 Happy Sunday morning everybody. I am still in my pajamas and this is yeah, first thing in Sunday morning here. We are starting off the day by finishing up some chores. I didn't get done yesterday and after of course having my morning coffee and some breakfast and we're going to take showers and then I think we're going to go for a drive. We might actually go into downtown Portland. I never do that by myself. Bob's gotta take me because yeah. Anyway, I will let you know what we get up to. We have a couple of random chores to do here at the house like. I have a couple of, I gave away a painting that was here. I hung this one that was upstairs but we have a couple of nail holes in need of patch. There's paint in there but I can't get the lid off so we'll have to work on that at some point. All right, I'll be back. Okay guys, we are in downtown Portland and near the waterfront we found the cherry blossoms and we're going to go for a walk. Yeah, I just asked Bob why am I now inspired to not only paint cherry blossoms but make a sweater with cherry blossoms on it. Oh, why is that? That's the Portland Makers Market I think is what it's called. There you go. Every single weekend and I forgot that was here. Glad we walked through. We did of course get some coffee. Now we're going to go see the cherry blossoms. Let's go. Okay, all I want to do is say, um, what is it? What is it? I don't know. What's that? Oh, we are going to stop at another yarn shop on the way home. It's supposedly one of the oldest yarn shops in Oregon, Northwest Wolves or at least in Portland so we're going to stop there and see. I'm still on the hunt for some miniskains. We're going to be going on another road trip or two soon. Turn left on South Harbor Drive and I have a particular project I'm going to bring to work on so yeah let's go check it out. Just in Northwest Wolves. Yep, I did buy a few minis including, I think three of them are silk merino and one is um merino nylon sock yarn. All of them are thin. For the project I'm working on I'm using thin yarn. Anyway not a super big store, super friendly staff and despite the fact that the store is kind of small huge selection like every nook and cranny has yarn in it and if you're looking for something specific it's best to I think ask the staff um where it is because they have that much yarn. It's some beautiful stuff you guys. Their prices are pretty good. I think in some respects better than some of the other shops I've been to and uh yeah pretty happy with that so we'll be back at some point not right now but anyway we have one more errand to do before we go home for lunch and I guess I have a few more skeins to wind up so that's a thing. I'll be back. Once we got home and had lunch Bob started um working with the plants and pots we bought at the garden shop on the way home and I tried to help him and I brought uh was bringing pots empty pots from the backyard to the garage so he could fill them up and let's just say one of them was really heavy and I know post COVID I've said sparingly that we just both feel like we're fatigued post COVID and um I feel okay but I'm not the same and that includes some dizziness and things and yeah let's just say I brought the pots around but then I almost passed out so yeah then I came in the house and went to go sit down and my water glass wasn't completely shut and I spilled water all over myself so I had to take my pants off and I've got now sweats on and yeah you know so I'm not allowed to help him anymore right now and I did the cleaning out of the bathroom cabinet which was on the list of things to do so that's done anyway oh joy I'll be back here's my finished water I'll put a better picture here and a bunch of stuff to take upstairs I need to put a tag on this I'll put a little tag like right here on the collar and oh yeah um I think I'm just gonna do hexagons if I do any more crocheting today I don't think I'm gonna do another sweater project at the moment but I do have like maybe four other projects that I have the yarn for so there's that anyway it's all good and I feel better now that I sat and just did this and my husband admonished me for lifting something that was probably way too heavy for me that I shouldn't have done between the asthma and the post-covid symptoms I shouldn't have done that but you know live and learn right it sucks but there you go all right that's it for the minute I'll be back hey guys it's four o'clock on Monday March something I don't know March 25th yep 25th um I haven't vlogged before now just because um I was busy I was learning about crochet symbols and crochet charts where you don't have written word instructions you have just a chart that shows symbols for the stitches and then of course I wanted to create one and then of course I wanted to know can you make a star with the red heart all-in-one granny square yarn well yes yes you can anyway if you want the chart for that it's in my patreon so you have to go join my patreon they patrons get it free stuff like that for me for free anyway I spent most of the morning doing that and nothing else yes it doesn't happen overnight we're in five minutes anyway I'm gonna edit the vlog right now and get it hopefully posted and scheduled for Wednesday and then I don't know what I'm gonna do I've got chores but I just don't want to so I'll be back edited and rendering woohoo um working on those