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Our phone number's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks. One note's going on in your world. In the world of the S&P's, let's take a look at it. What do you have? Well, I'm going to get into the future first so you can see where we are intraday here. So intraday, we've had a range out here and the range isn't getting much smaller, folks. The volatility's going down, you get summer trade and all of the above. And so the range today has been from 4403 to 4372. Now, that type of range we've had like five minutes, you know, three or four weeks ago, but you can expect this is going to calm down. It has calmed down, not that it... So what we have, however, though, is this. You can see that what has happened is that on the downtrend, 38,000 contracts were done at 4372. As we came back into that, we hit the 4373 and we only did 19,000. So 19 versus that 38 is saying there's no more sellers down there, okay? So now you're dealing with the top end of this. And so the top end of this is, this is the last 30 minutes we've been building cars now. You had that big bar, the big bar that we actually had, it went from, what was that, 70, yeah, it went, that was nine S&P points. And I expect what's going to happen here is that you're going to get another big bar and you're going to challenge where the downdraft came, the first one this morning, which was the, well, it's actually the second one, but it was a big bar too, it went from 89 to 76. And so that bar there actually had 46,000 contracts. So you're going to need a little contract volume, but I suspect we're going to go after that bar. Now that's in the S&P. Now the NASDAQ's not set up like that. The NASDAQ is a different animal. So what we have with the NASDAQ is that the reason it's a different animal is the NASDAQ did not test its bottom. You know, I always like to see the test at the bottom. You can see that's hanging out there like a sore thumb, man. There's 50, there's 16,000 contracts at the low. When we just did have that sign of strength, we had it with 11,000. So that's not bad, but that 11,000 actually was going into 22. So bottom line, you get divergence out here in a monster way too. Then if we go to the Q's, what you're going to see here is that we're going to have a small ABC down actually on the daily, because what you have here is that you break in the low that was established last Wednesday, last Thursday rather. And we had 47 million shares there and we're at 37 now. So I suspect we're going to do 10. And it's only a small ABC, that's for sure. But the bottom line, there's divergence there. Gold, let's go to the gold contract. We take a look at the gold contract. What do we have at the gold contract? We have spread out here in the gold contract today of 1931 to 1943. You're laying out at 1933 and we got 141,000 contracts. That's really just a sideways day. Let's pull this up. What has happened with gold folks is that this is the gold equities as well as the contract. It's going into the 10th and the, what is that, the 12th. And that's where we had strength, what I'm talking about going back to March, okay? It's coming into those areas with tremendously lighter volume. So if we go, if we look at the GDX, you're going to see what I'm talking about here. All the equities actually, and this is what's pretty amazing actually, is that they've come into these areas and they've rejected lower price. So now the question is, can they get a sign of strength coming off here? You know, right, if we look at the GDX, it came into 63 million shares and it did 18, okay? That's, you get that, then you just need a sign of strength. Now, what does happen in the gold market, I've seen this many times, particularly we started a long time ago, that you know, you could get the rejection of lower price, but then all of a sudden you would just keep going sideways and sideways and it took a long time to get a sign of strength. So we'll see how that shakes out, but I'm bringing that up because that hasn't happened recently, but you know, when you go back 10, 15 years, it used to happen a lot. We go into the Noten-Bahn market, the Noten-Bahn were up, the 10 year note is up before ticks right now. You got 101 million contracts traded. This is building cause for higher price. We go to the TLT, you know, we take a look at the TLT out here. TLT right now, it reached a high on Friday. It's really taken out this consolidation. We're at 103, 290, and anything over 103, 6, 6, 3, that's the number. So we're into that a little. That's when you're really going to start getting traction. You know, so bottom line, I do expect that we're going to get more traction. And if we go over the dollar, we take a look at the dollar, and this is where this is going to get interesting coming into the close, because the dollar, bottom line, now I see, it's just going up a few ticks, as I'm saying that. When we started the program, it was down 206. Now you're dealing with a, you know, basically 186. But the dollar looks to me that what you're going to see here is that the dollar is not going to be able to hold price. That's how it looks. You know, it was anemic bounce. And if we just take a look at where we are thus far, it did a .382 bounce on Friday and didn't hold price. And then if we take a look at the aspect of where it was from the low to the high, back to the low, that did over .618 retracement on the way down. So that was saying that the dollar is weak right now. And you know, it looks like it's going to have a high time holding price. 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Let's get over to our man, Mr. Steve Rhodes, as we go each and every Monday at 20 past the hour and don't forget folks, Steve has an outstanding show here every trading day, 11 to 12, East and Standard Time, also a great newsletter, Mastering Probability. Now it's very easy to get Steve's newsletter folks come over to our website at TFNN, go into Newsletters, you'll see Mastering Probability, on the right hand side, you can get Mastering Probability for one month for $149, you get it for six months for 6.95 which is the savings of $199, 22% and you get it for one full year for 11.95 which is the savings of $593 at 23%. Now they all come with a 30 day money back guarantee folks so you can check it out, you're gonna get Steve has a huge amount of information on his page which would be your page when you subscribe, you can learn how Steve looks at the market each and every day, if you like it, great, if for some reason it doesn't work for you, 29th day, cancel it, no questions asked, you get your money back. Steve Rhodes, welcome home. Well, thank