Hi guys, wow, there's so many of you here already. Holy moly. Hi guys. Oh wait. I don't need to hear myself talk. Holy cow. Let's mute myself. Um, well, welcome Kathy Eve. Well, maybe it's just Kathy Eve. You're, you're chatty this morning. So good morning. So, um, hey Cindy. So we are going to do grab and glue live today instead of painting. And I'm going to go out of this screen here for a minute because I want to remind you all that I was inspired to do these grab and glue books and I'll share mine with you which are right here to the left of me in a minute by being in, hey Vicki, hey Mary, Victor, Muriel. I was inspired to do this by being in Phoenix at CHA, um, slash, Creativation with Cindy Utter. We were there helping out Canvas Corp and, um, she had this little collage book and she was just grabbing pieces out of this giant stash of stuff she brought with her and just grabbing things and gluing them down without really thinking about it and just creating fun whimsical little compositions, just grabbing and gluing parts on. And I'm going to show you here really quick. She is not feeling well today. She is in the chat, but good thoughts. She sent me some pictures, let me find them, of her journal. This is the one she was working on when I, um, got inspired to do my own version. Now you can see by doing this, she does some painting things in the background, but it's really just a collage composition. Different things, different bits and pieces, different parts. And I was just inspired so much to do this. Let's see if there's any more of the last one. Yeah, that was the last one. I was inspired, oh we missed one. I was inspired so much to do this by what I was watching her do that I came home and it immediately started doing my own. So now let's go back so I can see the chat. There we go. At least in theory I can see the chat. Okay, so when I got home I immediately had a challenge to do with Mike Deakin, not long after I got home and I did, and I immediately just, without thinking about it too much, did this grab and glue. This is on YouTube here and there is a video on me doing this book. And I literally did it within the space of like, I don't know, an hour and a half or so. I did of course speed up the video a little bit and cut it into parts too, I think. I did what I could. You know, I don't want to give you guys videos that are, you know, five million miles long and things that you'll never get through. So this is just a quick little flip. And then I immediately did another one. And this one doesn't have, you'll notice in this one, there is a little bit of like, you know, pen, scribbly pen work and some Stabilo pencil. I didn't do that in this one. You could do it either way. You could add paint and doodles to it, or you could just go, I just went with the pieces that you all sent me. So we're going to do more of this today. And I'm going to set these two journals aside.  This is my grab and glue bin. I refill it from happy mail and bits and pieces out of other bins in my collection, scraps and things. So first we're going to unpackage it. And I have it sorted and organized. So things are easy to do this with.   I think these are calendar cards. They're from a flow magazine. Some of them were really cute. So I didn't want to get rid of them. I'm going to have to tell my iPad to not turn, go to sleep. I have large focal points. And I just stuffed this string in here because I'm not exactly sure where I want that to be. These are focal points, hand painted scraps and bits, die cuts and stickers. So I'm going to arrange them on my table. This is the journal we're going to work in. I've got some big stickers. I've got some big pieces in here. Miss Cindy just sent me this. I haven't even unwrapped there's a lot of stuff in there. So we'll put that to the side. I have some Tim Holtz people, paper dolls. And then in the bottom of my bin, I just lift up this board.  You can arrange yours, of course, however it works for you. That's what works for me. All right. And I'm going to have to put the iPad on something because right now I can't see the chat. There we go. Prop it on a jar. All right. So let me go back a little bit. Hey, Jerry. Good to have you here. Paula, Janice. Good to have you guys here. Lisa. Yeah. Everybody sends Cindy some happy energy. She's not feeling well today. Yes.  But it's nice to have a small amount of them in one bid that you can just grab down, you know, spread them out like this, work on your glue book. And then when you're done, you can put it all back. And when it gets a little bit empty, you can refill it from your other bins. I am kind of obsessive compulsive. And clutter makes me crazy. And my whole family, if you guys think I am compulsive, you need to meet my little sister, Elizabeth. She's just, yeah. And it's part of, it's one of my ways of controlling the anxiety is to control the chaos around me. That's just, you know, I'm just catching up on the comments and I can help you. Okay. So this is a glue book. And this is my little journal. I literally just made this, you can tell this cover is half of a file folder. The pages are pages out of a magazine that happens to be a flow magazine, something with kind of nice thick paper, although it doesn't have to be. The other two journals were made out of scratch paper and collage paper. It can be literally made out of everything. And yes, I know you love me, Cindy. I also know I'm crazy. So I'm going to, you're going to learn what a glue book is, Paula. So a glue book literally is just something that you glue stuff into to make compositions. That's all a glue book is. So I'm actually going to start with the cover.  Because you know, we can't throw anything away, right? God forbid. I do have some jelly prints and scrap paper.  I'm going to start with gluing one of these pages on the cover. Thin paper, but it's fairly strong. And it's nice to just rub your extra paint on. This is one that I did. And you really just need some glue and a book and bits and pieces. And I just use Cindy does, too. A glue stick works great. It dries fast. It's not a wet glue. You don't have to wait for stuff to dry. I use this Elmer's Extreme or Yoohoo. Both of those work well.  There it is. Somewhere around here. I've got an old iTunes card. And I'm going to just push the paper and glue down on the folder. And you'll notice the edges are sticking up. And I'm not thinking about it too much. I'm not agonizing over the composition, you know, or anything like that. I'm just going with what feels right. I'm hoping that the end result is something that's cute. And if it isn't, that I can make it cute. But I'm really, you know, it's kind of nice sometimes when life and even in your art or art business, if you have one gets a little stressed out. If you can just do something, turn the music up, which is what I usually do. Turn the music up and kind of do mindlessly. She made you a round jelly plate. That's fabulous. Your composition journal. A composition journal, if you have one is a great journal to do this with. Now, sometimes I get sticky around the edges because I'm kind of sloppy with the glue on. So I'm going to just take a baby wipe and wipe that glue off a little bit. When it dries, it won't be sticky anymore. I see a little piece of down here that has no glue. There we go. All right. Now, what else do we have? I found some really cool stickers and die cuts. I know that I don't know where they came from. They found them in a stash of stuff. I don't know where they came from. Might be cool to use.  So like Cindy is saying, this is a great place to use them. There is a link to a video of Cindy's in the description, a video where she first did these glue books. So if you want to watch that, you can click on that link. Don't do it until I'm done. Some of these I know are from the Crazy Island family swaps, these tickets and things. I think that's where they're from. Yeah, I like that. First, I want to make sure I'm done with the cover. I do think I want to put this on here and then maybe this, that happens to be right on top. I do believe that's how I want that to be. I have this little shaker card. I have this feeling this is going to end up in here somewhere. Great idea, Vicki. I think you should do a video on that. So what is everybody else up to today? I had my class last night with the travel agency went really well. I almost said I lost my card again, but it's right in front of me. You can make these glue books out of anything. I've done so many swaps in Crazy Island family and or gotten some of them in Happy Mail that I don't really have to make any anymore. I've got a little bin of them. So my goal is to do fun things like this with them. So the class was my husband is calling these classes vacation scapes. I think that's cute because they're, they could be a landscape. It could be a seascape. It could be, you know, any kind of painting composition. But if you call it a vacation scape that encompasses all of them. So that term is coined by him. I think it's so cute. And we had a couple of inspiration photos from French Polynesia. And the photos were provided by the cruise line Paul Gauguin. And a cute little ships. They're smaller ships. They only have, I think under 200 passengers. And they're small so they can get in and around the Tahitian Islands. And they did a presentation first about the cruise line and some specials they have going on first. And then we did a watercolor painting class. And we had a few people in there that had never painted before. And they did such a great job. They had a lot of fun. And we talked a lot about doing something creative while you're on vacation. There was one lady who may be interested in joining our My Year 2017 program. So we'll see over the next few days if she does that. And of course, the whole idea is to interesting in the travel agency, an interesting event to get people to come in to hear about the cruises. And I think that it accomplished that because I think everybody was that was their book to vacation. So they all finished their paintings. And they had a lot of fun and asked me a lot of questions. And I passed out some business cards and did the whole networking thing. And it was very good. I thought I was a little worried because I'm, you know, a little rusty with the in-person teaching thing, but it went, it went just fine. So that I love this. This is, I love the cover.  This is a pen that should have gone in one of the round robin boxes over in My Year 2017. And I missed it somehow. But anyway, now it's going to stay here. It's a Neo Pico line to Neo Pico deleter. I don't know. I think it's probably from JetPens. They did finish in the class. We all love your mom, Paula. They were happy with their paintings. There was one person who wasn't super happy and wouldn't know it, who decided to sit down and paint and get, I'll give you all one guess who it was. It's somebody, some of you know or know of. So how cute is that? I haven't even done anything except the cover. So that's the whole idea. I don't know if I'm going to do anything here, but we are going to do something here. So it was Rebecca, my daughter. She works for the travel agency. That's how they found out about me. They wanted to start doing like wine and cheese tastings with the vacation promotions from different companies or paint and wine nights or something. So they were chit chatting in a meeting at the travel agency. And they said, you know, we need to find an artist. And I guess Rebecca said, oh, I know one. My mom's an artist. That's how I got the job. So it pays to know the right people. I think I want to use this. Yeah, it just, it pays to the right people. I just, you know, I'm going to use one of these. Is it so when I get to the inside of the book, I tend to be really messy with the glue stick. So I try to stick something in between here. Like when I'm going to do something like I'm going to do now and cover the whole page so that I don't get glue like on the whole book because I'm messy. I'm not going to even trim the edges on this page. I'm going to just slap it down. Yeah. You know, these opportunities come out of the blue and they usually come because you know somebody. So I would say that if you're the least bit interested in furthering your art experience, sharing your art experience, making, maybe making a little money to support your crafting and art supply debt. Because you know, hello. And I only, I say that, I say that lovingly because I have my own issues with that. So this is a great way to do it and maybe make back a little money to put in the, you know, family accounts. You could tear these. You don't have to cut them exact.  