Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So this week I have some lovely things to share with you. I know it's a little bit later than the usual Thursday video but this was arriving today which is Saturday so I've done a very quick little video to get this put up today and then I've got something else arriving which we'll then go into next week's What Did I Get? So let's start with these bits here. So this is some embossing folders that I picked up from the charity shop, it's that charity shop. You know the one that I always get some really good finds, especially craft related pieces. So I picked up these and the reason I love these ones so much is they're 5x7 and that's one of my favourite size cards to do but most of my embossing folders are 6x6 which is also another style I like but they're then the smaller A6 size and I just don't really make cards that size. So these were a pound each, got the music notes so I thought that's going to be great, it has got the day of the dead, must have been part of that collection but you can use music notes for anything so that's really handy. There's a lovely snow scene there so perfect for any winter cards and obviously them for your Christmas ones as well and then this one's my favourite and it's the Christmas lights festive embossing folder so I'm going to be using that in the backgrounds of some of this year's cards so I think that'll look really really nice. So that was just a little kind of charity find so they were a pound each and then this is my papercraft essentials magazine. So this is the issue 178 so I feature in this a couple of times and I've had some lovely emails from you saying that you enjoyed reading my article so there is a little bit in here it's the meat the maker just here so there's me there's a little portion of my craft room just to give you a little insight and then I just got asked all these questions and yeah it was just really nice to I guess share a little bit more about me. Those of you that have been following me a long time probably know everything there anyway but anybody knew I just thought that was quite nice and then just before that is my basic Christmas cracker tutorial. Really lovely one this is a go-to this is something I've made for years you know you learn this in kind of school almost as well it's just such a lovely one to know once you've got it you kind of use it forever but it was using that beautiful paper boutique pad that I shared a while back so yeah they were really fun to make so I enjoyed that a lot so that's the papercraft essentials issue 178 but the great thing about it also is that you get this lovely kit and it makes five no eight sorry I haven't done them all yet it makes eight of these little pop-up cards can you see them they're all 3D you get the foam and you get all these kind of it's like a decapage well it is decapage and then on the back you've got room to write your message there they are lovely like I said they are smaller than what I usually do but that's just my preference but you get all the envelopes for them as well and you just follow each page it's all numbered 1b 2b you can't go wrong with it and they give you all the instructions and the inspiration is really nice as well so if you don't want to make the 3d card you can so these are the cards here really really lovely so the one I've done is this one so far these are the other ones to do and you can also Nicky in here has done really lovely just find the cards that she's done she always creates beautiful cards here we go and that's using all parts of the elements and cutting this out you know as a single piece and putting it onto the card itself still having that decapage elements you've still got the foam but I think they're really really lovely so I probably won't do all eight in that style and I will do some of them you know in this in this way but you do have lots of its left over as well so yeah we'll definitely get those all done and sometimes things like this is what I will then make a nice little gift bag for and then I'll put it in for like a raffle Christmas raffle and things like that it's always nice so I get the joy of making it and then someone else gets the joy of giving it out so yeah that's what you get there tons of it you can see all the pages absolutely load so they always do good kits you can't fault papercraft essentials for that kind of thing they are very good and I think where did I see the new one that's coming out it's already I think it's out soon anyway you'll see me with that one because I will be getting it no doubt okay then I picked up some more of my kalau glue this is my solvent based glue that I've just fallen in love with over the last few months really enjoy using it it's usually always around 11 pound for three I've never found it any cheaper so if there is anywhere let me know but this is the one I like but I don't know if I'm right so do pop in the comments and I don't know if this is available in the US or it's allowed to be shipped to the US because it's a solvent glue so is anybody know if that is the case or maybe you have it in the US but it can't be delivered to the US I don't know I don't know how it works but someone definitely put I can't we can't have this glue because it's solvent that wasn't I didn't see that here it was on one of the forums I read but no one really seemed to them reply to it so I'm just curious if that is the case because I mean I could understand if it is but yeah I was just found that quite interesting so that's my glue there then I got these now I have a large I've treated myself to something very nice from creating craft and they do the flexi-pay and they said if you click on these these were 8.99 it was buy one get one free so I've got 12 of the runners there's 10 meters on each so there's a lot there's a lot here and they are very sticky so I'll give them that because I've never used them before but I have got one on the go and it is it is actually quite good but if you put these on these are on four flexi's so basically you pay a little bit off for four months but if you add it into your total basket and your whole order can go over four flexi's so that's what I done so I have a larger part of this but they send it all in different parts and it's taken an age for it to arrive so that part what this is part of will come next week so any guesses to what it might be that I've ordered okay and then finally I got a lovely package from craft stash again I always like to say I am part of their affiliate program and I do collaborate with them regularly now which is great so I got to choose some wonderful products so this was all in my wish list this is stuff that I genuinely want and it's what I've chose which is why I love working with them so you would have remembered last week I shared these ones so these are John next door dies these are the plates this is the Christmas collection is those three and then you have the additions dice you've got the poppy and the orchid yeah that's the orchid one isn't it again I think I did say last week they don't oh yeah orchid it is there sorry they do say what they are blousey bluesy poppy I've just realized that now Christmas elements plates Ivy die plates and the Christmas rose die plate so apologies didn't see that it's hidden so those were the ones I got that were all the dies but then I thought actually I need some really nice holly so I've picked up this plate here and I thought you know I'm gonna get the matching stamp because it'll be nice to have some stamped images and not have to always die cut everything because you could stamp them in the in the background and then have them die cut in the foreground so it just makes the card look really full and then again it's a lovely plate so it cuts all them out in one go and those will sit perfectly over your stamped image so you can actually stamp that because that's one big plate it is nice and easy they really have done you know thought about this you've got your triangles here so you just peel off and then that whole piece would go onto your acetate block or onto your stamping platform stamp it all out and then you would just line up your die perfectly over the top there and you can see in it cut them all out so you've got one two three four five six seven pieces in one go I mean that's enough for one card straight away if you're not having to run your die through all of the time a few people have said to me remember you've got your cricket Sam yes I do I actually use it for more I guess 3d kind of makes as opposed to actual doing little things like this if that makes sense plus I'm still someone that likes the finish of a die rather than a machine cup I like that you know the the rounded edge that you get so yeah but my cricket gets used a lot so I have actually got some nice projects coming up with the cricket so it like I said it does get used but I also use it for pride not private work but like my dad likes it for things that he does so he asks me to do things on it and and I've done a few commissions on it and my friend wanted a massive label for her daughter's bike and I done that on there so it does get used a lot okay so that's that now so it's not the whole collection of John next door but it is a nice chunk of it and I'm again really looking forward to already started using this this ivy is getting used on a really lovely 3d Christmas project that will be part of the Christmas workshop this year so yep everything will get used then we will do the paper discovery in a moment so I'm gonna talk about that a bit more detail but these OMG so these here I have always loved the videos that Jennifer McGuire does when she does embroidery she loves doing embroidery on cards and I believe that it was either waffle flower or there's another American brand that she uses that do these embroidery dies and I was looking through craft stash and I was looking through their branded section and right on the very end it was like page 8 or something they have these awesome very large embroidery dies and I said to Laura at head office why are these so hidden I honestly think these would do really really well so I am so excited to have them and show you hopefully if you haven't seen