores staying open. But anyway, we are streamlining and making things look better. And my daughter who's in graphic design and marketing, she's helping. So we spent the morning doing that and just changing the YouTube banners, like so fiddly. It took like 40 minutes just to do that and get it formatted great. Like it's just such a big deal. Anyway, I'm also working on the vlog and I've been watching Mike Deacon's October 7 days of Halloween videos. I'll link his channel below while I was doing all that. I was playing in the background and yeah, I sound like crappy again. I know. Anyway, I'm going to go check the mail and see if that's in a couple of questionable pieces of mail coming. I don't understand. So I'm going to go check them. I'll be back. Hey guys. So it's like 2 30 ish on Tuesday afternoon. I think it's after 2 30 to be my face is recovering from the fall. You can't tell in the picture. This is no longer scabby. So that's good. This is a little bit so this I don't know what that is and just showed up. So you know, yeah. Anyway, I'm going to go check the mail. We spent the morning. I spent the morning doing the live broadcast. We made a dam a doll. I'll insert a picture here and talked about some upcoming videos and some thoughts and ideas. I'll include a link to the live broadcast down below because that was really interesting conversation. I'll be at semi one sided because you can only hear my voice and be reading the comments from the people. Anyway. Hey guys, we are out for our evening walk. Yes, I'm aware I sound like crap again. But you know, hello asthma. Evidently from some of the news reports I've seen online since we've had all these wildfire fires on the west coast. A lot of us with lung issues, even if we didn't go outside or having problems. And I'm not the only one. So anyway, we're going to get some steps in and then go home and have leftovers. And I really need to catch my health app up food tracking app because I think I'm a couple days behind again. Hello. Yeah. I'm blaming it on coat Corona brain. But you know, anyway, I think that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is I almost said Friday. It's Wednesday morning, October 7th, I think. It's 9 59 a.m. According to the car clock. Is that right? I have no idea. I do think it's a couple minutes off. So I don't know. Obviously in the car, I've got it. I've got some Etsy orders that have to go out and they're too big for the drop box here by the house. So I've got to go to the PO box. I'm going to check it while I'm there. Besides drop off the orders. And while I'm out, I'm going to pop into Michael's really quickly and get some floss. I'm out of another color again. So I'm going to pick up a couple of skeins of 3348 DMC 3348 light yellow green, I think is the name of it is, but it's 3348 that I know for sure. Okay, I got the last of the four horsemen of the apocalypse done. So here's a picture. There is a video coming. I did make this last one on camera and hopefully I got enough footage to make sense of a video. So we'll see. Watch my YouTube channel. I don't know when I'm going to get it edited or aired, but hopefully we'll get it edited tomorrow, but we'll see. I have a typo in the four horsemen labels that I gave the patrons of our Patreon, which I need to edit, but I already turned the computer off and forgot to do it. So I don't know if I can do it on the iPad or not, but I guess we'll find out in a minute. First, I'm going to go take this other Etsy order over to the mailbox and check the mail. Yeah, you know, see apocalypse. It's another weird day. I don't know what to say. I have to figure out dinner and do the dishes now. So first I'm going to see if I can edit that document. Then we'll take it from there. All right, I'll be back. Everybody, it is, what time is it? 10.54 a.m. Thursday, October 8th. So I've spent the morning rehanging all the paintings and artwork around the downstairs of the house. We're going to be doing the whole house, or at least most of the house. When we moved in, we put everything up with command strips in the old house in California. That worked great. We never had an issue with them here in Oregon. We seem to periodically have an issue with a painting falling off the wall. I'm not sure if it's because of the humidity is so much higher here in Oregon that the command strips just don't want to stick. I'm kind of guessing that might be what it is. But anyway, this morning my husband went up the stairs to go to work, to his office, and one of the stairwell paintings had fallen off and was laying on the stairs. So rather than taking the chance of number one, somebody getting hurt, number two, a piece of artwork getting ruined because it falls off the wall and gets a hole in it or something, we're going to be spending the next couple of days rehanging things with putting hangers on the back and actual nails in the wall and all the things. I'm pretty sure I know for the most part that those paintings are going to stay there permanently, so I don't have a problem with actually putting an ale on the wall. In some places like the art room, I do occasionally move things around. So I don't know if I'm going to do that in here. I might leave some of these up either with command strips in here. I might leave them that way, but we'll see. But I want to do the stairwell. I did the whole kitchen entryway living room area. We have to do the game room, the master bedroom, the stairwell, and then whatever upstairs that we're going to do, which over the next couple of days, we're going to take care of that. Okay, so I got today's art apocalypse drawing done. The word today was skull. So that's what I did. I did a skull. There you go. Still playing with those pencils that I found and trying to see if I like them enough to