this is Kelly from House of Virgo. Welcome back to my channel. I'm going to do your love and general reading for the week of April 15th through the 22nd. See what the messages may apply for you. Just remember they're general messages so they may or may not resonate. All right, please do hit like, share, and subscribe. And Virgo, let's get into your reading here. Virgo sun, moon, rising, or Venus. Okay, so we have a couple of cards. You know the High Priestess, the Five of Cups, Three of Swords, King of Wands. So hmm, so I feel like somebody is really, it feels like heartbroken. There's a King of Wands here so male or female energy. This isn't you. I feel like there's a person here who's feeling heartbroken, but they're keeping it within. There's regret, sadness about some kind of breakup or if there was a third party interference, maybe a divorce or a loss. There's possibly depression or sadness, but with the High Priestess, somebody's not showing this energy. Okay, how somebody is feeling. Usually the King of Wands is somebody who is pretty bold, charming, courageous, but there's an internal grief that's happening here. Now it could be you, Virgo, but I feel like this is the overall message here for this reading. There's a sense of loss and grief, but it's a secret. Somebody's not revealing how they're hurt feelings or what's going on with them inside. Okay. Gosh, cards are just flipping out. What is going on? I haven't even started the reading. Okay. Yeah, I feel like this is because whoever this other person is gets a sense that you are getting love elsewhere or you are interested or you were seeking a committed loving relationship or accepting maybe a proposal or an offer of love, there's a sense of regret here. Okay. Definitely. So we have Aries Energy, Leo Sagittarius. There could be Pisces involved, but I feel like somebody feels like they lost you, but yet they're not, it feels like they're not revealing, they're not revealing it. They're not revealing it. They're not connecting. It's like sadness and silence is what I feel like is happening here. Okay. Rather than expressing their grief or their loss or their feeling of worry or feeling unloved or whatever's going on or feeling abandoned. They're keeping it to themselves in this time period. Alright. So spirit. We're going to do Celtic Cross. Let's take a look because they're giving me this overall energy that you have new love coming in during this spring break or this time period from April 15th to the 22nd. You could be getting an offer, a romantic proposal of some sort from someone who's truly interested, very attracted to you. Like I said, it could be a fire sign. Specifically Aries coming up. Okay. Or someone who sits in a position, a very alpha energy. Okay. Persistent knows what they want is going after what they want. They're very clear. Okay. Let's take a look. Celtic Cross energies. Let's see what the messages are here for you, Virgo. Okay. Past energy. Show me the past energy for Virgo. Although, let's see what happened in the past. What's going on here? Okay. So cheating, lying, maybe some manipulation. Someone was not being honest. Somebody got caught doing something. Betrayal. Somebody ran away from a connection in the past. Okay. Sorry if you can't see this. I'll try to get these cards in so you could see what is the current energy here for Virgo. What is the current energy for this time period, April 15 through April 22nd? Okay. Look, new beginnings, asoans, passion, focused creativity, going after what you want. I feel like things are going to start. There's growth. There's a potential for new growth here in your life. Okay. So it's definitely a new beginning happening. And I was picking that up, like I said, in the beginning here of the reading. Let me see. The challenge. What is the obstacle for Virgo? Healing, of course, query and energy. The star. It's difficult. You're doing it though. You're healing. You're moving forward. I feel like the obstacle here is just a renewal of hope. I feel like you see that there's potential for you to have something healthy with someone in the future or going forward in your life. But I feel like it's a challenge for you. It is. In some ways, you might still be going through the healing process and you're just getting started. But getting that hope back again and believing in miracles, having faith is a little difficult. But I feel like it's not an obstacle that can't be overcome. I feel like you're on your way to it. It's definitely also a benefit for you to be focusing more on having your faith, getting your faith back and just saying to yourself, you know what happened in the past? It's in the past. I'm letting it go. It's what it is, what it is. It's done and it's over with. Let me get started on my life going forward. You know, there's plenty of fish in the sea. There's plenty of opportunities that will come to me. I'm having faith. I know that things are going to work out. Okay. So what is driving you? Okay, you've got the two of pentacles being balanced. You're really getting yourself. I see a good disposition. I see you being more tempered. I see you taking your time and weighing things out. I don't see you reactive. I don't see you jumping into anything probably because you're still in a healing position from something that happened in the past here. But I also feel like you're ready to start over. You have an urge. I feel like you have an urge for partnership and for love. And I feel like the healing process is going to coincide with that. With that two of pentacles, what's really driving you here is, you know, what do I want? What do I want? What are my options? Which path do I want to take? It's making a decision. Now, what's crowning down upon Virgo? Okay, wow, you've got the world. So new chapter. You're being Virgo. I feel like, like crowning down through the crown chakra, your thoughts like, I just want to start over. I want to have a new beginning. I'm like, there's blank pages of this book. And I want to start writing in them and creating my destiny. So I feel like you're in a really good place. Or at least you're getting there. You have a good mindset here, Virgo. And that's probably why you've got new love coming into your life. You know, I don't, I feel like whoever your connection was with that past person, they're going through their own grief process. And I, I feel like that person from the past is keeping that to themselves with the high priestess, because there's an energy here of like, learning to trust themselves, they're trying to gain clarity at that, you know, from some relationship or something that occurred between you and another person in the past. But that is their journey. So I feel like for you, your mindset is this world card here, starting over, you know, not stuck in the past, lessons being finished, okay, moving forward in your life. So a lot of good energy for you. I feel like some type of lesson has been learned or some goal, your mindset is also to complete goals or things that you're starting presently at this time. Okay, I feel like you are moving on. I really do. So did I say there was Aquarius energy here as well? Alright, let's see what the near future is bringing near. Okay, so six of pentacles. So there's a lot of generosity and hospitality being given and received here. So I feel like sometime around April 19, there's going to be maybe some money being received or some financial help for someone here. Some type of generous offer you will be receiving around the 19th, or the sometime between the 17th through the 19th is what they're saying. Okay, giving back energy, spending time, it's more like, I want to say maybe some charity, maybe you're going to be contributing to some type of charity situation or funding or receiving