this kind of style die before some amazing ways you can create absolute stunning cards especially if you're in someone who enjoys embroidery or you have a friend who loves embroidery this is gonna look wicked and even if they don't it's a lovely textured card to send somebody sorry you got the circle one and these will cut all these holes and you literally with your embroidery thread will you know just treat it as a normal you know embroidery project so I have ordered I already have quite a lot of embroidery threads and I think I shared them some months ago I absolutely got tons from the charity shop they were a bargain but there's a few really bright colors I would like so I've ordered those so I want to do a beautiful rainbow kind of theme but I've got the circles this heart one I mean that's gonna look lovely on white card stock and then red embroidery ribbon and then just love in the middle or something beautiful for a Valentine's card but also the size of that heart that's gonna make a lovely card on its own because it has the outer cutting line so that will cut that whole heart image out so yeah that's gonna look really really nice and you can make these beautiful shaker cards because you've got the aperture in the middle put some acetate over that they're gonna look awesome this one here just so and again beautiful it's gonna be a lovely card shape on its own got the oval the squares that's a six by six I'm pretty sure of it all five and three quarters which is even better so that's gonna you're gonna have a perfect quarter inch frame around your six by six card with that set inside and you can have all these other layers and as well so am I getting across the excitement that I have for these because they are I think brilliant and I think they need to be shown off more and people need to know because I never even saw these kind of go up so I don't know whether it was just kind of they've been up there for yonks and I've missed something maybe years ago months and months ago I don't know but these are gonna get used pretty quickly so I would I think I'm gonna bump a bump up a video and kind of move a few more around so I can get something put up quickly so you can see just how lovely these look and hopefully my threads will arrive very soon then I picked up another paper boutique so many of you are loving this I'm so pleased that I've been able to introduce quite a lot of you to the paper boutique because they are just wonderful and the the images are always really really nice but as you know I love nautical anything nautical really I live very close to the sea and I make a lot of nautical cards for my dad and for his friends and for my mum and her friends and my dad does water sports so they're always the kind of cards that get used within our family but it's very hard to ever find a feminine nautical kind of theme everything is very blue white and red and it has your sailor and that lovely stamp shirt and stamp set that I shared not too long ago and then I saw this one here and this is called Ocean Breeze and it just has a beautiful florals with then your nautical kind of elements you have the lighthouse you have your anchor you have like the seagull or the gull kind of feathers mixed in with the blooms the lovely flowers there on the bottom of that anchor it's a real soft blue as well as opposed to a harder harder blue look at these elements here in that beautiful whale image and you again you've got the gull you've got this lovely trim here so you can just cut straight down there pop that on the side of a 5 by 7 card base and it's gonna look so fresh if you do all this against a real nice white card base they're gonna look so so lovely so this one here is the element pad so I did get the paper kit I always love to get the kit because you get the toppers and then you get the element pad but you also get the paper pad as well which will have a lot of the plain more background kind of papers so this one here all easy very very easy to cut out and then you just would matter layer them on to they would look lovely actually I would use if you're gonna use a mirrored card stock with this I'd go for silver I think silver and white as you're kind of basics as a background for these will look so so lovely so yeah and then it repeats again on that one's lovely just an overview of all the different papers you could use that as a whole or you could cut all the strips and you could do with this one you could do the herringbone technique that I love to do with the cards with all the strips that would look lovely I might do that actually and then that repeats again and then let me show you the kit so here you have your toppers at the back so I got hooked on this with that lovely forest one with the little critters you know the fox and the owl and the deer that's what got me kind of hooked to paper boutique so these are the toppers so you get circles and you get squares again you get the lovely girl it's a day to celebrate you and sending but I'm sending you birthday wishes so it's perfect for birthdays you know they're there they're ready to go so you either got very very quick cards that you can make with your topper and your backgrounds or you can pull out little bits and elements and on that sailor card that I done I had that lovely anchor that I die cut in the silver with the rope behind it's that anchor is going to work great with this paper and the the gull I used on that as well in white that's going to look lovely with this and then here you've got for a wonderful friend thinking of you on your special day so again lovely for a wedding card if someone's getting married on the beach or by the sea love this one I just think he's such a lovely looking whale and that lighthouse is just beautiful and again I think they repeat yeah and then the papers here again absolutely beautiful so you have this wonderful just floral print and you get this one here this one I think it's one of my favorite ones I really like that one this thing it's so pretty and then there's the anchor and then you've got a nice striped one there and then look at that one we've got the beautiful boat that lovely girl just flying in there I just like that they've incorporated the feathers in amongst the flowers there I think that's a really nice touch and then it repeats again so yeah the other good thing about these and a lot of you have said that is the value for money they really give value for money and the quality is beautiful so always 8 by 8 which I don't mind at all and then as always on the very back they show you everything so I have got the embellishment pad and the kit so they're the two I've got but you also get a this one here is your insert collection so these would be pieces that you put possibly inside the card or as extras then that's the just your color pad so these are all the color tones that they've put to go with this collection and then this one here is your decorative papers so but that's right sorry the kit comes with the decorative papers so yeah yeah if you didn't want the top as you can buy this basically on its own I always like to get it with the toppers so yeah that's that one so hope yeah hope you agree and think that one is gorgeous I think it's absolutely lovely and then so happy to see that they've done an A4 for the love of stamps they have got others as well but this one just I was like oh so good and this is called snow much fun and it's the edgit stamps so the idea is is for example let me take the plastic off so if I show you the backs is a bit easier but these here so this one and this one I guess what they're probably all intended but certainly this the one and this one you will stamp them on the outer side of your card especially a five by seven so just got a five by seven one here the beautiful photopolymer stamps they're lovely and sticky take that one off and then I would have him down there and I would stamp him like so and then when you get to the top here you could leave that empty but I would probably just slightly cut around there and then kind of cut it off to join the top and then you have that really fun edged scene here of them all trying to put up the the Christmas decorations there the little penguins and then you have these really nice sentiments you've got have a jolly Christmas to a dear friend happiness is fairy lights so that's the one that would go with that hope your Christmas is snow much fun and I just think they're lovely as always the hunky dory for the love of stamps stamps are always beautiful images but they don't have a heck of a lot of detail so it allows you to be able to do your coloring and really just show that color off so that's that one and then I just thought that lovely big Father Christmas would look great as a tag as well such a lovely size you can see him on that card that's why it works so well on a five by seven so if you are someone that prefers smaller stamps and smaller making smaller cards these stamps will probably be ended up being too big so I mean he would probably just work on a four by six just they would literally take up everything and again with those as well probably get away with these ones more so but I would certainly say they are more for the large card and hunky dory do make large cards so that's probably why they're like this as well but do you like them please let me know in the comments below and I love that you have all the little extras as well just to create because those I would stamp a few times color them and then fussy cut them and kind of do like a decapage stick them with foam all around these guys I think it's gonna look really really cute so I look forward to making that one and then I am so excited to receive these wonderful dies from the latest release by paper discovery so basically I I shared this it would have been yesterday actually they released it on Tuesday I think it was and she'd done a huge giveaway over 300 pounds worth was given away on craft stash website of this new release and and it's just really really clever what she's done and how it all kind of comes together so let me talk you through what I've got and how or what the idea is behind it all so this one here is a bundle this is a I think kind of five by me the