crochet charts um and learning about them and creating one took so long today so much longer than I thought it was going to um but that's okay um was interesting to learn and I'm gonna take a couple of product shots here the table's a mess because I saw more video to film for you all so but I will try to get it done soon I promise okay I'll be back we're gonna go out for a walk I was winding yarn balls some of the yarn I bought this weekend while I was waiting for Mr to get off of work one of um had a massive amount of yarn poop I'll put a picture here so now I got to sit and untangle it happens every now and then well anybody who knows needlework does needlework knows about yarn poop doesn't matter how cheap or expensive the yarn is occasionally you get you get poop it happens so you have to sit patiently whether you like it or not anyway we're gonna go get some steps in and uh all that jazz see what we can see I'll be back morning everybody it is about 11 o'clock this morning on Tuesday March 26 I think let's check yeah March 26 um as you can hear in the background I am babysitting today you want the water no yes no okay this I don't know anyway we're gonna be babysitting today I spent a couple hours last night untangling the yarn poop um the picture I showed is after untangling it for about an hour I did get all of it untangled I didn't cut anything I just put on some youtube and just sat and I refused to move my butt off the couch until it was done I wound the other two mini skeins this morning so everything's ready to go yay um we will um be trying to do a little bit of something today in and around you know but he's my priority so anyway we're gonna play for a little bit and then have some lunch and according to his parents he's on the I'm hungry every hour or so thing which not surprised anyway I am gonna go take care of him I'll be back good morning everybody it's um turn that down so it doesn't come on kind of a momentous day here in the land of dina errands youtube um we are simplifying things earlier um this year and or end of last year because I don't remember when I did it now we closed the etsy store because it wasn't making enough money to justify keeping it open I have transferred um my creative energies to patreon instead um so when I come up with digital downloads or something like that or pattern ideas or all of those things I instead of selling them in my etsy store I give them to my patrons um we're also closing the p o box you know I don't need anything what I want I can buy I appreciate all your love and support but I don't need the p o box so we're gonna go close it this morning I know right um made a couple more um hexes for my current project last night and um the yarn is really thin and the crochet hook is really small so I only do a couple a day because otherwise that would just drive me completely insane um I am already thinking like three projects ahead and there's an afghan project I might want to try I got the digital copy of the book that goes with it I just have to figure out what yarn that's not going to cost me like a second mortgage I'd love to do it out of wool or wool blend because that would be just fabulous but I just don't see that in the budget so I might stop by Joanne's and see what they have like on sale or on clearance we'll see all right we also have to go to ride aid and all that stuff first we're gonna go close the p o box all right I'll be back that was scary easy all I had to do is tell them I wanted to close it and hand in the keys a little freaky all right on to the next thing if you can hear that it's raining kind of hard um who would have thought the hardest thing on my list this morning would be finding contact paper but that was a thing spoke to a couple ladies in a couple stores including ride aid and I guess they're having supply issues already and anyway they had absolutely no contact paper in the store and to be fair to her their supply issues have been going on since COVID because that that particular store especially but all the ride aids I've been to they all look the same they look half empty anyway um I'd go to Fred Meyer I did finally find some contact paper I got the same green color I had last time which is fine I use it just to make my own DIY storage boxes for the year for all my daily drawing books and that sort of thing and so I need to make one for 2024 because I haven't done that yet I also am starting a new blanket project as I said and I did find yarn colors I want to use I got Karen one pounds and a big giant ball a big twist for the edging each ball including the big twist was $7.99 for a minimum of 800 plus yards the big twist one was over a thousand and plus the yarn was buy three get one free and I got four balls so I got one free um and it cost me like $30 and change and I really would love to do it with a wool or wool blend however it would have cost me uh at minimum $130 probably more than that so yeah we didn't do that so we're doing acrylic but that's fine all right we're gonna go home now because I'm kind of peopled out yeah I'll be back so it is Thursday March 27th I think 28th 28th um yeah that's junior that you hear it's babysitting day and yeah last oh my he's definitely approaching toddler years um last week we we gave Oma a love bite um this week we bonked heads with Oma and also scratched her eyeball just yeah and then today we