Sweet. All right. Hello, my name is Kira. I work for Pivotal on Cloud Foundry, and I wanted to tell you about Bosch, which is a simple solution for complex systems. What this talk is going to employ is it's going to give us a view of how complicated doing deployments is. Like, you have your component, you have your product, and it's really complicated to have to deploy that, and then how Bosch can help you simplify that and make it a solution for that particular problem. All right. So first thing I want to talk about was the old world. So you're like, great, I have my product, and I want to deploy it to one of these different platforms. I want to deploy it to AWS, Azure, OpenStack, whatever. You're like, maybe I want to even deploy it to Docker. But you're like, how do I do that? So you have your first component. So you wrote a little bit of code. You're like, great, I'm going to put that on an AWS instance. That's running. And then you're like, oh, but I have another component. So you say you write a little bit more code. You're like, great, now that's running on an AWS instance. And then you realize you have a lot more components than they need to talk to each other. So pretty soon, you're writing code, deploying things to all these different AWS instances, and then you have to make a change.  Was that component 27? Was that component X? Is that even on AWS? And it gets really complicated really fast. And then when you have to manage that, say if you were using AWS, you have to go in. You have to look at this lovely page here in EC2 instances. You have to use ES3. You have to use the AWS CLI.   And I'd much rather use something else. That's something else. I'm sure you've already guessed, is Bosch. So the big question of the day is what is Bosch? So Bosch simply stands for Bosch Outer Shell. It is a tool for release engineering. It's really, it's useful for doing deployments. It's life cycle management. What's great about Bosch is that it supports all these different IaaSes. It supports like Google Compute Engine, AWS OpenStack, VCloud, Apache CloudStack. It supports all of these things now. And it was used originally to deploy Cloud Foundry.  But what's really cool about Bosch is that it's not just for Cloud Foundry. You can use it to deploy things like RabnamQ and Hadoop. Or you're just like, OK, I don't want any of those things. I want to deploy my own thing. And what's cool about Bosch is that you can use it for that too. So what are some key principles of Bosch? The first of these are the identifiability.  And you want to be able to see all of these things that make up your particular release. Once you get that, you want to be able to reproduce it. So Bosch allows you to say, oh, I have all of these configurations. And you're going to deploy it to like OpenStack or AWS or whatever. And I want to be able to do that again and again and again and again and again. I'm not going to give it to just one customer. I'm going to give it to multiple customers. And Bosch gives you the opportunity to do that. But more than just being reproducible, Bosch is also really good about consistency. So you're going to reproduce it multiple times. And you want to assume that when you reproduce this multiple times that customer A isn't going to have some different weird configuration compared to customer B. And you want to make sure that you're getting the same result. What's great about that too is not only is it identifiable reproducible consistent, it's also fast. Compared to that situation I described earlier where you have all of your different instances and you're just like, I don't know what to do. Bosch has it all contained. And it just says, oh, I'm done with the first step. I'm going to do the second. I'm going to do the third. I'm going to do the fourth. And you don't have to think about it. And Bosch is going to do it. And it's really useful on the software continuous integration. So what makes up a Bosch release? So you're saying, I have my component. I have my product. What do I have to do in order to get there? So a really easy overview of kind of how you envision Bosch is that you first have a stem cell. So a stem cell is a versioned OS in IaaS packaging. So you have your Ubuntu, you have like your Ubuntu AWS HVM, you have all of these different kinds of operating systems. And it's packaged in this little bare bones. It doesn't have anything else in it except what you would need in order to run it and install software or do whatever you would like. So once you have that stem cell, you build what's called a release. So the release is put on top of that stem cell.  And then with that release, Bosch needs to know, hey, I need instructions for how to do this. So that set of instructions is in a file called manifest. And I'm gonna go into kind of what makes up a manifest later. That's where you have the most controlling power in Bosch. But once you have all of these things, all of those things together, make up what we call a deployment. And like I said, it has all of your configuration, your stem cell, pretty much this makes up like your product being on Bosch. So basically what you can do, you can take this whole configuration and simplify it down to like this simple command. That sounds really great and all, but the process to all of you or those of you who aren't familiar with Bosch, I'm sure is how do I get there? So I wanted to start with saying, first you gotta download the Bosch director.  So whether that's like AWS, even your local machine, Bosch allows you to do that too. And you have to install the Bosch CLI. It's very simple to find on the Bosch.io. If you haven't heard of Bosch.io, it's pretty much like the definitive source for Bosch. And I highly recommend it. They've got tutorials and such as well. They have a Bosch gem. So all you have to do is you gem install the Bosch CLI. You can install it with no RI or no RDOC. It just makes it a little faster if you do it this way.  So it's pretty cool. You can take this tar file as your stem cell and you basically say, hey, I'm going to deploy Bosch using whatever's defined in this Bosch stem cell there. So it's kind of like you're using Bosch to deploy Bosch and it's kind of like a mini Boschception. And then you can do all of your other, what you'd prefer to do. So I mentioned a stem cell and that it's, you know, just a version of OS. Why is a stem cell so interesting? So look at it from an example, say, if you're coding on a Mac, I code on a Mac. There was a scare with a heart bleed coming out. So you're like, great. Now, if I have to upload all of my like AWS instances, I realize Mac wouldn't be the operating system you would choose for your AWS instances. But say for example, it was, you're like, great, I have to go through and I have to upgrade all of these different things. I have like, you know, between 10 and 100 different instances. I have to do all those individually. Bosch says, you know what, you have this OS update and you have to do it on your Amazon instances. I don't want you to do that yourself. That's really lame. So you can basically, you can go to Bosch.io and pardon, download a new stem cell and in your Bosch manifest, like I said, I'll mention this later, you can have that new stem cell in your Bosch manifest and you can run that Bosch deploy that I mentioned earlier and it'll go through all of those instances, update each of them individually and bam, you no longer