actual the six of six by eight yeah six by eight so it's a really great size and you get all of the dies to match and then the nice thing about this is they're just great obviously images as they are but within the dice set so these the dies is a great big packaging you get this but they are nice sized dies all of these will cut every single one of these so there's our cookie sorry snowflake I was looking at the cookie as I was doing that one the little house which I really like you've got the stocking you've got the other snowflake there and you've got our gingerbread cookie and the Christmas tree I have a lovely card idea with these that one and then we've got our kind of candy cane but then you get this one here so you can have them all as single pieces but if you die cut this and fold it in half it will make all of these little tags so you can just put some ribbon or some twine through there and then you can hang them so I just thought that was really nice way to just really change them up so yeah looking forward to using them and then you got all these extra little pieces here have a sweet Christmas sugar spice and everything nice and naughty or nice okay the next one I love is this one here so this is a great big embossing folder of a room so can you see all the wallpaper it's a it's like an old Georgian style kind of house you have beautiful floorboards that lovely like almost William Morris style wallpaper and then that lovely wood effect on the wall so you will die cut sorry you will so you will emboss this and you can distress it and do lots of wonderful things then you get this here so this is your dies and the scene that she created with this was just wonderful and I'd already requested to have this sent to me and from watching a video I thought I'm so pleased I've asked for this because it's just lovely if you're somebody that loves creating scenes and die cutting and adding all that detail you're going to really enjoy this collection because it does exactly that so this is called the elegant room builder die set you get 20 dies in here and they're really nice again sizes but it's all her attention to detail that I really like so the idea that I've got and the way that I'm going to use this because you know I always like to just push things a little bit outside the box and do some a bit different I think you're going to really like the way I'm going to do all of this this is the tree look how big look how you can see by me laying that down how this is going to start to create a beautiful scene so that's your Christmas tree but you don't have to have this you can have this and create beautiful I'm sure there's many of you out there that have lovely backgrounds and you can you know do your tree as you want because I've just thought actually with that lovely Sheena one here you could do that like as the back of like looking through a window and then have this Christmas tree you know in the front here like inside the house and you look out the window and you see that outside or something you know so there's ways to incorporate them differently but then you get this lovely so this is your sofa then you get your frame for like framing the cushion the back kind of pillow pillow and then you get the detail to go on that again so that creates your base and the back there so that's the sofa and again just look how lovely and big that is and you could put everything in it will look quite full and you'll start to lose the whole of the background but you certainly can work it in Olga actually cut the sofa kind of like in half and had it set off to the side there okay so that's those pieces then you get your photo or picture frame so this would hang on the wall and then you get your presence so there's the frame and then there's all the detail of the presents so again you imagine that in front of the Christmas tree this is your carpet or rug so you'd have that and then here these are the ones I love you have a little dog so he's curled up and you have a little cat so you could have the dog curled up on the carpet and then you can have the cats on the sofa and then she's even done a cushion so you have the yeah so there is the frame of the cushion and that's the detail of the cushion that could go on there that almost also I don't know could look like an orange like slice possibly have to see but that you imagine then behind that you know the cats I'm really not probably showing it very well then you have your side table so you could then have that there you have your vase you have flowers to go in your vase so you'd set them behind then you have your little shelf with your books and your clock so you could have that up there you have Merry Christmas which fits perfectly inside the picture frame and then you have your decorations for your Christmas tree so here we have your stocking so you could either have the stocking hanging from the little shelf or have a few of them on the tree but they also have these this die here has three smaller dies which are baubles and things to go on the tree so they would all go over the tree itself and then the last one here there we go I was trying to work out what they are they are the cushions to go either side of the sofa you can see them there so with these things here you can die cut them in many different colors so die cut that multiple times and then paper piece it together or you can die cut it in one and then what Olga tends to do is she then puts the die actually over the die cut and uses a blending brush and that she puts color directly onto the metal die and the color will just go through the gaps and then give you a lovely stenciled colored kind of die cut so yeah you get so many wonderful pieces but the great thing about this is you don't have to use it just for Christmas if you remove the Christmas tree you can even keep the presents because if you die cut them in like blues or pinks and stuff they work for birthdays so you could use them on other cards but I would say if you remove them and the Merry Christmas all of that is something you can use all year round so this would make a lovely new home card you know you could just do it as a lovely happy birthday card you can see how you can then have your little dog down there again on the rug the flowers the frame have the bookcase up there there's the vase so I hope you're able to kind of get a feel of what I'm trying to get across there it is a really really nice die set like so you get so much to this and it's nice that it's not just something that you're stuck with for Christmas you can pull elements of this out all year round okay and then we move on to the door and this was another favorite also you get this stamp set which coordinates with the whole collection so she added this stamp here inside the card of that room one here because you can see it's basically that image but done it in a very very light almost like a watermark so it was just a nice little touch on you know tying everything together like touching on the actual front cover you could even put that on the envelope towards like one side you know to the right hand side of the envelope I think that would look really nice and then you got all these which you got like the cracks there you've got more Christmas lights this fence you've got this is your stained glass windows which work within the stained glass doors so let's go on to this because then you'll be able to see how all of this incorporates because these here fit within the frames of this it really like I said she's really thought about everything here it's lovely so this I'm excited to use this is going to be some of my Christmas cards this year and this is this is basically your card shape so it's a the the whole door is the card shape so it's about five by seven if I remember so that's four about four and a half yeah by seven so you'll have yeah it's just slightly narrower so again this one here you get lots of pieces I'm going to transfer all this over onto my magnetic sheets and I'll make my labels and number how many dies there are just so I know I'm never gonna lose any so there is your main one okay so you would die cut that through a folded card so again here's my five by seven so what I would do is I would lay it down on here actually that must be a bit more taller than seven so I'd have to make that myself so I'm going to cut it a little bit taller but I would not have that left cutting line on the card I would shift it off so it's actually come right off so you keep that fold intact so it will end up cutting and bring it down along the bottom she don't want to cut there so all it's going to actually cut is all of this side and all the way imagine it's taller all the way around to here so when you remove it you will then have your card as this shape here okay I'm going to do this in a tutorial so you will see this then you have all these parts here so if I just keep that in shot so then you have this one okay which is this shape here so that would then go on top and then you have you start to then bring in the detail so this is then this piece that will go on to that and then you have these pieces here which will go onto the top there love this I mean that could be used on so many other projects and this is going to look great again on another 3d project that I have lined up how lovely is that just it's such a lovely size it's a beautiful dye so you do that and then with these parts here this stamp here fits inside and you color it and it will look like real stained glass these ones here you stamp and they will go in here again looking like real stained glass and then if you do have a bigger scene behind it you can then start to create a brick wall you can add in the fence so there is again lots to add to it but the other nice thing is look at these lovely planters that go outside with the Christmas tree on top so she's got I think this was this yeah this was like the stem of the Christmas tree I believe I'd have to look back it's something like that you do two of those have them either side of the door in fact and that will then widen the card more to a five by seven what slightly so I think it's about seven and a quarter by the looks of it and then you have like the little handle for the door so if you die cut that in like a metal kind of a mirrored cardstock the silver or gold that will make it look like it's real metal so you have that so that would say probably put it about there then you have these here which are your knockers or is that the knocker no sorry that's the knocker there we go so you put the knocker in the middle okay like so then you have these here which must be more flowers so I think you have the option to have a Christmas tree or you can just have flowers and then that would make it a nice new home card again so you can use this so literally you just take that out and it is not Christmasy at all but she did also add a Christmas wreath and that must have come I think the wreath comes from another because I haven't got the whole collection because I think there was two that I didn't feel I was going to use so much there's a it's really lovely but it's one with a teapot or a kettle and a cup and it's like cozy warm and cozy for Christmas that kind of thing I just didn't think that was going to be one I was really going to use so much but do check out all the links as always a below because there might well be others but she put a wreath there but I'm sure I'll be able to do something and that's more yeah that must layer up so it's like a decoupage I think that's there is looks like your keyhole so again that would go I'm just guessing for the minute somewhere around here because that's your keyhole and then these little swirls I think go on the tree I'm just looking on the picture here oh that's the handle that's your actual handle which goes on the bottom of this kind of plate so it would go like that you can see here okay such your handle but these little swells they're by the tree in this so I'm imagining that's what they are for and then look you put that next to it bring this over a little bit how lovely it's gonna look amazing so yeah do the stamp is how you again you don't have to have the stamp because another nice thing that you can do is just add acetate behind this and yeah again I have another really really fun tutorial that now I have this to go with it I think it's gonna work really well and I think you're gonna love it and I think those are the ones I need to kind of get out a bit earlier because yeah I think some of you are gonna want a little bit of time to spend creating them if you do decide to so yeah let me just tidy all this away but it's so nice to have these kind of pieces sometimes because even like that little you know the the door handle there that's something that I can use on so many of my other projects even down to like the shed when I made the she-shed that little handle would look really nice and it's those tiny fine details that I really like so it's good to build up these kind of dies where they have all these bits and pieces because you don't always have to use them and again I know mine was a she-shed but a lot of people made houses but you could have that outside the house and it would have looked really really cool so and then you have this here and these all work together and on the back she says look coordinates with this embossing folder and this one here so you can also emboss your images and mix them in with this you don't just have to have it just with the dies so here is the Georgian door and this is the elegant door okay so you've got two very different styles if you and actually I just realize I have the the wreath so this is the wreath that she used there's probably some of you going Sam the wreath on the other one I hadn't got to it yet so here so this is your window tag additions die set coordinates with and it's got the stamp set and this one here which is the tag builder now that's the other one I didn't get the window in the pocket die set so have a little look there's loads to it okay and then with this one here you get look at that that beautiful curtain so what you could do and what I'm going to try and look at doing is you could have that behind this piece you see so you could do something with that but I'm going to try and do it so that this will actually physically really open and reveal this and then maybe have the Christmas tree behind there it's just there's so many possibilities just trying to get through you know if you share as many of them with you guys so you really can get you know as much out of this as possible you have these drapes so you could put that over there sits perfectly all behind now probably have it in front this here is another drape so you could do these on the embossing folder of this piece here so you could have these drapes so you'd have that one in the middle and you do that one that side and then another one that side so you'd have that real big and you could even probably diaper that cut it straight up in half and you could have a bit of it coming off here so it looks like the curtains almost then looks a bit like a theatre set so that's another great idea and then we have this is your windowsill I believe I'm just looking at there so I imagine you could have all like a window seat and then all these great bits of there is the wreath which fits perfectly on the front door obviously this is smaller imagine there's the door and the wreath sits lovely in the centre there and then you've got another cap so he would sit on the window seat ok you've got your candle with your holly which could go on the table of the side table with that set and you've got your candle the tiny tiny candle die which would go on the top of this one here if you wanted to or there is a little candle there so you probably wouldn't use it for that you would put it on the this one here and you would have that there so and then you've got the moons you could have the moon as they're looking out of see that would be out in the distance up in the sky you've got these bits here I don't know what they are got those tiny bits there I'm gonna have to look up what they are because I don't know you have a bow you have like a little ponsettia that's the candle that I shared yeah and there's the other ones so I am really gonna go to town I'm gonna enjoy doing this because nearer to Christmas although I'm gonna do these a little bit earlier I love going in my craft room with my nice warm cup of tea or hot chocolate put some music on and just get lost in crafting die cut do all the little fiddly bits and pieces and just I'm gonna try and incorporate as much of this as I can into one card or a couple but yeah just make them look really full so that whoever receives it is going oh my god look at that and look at the tiny bit there and look at that and you've added glitter there and got you've even done that tiny bit that's what I want to do because I do have the patience of a saint so I am able to spend a lot of time doing that and then that's those that I'd already touched on so I'm looking forward to all of this I couldn't wait as soon as I saw it I thought yeah definitely I think Olga you've done an amazing job with these I think they're so so lovely okay so that is everything for this week it was probably a good job at the other stuff didn't arrive otherwise this video would be even longer Christmas projects will like I say start a bit early this year because I do want to get this used and I'm excited to start creating with it but I also have other things in the pipeline that I've got to squeeze in as well so I may well be starting to churn out more videos a week because I've still got a lot banked so I'm just gonna kind of throw them at you but hopefully you'll like that anyway so until tomorrow because I have my no it's not gonna be the last it was gonna be the last I think my series this kind of stamping focus series is gonna probably go on till Wednesday of next week and then I'm gonna resume with my normal and get some more 3d projects in because I've got quite a few that I want to share so yeah until then I'll be back tomorrow and I will be back with my other exciting order can't wait and that'll be next Thursday as normal alright thanks for watching guys see you later bye


Hello, I'm Alison Kent and I work with the Global Protection Cluster. As the GPC, we support 32 protection cluster operations around the world, with the aim of addressing priority protection risks with communities affected by conflict and crisis. And we do this work with a very diverse range of local, national and international protection partners. One of the six core cluster functions, including for the protection cluster, is around advocacy. And this reflects both the aim of ensuring that protection analysis and protection priorities and priority risks are informing more strategic level decision making across the humanitarian response. And also that the cluster is able to advance advocacy with and on behalf of cluster members, and of course, with affected communities. And as the protection cluster, we've really tried to focus on strengthening our advocacy work, both at country and global levels over the past several years, and we really see it as critical to strengthening our impact, and really ultimately strengthening the protection outcomes for communities. So for the past year, the GPC has been involved in the collaborative development of a protection advocacy toolkit, together with Oxfam, the Network for Empowered Aid Response, and the Overseas Development Institute. And this work has been done with thanks to the financial support of ECHO. We've developed this toolkit with the aim of strengthening capacity for effective protection advocacy across the humanitarian system. And so it's aimed at supporting protection actors and advocates operating at local levels, all the way up to those who may be trying to advance global influencing efforts. You can see on the screen that the toolkit's available on the Global Protection Cluster's website, and you can access it in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. In developing the toolkit, we realized there were some excellent resources and tools developed by different development and humanitarian actors that we could draw from. And so rather than recreating things starting from scratch, we took an approach where we've adapted existing tools and focused on how to make them as supportive of more targeted, risk informed, and collaborative protection advocacy efforts. Another sort of key focus and foundational approach with the toolkit has been around how to advance collective and complementary protection advocacy efforts. And this is really grounded in the commitment of the GPC, of Oxfam, and NIR, to do this kind of work with partners and with allies and in networked approaches. This also reflects a lot of the recent research and learnings in terms of what makes for the most effective protection advocacy. So to build on this, the sum of the recent research and learnings, I want to mention the work that has been done by the Overseas Development Institute and their humanitarian policy group over the past several years. They have led a program of work called Advocating for Humanity. And with this effort, they've produced a number of different research studies, reports and case studies that look at different elements of protection advocacy and really focus on providing greater evidence and learning around what makes for some of the most effective kinds of advocacy. So you can access all of these different resources on their website, which is up on the screen. And importantly, in developing the toolkit, we took a number of the different research elements and findings and ensured that we could integrate it into the different modules and case studies that are included in the toolkit. So diving in a little bit more in terms of what's in this toolkit. You can see here on the right hand side with the table of contents. We've organized the toolkit around five core modules. The first module is around defining protection advocacy objectives. Here we outline how you can use protection analysis to determine your specific advocacy objective that's based on priority risks that are identified and the capacities of communities and partners. And then looking at how advocacy can be used to complement other protection interventions and programming efforts. The second module is focused on stakeholder mapping power analysis and theory of change. In this section we get into identifying key stakeholders and ultimately your targets for advocacy. We look at how to understand different levels of influence that they may have, as well as their engagement around particular advocacy issues. Their interests, their values, their positions, and an important element is looking at who influences those targets and understanding the broader chains of influence that might be at play. From there, the section outlines how to build your theory of change, ultimately how you understand or think change can happen on your particular advocacy objective. And this is really about supporting advocates and protection actors to map out how best you can persuade the targeted decision makers identified through your stakeholder mapping. The third module is focused on protection advocacy approaches and tactics. So here we outline some of the different activities and tactics you can use to influence and persuade. And this is very much based on the stakeholder mapping and theory of change. So here it's about trying to adapt and tailor your efforts to ensure that you can get the most traction and have the greatest impact with your particular audiences and advocacy targets. The fourth module covers monitoring and measuring of advocacy outcomes. So here we're focused on monitoring of your advocacy efforts to enable you to continually adapt and course correct your different advocacy actions and tactics so that you're constantly trying to maximize the impact that you have that you have. And importantly, in terms of measuring, this is really about trying to capture some of the contributions that you and your allies are able to make over time towards your particular advocacy objective. The fifth module is focused on managing protection advocacy risks. So here we go more into managing risks associated with protection advocacy and importantly here again we take a big focus on collective approaches to doing this. So this section includes some tools and guidance for undertaking shared risk assessments. And with partners with communities and other stakeholders and then outlining what kinds of risk management plans and actions can you put in place to ensure a do no harm approach and again to ensure the protection of all involved. In the next section of the toolkit you will find five case studies. And each of these offer real life illustrations of collective protection advocacy that have been carried out by different partners on on a range of different protection priorities. So here is really that the case studies will offer further inspiration in terms of some of the successes and impacts of protection advocacy, as well as some practical insights in terms of the different approaches and strategies that have been used by some of our partners to advance change. And then in the third section you can see that it's focused on tools and guides. And so this is really a compilation of some of the different resources we've pointed to throughout the modules. And as mentioned earlier, a lot of these have been adapted by based on existing resources and tailored and tweaked to be as relevant as possible to protection advocacy efforts. And we've been able to test out a number of these different tools over the past months through different trainings and workshops that we've been running with protection partners at country level. And I think a final thing to know with the toolkit is really that there, there aren't often easy answers with advocacy work, and there's often not just one way to do it. And so it's more art than science. But at the same time, we do collectively as a sector have an increasing amount of learning experience and evidence with regards to what makes for effective protection advocacy. And so we really hope with the toolkit that protection actors are able to better draw on some of this knowledge. And to find some different insights and resources that can help further refine advocacy strategies, approaches, risk management and other elements to ensure that we're constantly moving forward in terms of increasing our effectiveness and ultimately impact in support of the protection and rights of crisis affected communities. So thanks for listening. I hope you will find the toolkit interesting and we look forward to hearing feedback as you start to dig in and use it in your own advocacy efforts. Thanks.


Molly Bish was just 16 years old when she vanished from war in Massachusetts after working her lifeguarding job at the local beach.  This was the day before Molly went missing. When Molly was dropped off at the lifeguarding station the following day, she vanished without a trace and her parents never saw her again. Strangely, a witness reported seeing the same creepy man on the day of Molly's disappearance, but police have never been able to locate this man to clear him as a suspect. It would be three years later that investigators found Molly's remains in the woods about five miles from her home. Police have no idea how she lost her life but they believe that she was buried there shortly after she was taken. Her case remains unsolved all these years later. I'll be doing a deep dive on this case soon so be sure to subscribe and check out my main channel for full length videos.


Well thank you very much for the kind introduction, this of course is not something which occurred so often that a chairman of a Green Party introduces a well conservative or at least someone who comes from the conservative camp, well but you said quite rightly that it is necessary to have close connections and even a reconciliation that has always been my view between business views and ecological, even idealistic perceptions and opinions and that was something which coined my political life. Before I came to King's College as you rightly pointed out, I have been 16 years in the Bundestag and deputy minister in the first Merkel government and we always tried especially in the 90s to have to bring the Greens out of the isolation that they were in the first years in the German parliament. Nobody wanted to talk to them and we thought it was an important tendency within our society so we reached out younger people as we were in parliament because we said climate change is something that affects all of us and well you can also make a lot of money with green technologies with energy efficiency with windmills and solar collectors so it is also a business case and this policy in my point of view more or less characterizes Germany's politics in this century in the last decade right or left they all went for a political attitude which tries to bring both parts closely together but that's not the topic I just wanted to respond and say how I really believe it is important that ecological opinions and economic opinions have to be reconciled and I'm sure you do that in Ireland in the best possible way the subject today is global mega trends and I would like to start with with one global mega trend which I think is is striking and that is what I would call the diminished salience of global climate change policy there is a change of paradigm while a few years ago climate change was the number one issue when people discussed energy today the climate change has a backseat in definitely in global politics but even in countries who are convicted who are with all their heart supporters of green energies and believe in climate change the issue has been downgraded why is that it is because of the global financial and economic crisis people have other problems right now than climate they have the problem of jobs the enterprises have the problem of lower energy of low energy prices everybody looks for energy costs which are affordable to a family so it's a sustainability not only in in ecological terms that is needed but also it has to be sustainable vis-a-vis your economic system your wealth and and that is why I think we have a more balanced approach today I wouldn't go so far and say that climate policy will will leave the agenda no we will be by we will be reminded because of storms and floods that climate change is going on and there is a catastrophe somewhere out for mankind so we have to deal with it but other problems energy