 already but in case i didn't we accepted an offer on the house in california so cross your fingers it all goes well it'll be if it does it'll be a really short closing and that's okay with us all cash offer we couldn't really say no to so yeah and this morning running errands after making some phone calls and setting up the art room for some acrylic pouring which i need to do i want to do i've been meaning to do a shocker series anyway i'm going to do one that is seven little panels and one that has all the shocker colors on one big panel and i'm going to probably do the big panel with the deco art pouring medium and the little ones with liquid text so we're going to compare the two and see what the results and differences may or may not be i have this feeling with the deco art one we may not need to add any water to the paint because it's i think a little bit thinner consistency so we'll see what happens um i've got to run some errands i've got to take something to drop it off to be mailed i've got to drop off a stool sample for the dog i know gross right just talk for like 10 minutes to the phone and it wasn't turned on so i made it from the veterinarians to mccann's to mail my envelope and the pharmacy the post office part of the pharmacy was closed probably because it's a veterans day which i forgot about so i drove across the street to the safeway shopping center they have a postal annex and mailed it from there cost me an extra dollar or so but that's okay that's fine popped into safeway got a couple things the special part about all that is i did it without gps i only used the gps to get to the veterinarian and from there i didn't use it again i am going to see if i can use it to get not use it to get home but i have this feeling i'm already turning the wrong way so that's probably a thing i'm expecting a federal federal express envelope i think they're not delivering it until tomorrow but i don't know for all i know it's today so instead of going to the station area store i'm going to go home and i guess we'll find out all right i'll be back hopefully i haven't just turned the right wrong way let's see i'll be able to tell you in a second yep i already turned the wrong way and i can't make a u-turn i made it home without the gps and i only made one wrong turn and i actually didn't get very lost i turned around right away good morning everybody it's tuesday morning november something i don't know 13th i have no idea you can't even check on the computer because it's not on i think it's the 13th anyway it's been a stressful few days what with accepting an offer on that old house and which involves a very very quick closing like 10 days and our dear sweet bandit is not doing well and we're making him as comfortable as we can for as long as we can he's happy to be inside and he's downstairs laying down snoring like my mom says who my mom's a long-time dog reader and she says if he's eating doing gang and playing or at least doing one or two of those three things it's not his time yet and he's doing at least two of them so but he's not doing very well we're gonna increase his payments behind getting my day started and getting my work started and turning on the computer and yeah i need to go run errands so it's like having a sick person in the house is sick toddler so i've got to and i'll let him it's the computer booting up i'm gonna let him sleep and get some rest in the warm house and then probably let him out to go potty and then i'll probably bring him back in right before i leave and put him in his crate so he's in a warm place instead of outside in the cold anyway all right i'm gonna try to get a little bit of things done on the computer i've got my daily postings yet to do like i said i'm like an hour or so behind in doing them but better late than never right and i do have to edit the website which hopefully i could do this afternoon or maybe this evening when my husband gets home all right i'll be back Ted for last week but i wanted to show you all how the rainbow pores are drying there's a video coming out for these i did this big one with deco art pouring medium and then i did these little ones with liquotex so i'll give you my thoughts on them they haven't really changed too much as they're drying sometimes the pores will kind of move and change a lot i did make sure that the canvases were all as level as possible so that's probably why they didn't change too much but look at all the drip to paint in the bottom of the tray that is going to actually peel right off so i cannot wait to peel it off and make something with that too that's going to be a lot of this is one of the local places i wanted to check out in the new area if it was open and mr bandit was doing okay which he seems to for the moment um i don't know how much longer we're going to have him but anyway that's a whole other conversation um anyway main street main street stamp and stationary they are open so i'm going to go inside and check it out it says they have of course scrapbooking stationary office supplies stamps paper crafting i'm not into some of those things but a lot of those supplies can be used for mixed media so let's go check it out main street stationary and gifts i love it it's right up there at the top of my favorites list along with mccann's pharmacy here in the tiger area i'll try to link their websites in the description below evidently i signed up for points with another scrapbooking store either the one in san jose or the one that i was at in myrtle beach south carolina i don't know and they're all on the same customer appreciation points system thing customer rewards i don't know but she went to go put me in the system and i was already there so i know i haven't been in that store yet so anyway that's interesting um of course i didn't really need anything but i did get some when i was in south carolina my friend vicki brown got the last of the gilding flakes that they had at that store and i walked in and they had them i don't really need them for anything but i had to have them sometimes that's just the case right so right now we're waiting for the train to go by because that's a thing i'll be back hey i'm back in the house i went ran upstairs and plopped all my bags down on my chair by my desk and i'm here having another cup of coffee mr b is over there where is he there um i think he just needs more pain meds uh he um when he doesn't get them he can't move around so um after i gave him his pain meds um this morning and they kicked in uh when i got back from the store he ran into the house with no problems no stumbling he was a little wobbly but yeah so anyway it's a thing i'm gonna sit and have my coffee mr b's inside out of the cold and he looks pretty happy and content although i think he's wondering where daddy is because you know mommy's okay but daddy's better you know just like little kids they're okay with mom but you know when's dad coming home i don't know anyway that's it for the moment i'll be back i think everybody it is wednesday morning november 14th i think um it's nine oh six i am i only know that casillo is sitting in the car uh is it really not yeah i think it's really nine oh six i don't know that's what the clock in here says i think my husband updated the clock so i think that's correct um anyway i am headed out to the title company because we are officially in escrow on the old house and i've got to go drop papers off so i'm doing that mr b otherwise known as bandit or cranky mr poopy pants dog it seems to be doing okay he's definitely getting older he's definitely slowing down a lot um you know we just hope he makes it through the holidays to be honest um but we're bringing him in as much as possible it does get a bit icier here than it did where we used to live um although the temperature right now is about the same as it would be on one of our colder days down there he didn't like it down there either so um anyway he's outside right now because i've got to go to the title company i got to run some errands and um yeah i'll bring him in when i get back i do i also have to edit the website and stuff like that so thankfully he's too old to get into too much trouble when he's in the house so you know anyway i'm gonna go and get my stuff done and i'll be back hey guys how are you so yesterday i played with some holebine acrylic gouache i'll insert a picture here i used a pastel palette inspired by uh frenéred on youtube i'll link her channel in the description below she uses a pastel palette she's a freelance illustrator she has her own line of um planners and things too very very talented young lady and anyway i'm really was really inspired by her use of gouache i've tried gouache in the past unsuccessfully actually holebine to be honest and wasn't real happy with it because i was expecting it to be um forget what i'm doing i was expecting it to be like a watercolor gouache it's not it's an acrylic gouache um so it's like acrylic paint and i didn't understand at that time you know why why did you need it i should have done more research before i filmed that original video but anyway uh i'm gonna take back some most of what i said now and i really do like the gouache actually it is it got a very smooth matte finish and unlike other kinds of acrylic paint which can be hard to doodle and draw over without the right pen and you all know what i'm talking about acrylic gouache has a very flat matte finish and is a joy to doodle over i know because i tried it last night with a bunch of different kinds of pens here's the picture here i'll insert it here somewhere and it was great i loved it pull up over here and drop some mail off in the mailbox anyway so i got a pastel frenered inspired palette of colors and um i will put the exact colors i got in the description below i have a dickblick that's like 20 minutes from my house so i just went over there you can order them online of course um so i had fun with that mr b uh banded our dog otherwise known as mr grumpy poopy pants um was not doing well yesterday and we were really worried it was his time if you know what i mean um he is approximately 14 he was a rescue so we don't know exactly how old he is um but he wasn't doing very well and there was a definite change in mood and temperament and so we took him to the emergency vet last night and to my joy and surprise it's not his time he has doggie vertigo didn't even know that was a thing so he got his first dose of drama mean last night and was much better holy cow he still has some mobility issues he is an old dog and he does have arthritis pretty bad in his joints so he is on a pain medication and supplement routine for that um but the drama means going to help with the other stuff so hopefully we can keep him around a little while longer we're not quite ready to let go yet so anyway that's a thing um and i think that's it for right now we are going to go out to we are me and you guys we're going to go out to run some errands i've got to go to home depot i've got to go to target which i'm going to do first i've got to go to fred meyer i've got to get some groceries so let's go hey guys sorry for the noise in the background so wash machine so you know i have a dog my daughter has a dog dog hair and everything it's just the thing plus i live in the pacific northwest pine needles and sap yeah they're now part of my life anyway i'm bringing you up here to the art room because i wanted to share with you all what i did to solve my solution for art drying space so i today is thursday november something um i think i already said the other clip anyway it's thursday and then when i posted today's thoughts and their creative wanderings today i think it was in creative wanderings i talked about how i'd really love a fancy like bakery rolling rack you know those ones you see in the bakery they've got cookie sheets full of muffins and donuts and stuff on them cooling they'd be they'd make a really great art drying rack by the way so if you ever are thrifting or antiquing or bargain shopping and you see one and you're creative and you've got the space for it and it's affordable snatch it up because the brand new ones are really expensive i'd love to have one i've got the room i don't want to spend the money and i don't know that i want another big huge piece of furniture in the room i'd like to keep the space open so i did have an affordable solution let me show you i got another white metal um small bookshelf from target i'll try to put a link in the description below these um acrylic pour panels were dry enough off of the um washing machine pan i usually have them on to move them to here they're on cookie all of the little ones are on cookie sheets the big one's just sitting on top of the rack which is fine it can live at the end of my table it doesn't take up tons of extra room and this little thing too i can also i'm sorry not in the shot this little thing too has um shelves on it so i can put artwork or papers or journals open on this rack and it actually is made to sit that way you can sit it the other way too but how cool is that um i have a large cookie sheet down there on the bottom of the floor and those white things are folding dish drains i've used for years for smaller pieces of art this this is going to work really well and it will keep the table mostly clear and clean and when i'm working on things i won't have to like when i do acrylic pouring um once it's dry enough i can move it off the table and i won't be stuck for like a week with nothing else that i can do because i have no table space um i did peel most of the paint chips off the inside of the uh plastic