keep them or not. I went through them, did an initial sort, and perched some duplicates, basically. I have the sneaking suspicion that most of what I kept and I put over here, I would probably keep more than likely. But we'll see. I'm not going to jump ahead at the game too much. Kind of getting ready for the next round of slow stitching, cleaning off the table a bit. It's decently clean. I have a couple of mission inspiration challenges to work on. So they're all cut out and ready to go. I think my next slow stitch might be a Frida Kahlo slow stitch. So I've got a couple of inspiration images that I've pulled off of Pinterest. And this one, of course, is off the front of my coffee cup that I have downstairs. So I'm going to use them for inspiration to create a Frida slow stitch. I might print a couple of photographs of her too. We'll see. But I think I'm decently ready to go for that. I just need to start picking a couple of fabrics. I also think I have a decent amount of doll making patterns now, zombie doll making patterns, the charity bear pattern, which I started now before the pandemic. And now I don't even know if I can donate the charity bears because of germs and the pandemic. And yeah, I'm going to keep making them. But yeah, that's going to be a thing. Anyway, I also have some pin cushion patterns over there. But I think they need their all sort of mini binder. I do have some pockets for the pieces, but I ordered a little mini binder to store everything in today. Hey, guys, I would say good morning, but it's after lunch already. It is 9pm Friday, October 9th. I've spent the morning video editing, which is something I've been putting off for a couple of days because although I filmed a zombie, I filmed a video for the four horsemen of the apocalypse zombie dolls, a sort of a part two of making zombie dolls. Part one went live today, as did Mike Deacon's video using my pattern. And I love the way his dolls turned out and I love the dolls he came up with once he figured out how to make them. He came up with his own patterns. I love what he came up with. If you haven't seen his video, I'll link it below. Go watch it. It was great. Anyway, he was so cute. He said he made a comment about me doing this magic thing with my fingers to tie a knot and he didn't want to say anything to me because he didn't want to offend Mike, you're so funny. I learned how to do that from my grandmother, bless her, she's not with us anymore, but I am surprised by the people that don't know how to do it. I am going to use some sort of big, this is just some jute twine that I had. It's been laying on my desk. It's really not, I didn't think it was a big deal, but evidently, well, I've watched a few sewing videos. There's a lot of people that don't know how to do this. I don't know. So literally you just take, I'm right handed, so I have control of the string or thread with my right hand. I have the string or thread between my thumb and my finger here, wrap it around until you have this, like that, right? So you still have it between your two fingers and then roll as you roll. It pulls that little short cut end through the loop that you just made around your finger and then just put your other finger here and pull. I didn't really think it was magic, but we'll do it again. Hold on. I'm going to cut the knot we just made off so I can do it again. So wrap it around, bring it in between. As you roll, I'm trying to do this in front of the camera. I don't usually do it this slow. As you roll, your finger pulls that little cut end into that loop and then just do that and it creates a knot. I don't know. I don't know here. It'd probably be easier if I do it this way. So then it to see, can you see that when you roll it? Oops, I lost it. And when you roll it, do you see what happens to the little cut end? It pulls it through. That's all it is and then just pull. That's how I always do my knots. I've been doing them that way for a long time since I first learned how to sew for my grandmother. So I don't know, practice. There's lots of ways to do a knot of course, but yeah, just practice. It's easy. Once you get the hang of it, it's easy. Anyway, Mike you're so cute. It's not magic, I swear. I don't have lots of manual dexterity, but I guess I have enough to make knots that way, which I didn't think required dexterity, but I'm guessing it does. Anyway, I would say good morning, but it's after lunch. It's just after 12 o'clock on Saturday, October 10th, I think. As I was saying a few days ago, I've discovered since living in Oregon that command strips to hang things up on the wall are not always the best idea because they don't stick. It's too humid. So we just got the last of the big paintings attached to the wall with old fashion nails and brackets. There you go. So they're all done today. So we got that done this morning and I just finished lunch. I got today's Art Pocalypse 2020 drawing, which the word for today was drink. Oops, drink. So there you go. My favorite flavored water. And the paper is curly because they are pencil drawings. And I don't, I think I said already in the blog, but I'm not sure. But I put some deli paper in between all the pages to keep the drawings from Schmeering. Schmeering is my husband's from New York. We say Schmeering on to the other opposite page. But I also have taken the first couple of pages I took outside and I used Kryolan matte finish spray, which is a great archival quality spray. But for this, I'm not too concerned about that. And I can't spray Kryolan in the house, plus it's not so great for my asthma. So we switched to the old fashioned DIY Aquanit hairspray, which I can do in the house and doesn't bother me. So I got all the papers sprayed, which is why it's like curly right now. So that's just sitting and