scratched your chin trying to keep my face out of harm's way but it's not doing too well anyway other than babysitting we're gonna be working on some crochet and other things and of course focusing on him he's mad I turn to sound off on his tv show anyway I'll be back it's Friday March 29th yeah good Friday um I don't think I've vlogged before now so I made a sweater a while back that just turned out way too big for me then I shortened the sleeves I said on video on video that that was better I'll probably wear it this way I like things loose and baggy I really still wasn't happy with it to be honest I had some leftover yarn and I started working on the project you can see on my shoulder now um I will link the book I got this from um I got a digital copy of the book from amazon and um it's just an easy simple crochet pattern book and um with something called an iris iris stitch little these little clusters and um it doesn't have sleeves yet I'm not done but oh my gosh I like it so much I frog the other sweater I like I'm not kidding so this is most of it I have another like skein and a half of the leftovers plus one of these cakes and a ball in the basket to finish this sweater with and then whatever's left over I will probably um make a blanket with so loving this so much more than the other one it wasn't it was just me it wasn't the pattern or anything I was trying something new and it just didn't work so you know that happens every now then anyway no family dinner tonight because we are doing it on Sunday for Easter always the kids and tonight Bob and I are going to go shopping at Ikea we need some bookshelves for the front room because um we're going to be doing a little bit of rearranging out there and in the house not only because we just need to but in light of his mom's passing we have more of her memorabilia we want to put up on display I think and we need a place to put that and so yeah and FYI in case you haven't noticed and at this point until I edit I have no idea if I've said or not yet but I think I did you know junior recently um bit me I mean he's not even a year old yet he has no idea but anyway he bit me he was being playful he didn't understand anyway we were playing and he likes to see my messy babysitting bun that I have when he's here because he likes to pull my hair bounds around and we accidentally bonked heads and then he was trying to move my head down to touch my hair and poke me in the eye it's getting better um and then yesterday again he was trying to move my head down and I didn't want to get poked in the eye again so I'm like you know no be gentle and he scratched my chin I don't know anyway it's a thing so anyway let me show you this sweater so far it is long but I do like to wear them that way not only out but around the house um over sweats over pajamas or whatever it does need sleeves still I haven't added them yet the pattern doesn't call for ribbing around the edge it calls for single crochet I really really wanted to put ribbing on it and I'm glad I did but I don't necessarily want to put buttons but I am going to do the sleeves per the pattern and then I'm going to put a ribbing around the cuff probably a nice wide ribbing it at least like this which I think is six stitches now this is premier puzzle and I'm using a nine millimeter hook I think you know I have this thing for not doing gauge swatches I really should but I just tend to start crocheting anyway I think it's a nine millimeter hook hold on let's let's look shall we this is one of my little mini project bags for my tools why am I squinting my glasses are not far away 8 millimeter hook sorry so um yeah it's turning out really cute I'm really happy that I did this so yay all right it's time to stop doing that it took a couple hours to frog the sweater and then I've been working on trying to get the body of this sweater done shoulder sewn and all the ribbing done around the neckline and around the bottom before I go downstairs to do some boring chores um well you can see the two scratch marks really good yeah anyway um but the boring chores have got to be done so I'm going to go downstairs I'm going to do the boring chores I've got to do today's drawing which I'm going to do and I've got to put a couple things away up here um so we're going to try to do all that stuff I'll be back this is the word new we are headed home from Ikea we went there after Bob got off of work today we are going to be doing a little bit of rearranging and redecorating in the family room and the front room and we needed some cabinets we're going to make a book wall in the family room but also we want to display some more of Bob's mom's things and so we needed someplace to do that and honestly when we moved in we just threw some stuff together Bob knows this we found a couple pieces of furniture like but then couldn't find anything else we liked and we just got like cubes and shit to put in there and they're okay but they were never our favorite so we're going to fix that and um we'll probably still keep the cubes I have some ideas um but we're going to only keep what we need and what we can use and the rest we'll be letting go of but we also both love books and Bob even has his college calculus books so I think one of the things we need to do is go through the books again I have a hard time with that it's like going getting rid of art supplies for me