have a security hole and that's why stem cells are really useful, really awesome, pretty amazing. Now, since I already jumped the gun. The next part I wanted to talk about was the Bosch releases. So I'm gonna start off by saying, you wanted to create your own Bosch release first and then go into some of the more cooler aspects. So you created a new product, you're like, I wanna deploy this using Bosch and no, I wanna deploy it using Bosch, so how do I get started with that? There's a specific structure, don't know what it is. Bosch allows you this really cool command, you can do Bosch and knit release with the name of your release and it's gonna generate for you all of these empty files, like these folders are empty and there's nothing in any of these directories, but it says, hey, this is the format, this is what I'm looking for. So a quick rundown, so that Blobs directory is something that your source code would need to compile. So say you wrote a Java program and you need a Java server in it and it needs the JDK to compile. It's gonna work great on your local machine because you already have the JDK installed, but if you deploy it somewhere else, you have to think about, oh, well, how am I gonna do that? You use Blobs to do that. So you upload the JDK blob into that directory, it's gonna upload that to your Bosch director, so anything that's going to be deployed on your Bosch director now has access to that JDK and can use it however they want. So then a job, that jobs directory is going to show you all of the units of work that your deployment needs in order to run. So I had component one, component two, component three, you had all of your components. Those can be easily separated into, oh, I have job one, job two, job three and all of the specific configuration that you might have for all of those are going to exist in that jobs directory and you can define the startup scripts for that job and everything's just in this one easy place for you to access however you please. You can change it very simply, you just go in there, you say, oh, well, I wanna change job one, I'm gonna change that config, Bosch deploy and it's going to update that for you. So your packages on the other hand are all of the compiled code that you would need to have in your Bosch deployment and then of course the source directory is just gonna be your normal product code. So say you don't wanna create your own release, you're like, I'm using Cloud Foundry, I'm using console, I'm using all of these different things and I know that people have done it before so a place that you can look is the Bosch community. So if you go to Bosch.io slash releases there's a lot of pre-compiled releases that you can access and you can download and you can say, hey, okay, fine, I'm gonna Bosch create this release, Bosch upload this release and you don't have to deal with all of that tree structure or do any of that creating yourself. Again, once you download this release, you have it, you can fork it if you want, edit it and as long as you upload that to your Bosch director, Bosch knows what to do with it and it's like, hey, we're good to go. Now that we've talked about releases, I wanted to give a quick overview of the Bosch manifest because if any of you have worked with Bosch, you see this huge big file, this is not even like a third of it where you see like, oh, there's all these words is in this weird YAML format, what do I do with it? How do I parse it? What does all this stuff mean? So basic overview, you have all of your different components are separated into different jobs in your Bosch manifest. You have to define all of your configuration here. You have to define any properties that your component might have, any of the resources it might be using. If you're using AWS or some other thing, you'll have to define the IP ranges, you'll define the subnets, and you'll just define like anything that your product could need and that you would have to manage manually, you can define in here and Bosch will know what to do with it. So like if you say run out of IP ranges for your product, you can go into Bosch, make sure that you aren't using it for another product first and upload, sorry, change these IP ranges inside of Bosch and then re-upload and it'll read in those changes. So, quick rundown of, I'm gonna take a very simple Bosch manifest, like it's gonna just be, as you can see here, like it's very generic, it's not gonna deploy anything that you're familiar with. I tried to genericize it very much just to kind of explain what the different pieces were. So I'm gonna start off very obviously, you can choose the name of your deployment. You have your Bosch directory UUID.  So say if you had Bosch deployed somewhere else as well, you could take that UUID and say, I wanna deploy my component to this Bosch and then you can change this ID and say, now I wanna deploy it to this Bosch and as long as everything lines up right with the rest of your config, it's as easy as that. So then you can also define your release version. So I mentioned earlier that so this release version is the release that we created earlier. So you can view any of the releases you have available using this Bosch releases command and what this is gonna do is it's gonna give you a view of all of the releases you have deployed and not only that but all of the versions you have deployed so as you can see up here, I have CF deployed in my environment but I have all of these different dev versions and I'm like, okay, I was on this dev version and I faced a problem so I'm gonna try this older dev version or you had a customer on an older version and you wanted to simulate some behavior that you're seeing so you can change this dev version and then deploy it and then you'll be able to see actively what a customer might be using with that version of your deployment. Then the last piece is you have your resource pool. So your resource pool is gonna have a collection of all your VMs. They're gonna all be using the same stem cell that you define in your environment. They're gonna have the same config and say when you do your stem cell updates they're all gonna be able to be affected at the same time because they're all in the same resource pool. Apologies. And then finally we have our stem cell version which finally I've been talking about it all this time. This is where you define that. So when you get a stem cell update you download it from Bosch IO with the new stem cells you have a point version now because it's got a new CVE update. You go into this file, you say, okay, now I'm like 0.7 and then you have another update. Now I'm 0.8 and then you do a Bosch deploy and Bosch says, okay, I have this new stem cell now. I'm going to use this updated version instead of this older version and you no longer have your security hole. All right, next piece of the Bosch manifest. Just like I said, very, very simple generic. These are things required for like, kind of bare modes minimum for a Bosch manifest. You have to define your networks. So the thing about Bosch, you have to make sure that these networks are available. You can't just say, oh yeah, I wanna use this network here and then I wanna use this other project with the same network. It's gonna have to follow real rules if you were deploying manually.  