 It's kind of overcast outside. We're getting ready for a big rainstorm. I'm sitting here at the work desk of my art room, the business, business desk. Um, getting ready to log on and get some stuff done today. My friends Cindy Utter, Peg Robinson, and Chelsea are gonna be having a live broadcast I want to watch while I'm editing, or at least listen to while I'm editing video and that sort of thing. So and I'm working on my third cup of coffee because it's just one of those kind of days. So yeah, all right, I'll be back. Hey guys, I spent most of the morning working on business stuff in the art room and edit actually editing video. I spent a lot of time editing video and chatting with my art friends while I was doing it, dealing with some business stuff. Again, more business stuff. So anyway, why is there doors not closed all the way? Hold on. There we go. Yeah, just more business stuff. It's not good stuff. Anyway, I appreciate all of you who have been supporting me and my efforts to bring free content and my art by shopping at my Etsy shop, contributing to the tip jar, shopping on my wish Amazon wishlist. I love that. Thank you. For those of you who want to click on the link tree link in the description below and it's down there. They all the links for everything right there. My gaslight just came on. I better go get gas first thing. But anyway, yeah, it's just... Anyway, there are some things I have to find solutions to. I have some friends who are helping me, but I don't think it's going to be an easy fix. So yeah, I'm going to take a break from the computer and try to figure it out and fix it. I'm going to put gas in my car first. Then I'm going to go to the grocery store and I'm going to pick up my mail and drop off a couple of things that have to be shipped out. One of them is an order that someone placed and I am sending them a big box of happy mail in addition to what they ordered. And I have two more boxes I could maybe do that with. So I might be doing that. So if you shop in the store, you never know. You might get just what you ordered, but you might get some extra stuff. Anyway, that's it for right now. I don't have anything else to talk about right this moment. I'll be back. Hey guys, it's Friday, November 3rd. And it's about 11 o'clock in the morning. I am going to go order the pizza for dinner tonight. It's a take and you bake it at home kind of pizza. So Papa Murphy's, which I've mentioned before. And that reminds me, I think I forgot to put all the links in the vlog for that I just posted live last night. I better do that when I get home. Anyway, I'm gonna pick that up. I also have to make a bunch of photocopies at Staples and I need some more spiral bound notebooks for myself for something I'm doing, but also I'm going to share what I'm doing on YouTube. So the video for that's going to be coming soon. Anyway, yeah. So and we've, yeah, it's been a funny morning again. I, you know, I don't know. We had the furnace guy out to service the system and they're going to be back in a couple of weeks. We have, it's way past time for us to have the whole thing cleaned. We're going to have the duct worked cleaned, the whole thing disinfected, which is better for my asthma. And I either have to leave the house or make sure I've got a mask on the day that they come and all that stuff. So anyway, I feel like I need more coffee. All right, I'll be back. Alrighty, that took about 45 minutes and I just spent another five minutes talking to you while only the camera wasn't on. Cause you know, I walked into Staples after ordering the pizza and none of the copy machines are working. It's just going to be one of those kind of days, I think. Hey guys, it is Saturday morning, November 4th. And you know, the husband and I don't have any pressing engagements or appointments. You know, there's always a chores of a list of chores around here that need doing. Or as my husband calls it, the honey do list, but a lot of them involve going outside and doing things outside the house and it's kind of gross weather out. So we decided to just take off for the day and go for a drive. So that's what we're going to do. I did want to show you all the puzzle we got done last night. We got this one done with the kids. Really cute puzzle, nostalgic scene with old cars and trains and stuff. So it was pretty cool. And of course had our standard family meal together around the table while doing the puzzle, which seems to be our new normal. The dog is outside doing his thing and we're getting ready to go and we're going to go for a drive and I'll try to catch any funny, interesting things the husband says on video. Cause you know. I don't say anything funny. He does. I know he does and y'all like it. So all right, I'll be back. I've actually been to see the ship since it did break apart. This is a new site, but there you go. So here we are in Capitola at the beach down the street from Zelda's restaurant, which is that way. They're having a big art fair here tomorrow, which I wasn't aware of because otherwise we should have come tomorrow. But I've seen how many? Four or five? Four or five? Four or five somewhere there. Artists doing on-plane air. They're a couple of oil artists, a couple of pastel artists. One that was too far out to the beach. We didn't want to get sandy, but there's one or two people out there doing drawing or something and there's another one up ahead here. So that's pretty cool. I've never seen so many people doing that within a short space. So bravo to them for doing it out in public. I think that's wonderful. Anyway, all right, we're going to keep walking and getting steps in because I had a giant bowl of clam chowder and now I need to go work that off. All right, I'll be back. Just to see so many artists work in public. I love that. It makes me want to ask for one of those on-plane