 a couple things i need to go and not hit the truck big huge giant truck behind me because it's really big and it's sticking out and yeah i'm kind of close closer than i'd like happy sunday everybody it's sunday may 2nd it's 11 p.m or something like that and yeah about 12 after one anyway we're gonna take crazy pants out for a walk and then we're going to run over caught to cosco really quick because i've got some ancient video vhs videotape of which we had transferred to dvd a long time ago we might have done it as a diy i don't remember to be honest but the video the dvds are cracked so they're unreadable um cosco will still transfer the vhs tape to other media and these days they'll put it on a thumb drive so i think i'm going to spend the extra couple bucks and have these two videotapes put onto a thumb drive we have other vhs tapes i may have done at some point too but initially i just need these first two so it's almost 1 p.m on monday may 3rd i think it's the 3rd anyway um i filmed one two four videos quick videos this morning um one for my creative year one for a life of art and self-expression my two facebook groups links are in the link tree list of links down below along with my instagram my etsy shop and all that stuff um anyway i also filmed my mission inspiration video um and this month is going to be a talking one everything is drying i'm going to go have some lunch and then let it dry and then it should be ready for some still images afterwards um and i'll probably edit everything tomorrow maybe okay the noise outside that you hear probably humming in the background is my neighbor doing some power washing um i said the afternoon working on some more digital downloads um which will be in the etsy shop sometime this week um the patrons over on patreon are going to get them free so if you want free stuff like that they're going to get at least one of them um anyway so and then i cut um my copy of them out on avery sticker paper these are some um and um these are all including some of the watercolor faces that i've been painting lately and um and i cut them out um they're about one and a half by one and a half inches square approximately and then i of course couldn't throw i'm having trouble being coordinated okay i couldn't throw the little extra strips of label paper away for some reason today i don't have lots of acrylic sprays because fun fact i don't like them and i had one that was clogged and i already had to put it in a different bottle um but i do well obviously i own a few i own six um and usually they're the um mixed media art sprays these i have one more that's clogged so i'm gonna have to dig around and see if i have a bottle to put it in but they just clog their high maintenance and i'm not about doing art the time maintenance necessarily i don't yeah anyway um but i took the extra scraps of the abrid label paper um from cutting out the stickers and i put them in cookie sheets and i sprayed them with some of the acrylic sprays and we'll see what happens when they dry and yeah my two journal pages i did are both dry or drying and so that's good the two of the ones that i filmed and i've got some watercolor stuff out because i was thinking i was going to put watercolor on those label paper scraps and that's i was like wait don't have sprays somewhere i should probably use those up so i didn't use them up necessarily but i did use them i'm gonna end up getting wet because of course i didn't wear the right coat but how do you just not love the sound of rain all right let's get some more stuff welcome to tuesday uh april fourth 11 57 a.m almost lunchtime i know i got wrapped up in like three projects at once advertising for the class i'm teaching with bae agrob by the way there's still a student space available my link for the class is down in the video description um i am doing it in exciting class my part of the class there's a bunch of different teachers and they're all doing something different and all very exciting my part of the class is exploring our use of color in our art and new ways to come up with new color combinations and the developing of a tool reference tool for your art room that you can use to inspire you so um yeah i i hope you all choose to sign up for the class and anyway yeah so i've been working on ads for that my daughter's helping me she's in advertising and marketing by the way if you need somebody to do that she's available for hire um anyway i'm also going to be exploring more making my own stickers out of label paper this is these are just scraps of label paper and i ended up spraying them with some ink sprays inks and sprays i have left i don't have a lot of the sprays anymore but i really like kind of the washi tape thing that happened because of it and i already used some of the small pieces in my journal last night um and i'm thinking i'm going to do some more i also have an idea for some cheesecloths so i got out the rest of my sprays and then a few colors of ink that i don't have in spray um so i can do like rainbow rainbow like rainbow and so i'm saving the last video i got um another clip filmed for the use it or lose it um for um april and i i i'd labeled it may i'll have to fix that i can't just change the name after it's done saving anyway um where i did these if you want to know what i did for those or what they are you got to watch the use it or lose it it will air tuesday may 11th so maybe hit that little notifications bell down below by the subscribe button and then you'll know when the videos come out right and then if any of you dedicated followers out there have any idea what these are this is why i label things people because i don't have any idea i evidently mix these because these are home chef little containers that i reuse in the art room when we get home chef meal kits i think they might be diy fabric paint done with fabric medium maybe there is a yellow and orange and a white there is two colors of blue and a green and there's what looks like black i don't remember what they are they're in a little basket this is why i label everything because i have no idea they're still fluid so i haven't they haven't dried out so they haven't been down there so long they've dried out i'm gonna have to figure out something to use them up on again i don't know what they are um but i do have some scraps of canvas um that i can pull out and um maybe do something with those because yeah i gotta get used but yeah guys we are in the car obviously and um i've already been up working for a bit i filmed a video clip for the class i'm teaching in june i will insert it right here everyone do