But you just give all of that configuration here to make sure that they don't step on each other's toes. Then you have the compilation VM. So the compilation VM is you have all of your source code and it's dependent on a particular machine architecture. So you say you make a change to your source code, Bosch is gonna have to compile that into an executable and then inside of the Bosch deployment that's running, it's gonna have to be able to execute it. So these compilation VMs take all of that source code and do the compiling for you.  And then you don't have to have that VM living for very long. It's not gonna affect your cost or anything. It just kind of offsets the machine power to where it's needed. Last piece of this is we have what's called the canaries. So if any of you are familiar with the idea of canaries being brought into the coal mines and the poor coal miners didn't wanna die from the gas.  And that's kind of the similar idea with Bosch. So Bosch is going to tentatively deploy a component of your code and make sure that it doesn't just completely fall over and just die. And if it completely falls over and dies, this canary is gonna alert and say, hey, you did a breaking change.  So if you deploy, say, bad code, you're not going to be having downtime for your customers because you try to push up a bad change that canary could fail and say, hey, go back and fix it and you'll be like, great. Now I'm not gonna have to worry about something else bad happening. All right, last piece of the deployment manifest is simple enough, your jobs are kind of synonymous with the components of your system. You have any particular config for how to run it and say you have each of these components, like component one and component two would share the same property. You can define that as a global property so if you're defining your job, you can say, hey, this is shared between the two of them, I'm not going to define it twice, I'm gonna use this shared property instead. So then if you had to go back and edit it, for example, you wouldn't have to change it in multiple places, you could just reference the one. So with all of this said, I've said Bosch is super simple and you can learn a lot of it and it's very powerful but I do have to give the caveat that there is a learning curve. Learning curve kind of looks like this. When I first started using Bosch and I work on Cloud Foundry, so I kind of use Bosch almost every single day, hated Bosch. You know, a little more time passed, still hated Bosch.  And then I was like, you know, this Bosch thing is kind of cool and now that I've used it, I'm like, this Bosch thing is the best thing ever. You can do so much with Bosch, there's a lot of configuration, you can just, I can't even explain to you how amazing I think Bosch is and I'd highly recommend that you go through some of the tutorials, go through some of the pain initially required with learning Bosch just to see how powerful, how amazing it really is. Another really cool thing about Bosch is that Cloud Foundry loves Bosch. Like I mentioned earlier that if you've tried to use Cloud Foundry, you've probably heard about Bosch and it's for a very good reason, like Cloud Foundry was built to use Bosch. So in order to deploy Cloud Foundry using Bosch, if you're doing it on your own, you can generate a deployment manifest, you're gonna upload a stem cell and then you can do Bosch upload stem cell, create release, upload release and deploy. Or as mentioned earlier, there was a nice releases site and you could go and say, hey, I'm just gonna download Cloud Foundry, upload Cloud Foundry and then deploy it and it's very simple and it saves a lot of time. All right, and I had a little demo about kind of how to use it, but in the interest of time, I'm going to skip over it. It's basically just a simple, how easy it is to deploy Bosch. You can find a very similar demo on Bosch.io. I'll give a link for the online tutorial at the end of the talk. So another thing that's really cool about Bosch is that it's not just used for Cloud Foundry. I mentioned earlier you can use it for like Hadoop and RabbitMQ, you can also use it for things like MySQL, you can use it for Redis, you can use it for React, you can use it again for Rabbit, you can use it in Docker, you can use it in Jenkins, you can even use it to deploy Concourse. And I also said you can also use it to deploy your own software even. So where do I find all of these things? You're like, oh, you're telling me that there's all of these releases for all of these really cool Bosch things. Where do I find them? I don't wanna have to figure out how I need to Boschify all of these products that we're already using. So it's really cool. The Cloud Foundry community is awesome for this. You can go to Cloud Foundry community, it's on Git, and you can see just pages upon pages upon pages of all of the different people that have already created these releases for you. And for example, I had to use Kafka for one of our products and Kafka is not on the Cloud Foundry community. So I'm like, great, I'm gonna have to figure out how to make a Bosch release for Kafka. It's gonna have to spend the time to do that. But before I did that, I went and did this. And so if it's not in the Cloud Foundry community, there's a really good chance that if it's something useful and people like it, there's other people who have made these releases for you and you can go in and it saves you a lot of time, a lot of work, a lot of effort and you can then just start using it. You don't have to think about it, you don't have to do anything else, it's just there. All right. And with that, I promise that there would be links at the end of my slide. Like it's got the Bosch online tutorial at the top. I really highly recommend looking through the documentation. There's the links for the community, how to deploy Cloud Foundry. Oh, and then there's this really cool thing I didn't mention called Bosch Lite. You're like, I don't wanna pay for AWS, I don't wanna pay for Google, I don't wanna pay for any of these services. How do I just test if I like Bosch? So if you go to that URL and type in Bosch Lite, you can actually get Bosch up and running on your local machine and deploy Cloud Foundry and play around with Cloud Foundry however you'd like. I can tell you I have a four gigabyte Mac up here and it's a little laggy, but you can do it. So highly recommend that. And with that, the closure of my talk and I'm open to any questions if there are any. I'm not sure how much time I have left. A really good number, at least from what I've seen, if you have a compilation machine for each of your components, it'll, it's useful for, so like, I'm sorry. For, let me rephrase. Maybe each of your jobs is a good number because like I said it compiles that source code and makes it executable on Bosch. So if you have a compilation machine for each of your jobs that are gonna have a different configuration and different executable, that's usually a good estimate. Say that again. I don't know if there's a tutorial for how to create your own stem cells. There is a list of all of the available stem cells. I didn't put it on here. It's Bosch.io slash stem cells. And they usually try to be very up to date with the OS's they support. But you could, if you wanted to create your own, you could try to ping the Bosch Slack channel and they might have more information for you. I think it depends on how much time you're, or like how much you're willing to invest in the idea that Bosch is a good solution.  It can seem like it's a lot longer, but cause I had to use Bosch every day. I'm just like, I was very frustrated, but I started to see the same problems. And if you're with somebody who's used it, the Bosch channel is a good place to check or you could check other online sources as well. I've Googled a lot of problems I've had with Bosch before and you're able to find relative solutions. After that, like using Bosch is easy, but mastering Bosch is what's hard if that answers your question. All right. Thank you very much.