air kits for Christmas. I don't think I'm going to, but it makes me want to ask. There was one more that we didn't get on camera that was closer to the restaurant where we had lunch. And there's probably more. Those are just the ones we saw while we were walking. We're leaving now and we're going to drive north. Are we going north? Yep. We're going to go north. We don't know where we're going next, but we're going north. We'll be back. I talked hubby into stopping at one of my favorite places for art supplies. There's two locations, one in Santa Cruz and this one in Capitola, a palace art and art supply. Yep, we're going to go look around. I walk in and look around and get my art store fixed without actually buying anything because I don't really need anything. Although I was tempted to buy a couple of things like those little black paper journals, but I don't need them. Anyway, we'll be back. Headed out to go run a couple of errands really quick. The husband is off to a football game. I think football. Some of his friends. You know, I don't do sports, so I don't know. They're lucky I get on the treadmill. Oh yeah, yeah. But I think they're out of 49er game, to be honest. San Francisco 49er is American football for those who don't know. So while they're gone, he's going to be gone most of the day. So I have the day to myself. I'm going to be coming back here and trying to catch up on the things that I remember that were on my to-do list, which is now missing. I don't know what I did with said to-do list. I'm, it's either stuffed in my planner somewhere and I can't find it or it's, I accidentally threw it away. I don't know. I don't know. So I'm going to go run some errands really quick and then I'm going to try to catch them up on some things that I know were on the list and remember the other things that I don't know were on the list. I don't remember. I do think there were other things than what I'm remembering, but I don't know what they are. All right, so that's it right now. I'm going to head off to Target and a couple other places, so I'll be back. You know, my husband did all the driving yesterday, so I guess the first thing I need to do is adjust the seat because I can't reach the pedals at all. It's probably a good idea if it can reach not only the gas but the brake pedal. Don't you think? I think. Target on Sunday. Oh joy. To the registers there was much less of a line of people waiting to check out and I was undercounting how many people were in line by a good 30 people, 35 people at least. They opened a lot more registers by the time I got up there. Almost all of them were open, but then once you get checked out, then it's like a maze trying to get out in between all the people. It was like it was Black Friday or something. It was just crazy anyway. In the midst of all that, they're trying to set up all of their displays, merchandise all their displays for Christmas. So you've got merchandisers out there putting out the stuff and resetting the displays in amongst the craziness. Yeah, it was insane. This is why I don't go on Sunday, especially Sunday over the holidays. Yeah, I'll be back. So I am puppy sitting again while the kids go out and run errands and stuff. I guess that's Lily's new favorite place to sit when she's outside because I seem to catch her sitting there a lot. She's like a toddler on speed. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think she likes her new toys. What do you think? Holy moly. My God, you guys, did you give her sugar or something? Is there a puppy? Oh, I quibble it for sugar. Yes. What? Oh, what? Oh, no, no biting. No, no biting. No biting. No, you can't have the remote control. Yes, Christ. Good Monday morning, everyone. Maybe, I guess. Out and about it is early. Not so early that it's not dark outside yet, but because it is already light out, but it's early. It's not even, it's not, it's well before 8 a.m. But I am headed to go get the oil changed in my car and the tires rotated and then I've got to go get an x-ray on my shoulder that's bothering me. This one that I hurt when I fell. I need to run a couple of other miscellaneous errands. So it's best if I get an early start. I am taking the back way to the dealership because I get my car serviced at the dealership. I'm taking the back way because it is early in the morning and it's still in, it's like smacked up in the middle of the morning rush hour and I should say rush three hours. And so, yeah, it's going to take a lot longer to get there on the freeway than it will. If I just go the back way, it's fine. I'm hoping to get a little bit of art done today. I did get caught up on a few things and I have sort of recreated my to-do list. I still think I'm forgetting something and I don't know what it is. In 1000 feet, turn right. There's ways for you. Anyway, all right, I'll be back. Okay, to my surprise, the mail was at least part sorted and I did have some mail. So, yay. So, of course, we have some things with windows for my husband which, you know, he doesn't like. And by the way, that's what we call bills, things with windows. And I got some more inventory in for my rubber stamp line. So, some designs I was out of that I was having to have drop shipped from the factory all the time, every time somebody ordered it which is fine. I can continue to do that and I may continue to do that for some things but it's easier to carry some in stock. All right, we're going to go home now because my arm is sore and I need to put some heat on it because yeah. All right, I'll be back. Hey everybody, let me move away from the window because holy cow, that lighting was bad. As you can tell, I just got out of the shower although it is Tuesday, November 7th. It's about, it's after 2 o'clock, 2, 15, 2, 30, somewhere like that. Anyway, I spent the morning getting on the treadmill as you