help from someone. Hmm. It's pentacle energy and with the six, this is getting some appreciation. I feel like or giving getting or giving, let me get a clarifying card to see what else this could mean here. A loan for a car, perhaps, or some money for a new vehicle. Like I said, it's general in love. So I feel like you're you're starting, it could be you're taking a trip, paying for tickets maybe for children or taking some kind of a trip. If there's definitely an energy of traveling the week of the 17th towards the 20th, the week of the 17th through the 23rd, there's some travel happening here. Okay, or it's either traveling to a place or from a place. Okay, cancer energy there. Now let me see. I'm not sure. Actually, I just want to know what exactly why is this showing up here in this love reading? What does this have to do with with Virgo's love situation here? What is the travel about? Hmm, the moon. Okay, there's an unknown unexpected visitor that week, or some communication, or some news about an unknown unexpected visitor is what they're saying. There's definitely going to be there's some communication, you make it invited to travel somewhere. And it just kind of it comes in quick, but it comes in out of the blue. And it might even be anonymous. Like a ticket or money of some sort to go somewhere comes in like as a surprise. I feel like I'm giving it away. This is kind yes, this is like with the moon is it's a voluntary change. So this is something that I feel like someone is volunteering they're doing this without asking to either pay to travel. There's news coming. It's very positive energy. Okay, so it's something to do with the trip. But with the eight of ones, that's keep its arrows as we usually say here. So this is a very passionate information coming in. Also picking up Pisci and energy again. We also have Leo and Taurus and Scorpio. So let me see what's going on. What is your advice here, Virgo? You're getting some type of surprise news coming in that's going to make some changes in your plans. And that might be once you get that, have you weighing something out here? Right? We have two traps. Actually, we have three travel cards here. So this is something about movement. It could be travel in the actual literal sense, or it could just be like, things are changing the scenery, the atmosphere, the environment. Alright, what is Virgo's advice? Got the Empress Wow. Hmm. So as an energy, this feels like this could this rating could have something to do with with pregnancy or wanting to have children or child. And that might be only for a small percentage of you. As an energy, this could also have something to do with creating or creation. You are sitting in the position of your advice. This is I feel like they're saying unconditional love to yourself or taking care of yourself and seeing yourself in that Empress energy male or female, it doesn't matter, someone who is abundant and very attractive and nurturing.  Also, recognizing who you are, I feel like if you're wearing that crown, make sure it's polished and your jewels are glistening your advice is to it feels like pay attention to honor yourself, self respect, pay attention to who you are. Okay.  But she's confident she has her face. She has all the attributes of someone who is very emotionally secure and strong. Let me see what else. Also, there's a message here. Your advice is if you are in contact with your mother, whether that's in good terms or whether she is clearly still in your life to try to spend some time with her during that week during this time period. Let me see what else they have to say. Again with this travel. Okay, there's something here about facing your fears. You need your advice is to face your fears, overcome yourself. Okay.  It's not always things in the world. It's generally us. You know, it's generally ourselves who put the obstacles in the way for why we can't do things. And if we're able to smash our negative thinking or our thoughts about ourselves, then we are able to overcome ourselves and be successful. So there's an element there in terms of your advice. And what you need to do for yourself is to be fearless with whatever it is that you're undertaking during this week. Okay.  Okay. During this time period. I don't know why this is maybe because it's a holiday. There's something here that's very important for healing some relationships. Okay, let me see. Alright, let's see what's external to you. Okay. There's definitely an energy for some, there's could be like, a parent's coming to visit or you're going to visit a parent during this holiday season, maybe like, there's some relocation or moving happening or some travel as well. Let's see what's external to you. Okay. Hmm. Five of wands. Wow. Page of swords. There's definitely some conflict. Okay. What's external to you. And I feel like that's why this is a difficult time for you, Virgo, because I feel like you're being asked to get yourself in a healing, peaceful, faithful state. For some reason this week, seems like everybody around you is going to be just drumming up some drama, perhaps, or there could be like a child that could be giving you or a teenager or someone that could be giving you a hard time, most specifically. There's definitely going to be some obstacles and challenges, maybe some sibling rivalry or some family rivalry at this time. And so I feel like this is more for you to be aware. And I feel like that's why these cards are here for you to try to overcome, be fearless, know who you are, don't let anybody, you know, dim your light, whoever that is, whatever the challenges are that are coming up here during this week. Hmm. Okay. You know, this is to be a love reading, but it feels mostly like this is going to be, well, it does feel a little bit of both because I do feel like, I do feel like there is going to be somebody new and significant is going to be showing up during this time period. It could be for some of you, I did have the emperor. So for some of you, this could have something to do with parents and the holidays. Okay. And for others in a romantic sense, I feel like there is going to be somebody showing up who you you might meet. Okay, that is making a romantic love proposal towards you. Let me see. Show me a little bit more. Why is the five of ones and the page? What is this conflict about? What is going on here? spying or something like that? Okay. The wheel of the here. Oh, I was okay. There's something to do here. There might be some. Hmm. I feel like conflict over money or some financial changes that are needing to be made or that are going to be made during this week. I feel like this this reading is taking on a lot of different personas here. There's a lot of different energy happening here. So let me just take a look and see what the hopes and fears are here for you Virgo. Okay. Ace of Pentacles. See, you have two aces. So you're definitely hoping for some kind of new opportunity to happen in your life here. Okay. You've got the lovers.   Your mindset is just you're moving forward. I feel like you're you're done with the past. Let me see what's the world like you're not holding on. I'm not picking up holding on to past energy. Show me it. Give me clarifying card of this world. There's something to do. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Look, you've got the four cups to clarify the world. So you're really in a position of being indifferent. You're ready for new surprises in life. Okay, that's your mindset here. I don't feel like you're accepting any love offers you want past love offers. Let's see what this outcome is here. You're ready for a new love. I do feel like you're having some there's some type of conflict or challenge happening external to you. It doesn't feel like one specific person. Like I said, it could be family or friends. It's just people in your environment. All right. Outcome. Wow. You've got the king of swords and the queen of cups. Two card cards. Let me tell us about them. Okay. Five of pentacles, ousted energy, knight of pentacles, taking too long, king of cups. Okay. Deep emotions and victory with the six of ones and the queen of one queen of swords. All right. There's a lot of energy playing out here. We've got two couples showing up here. We have two people who are very truthful, very honest and one who and two people who are it's interesting. This is you and another person. Okay. They're just telling me in different energies, we have the king of swords and the queen of swords and the queen of cups and the king of cups. So you and your person have taken on this. I don't know if this is somebody you're currently connecting with. There's somebody new but there's an energy of taking turns here. Sometimes it's a very emotional connection and other times it's a very logical cerebral connection. You know, there's deep, deep emotions and deep feelings but then the way that you guys communicate or will communicate with each other. I feel there's a lot of success in you and another person and this could be somebody that you're meeting or that's coming towards you. Could it be your past person? We can ask if that's something that you are focusing on to have reconciliation. I don't really feel like that's the case but I feel like when you and whoever this person communicate, if there's an energy of feeling of mismatch at times, I feel like you recover that very quickly and work things out there. I see a lot of success in a future relationship. Let me see. Is this a past connection? What is this? Seven of Ones? No, this is a new connection, Ace of Cups. Yeah, I was getting the sense that you are just completely finished with the past. I said that in the beginning. There's a lot of, there's challenges you're facing in the week coming up. Okay, but I feel like I need to tell you Virgo that the challenges with the five of Ones are kind of petty. They're not really like big massive communes. We've got fire breathing dragons here fighting but it's fantasy. It's not, it's kind of petty. Maybe just some, I don't know, sitting around the table talking to family members or connecting with some people and there's maybe there's political debating or stuff like that going on but I don't feel like it's it's nobody's getting hurt here with with the five of Ones. Okay, there's no verbal abuse happening here. This could even be, and they just told me there might be like some kind of okay athletic games that get played that week. I don't know what kind, maybe people are going out playing football and soccer or baseball or some kind of sport or doing something which would be really fun but challenging. You know, it's five of Ones is it can be about games so it's not necessarily fighting. It's sport. It's something for sport, you know, like we're in the ring and we're duking it out but when the game is over then we're congratulating and going and getting pizza and lemonade, you know, we're having a good time.  It's interesting. Let's so I feel like that was very general. Like I said, we're going to get into now I'm going to do like love and I hope that I qualified when I started the reading that was going to be general and love but if not that's fine because you're going to hang around and listen to the love reading, right? Let me get a different deck. I want to see what the love energy is playing out here for you. Okay, there was a little bit of love in that general reading but let's see what is Virgo's love messages going on here. What does Virgo need to know in regards to love for the week of April 15th through the 22nd? Love, love, love. Hope everybody's doing well. Love, love, love. Don't forget underneath the video if you have and please do hit like share and subscribe by the way if you have any interest in purchasing any of my tarot decks or the dice that I have there it's all listed below just click on that link and that will take you directly to amazon to purchase your your decks or if you want to give them as gifts to anyone please do okay let's check it out here okay so six of ones okay three of pentacles oh okay so we saw the lovers in the last reading what you were hoping for both the three of pentacles and the lovers this marriage so I feel like there's success here in a deep partnership and love two people coming together working together meeting connecting building creating building something together much much success okay could be Gemini you could be connecting with or any air sign because we did have the king and the queen of sorts so Aquarius also Libra let me take a look here okay so wow assertiveness somebody really knows what they want I think I said that before in the very beginning okay I feel like works we're we're compounding on the beginning of the reading here I feel like there's somebody here that's really going after what they want as far as marriage commitment building something working on something let me see oh okay hmm Virgo you're kind of like you know what you got to come after me you got to prove it you got to be assertive Virgo's not chasing anyone Virgo's like if you I feel like your energy is kind of like with everyone or anyone in particular if if you make the plans I'll show up but I am not making the plans if you come after you come up with the ideas you want to you know uh Virgo I don't know why you're like that what's going on with your energy maybe because in the past you had some betrayal or dishonesty or hurt I feel like now you're kind of like you're just you're you're a bit more passive but you're just kind of I don't know are you testing are you just in this position now where you know bloody stumps here you know if you want to have something with me you're going to have to like make the plans and and move forward I'm definitely feeling like there's going to be an opportunity you're going to get invited to travel with someone to go somewhere or you or you will invite someone to come to where you are so is it possible it could be a long distance connection yes because of the knight of sorts that can be a card of travel let me see what else going on here okay so queen of cups the hermit okay Virgo you're definitely with holding your deepest emotions at this time you're not revealing much in the way of like your deepest feelings at all okay I feel like you're just holding back hmm interesting got death card here okay so Gemini Virgo Taurus Capricorn um Virgo twice Cancer Scorpio Pisces oh you're not see you're not revealing your heartbreak either what is going on here um Virgo um when I was doing the beginning of your reading um we saw somebody that was withholding their emotions holding back their heartbreak and um very lost and regretful or remorseful about maybe a third party or cheating or some type of an argument or something along those lines that may have happened um now like I said is that your energy could that be your energy it could be um but it could also I didn't feel initially that that was you I kind of felt like that might have been somebody else but it looks like it looks like two people are withholding their deepest their heartbreak they're there's no communication they're just waiting for that energy to dissipate waiting and I feel like they're your head says there's on uh there's the business is finished but your heart hasn't caught up to that yet and I feel like there's another person from your past who's feeling that same way okay there hasn't been communication to have final closure or to just say okay yeah have mutual parting of ways I feel like that might be why there was a difficulty in you getting uh it's a challenge for your healing okay because you have to give yourself closure and um that's really you have to plant new seeds of closure in order to have growth that that's what I feel like the energy is playing out here for you okay you out you're having to be the one to do it but we've got you know but you're you're like ready to get into another relationship and start over but you're not pursuing anything with anybody okay


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Hi, I'm Rand Hood and the May's What's Neat starts now! The What's Neat show is sponsored by Caboose, sharing our passion for trains since 1938. This is What's Neat for May 2019. I'm your host Ken Patterson and this month we really do have a good show. First of all, on the road with Michelle Kempema, she interviews Abigail Martin and Jill Pope and they discuss things that can be done out in Wyoming that model railroaders would appreciate as they're on vacation, especially you folks out there chasing the big boy this month so it's a really good segment with Michelle. Robert Simmons shares with us a modular layout that we saw at the Rocky Mountain Train Show. This is the western Kansas rails and scale layout. It's absolutely beautiful with great big grain elevators and a lot of activity on that layout. Drayton Black Grove for modeling ideas from above shares with us some fantastic drone footage. It's really nice to see this NNS power running over Jackson, Michigan. It's a real beautiful place to view from the air. Rand Hood, he shares with us an interview where he interviewed Austin Allard, the podcast member on the show. You know Austin, now he's contemplating building a new layout and he's trying to figure out what he wants to do whether it's going to be single track mainline or double track mainline race track as Austin calls it. It's really interesting to watch him formulate ideas midway through the interview with Rand. We also look at Jerry Glancy's beautiful HO and HON3 layout out in Colorado. It's a real treat with a lot of beautiful scenery and neat bridges. We also interview Tim Blackwell from the Cowcatcher magazine. Now here's a magazine that's bucking the trends and swimming upstream just like salmon. Tim gives us a great interview this month for the show. And so that's the lineup for May 2019 What's Neat? Ken Patterson, the host of the What's Neat Shilver model railroad hobbyist magazine. And today I'm standing with my friend Jerry Glancy. And Jerry, we're in your layout room and I can see one time I asked you about your passion for trains. And today I'm standing in the middle of it. Tell me about this beautiful work of art, your passion. Well Ken, remember last time we talked and I said that I like to romanticize what we do with model railroad was great. And I with the layout took it one step further, creating little historical vignettes of Colorado. And in so doing I entered another passion of model railroading, which is dual gauge. So what I've got in this room is three levels. The lower one is mostly standard gauge with a little Colorado and southern narrow gauge coming into Union Station, which it did at one time. And then the middle level is dual gauge and that winds its way up to the upper level. In order to get there I had to build a Y and since I grew up in Sacramento, California, that had to be the Kettie Y. Of course. So that was get bashed from a micro engineering set. And then from the middle level, which is dual gauge, you get up to the top level, the third level, which is mostly narrow gauge. But you pass several things on the way in that trip. You pass the Salida Depot, which was unique for the Denver and Rio Grande. It was an art deco style. It was the only example they had of that style. So it just called out to the scratch built in Styree. Further on, I actually run dual gauge trains. And when you get clear up to the upper level, it's not quite finished yet, but there'll be the Monarch limestone. Nice. I know that. Yeah. Monarch limestone. Yeah. All right. In fact, even down here, you can see there's the limestone that was brought from the quarry, and it will go into the rotary dumper, which is right behind me. It's just a mockup yet, but from there into the standard gauge cars, and of course, off to Pueblo and see if I steal between the two of us. So we've got three bridges. The top one is the Cascade Creek trestle, which is the Cumbres of Toltec. Toltec still in operation today. In the middle is a portion of the Crooked River Bridge in Oregon. Just had to have an arch bridge covering that nice extent of canyon there. And then a somewhat generic trestle down below.  Plus it appears your setup for operation. Absolutely. You'll notice scattered around here, I call them mini panels. And the idea is that I like to have my panel right in front of where the operation is taking place. So with one push of the button, I can readily see what route the turnout is taking. If it's green, and that's the route I want to go, then actually just like an airline pilot, believe your instruments. If your route is green, then you're all set to go. So those are scattered about. But it also, each one has a stationary decoder. So if I want to operate any of my turnouts from my cab, I can do that through the accessory mode as well. That's very smart. Very smart. This thing is great. Your enthusiasm is absolutely contagious, Jerry. I really want to thank you for these few minutes. All right. My pleasure. This is just beautiful work. This is Michelle Kempembe with What's It Eat This Week. And today I have this whole entire state of Wyoming and Cheyenne with me. This is Jill and Abigail. And we're here to talk about what things you can do real fanning when you're coming to either see the big boy or coming out for NMRA in July. So Jill, tell us about some awesome rail things in Cheyenne. Cheyenne is a great place for you railroad lovers. You try any acts out there. We have two of the big boys. You know, there was 25 ever made. There's eight remaining and Cheyenne has two of them. One is on display in Holiday Park and it's great. They've just went and prettied it up and done a lot of work on it, restoring it and getting rid of the asbestos. So that's beautiful for y'all to come see. And then the other one is in the steam shop being renovated to run again. It was in a museum over 20 years and they're getting ready. UP's getting ready to release that baby so you can all see it again. And after all this time, and it's actually going to operate on the rails. So they haven't released a date yet, but be watching your May calendars real close. And it'll be out there and running and it'll be a sight to see after all these years, this wonderful, wonderful train running again after sitting stagnant in a museum for 20 years. I am really excited. We're all excited to see the big boy. There's one other model railroading attraction that they're not at this show, but we're at the American Bus Association, by the way. This is a tourism convention. Harry Brunks layout sets in the Cheyenne Depot Museum. And so you can go see that when you're in Cheyenne also. And that's a famous layout from the Short Gauge in Narrowland Gazette. Now Abigail, over to you. When they're driving through Wyoming, what is your favorite thing that you can see basically from Cheyenne over to Rock Springs? Like what what awesome things are they going to see in Wyoming? Yeah, well, I would definitely recommend just a little further west over in Evanston, Wyoming. They actually just redid their roundhouse and their downtown entirely. So they actually are an accredited downtown community through the Main Street program, the National Main Street program. I would definitely recommend going down there checking it out. I don't know too much about trains, but trainees, as Jill calls them, the people that love trains all say that you have to check out Evanston, Wyoming's roundhouse. Thanks Abigail. Yeah, and I'm back to Jill again. She's got more to tell us. Okay, so we don't have any dates scheduled for 2019, but UP has been wonderful enough to let us take some tourists over, jump aboard the trolley at the Cheyenne Depot and go on and on over and doing like a really cool detailed two hour tour of both the roundhouse and the steam shop. And that was for the minimal price of $20. I mean, I just can't even believe that you can do something that cool. And we even had international travelers come to do that. And they've all sold out. It's been wonderful. So watch, you know, visit Cheyenne's website for future dates on that. And then I do know that the Cheyenne Depot Museum is getting a promontory point display coming in. So that's going to be exciting. And that'll be in May as well. Sherman Hill Railroad Club will have their display and their event the third weekend in May. And that'll be out at CFD or Cheyenne Frontier Days Exhibition Hall. And that's $10. So it's such a steal. Come join us. And I will be at that show for the Colorado Model Railroad Museum, which is where I work. And we have a booth at that show, which is super fun. And the Sherman Hill Model Railroad Club actually is in the mall in Cheyenne. You can go see the layout. And here's the tie between the layout in Cheyenne and mine. They actually have the original layout from the man who built the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. It's called the Denver Greeley and Tahoe, but it resides in Cheyenne. And so, but we go all around because honestly, Harry Brunk's layout is the Georgetown Loop in Colorado. It was built in Nebraska and it resides in Cheyenne because we're just the friendliest states in America out here in the Midwest and we all love each other. So ladies, you're awesome. Thanks. Okay. I'm really excited to do this because after working with Ken Patterson and my buddy Austin Allen for a few days, there's a lot of questions that kind of came up about railroads and what he's doing. And he's the man behind the scenes. And he's always there and he's on top of things. He's a detailed guy. So just got to know Austin. Let's talk about your railroad. What are you doing? Well, I started modeling the Union Pacific and then I wanted to do my own thing. So I created the hour terminal. I got a double main. It's 250 feet mains and there's a third main now. So all the third main houses, all the industrial stuff. Okay. How big of a room space do you have for this? 50 by 30. 50 by 30. Okay. Pretty fun. All right. And like I said, the third main houses all the switching. So I'm going to end up doing custom locomotives and maybe a custom transfer caboose. Hand all the switching. Okay. And where's this set and what kind of scenery are you going to do? It's set in a pretty urban area, kind of like a Kansas City or St. Louis modern time period. Okay. And then after being at the train show yesterday, I understand you started having a little revelation about what you might do with your layout. You've had some time to kind of conjugate some solutions. And you want to tell me and share what you kind of are thinking about? Absolutely. Yeah. So I was going to, I, well, I told Ken on the last podcast that I knew what I wanted to model on my next layout and having seen John Parker's layout last night and everything that I've seen this weekend. I've completely changed my whole idea of what I want to do. All right. What is that idea now? What's the gist of where this is going? After seeing the layout last night, I never want to model a double main ever again. Because? It becomes a race track. That's all it is. It's just one big race track. And I like being able to operate where you have to duck into a siding and pass other trains. Makes operating a whole lot more fun. I love it. That's my style of railroading too. So I'm kind of getting a little bit of the goose bump going. I think, I think you're on the right track. I mean, I don't know. Maybe you are, maybe you're not, but that's just kind of fun. Yeah. Race tracks. Okay. So is it still going to be set in urban? Yes. I would like to end up doing more of a, I don't know, maybe a Denver-ish area with the mountains. And I mean, even if it's midway, I don't want to do midwestern really, because the plains are boring. Corn is boring. The cornfields in Illinois. Towns here and there would be great. And to be able to have switching along the railroad would be a lot more fun too. Okay. Instead of just the two places that, the layout that I was going to model only has two places for a local to switch. Okay. I'm going to back you up a little bit. I'm going to tell you that there's no landscape that's boring. That you can find ways to make this incredible. I've seen people do midwest that's just dead on. I feel like I'm in a Grant Wood painting of western Iowa. I mean, it's incredible. So you're looking for a geographic locale now? Yeah. I kind of, you know, the layout I was going to build had a lot of rock cliffs and tunnels, bridges, towns, but you know, I kind of, I want to be able to model it all. So maybe have the midwest, the western part of the country. Maybe so part of the, maybe blend it all together somehow. And in one level or two? It depends. I haven't figured that out yet. This is sounds like basilating a little here because of what you've been seeing. Yeah. I like the mushroom effect of John Parker's layout. And I don't really like how you can see one level over another on layouts. I do not like that. Okay. This is brilliant. What you're thinking about because one of the things about John Parker's layout was the fact that Ken just got lost. And I think there's something about the design element at that that right now I can see it in your eyes. You're thinking, I want people to get lost in here and wonder where they are. Absolutely. You know, I went down the steps last night and before he could start explaining to all of us what it was, I was going down the hall, turning again and turning again. And I'm thinking, am I ever going to come out? And then it's a dead end. And it's like, I got to find my way back to where they are so I can go find a train. And it was just these long hallways. And I felt like I was going to get lost. I'm seeing some design work on your future right now. And perhaps you're going to be redoing a little bench work. Well, I live with my dad. So when I move out, that's where the whole design is going to come into play is how big the basement is and how much room I got to play with. Well, we're excited about this and what fun, what fun. It's just fun to see what happens and it's great. So Austin, thank you for this. And we look forward to seeing what you'd produce in the future. Thank you, Rand. It's a pleasure to be here. Great. Thanks. For this segment of What's Need, I'm standing with Tim Blackwell from Texas, the biggest state in this country that we all love. And Tim is an editor and a publisher of a magazine called The Cowcatcher. Now, we're all familiar with that publication. It's been in and about the hobby for good 16 years. And I've seen Tim walk the trade should floor the floors of the trade show, you know, talking to the manufacturers and developing relationships with them similar to what we have on our show. Now, Tim, you're in a business that people think is rescinding, going backwards, but I see a salmon, a strong salmon swimming up the current because your magazine is in fact growing. It is expanding. You've got a lot of advertisers, a lot of quality color and content. Tell me about your passion because I can see it in what you do. Well, The Cowcatcher magazine is all about the community of model, railroading