Apparently my internet is doing the thing where it doesn't like the internet. All you missed was paint drying, literally. So now that we're on the end of the second coat, it's dry, hit it with a heat gun. You mean like a solid base color? So now that we're done watching paint dry, Jeffrey is sanding it down with a 220 real quick and then he's going to hit it with a 400 to make it super smooth and then that's it. Hi again, sorry y'all. We live in a giant very old cement concrete cinder block building so it doesn't like us to have fast internet. Cheers! Cheers to all you lovely people out there. Alright, so now that the sanding and prepping and all that process is done, you can see how it doesn't give as easily. It almost sounds like a drum. What's up Rona? I'm gonna get this out of his way and we've decided to make the colors these colors. We've got marron silver, blue. Hi Josephine, sorry about that. And what else? Josephine, I forgot to add you to my list. You're supposed to be on here. I will add you to on here. Yes Miss Joe, I'm just gonna write Joe on there. Don't judge my handwriting y'all. Right? Isn't the purple great? More people from Perth. I still want to go visit Perth. Oh, in case you guys missed it. Hey guys, sorry about that life. So here is the one that we did live yesterday. As you can see, it turned out great. The blue and the white were the dark blue and the white were pasted from Lares and they did exactly what their job was. And Sydney, I'm gonna go there too. Glitter lovers, y'all know I love glitter. All that shelf right there is glitter. Anyway, so this piece turned out perfectly flat. We're gonna have to edge off the bottom a little bit. Focus. There it is. It over dripped just a little bit. So we're gonna need to finish the bottom. Thank you Lori. White ink can lace. The thing about paste is that it's super thick whereas ink is super light and the lacing is just it's more opaque and thick whereas in ink it would be a little bit more transparent. And the silver is Mayron silver. I got requests from Lou and Judy and a couple other people to test that out. I think we're gonna use the silver again today as well. I also need you guys to know that Susanna Dank sent us this Micah pigment powder. This color is indigo. I think it's color shifting but 50-50 on me being right on that. But it is by Lares and it's a very concentrated pigment powder. I'm super excited to use this. The rest of what we have going on here is silver Mayron. Is that blue a combination blue? Yeah it's this. This blue is a combination of Perlex duo blue-green. It's a metallic pigment powder and island blue by Anita's Craft Paint. Also I'm gonna list all this in the description box below. You don't have to like follow along at this point. The purple is what is this? This and then this powder. Okay. This purple is Amsterdam's something something oh permanent blue violet. It's fitting. And it's also got the Lares pigment paste in it to make it more metallic. The next one is something I think it's these two purple pansy by Anita's Craft Paint. And then this mural marker cosmic violet. And the last one is a mural marker pucker and fuchsia. That's the palette we're going for today. Oh we're missing stuff. Sorry. Oh and white. This white is by Lares as well. This stuff if you're having trouble creating cells. If you watched the video yesterday you saw how effortless it is. You put a clear down you lay this on it and you hit it with a heat gun. And then cells just are born out of that. That's how that happens. The resin we're using today is in Viratex light. It's a good artwork resin in the States. Lynn that's my sister y'all she's super talented. She does a lot of like watercolors and stuff. Is it possible to pull the fluffy marker thing? Yes. Also yeah my sister does like pen work and stuff. All right I'm just gonna set y'all like right here for just a second till I can open this. So it does have a dauber in it. What focus? Supposed to be but we pull it out. It's it's not hard.  Yes Lynn you are as talented as I said you are. Don't argue. I'm the elder. So so far Jeff has laid down a layer of resin. It's not a thick layer but it is a good like light blood layer. This basically just helps the resin to flow on the surface more easily. I'm so flattered that so many people are tuning in. So the amount of resin you want depends on how much of a certain color you want. Most people do a ratio of like 10% like color to resin so I guess that's 0.1 ratio. I don't know that's science. I mean that's math that's not science. That's not my gig. Anyways so we just go off of how much we feel like we want it to be opaque. That's a great looking blue especially on camera. It's a little bit metallic and I'm gonna pour this first so that it'll be underneath all those colors so hopefully it pops through. Do you guys have any requests on like color palettes that you're wanting to see? I know yesterday someone asked us to do like a yellow focus. We put it on our board up to do things. Can you all tell me is it like more clear than the video was yesterday? I turned everything off in our house so that hopefully we have a more open bandwidth for this because apparently that's that's a term. That's the purple that has the resin isn't it? Hi Tammy. It lends on here by the way. Oh it's a lot clearer much better. Good good good. I went back and watched the feed from yesterday and I was almost embarrassed at how choppy it was. It was terrible.  Funny. That pinks super bright. This palette reminds me of that the Sherbert one. It is all learning curve and hopefully by the time we do the giveaway again I'll know exactly how to work all of the things. It's hit or miss. Red, gold, glitter. I love working with glitter. We need to do another glitter one soon. Do you want me to make some more for you? We haven't yet tried string poles. That's on our to-do list for sure. How much how much white do you want to do? Well I have I have enough I think for white. I mean I'm not gonna pour like a ton of it. Okay. I just want more clear. Just do a one. Just a one to one. A one to one? I was just gonna do up to the line. You need a one to one. How much that makes? I don't know how much that makes but I know this is gonna be more. I don't know how much each makes. Okay. So we are gonna do a string pour. I have all the ingredients to do it. I.e string. We just haven't had a chance yet. Lynn said hi and yes Rona we are gonna do another one with glitter because honestly what is enough glitter? That's not a thing. You can never have enough. Alright. Pardon me while I mix up a little bit more resin. We've tried going by like formulas and stuff in the past to try to make the right amount for the surface area and all that stuff. Never works so we're back to eyeballing it ultimately. Well that has it. That actually has one to one on there. I mean how much we need on a canvas. Oh yeah that's you won't understand how anybody could know because when you pour these in different cups. You guys see the bubbles popping out of here. All that. That's bubbles. If you're new to resin understand that you're gonna get bubbles. I wouldn't I wouldn't breathe them in. That's for sure. Well no don't chase them down like snowflakes. We're a respirator I have to say that even though we don't we should. I'm gonna try something here. Not a negative. It's gonna be a negative but I'm gonna try a slight tilt. Well we're here to experiment. So you guys see these bubbles probably not because it's not focusing. You're gonna get that. I know. Okay I'm over with the bubble speech. Y'all have heard it I'm sure a million times. Hi Natalie. Welcome to our channel. Lou I can tell you right now that Swarovski is under resin. Don't work.  