just saw, chatting with my online friends and while I was doing that, I was packaging up some stuff that had to go out to different people and packaging up, getting some product ready for Etsy and getting that listing created which is all done. So, the store has new items in it. Go check it out. The link for the Etsy shop is below. I also got some good news. So, we had a product manufacturing problem and that's been solved. Yay! It was a big problem, so that's been solved. Looks like a solution or settlement to my workman's comp case is in process. So, cross your fingers, it all goes smoothly. Yeah, it's been, those are two seem like little, they're not little things. They may seem like they're big things and I'm glad to get them on the road to solutions and start off 2018 on a good note. So, that being said, I'm going to go get the mail. I already ate my lunch while I was chatting with people online and I am going to sit this afternoon I think and work on some new designs for rubber stamps for 2018 which I started working on already. I've got quite a library of designs but there are few more in my head that I want to create before I go forward with the next steps with Rubber Moon who is my manufacturer. If you don't know who they are, I will link them in the description below. They have their own website with their own stamps that they sell through their website so I would definitely go recommend checking them out because they've got some really cute stuff and no mine is not listed there. Mine is only at my Etsy shop for the moment so I think that's it for right now. I'm going to go do my stuff and do what I need to do. I'll be back. Okay so I've spent the good part of the day as I said earlier on the internet chatting with friends and catching up on shipments and I got them all shipped. I decided to before the day ends and I have to worry about cooking dinner or anything to get a journal page done so that's it there. I'm going to be sharing it on social media later tonight so some of you will have already seen this when the vlog comes out. This design here which I did take a picture of the actual stencil on the journal page is one of my new stencils for 2018 so woohoo and I love the way this page turned out. I didn't even know I had these tags. I found them in a box of stuff I was cleaning today and I'm working on a modification of this old I want to say Franklin Covey Day Planner Franklin yeah it's an old Franklin Covey planner and I took the binder rings out and then of course I detached the hole in the spine so I've got obviously a bunch of stuff sitting on that spine to keep good contact on the piece of vinyl that I used to repair the hole it is a piece of Shannon Green's repurposed vinyl billboard fabric that she sells in her Etsy shop and I was done with all of that wait I dropped a rag on the floor see fun fact I rarely use paper towels in my room I use rags uh so then I was done with that I thought well it was a well past time for me to clean out my brushes and my water dish because it was disgusting so I did and I'm going to cover the camera real quick here so I don't make you all sick um as I turn around we're going to go down my dark hallway out into the garage sink and I got everything cleaned and it's lined up here by the door where it always is when I'm done cleaning because the sink is right here and so I went to go clean everything and I found this brush that wasn't quite in the water all the way so you ready I think you probably could pound nails with it so I'm going to put it in this little cup here and I'm going to fill the little cup um up to the ferrule the which is the metal part um with pure murphy's oil soap we're going to leave it sitting there overnight and we will see what happens in the morning if I'm able to get it clean um I'm hoping that I can do it here in the vlog but it might take a couple of days so it might the the hard crusty brush brush adventure may overflow into next week's vlog so we'll find out tomorrow so that's the end of my Tuesday I will be back in the morning have a good evening everybody inside of my icky garage sink and this is the brush from yesterday that I couldn't even get the bristles to bend um today it's bendable at least it's less likely to be able to pound nails it's still kind of stiff normally I would let this sit and soak in here for a couple of days but we're going to see if we can get it clean I'm going to lay the brush down on the bottom of the sink and I'm going to use my palette knife to try to scrape the paint off maybe some of it's coming off I really don't think it's sat long enough I think we're going to have to work on this in next week's vlog and I'm going to I think I'm going to have to let it sit for a couple of days yeah because it's it is not yeah it's still pretty crusty it's better and that's only after one day I can at least move the bristles okay so we're going to have to continue the saga of the crusty brush next week I'm going to leave it sit until at least Friday it's Wednesday evening right now and then try it again so join me again for next week's vlog and we will continue the saga of the crusty brush don't forget to check out the video description for any relevant links that I spoke of this week and of course you know if you want to or can support my channel on the free art content not only here on YouTube but on Facebook by donating to the tip jar or shopping on my Amazon wish list there is links in the description below there's one link down there that says link tree slash Gina B. Arons if you go to that link you're going to find every single place you can find me on the internet all my links are there so anyway check out that video description before you leave don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself and because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys