What is up a welcome back? Do it do you feel it'll make it so do we and we have new videos each week today is another test cut Tuesday I was working on this this morning Kim's design garden design because murder is wrong You guys have to give me some feedback on this I was looking for a gardening sign But I wanted it to be funny and I think this can be sized down or up so you can hang this on your door You can put this as a like Like a desktop sign you can do multiple things with this one. I don't know what to see how it was shrink Some of those flowers get a little small Maybe you could take some out I see like tons of flowers in your photo here. Do we have design? Okay, all in your design, babe. Okay. Yes, there are that many flowers Flowers, it's like a it was the The lasting patch Romper room, no, we're the head of the knock-knock jokes on the leaves. I don't know. Yeah, all right. 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The backer is gonna be Yeah Like a sky blue No, it's gonna be Speaking of paint you guys Garrett so this morning we were well yesterday we're moving some things around in the warehouse and this morning we came through the warehouse and I looked down and I was like, what is that and We must have there must have been I don't know 10. Yeah, it's a 12 12 a dozen ish 32 ounce jars of Country Chic paint on the ground and I would say Seven or eight of them were broken and not usable now I think like a muskrat or a raccoon got loose in the warehouse and got into the pants I think it was moving some of the shoving units around and hit that one knocked them all off now What I don't understand is who's tonight? You have heard it That's why I'm really go at the muskrat raccoon Idea because otherwise, yeah, I probably would have heard I'm sure I would have heard it Yeah, and you would have picked them up and right away or you wouldn't have hit it. I definitely wouldn't have ignored it I It's good it's gonna be great Happening in the chat. What's everybody up to this week? There are There are lots there's lots of chats going on here a lot of it was about the weather and how cold it is And how much snow is out here?  It's cold to me. It's like 48 degrees here, but I'm seeing here's 11 up this morning I knew it was like a good 32 Steve says it's 17 at the Lake of the Ozarks Tyra says that in in Indiana Anthony Edwards says it's 43 in the middle of Georgia Is this rubbing it in? Well, yeah, I heard I saw somebody say anybody want to chime in from my from Hawaii Jennifer help helpful finger says Ohio is 12. I wish it was 43 Yeah, no, thanks Try not to leave the house if it's below 50 Off-road everything I should be ice fishing, but gotta wait one more day. Oh, yeah Sounds cold That's a lots of cold weather Helen says that she took her daughter to go see ice the ice castles It's what is that? Is that a place? Is that movie? I don't really know what that is. Oh, is that like that ice hotel? I want to go there the ice hotel. I Hey, we went to the ice bar in Las Vegas. Yeah, that was fun. That was cold It was fun for cold. She said she was her daughter was so excited because the Ninja kids did a video on it Anything a youtuber does gets her attention Thank you start showing her how to be a millionaire videos That's how she feels over Kevin Garrett But yeah Let me scroll on down to what's to the current champ. I'm way back here Yeah, get with it. Yeah Up Heather's here for the first time live. She always watches the replay This is here live today. What's better? Nothing? Just trying to decide what I want to paint next I got a question for you. How is the handle? Do you have two layers of this? Yeah, you know what After I saw all the pees I might have made some mistakes in this profile We'll find out. Okay. I Just said the train hangar for my friend's birthday. I'll have to post a picture turned out great Yes, yeah, I want to see your colorway. I want to see your colors But we'll see how the people's colors and what word did you put on there? Yeah, somebody say it was a very obvious and I was like, oh, you know Choo-choo Jennifer said to keep Garrett in line. I don't know what that was but that's funny Ah Malik says hello from England New front canner's awesome. Love the quality upgrade. Oh, thanks. Thanks Maria says wish it was test cut Tuesday every day. That's fun. Me too But I needed actually a time to come up with the test cut Angela wants to know what machine we're using I've been looking into the X-Tool D1 S1 M1 I'm not sure which one to buy Guess depends on is this a how much of a is this a business how much of a business what percentage of a time I'm gonna be working in this business How many things are you gonna produce? It's kind of balling me looking at if you're just starting out then I would say That's one True you can do a lot of credit. That's right because S1 is a bio laser You're gonna do clear acrylic.  Oh, yes, I'm gonna cake topper for my mom's 100th birthday this past weekend Oh, nice congratulations, but that didn't come out congratulations Kevin and Penny says well, I'm late you're trucking along not really I'm so sorry. Yeah, I got a mess over here Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Okay, whoa, whoa I'm still organizing Up Lois is here Helen says remember kids put paint on your plates, not the round Garrett lives his life on the edge I keep my gas tank on E. Right. Yep. Yep, and I put my paint on the back Did anyone see our what was where did I post it as a? Was it a real this morning? Media savvy well, I just can't remember because I was trying to make it a story But it wasn't because the video on stories that posted as a real and I don't even know I hope it went over to Facebook, but The funniest thing this morning and it happens on a regular basis.  So on the regular Garrett gets honked at at stoplights.  They're like It's like they assume I'm not paying attention before the light even turns green so often so often that it's now like a family joke because He it's he's always getting honked at and so we I have to like this morning and happen again We were just sitting at the light We were talking it was on our way into work Light turn green. Huh? He goes. Oh my gosh. You just turned green the car coming the other way It wasn't about the same position. I was in my turn The funniest thing it's just like a thing for him. It's he always gets hot now I don't know. I am wondering if he stays just like One beat too long and a stoplight, but even still even still how do you get your hand? I mean how often do you honk?   We're in the suburbs of Virginia So I just you just don't see that that often but but he does but somehow You guys are gonna have to tell me but if that happens Do you get honked at or do you honk at somebody? Garrett's just beepable. He is. I'm just beepable I mean, I really should take the bumper sticker off this is honk if you like what you see That's part of my problem. I didn't realize we had the bumper sticker. That must be it. That must be it Those are New Yorkers very impatient, right? Christian says I'm like NASCAR ready for that green and fixing to go green. Huh?  Oh, this guy wants to raise. He wants to raise this guy does not want to raise He's right and then yeah, he has tons of people that want to raise him and I'm like nope Nobody is ever really wanting to raise you. You are driving. He drives a Ford flex, which is limited Which is fast. I'll give him that it is a it's got it's a sleeper like he always says sleeper It's a sleeper, but nobody pulls up to him thinking. Oh, I want to race this car He often feels that someone's out to race him. Yes Oh my goodness, you pull up there like a nice looking car or like a charger or The Mustang You know, they want to race Brooke says we don't have stop lights where we live Dang But how do you know when to start racing? Uh Norbert says is Garrett a NASCAR rolling start kind of guy or an NHRA dragster kind of guy Oh, no, I got twin turbos and four-wheel drive Put your foot on the gas it goes. I'm a dragster Hope someone's giving you a hard time for driving a Ford You lost the man card. That's what Jason said Oh, why Jason? Are you a Chevy person? Because that's what I drive. So we have one of each I'm not married to any brand How I actually ended up with the flex was we went to Car max because we had six kids. Yeah, this is a funny story and Nobody wanted to sit in the back of the minivan Nobody wanted to try to walk through there was always arguments And who was gonna get in the back-back and of course the little kids have to get in the back-back But then they were even well, we had three teens at that point. So then there was a 12 I guess what were they 13 and 14 and they were arguing who had to get in the back-back So one day I was like, that's it. Everybody get in the van.  Everybody get in everybody get out Everybody get up We did that to so many different cars. I remember we looked at everybody out now put the two big kids in the back Everybody fit everybody fit can can the big kids fit in the third row and then some of them you'd be amazed I mean, you guys probably already know but like Was it the Armada which one did we have to climb up and there was literally you had to sit cross cross-legged Chris cross applesauce because there was no where to like put your feet down You had to sit with your legs bent cross like this There was just so many anyway with the flex with the flex It was the easiest to flip the seat slide it forward and then step into the backseat because it was low Yeah, no, we had to climb up in there That was the other thing is you had to climb up in the SC SUVs and get to the third row you could see we have ton of kids at the time and we were in and out of the car all the time Let's go to my two two hours away to go to breakfast Yeah, but pack everyone in there and then everyone needed to be comfortable and I wanted no complaints Or we wanted no complaints. Yeah, we just got sick of hearing it. Yeah, what's uh tell me about this So I'm trying to give it like a white wash look I mean, so I'm trying to fill in the Deep scores. Oh, okay. That's interesting. I like your paint technique there. I see what you got going All right, I'm gonna show it up close Do you see how the pickets have little white lines in them? So he's trying to fill the deep scores with the white lines and then you're gonna come back and paint it with color Is that it? Yeah We'll see if it works That's got Tuesday. That's right fix it. All right. What's happening over here? I was doing all the talking You got some more hate on a Ford that's hilarious That was from Lois Well, if it's any Consolation Do not say what are you going to say my my car before that was a Chevy Camaro Z28 30 30th year anniversary edition I always thought you were gonna say cuz she wrote fix a repair daily that you've had no trouble. I've had no troubles This thing Okay guys wait for next week I love the space in it. I love the engine in it Alan said I could so through that Alan. It was so true everybody in everybody else. Let's go the next one What else has a third row yep Like reluctant to show us the Ford flex it was like one of the last ones we sat in There we go. I got it for you. He was really pushing that armada Mandy says hello. She's late, but she's here Oh, here you go. Norbert says I have a 2013 Ford flex limited and love it Here you go, Norbert Maybe 2013 limited black Love it. It doesn't want to get rid of it. There's no interest in getting a new car yet I love it. It's a sleeper It hugs the road and when we were coming back the second time No, when we were leaving when we were leaving actually remember in the parking lot This woman had pulled up her husband had pulled up in a flex And we asked them because we literally had to try it everyone and we were kind of leaning for that because it was The easiest to get in and out of we saw her and we were like, hey, what do you think of your Ford flex? They loved it. They were there to buy another Ford flex. They were they she said it saved her life in an accident It was the greatest car. She had only great things to say. So And we were that just sold us even more obviously Steve said someone hugs it be that fast. I make sure to look both ways And it clear I take my time. Yeah, I do the same. Yeah, he's not in any hurry He just yells at the mirror. Yeah, I just yell in the mirror like I'm going Calm down. Don't give me sugar. No Why did the svg prices go up? We love the 450 price lol and don't say covet lol supply chain issues I don't really know if I have a good answer for that two reasons We saw them elsewhere for more than we were doing and that Like this one. I don't know what it take four hours yesterday two hours today six hours And yeah, that's what I would say. I was telling him. I'm You know, I know that others some pretty cheap, but there's so much time that goes into Doing putting together one of these svgs and paying nine dollars for an svg that you know, you can make You're gonna make you're gonna make your money back on the first sale And if there's an issue with it, I think some hopefully you're gonna sell more than one, you know that kind of thing Yeah Let's see what else I got here Christian said red lights in Boston are just suggestions As are blinkers blinkers and turn signals Brooks says I live on an island nobody races we call it island time. Nice. There you go. That's what that's what I need to live on an island Let's see Jason said yes, absolutely. That must have been for the Chevrolet That then Helen says, you know, what's cooler than the letterboard? The youtube plaque I think it's pretty cool Let's see.  Let's go No, I would say eventually I honk.   What else do we want to chat with I don't think I made it all the way back to the top, but pretty close Can't tell Which one is that top? Yeah, Norbert says depending on the size and complexity of an smg design the cost should be set accordingly, right? I agree. Yeah, some of those black and whites with just a couple of words on it that I finish in an hour Yeah, I kept those cheap. It was like this one This one took a while I'm fair. I try to be fair Can I help you here? What's happening? Nope You get it figured out Stand back. I got this Can't see his hands. His gloves his gardening Lots of layers All right, and you need the centers of your daisies or no, are we putting these back? Are they gonna be black? Black or brown? I'm just getting them together for you I'm helping I think they'll be brown. I don't know brown or black Black will just keep it nice and easy Okay You need to start painting friends. I'm painting. It's 4 30 Okay, what are we? What are we a clock? No, I don't know what was at the bottom I only know what was at the top. I think it was like a compass I'm a compass a clock. I'm at compass. I'm at compass compass Actually, oh, I see because all of that's going to be in black and we've already got the whites Yeah Do you want me to do the greens? Sure. Can I see your tape roll over there? You're using it as a phone stand You Here you can take this Oh, now I never know how to put it back I have to. I just wanted a little tape for the ends All right, just reuse All right, there you go How about you? Those are gonna be yellow Sunflower What is that? Apple stars Yes, it's over here Here we're on film Erin says Hello, happy new year. My partner Kee and I visited the summer during a painting sip I finally got my mirror nine going excited to buy paint when in stock recently joined patreon too Oh, welcome Erin Let me see Are you guys the ones with the camper? Is that the one? I think so If I remember correctly I'm not sure Um Well, I'm excited for you. Can't wait to see what you make come back share it with us. Don't be scared of it Tara says she appreciates the Painters tape pack Helps her not lose pieces for sure Oh patricius here. She got caught up in a reading and just saw the time. What are we making? We're making a gardening sign Gardening with fence Because gardening because murder is wrong So that's what we got going today So you get a t-shirt randy wants to know if she gets a t-shirt in canada. Well, mandy, I stopped sending out t-shirts We stopped adding that as a patron perk because um managing The new patrons and getting the t-shirts out and who had one and who didn't and getting them shipped became A little bit overwhelming In the fall. I basically stopped that In September or October Right around that time frame because I was losing control of what happened over the summer and Anybody who was here that didn't get what joined over the summer if you didn't get your shirt Let me know I will send to you because I got way Way behind and then I didn't know who had a shirt who didn't have a shirt And then I tried to map what went out and Shopify and what didn't It was it got a little bit crazy And then I tried to do it. Well, I guess there's no good way There's still no good way to do it from patreon over to Shopify I wish there was some sort of little plugin that would help with something like that. Yeah Good job. This is cool How do you know which how do you know you've got them in the right order though? You're just keeping them right? Yeah, I'm trying to keep them right here. I don't know when I go to put them on the fence And it's just split down the middle One is the same as the other Oh, okay All right. All right. Oh cast said he's so glad they are Yes, this is she they're so glad they got there. How about that? Uh, she saw them on the past video. I know I know But I would love to do that again when I get it when I get together. Maybe we'll bring it back But I did take it off as uh Just something we we weren't going to do go for now at least for now And he says I guess I can stop trudging to the mailbox every day in negative 15 Yes, please. Please stop trudging to the mailbox at negative fit. Oh my gosh We're oh up in Canada I can't even imagine How cold it is up there And guess what Alan said Alan says the trowel needs a little red paint on the tip to tie it all together Here we go. Here we go Um Feel like that's been suggested I was like Gary, don't take it that far. No I don't need blood on it Because I had said should we add and you can give me your thoughts But it's this one that you should use Yeah He's got all the greens out I mean you could use mul's meadow It's just a really bright green. Oh, why don't you use that for the other pieces? Yeah, unless you want to go line Back