you ever feel like you're stuck in a color rut when you're working on your art or in your art journals do you always pick the same few colors every time do you need maybe a tool or technique to help you experiment play and maybe even mix new colors join me in a class i'm teaching with bae agrob shell c peg robinson marie linder petrofuchs in june i am for my portion teaching a class on doing exactly that helping you break out of your box and create a tool to help you break out of your color rut and show you how to use it so join me and let's play and experiment and have fun i think you're gonna enjoy all the content from all the teachers use the link down below to sign up today class starts in june get your spot now all right so i need to go to staples i need to pick up some stuff and then i've got to go drop the car off because today is time to drop the car off to have the water seal leak fixed or the water leak fixed i'm assuming it's a seal or something i know there's some drain pipes that go down the a pillar on both sides of the car from the sunroof and i think they're kind of known to be a leaky problem so i don't know this place that's all they do is car water leaks they don't do anything else so we're gonna go get it fixed okay so if you are a regular subscriber and follower of my youtube channel you'll notice i fixed a bunch of youtube shorts today that i did wrong i formatted a wrong i had quite a few on my channel but they were all formatted incorrectly so i fixed it and so you'll see a flurry of them showed up all on the same day um youtube shorts are just short one minute or less videos formatted in a vertical format instead of horizontal like the one you're watching now um i think they're competing with like tiktok and stuff anyway um one of the videos is advertising the class in june that's coming up that i'm teaching with bayagrob i think it's a pretty exciting class i'll link the short for it in the video description i also did one with a fun filter just because i felt like it for no particular reason it has absolutely nothing to do with the class i'll actually insert the video clip for that one right here um okay do you ever feel like you're stuck in a color rut that with your art or art journals you always pick the same few colors and things every time do you maybe need a tool or a technique that you can use and you can reference to to help you break out of that box and give you permission to try new colors and new things in your art well i for my portion of the class i'm teaching in june with bayagrob shellc pegg robison petrifuchs and marilander i'm going to show you a new tool you can make yourself to help you break out of at least the color rut i think you're gonna love it i show you how to use it join me in june get your spot today the link is down below i'll see you there i also spent a lot of time yesterday and today using up some more stuff i added some gold paints and inks to the purple that i did yesterday purpley pink inky spray color things i did yesterday i did the rest of the fabric with some more of the gold and some pearly white inks and things that i had to use them up i've got quite a few see all that back there and this over here like every surface is covered practically now it's all gotta dry and then i can pull out what i want to use for my personal stash i may put some in some goodie bags for the edgy shop i don't know yet and what else i think we have to go to the grocery store tonight we're gonna be taking the husband's sports car yeah we never do that so that'll be interesting i don't know about my car's in the shop hopefully getting the water leak oh and i wanted to show you guys so one of the things i was doing was the inky sprays thing using up stuff if you've watched use it or lose it um then you'll know and this is cheesecloth right it's not dry yet but i can't wait till it's dry i took the leavings from that and i had a piece of label paper in the bottom it's also not dry yet but and it's like one giant sticker so i'm going to be able to cut that up into strip like washi tapes type strips so and then this one is just leftover spray cheesecloth less bright but no less interesting and this is the coordinating piece of label paper that was underneath that these were dry enough to separate today they still are damp so they've got to finish drying but they were drying up to pull the label paper out from underneath i keep seeing birds in my path like literally that's the second one i've just seen today it seems like for the last week or so every time i go out for a one walk well for a walk i should say i see at least one bird that's interesting i'm not sure what the message is there i have to consult with my sister she's all knowing about things like this okay so it's 11 16 a.m thursday march 6th yeah march 6th it's been quite an eventful morning um it started off with me getting word for my doctor that we are lowering my blood pressure medicine by five more milligrams so yay means i'm doing the right thing and going in the right direction um my daughter's also going to be handling some advertising and marketing for me for the art business and the youtube channel and all of that stuff and we got some bugs worked out of that this morning so yay um no word on my car yet um but the husband is going to call uh at lunch if we don't hear um anything and check on see what's going up with that and my mother may not be procreating her procedure again today this week so the ambulance service that was supposed to give her her ride to her hospital had all of their vehicles vandalized last night so they had to cancel all ride appointments for today and because of the late notice there is literally nobody else to take her and it's not safe to take her in a private vehicle that's her condition is so bad so unless they can scramble and find a transportation for her or an alternative closer place to get her procedure done for the spinal fluid drain it looks like it's going to be put off again and how long they can do that before there are serious consequences and or permanent side effects who knows at this point i think that consequences may already be permanent so yeah that's a thing hey guys it is 12 30 friday march march holy cow may 7th i think got my car back yay it's all been fixed didn't cost nearly as much as we thought it was going to yay my mom was able to get her lumbar puncture she needed last night um via the emergency room there was a big um hoopla about that i think i've walked about it but i don't know anyway uh but she got that done we don't know um if it helped or not yet dad's trying to find