and rail enthusiasm. And that's kind of my background in journalism. I worked for a small community paper and we got the community side of the story. And that's what we focused on. We're not mainstream per se, but it's something that we like to tell the stories behind the scenes. And there are so many stories. Do you have a favorite? Well, the Colorado Model Railroad Museum is a favorite. It is a good one. And we were out there a couple of years ago, I guess. Really, the favorite stories are the people who are the people in the community. This is all about everybody working together. You see on the trade show floor here, manufacturers that compete against each other, yet they are also allies for each other. They work together. And it's for bringing the greater good of the hobby to everyone who participates in it. And it's not a dying hobby. There's a lot of life. Right. It's vibrant. And I think it has a future. What is the future of the magazine? What are your plans? Now, you've been doing this for 16 years, walking the pavement, developing relationships with all these wonderful people that we know in the room. What's your plans for the future? Our plans are just to keep doing what we're doing and do the best that we can. And I know that sounds like a canned speech, but we started off slow and we've always, I won't say we've exactly taken baby steps, but we've lived within our means and we've reinvested and right now we're in the middle of the U.S. We've got some outlets on the West Coast and on the East Coast that we're developing. We're careful not to overgrow. We want to serve our audience and we want to serve our roots and then we'll expand from that. You know the business. It's tough right now. Newspapers are folding. We was just talking to a gentleman over in the other hall who runs a printing facility, another big printer folded last week. So we have to kind of take steps and make sure that we're not overextending ourselves. So the long and short of it is we're just going to keep kind of plugging along and take the steps that we need to take to grow and not overdo it. No, that's fantastic. You're doing the right thing. You are in a business that I do know very well and I don't see you making any mistakes. If you keep doing what you're doing right now, it's going to be a good way to go. I mean the internet's out there. Do you see yourself going in that direction sometime? We are trying to develop our internet present in social media. As far as the publication itself, we want to be print. We want, we feel like there's still a segment in this hobby that they want to hold the magazine. They want to leave through it. They want to be able to pick it up and go back and look at it six months from now or a year from now. And we feel that there's still a place for that. And I get asked every now and then, well, are you going to put it all online? Not anytime soon. I don't think so. And one of the things, the method behind our madness is we want to work with the brick and mortar hobby shops. So we work with them to handle the magazine. So it gives their customers a reason to come back and pick up the magazine. And that's the way it started. And we weren't sure what to expect. But when we started hearing stories of retailers saying, yeah, they're coming in to pick it up, but they won't buy anything from me. It just drives me crazy. I said, we're going to keep giving a reason to come in your shop and you're going to buy something. Yeah. That's awesome. Now, for all the folks out there that want to get this magazine and hold it in their hand and actually look at it, where do they have to go to order it? Tell us that. Well, you can purchase subscriptions on the website www.cowcatchermagazine.com. As I mentioned, we are available at hobby shops. We have a show presence like right here. We're handing out copies. So some conventions, but we'd love to have you as a subscriber. That's what every magazine or publication in the U.S. Ben, if you're in St. Louis, I want you on the podcast. I want to know what you're doing. Keep track of what's going on with you. So thank you very much for this. And that's that segment of What's Neat. For this segment of What's Neat, I'm with Robert Simmons. And he belongs as this beautiful end scale layout. Now, how often have we heard that we don't really see a lot of end scale on the What's Neat show? But what we see today is prototypically beautiful. Tell us about this wonderful layout. The Kansas Rails, the Western Kansas Rails layout that you've got. Well, we're from Garden City, Kansas. And so people always model what they see. So we wanted to bring Western Kansas to the outside modeling world, because you don't see that a whole lot. Right. So we have a prototypical grain elevator. That is an end scale model of the Pride Ag Co-operator in Dodge City, Kansas. And so when you see the Walters kit, it's a very nice kit. But it's actually a grain mill, not an elevator. Right. So that's a long-term storage elevator. And that's the correct size for it. They're actually quite big. So you guys really are prototype guys.  And in end scale, a grain elevator like that can still occupy a good chunk of your layout, can't it? Correct. That's about almost six foot long. It's a scale 128 feet tall. The silos are a scale 24 foot outside diameter. So a lot of the buildings on the city scene on the other side are scratch built. I didn't try to do museum quality where you're actually portraying a specific street, but all of the buildings are real. All of the businesses are real business names. And so we just tried to give you an idea. If you drove through Garden City, that's kind of what it would look like. That's awesome. I can see y'all have passion. How many members have belonged to this group? Well, in the Western Kansas division, we are the largest geographical area of the region, but we have more cows than people. Okay. So we've got about six. We have six in our division. Right. So, you know, it's just, it's a more aggro. About how many shows do you guys do a year with this layout? We go six to eight. That's a lot of work. This is the first time we've been to Denver. And you've got more modules. Is this a standard size? Is it changeable? This is it. This is actually sectional. This always goes together the same way. But it's a mishmash of several different standards. The Sipping and Switching Society of North Carolina came up with the original standards for HO. And we took their theories and put them into practice with kind of end track, kind of that and kind of our own. So this goes together. There's no section, there's no track pieces that go between the sections. The rails just bump right up to it. There's alignment of pins and holes. So it took us maybe an hour and a half to set up. Is this like Code 55 rail? Code 55, microengineering. What's your minimum radius? Tell me, what's your general radius? Well the minimum radius, I made a mistake and put in like nine and three-quarters inch turns. So that's been causing us some issues. Well the reason I asked is your trains look so good going around the curves. So it looks like you go for a wide radius. This would be very similar to an end track three-foot corner. So the outer track's about 27 inch radius. Okay. Well boy, this is a treat. The colors, all the automobiles, the roads. You guys have really thought about this one. It's a great display. I'm sure you've been well received here at the show. We have. So Rock and Roll Robert, thank you very much buddy. And I want to thank you for sharing this layout with us on What's Neat. Thank you. We're looking forward to it. All right. All of the model railroad products seen in this episode of What's Neat are available through Caboose in Lakewood, Colorado or order online at mycaboose.com.