security competitiveness have come to the forefront and you can see it very closely when you look to the american election campaign today climate change is not an issue nobody talks about it it is if you talk climate then you're a loser look four years ago Obama became a winner with climate change and with climate policy so in his last in in last state of the union speech he mentioned climate change only once and that was when he said it's impossible to convince congress for on legislation concerning climate change and an analysis of by a scholar from bristol university found out that obama has talked less about climate change during his first term than both his predecessors including george w bush so that's that shows you a bit uh that something has changed second point second global trend which i would like to mention is the rising energy demand in the world according to the international energy agency in paris we will have a rise of energy demand worldwide of more than 30 in the next two decades particularly energy consumption in developing countries will experience a sharp increase about 45 percent by 2030 compared to an increase of only 2.5 percent in the developed countries so while we are pretty stable in the developed countries there's an enormous rise in developing countries and that is due to population growth economic expansion and of course urbanization by 2030 there will be about 8.3 billion people on the planet while low birth rates and a shrinking working age population in developed countries will result in modest economic growth and energy demand developing regions like india china africa for instance will see steep growth in their populations and working age groups well china not so much populations because of the one child policy but in china of course the the uh the idea to grow every year by 10 percent and more means an enormous energy hunger and we see that every day when we look in our newspapers about new chinese purchases of energy companies of shares of gas companies of raw materials throughout the world strong economic growth and the improved living standards and increased prosperity will require more energy by 2030 energy consumption in developing countries nearly doubles that of developed countries rising urbanization rates will also continue to play a key role in increasing future energy demand the share of the world's population living in cities has increased from 30 percent in 1950 to 50 percent today and is expected to rise to nearly 70 percent by 2050 so an enormous trend to urbanization just to illustrate 30 years ago we had only three cities with over 10 million inhabitants mexico new york tokyo today there are 20 such cities and only four of them are in developed countries uh los angeles new york osaka kobe and tokyo the astronomical rise in urban populations will require additional housing public transportation infrastructure water systems which in turn will consequently drive up the demand for energy so enormous raise of energy demand third point a green revolution is underway and it will not be stopped so whatever i said with with the uh the change of paradigm and change of priorities the green revolution will continue perhaps at a somewhat slower pace but it is an enormous factor worldwide also an enormous economical factor worldwide during the period from 2005 to 2010 total global capacity of renewable energy technologies grew at average rates ranging from 15 to 50 annually the IEA estimates that the share of renewables in global electricity generation excluding excluding large hydropower will increase from about 3 percent today to 15 percent in 2035 with the EU and China making up nearly half of this increase this rise in renewables is made possible by the provision of enormous amounts of subsidies whose annual sum is expected is expected to quadruple from around 50 billion euro in 2010 to 200 billion euro in 2035 that's a clear political decision and even if we might see some changes in general the subsidies will continue to grow especially because they are contracted in Germany if you have well in other countries if you have your feed and tariffs secured two years ago you have them for the next 20 years with an ever-growing amount of money which has to be paid from the taxpayers in 2011 about 120 countries worldwide had some type of policy target or renewable support policy at the national level up from 55 countries in 2005 so the global awareness that you need renewables that you have to invest in them even with government subsidies has grown not only in Europe but also in Africa, Latin America and so on and yet despite this expansion in global renewable energy capacity we are still far away from the age of renewables in the next two decades and this brings me to the next global trend coal oil natural gas the fossil fuels will remain and they will remain to play the most important role in energy demand in the next 20 years at least most probably even longer in 2030 coal oil and natural gas will still account for nearly 80 percent of the world's primary energy mix and what is interesting is that all three are pretty much account pretty much for the same amount they will be about 27 percent each while major non-fossile fuel groups will have market shares of around 7 percent each so 26 percent coal perhaps 27 perhaps 28 so something about this the same amount oil the same amount gas and when it comes to renewables and other energy sources 7 percent even with nuclear so fossil we will remain for the next two decades that's the foreseeable future in a fossil world we can do here as much as possible to overcome them but in China in India in Asia in Africa in Latin America in the US fossil fuels will remain a backbone of fossil materials will remain the backbone of the energy supply global oil consumption excluding biofuels is set to increase from 87 million barrels a day in 2010 to 99 million barrels a day in 2035 so we had a discussion a few years ago about peak oil so oil is now decreasing because there are no reservoirs that's that's that's the past we have new reservoirs we have new techniques to go deep into the sea we have a tight oil in the US we have oil sands so new forms new technological possibilities which have been the way paved by high oil prices they made it economical to to go even deeper to get the last out of the reservoirs and that has that is responsible for this enormous increase according to IEA and that's that's for ecologists even a worse news coal accounted for nearly half of the increase in global energy use over the past decade and its use will continue to rise through to the early 2020 at least that's I mean we all discuss since many years the CO2 emissions the dangers nevertheless half of the energy of the rise in energy demand has been satisfied by coal this plant which is in my point of view it's it's a fact first of all if no measures are taken then according to the IEA coal use is even projected to increase 65 percent by 2035 under current policy conditions making it the fastest growing fossil fuel coal will still continue to be the second largest primary fuel globally at least until 2035 especially countries with indigenous coal reserves and a high share of solids in their energy mix are expected to continue to drive the demand take the central and eastern countries for instance also dubbed the EU 11 for instance coal comprises about 36 percent of their energy mix triple that of the rest of the EU with 12 percent so it's it's very clear we discuss a common energy policy in Europe and I understand you had Gunther Oettinger the EU commissioner here last week well the central and eastern europeans are more and more unhappy with the energy roadmap 2050 with the aims well they stick to 2020 but they are absolutely unhappy when you set more ambitious goals like the irish goals like the german goals they say well you can do that but please not for us and they begin to be more and more aggressive and well aggressive too strong outspoken and assertive on those on those issues so because for them it means the it's a question of survival of their economies they depend on coal much more than we do they do not want to have more gas coming from russia which increases their dependency and they say well on the on the one hand you want us to to close the the wealth gap between east and west we should grow and on the other hand you put burdens on us that our energy prices rise and then our economies do not grow but leave the country but not only central and eastern europe take china the world's largest coal producer with the third largest reserves in the world already consumes nearly half of global demand today and will likely maintain its heavy reliance on coal as a relatively cheap alternative to other fuels to power it's rapidly for its rapidly growing economy alongside coal natural gas is projected to be one of the fastest growing fossil fuels its share in the global primary energy mix will nearly reach parity with oil and coal by 2030 meanwhile and that is the next trend the next global trend that is unconventional gas mainly shale gas it makes up about half of the world's total estimated natural gas resources largely due to recent advances in technology the IEA is already talking about entering a golden age of gas and that basically because of the shale gas revolution that we have seen in the last years in the US and that will repeat itself in other parts of the world perhaps not in Europe because of resistance of people and of somewhat smaller reservoirs but definitely in China definitely in India definitely in well I would say most probably in Russia where it is more economical to exploit the shale gas reservoirs than to build a new big natural gas exploitation in the Arctic stockman field for instance is more expansive than starting the own shale gas production so shale gas will come globally and it has already changed the global landscape also for Europe it has become a game changer already why well large parts of Europe including my country where to a large extent where and are to a large extent dependent on pipeline gas coming on the basis of long-term contracts from Russia this has been started during the Cold War for Germany Russia was a very good