I have difficult time with that too contrary to what you see here on the channel and um but yeah it's an upcoming process it'll take a while we had to order the cabinets because they didn't have them in stock so and then it'll be a bit before we can get them put together on one so anyway we're going to head home now lovely Portland traffic uh yeah especially because they've closed a couple of major roads because they're doing road work it's made the rest of it horrible it's not as bad as California or New York City or anything like that but for here it's bad we're gonna go home he's gonna have a drink I'll probably have coffee all the things I'll be nice I would say good morning but it's afternoon what time is it um 1 30 p.m Saturday March 30th um as you saw last night we went to Ikea we bought some cabinets for this wall back here when we moved in we just kind of slapped this wall together and really the only thing that's going to stay is a tv and that cabinet everything else is going to get rearranged and aren't go somewhere else so um not the paintings but you know what I mean anyway and I have books all over the house it'd be really nice if they were all in one place um and we have more memorabilia from his mom as I said so anyway um Bob and Sonny and Law Polyas are off to a basketball game Polyas got free tickets so they are down in Portland at the Moda Center at doing that today I am going to finish my iris iris stitch sweater that I'm almost done with the rest of one sleeve to do and then I have like five bags of blanket yarn blankets I want to make for that stack back there um so I could go somewhere and I could go thrifting and I could like go to the rea sales shop I don't really need to I don't need anything so I think I'm gonna just stay home and work on projects I made myself a cup of iced coffee I'm gonna turn on some YouTube or some music or something and I'm gonna just chill and you know what because I'm gonna just take advantage of it while I can because life is crazy right all right let's do that I'll be back guys frog one sweater only to turn it into another but you really love this other one you ready I mean this is cute and this is what I'll wear yes the sleeves are a little long but I honestly kind of like it like this the body is much less big than the other one and it's a really long sweater let's see if I can get an angle on this for you I don't know I might have to turn the phone the other way I'll pull you forward hold on yep it's a nice long sweater I'm really happy with it the pattern was really easy this is premier puzzle I wear these long sweaters around the house a lot especially but also out and I have a couple of store-bought ones but I really love that now I have a homemade one I love this I'm so glad I did this no it doesn't have pockets or buttons I don't need it really need it to I could stick a scarf pin if I want to close it I do have some if you don't know what a scarf pin is google it but yeah I do have now a lot of this yarn left over but I think I'm going to make a hat for mister out of some of it and also I'm going to turn the rest into a blanket but yeah look at this this was a good use of the yarn I love it so happy I did this I'll link the book that I got the pattern from down below I did make it longer than needed and I made this is shorter on the sleeves I'm telling you guys I have fat I have short arms fat arms I have short arms and I put a cuff on it which isn't called for in the pattern and I didn't want to frog it again but I did make the cuffs smaller like I just folded it over and sewed it down I mean that's okay someday I might want to take it apart kind of doubt it though anyway that's it for right now I'm going to put the leftovers of this yarn away and I'm going to start on the blanket and yeah I'll be back hey guys it is I don't know nine something on Saturday time to close the vlog anyway it's been a good productive day I finished my sweater I love it I already wore it out already I started a blanket I was questioning my color choices but I actually love the way it's turning out so I'm working on that I've got like five blankets to make I was sorting yarn today that's a lot of blankets so we'll be working on that and then I've got I've got a lot of projects going on and of course an idea for an art journal like in the back of my brain like why not it's not full enough in there anyway we are sitting enjoying our nightly word brain puzzle things and Bob had a good day at the basketball game he brought home some extra snacks I appreciate that and it's a good day tomorrow's going to be another good day we're going to celebrate with some of the kids Easter it'll be juniors first Easter so of course we got him some things and Bob's going to barbecue some steak and it'll be a good day but that's for next week's vlog there's some stuff coming up and I'll tell you about that coming up we will be altering temporarily the days I'm doing the vlogs for but you'll understand why when the time comes anyway that's it for the moment don't forget to go out and have a good day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it like share and subscribe check out the video description for relevant links and ways to support the free content here on YouTube and if you have questions comments or concerns leave them down the below and that's it right now I'll see you next week bye guys