chilling. And the kids are going to come over later. We're doing October Fest today. So we're cooking up a bunch of different German foods. And we are going to turn on some German music, I guess later. Yeah, so it ought to be a thing. We've got sausages and sourbrot and Schmetzl. And I think my daughter's bringing apple strudel and beer and some German wine. And yeah, we can't do October Fest in person, which we do like to do at Mount Angel. Even if they were having the event, I wouldn't be okay going. But they're not really having an event. They're having virtual October Fest. Yeah, it's not going to be the same. So we'll wait until COVID's over. Anyway, I think that's it for the minute. I know I have other things I should be doing today. I can't think of what they are right now. But you know, hello, Corona Brain. Anyway, that's it. I'll be back. Now to get the sourbrot and started, which is basically the German version of pot roast, only marinated in vinegar and things. Rather than I don't know when I make pot roast and marinate. I don't really marinate it for three days, but I cook it in like beef stock and stuff like that. And I have sourbrot and you actually marinate it in vinegar and red wine and onions and stuff for three days before you cook it. So anyway, that's kind of a basic difference. I've got the red cabbage out. I've got the Schmetzl out. Like, I think I'm ready to go. Rebecca's bringing the sauerkraut. Oh, the sausages are out. She's bringing the pretzels and the strudel. We've got the beer. I think we're good. So yeah, it's all good, I think. As long as the bread proofs, because you know, that's always a crap shoot. All right, I'll be back. So yeah, as I was saying before, we had a really nice dinner of sourbrot and Schmetzl, red cabbage, sauerkraut. The guys had some spotten. Rebecca had some German wine. We ate gingerbread cookies. We were supposed to save them for dessert. We ate the whole bag. So we're out going to out get some steps in. I'm going to stay well in the back, because yeah, I don't want to fall again. So that's a thing. All right, I'll be back. Let's see if I can do this so y'all don't have like the worst lighting imaginable. Trying to hide the ceiling fan light behind my head. Anyway, good evening, everybody. It is, it's not too awfully late. Let's see. 9 30 p.m. on Saturday the 10th. It's been another weird week. It's just, it's been a strange week. But on to the next, right? What are we going to do? Y'all have been great with the Etsy orders. I did have to make a correction to one order. My mistake, not theirs. I took care of it today and sent a few little extra goodies and I'm sorry. So I took care of that. I got some vinyl sticker paper in today. So I'm going to try seeing how that prints on my inkjet printer versus regular sticker paper to do some more sticker flakes with. I've got a bunch more of the new style botanically inspired doodles to transfer into digital images to then make flakes out of another stuff. So I need to work on that. So there's always stuff to do. I am going to start working on the Frida Kahlo slow stitch maybe tomorrow. I might film some of it or all of it, but I might film it for Patreon. I'm not sure what I'm going to do regarding that yet. I might do it all off camera. I don't know. I guess I better find out tomorrow though, right? Anyway, it's crazy. I came upstairs because I've got to close my computer. It hasn't been on all day and it needs, it needs to go. I don't like to leave my computer on all the time. I like to turn it off. I guess since I'm here though, I should check YouTube comments while I'm upstairs. Yeah. Anyway, it's been a good week, but it's been a weird week. We had the Oktoberfest dinner celebration here at the house tonight. That was a lot of fun. Of course, it's not the same as going to an Oktoberfest festival, which is a lot of fun and I can't wait until it's safe enough to go to another one. But in the meantime, we had a fun time making sauerbrotten and spetzl and we had some strudel from a really great local bakery. My daughter pictured up on her way over some red cabbage, sauerkraut, really great German sausages like the whole nine yards. It was really good. And we went for a nice family walk. I stayed well in the back away from Lily so she wouldn't knock me over again because this is just starting to heal. So yeah. Anyway, I hope you've all had a good one. Even if it's been a weird one like me, it seems like every day this week it's been Monday. But you know, seven days of Monday, I think I'm done with that now. Anyway, I hope you've all had a great week. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please leave them down below. If you're in a one of my Facebook art groups, you can put something in a post over there and tag me in the post so that I see it. Any relevant links will always be in the video description along with a link tree list of links that include ways to support the free content here on YouTube or over in the Facebook art groups. That includes shopping at my Etsy shop or Patreon. There's a PayPal tip jar. There's a bunch of stuff. So check it out. And the Etsy shop has a sale up until the 15th of the month. All the stencils and stamps in the shop, 40% off. That's below cost on some of that stuff, just FYI. So if there's anything in my Etsy shop regarding stamps and stencils that you've always wanted, now is the time because I don't think I'm going to do this sale again. Anyway, I think that's it for the minute. Yeah. All right. I hope you all are doing well and that you're staying safe, staying healthy, staying creative, doing what you need to to do all of those things. And join me in the next video. Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Like, share and subscribe. And I will see you next week. Bye, guys.