tray and i'm going to be putting them between wax paper but how cool are the they especially this big one you know i might have to paint a canvas black and i might have to put these on top of it i've got this canvas in the corner i've been working on it's just kind of not going where i want i'm thinking i just paint the whole thing black and put these on there they're pretty cool especially this big one there are a few spots on the tray let's turn on the light there we go that are not dry yet those there i will be letting it dry over here in the corner um for a couple more days hopefully they'll dry and then i want to try to peel them off especially that one and the little sliver next to it because isn't that the coolest thing but also the red so anyway i've been doing that today and um doing paperwork canceling utilities at the old house getting groceries um i have to get some more groceries for Thanksgiving day dinner i got the personal stuff for the week and i got the things that the store could possibly run out of i don't know about up here but in san jose like if you didn't go the week before and get certain things at the store they ran out especially like um stock if you need stock or um chicken or turkey stock and san jose they would run sometimes carry turkey stock but frequently only had chicken and either way no matter what they had they always ran out um if you don't want to make gravy and you make use pre-made gravy um i know in san jose they always ran out so anyway i i bought some things that i know i want to use um on sunday i mean next week on thursday um and i just when i was there so i got them there are some things some fresh produce i'm gonna need some herbs some onion celery um we're gonna wait until over the weekend or monday to go get and i just remembered i have to change my dentist appointment i better do that next all right i'll be back morning everybody it is friday november 16th i almost said march it's like 9 45 i only know that because i'm looking at the clock way over there on the oven um anyway i just got a box from deco art um i'm on the deco art helping artist program and um which means periodically they send me a product i can request what they sent me and which i did when i got back from the myrtle beach art retreat so let's do an unboxing here that's and let's see what they sent see if i got everything right now so oh it's also empty okay and i'm doing this one handed obviously because i'm holding my phone okay so i requested some things i was either out of or didn't have and this is the deco art media line and teaking cream which i came home with a couple of colors but i'm really interested in trying it i wanted to get some more colors and um using some of the crackle mediums which i already have so these are the ones that i got that i didn't have i know there's more stuff in here i did order a couple stencils i can see that they're at the bottom so i think this is one of the things i didn't come home with yeah so this is the clear pouring top coat i did just finish those rainbow acrylic pours the shocker inspired pours and so i have the triple thick which is what i usually use which when it's dried if you do two or three coats of that it looks like the piece is covered in resin i'm interested to see what this does i i do know um what it does to a piece of paper because i experimented on that which i'm going to do a video about coming up soon but yeah i needed to get some of it before we did that video so box i didn't order a lot but i did order some this is a vintage effects wash paint which is a newer product that i didn't have that i wanted to try to get some colors in i didn't have a chance to try it at the retreat so i was too busy doing other things so that's cool and then i did get a couple of stencils i know i designed stencils i know i'm aware um and i already have a lot of stencils and one of these i might have already but honestly i can't find it i don't know where it is get him out of the box first so i can show you okay so the first one i got is andy skinner and it looks like a nautilus shell it's called fossil i do have some other fossil stickers like a fish and i didn't know he had this one i'm pretty sure i don't have this and so i didn't even look before i ordered it i ordered this day of the dead one which i may already have but i don't think so and if i do i have a small one but i loved this one and then i ordered this one which is caught by deco art personally yours is called urban ink and it has a bunch of different designs on it including this star mandala shape some wings and this sort of not Celtic knot inspired pattern and a couple of words like brave and courage no regrets and there's a sort of a tattoo oops there we go inspired like design on the top underneath the packaging and i think it only has the one in there although there's two there's two pictured i may there may actually be both of these in here let me let me open there's two stencils in that package and the other one has sort of a guitar design sorry about the glare it's from the lights over the kitchen island a skull a star that reminds me of like a texas star your rules your choice rock and roll chase the sunset another sort of this reminds me of a tattoo design a banner loyalty these yeah they they seem to me like tattoo inspired which i find interesting so anyway i'm looking forward to using all of those they just came in today's mail mr bandit is doing better but he's still sickly so he'll either get better or not unfortunately and i'll keep you all posted that's it for right now i'll be back it's the 17th yeah saturday november 17th um we're having a late start to the day it's uh just after two o'clock we spent the day at home doing laundry and the husband was working on his computer and updating files and we signed off on the sale of the san jose house uh last night so hopefully things will be clear and done and over with by tuesday uh we are going to go out though and go run a few errands we've got some stuff we need to do and uh yeah waiting for the dog to finish his business outside so i can put him in his crate he's doing okay but you know he's not young anymore so we'll see what happens i'll be back hi guys so it's been quite a week uh i don't know what to say but it's been quite a week we have the holidays coming up quickly and anyway i'll keep you all posted on how bandit's doing and you know he is getting older and you know but we'll see anyway i hope you've all had a good one and you are still enjoying the vlogs let me know if there's anything in particular you'd like to see vlog wise art tutorial wise don't forget to like share and subscribe any relevant links will always be in the description below and that's it for this week go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and i'll see you