I always wondered what it would look like if you just slightly tilted it so that it all ran at the same time instead of it puddling up and. Joe's gonna do a string pour with a chain. She's doing a string pour but with a chain like because so it's heavier. Elite epoxy. I don't know if I've tried elite epoxy. I think that's what they sell at Hobby Lobby. Oh my goodness I know. I've heard that a couple times that when people see the front of their heat gun they think about my battle wound. Maybe hold up the heat gun. Y'all I got this in battle. I don't know if you can don't even play. It matches. I don't recommend. Hi from Maine. I want to go to Maine. Lou I'm telling you I have I have it somewhere. The crystals that I poured resin over and basically ultimately wasted all of it all the things.  What spray paints do you use as a background? Well we have all those. Basically it depends on the color. Thank you Susan. We love you guys too. A necklace chain. Okay I figured it was a thin chain. Sis what are you talking about? How what? Okay okay it's a very little girls room. I like it. That's fine. Oh the mark on my arm. I touched it to the end of that thing. Not a good time. Thank you we haven't done this particular color palette before. You have plenty of resin left to do. Whatever. I would almost just let it be a heart or just let it fall off this way. The key is just tuned in. What's up? Yeah Dennis Key and his wife. The Rustelium gold yeah it's pretty awesome. Silver I'm just not. It doesn't do what the gold did. I mean it's pretty but it's just not as vibrant as the gold. My own whales UK that's awesome. I'm not digging it. I'm not digging any of it. Tell mom I said hi. Hi Susan Kelly. Northern Virginia. People tuning in from all over. Let me take that before it. So many UK's turning in. Iceland Hannah. I have three siblings from Iceland. They live in Keflavik. Well actually one used to live in Reykjavik but he lives in Frisco now. New Jersey, Arizona, England. We're just we're just worldwide today be Louisiana. I know you're from Louisiana. We're supposed to be driving through sometime. Well this is doing what the gold mayron did. Karen in Australia, Baltimore, Sheperton, Minnesota, Joe's in Vegas. I think I knew that. This is very gold mayron-esque.  She's super talented. I know she's probably stressing out right now because I said that. Yeah Lou the mayron it's being more finicky than the gold mayron. I mean just like a white acrylic versus any other color of the same brand it's just gonna do different stuff. I think this looks great. Yes it is the silver mayron. I think maybe we just like normally I take that gold and pour it like that's the last color that I pour. So it might be because it's under so many other ones. That looks fun. I like this area. Here right now it's probably close to 6 p.m. It's midnight there that's bananas which I could attend your classes in person. One day we're gonna do classes and the dream is to do traveling classes to different like cities. Lynn I agree that line does look super cool. Just pick it up and tilt it. The lavender mayron acts more like the gold. So people have been using that instead of the silver. Thank you Kristen for that feedback. We got a rose gold but we have I don't think we grabbed the lavender. Priscilla says silver anything misbehaves that's their experience. It's 9 a.m. in northern Victoria. That's bananas. The bright pink is a combination of this pucker and fuchsia. I'll have it all listed in the description box. The lavender mayron is really pretty. I've seen it not in resin but just in person. Clara said that she used silver on the upper levels and it acted like the gold. So maybe we'll just add that in like last or dust it. We haven't tried that like we did the jacquard. The canvas prep was actually how we paint it and sand it in order for it to not pull in the middle without using anything under it. Can you also do pearl ex pigments? We can because I have almost every pearl ex ever of ever. We love using pearl ex too. How long you got to work on the resin? Susan we usually have in the what would you say 40 minute range? Yeah depends on the weather too. True. Hey Jerome how are y'all Norway? I want to go to Norway too. Aluminite dies. I haven't the only dye I have here is full cart. I haven't tried the illuminite. The Netherlands. Bonnie the prep I'll post this video after we're done with it live so no one can no one will miss the canvas prep. The candy car paint is amazing. I have all of the rest of the colors right there. We're still going to be testing those out for you guys. Have y'all ever tried the unicorn spit stains? You know I don't I don't think so. I would love to. It sounds like something I'd be interested in wetting the canvas and letting it dry in between. It makes the canvas tighter or something. That's true. If we prep it or if we prep it our usual way and it still doesn't do what we want it to do. That looks amazing. Bananas. I wish the blue hadn't. Well it's just a hand and that's what I wanted it to be. I just wanted it to be a hand. So um all this question.  That's usually the last thing that will do to tighten it other than to prep it like we did earlier in the video. It does work though. How did the candy car paint turn out? I don't want to take y'all away from the... All right I'm just gonna run and get it. Y'all are gonna have to deal with a bad angle for just a second. BRB. She's kind of just taking you right there like it's right. Okay the one thing we worry about the car paint is we thought it wouldn't dry because car paint needs three separate components. Yeah like there's a hardener, the paint, and then a reducer. So I don't know if all three of those but it dried in the in the resident. It's set up well. There is a fisheye but we actually don't mind it in this piece. I think it's visually interesting. It's really transparent as you can see here that under the dark is gold that it rolled over because we only used the white gold and the pink candy car paint and the gold is the maron. So it turned out very interesting. It almost glows. We're gonna try the other colors that we have as well. I love the kiddies in it. I'm behind so welcome Susan. Love your kitty cat. Fab job. Amaze balls. OMG beautiful. Jeff that's gorgeous. Looks totally awesome. Looks like a starburst. Love the colors. Always enjoy your videos. Thank you Ann. Love this Jeff. Stunning with 88 Gs. Do you ever use the wooden wedges to tighten the canvas? No. Anthony we don't because the following reasons. I never understood them and I always felt like no I just ever since I started painting like in 96 doing doing stuff I've never used them and it's never been an issue. It's never. I think they only issue them for the thin traditional canvases anyways like for these gallery wraps these thick ones I don't think it would help or hurt it's just they don't even come with them so yeah scrolling scrolling. Wow that's really pretty. Thanks. Welcome. That was sweet of you. My pleasure. Looking great. Montreal in the house. Your English is just fine. Jeff this is killer cotton candy explosion. That would be a fun name for this one.  