They're cool. No. I need to trim this bit here. I don't care if it's super straight, but kind of straight would be nice. Maybe I should have trimmed it before I stuck it down, at least on the one edge. There we go. So yeah, my daughter was the one she, she didn't want her things seen like at all. But they took pictures. Everybody took pictures with their paintings at the end of class. So they will probably show up sometime the next few days on their Facebook page or on some other social media. And when that happens, I'll share with you all how funny of an image is that I do think I want to use him in the book somewhere at some point. Once a glue book is done, what do you do with it?   I do want to use this live mindfully on here. Vicki, you know, we've been doing a lot of cleaning in our studio rooms in our various groups lately. And what I can say is just be very mindful of what you're tossing because you might need it at some point is very possible. I'm feeling like I want, I don't know, maybe I don't need anything else on there because you know what, I kind of like that composition. Maybe see, I'm overthinking it. See, that's what happens, but doesn't have to be complicated. It can just be as simple as that. Yes, I can. So you need to and trying to do this while reading the chat is a challenge. But it doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. And one thing Cindy told me pretty early on was these kind of journals for her are not always ever finished. She frequently goes back to them and adds more bits and pieces. And I have a library space out in the front room where these kind of things sit on the shelf. And I just, I pull them down and look at them when I have guests over, they pull them down and look at them. It's actually pretty cool. And Cindy, let's not tell your husband that you're not resting and that you're here with us on YouTube. He might not be happy. Yeah, it doesn't have to make sense. It doesn't have to ever be like finished or complete. It can be what you want it to be. There's no right way and there's no wrong way. Oh, see, I just saw this on here. Yep, that needs to be on there. I'm just going to stick it straight in the middle. Now I do have, you know, like one tool that I would recommend besides the glue stick would be a gift card because you want to like stick things down and then push. And an old gift card is a cheap, easy craft supply tool. I have a video coming out on cheap, easy tools. See, this is the thing.  I might want it for something. Yeah, I know. Well, I do think I do think I want to put the dancer on here. I did say it was hard to do this and chat with you guys while I'm doing it. I thought I saw another piece.  I'm like, where did that little piece of paper go? It was underneath something.  I don't throw that kind of stuff away. I don't always know. Before this, I didn't always know what I was going to do with it, but I don't throw it away. And I don't know why this eye needs to be on here. It just does. That's a good idea. So that's, there's no, there's no wrong way to do this except to overthink it. And trust me, I know all about that. The queen of the overthinking over here. I don't want more of that on there. Oh, there's some focal points. They need to be in there. I like that. Is that a sticker? It is stickers. One of you sent me these. These are cool. Which one of you sent me these? These are not mine. I love them. I'm going to, I'm going to catch up on the chat in a minute. Hold on. So this is another one of my favorite art supplies, cheap art supplies. These are the Bible high glider and gel pens, gel crayons. You have to go to like a religious store to get them or just do what I do and order them on Amazon. I feel like that needs to be some one, one other place. There we go. All right, let's see.  It's actually a little bit overcast here today, but it's nothing like what you guys are experiencing right now. And three feet of snow is just way, that's a lot of snow. Yeah, we all have that. Those of us who have anxiety disorder, that's one of the things that we do. We overthink everything. Flower too long bucket. Paula, I'm not sure. I don't know what you mean by flower too long bucket. No, that was a print on a sticker. It's the coolest thing. It looks like it's somebody's artwork that they printed on stickers. I don't know where I got it from. No idea, but I love it. Yeah, so you just, yeah, you don't want to think too much. So this, there's no wrong way to do this. There's no, I'm always telling you guys, there's no right way. There's no wrong way. There's only your way. So just have fun with it. I have this fabulous image. Is he not the coolest image or what? So I think I want to put him here. No, no, here. We're going to get him all glued up. And you can start off your pages in these glue books if it has, you know, already writing and stuff on it by covering the background and then putting a focal point and then putting words in and do it that way. And I do sometimes, I don't always, I want to save that like peaked top of that roof. These are out of a graphic design magazine. Cindy actually bought one when we were in Phoenix and I came home and went, man, I should have got a copy of that. So I went to my local Barnes & Noble and they had it. And then they had another one too that Cindy wasn't able to find. This was out of one of them. But anyway, go to your bookstore when you are in need of images, ha, ha, ha, because we're really not in need of anything. And look, don't forget to look in the section where they have the graphic design magazines. So now I need to trim that. I should do it with an exacto knife because it would become a neater cleaner, straighter edge easier. But I'm not going to. We're going to just wing it. That's not real straight, but that end part is kind of actually really crooked. I don't mind not really straight, but massively crooked. It's going to bug the crud enemy. There we go. That's better. I'm going to use this piece. Yeah, you can do it in a book. You can do it in one of these little journals. You can do it in anything, anything, anything. Oh, I remember why I don't like these. They're hard to get off the little backing paper. Oh, see, this is why I just need to use these up. These I got at Hobby Lobby thinking they would be good for the my year book or something.  Just FYI. There we go. I'm just going to use a whole sheet of these on this page. Yeah, the library might have free back issues of magazines, old books that they can't sell. So always check your library. Third from the left, it's a black flower. I'm confused here on this page. I don't know. I always put quotes on my page. That's just one of my things that I do. I found all these birds. I must have just been crazy with punching birds at some point. I don't know why. It's a mystery. Let's see if we can get some of them glued up without destroying the die cut because they're very delicate. And then I'll catch up on the chat again.  It probably would be better to get out a Xyron if you have one or use liquid glue. It's too late now. I'm here with a glue stick, but if you have something delicate like this, you probably want to glue them a different way. My hands are all sticky. There we go. I like that page. I like them all. I like them all. Okay. You know, white, white, white, white. Eve, I'm not sure what's going on, but we all have neighbors that are morons. I don't know. Yeah, so it's been a while since I did this. So the longer you do it, I know for me, the more I do it and the less I focus on trying to be perfect, the nicer my pages get. This is a way for me that I can just let go and relax about things. And when I get too wound up about stuff and the anxiety is starting to take over, this is something that I need to do more of because it really does help not only loosen up my art, but loosen up my mind, which is a good thing. Oh, that's not good, Eve. In my tray. In my tray. See, I don't even know in my tray, which tray? I have too many trays. Oh my gosh. I don't even know. In my tray. We're talking about some flower thing that I should use. In my tray. I don't know. I have so many little bit. I don't know. The long tray. So one of these trays.  I bet this is the one you're talking about.    It was for something I did for journaling crazy island style when I was teaching over there. And I went crazy and punched a whole gob of them. So yeah. So anyway, I love that page. I don't. Oh, so I, so Pegalus, I have a particular way for me that works. So this is small focal images, words, miscellaneous teeny tiny stuff, including brads and flowers, borders and stickers, miscellaneous scraps, small focal images, background larger background images in here in a trait slightly off camera.  For me, that's the organization thing that works for me. And I think you mean these flowers. Thank you, Paula. Add something blue. I can add something blue. I like blue. See, some of these stickers are from Happy Mail and some are from my stash and they're like a million years old, but they don't want to come off the paper drives me crazy. There we go. I have this piece here. This is from Happy Mail. And I don't, I have a feeling this was stuck to it somewhere. I don't know where. So we're going to just put it on there. It does take me to my happy place. This is, this is very relaxing and soothing for me to do. Now I'm going to put some glue stick on here to get it down initially, but I'm also going to take some Elmer's extreme liquid glue, because this is kind of a bulky piece. Happy Mail. As soon as I unclog my glue anyways, because you know, we'll just hold that there for a second. You're going to have to do a video on that glue box, Paula. I mean Vicki. Yeah. So I think I found the flowers that you were talking about. I do need you. See, I'm having trouble keeping up with the chat while I'm doing this, but you're not feeling well. So we're going to let you rest. I don't necessarily try to avoid heavy paper, but when I'm going to use heavy paper, I make sure I have liquid glue nearby, because you really need the liquid glue to stick the heavy paper down. And obviously without even thinking about it for some reason today, I have a thing for vertical lines. And I don't know why. You know, I like this image, but I don't know, I don't think it's right for that page. I don't want to think about it too much, but I don't think that's right for that page. I'm thinking there was something over here. Maybe the bird. This bird is from the My Year 2017 Weekly Art Challenge. This is the one that I printed to do the painting from. And you can tell that it's the actual one I printed and used on the live broadcast where I did the bird painting because it's got water stains on it or the ink blood. And you can always do this and do the collage part and then come back later and add paint or stencils or something like that. These words, it's literally just a bucket of words. I do have a different container of words and they're actually in that container they're organized. And I have fortune cookie and like fortune cookie fortunes and words from wrappers and labels. I have single words, calendar words, and whole phrases. And that's how I hope I have my words organized. Yeah, Polly, you did help. Hi, Aunt B. I think Aunt Beck is here somewhere. So hello. Cool, Rhonda. I'm glad. Welcome to my group to organize your art caravan. You know, I would if the budget would allow, believe me, or you know, that would be my dream to like get paid to travel around the country or the world to help you all out with your