to what I was saying which was oh what I suggested was a little like Dirt hill right here. I was like, should you have like a little dirt hill here? He was like no No, and then I said should we paint the bottom brown? Like the bottom half is dirt underneath the grass. He was like no So we have some discussions about it. I just wanted to keep adding to it Lois is really taking it dark. She says a tombstone red on the spade and gloves Oh, you should see my version of this sign. It is not a Halloween sign. It's just It's cute. I'll show you guys I'll put mine out there and you guys tell me if I should make it the cut file Christine says I like the paint on the shovel Albert says when will you have 34 full set foxy hues paints back in stock We're waiting on our manufacturer. Yes, it's freezing where they are and they can't ship it until The temperature is above freezing. So I think they're in Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Same thing. I'm not exactly sure But they They said hopefully next week the week of the 22nd. It should be above freezing So let's keep our fingers crossed as soon as it goes out and we get it in We have a new Filling machine So we'll be able to break it down into our packaging and get them on the website As soon as we get them filled put them on the website so that you guys can start seeing them I got a new labeling machine Yeah, that's what he says. We'll see about that. I'm curious about that Did you order it or did we not yet order it? It's in the cart I'm just waiting on you Okay, I'm waiting on your fine fine Well, he did get something to help put the the caps on do you see the caps here? um You would be surprised after you fill It's easy to put a cap on right move it move it, but once you do 20 30 of them 40 of them your thumb really starts getting sore And so at one point he was filling and handing them to me and I just I was in we were doing this like really fast. There was no break. I couldn't stop what we were doing So I just reached down I grabbed some plastic and I wrapped it around my thumb and I was using that as a Protected because my thumb was getting so similar. He's like what is happening over there? I was like my thumb is just raw. It's so hard to keep twisting these little Um serrated cap Edges and then when I put the capper in the cart she goes do we really need that? Well, I said are we really going to use that? Is it going to be more trouble than it's worth? He goes, well, I don't know ask your thumb if it's going to be more trouble I said that was only 584 things that you kept Yeah, we're going to 10 times that. Yeah, we got yeah Well, of course over the course of the year, but this paid order is larger than the last one. So uh, Alan says we should expect a halloween version the next couple of months then Yeah, definitely Slow down high speed So then gardening how else are you going to hide the body? Yeah, I like that one They have rubber thimbles. Yes, that's what I need. That's what I need. I was like I'm at the time like I said, I didn't even know my finger was going to get sore the second time I did it Uh, we came back and we filled a different time What did I do? I think we just traded places, right? Didn't like to start filling and you started capping at these What kind of paint are we using? Well, Anisa, I'm so glad you asked This what do you see behind us? This is foxy hues paints Yep, yep, yep to you. Yep to Garrett Look, these are foxy hues paints. This is outdoor acrylic paint. So these are perfect for the door signs that we're Oh, we should just zoom in. Yeah. Oh, so you can see KBS. There you go You can find these on our website kngmaker.com Well, I mean you could find Where they would be but right now they're all marked as sold out because We are low on inventory, but Maybe I'll do that tonight before we leave. I could just do it really quickly That was supposed to be Grace's job yesterday, but she didn't come in and Sarah didn't do it yesterday either Update it because I we still have some painted inventory back there Quite a bit of some of the colors, but some of the colors were completely sold out of so And we got a new button coming out that we need to implement So that will help with the inventory Well, yeah with when we sell the 34 packs Oh, I'm not supposed to be was that supposed to be working. What got you? Hold on one more. There you go. It's all of you. Oh, that's nice terraces. I cannot wait to get my hands on some of that paint Yes, Lois, that's exactly what I was thinking one of those little things that you slide down over your thumb I won't need it It's supposed to pick up the cap and then you hold it like a dremel and it screws it on You guys want to hear something funny, you know, we're always looking at improving the packaging and We want to stick with these pouches But maybe a different kind of pouch and just different things we've been looking at We went into uh sally's beauty supply Over the weekend and gary barely get it So he was actually a two stores down and I guess he had finished up so like game stop He came in he came in sally's beauty Opened the door got two steps in and was like It was like because there were hair color in these kinds of pouches And he stood there and I was like, oh, I wanted your opinion on something Nope, he was there. He goes. Can you read that? Who's the manufacturer? Where's the bottle deck? Can you read that? So he spent 10 minutes researching pouches and how they're packaging hair color because I would say that's kind of the same somewhere, right same consistency And Like they were broken on the way on in shing so How do they do it? You should have asked him, how did you get these in? How did they come packaged? Ken says Ford's dance Ford stands first on raise day and must be a little behind over on he's on facebook Uh, please keep the pouches great. I'm glad to hear the good feedback on the pouches I keep hearing a lot of good stuff about so we'll try and keep them I enjoy the pouches I feel like uh, they're a little more eco-friendly Are you doing this one? Yeah, do you want to see?  Yeah, might be too close All right, this one's apple apple red green And I think you already have a roller bat on too Yes Dig deep friend dig deep Don't see it fish Thanks, Patricia. She said thank you to the door hanger She appreciates it. Oh, she got it. Yeah, Mandy is there in after hours today, right? We haven't done one Is that what you mean Kimmy Garrett after dark our after shows I forgot we have not done one in a couple of weeks. What are we doing? We were even here on the weekends. We were even here on sunday. Yeah Yeah, but I was moving stuff from the warehouse over there And freaking stuff I'm telling you there must have been some type of a small Did I tell you the other day I found him in the back so He we kind of took away our ploy lounge area Where we had like these little like Like dormitory style futons Yeah These dormitory style futons in the warehouse that people would sit at but because we've had The teens working with us, you know over Christmas break and stuff. They were Lounging there a little longer than they should have so we were like, all right. We got to get rid of the We got to get rid of the tick-tock spot Yeah So we knew we were going to have to kind of get rid of The the sofa so during his move he kind of got rid of those But then I went back there and he couldn't find him the other morning He wasn't at his desk. I went to ask him something. He wasn't at his desk. He wasn't in the shipping room He wasn't in the tent. He wasn't in the warehouse. He wasn't up front and I was like, where is he? So I went out there and I said Did I post that video? Did I even post it? I went back there and I was like Garrett and I just yelled and he was like what? And he was at the far Back corner all the way in the back of the warehouse by the other door in the corner behind a leaning piece of Um, I guess there was cardboard. There's some birch plywood. There's like full sheets of wood Maybe a cardboard for Pretty much it was back behind a like a cardboard wall which was leaning up against something else Anyway, he had a foldable camp chair back there and I said What are you doing? What are you doing back here?  And he said what? I don't have an employee lounge I just made myself one and so so you look like you made a fort when I came back out this morning I also I will get tater and I walked out there looking for him and I said I said, I think he's back.  