We'll be here. Where's Kujo? I'm gonna steal you guys from him just for a minute to show you where Kujo hangs out. Don't mind my gross chair. It's old. Hi male. What are you doing? Are you being cute? That's where he always hangs out. What do we got? I would use the straw and just blow those out. Okay. I can feel it getting hot. The video is at 34 minutes so you're probably getting close. The keys yeah that's what they're called or toes. They're meant to stop the frames from twisting but makes no difference. That would make sense. We haven't noticed any difference in using them or not. Lynn, you said hi. Clara, right? That's exactly what that was. Hush woman, I'm in the zone. That's pretty much stopped so I would let that run all the way. I'm just trying to do that and then that's how you get this movement but it's it's drying like it's setting so it's a lot of movement. It's like almost like a sunrise from this side. I like it. I'm down with this silver separation. What these? Oh do you have enough to just nope all right. You guys any time we have leftover resin the answer is always coasters. I don't know if you saw our video that we went over like major things that we learned from the Deep Bell Marts Fest but one of them is coasters. You know this is the point where people say put a drop of alcohol in it so if you have another one that's thick let's try that. Who knows we may be given these away too. Is that one thick? I want to try that. So word on the street is where's the alcohol? Oh try it. Word on the street is adding like a drop or two of alcohol will thin out marshmallowing resin. I have never done it. We're gonna try it live and in living color for all you people. So this is our coaster game. We put a couple colors down and we just smear it all over and including on the sides to have like a solid base of color and then we'll do the design work over it. Welcome to the show Tammy. Suzanne does it loads and it works for her. I know I've been basically chicken up to this point but we're gonna give it a shot here in a minute because this blue is a little it's getting marshmallow-y. Dee welcome. I wasn't sure if you'd get to make it. To two small cups. Ta-da. Bruce welcome from Fort Worth. It was so great to meet you the other day. I'm sorry we were so swamped and getting like get a real chance to chat but hopefully maybe we can meet up not working and chat about stuff. Thank you Dee. Hi Ginny. Okay you guys missed our the other this is what the poor look like. We're just right now we're working with the leftovers. I don't know if you guys gonna see what else happening. Probably not. I'm just gonna come back out here. But it was an 8x24 canvas. The silver maron. Yeah I don't know this. Y'all this has been set for like it's it's been working for do I put any glitter in that? Watch right there. It's probably about 35 minutes into the working time so we're cutting it super close. It's gotta be more than that. But this when in doubt glitter fact. This what? I need this. There you go. All right so let's take some purple glitter over to him. There we go. I'm so glad Dee. I want everybody to learn something that other resin artists won't share. That's my goal. Too true Kristin. Too true. Always have a big trash can handy. Shoot us a message on Facebook Bruce. We'll line it up. Dee use a lot of the glitter and the micro the micas that you show up. Yeah I'm glad that you like the micas and the glitter. We mainly use recollections glitter. It's extra fine and it's always super sparkly. Rona if you were here I'd pour you a glass. If you guys are on Facebook feel free to join one of my favorites and most supportive groups for pouring. It's the Susanna Danx fluid art community. She's always so friendly. Everybody's friendly. It's great inspiration. Lovely group of people. I'm trying to get y'all in there without the hat getting in the way. I don't know if she has a group on Instagram. It would make sense if she did especially with all the fallout for Facebook right now. It's fine. Lynn's requesting that you wear the Batman hat that she got you for the next pour. He said of course. If he tilts this that all those white cells will come out even more not that you should. Just saying. Always have to be commented on something when I'm already done. Oh be done. You have white and silver and this left so let's move these aside and do some more. Let's get some more coasters. That seems to be everybody's like goal and struggle is making lacing and cell waves. I'm going my next pour probably tomorrow I'll do another live and we'll do like a wave scape and hopefully I think we should do a pour at like 8 a.m. Our 8 a.m. Yeah for the people that are I mean is that a good time I don't know what a good time is for people that are out of the country. Well it's going to be different for everybody. I think you should mix some blue. Oh you could probably just go ahead and do a wave scape for everybody on these little guys. Like hardly any. We'll be asleep. Huh. Susan Kelly said we will be asleep for 9 a.m. here pour. I think I'll even be asleep for 9 a.m. here pour. Joke. Kujo gets me up at 7 a.m. so if he's up everybody's up. How do you guys clean tools with what resin on it. I will tell you with not this. You need 91% isopropyl alcohol. We drench rags in it. They're all over the place.  Also you can get alcohol wipes. I'll link those in the description box. It will be 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon in northern Victoria for 9 a.m. here. That means y'all are pretty dedicated for being online right now. So yeah we take some rags old rags and we'll drench them in alcohol and wipe things down like heat guns. This blue we didn't use in the other pour but is pigment paste by LaRez.  We did too and basically we had to beat it up and once we had the button toggleable Jeff went through and like peeled off all the dried resin and got it to work again. We have a spare heat gun because of that. We used to use this mini torch but because of the same stuff it doesn't work anymore.  This resin is working on like 45 minutes at this point. Not this one. This is the one that you poured so it's not as long as this one. I forgot. I'm getting better. It's getting back in my system. Putting the gun down quickly. You put the gun on your carpet. I put the gun on my arm. Robbie that's your favorite torch. It used to be ours but it got sacrificed to the game. What does that mean to you? It means to sacrifice it to the game means you lose it because you lost the game.  