art. How fabulous would that be? Oh, Gypsy Queen. Turn your page to create and then turn it back to see what appeared. Yeah. Okay. So I think I'm caught up with the chat. If I missed anything, somebody let me know. Here's a pretty purple piece. Let's just grab that. I don't know where some of these came from. Probably Happy Mail. I found a whole bunch of them when I was busy purging and cleaning just recently. And some of them I put in a purge box and some of them I was like, Oh, I thought it's pretty. I should use that in a glue book. So that's how they ended up in this box. Because if they're, you know, hidden away in a drawer, I'm probably going to forget they're in there. And creating art isn't always about getting out a paintbrush. There's lots of really good artists out there that do very well for themselves that just do collage. The only thing about this is that your fingers get sticky. Vicki, you know, it must, it probably isn't allowed, but Vicki, if you do it that way, or if you send the link to Cindy or Jerry, because their admins here on the live broadcast, they can post the link for you. Can you show pics? Paula, I'm not sure what you mean. When it's done, share pictures on Facebook. If that's what you mean, of course I can. And if for some reason in your art room, you're like me and you have a horde of glue sticks. Yes, you heard me correct. Glue sticks. This is a good way to use up some of them. And yes, you did hear me correctly. Glue sticks. I have a whole entire drawer of glue sticks. It's not something I'm going to purge because I will use them, but at the same time, they don't last forever. So I need to use them. Like this little sticker sitting right in front of me will be perfect on here. It says, relax, life takes time. I love that. I think it works. Yeah, so you have glue stick horde too, Gerda. So I'm not the only one. So you have to use them. I mean, it's all well and good to have all these really fabulous art supplies. But then if we don't use them, what's the point?  So let's use them while we're here and be happy. Or if you're part of the My Year 17 group and want to be, until the end of the month, we are organizing a round robin supply box swap. You fill up a box and with your surplus supplies, things you're not using anymore. And you're in a group of five and you send it on to the person who has the next name below you. And they take what they want out of the box and then they send the rest of it. They fill it up again. It has to be full to the top and they send it to the next person. The next person does the same thing and on and on it goes until it gets to the last person. And your group can either decide to send it back to the first person or to donate whatever's left. Well, I do too. I buy like Elmer's or Yoohoo and you have to buy like boxes of 12. For whatever reason, I can't get Yoohoo anywhere around here. I don't know what the deal is with that. So I have to order it. But then I have like 12 glue sticks. So I like this one. Be bold. And then this one. Be brave. I think those need to be there together. Ooh. I think that one needs to be there too. I think I normally do put three things on one page like that. But that's cute. Yeah, I, you know, I just, I have too much, like many of you, I just have too much stuff. So some of it needs to go away. You know, I think I want to just do this this way. It's crazy, right? So I'm going to, because why not? What's the worst that could happen? Well, I've never done a glue book before. I don't know what I'm doing. That's okay. I don't really know what I'm doing either. Just do it anyway. Experiment and have fun.  Some of these images are really big. So it's not a matter of me not using the image. It's a matter of me finding the right size book to use them in. You can use whatever kind of glue that you want. I would recommend if you're really, if you're sitting and working on your grab and glue, not using anything too watery or messy that's going to take too long to dry. So I would really recommend something on the drier side. If you use aliens or even the liquid Elmer's, which I have here, just make sure it's not, you know, leaking out the sides of the image because as you can see, I'm just, I'm not waiting for things to dry before I move on to the next page. Now Cindy is, we love her, but she's crazy. She takes this on vacation with her, which in theory is a good idea, but she also brings like a whole big box full of bits and pieces. We love her, but I don't know. I don't, I, I would have to bring too many of these bits and pieces to do this while I was away from home. That being said, you can make yourself a small glue book and bring no bits and pieces and simply compose it out of travel brochures and bits and pieces that you acquire on your vacation.  I think I need a bigger, bigger white pen. Hang on. I need one that's actually been started already. Maybe this one. Yeah, that's got ink in it.  I thought it was a good idea.  This one doesn't have that many pages in it. Just a small little book and then do some kind of glue composition with the bits and pieces that you find. Don't plan it. And I, you know, I work on this kind of thing in the mornings while I'm on my trip before, while I'm having my morning coffee, usually while everybody else is sleeping or in the evenings after we get back from any excursions or anything that we've done. See, I want to use these up.  Okay. Then I'm going to take my blue. There we go. I like that. I'm going to just fold it. Yep. Make sure it's doing well. Yay. I'm so glad, Vicki. Crazy sister. Maybe Jerry, you might have to because we are all nuts. See, I told you, Cindy. See, Jeff knows, Bob would agree with him 110%. He would, he would just kind of probably go, uh, yeah, Aunt, I knew you were crazy when I married you. Yeah. I'm having it. See, I need something to stick. I want to stick something long in the background. Ooh, maybe these. So because this was from a flow magazine, there's already some interesting, you know, images on some of these papers.  And I just thought they would make good background kind of images to something like this, like a glue book. Done. Oh, Jerry, did you change us to the crazy sisters? Holy moly. We are crazy. So it's fitting. I like this one. If you can dream it, you can do it. I found a bunch of these sort of motivational stickers when I was cleaning out stuff. And I thought, hmm, I should use them in a grabbing glue. I got more birds. Let's put some more birds on here. These dang birds are going to drive me crazy. There we go. How funny has Allison Wonderland would say? Yeah, yeah, YouTube doesn't have hearts, but feel free to put, give it a thumbs up, like, share and subscribe if you would. I know somebody out there is going to give it a thumbs down. And anymore, I don't really care. I do have somebody now that my channel is approaching 8000 that gives all my videos at least one thumbs down. And there's just nothing I could do about it. Do what you have to. I'm going to make videos that I think that make me happy. And I'm going to not get too corporate about it because that doesn't make me happy. So I also don't think it makes a big difference in the channel as far as subscribers go. So and you know what? It's my channel. I could do what I want. See, at some point, I'm going to have to just stick this to a page because it's getting very gluey. Let's see. It's the last of the birds. Thank you, Lord Almighty. Holy cow. They are fiddly. It's a great dye, but these birds aren't fiddly. They're fiddly to punch. They're fiddly to glue. Right, just fiddly. I missed a spot. Of course, one little spot. I don't know what it is with these birds today, but I just feel like they need to be in here. So we've been talking lately in our group of admins over for my year about the side effects of being overstimulated and that, you know, right now we're so stimulated with ideas to share with you all that we're actually getting headaches. It's not a good thing. So you really need to take a time to just do something for you. Maybe it's a grab and glue book or something else and just do something to sort of de-stress. Maybe it's meditate. Maybe, you know, whatever works for you. Read. I read every night. I'm wanting to do something down here, so we're going to. There's no wrong way to do this. Just do what makes you happy. All right, next page. And see, we've already done this much and we just have this much. Yeah, so that's fine. I don't, you know, whatever is going to make, you know, them happy. That's fine, but this is my channel and I'm going to just do what makes me happy. So these are cute. And when you, you know, look at the individual pages, you may not get it, but then you look at the book as a whole and it's really interesting. And I find that more often than not that there's an accidental theme. Now this page here is really sticky. So I'm going to just use that. I do have a goal of 10,000 subscribers by June because June is my five year YouTube anniversary. And I plan on trying to do a very special giveaway for the anniversary. I'm still working some of the details out, but if you all can help me get to that 5,000, I mean 10,000, that would be great. I'm at almost 8,000 right now. I can't believe it's been five years since I've started YouTube by accident. There was a YouTube viewer before then, but not a creator. So I'm just going to make sure I've got most of the edges stuck down. I don't generally even make sure like all the edges are stuck down. There we go. Yeah, you know, you all love me and I'm good with that. So if they don't like my channel and, you know, they need to move on to something else, that's fine. See, this is what drove me crazy.  Does anybody else have this problem? And if you do, how do you solve it?  I probably should just not punch anything unless I'm going to use it like that day. That's probably what I should be doing. So we're going to get another one of these painting papers out. I'm going to glue these up.  Oh, it is not like in a glue stick at all. Be difficult, why don't you? There we go. Let's see. I've got a bunch of glue stick glue. Let's see if I can. Oh yeah, that works. Nobody tell Bob what I'm doing with some of his financial reports. I wait until he's looked at them and then I dig him out of the recycle bin. Let me make good paper. All right, let's see. So, Ann Beck, I yeah, and you know, just really don't feel like you have to save everything. Save the things you find really interesting or that you really love. You know, because you can go into a danger area of thinking, well, I need to save all of these pieces because I need them all for my glue book. You are grabbing glue. You don't need to save them all. Save what makes you happy. I'm thinking I need another. I like him. I accident. So yeah, now I think my husband has caught on a little bit because he's been bringing me things. So I think he's kind of caught on. I don't I don't think I get much past him to be honest with you. And he goes to meetings at places like Facebook and stuff like that. And he brings me back stuff. That's pretty cool. Let's see. I like this one because it kind of goes with that, you know, kind of face that we stuck on there. I like beautiful and we're going to put this one over here or to the side. I'm going to put it right here actually. It is beautiful. Make it work. I love that. I don't these were part of some planner sticker thing that I got. I don't know. So I'm going to try to wipe some of the glue off. Yeah. You know, without you're doing it unconsciously, but that doesn't mean your conscious mind is not, you know, there it's it's thinking of something while you're working on it. And I've found that every time I've done these, there's some sort of unconscious theme to them. Oh, my channel by accident. That's the story I thought you all knew. So back in 2012, I was taking my first real professional painting course from Pauline Agnew. If you don't know who she is, Google her. She's an Irish artist. She's a fabulous online teacher. And anyway, she had a lesson in her class that said to do mono printing. And if you have a jelly plate to use one, well, I thought, what the heck is a jelly plate?  I don't know what that is. And I if it's a tool, I don't have it. So and honestly, that's exactly I'm not exaggerating. That's exactly what went through my mind. I pictured this plate with grape jelly on it and couldn't figure out what the heck she was talking about. And so I did the mono printing lesson, but I did it my way with a just sheet of acrylic. And she said, I showed her the results and she said, you know, I really love them. How did you do that? Can you show me how you did that? Well, obviously, she's in Ireland and I'm here. So I had no idea how I was going to accomplish that. She said, and we chatted back and forth. She said, post a video somewhere. Can you film a video? I said, well, I can film a video with my I don't remember now, which I did it. I owned an iPhone and an iPad at that time. It might have been my old iPad too. I don't remember. And it's the mono printing video that's here on the channel. It's my very first video that was ever on the channel. You can go back and go to my channel type in mono printing and it's there. And anyway, so I posted it to this channel. I shared it with her. She loved it. Some of you all loved it. And I thought, huh, well, that's interesting. Maybe I'll post another video.  Here we are. So, so yeah, maybe you're not eating enough, Cindy. That makes sense to me. Yeah, I want to use pink. So yeah, that's how you start a YouTube channel by accident. I didn't know where else I could post the video except to YouTube easily without it getting too complicated. So I just did it to YouTube. I knew about YouTube because I would watch videos. We're gonna be a little careful with that one because there's a little blue on there.  They just get tangled. They drive me crazy. They even if they tear, they still look good. They just, oh, I want it. I want to just go. Okay, why I have a blank piece of paper here. I don't know that actually can go in the trash can. I don't know. I don't know. Now, some of these I brought back from Phoenix with me.  That's what these are from. It's my very first video. It's mono printing. It's a mono printing video. I don't remember what the exact title is. It might be mono printing without a jelly plate or it's just mono printing. I don't remember. Oh, mono printing from a photo. I think I think that's the name. It was filmed when my studio space was still in the garage. Yeah, so that's how you start a YouTube channel by accident. I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't understand that you could monetize. I had no idea. I just knew that a teacher I admired asked me to show her how I did something and I thought, okay, cool, I'll do that. So you can all thank Paulina Agnew for my channel because without her, I probably wouldn't be here on YouTube. And if you decide you want a painting lesson and you want to learn more about expressive painting and figure work and abstract and all of that, go check her out because she does have online and in-person courses and she is fabulous. I really want to use this stuff up so that I can get it out of my creative space because it's just... That's a technical term, right? So when I'm done, sometimes I will stand in the book up like this and separate the pages like for a couple hours so that things will really have a chance to dry and not stick together. If I'm worried about it like this one, I might stick a piece of wax paper in there or a wet baby wipe. Wet baby wipe would be good. No, wax paper would be better. My other cheap art supply, wax paper. Yeah, so it's a fun story. I mean, and like I said, I can't recommend her enough. She's a really good teacher. You all would like her and she does give criticism but it's very gentle constructive criticism meant to aid you and not break you down. She is one of these teachers that allows you to, if you can, sell the work that you make in her class. Share it, sell it, just let people know that you learned to do that from her. See, this stuff doesn't even want to glue down because it's just too thinly. I probably should be using liquid glue but I really want to just get it out of my box. There we go. Pauline Agnew, yep. She's a fabulous teacher. I can't recommend her enough. It is on my bucket list one of these days to go to one of her in-person classes in Ireland because how fun would that be? First of all, who doesn't want to go to Ireland and to go there and get to paint while you're there? Like, hello. My dream. I told the husband he could come with me and if you want to you can just like go hang out at the pub or something. That's fine. I love that image. It just doesn't seem right for here. Oh, but this one might work. Every year she does her in-person classes in different places. She usually does one in Ireland and I do think coming up there's like one that's going to be in Spain, right? I want to go to Ireland. According to family legend, I'm part Irish. Whether that can be verified, I have no idea but so some people say. Happiness is not owning a gorgeous farmhouse but the things one would do on that farm. I'm not sure why I like that but I do. I'm definitely not a farm girl by any stretch of the imagination. That would be my parents which is funny because my dad was born in San Francisco and my mother is from Chicago but they are definitely country people. I'm thinking I need to put a sticker or something on that so it stays down. I think I've only said that like five million times. I have these other circles. They might work. At least some more that I can't get off the paper. That's not helpful. Spain would be cool. We need to save up because it's not cheap. You all know that the flight alone is going to be expensive but we should save up. Wouldn't that be fun to do it as a group? How fun would that be? A group of us crazy YouTubers meeting up in Ireland or Spain to take a class from Pauline. How fun would that be?  The whole thing is driving me crazy. Some of it has ended up in the purge boxes and some of it I like but I'm never going to use. Some of it I like but drives me up the wall. I have two more purge boxes. We're going to start group A here at some point today. A group A. Eight. Group eight. I honestly have had all my coffee today. I swear I have. That's cute. There it is. Found it. Maybe I don't know. I'm yeah maybe in a past life I was not in the current one so try to whether you're collaging on bits or you're drawing then doodling them on. Try to put your bits on in uneven numbers because it's more interesting and you notice there's no paint involved in this. I haven't picked up a single tube of paint. There is white paint right there. What's in this picture? It looks like two umbrellas and then I'm not sure what this background is. It looks like a towel or something so yeah I think a group trip would be awesome. I agree with you guys very much. Oh how cool would she be on that page? I think she needs to be on that page. Oh yes she needs to be on that page without even thinking about it. She needs to be on that page so when I'm doing this I'm pushing the image into the spine of the book. Push it all the way down and I'm not always super concerned about the edges at least to start because I can always lift them up and go back and add more glue. I have one little sticker it doesn't want to stay down. I might have to stick some glue on liquid Elmer's under that. So again some of the images like this one are out of a graphic design magazine. It's one of my favorite places to get images. Also I also like W magazine. That's a question I get asked a lot when I was especially when I was doing the collage videos right. I used to dye my hair dark red back in the day. I had a great aunt aunt Flo. She lived in Texas. Really nice lady and that side of the family is Scottish. I still think they might be Scottish criminals but they're Scottish. I don't know yet. I haven't done the research too far. Anyway she had bright red hair and her brother my grandfather he had kind of an auburn colored hair and he had really big ears that stuck out. He was a really sweet man but yeah he had really big ears that stuck out. I like there's something about that composition. I like just like that and oh this one I love this one. It says live with intention. How cute is that for a page and you really haven't done it's just collage people. I don't even know that I want to do anything else to it. I'm going to do this just for the sake of continuity in the book. I'll add some scribbling lines but I don't think I need to add anything else to that page. That's a great page. I love this image. Now sometimes when you do a glue book if the one side gets too fat and things aren't laying flat then you want to fold things back on yourself on on yourself on itself. Hey Barbara oh that oh that and Bex creations that's horrible. I hope that none of the animals or people for that matter got hurt. This is product packaging from a tattered angels set of sprays and paints. We're going to use you don't have to you know you can use anything and yes I should probably save this because it has directions for using the sprays to use them in a certain way but honestly I don't know I don't read directions well so that's not going to happen. I don't think we want to add this other I don't think I want to save the other piece. I really just like this part. Do you just love that image isn't that cool. Yeah so oh good. This is one of my favorite ways to do you know expressive art mixed media art is to have at least part of the composition be collage you know especially when you're not in love with the idea of painting god forbid you're new to painting and unsure of your skills or maybe you just don't feel like it and you want to do something different.  I don't understand so we're going to use that because I don't need to just hang on to it for eternity I really don't. Hey Ian who doesn't love a good Monty Python sketch sketch. I can't talk today don't mind me. Evidently I've lost the use of English today and I came right home from the gym and did other stuff and then came on live so I haven't even showered yet today so you guys should be glad this isn't smell a vision because I probably stink my fingers are sticky again it wants to stick to my fingers instead of the paper I have to do this one. All right this is just scraps from punching out something else not that I advocate saving all the teeny tiny little scraps if you're not going to use them I'm like really bad at that or I used to be if you're going to save them use them don't hoard them and I speak as someone who's made that mistake I don't tell you guys not to do something that I haven't already made that mistake I would never do that oh fabulous Mary you made a little grab and glue book oh that's wonderful and you know these little books putting the images in here you can get some really interesting images and make a really interesting book without spending any money so it's starting to get really fat so now it's going to be a challenge getting the pages done which is okay I have some more enlarged images I love this one because it already has a quote on it your wings already exist all you have to do is fly and really you could just pop that on a page um and I do think I want it over here you pop that on a page and really you don't really have to do anything else now of course you could use tape runner um anything like that I would recommend if you're going to do it like I am where you really kind of want to sit down with a small book with just a little a few pages in it and just you know spend an hour or two working on your grab and glue and you want to fit do it and finish it in the same session that you use a dry glue and that the book is not too big so we're getting to the part where the book is not wanting to lay flat so I'm actually going to do what I was telling you guys about earlier and I'm going to turn it back on itself there we go you have to do this sometimes with the delusions journals too I've had to do it many times at the delusions journals they get too fat and then it's hard to get anything flat in the spine I have these little pieces anybody who is a member of jkis recognize these I found these I forgot I had them oh you know what it might because of the storms Cindy that the video isn't working I don't know if you can hear me I'm going to use some liquid glue on these because they're kind of thick and again this is Elmer's extreme school glue plain old Elmer's it dries pretty fast I'm actually might want to put that over here it dries pretty fast and it dries clear oh I missed your question but yeah I put some wax paper this one page was really sticky so I put some wax paper in there so that I could turn the page the video's a bit out of focus it looks clear to me on my iPad I'm watching on my iPad so it and my iPad is actually really clear for me it's a little bit jumpy but it's clear another little sticker it says dare to fly it's got a little butterfly on it oh good don't forget to if you're having problems with the video to click on this video display screen in YouTube and go to the little what is it the little three dots and then quality and then click on the highest resolution it'll let you yeah I think that the east coast is being slammed by storms if somebody can type for me because I can't right now for Cindy she can see the chat I'm not even sure she can hear us that it's probably the storm that would be my guess okay my goal is to kind of use up these black things in this book I think that's a goal I do have another one and I've got a little fairy so click on the screen you click on the three dots on the upper right then you the top one should have a little gear and it says quality when you click on that that one it's probably set to auto but you can set it to the highest which and mine is 720p and yay I'm back I saw that there's something about this this image I don't know that I liked out of the one of the magazines you can hear me now yay and Ian had his set to 480 Ian no wonder it was blurry so you should always check your connect internet connection and that little quality button if you're having trouble with the picture I do watch my broadcast on my ipad so there's actually an the connection on my end or the camera I will usually know because what I'm watching on the ipad is going to be terrible so but it's actually fine for me I want to try to it's going to be kind of a long broadcast I think but I want to try to finish this glue book and then do a flip for you all so I need to get my button gear don't I it's more this fiddly shit this is what's taking forever is getting this little fiddly crap glued down so next time somebody remind me that when I say I want to use this fiddly stuff on a glue book to spend some time before we actually go live with my eyes I do own a xyron and make it into a sticker because holy cow that would be easier and if you want to do something like this make it into a sticker because this is ridiculous and I would tell you if you're going to punch some of these out to use in a later date while you're punching them just go ahead and again make them a sticker because I think you're going to be happier I don't think we're going to put the fairy on here are we oh maybe I do you think this fairy I could be wrong but this little fairy die cut maybe something I got in Happy Mail from Linda La Potka there we go okay I don't know what kind of device you're on I know on the iPad you have to look for the dots Jerry I'm not sure I like this one I keep coming back to this spoil yourself so you know what I think it needs to just be on the page oh no I it just does I see another one I want to use on the next page it says find yourself and be that I like that okay I don't know Jerry that's weird but as long as you found it and that allows you to clear up your any connection issues that's the important thing I should have done this before I glued all this other stuff on here but that's right hindsight's always 2020 right next we're almost done a few more pages I need to get my button here I have this one how cool is she well somewhere on your youtube screen when you're watching any videos there's some kind of quality resolution thing that you can click on somewhere on there that will improve the resolution for you at least a little bit unless there's a really big problem on the broadcasters end do maybe this one needs to be here it says let yourself fly free I do want to use that other one on here somewhere it's not and again you can get as detailed or not as you want to be I mean you could just do that what's wrong with okay next page because we're trying to finish this right so I don't have anywhere to be except pick up the mail that doesn't have to be right now he looks really grouchy but I think I need to use him some of these papers are from Tracy bautista and those stickers might have been from Tracy bautista that's possible some of these are from Jenny belly I think that's too black I'm just looking at the color I'm not really looking at the composition some of these are from canvas cork I've got some what you who's it's I want to say what you who's it's I have jelly prints from patty tolly parish I'm digging too much now I'm going to use this one and this one I'm thinking about it too much and I'm I didn't see all of your posts any about the snow hang on it's extended until tomorrow as long as you have power and we can like message you over Facebook to make sure you and Jeff are like all alive and stuff but holy cow a lot of snow so I'm gonna tear that stick it in there there's a lot of snow here you guys find yourself and be that and who cares what people think he's looking at you like really you have to have me tell you that really you should just know I have some like random stickiness in here so let's stick a couple of these on here I don't have these this is also a great way to use up all those weird stickers that we have in our collection that we've had for you know I don't know million years unless you're like me and you have like enough for like two million years then I stuck some of this um next round of boxes for the round robin because there's too many of them all right I needed a little bit of bright over here to like balance out the whole thing in my opinion yeah you have no generator well that can't be good Cindy if your power goes out oh here's another one I think we need to use it's like how cool is he I have some um yeah I hope you went and stocked up for groceries as soon as you found out the storm was going to hit I have to go out and get a corned beef and cabbage I got a request from the daughter last night hopefully they still have some I don't know if I'm going to do it today or tomorrow stay all right this is just this wasn't happy now I found this stuffed inside something and it's like oh sheet music I should use that I have all these little like journaling cards like project life journaling cards and stuff I don't know why I have them because I don't do project life I guess I suppose I thought I needed them at some point or they were on clearance or something it's time to use them up it's a well past time to use them up yeah it's hard to do spray varnish things when it's too cold outside it'll never dry I like this one this is one I have to tell myself a lot or my friends Jerry and Cindy tell me frequently we don't have to do it all I have problems with that because we really don't missed a corner it's a good thing we're almost done because I'm um my book is getting funny 43 is cold 19 is colder 19 is a lot colder so how many of you have you know watched a bunch of Shannon Green's videos where she's doing her collage work and I love how she organizes her images and everything too but after watching her videos then we went and we made all these collections of images and then now we're not using them so this is where the grab and glue comes in to play and you know there's always new images out there but if you're like me and you probably are and your space to store them is limited I can't afford to acquire new ones until I have space to put them and I have to use up some if when I want to bring in more wait first I think I want to see some of this on here so I'm going to because this is more of that fiddly stuff I'm going to so on here that way hopefully that's enough glue and let me give it a trim did I say fiddly how many times in this video am I going to say fiddly you know I'll wait you know some of it just doesn't want to stick stick stick stick it's fiddly it's really fiddly yeah who doesn't love um the way Packard does things we all do and I've done um whole journals like that inspired by her she does a great job thanks Cindy so you know you can like I said you can go back here later and add paint or something I almost never do I just get them done and then that's it it goes out on the bookshelf that's an interesting I don't remember what that is either something at the UK Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai but it's an interesting image got a couple of interesting images like that so I'm going to pull them both out I would think the yellow stuff would freeze before it even hits the snow without cold it is where you are not that I would know anything about that being from California and all I've never lived in the snow I only have visited it another way to do these books faster is to treat the two page spread like one composition instead of trying to do each page separately if you notice most of the time I'm treating it as one big page rather than separate pages and that just helps you get through it faster and usually when I do these it takes an hour or two depending on the size of the book this is a bigger book so it's taking a little longer which is fine I mean I think it's fine I don't know about you guys a bunch of little weird stuff in here these might work somebody sent me these arrow stickers and I don't know who did and the whole thing is a sticker I've been cutting them out but it's like a sheet of sticker oh I count I don't have my reading glasses on oh got it yay how lucky was that I don't remember who where I got these from before any of you ask I have no idea missed a piece okay now we just need a quote or words what are you waiting for what are you waiting for what are you waiting for I don't think about stuff too much anymore if I want to do what I just do if I think about it too much I'll never I'll never do it never never never the anxiety takes hold and then that's it your grab and glue books can be made out of all kinds of bits and pieces and found scraps and you know old scrapbooking paper that you're not using anymore it can be they can be made out of anything literally anything yeah let's use this one so my daughter grew up listening to classic rock because her dad her dad and I are both fans and she was one of the few kids in her school growing up that knew who some of the oldies and greats were and uh had heard the original music on LP and not on a CD so yeah you know we love all those Frank Zapp is pretty cool my husband's a huge Aerosmith fan and I like all kinds of music so okay so we're getting fat again so there we go that's better let's see if we can get that more into the crack of the book into the spine I like calling it a crack better than a spine but you know I'm twisted that way okie dokie that works because they're handy yeah so our daughter Rebecca is definitely what you would term an old soul okay I'm feeling like I need something else on there I don't know what that is let me take a quick look maybe it's just this yep I'll do some short like speed through video with music um you know something I do on my ipad with a flip of the glue book media and I will um I'll maybe do all the books there's nothing under that's why it won't come there we go all right um here we go make it happen make it happen make it happen don't wait for it to happen make it happen because you know if you wait it's never going to happen see you later Jerry have a good all of those of you who have to stop to go to dinner have a good dinner all right I'm determined I'm going to finish this on camera we've only got a couple more pages so we're going to do it how cool of an image is that and I've got I got you know like the rest of you I have bunches of these images I have some of them that are in binders behind me and you know at some point I'll start emptying the binders out because we'll be putting them here in this grab and glue bin that's just a scrap literally that's a scrap that I did from um you know testing out pens or something that's a great idea for a theme in musicians or musicians and music are always in my opinion a great theme and I like all kinds of music of course I like classic rock but you know I also listen to um chanting and church hymns and classical music blues soul I listen to all kinds of music so this these are thicker papers like zentangling papers and watercolor papers so I'm using the liquid glue I think it will hold a little bit better this is the liquid Elmers you can join both groups don't limit yourself to one I'm in so many are I'm probably in too many art groups but I love them all I have so many images Pegalus I have so many but one of the ideas behind this is let's get them out of those places they're or hoarding them in and let's use them okay this is another good one life isn't about finding yourself finding yourself life is about creating yourself and you could leave it like that I'm tempted to really just leave it like that there's nothing wrong with that um but I think I kind of want to do this some of you who own or have purchased some of my rubber stamps will recognize and let's do the pink one that's it I like that right okay look look look look well I don't think we're going to do the inside cover but look I am thinking that I might want to end with at least part of the same image I started with I think cut a little bit of it off the bottom so it fits better on the page stick I love this image but then again the beach is kind of my happy place so it would be a reason for that let's see I don't know that I want to use any of those I did find a bunch of these little seashells that I don't know where they came from they might be from Miss Cindy I don't know for sure and sometime today before I put all this stuff today I've got to go through that envelope that she just sent me a little bit sort them I am I'm going to be ending in a few minutes we're just about done I've been working on a grab and glue trying to put one together and finish it in the space of the one broadcast it's going to be a long video when it's saved to the channel I'm looking at the quotes that are here on the table I'm liking this one and I don't know why forever is composed of nows I don't know why I like that but I do okay something is going on on Facebook chat and my phone is literally like going crazy I think I'm going to stick these other two little shells on the inside back cover and let's see do we need anything on the inside front cover maybe let's see I think this one so let's put all the rest of my words back in my bin and do we have a small image that we can put on here let's see oh yes this one don't you just love her she has so much attitude in a good way start something new so there we go let's do a quick we ended up not using this one that's okay let's do a quick flip and we didn't use this later I didn't feel the need it's all right okay see you later Vicki all right so this is our grab and glue we did today like I said I will do a little short video flip I'll share it to social media later later probably film something with my phone with all of the journals but this is what we did today just a quick well not quick not super quick it's been about two hours we've been on the air but you can definitely do this when you have you know a block of quiet time you can try to fill the whole book you can just try to do a couple of pages you can take an empty book with you on vacation and no supplies except a glue stick and some maybe some tape runner and get a book like this done with the bits and pieces that you find on vacation see these stickers are not wanting to stick down so they're going to need some glue good old Elmer's to the rescue so this is a really great way to do a book I just noticed we didn't even put a quote on this one did we maybe we didn't fill the need but I do like to put words on my pages here we go get it done so you can create some really fun interesting images just collaging random bits and scraps that you have laying around or things that you find when you're on vacation so I want to encourage you all to do that and to give it a try and see what you can come up with I would love if you share some of your videos and if you do please share the links with Cindy and I we would love that like I've said I did get this idea from Cindy's glue book and she does have some more videos coming out she's been trying to edit them so we're all going to watch her channel for when those do come out and I'll be sharing those links so that's it for today don't forget to like share and subscribe if you can and if you want to join one of my Facebook groups or send me happy mail or email me a question you are welcome to do any of that all the information for all of those are in the description below along with the original video Cindy did on her glue books and the most important thing of course is to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later if you have any questions or you want to make a comment don't feel like you can't leave it in the description below I do answer them at least once a day all right I will see you all later unless anybody has a question you're welcome Eve so use those bits up you guys have been hoarding like me I say that with all love because I'm like the rest of you see you later Gerda bye Patricia bye Mary all right guys I will see you later bye


Hello, my name is Eileen Healy. I'll be moderating the network virtualization panel on day one of the telecom 2013 conference. This is a must attend session for service providers and others. The first thing you should know is that virtualization gives you flexibility. Second, it allows you to deliver more services. And third, virtualization will lower costs. That's it. Now, we all know there's lots of marketing talk about things that solve your network challenges, but network virtualization is more tested than you may think. A similar evolutionary step has been underway for over five years in corporate networks where lessons have been learned and real benefits achieved. The opportunity is so large in public networks that in the past 18 months, we've seen true global cooperation to accelerate the deployment of virtual network functions. Network virtualization. I've heard the term tossed around many times, but what are they trying to say? In the past, networks have been built on specialized equipment. Now, virtualization allows these network functions to be built in software. This software can be loaded onto scalable commercial servers. This is inexpensive using off-the-shelf shared infrastructure. The bottom line is it's the least expensive way to deliver the best possible services. I can give you many examples, but here's one. A policy server is network element that establishes business rules and provides authorization for services. This server can be virtualized. Two key functions of this network element are managing quality of service and providing deep packet inspection. We all know these are high value functions for delivering services. This is one way you can see how virtualization can be used to achieve your business goals. Network virtualization enables top performance during peak periods through this shared infrastructure. It's about paying for resources as you use them, not building networks and hoping they will come. And oh, by the way, if you get the traffic you hoped for, you'll be able to scale resources during peak periods to meet this demand. Here by resources I mean computing power, storage and connectivity. It's about releasing resources during off-peak hours and adding resources during traffic spikes. It's about using world-class data centers your own or someone else's. There's something for everyone in this panel discussion. For entrepreneurs and innovators, network virtualization holds the possibility of offering services without capital investment that has made telecommunications a game for only the richest players. For the developing world, there's the possibility of deploying enhanced functions at the same time as their rollout in global networks. Imagine 10 million subscribers, 10,000 cell sites all being supported from a scalable server farm. Please join me in exploring these areas with an amazing group of panelists from around the world. We have senior executives from Japan, Sweden, the UK, Germany and the US, representing both operators and equipment manufacturers. Hear their expert opinions on the reality and the hype. Find out how the three benefits of flexibility, new services and lower costs are being realized. Put yourself in the position to drive how your network evolves. Remember, if you want to understand how to better manage network costs while speeding service delivery, come to this not-to-be-missed session on Tuesday afternoon, day one of the conference. If you have any questions or comments you'd like to send in advance, you can reach me at the email on the screen. I look forward to seeing you there. Thanks.


Coming up on DTNS, PUBG returns to India, a voting app wants violations of terms of service to also be violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and Microsoft fights leaks with official info on the Xbox Series S. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, August 8th, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt from Snowy Colorado. I'm Shannon Morse and from Los Angeles. I'm Lamar Wilson around the shows producer Roger Chang. Sarah Lane not with us today, taking an extra day of vacation. She's safe, her house is good. There are a lot of fires around her, a lot to deal with, but she will be back tomorrow. We were just talking about the rumor wars between Jon Prosser and Mark Gurman. We were talking about how Taco Bell has disappointed Lamar. We were talking about this crazy weather we've all been having. If you want to have that wider conversation, get our expanded show, Good Day Internet. Become a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. The final version of Android 11 has arrived and is ready to roll out to consumer devices. It includes the expected messaging bubbles, group notifications, as well as a surprise feature built in screen recording. The Google Pixel, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo and Realme phones are getting it now, while other phones will roll it out over the coming months. I'm still waiting on my 4A to get it. Yeah, I might call my 4 too. Google's official phone app for Android, available on Pixel in Android One phones, is coming to select phones from Samsung and LG. The app also now includes a verified calls feature that shows a company's name, branding, a verified badge and the reason for the call. The feature works by having the business ping a Google server for verification when making that call. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched an investigation into competition between Google Play and Apple's App Store. The commission will look at how transparent and effective the overall mobile app market is in Australia and how stores compete for app sales with other providers. The commission is surveying users, developers and app suppliers for input. Our final report will be delivered in March 2021 when I leave my house. He'll be tomorrow will be delivering the report. Xiaomi announced the 6.67 inch 1080p Poco X3 NFC, which yes, includes NFC. The first device to ship with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 732G has a 120 Hertz refresh rate and that 5,160 mAh battery. Support for 33 watts fast charging, launching in Europe. Now, starting at 199 euros, that's a promotional price. It's not going to last. The regular MSRP still be pretty affordable at 229 euros. Uber announced Tuesday that it aims to make 100 percent of the rides offered on its service happen in electric vehicles in Europe, Canada and the US by 2030. They got 10 years. Uber will offer riders the chance to request a hybrid or electric vehicle for a dollar extra. Drivers with a hybrid will get an extra 50 cents and those with full electric vehicles and extra dollar 50. Uber also plans to spend eight hundred million dollars and partner with automakers to help drivers make the switch. All right. Peloton has announced a new bike called the bike plus, which includes a rotating 23.8 inch touchscreen, improved speakers and Apple gym kit integration for twenty four and ninety five. Now, the original Peloton bike remains 1895. There's also a new treadmill that has a cheaper belt and a slightly smaller. This new tread calls twenty four and ninety five. While the existing treadmill is renamed the tread plus and is only forty two ninety five. So please get them right now. Not forty two dollars and ninety five, four thousand. Right. Yeah. Two minutes. A couple of significant moves in the epic Apple Google battle. Epic filed a motion Friday formally asking for a temporary injunction to have fortnight restored to the Apple App Store. We were expecting this. This is legally different than the restraining order that was rejected last month. So it's a second try. Epic sites a 63 percent drop in players on iOS as part of its list of damages. Speaking of damages, Apple has filed a request for monetary damages to be awarded if it wins its lawsuit with Epic based on the fact that it spent money to help market fortnight on iOS. That is now making neither of them money. That goes. Meanwhile, Google has told judges it does not believe its case with Epic should be merged with the case with Apple. They think they're separate. Google also says it has not been officially served with its complaint yet while Apple has. Oof. Podcast originator Adam Curry and developer Dave Jones have launched an open podcast directory called the podcast index. An LLC will manage the index and promises to make it available for free for any use. It also plans to offer, quote, enhanced API services of value to developers and organizations. Developers can find out more over at API.podcastindex.org. Windows central sources say Microsoft is developing a mid-range surface laptop with a 12.5 inch display and 10 gen Core i5 Intel processor and the five hundred and six hundred dollar range. Microsoft is expected to have its fall announcement sometime in October. And it's been a while since we updated you on vaccine progress because not much has been changing. There are right now nine potential vaccines in the midst of phase three trials, phase three being the last stage of testing before approval for use. The first of the nine is from Moderna and the U.S. National Institute of Health. There's another one from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, one from Germany's biotech, U.S. based Pfizer and China's Fosun Pharma, two from China's Suna Farm, one of which is in partnership with the Wuhan Institute for Biological Products, one from Australia's Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and three more that are in phase three, but also approved by their governments for limited use. Those are from China's Kansai Nobio, Russia's Gamalaya Research Institute and China's Sinovac. The vaccine from Oxford and AstraZeneca is expected to be the first for actual approval in mid Q3, followed in Q4 by the vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer. All right, let's talk a little more about that big old Apple announcement, Shannon. All right. Apple announced finally that it will hold an event September 15th at 1 p.m. Eastern. That's 10 a.m. Pacific. The invite had the words Time Flies and a stylized blue Apple logo that looked finger drawn with several different loops. And the logo also triggered an augmented reality function on the iPhone that turned the logo into the 9 15 date September 15. Four new iPhones are likely, though Apple has said on its earnings call that they won't ship new iPhones in September. Nikkei's sources say 5G iPhone production will begin in mid September. Rumors are also suggesting a Series 6 Apple Watch and a new more affordable Apple Watch as well as an iPad Air. And somebody and I'm blanking on who now I apologize. Somebody dug up the meta tags on the YouTube stream that Apple has put up for this event on September 15th and found that Series 6 is in the metadata. So I think it's pretty safe to say we're getting a Series 6 Watch. One rumor you heard Lamar was that we might not get the iPhone announcement because we know they're not ship until at the earliest October. They might hold off and only announce the watch in the iPad. Yeah, there was a Bloomberg report that was suggesting that it will be a separate, you know, this thing happening next week would just be iPhone, excuse me, iPad and Apple Watch. They would do a separate event in October, which is not unprecedented. They've done two separate events in the fall before where they would just have an iPhone event then. I feel like if they were going to do that, they should probably let people. I mean, no one's traveling to the event. So, you know, but, you know, just for expectation purposes, probably be good to let people know that not to expect an iPhone announcement next week, if that's the case. But you're saying they're probably going to announce everything. My my gut tells me they're going to announce the iPhones, even if they're not shipping until October. Yeah, because a watch and iPad announced but doesn't seem like enough on its own. Yeah, well, the OS, the OS now a drop will happen, right? They usually have. And that's the other part is I can't imagine they would they would announce the launch of iOS 14 and not announce the new iPhones to go with it either. I'm sorry, I'm at the Mac OS, the Mac OS drop. Well, and yeah, there would also be Mac OS, watch OS, TV OS on top of that. So but that's just dates. They already did the details back at WWDC. I don't know. Could be wrong. They might they might announce that they're going to announce iPhones. Who knows? I guess we'll find out on give us a teaser. Yeah. Yeah. So India and China have a border dispute. In the Himalayas dispute that has seen more than one shot fired. So as a result, India has been ordering Chinese apps to be blocked from app stores in India. Last week, India added the game PUBG to the list. Now, PUBG itself is Korean, but it is distributed by Chinese company Tencent. So PUBG has announced that it will take over distribution of its own game in India in order to avoid the block. India has been PUBG's biggest market with Central Tower estimating one hundred and seventy five million installs to date. That's about 24 percent of global downloads, just not one country. Tencent said its relationship with PUBG and other markets would remain the same. I was shocked at this. I didn't realize that that I mean, I know it's a popular game. I don't play myself, but first of all, that the mobile game was that popular. The mobile version of it. And then 24 percent of the world just in India, like they really love to fall from from from planes and and and drop down to, you know, what people do at PUBG, not yeah, in the real world, because no one gets on a plane anymore. Yeah, I I I think this tells us a few things. One is if Tencent very easily said like, yeah, when either one of us are making money off this and we're not for a while, it means they think this block is going to last. This is not a temporary thing. Otherwise, Tencent would probably be encouraging PUBG to just, you know, hold on, this will pass. So it seems like this is going to stick, and it certainly doesn't seem like India and China are going to resolve their dispute anytime soon. So I guess it makes sense for Tencent to say, if you keep us on board everywhere else where you can, we'll, you know, we'll change the terms of our agreement to let you go. And PUBG obviously wants to do this in India because of one hundred and seventy five million installs, right? Yeah, it's a it's a huge market for them. And I know that from a little bit of research into it and from my own playing perspective as somebody who has played PUBG, it's it's much more available to people since it is available on mobile and you can play this on budget phones. So it makes sense that so many people in India are playing this game on, you know, Android and iOS phones, or at least they were. So given the fact that we already heard about all of these apps being banned in India, there were one hundred and seventeen, I believe it was expected from the perspective as somebody who knows about the popularity of PUBG that they were going to reply in some way. But it did come as kind of a surprise that they decided to cut those ties with Tencent and just decide, OK, well, we're going to deal with the entire publication and everything ourselves, which is an interesting way to go about it. But it totally makes sense. I have to say the the the seriousness of this is you shine a light on it right there. And I I do think I do want Indian users in the audience to clarify this. As far as I understand, it's not banned in the sense if you have it on your phone, you can't use it. I think you can still use it. It's just blocked. So you can't go update it or actually download it fresh if you don't have it already. Gotcha. Well, we have a little bit more news coming out of that area of the world. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced that China was launching the global initiative on data security. And yes, you did hear me giggle a little bit. This initiative calls on countries to respect other countries. Data sovereignty calls and handle data security in a comprehensive, objective and evidence based manner while maintaining an open, secure and stable supply chain for information and communications, technology and services. The initiative also calls on members to oppose mass surveillance on other other countries and ask tech companies not to install backdoors on products and services to illegally obtain user information. Well, China. China is asking to not they're asking, yes, people not to have backdoors. You heard correctly because the United States is making noises about doing a lot of these things, particularly with the Clean Network Act specifically saying China Telecom should not be allowed to operate in the United States. Huawei should not be allowed to be used in the United States. You know, they want companies to sign on board to these pledges. Huawei is banned from certain things, but you can still use Huawei and they're trying to like force that hand. So China is saying some very reasonable things, right? Like let's let's let's not spy on each other. Let's handle data security in a comprehensive, objective and evidence based matter. I'm all behind all of this until I notice that China says respect our data sovereignty, though. What we do inside our borders doesn't have to meet any of these principles that we're asking the world to operate by. This is just how we want countries to treat each other. We can mass surveillance our populace. We can block things internally. You know, we don't have to allow Facebook and Google to operate if they don't operate by our laws. This is China saying we want countries to play by nice, fair rules, but we don't want to be held to other country's standards in how we treat our own people. This is directly a response to all of these other countries banning applications and banning any kind of partnerships with Chinese tech companies. Like they even specifically say that something along the lines of cleanliness of networks as one of the things that Chinese the Chinese minister, yeah, it was a total sub tweet. So we know that it is a response to all of this happening.  