reliable partner in that energy partnership we got via pipelines gas from Siberia and it was the contracts have been served 100 percent so everybody you find you talk to in German energy utilities will say well the Russians are good business partners but these long-term contracts have are on the basis of energy prices of oil indexed energy price which have nothing to do with today's gas prices on world markets and spot markets because of LNG first that was the first gas revolution liquid liquefied natural gas which you bring via tankers from Qatar or Algeria to Europe to the US and so and and then by the shale gas revolution in the US and and how fast this change of landscape occurred you can see that with the fact that the US has planned and constructed 20 LNG terminals at their coast to get LNG gas from basically Qatar transferred to natural gas which you can use in households or for companies or for transport today they change these terminals because they are on the verge of becoming gas exporters so a country up to a few years very much dependent on gas exports is today independent from gas imports and is on the verge of exporting gas to much cheaper prices than Russian pipeline so with that and also even with that perspective you have enormous pressure to these long-term contracts which are by the way all which have already been renegotiated only because of the threat of large amounts of cheaper gas coming also because of LNG which has brought the the spot markets to lower prices then we have another another new development we will from the year 2017 on have gas from Central Asia no not from Central Asia from the first from the Caspian arriving in Europe gas either by Nabucco West pipeline or by the Trans Adriatic pipeline coming from the Chardonnay's giant gas field in Azerbaijan to Europe and contributing to a diversification of gas supplies so we have shale gas we have LNG we have perhaps in Poland a indigenous shale gas production we have gas coming from Azerbaijan which means that we in Europe well are entering a phase of an of a of a gas glut with gas prices which tend to go down development that nobody foresaw a few years ago so that is a revolution and imagine the same is possible when it comes to almost the same as possible when it comes to shale oil production and i give you some figures on that according to the U.S. energy information administration the Becken shale oil formation in North Dakota and Montana with an estimated 3.6 billion billion barrels of oil reserves produced an average of 2000 barrels a day in the year 2000 today the average average production rate stands at around 445 000 barrels a day nearly the equivalent of the average 2011 oil put of the whole of north and south Sudan so there's also an oil revolution starting in the U.S. this has been facilitated by the increased use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing coupled with elevated prices for crude oil and other natural gas liquids as a result U.S. domestic oil production has increased by over 1 million barrels per day since 2008 but there is also a notable development on the consumption side during the latest presentation of the BP world statistical review 2012 the chief economist of BP observed that the U.S. has demonstrated a remarkable improvement vis-à-vis other economies due to a reduction in U.S. oil imports further evidence of the of the ways in which the technological improvement fostered by open competition in North America are changing the geopolitics of energy geopolitics of energy BP man talks about this and i think that's very clear here what happens if the U.S. as some predict becomes almost oil perhaps not totally but almost oil the independent by 2029 2030 and what does that mean to the global engagement of the united states of their engagement in the Middle East some might say well great no more Afghanistan and Iraq wars that's what we all wished for all the time that they don't entangle everywhere but what is the power vacuum they they might leave who will jump in the Chinese perhaps is that the better world than americama substituted by pax chinois or i don't know what you would say so so it's a the geopolitical meaning of a U.S. becoming more and more energy independent is of enormous importance to all of us will they send their boys to defend the straight of hormones which roughly 20 of the world's daily oil exports flow today will they bring their boys to iraq or other places in the world intervene those who said the u.s. did these interventions only for oil well if they are right then the u.s. will probably move into a decade or in the decades of isolationism which is which would not be the first time in history and at least in my point of view every time when the u.s. withdrew from world affairs the situation turned to be worse and not better but of course everybody has his own opinion about those things nevertheless however you look to those things and that's my my last mega trend we have we will see rising energy nationalism and imperialism in the years to come because of the rising demand and this rising demand is stronger than even the best findings of and of new reservoirs it goes so fast so quick that the competition about the reservoirs will grow will rise well and today nationally owned oil companies control almost 90 percent of the global of the globe's total oil reserves and 70 percent of the production a few years ago when we talked about the oil majors we talked about exxon bp chevron shell and so on today exxon is number 14 ranks number 14 when it comes to the control of reservoirs in the world the strong players the gas prompts the big Saudi Qatari Chinese Iranian conglomerates of who control the reservoirs and that has nothing to do with free enterprise or supply and demand policies it has a lot to do with strategic wins and losses and energy will in my point of view I fear it I am not saying that I wanted the opposite is true but my fear is that energy the power that you win with controlling energy and raw materials rare earths and so on water that is the weapon of the of the 21st century that is what makes powers big and powers small and it will be used as a weapon so this is the subject of my institute to well we will not prevent it but to analyze it to discuss it to look for schemes to to prevent worst-case scenarios but we see these nationalist tendencies everywhere by the way not only by when it comes to coal and and and oil and gas also when it comes to renewables look to the subsidies war between China and Europe the Chinese highly subsidize their solar panels they come with what come prize a fighting prices on the European market and in Germany one solar company after the other closes down because they are outcompeted by the Chinese geopolitics play a role everywhere there's a geopolitics on pipelines but geopolitics plays also a role when russia plans its national flag on the seabed at the north pole during a submarine expedition canada reacts with military maneuvers in the arctic the u.s drills for oil in west africa uh china does business with bolivia to get the lithium under control and so on and so on so this is where foreign and security affairs and energy come close to each other and and that is a topic which which we should look at at europeans and which we should prepare to to answer so those were a few thoughts and well it's not a golden future i think there are a lot of problems and challenges uh and uh in my point of view and there i absolutely agree with commissioner adela we do much better as europeans if we do it together and not every country by itself and we have to learn from each other from our experiences but at the end come to uh good compromises and and do it together in this uh competitive world is the only chance for us to survive in my thank you very much


Hi guys, welcome back to my channel today's video is one of my most favorite videos to film It is the what I got for Christmas 2022 video and we're keeping it casual this year We're in the Bucky's t-shirt little disclaimer like everybody says I'm not trying to brag This is just honestly a tradition and I love making these videos every year. It's something fun So take it with the greatest all just watch for entertainment and have some fun I hope you guys are having a great holiday with that being said Let's just get into what I got for Christmas. So this is in no particular order or anything like that I hope I don't forget anything because there's a lot of fun stopping stuffers and things that people have gotten me First off is one of my favorite items. It's very useful, especially living in Florida But it is this bug sucker.  Don't call me if it's a snake or anything like large because I'm not good at that But the tiny things yes next up Santa brought me a Starbucks gift card, which is amazing This will last me a long time because it's for $50. I'm really really grateful for this because you guys know I always feel guilty going to Starbucks and spending an atrocious amount of money on just like coffee and stuff So this will be really nice to have when I want coffee and and I just won't feel as Guilty next up my aunt was so kind and she got me one of my favorite cups This is the Stanley 40 ounce thirst quencher cup I don't know the full name, but it's a Stanley cup and these are game changer If you guys are thinking about getting a Stanley cup You need to you need to have one of these in your life because it will change your life I love this thing. It is worth the hype if you're wondering It's definitely worth the hype and look at this color guys like Isn't it pretty like it's this beautiful blue color and I'm obsessed like After this video, I'm watching this thing and I'm using this one I also got a couple items from my parents that haven't arrived yet So I got a base or base. I don't know how to pronounce it Luggage and it's black. It's like the carry-on size So whenever I do stay cations or little like day trips or sleepovers Not that I have like sleepover sleepovers But like if I go to my friend's house and like she has a party and I want to sleepover like I can just put my stuff In that rather than carrying like 1200 tote bags.  