Oh I'm so thuggy. Yeah and then you say I lost it to the game so they stole it in the drug deal business. So the game is Thieves. Good game. I told you I'm from the streets. Oh yes Susan it hurt. One more shout out to the contributors to the channel. I still have to add the people that contributed today because I'm slacker. I really appreciate it you guys. Every dollar from me helps keep our channel running because this stuff's expensive. All right we're going to try to be ocean-y even though this resin's been it's at the end of its working life for sure. Rona I agree. I think that Jeff and I complement and work well with each other usually for the most part. We have completely different styles so it's kind of funny when we have like a piece we're both working on together and just a different idea of how it should go. This is like not going anywhere. It's pretty when it rolls over the one like fire.  We try honestly y'all we're just us and I hope y'all can see that in the videos. This is the thing. Just act like you've done artwork your entire life then your son or daughter says I want to do it. They show some interest. They show definite that they know how to do it and then you have to teach that person to get on. I just now understood that you're talking about me like took to just now. These didn't turn out. This this is setting like. I know this is setting. I like this one. I'm astonished at how like teal that sapphire blue turns once it rolls over the white. These are so hot. I like it. Look at those little dimples. Hubby is an engineer. I'm sure he thinks I'm bonkers when I work. Girl there's sometimes that I'll be painting in here by myself. This is our studio by the way if you haven't seen it. Judy there's your piece. It'll we'll be delivering it or mailing it or whatever's best for you sometime soon. That's my little cubby hole that I usually work in. It's my alcohol ink piece. I can't decide if I want to resonate or do anything else to it. Anyways this is where I usually hang out. So Jeff will come in here and be like why are you doing that? That's where it looks like she hangs out but then she paints over there in my area and she normally paints on the floor so then it looks like that in my area as well. Like I said it's like teaching a teenager. You almost said toddler. Toddler as well. Sometimes both at the same time. We didn't get to use the glitter. Oh well you are unnatural. You don't need to try. I think if we tried to try you guys would be like okay this is dumb. I'm out. You succeed. Y'all I really want to make some e-science shirts or e-science stickers but Jeff was like what are they going to do with stickers? Nothing to do.  Put some alcohol in. There's no way you can do a dirty pour with this. This is all like it's I just wanted to see what it looks like all mixed together. Mixed together just do it. Oh here do it on this. My live stream just broke for commercial break. I didn't think they did commercials on this till it went like live. Live live. Hey from Minnesota. Hey Patty. I used to have a hotel in Minnesota. It was in Pipestone. You probably never heard of it. Kristen all you need to do when you muck up the surface of a pour is just let it dry, sand it down and then repour. Yeah just make it let it level out. Let it set. I'm glad you made it Paul. Let it set and I don't understand how come other people don't do words or live anything. I'm sure they do live. We just miss them. Lynn um Tammy did order something from me. I haven't finished it yet. The order for it is up there on the wall. Tammy's the table tray and coasters but we're taking them home with us when we go next time we go home. Thank you Karen. You ended up throwing it out because there were still dimples. No it doesn't matter because resin self-levels so you just sand it and then just do a little bit more flood coat over it. That's the good thing about it you just flood coat it just it'll fill in and level out. Kristen next time we're in Minnesota if we're by your gallery we'll definitely stop in. We love visiting other galleries. I agree Dennis, you signed shirts would be bananas. I just don't know what we should how we should make it.  Thanks Cody. A uh Einstein with the with the mustache. Uh Robi Holm um is in Alabama. I went to the University of Alabama rope tide and my sister is still there helping take care of our our dad. He has Parkinson's and so she's helping take care of him while she does her art and college and stuff. That's true an extra layer can change a piece from what am I doing to masterpiece. Judy! Be Judy tuned in. So um I'm trying to fit into this to show you guys the poor if you missed it. It looks like a Lisa Frank sunrise.  Don't. Like that side is super smooth and this side has like little waves. Are you gonna so if you missed it this is what the poor look like. That wasn't there. It's all accident. Like a 100% accident. Don't put your. It's still drying it'll level. I almost gave it that's what she said thing. I almost said don't put your finger in it. Anyways yeah so we did that and then we had resin left over so Jeffrey poured these silver purple pink ones and then uh I'm gonna get in here and then he just did these blue ones just trying to use all the extra resin that we um we made up. I like that one a lot. And then just now he did this one. Not the most glamorous but you know I'm seriously jealous about anybody that's been to Australia. I'm a scuba diver because I'm a mermaid and I want to come see the Great Barrier Reef. It's on like I don't have a bucket list but I feel like if I did it'd be at the top of it.  Sorry I had to clean you guys off. Let's read some of this. Judy I hope you made it back home safe. I still need to hear stories. We have some Outlander. That's gross to talk about poured resin over. Sometimes it takes several pours. You can also like build up the sides with tape to create a barrier if like the dimples are really deep. You're originally from Tennessee.  I'm sorry rocky top rival. Um you've been pouring on canvas but might start pouring on wood or composite. Um we have success and failures on either. Judy there's your gorgeous piece. I'm really sad that she's gonna be leaving me. Greg made us a couple of these. Wouldn't I guess it'd be the equivalent to a cradleboard. MDF and this is the one that we did yesterday. If you guys turned in live for that. Turned out super flat. The Mayeron didn't do exactly what we thought it would but it's still a piece that I'm proud of. And the selling turned out like I thought it would because it's LaRez. I'm gonna try R2-2. Oh yeah. Um so I showed some people focus yesterday. Oh it's inverse. Let's turn around. I showed some people yesterday my crystals and they wanted to know where I got it from. The deco craft is where I order from. She's super awesome. Her name is Crystal Kelly. Focus. That's all of her information. She's very fast at shipping and all of her stones are very good quality. All of them. They're all like very official. I use them on a lot of pieces. I wouldn't put them under a pour. Let me see if I have that piece actually while I have you guys on the line. Excuse the mess. Okay I have one. I put a thin coat of resin on these guys. So I don't know if I know but there's resin on this one. So you can see where the light. Sorry you guys. So if this will focus. So you can see how the red nope the light catches the crystals. Not focusing. I wish it would focus better. Anyways it's you can see like the edges and the crystals and it reflects really well. This one I coated in resin and you can see they don't have the angles that these do. It looks like just a round like just a dew drop. It doesn't reflect light like it the other one did. It's just it makes them very flat even though they're still you know up there