No girls allowed Like what is happening right now and I knocked on the cardboard and he was like, what? I hear you laughing. No girls allowed So I haven't even been in the corner. It is literally his twitter And I think it started on you and your Boy fort fashion Bashing my boy fort Um, I think we were talking about something back at the warehouse. Oh, no, I don't know why we were talking about that I'm helping I don't need it All right, I can't touch Garrett created the new he-man woman haters club. Oh, that's exactly what I was thinking when I did it What does that even mean? Is that is that spanky? Yes spanky always created the he-man woman Yeah, yes, I mean pretty much you should I need to take a picture I did post a little video or I create take a little took a little video I don't know if I ever got it posted And it was very funny because I it was I was laughing yesterday when I found him back there And had to show him on camera. Somebody else had to see what I was seeing Billy wants to know could you please help me with where you got your long banner style images for the layered names Um, you just created them. Yeah, I created in Danva then exported it as a PNG and then imported it But what he but you did two it was two steps to that what you didn't see is he had um the music the music notes And then he basically just duplicated it and yeah, I just meered it over and attached them and removed whatever that The stanza the staff this you know, yeah, you know Remove it from the other end But oh, it's the same thing again. I saw some cool ones. I saw some people do it so cool I saw a video game one that somebody did great job So, yeah And we got a lot of comments this week about I don't have illustrator So I'm taking away that excuse this week. I'm doing all the design work I'm doing all the design work in light burn Yeah, it's a very similar project that we had already planned to do back to back So this time he'll do similar to what he did last week, but do it right in light burn so that you can see you can do it in light burn And you can see how to do it in light burn no special tricks Nothing of this sleeve or this one Are you going to do one of these in a darker gray? Yep. Do you want me to take it off and put it on the piece of tape for you? Are you got this? Yeah, I got this when it dries I feel like I could be doing something else I feel like you could have been doing something else Now I'm just really down to two pieces here. Well, I let me put another coat of yellow on over here And then are your gloves two different colors yellow? Yeah, I would uh make just put a second coat on one glow like uh pick one That michael jackson would pick my favorite glove and put a second coat on it Yeah Billy says thank you my partner is trying her hardest to make her own I just got her illustrator, but she was struggling for images Canva can find them in canva don't sleep on the canva It's a great place to just gather some clip art Well, it doesn't well, it's not I don't want it yellow yellow. That's why I coated those in white Okay, I wanted these to look like yard gloves And then I don't need you don't really need a second because they don't the shadow Jason says light burns real easy, but it does have limitations when it comes to design That's true. You can't do everything. It's not a design tool, but it does a lot. It does a lot You'd be surprised at some of the things that it can do so That in uh, there's a lot of workarounds and tricks to get it to do what you want it to do Alice says hello from the uk I love how the graphic is work gloves aka dexter star versus gardening gloves Yeah, I didn't want them to look too gardening. She's trying to put some out there that have like a heart on them Like no No hearts Yeah, I didn't have one flower on the heart one. We need to imply Jen says she don't have light bulb either Man, that's what it says. Isn't that funny? What light burn? Yeah, this is Jen says I don't have light bulb either He's not he's not registering what I'm saying. I see you made a mess over there Here I've got these little I don't get it. What do you mean light bulb either? She it says light bulb instead of light burn Which I'm guessing she was typing light burn and it corrected it to light bulb But I think it's funny. I was just thinking it was funny Well, you can do this with creative space X tool creative space. I already tested it out You're um, I was just gonna dab it for you, but I don't see your black rolling I don't see it Maria says I put my paints in alphabetical order to find them easier I get it. We struggled when we first um That's funny because when I first Started packaging them. I was like, how do you guys want to store these on a shelf? Do you want it in rainbow color? So all the pinks are near each other Do you want it to go from red to pink and all the yellows are near each other or do we want to do it in alphabetical order and The first one was uh rainbow so that all the same colors are near each other and I was like, okay and then really quickly um because we are filling based on An order sheet. We're using the names. So that didn't work out.  I was correct. I knew I knew what you meant. I just thought it was funny Vandy says I'm going to call lighter and light bulbs now on All right, now we're going to open up a little light bulb What's it? What did I miss? I missed a spicy joke a spicy joke Three red auto correct duck Duck this I might have missed something in there. You guys will help get me straight Um, I'm sad that resin dragon studio says I'm sad that light burn doesn't work with all the functions of the p2 Yeah, right learning creative space is not as good I've been impressed with creative space. It just came out with another release. They're constantly Releasing new features and functionality. I So I guess we haven't done everything yet. I was gonna do this week's video all in uh light burn. Should I do it in both? I mean if you think you can do it quickly I mean two and eight minutes using light burn. It's the same tools Oh, well, then maybe just do like a four minute one in light room a four minute one in creative space Because the concept would be the same, right? Just kind of say hey, we just did this much. Yeah And If you have creative space, well, you can use light burn too with With the p2 just you might not have all the Features and light burn the p2 can do so you want to use creative space Whatever i'm saying. I'm now mumbling Just let it go. Right. Yeah. Let me let it go All right. Let's see what else What you guys doing Christian wants to know if you're going to make the shovel Dirty Could add a little tan and dirt at the bottom instead of blood Yeah, you know, let's get it on there and see how we feel How we're feeling what it's feeling. Well at 456. Let's just see if we can get it together. How about that? I think i'm ready to assemble Yeah, I see this needs a note. Let me put a second code on here light green grass Everything else I think has two codes on it. Good Done. This one's done Are you still overhead? Yeah, it's a kind of far away. I want you guys to see how How good he is at painting and trying to get the making this look like wood. It's got Some color variation in there light and dark Oh, I forgot to view this. I don't know if you can see it Oh, you didn't come back and finish up your fence Yeah, I got my fence Now, uh, what color brown should the fence be? Nearly That's what I was thinking I mean Whack that I sometimes switch between Sherman Williams and foxy hues colors now All you patrons out there. Did you see I um did post The mapping between the Sherman Williams and the foxy hues paints And I tried to pull a garret and give you a poem which I am no poet, but I was pretty impressed. I had to make Garrett read it. I was like go read what I wrote go read what I wrote Now you get it now you get why I do it to you Yeah, well, yeah, I see the challenge with your shovel. You you must already see that right? Yep. Okay Yeah Flip one of the gloves. You have two the same Oh, uh, you want them to be like that I'm just gonna have them laying like that Let's see the layers of the gloves together You don't like them like that. What are you looking for what I missed? Hey, we're having my plate of brown What is it me? Oh Can't use that anyway. Yeah, thanks, sir You can grab a little bit of it, but then I would roll it off onto This plate right here. What do you want it like spotty? Yeah artistic Oh, there it goes. It's trying to focus on your dark hat and then the white. It's very Contrasty I'm thinking your white isn't showing up like you wanted to but I thought maybe you could do Like the little wood grain tool Already in great with them Cat says I'm newbie to patreon and discord. I'm so lost when I go in there Me too. Well, that is something that I thought we would try and add for this year What do you guys think if we start adding like a new patron? user Like a new patron call every month It will show you how to use patreon how to use discord Tell you about some different things show you around just basically like This is what we're doing out here a tour Yeah, just basically a tour of the products that you learn how to use them. Let me guys think of that Is that useful? I mean we get new people every month. So It might be a good way to just get introduced to the tools a little bit And then how to find things Or I mean the other option was we just create a little video a little introductory video that you can watch I guess it depends. I mean We have to commit to a call every month I remember every month. Yes Kelly says hi Kevin Garrett Hi Kelly Christine says just wipe some of it off Cass says I want to paint silk screen fabric and engrave it with my d1 Very cool. Yes. Yeah, how did that work? I need to see that Yep, Mandy said intro video Steve says I'm not new and I still need help And Mandy said I felt the same way until someone mentioned clicking on general and then it