You know, this is what all countries should be doing. We should be protecting our tech companies and ensuring that they're not putting in backdoors and everything. But then you look at basically the research into the documentation and what they are actually saying here. It's they want other countries to respect their them basically. Yeah, I don't know. Make a few amendments to this and you could get me on board. You know, it has to do with applying this to people, not not just countries. Exactly. All right. Let's talk about online company voting company votes. V-O-A-T-Z. You might have heard of them. They operate mobile voting. They did absentee voting, especially for military in West Virginia. They've often been touted as like the people who could allow online voting to really happen for once. Well, online company votes filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing that violating the terms of service for a product should be considered when evaluating violations of the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or CFAA. That could mean if you violated the terms of service, you could go to jail in some interpretations. The case that they're filing the brief as part of involves a Georgia police officer taking a bribe to look up confidential info on a police database. We're not talking about the bribe. That's probably illegal, but that's not an issue here. What prosecutors are arguing is that the officer exceeded authorized access. That's one of the things you can go in violation of the CFAA with is if you exceed your authorized access. You download too much, even though you're allowed to download some. The defense argues that the officer was authorized to access the database and didn't exceed his authority in doing so. The problem was when he took the bribe and gave the information to the wrong person. That's not part of the CFAA is what the defense is arguing. Now, previous cases have ruled differently on what does and does not exceed authorized use and whether terms of service play a part in determining that. Hence the Supreme Court taking up this case to make the final call. That brings us back to votes. Security researchers worry that a broad reading of the CFAA would make some kinds of security research, especially research that companies don't want to happen against the law because you just make it against your terms of service. Companies might have terms that ban scraping public info or doing reverse engineering as a way to quiet their critics. Now, an EFF brief in this case describes votes reporting a Michigan student to the FBI for researching the votes mobile voting app. Now, votes says it was only reporting suspicious activity to its customer, the state of West Virginia, and that the state notified the FBI. In the votes amicus brief, there's a little mirror image here. Votes cites the case of an MIT researcher who published a paper in February about security flaws in the votes mobile app and votes claimed the researcher demanded user contact in forward. They go public with more about the research. Well, the MIT researchers say they'd never communicated with votes. They only ever reported their findings to the Department of Homeland Securities, Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CESA. And any contact with votes would have come from CESA, not from them. Votes amicus brief argues that terms of service should define authorized access and they point to their own bug bounty program as a mitigation factor to say, look, we allow responsible independent security research to be conducted within our terms. The MIT team, however, says they tried votes bug bounty program, but the test server seemed to be off when they did. And the bug bounty program operator, Hacker One, terminated its relationship with votes in March after evaluating votes as patterns of interactions with the research community. So a lot to unpack here, Shannon, but in short, it sounds like research, security researchers in general, not too impressed with votes. Exactly. And I'm so glad that we're discussing this because it's the CFAA has been a really major argument with security researchers for a very long time because it should be very clearly defined what is wrapped up within CFAA because you run into these kind of cases where votes are saying, like, hey, I have this problem and the example of the MIT researcher and the bug bounty program, whenever a company brings these up and says, like, hey, we are welcoming to security researchers, their problem is they are putting in limitations for security researchers. And if you work within those limitations, that's great. But the problem is, if you have a malicious actor who is attempting to hack into your systems, they don't care about your bug bounty limitations. They don't care about what your terms of service say. All they want to do is get access to data, especially if it's like for a financial gain. So if you put in these limitations for security researchers, you're you're inhibiting you're you're creating a problem for your own self and that you may run into potential vulnerabilities in the future that you could have you could have prevented if you were more welcoming to these researchers who are doing this for you, they're doing this for companies.  Exactly. And it's a huge problem. And and the the votes, the entire case just follows up with the issue that we continue to have with CFAA, where they want it to be very vague. They want it to include all of this information. And it really needs to be clearly defined, and it still is not that. Yeah, we'll follow up once the Supreme Court has ruled, whenever that is. In the meantime, if you want to keep up on the tech headlines each day, but you only have about five minutes, go subscribe to DailyTechHeadlines.com. After multiple leaks, Microsoft has confirmed the existence of the Xbox Series S. It made Lamar stay up late, covering all of these official announcements. Here's what's official. It's the smallest Xbox ever. The Series S, by the way, S, the letter S, smallest Xbox ever appears to be about a third the size of the Series X, which is the letter X, X and S. I mean, that's not going to cause any confusion. The S is a slim white box with a controller, big circular grate. That's a vent, no disc slot. This is online only two hundred ninety nine dollars with more details coming soon. Then somebody leaked a promo video with more info and Xbox put it up on their YouTube channel. They're like, fine, we're just going to put that promo video up to that says that the Series S has 1440p at one hundred twenty frames per second, upscaling to 4k can do 4k media playback, ray tracing, variable rate shading, variable refresh rate, ultra low latency support, a five hundred twelve gigabyte NVMe solid state drive and coming November 10th. Now, that implies that the Series X will also come November 10th, although they didn't specifically announce that there also is unconfirmed. The idea that the Series S would be part of an Xbox All Access plan, where you could just pay twenty five dollars a month over a set period of time and get it without having to shell out the two ninety nine all at once. And that would get you access into the Xbox Game Streaming program. And the Series X would have a similar plan at thirty five dollars a month and cost four ninety nine. It doesn't leave much unconfirmed though, Lamar. Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, the quick story on this is I was sleep.  Because I saw I saw the leak, but then I saw Xbox dropped official thing.   They dropped it. So I had to do the coverage, right? Because it was real. Yeah, it was. Yeah, I wasn't going to do it on the leak. But once it was official, yeah, it was one o'clock in the morning.  And I have been up ever since I put two videos out about it. Yeah. First of all, this was almost this was rumored to be like a cube type box. So I was really surprised at the design of the grill is weird. People already call it a stove, you know, that you know, you put a pan on it and yes, it looks like that. But I'm really I'm really the specs look great. I mean, this is definitely better than the Xbox one X that's out now. That 120 frames per second is not 4K, but it's 1440p. And that's that's going to be amazing. I don't run that currently because I'm playing on my TV most of the time. And that price, that price, Tom, Shannon, that's yeah, 99 shocked me. Oh, yeah, I was expecting. I was expecting 399 minimum for it for this. So, you know, that definitely puts some pressure on Sony, which is rumored to be dropping an announcement tomorrow. Oh, we may have more details. Talk about tomorrow then. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So I'm not coming back tomorrow. I'm sleeping. My only negative about this, I would say is, you know, they are going to have a pet peeve. The 512 gigabyte on a digital only device when the games are next gen.  I mean, if you want to download Call of Duty, now it's 100 gigabyte. Did we get any confirmation that you can add an external drive? I mean, I assume you'll be able to. Otherwise, this would be ridiculous. It is stated in this in this thing. But but everything has alluded to that from the Xbox Series X that you will be able to put, you know, external on it. You would have to. It just it wouldn't make sense not to. So so yeah, but just, you know, I guess I was looking for a terabyte for it. But how could they do? I guess how could they do that? Russia and at a at a terabyte at 299 is probably not at 299. Yeah, that's why, right? Yeah, as long as they as long as they have some kind of like external port where I can put in my own SSD or even better if they had a way to open it up so I could put another NVME in there. That would be amazing. Yeah, they're not doing that. Yeah, I don't think they'll do that. But if they put a port on the back that's like, you know, fast enough for a nice external SSD, I would be OK with that. Yeah, it's a little bit annoying to have to do that. But but it would be better than nothing. And for 299, how much are you going to complain? It's or 25 bucks a month, right? Yeah, I just thought about this is the price of a of a switch. To know what they're close. I believe so. Yeah, I just thought about that now. And the switch also does upscaling pretty similarly to what they're saying this one will do. So I love the fact that. Yeah, I love the fact that you can do upscaling. At least that's what the promo video said to 4K on the new Xbox Series S. That's really not native. Yeah, so. Exactly. It's not native. Which I wouldn't expect it to be native. No, not at that price. No. Yeah. And of course, that's the top end switch, which light is cheaper. Switch light doesn't give you all the power either. Man, can we just call it the Xbox hot plate? Try to go. It's the series S. No, I said S, not X.  And I've told them because I know the guys there.  But now we know because they want it. They have different series. But it still would have just been nice to have a nicer, nicer name on it, but all the letters, the series B, then I can't confuse it. Yeah, absolutely. But hey, thanks to everybody. Yeah, I'm exhausted, but I'm very happy. Yeah, yeah, it's a good announcement, I think. And I'll be curious what they have left to announce on the series X. Thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at DailyTechNewShow.Reddit.com. Check it in the mailbag real quick. I wanted to give a shout out to all the folks contributing a few spare PC cycles to the folding at home project. 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This two-sample Mendelian randomization, MR, study evaluated the potential bi-directional causal relationships between gut microbiota and periodontitis using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies, GWAS. The results suggest that order entero-bacterials, family-bacteroids S24.7 group, genus lachnospiracea UCG008, genus prevotella7, and orderposter alleles may be associated with a higher risk of periodontitis, while genus ruminiclostridium VI may be linked to a lower risk. The reverse MR analysis also identified for microbiota genera that were genetically predicted to be down-regulated in periodontitis and two that were predicted to be up-regulated. Overall, the study provides fresh insights for the prevention and management of periodontitis. This article was authored by Shijinyi, Bin Liu, Yijing Bai, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.