they're still textured. It doesn't it just doesn't work. So I hope that answers your questions about using Swarovski's or crystals with. I hope that answers your question about using the paste from my glass of wine and then you get the change for your beard. That's how that works. Let me scroll. Let me scroll. What did I forget? I paid for this paint not this beer. Paid for the paint not the beer. So dumb. There we are. Okay. I wonder if you can do that thing other live artists do and they put out 30 minute warning. I obviously am a noob at this and so I'm going to check into all those things and I think I can set an event so it gives you guys like a notice. Susan what we're going to do is for real this time we're going to go through in the morning and pick out the colors that we're going to pour with. That's really loud and we're going to pick out the colors and let you guys know what time we're going to be on so that you don't miss it if you want to tune in. Did you break something? I'm going to throw up the table. Oh it's our pleasure. Belize has the second largest coral reef. I know and if the flights weren't so expensive I'd be we'd be there. Do you use the one that has that gorgeous the Gecko Belize house? We just need a couple hundred more donations. We can go to Belize this month. Stop it and also I don't think it's this month. I think it's like next month. Actually I think it's June. No not for that for when she invited us to go down and stay at her place. Thank you Susan. I actually had time to do a makeup today. Do makeup tutorials too. Maybe I will. Queensland, Australia that's like forever away. We do have an Instagram account. We hold the thing up. It's down there on the bottom. This is all the contributors that we got so far. We're going to do a contributor giveaway on April 22nd and we're doing a subscriber wide giveaway when we hit 5k. We're 200 people away. So feel free to like. 100. Sure. Are you sure? They wanted Instagram right? Yeah. There's our Instagram. It's at artist told us studios. I hope you guys are already following us on our Facebook. All of the good stuff. All right. What else did I miss? Debbie, you're too kind. She does. Susanna's Lares line is amazing. I haven't gone through all the couplers yet, but it's on my to-do list. Crystal craft is here. Okay. It's still per pixelated. It's the deco craft. T H E D E C O K R A F T dot com for the crystals. Is it? Is it two in my face right now? Let's stop. Oh, thank you Dennis. 32 right now. Thanks y'all. You can't get Lares in the UK. I'm sure before too long we'll have somebody located in the UK that can ship to you guys like Laura does for us in the States. Yes, Lou, don't put the crystals under resin. It'll you'll just waste all the crystals and all the resin. Oh, Anthony says Lares will ship out. It's about 25 Aussie dollars. I don't know what AED stands for to the UK. Judy says in June. June's when she's having that thing she would like to invite us to go to if we can come up with flight fare, which is not fun number to come up with. Isn't it like it takes a couple different transportations to get to Island and Belize or something? Judy will have to clarify how long it takes to get to where she's at in Belize. I think she did say you have to take a hopper, a hopper. All right. Anything else we want to share? AED Australian dollar. I knew that. You guys, I'm sure you've noticed how everything is covered in some form of plastic from everywhere to everywhere in our studio. This is because it makes cleanup a breeze. I sound like an late night infomercial. We left this. This is from yesterday's pour. You can see it's kind of on there, but still. Hold on. Let me get, I'll just do this. Watch this. It's just that easy. You get it at Home Depot. The tarp? Yeah. Do any of you guys do skins stuffs or like make jewelry out of? There's got to be a use for this. Like you can just peel it off. You can probably just pour it all on something, let it set and then peel it off and then cut stuff out of it. I don't know. Who knows? Most people I think make like pendants and necklaces and jewelry out of it. I don't think they, I think they just put it poured in little molds. This? It's so thin. Yeah. They pour this into a mold? No. Let me call it. This stuff is just, I think this is too, the edges are too thin to make anything about it. All right. I'm telling you, I think people make jewelry out of them.  Judy says it's three hours to Belize and then 20 minute hopper. That's not that bad to go to Paradise. Also, y'all, if you want to go to Paradise in Belize, she has the most amazing places to stay.   Had to get red and teal paste. I want to get some other paste too. I think I'm going to get in on the next order that Laura puts out. Are these all the questions that we missed? Yeah. Judy said buy a shower liner, a dollar store for a dollar. Clever. Cut. I cut the set resin up and made a vase with the cured resin. How'd you get to stick together more resin? Honest question. I need a tan. You need a tan? You don't tan though. So that's the problem. Like you can't even tell where the shirt starts. Set them in a bezel. Basil? Bezel? I think it's Bezel. They're mulching it on Amazon. A lot of people do. Ginny does. See, see, people do them. That's what they use the skins for. Y'all, if you want to use our skins, not that these are pretty skins, but if you have a use for them, send us an envelope that has an addressed envelope and stamp in it on it. We'll send you our skins because we just throw them away. Right? Can we do that? Do y'all want those? You can have them. We'll just give them to you. Is your studio supposed to be a living room? That's just our kitchen back there. This, this is a loft. We turned the main part of it into a studio. Yes. So this is supposed to be the living room. I think the little man just came out. Mo. Good job. What are you doing? Mo, you're being precious. Are you? You're so cute. You need haircut.  So, okay, I'm gonna take y'all on a quick tour. So our place is kind of dirty right now. It's an art studio. So this is what should have been a living room. We are about 1800 square feet. Yeah. And then it goes into our kitchen. I need to do dishes. And then it goes into what would have, sorry, please hold, what would have been our master bedroom? This should have been the master bedroom. I have a tutorial on that table. And there is the master bath, something, my closet and the laundry room. Working on a tutorial of this for Judy.  That's where just bathroom is and our bedroom. Yeah. Mo is like, I thought you were going to the door. Are we not going for a walk and some stuff? So, yeah, that's what where we live looks like. You do yours in the bedroom. Not a bad idea. We just had the space in our living room. So we just changed it around. I poured a puddle and waited a half hour then put it in a bowl was pressed to shape. Oh, well, that makes sense. Very intelligent Lou. Hi Don. All right. I think I've wasted enough of y'all's time for the day with ETV. We are going to go to the roof and cook dinner and set up for tomorrow. Thank you if you turned in for this piece. Special thanks to Greg for making us the board. If he decides to sell them, I will let you know what his link is and what his pricing is. He's located in like Charlton, I guess. So, yeah, thanks for tuning in. Be safe. Bye. Say bye. I say bye.


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