opened up all the channels and it's amazing Yeah, I think Jason there is a newbie channel out there or Um Harold was going to create one or something The the king of the castle there is like The bebes it's herald beaver or uh christian They really helped us set it up and they set up all the rooms and they know all Okay, it almost works Jen says I think a video would be better. I need to commit to a call every month to put on to put out the Same info maybe just make sure to update the video but changes. I like that I think it would be a good like personal video. Yeah, welcome video. Welcome to patreon. Let me show you around Oh, we could do in front of a green screen and then we could be like Standing on discord and be like here. We are in discord We could wear like little astronaut uniforms You got so many add-ears Harold said hashtag maybe he's there now So Thank you bebes Jason says he's on discord a lot help hit him up and he could show you around if you need And do we have a separate facebook page for patreon viral essentials? Yes, we do But I don't know how long it's going to be around. So I really really recommend using uh discord and getting out there and And um learning how discord works. There's so much more even more information out in discord But there is a facebook group and if you don't have access to it Let me know and I'll go and send the invite again. Everybody should have received an invite I know I said I was behind before But we're all caught up now. So if you have not got an invite Let me know or it expires. So I may have sent it and then it expires and you can't get in I'm gonna go back and see viral essentials You may have to send me an email. You can always send me an email at support a knd make it dot com That way I could find your name that you registered in patreon What is this and Garrett could read from a teleprompter? I don't know who told you that Who is it? I think it was a jib. I think it was sarcasm. I think it was sarcasm Ah We are discussing our five-year plan I don't think files are on discord just patreon, right? Yes, just patreon You're working on uh We're working on a file so Yeah, I mean we're working on it. That is not I don't have a great way to do that. So if anybody else knows of a channel that has a great way to Manage their files that we can replicate. Yeah, share it with me. All right. You're ready to bring this thing together. I'm being bringing it It's already been brought it's already been brought Well, I don't know. I think your file might be good. This is the piece. I thought you were missing and I see it's attached to I think I forgot to cut the handle out of this bottom layer of Grass. Oh, isn't it going to sit up on top anyway? According to this it sits on top. Yeah, but Let me see Oh, I'm trying to set it up here Christian says right now the hashtag welcome channel Covers all the quick start of setting up your name and your business name if you have one So yeah, check that one out. There you go. Hashtag welcome Um Lori wall. All right, Lori. I heard you the facebook invite My kpop life. Okay. I'm stuck on the missing glow forge. I purchased my glow forge because of k and g We're still we still love the glow forge.  It is actually sitting direct opposite of this laser here on the other wall Hold on there Here's the omtech polar and it's just sitting on that wall, right opposite of it staring at each other They're a face off with one another But we still use it. We still use that. There's it's funny how Um things that we Like the first if we it's the first time we used a file and we happen to have used it on the glow forge Then we'll continue to cut it on the glow forge If it happened to been cut on the the polar Then we will cut it on the polar if it's something new here lately We've been using the x2p2 and we've been loading the new files over there And that's because this one is actually the one connected to the filter right now We have to move because we do not have windows in this room. This is a complete interior room So we have to use the filters on the laser. So Our filter is on wheels and we can roll it or roll it around It's the glow forge filter. It is. Yeah, it's actually the glow forge filter And we have it attached to the p2 right now Which is not hard to Detach it. I just the the p2 Hose is a little smaller. So it's actually taped up. So it doesn't leak smoke Oh, no, here. He says I saved the day you did The day saver I hear what you're saying. I'll go back overhead again so they can see what you're doing And yeah, let's get thick up there. It's gonna get a little top heavy I might do some of this Tuscot tuscot it's here though Eddie says they're mean mugging each other She's uh, get my cake pop wife says, phew. I'm calm now. I'll put the alcohol away It's all good So are you loving your omtech? Yeah, I mean, we're seeing no problems with it. It's been great. It's every time we turn it on What did you do recently? Oh, I guess it's been Oh, I did all those Hair clips for the other lady somebody came in and bought all those Oh, right. She wanted uh Do you remember when we did the hair clips she bought just the Um wood pieces that she could make her own She was going to paint her own designs But she went the wood piece that she could paint on and do her own custom paint job on them So you cut all those on them? Sue bear says she's making the railroad now That's it Yeah, somebody else was just asking us about the training one. Yeah, that was uh Oh The the woman you made it for actually was in for a workshop last friday and um She asked if we used the file and I was like, yeah, we actually used it this week as a test cut tuesday And we had such positive feedback on it So she was excited about it. She gave us a christmas gift and everybody loved it You just want to help right? It's killing me not to get in there and help you Just sit back and watching Maybe I could help lose some of the words Just because we're at the top of the hour It is it's past it. It's like 5 10 5 11 A couple of these but I will keep talking Oh Well, that's easy pop this guy off for now. Oh, yeah, I guess so quickly Yeah, try the spatula Bang And before you go too hard on that just let me clean that edge right there There's white paint on that G. Just give me one second. It's gonna be really hard to do after we clear it down. There you go Thank you. Alice is on the event mine out the window. It's three degrees here now I think a window venter is needed Very sweet door hanger Maybe I haven't seen it all yet Which omtech are you running? This is the polar the omtech polar. It's desktop laser. Oh, we have an 80 Yeah, a little bigger standalone standalone version as well Eva says so just a thought this sign is about gardening painting all those plants green Makes them look like mini palm trees not flowers Oh, no not done yet. He's got another whole layer. He's gonna put on top of each of these Teeth so they end up being flowers. Well, I guess let me finish glueing these words on for you. There's all these little flaky things I don't know Hard out now Tiny cuts Yeah, I could see in quarter inch. It gets thick.  Lori you have actually been on my mind about that because I know that you're in there all the time We are considering just going discord all the way Which was not our original intent when we created discord But there's just so much going on over there and I was actually going to talk to you about that I wanted to see what your thoughts were and see if you had been in discord yet and if you could Try it out and see how easily You guys can use it use it. I mean, I know you're doing a lot on facebook. Could you do all your marketing over there? But yep, I guess the short answer is we're thinking about it Because I can't maintenance it the just the top tier group not the kim and garret make a group that would stay Uh, but the top tier group would just move over to discord only Because then patreon can maintenance it for me. Um, it'll automatically connect to discord and add members and delete members And I don't have to go in and manually do it Because I know they're a bunch of uh top tier patrons that aren't top tier patrons anymore that still have access Because I haven't gone out and removed them Oh, was she doing the cleanup? Ellen I've been trying to get Sarah to do it, but she every day this is for two weeks now and every time she's I was shipping. I was shipping. That's what I get. I can send a gene. It's it's quick and easy to do the export I think yes, I think you could Hey grace Grace just joined us. Oh, hey grace Harry says I can't make that sign around here. I get yelled that I'll tell my wife I want to hope I want hope for christmas That's what it was supposed to say, you know Harry it's supposed to say Wait, no, was that was that right? Who was it that just said that to me? Yeah, harry, um It's supposed to say a dirty hoe Is a happy hoe But we couldn't get that one. I still want to finish that sign, but it just can't get the elements I keep putting my hand in you know Oh I'll take me two seconds to plop all on every I could do it Well, you're supposed to move on to these I think you were supposed to move on to these you're supposed to do where I glued you're