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Hey, what's going on guys? Welcome back to another video. So in this one, I want to show you a Shopify store that's currently for sale on flipper.com for $100,000. It's three years old and has an average monthly profit of $3,700. This particular store is quite interesting because it's what I would call stage two dropshipping. They've kind of moved on from the traditional dropshipping business model into creating what most people would call a real brand. So instead of dropshipping the products and trying to scale it to the moon as quick as possible before then dumping it and moving on to a different product what these guys have decided to do is actually double down on that original product, get it private labeled, working with a mass producer in China and building a quote unquote real brand. And this is actually what I recommend everybody watching this video do. Now I don't know for sure whether these guys dropshipped the products you're about to see initially but given the products they're selling and the advantages and pros of dropshipping I'm going to do a specific video on this next week coming out on Wednesday on the pros and cons of dropshipping and in my opinion, what the best long-term strategy to follow is and to give you kind of like a shortened version it would be to use dropshipping to test the product and as soon as you've validated it and can sell it properly with dropshipping you should then move on to private labeling. But anyway, back to idolspace.com. So these guys currently for sale on flip it.com if you haven't signed up for their alerts I recommend you do so. It is a fantastic product research tool. Every single week you will get sent stores like this one that are for sale, that are profitable, that are selling products that you can source that we can source ourselves so we can see everything behind a successful business. So in this video I'm going to show you exactly what a successful Shopify store design looks like. I'm going to show you exactly what a profitable dropshipping products looks like and I'm also going to show you what profitable Facebook ads look like as well. So there's a lot to learn and like I said if you haven't already definitely sign up to alerts on flip it.com. Okay, so just some background information that you might find interesting because it helps create the picture of what a successful store looks like and gives you context for what I'm about to show you. So they currently have 12 main skews. Basically they're selling 12 different products. The average order value is in and around $200 and they have a refund rate which is close to 1%. So this is typically average when you're dropshipping you'll probably find it maybe closer to two. Having an AOV though of $200 carries many, many pros. The biggest one being is that you can afford to pay more for your customers. You can afford to pay more for your CPA. So your cost per acquisition. The business primarily generates revenue through the sale of its bean bags. So that's going to be the winning product that I'm going to show you. I'm also going to show you where you can source pretty much the exact products from. So you'll be able to see essentially exactly how they've been able to create this profitable business around just one product. The estimated time commitment to keep the business running is around 10 to 20 hours per week which is on the high side. I'm going to say I think it's on the high side and we'll see in a second what kind of workloads they're outsourcing or if they are at all. Given the size of this business I definitely think you'll be able to bring that down a bit. So those 10 to 20 hours per week includes managing the website which won't be a lot of time, sourcing new products which probably won't be a lot of time either, handling customer inquiries that could definitely be outsourced and order processing as well. This 100% should be outsourced. Any business that gets to a point where it's bringing in consistent sales on a daily basis is a much more valuable use of your time to put it into marketing, to put into the things that are growing your business and outsource all of the kind of maintenance to VAs. We currently have a great relationship with our supplier in China. They understand someone and so forth production is usually 30 days. Customer base is very 65% female with 25 to 54 year olds making up 50% of the demographic. So they're even telling you who you need to target to sell these products for all. And the brand primarily inquires customers through its website. Marketing channels including Google ads, Facebook, Instagram influencers, so on and so forth. Customers are primarily domestic from Australia and New Zealand. So what you're seeing in this video is a tried and tested proven business in these two countries which would show or tell us that there's definitely an opportunity to be had as they even put in their own words international expansion into other countries here in the UK or US or replicate something similar in a different country. If we talk numbers into these, they're three primary expenses. Facebook ads which are two and a half grand a month. They're freight, 260 and a 3PL 300. So what they're doing essentially is they're paying for all of their goods to be shipped into a 3PL who will then either go into the Shopify store or be sent a fulfillment list which they'll then pick pack and dispatch the orders for them. This is their revenue over the last 12 months on the best months being in December which is typical for pretty much every e-commerce business with a profit of $12,000. So here's the financial stats then for the last 12 months so that annual revenue of $90,000 are just under and obviously it's not crazy and typical what you would see on YouTube of people talking about doing millions in weeks or millions in months but it just goes to show. So 10 to 20 hours per week which is like a part time commitment turning over an annual profit of 45,000 US dollars. I think one of the biggest things or places where beginners go wrong when it comes to drop shipping or creating an e-commerce business is they get carried away way too quickly with trying to make as much money as possible when what they should be doing is trying to scale as slowly as possible but as profitable as possible. Trust me, there's so many more benefits to turning over $90,000 with a 50% profit margin than turning over say half a million dollars with a 10% profit margin. At the end of the day, both businesses are making the same amount of money bottom line. However, with a business like this which is so much more efficient it's gonna require so much less work to make that same amount of money. Okay, so jumping on to the Shopify store they have a really nice store with some real custom features that you don't see on kind of like typical standout or easy to spot drop shipping stores. As we can see, they've gone for kind of like a minimalistic type feel. Everything is kind of like pastely colors. They've gone for this kind of like computer texty type fonts. Everything is really kind of contributing towards that minimalistic sense and feel of using bean bags or the kind of environment that they're trying to create. I probably spoke and loaded rubbish there. It made sense in my head but hopefully you can understand the point that I'm trying to put across. So they have a nice scrolling banner here which is a nice touch. You don't see that very often at the top of your typical menu items home sharp about us journal contact us. In fact, journals not a usual one to see by this like probably by the looks of things just another word for blog. Let's take a look at all the different variants that sell in all the different products. So they have indoor and outdoor bean bags. What I'm gonna do is just kind of like take their standard one and white one for $150. And then here we are. So this is essentially what their winning product page looks like is obviously doing a good job given the results that they're having. It's profitable. So there's a lot to be said and a lot that can be learned from this particular page. One thing I'm not keen on looks like a bit of a glitch is this dynamic checkout button has like a blue background with the Google badge over the top. I'm not really sure what's going on there. But what I do like though is this sizing guide that actually doesn't work. So I'm not really sure what's going on there either. Maybe they're having some issues at the moment. But too many people I see selling products that require sizing guides will hide them right at the bottom of the product description. You want it upfront, right there, easy to see. So customers can very quickly and efficiently see what size they need to make a decision and buy the product. Today is Monday when this video gets released. I release videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Wednesday I have a video coming where I'm gonna show you all of the things you need to port on your Shopify store to help convert customers. So if you're getting loads of people to your store and you're not converting them into customers, then make sure you subscribe and tune in on Wednesday for that video. So all in all, a very kind of simplistic, minimalistic type product page, nothing too kind of like extravagant or crazy or that difficult to replicate. I really like this touch or this section here with the soft, pastely background and the icons just highlighting the different kind of important features of the product as well as the website.  For me or you to replicate this store, we would not be able to compete unless we were private labeling our own products as well. And it's just such a tiny touch, but it does help set up rate from the competition and it adds very little expense. I mean to add a little label like that, you probably talk in pennies. What's interesting to note about this product as well is that this beanbag unfilled requires about 250 liters of beans to fill. So what I'm guessing is that they actually literally just send in without being too harsh, a large pillowcase that the customer then has to unpack and fill themselves by the sounds of it. But let's take a look. We'll come unfilled and requires about 300 liters. So it is, they're essentially just buying the outer skin, the outer layer, and they have to then further purchase beans on top of that to fill it with. Okay, so in terms of profitability then, and this is probably why these guys were able to be so profitable, is so the $150 they're selling a one-off for. And the size of this is one meter by 1.6 meters. I've gone on to Alibaba, so this will be pretty much where the whole, that's pretty much where everyone goes. If you want something from China in bulk, this is the website that you go to. And here's a similar-ish product. It's not identical, but it's one of the closest ones I could find without having to spend hours drawing in through different results. So it will still give you kind of like a pretty accurate representation of how profitable, how cheaply they are being able to source this product. So it's the same shape. You've got the flat edge at the front with the triangle at the back. Same as these guys. The size of their one is one meter by 1.6 meters. The size of this one, where did I see it? Is 1.4 meters by one meter. And the biggest difference, so the fabric is an Oxford cotton. And I think these guys are what? Flax linen, so French flax linen. So it is a different material. That's probably why these guys are a bit more expensive. But nonetheless, you can buy, so if they're buying 500 of these things, they're spending $10 to get them to the door plus what their freight is. We saw in their expenses, the freight was $260. So when you probe out of that per unit, they're probably getting these things to their own door for less than $20 a piece. Selling them for $150, that leaves a lot of room for them to acquire their customers for. Moving on to the final piece of the puzzle then. So we've seen the winning Shopify store. We've seen the winning products. We need to now know how are they selling this winning products? What do winning ad creators for these products look like? So to do this, I'm gonna use the Facebook or Meta ads library, where we can see exactly what ads they're running for these products. So we can see these ones in March, lots of different variations. That's a common theme of every successful e-commerce business you'll come across is they don't just have one or two different creatives that we test in dozens to really kind of split test and home down and narrow down and find out what works basically. So here we have a very simple carousel ad just featuring the different products and it's different colors in different locations. Very simple, easy to create. Here we have another image ads. Image ads are brilliant for reaching big audiences for low costs, because CPMs are typically a lot cheaper because there's less competition for them. They're ad primary text at the top then. So go with the slow and idle with us. Comfortable luxury and affordable price. Explore a range of premium flax, linen beanbags. Crafted from high grade flax linen, four unique colors, proudly Australian. So the products we know for a fact is Chinese and thousands of happy customers so they're getting money back free shipping with it in Australia and after-pay available. So that's something I forgot to mention in fact, somewhere on their store. I can't remember where I saw it. You do have after-pay. So after-pay basically here it is at the top. So welcome to Idol Space Shop, have bundles and save up to 20% shop with after-pay. Basically what it does is it lets them split the cost of a product over many months. It's a bit like Kleiner, if you're based here in the UK. So if you are selling products over the price of, I'd say $50, then give your customer the option to do so because what you'll also find, well it's a fact, there'll be, there's numerous studies on this. I won't try and dig one out and find you now. You can do your own research on this but giving people the option to split their payments over three months rather than have to fork out $150 upfront does in fact increase your average order value. What it also helps you do is come across as more legitimate by piggybacking the reputation of these household payment providers or finance providers and linking them to your store so you're able to piggyback off the reputation that they have. So with that being said guys, I'm gonna wrap the video up I reckon because I've shown you the store, I've shown you the context of the store, shown you the products, I've shown you the ad creatives. Pretty much everything you need to go out there and create something similar with a similar products, a different products but take the strategies and fundamentals you've seen in this and apply it to your own business. Just a final message then to leave you with is if you're getting started in this business, try not to bite off more than you can chew. Before you make a million dollars, you need to make half a million dollars. Before you make half a million, you need to make a hundred. Before you make a hundred, you need to make 50. Do not get carried away with your revenue. Do not get carried away with turning over X amount. Yes, it is exciting and it's cool to look at your phone and show your friends and on the surface it looks like you're making a lot of money but like I said, try and do it as slowly and profitable as possible. And on that note, thanks for watching guys. I hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to comment, like and subscribe and I'll see you in my next video on Wednesday. Cheers.


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