out um in the meantime we are getting ready for an afternoon of painting so we've got a number of spots around the house that need touching up on the trim and the walls like that dark spot right there um where the old owners had something hanging and so we are having a local paint company um try to color match and finish match this wall paint so that we can touch that up um and we are painting two accent walls in the um guest bedrooms upstairs and we also have some spots around the trim that need touching up for that we already have the paint um because we had to have a window leak repaired and our contractor actually to pull the old trim off and had a color and finish match so we already have that um and there's a lot of spots like that are just nasty like around the laundry room doorway i don't know if that's going to show up on camera um so we're going to touch up some of those and um yeah it's going to probably take a few days i don't think we're going to get it done to all today but the kids are going to come over in a little bit and help um at least with the two big accent walls and uh yeah that's the only thing on the agenda for today so to be honest it's enough i needed that it's just painting around the house but it's not fun art painting you're just painting walls but that's okay all right that's it for the minute i got the plants watered i haven't gotten the sourdough starters fed but i may not do them until Monday and they should be okay until then because i fed them late last week and i may um make a couple batches of crackers when i do feed them and or a batch of bread because i haven't made either in those in a little bit and we're out so it's also cloudy outside again that's okay all right i'll be back guys we are going to sit here in front of my newly blue wall so each one of the guest rooms upstairs now has a accent wall that says color the other walls are this sort of sandy beige color um yeah and this is the one that's filled with artwork not that the whole house isn't but you know anyway we also got the previous owners had a lot of artwork on the walls and as do i and um they were hunters so they had a lot of trophies on the wall if you know what i'm talking about and um that's not my thing but it was theirs not fine um but they left a lot of holes in the wall that were touched up with the wrong color of paint so besides painting these two accent walls in each bedroom up here we went to a local mom and pop paint company miller paint by the way if you live in the pacific northwest you need paint for a project please do look them up their mom and pop um chain um each one each franchise is privately owned um and um they were so they have been so helpful um not only for this project but other projects for us and they we took a like four by four patch of this off of a wall in a spot behind the dryer nobody's going to ever see it so we peeled it off with some of the paper backing from the sheetrock and brought it in and said can you color and finish match this they say they said we can but we're not the big box stores we will do it until it's right and it will take two or three hours okay that's a long time you know usually you go into the big box stores and they scan it takes five minutes right they did such a great job this color paint has been so hard to match and the finish on it has been so hard to match it's perfect absolutely perfect and so we went around after this wall was painted we had some paint to match this trim then we got this new paint for this and we went around and basically touched up every thing in the house that needed touching up it looks so great i am so happy um so the kids asked what i wanted for mother's day i said i want you to help me paint um they're getting there or having their wedding celebration in june they've already been legally married but the big giant wedding had to be put off because of covid so that is happening in june and we're having people here that are fully vaccinated and or negative you know we're being cautious but still we're having a few people come over and i want my house to look nice and i don't want all these weird spots on the walls and i want the guest rooms to finally be decorated and all of that stuff and so i said you know what i want for mother's day come help me with these projects at the house and so they spent most of this afternoon here and they're going to come back tomorrow with for a couple more things because there was a couple projects that kind of weren't on my list we have one spot on a corner that needed new mudding and taping basically and they've learned how to do that at their house they do a great job at it and it wasn't really on my list right now to do but it needed to be do eventually done eventually rebecca and paulia said you want us to fix it now so it's drying right now they're going to be fixing it and then painting it yay all right so it's going to be so great for the wedding i'm so happy so we're going to just let all the paint dry we did i've done nothing else today except this paint stuff so um i did paint stuff it was just walls um so we're going to um go have some get some takeout from somewhere we don't know where yet exactly and then just sit and chill for the rest of the day i think bob's back is really hurting him he has a really bad back so diy is not something we do a lot anymore um especially things like paint because it's really hard on his back um so i think we're going to spend the rest of the afternoon just chilling on the sofa probably or the evening i don't even know what time it is i have no idea anyway it's been a fun week um it's been an interesting one i am um in case you don't know when you haven't seen any of the ads or anything i am teaching a class coming up with bae agrob shell see uh peg robinson petra fuchs and marie linder uh and um it's coming up in june and the classes um are open seats in the class are open for sale right now seven is that seven i think seven different teachers teaching seven different lessons seven different ways really fun stuff anyway the link for that along with my at t shop my patreon and all that stuff to support the free content and my instagram and stuff like that if you want to just follow me on social media it's all in the link tree list of links down in the video description my um art foemies that are for sale are down there um all kinds of stuff so check out the video description will you don't forget to like share and subscribe please stay safe stay healthy stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it happy early mother's day everybody i'll see you next week bye guys