supposed to put the letters on I thought you were helping me glue I was I just did the glooper All right, you guys can see it coming together That's my other thing is uh, what about all those flowers? Is that too many flowers? For gardening should it be more plants? Should it be veggies? I've had all these questions Made all these changes Okay, you have that built into the back earth. That's nice You know exactly where it goes And I don't have to worry about score marks And if you want to take these words off you could right maybe we can do it like a Option a option for you kind of thing for it Even options All right Mandy says she'd be sad if facebook goes away But I get it. I'm just not a fan of discord. I'm a stubborn grandma Me too I'm trying to resist the discord. I want to do a quilting sign somebody just asked me harry for a quilting sign Harry says I want to make a sign for my wife who's always quilting Don't be don't be quilting my quilting Well start with uh Some type of sketch and we can work it out Need some red over here. Those are christians and I will make some mock ups like this. I like that saying All right, get the front facing you can hold on or do you think it's I think we're dry now Turn that thing sideways. It's just low. It's a little chunky. Yeah, I think I think january's, you know The signs are really packed on the pounds in january Last one was a little thick too You know how it gets they get sedentary Mandy says this is gorgeous. I can see it hanging on the greenhouse door, right? Hold that for a second That's what I was thinking. We just we didn't have should we didn't actually have our own good sign Hold on. Oh this way It's kind of hard with the gloves. Now tell me what you guys think doesn't stand with this. Yeah. Yeah So flowers up top vegetables Like feet I think a head and nose somebody said Um different versions of it Oh, yeah, we could put different flowers in there. It's easy Christian says he loves this one fresh and crisp. Yeah, that's what I thought too. I was like, yes Kevin and penny said so cute packed on the pounds lol Um Looks great Kevin and pay so I could use some veggies No bees No, all right. We don't need to add one more thing to this one. I didn't Doesn't need to be I could steal a cartoon be and just put them up over here opposite like the bow I believe bloom for a bow. So there's my bow room Yeah What about the inside of those flowers? Do you think they do they need them? I mean, I have them here I just didn't know if we should add them. I could do them afterwards. I don't think so. I don't think you need them I mean, you can put them in but From this distance they look like Just a different color It's pretty gotta Put the shadow comes in. Yeah, I don't think you need them We got a design for the shadows because you know what? Well, you'll always lose I bet you if I put them on there even though we've had them here the whole time if I put one of them in I put them all in we're missing one Oh, christin christine says a bird Fine My wife always finds a brown snake when gardening. Oh, yeah, all kinds of fun things in there You put a brown snake in there Who said hold on Put grandma's dress covered But up in the air popping above the fence Oh, yes I like that one. Yeah, I think we can do a version like that. That's cute.  You guys are awesome That's a good one. I like it I will uh, I don't know. Do I need to fix that one piece? It kind of just left it off Panic green I'll put this up on patreon Before I go home tonight Yeah scouts scouts on All right, well, I am about out of time You know, you know what this is this is a tuesday, so it's taco tuesday They already had angels for lunch. So I gotta do taco tonight. So everybody sell kim to make me some tacos Otherwise, I'm cooking them and that's just the Frozen ones. Yeah We will see you on friday where we got another good one for you A ton of information you'll be able to uh make both these projects using light burn and creative space So we will see you on friday.  You're already warm at 49 degrees


Hello friends, it's time for the start of the end of the year. This is probably my favorite time of year to make content. I also like the start of the year. I do like start your videos. I love end of the year videos so much. It just like satisfies something in my soul, like deep down. It makes me so happy doing end of your videos. So I was thinking what is, I mean obviously it's the start of December. I'm still going to be doing some reading. So I don't want to do like my best books, worst books yet. So I was thinking what's something we can like do at the start of the month that's still an end of your video. And it's time to, I don't really want to do this, but it's time to talk about my series reading in 2023. My series progress, how many series I finished, how many I started. And I reached my series goal, spoiler alert, no. Because I'm probably not going to be starting any more series now the rest of the year. I know I'm going to be reading one more that's part of a series and I've marked that on the spreadsheet just because I will have finished that by the end of the year. I will have read that book. I want to finish the series. But unless I unwrap a start of a series in wrapped up, which there are a few of them, there's actually not that many. I'm like, it's just telling a lot of fear in me, but there's probably only like five or six.  I won't let the psychic, next year it's fine. I'm fine starting the next year, but just not in December. That's so cruel. So I don't think I'm going to be starting any more series. So I think we're safe to see my series progress. So we're going to look at my series spreadsheet. I've got some stats to talk through you guys. And then last year I asked everyone Instagram some things you wanted to know in this video as well. And I'm going to answer the same questions like best series I finished, series I'm glad I finished, series I want to finish, series I want to start, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So shall we just get into it? I'm very excited. Oh, I love graphs. I love the spreadsheets. I'm just excited. Okay, let's chat, like, let's, let's, let's settle down for a second everyone. And let's chat basic stats. Okay, well, we need to come to terms with this, the fact that start this year, I had 34 ongoing series that I was currently reading. Okay. And my goal, which will be the same goal next year, this is, this is always my goal now, is to have a net negative. So at the end of the year, I wanted to be currently reading at least 33 series, if not less or at most, I guess, 33 series. So starting on 34, how many series am I currently reading? 39. Okay, you have to give yourself permission to fail. That's not terrible. And I want you to sit with that in a moment, because we're gonna, we're gonna do a bit of a switch up in a moment. And I don't know what the results that are gonna be. So I just want you to sit with that. I'm currently reading 39. So that's plus five. It's not the worst. It could be, it could be much worse. We'll get into all my stats, but I feel like my overall impression of my series reading this year is that it's not the best, but it's not the worst. And that's not something insightful. But I'm okay with how much series progress I made. So I started 11 series in 2023, and I finished eight. So you should think that would only be plus three, but a couple of ones that I, I think two of the ones that I finished were ones I'd started this year. So it didn't make an, it didn't affect the currently, the total. But something I am pretty proud of that I did want to tell you guys, I'm gonna have a little look at this when we go through the spreadsheet in a second, but how many series I'm still at the same place as I was at the start of the year is 20 out of the 30 that I could be. So I've made progress in 10 more series this year, which last year I only made progress in six series. Last year I made a big focus on finishing series. I read a lot of series where I only had one book left to finish the series, but I didn't make a lot of progress in any of my other series. Whereas this year I did make a bit of effort. And some of those series I read like three books in the series this year. So I feel like that is, you know, is a positive in my view. Also I just want to say in these stats, in all of these stats that we're gonna go through, I only include series that I am currently reading or I finished, I don't include series I have DNF because that would skew the results somewhat. So let's have a little look at the spreadsheet and I'm gonna tell you what we're gonna do. So this is my reading spreadsheet. Some of you have seen it before. Basically, it's very simple. It is color coded for the year that I read the books. This is 2019, this is 2020, that's 2021. If a book is in bold, that means that I only have one book left to finish the series. Escaping from Houdini is the book I haven't read this year yet, but I'm going to read before the end of the year. So that's why it's marked as that. Something that's underlined means I own it and something that's in italics is something that hasn't come out yet is basically all that means. So this is my currently