I just haven't had like real luggage of my own So it'll just be really nice to have this luggage. I'm really grateful for it And I've been needing it. Well for forever like I've never had my own luggage like that So it'll be really nice. They also got me this necklace that hasn't shipped yet It's called made by Mary and it's like this half moon. It's so pretty and I can't wait to wear it because my a necklace The gold one it actually broke over Thanksgiving. So I'm like, okay. I'm gonna need a new necklace I love this one, but I like the gold stuff. So I've just been wearing this one in the meantime Which I love it's my Tiffany that is kind of it is a Tiffany one. That's kind of tarnished, but it's okay okay, next up my parents got me these ears and They're so cute. I can't wait to wear them on our Disney cruise. They just give like the cruise vibes I love the gold and the blue I also forgot to mention that one of my friends got me a Lululemon gift card But obviously the day I got it I spent it so I don't have that to show as well as one of my other Friends got me another Starbucks gift card, which I haven't used all of yet, but it was like one of those you give cards I got this lotion. I honestly got this for myself because it's my favorite lotion of all time It's the white tea by the Weston diplomat. It's just body lotion. I use this every night. I swear by it It's just really nice. I love the scent. So I needed a restock of this next up I got some bath bombs when we play the games during Christmas Eve These are some of the prizes I won next up. I got air pods. These are the newer air pods They're not the pros though They're not the ones that you like physically stick in your ear because I hate those. They're just so uncomfortable I also don't like air pod maxes because number one, they're way too expensive for like what you get and number two Anything that goes over my ears. You see these ears. They stick out so far like having anything press against them It like makes my head hurt And it's just not the feeling that I want to feel when I'm like trying to enjoy watching a video or listening to music so basically I Cannot deal with anything like over the ear or like in my ear So whatever the newest air pods are that aren't the pro maxes or the pros or whatever The ones that just lay in your ear. These are them Because the box just literally says air pods But they're they're like the new design. I don't know but I'm super grateful for these. I love my air pods I got my air pods in 2020 So they're looking a little rough. I drop them all the time. They have like scratches all over them I love air pods. They are game changer. They were the best purchase I made in 2020 so I'm glad to finally get like an upgrade and I will definitely treat these better than the ones I got in 2020. Next up in my stocking I got this really cool back scratcher It has adjustable Abilities so like you could make it tall short and just like scratch your back Which is amazing because we could all use a little back scratcher. Next up my hairstylist gifted me some stuff I don't have all the stuff But I do have this little mini brush that I keep in my bag. Actually, I could use this right now Um, and then she also got me This little hair scrunchie. She got me like a couple hair scrunchies Which is so nice like she literally didn't have to do that Next up to go with my luggage that I just kind of explained to you guys I got this luggage tag and I love this one because it doesn't scream like YouTuber merch or like merch from someone I watch online It just says like these letters and has a heart on it But if you know, you know that it's gals on the go and I think it's perfect because Since their whole like theme is like traveling and like being gals on the go So why not just get a luggage tag to put on my new luggage? You know what I mean? It makes sense and it's really cute because it's like this neutral color So it'll like match my black luggage next up. We have This little peppermint crunch candies. So basically it's a pretzel rod covered with chocolate white chocolate and peppermint I saw these before they went in the stocking because my mom had them out She was like, oh, those were supposed to go in your stocking But like I don't know if they would fit or whatever I'm like, let's try so they fit then during our family game night during christmas eve I got this corn on the cob, but it's basically a microwave full Corn so I don't know. I thought it was funny. It was a good gag gift Next up this will seriously help me out because I always eat salads. You guys know Um, and now I can like pack my salad for lunch or whatever Because of this it is a salad dressing tote So you just put your salad dressing in there and then you can like squirt it on which is amazing I always need something like this because I never know do you put the dressing on before you pack it up or do you just like What do you put your dressing in because when I've packed salads before I put in a plastic baggy and then like I make a hole in the bag so I can like use it like this And it just never worked out. So that's why I just like gave up taking salads anywhere So it's good to have this next up. I got this stone chakra Thing to hang and I think I'm gonna put it in my car because I always see like people put this type of Stuff in their car and like hang it. It's so pretty And I love all the colors It has all the colors of the chakras But don't ask me anything about like chakras or the stones because I don't know. I just think it looks cute So I know that that one Is amethyst and that one is jade and that's pretty much all I know about this thing But I just know I like it. It's cute So I'm definitely gonna put that in my car next up some classmates and I as you guys know If you've been watching my vlogmas, um, we did a gift exchange So I swear some of my classmates have like the most thoughtful gifts So I have this one and it's just a little keychain that says surgical technologist And it has our names on it, which I thought was so cute and so thoughtful Next up one of my classmates got me some of my favorite candy So I got like kitkats and stuff all of that has been consumed. So I can't really show it But she also got me some corgi support stockings So these are just like compression socks because we stand a lot We'll need some of these and she just knew that I loved corgis because I have a corgi surgical cap So perfect gift next up another classmate got me this really cute badge reel And it just has surgical instruments on it and it says surgical tech on it, which is really cool I already put it on my badge for school Because I wanted to like wear a new badge reel next up one of my faves that I ever myself I got this really Comfortable robe you guys. So if you know what saranoni blankets are they're like the most Comfortable blankets and I always use the one that I purchased a while ago Well, I didn't realize that they had robes. So I saw on like instagram Karen I follow her obviously Followed her for years But she posted that they had these and I'm like I need that so then I impulsively just bought it. So I typically don't do that. But for this yes, so Beautiful robe has I thought there was a pocket on it. There's a little pocket here that you can put your hand in And it's just so soft. It's like the white cream color So I absolutely love it and it's like my blanket in robe form. So like I had to get it next up is my 2023 planner and I love this thing because Aaron conjuring makes really good planners. This is from the Focused collection. I don't know if you can read that on the but it's like right here It really is it keeps you like really focused because it literally is just a week spread As you can see The lines are horizontal. You guys know I like the horizontal week layout So I just want to see Monday through Friday. I take it week by week Sometimes day by day, but I just like to have this and then write horizontally like what I need to do it gives me more room and Yeah, I really wanted the manifest planner from like Tori de Simone But it was like only six months. I'm like, I need the whole year. It's just one of those things Next up. I got this surgical cap from one of my classmates the one that got me the Bad drill It's so cute. It honestly matches my planner like she just knows that I like Neutrals, pinks and the blue goes so well with it I can't wait to wear this on Monday because Monday's like our lab day But yeah, it has like the little elastic here and it's just super cute If you guys have been watching my vlogmas, you would have seen that I got this headband And this is really good. I've always wanted these Now that I have like Some sort of bangs I wanted something like hold it back while I do my makeup or take off my makeup So this is really convenient. I even wanted to have this before I got bangs But it's just I'm excited to like finally have one. I really want the cow print one Next up one of my friends got me this shirt that says surgical tech on it And I think it's so cute. I love the font and it was like so thoughtful because um, she went to dental hygiene school and basically one of her friends got her a shirt that says like dental hygienists or something And she still has it and like she just thought it was like such a sweet gift. So she wanted to like Get me one that says like what I'm going to school for which is like so nice. So Thank you girl. I love it. It's so nice and it does fit Next up when we were playing the white elephant game I won this mini charcuterie board kit Which is really cute and nice Will come in handy if I have to like bring something to a party I got this Virgo necklace for myself. I don't know if it's showing up backwards on camera But it just says Virgo and me and some of my friends got our like sign Um necklaces. So I thought that was cute and that is everything I got for Christmas I know earlier I said that some stuff hasn't come in yet. So If you guys follow along stick around subscribe, you'll see when those presents arrive But I think that is it. I hope you guys enjoyed this video I hope you guys are having an amazing Christmas if you celebrate and yeah So don't forget to subscribe to my channel give this video a thumbs up and I'll see you guys later today for vlogmas 24. Bye guys