reading series. As you can see there, we've got a, like even though we've got four series up there that I've made progress in this year that I haven't finished but I'm glad that I've made progress. This is a little bit of like a No Man's Land. These other books that I started in 2019, I need to make some progress in some of these this year or DNF. I can't believe I haven't made progress for a while in the singing Hill Cycle. That's not good. What are you feeling right now? Embarrassed. These three middle grade series, I would really like to make some progress in these if not finish some of them. I know that all the Sinclair's mysteries are on script. I think maybe in a picture of magic and these two Tinning Lost Fairytales and Mr. Jordan Moth are wrapped up. So I could make progress if I unwrap those at some point. But yeah, these are probably priorities to me. I would like to make some progress in those middle grade series or DNF them. There we go. Like I said, I read three books this year in the Lady Hardcastle mystery series. I read two from the Before Look If It Gets Gold series and I am gonna, I think there's gonna be like loads of books in series, but I personally am gonna finish with Before We Say Goodbye. I'm not gonna continue with the series after that I've decided. But yeah, here's a series. Look at her. She's so cute. Don't talk about Saga. Oh my god. A few more that I've made progress in though this year. So I'm happy. And then these are the ones I've started this year that I have not finished and all of them I have only read the first one, which is pretty bad. I mean bookshops and bone dusts I'll read soon. I would like to finish off these too soon on my own. Do I own, I don't own a firendless. Why do I think I did? Oh, because I have the audiobook. But yeah, I would like to make some progress in these. And then we've got a completed series. Look at all of these. Wow, look at all of these. And these are the series I finished this year. I'm not gonna do reviews for these in this video because I feel like I'll talk about three of them. So I'll talk about my favorite ones that I finished. But kind of my attitude towards a lot of these is like, they were okay. I didn't love, we'll talk about the three that I am glad that I finished and most enjoyed. But I didn't love a lot of the series I finished this year. And then we have DNF series. So any series that I only read the first book for there's quite a few this year, as you can see that I only read the first book for and then decide DNF or I DNF'd along the thought wise see this year after reading the second one. So yeah, now what I need to talk about that we're gonna do. Get ready everyone.  A lot of you always tell me to not count the series that I am up to date with but have not finished because I can't finish them because the series themselves not finished to not count them in my ongoing series. And I always hesitate to never do that because whether I do it at the start of the year, the end of the immediate, it's going to screw with the stats, right? So I always had off on doing it, right? Because I will my currently reading my ongoing series will deflate but like not organically. But I've decided to just do it. So we're gonna do that now. We're gonna make a new section on the spreadsheet for series I'm completely up to date with. Now, I don't know. I don't know how many that will be, but we are gonna count however many series I am ongoing as my end of year total at the end of this. Does that make sense? So my end of year total is not 39. We're reducing it. The rules don't apply. I don't know if we're gonna get close to 34 or 33, I guess is the goal. But let's see, shall we? Okay, let's see what ones we've got. I am up to date in the way we're children series. That is one. I won't be up to date for that vlog because anyone comes out in January.  I'm up to date in last level to die. I'm not sure if it's going to be anymore. Or I'm up to date in Dahlia Lively. Anything else that I'm up to date with. Okay, that is it. So we took four away. So that means I'm currently reading 35 series. Yes? Actually, I missed out that I am up to date in the sworn soldiers series by T. Kingfisher, so I am only currently reading 34 series while I am amazing. Okay, that is our new total. I am currently reading 35, which means I've only plus one series this year because all of these ones, yeah, are ones that I got up to date with this year. So I feel like that's fair. Okay. Are we happy with that? I'm really happy with what I'm seeing. So yeah, when I get up to date with a series, I'm going to move them down here instead. So that is, we've made the change now. So now going on when I set that goal, when I set my how many series I want to be currently reading, it's going to take that into account. Does that make sense? I always get so many comments about this. I do a series video. So I think you guys are going to be glad. I think you're going to be glad about that. Okay, let's go into a few more stats that I've got. So on this bar chart, this is how many series I've started this year. So in 2019, I started 11. In 2020, I started 19. In 2021, I started 20. In 2020, I started 10. And in 2023, I started 11. So I only started one more series I did last year. Listen, 2020 and 2021, the girl was out of control. So I wanted it to stop me. So I wanted to sit me down and have an intervention with me because why was I doing all of that? Anyway, so I'm in control, but I'm out of control and I'm also controlled. So in a way, I'm everything. So yeah, I feel like I didn't start too many series this year. I kept it pretty under control. That's a kind of number I'm happy with, the kind of rates that I'm finishing them. In terms of how many series I finished each year, in 2019, I finished three. In 2020, I finished four. In 2021, I finished four. In 2022, I finished 15. And in 2023, I finished eight. So not nearly as many as I finished last year. But like I said, last year, I pretty much polished off all the series on my DVR that I only had one book to finish in order to finish the series. Whereas this year, I read some series that I had a few more books to finish, etc. So it's not bad. I'm finishing double the amount of series that I was in those previous years. So again, I am okay with this. I haven't reached the goal. But you know, the whole point, like I always said, the whole point of making this a focus and starting to track this was to just have some level of control. Because if I'd carried on at the rate I was in 2020, in 2021, like starting 1920 series and finishing four, that is not sustainable, you know? Whereas I now feel like my series reading is somewhat sustainable, somewhat. In terms of the genres of the series I finished, five were fantasy, two were mystery, and one was sci-fi. And then in terms of the series I've got ongoing, two are historical, 14 are fantasy, 11 were mystery, which I feel like is a little bit of an increase. And this ongoing also includes the ones I'm up to date. One is nonfiction, two are romance, one is magical realism, two are sci-fi, two are horror, and one is contemporary. So I think fantasy last year was like 55%. So I've diversified my series reading a little bit. Okay, that's all the stats and I look at the spreadsheet done. Let's go through some of those questions I mentioned earlier. So the first one is the top three series that I finished and I only really kind of have a top two. A lot of the series I finished were like, okay. My top two are like top, top, top five star favorite series ever. And the first one is the Sheets graphic novel series. The one I read this year to finish it was Lights. I don't think Brenda Thunder has any other graphic novel series and I just want everything. Brenna, give me your mix. The first one is the story of Marjorie whose mother has recently died and she meets this ghost called Wendel and in this world all the ghosts are sheets. They look like bed sheets. And by the third one we are really looking into how Wendel died and Wendel's backstory on what happened to Wendel. I love these graphic novel series. That's real. Even though she's fictional, it's real and that's important to me. I think that class is middle grade, both this and the other graphic novel series are technically middle grade. But I think anyone and everyone could read them. And I just think there's a lovely, lovely story to these that I am just, oh, I love them. I love the story. I love the message. I love, also the illustration style is so pretty. I think the color schemes are great. I cannot wait to read more from Brenda Thunder when she eventually publishes more because I just think it's amazing. The other series will not be a shock to anyone. And that is the Tea Dragon series, which I finally finished this year. I read both the Tea Dragon festival and the Tea Dragon tapestry, both five stars. But I think, um, I don't know which is my favorite in the series. I think I need to do a reread of the whole series back to back before I know which is my favorite in the series. But these are little fantasy graphic novels about these Tea Dragons that can brew tea, but also it's about the people who live in these communities. Like the Tea Dragons are quite a small part of it. It's more the communities that have these customs with the Tea Dragons. And I just love them. You guys know I speak about these a lot. But truly, again, the messaging that comes with these books is just, I always say it's, it's the attitude that I wish we all lived with in the world. I just think it's so beautiful, the way that these books view the world and view connection between humans. I just adore it. I love it so much. I cannot recommend this graphic novel series enough. I think it's a gift to the world. So I cannot wait to reread these and reread these and reread these and read them to my kids one day. And I just, I think again, guys, look at how gorgeous, some of these pages, I just, I just can't, I can't. It's so pretty. And then I was thinking of like, what do I want to say in the third one? Because again, a lot of the series I finished were like, you know, they were fine. I actually, I don't ever mention I read the whole of the Mr. Mercedes trilogy from Stephen King this year. And that was my first time reading Stephen King. And I did quite enjoy it. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. And I've heard that some of Stephen King's worst. So I might like Stephen King. Who knows? I don't really view that as like, in the, I don't view the ones that I started and finished this year as as much in this category, because like, they were just a blip. You know what I mean? Whereas some of these series have lived with me for a long time with me not finishing them. But I wanted to give an honorable mention to the Girls of Paper and Fire series with the Girls of Fame Fury. I didn't love this one. I think I gave it a 3.5. But this was just a really important series for me. I started this series just as I was getting into reading. I think this is actually, yeah, this was the oldest series on my TBR at this point. Now it's a different one. I started this before I had my channel. I started this when I was just getting back into reading. And it was really, I don't know, I think it set the tone for a lot of what I like from fantasy. It really helped me figure out what books I wanted to read. I don't know, I just view this as a special series. So to be able to finish it finally felt very special. I didn't love this as much as like the first one. You could probably read it as a standalone. I don't think the second and third are nearly as good as the first book. But it felt like a momentous occasion because I'd been reading it for so long to finally finish this series. Then the next question was top three I want to finish next year. Now a series that was on this category last year that I did not finish is the Talking Jack River series. I will, I've already read the first two currently, but like I said I will be reading Escaping from Houdini before the end of the year. So then I only have one book left to read and I just need to read it because this is now the oldest series on my TBR. And I just want to get it done. I don't love these. I feel like both of them are like a 3.5 for me. But I do want to finish the series because there's something about them like the historical setting. They have little like, I don't know if you guys have seen before. They have like letters in them or they often have like at the start of chapters, pictures of like the setting or things that are happening in the book. So I do want to finish this series off. I'm this deep in. I'm just going to finish it off and read the last one. And then I do get a sense of satisfaction of finishing the really old series on my TBR.  And Ninth House. Well I think we're going to get a third book and then that will be it. But that won't finish. I should take a couple years to get that to be honest. Yeah those won't be finished for a while whereas it's in my power to finish these. Then I do want to say the Sinclair's Mysteries as well. I didn't grab that. Whoopsie. I don't know where that is. I couldn't find it somewhere about that. But the second one is wrapped up and wrapped up retro like I mentioned. And I always talk about those three middle grade series. I started in 2021 and I have not made progress on a single one of them. And so I think the Sinclair's Mysteries is the one I'm feeling most drawn to at the moment. A lot of people said the first one is the least good in the series and the rest are really, really good. It's like kind of I think Edwardian Britain. So like 1910s I think it's set in. And the first one is like a murder mystery at a department store. And I just I think it could be like a cozy... Last year I listened to almost all of the Small Spaces Quartet by Catherine Arden which is a horror middle grade series as audiobooks. And I think it would be nice to prioritize reading some of these middle grade books as audiobooks throughout the year. It's like palette cleansers. So I would like to finish that.  I would really like to make progress in the Bear Town series. I don't own the second or the third. But I really enjoyed Bear Town. I read this about a year ago and I just feel like if I'm gonna make progress I need to make progress soon, you know? It's set in the small Swedish town that's very much built around this hockey team and the youth hockey team. And something happens that really divides the town and the town is divided on who they should believe and you know what the truth is. I don't know what roots the Second and Third books are gonna go down because they kind of feel like stand-alones. But I would, I really enjoyed this. I really liked Frederick Bachman's writing. I just thought it was very unique. So I would be intrigued to make progress in the series. It's a series I think about a lot in terms of making progress in. So it's a curveball because I don't own the Second or Third books. There's many series that I own more books than this. But I would like to still make progress in it. And then let's talk about the top three series I want to start next year. First one is Matterport Evensong by Reverend Richard Coles. This is a cozy mystery series where there's like a reverend who solves many mysteries. Look at the dogs! I have both the first and second books. If I'm gonna start a series it makes sense to start this one. I have heard mixed things about this one but I think it's one of those books you need to go into with the right expectations. I think it is quite lowly rated on Goodreads but I think it's a kind of book you need to go in not expecting a lot and kind of expecting like it to just be cozy and a bit of a fun time. It was a bit of a laugh. It's tongue-in-cheek Daniel. It's tongue-in-cheek. It's funner. Do you know what I mean? There's so many books that I feel like are rated on Goodreads because people didn't go in with the right expectations. But I'm hoping I will enjoy it. I love anything that's sort of good homage to you know a classic quaint English town murder mystery. I think one that I did say last year and didn't start this year but would really like to. I mean there's still time it's wrapped up but I don't want to start the whole series. It's the Veronica Speedwell series with a curious beginning. You'll tell me how much I'm gonna love this. It is now obviously one of the oldest books on my tbr if it's in wrapped up retro but I am just a little bit scared off of it because of how long it is. Like I know if I start it I know I'm not gonna finish it and that makes me nervous and so many of you have told me I'm gonna love it and so many other booktubers who have similar reading tastes too have loved it so I know I know I know I need to read it but the length has always scared me off but I will start it next year I promise. And then the third series I would really like to start next year is Blood Like Magic by LaZelle Sanbury. I believe this is only a duology and I followed LaZelle for many years. She's an author tuber and I followed her for many years and I remember when this came out. I got this not long after it came out and she's like published three books instead. It's quite embarrassing so because this is a duology I feel like it's not particularly a scary series to start because I could feasibly start and finish it next year but I just am really interested in all of her books like delicious delicious monsters I think there was another one. All of her books sound really really good to me. I just feel like I should probably read the one that I own before buying more so I would really really like to start this series this year and I just I've heard also really wonderful things from people who have read it and obviously I watched her speak about it so much when watching her video so I'd really like to start this one. So that is my series review for 2023. I hope that was interesting somewhat for you guys. I love chatting about series and yeah overall I feel like I did okay with my series progress because remember I've only got 35 on the going now which is only plus one so yeah I'm pretty happy with my reading progress my series progress this year but let me know how was your series progress. Do you track your series reading? Do you not track your series reading? What's the sitch? Let me know down below I would love to know. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!