you, thank you, it was a great journey. I bet it was. Yeah, we did pretty amazing things, we visited, we were in Egypt, Greece, we were in Athens and Santorini in Italy, we were all over the place, we were in the Walpie Coast, we were in Florence, we were in Venice, we were in Lake Como, we were in Milan. Sweet. So it was pretty packed, but just a couple, just kind of the highlight reel for you, the very first so took about 30 hours to get from here in Palm Beach to where we were going in Cairo. Okay. And we landed about two or three in the morning, the very first sight that we saw, and it was very busy, it's two or three in the morning, we're like what's everybody doing out? Yes. But that's just simply the way it is. The very first sight that we came across was the Citadel of Saladin, which goes back to the 13th and 19th century. For 700 years the rulers of Egypt were in this fortress, so to speak, but really cool. Wow. This goes back to 1176, all of a sudden you realize, and then you went from Palm Beach, Florida, really you're in Cairo, Egypt. That's crazy. Right? Oh, look at that picture again. Okay, put that picture up here. Oh my God. Yeah, gigantic fortress. Just a gigantic fortress out there. So that's the first thing that we saw. Okay. Then we get to the hotel room, we try to get a little bit of sleep. Six hours later, we're back on the road, and the very first thing that we went to was the oldest mosque in Egypt. So I wanted to do, as much as we could, the oldest types of things. I can say that. And try to get back to the beginning as much as we could. So we said a nice prayer in this mosque. From here, we then went to visit a church called Abu Surga.  So it's in really good condition. The lower left is actually a part of the original floor. It's the floor, just with glass over it, so that you can really see what that supposed, where Jesus and Mary actually walked on. So that was kind of cool. It's actually one of the oldest churches in Egypt. And then we visited the site where, supposedly, baby Moses was plucked from the Nile. Now, this red arrow, Tom, is really where this synagogue is located. And what they're telling us is that the Nile River has changed substantially over the last 5,000 years and actually backed right up to that spot. So it's pretty cool within the first six hours. We're seeing all of this stuff.  That's cool, man. Wow. And it just really makes you think. You just stop for a moment. So we said prayers everywhere. And then the very next day, we did some other things during that day. But then the very next day, we were off to the pyramids. Now, I haven't done any history, any background checking on Egypt. Well, I was surprised. There's over 100 pyramids throughout all of Egypt. I just thought there were just a handful, which are basically the burial grounds for pharaohs or some of the kings out here. This pyramid, which is called, I might pronounce it incorrectly, Dozier, was built during the Third Dynasty. This is the oldest complete stone building complex ever built in history. So that was kind of cool to go back to that. So here, let me get this straight. Because that one that you're just looking at, right? We're right now in 2023. But that said, that was before Christ of 2630. Exactly. You just start to add the numbers. You're like, man, this is really history out here. Then we went to this pyramid. This is called the red pyramid. The only reason it's called the red pyramid, or A reason why it's called the red pyramid is depending on the sun, the way that it hits it, it has this little red reflection. Because of the stones that were actually used there, the limestone that was used there. This was built between 2575 and 2551 before what they used there, before the common era. So you're really going back in time. And if you take a look at this red arrow, the actual entrance is about three quarters of the way up. It's a good halfway to three quarters of the way up. So we walked up there. It looks like this. You can kind of see a little bit of a path. And then it gets kind of a little weird. This is my wife. I've actually got a picture of her coming.  It's not a simple walk, Tom. It is a walk. I bet. And then you've got to walk all the way down, bent down the entire way, take it all the way to the burial ground inside the bottom of the pyramid. The problem with this pyramid is there are a lot of bats that have got in there. And so the bat crap, if you will, smelled a lot like iodine. So we only got halfway down and we had to turn around. You're just worried about it's stone. It's cement. You fall. It's not going to be easy up there. But one of the coolest sites, I would say, of everything that we saw in Egypt, one of the coolest sites that we saw, Tom, was this. This is when we were coming out of the old area of pyramids. It was the first ones that we saw. And what I noticed off to the side was that there was a new ruin. This ruin has been discovered over just simply the last about a year and a half, maybe two years. But just in the last two weeks, they think that this is a burial ground. They pulled out two Sargophagus, Sargophagi, I guess you'd call them. The first mummy that they found was a man that was completely covered in layers of gold. We saw mummies where they're actually, supposedly, you could actually still see some of the hair. Wow. It's insane. But what was cool about this was we were in basically a place where you had the oldest pyramids, the experimental pyramids that they used. And then they're coming across new findings out there. Who knows what is underneath that desert sand that's out there. Finally, we made it to the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx. That was certainly cool. The rocks there are just gigantic, the boulders that they used to make this thing. It's truly an amazing thing. Then from there, and this was kind of cool, we went on to Athens. And so this is a view from my room. OK. And you can see the Acropolis up top. You can see the Parthenon up here. But the reason I took this picture was about five in the morning, 4.35 in the morning, was it was the only way that I could get a picture of the full moon coming out of the Acropolis, right? And seeing the new with the old is pretty cool. That's crazy. Yeah, no doubt. So very cool places out there. It shows how small we are, man. Holy cow. No doubt. And how smart people were back then, 5,000 years ago. Yeah. And building those things. Right. Wow. So there's a lot of folks that have talked about the idea, the thoughts that they were made by space aliens or what have you. I can tell you by personally walking down into some of these things, the hieroglyphics, the painting that's on there, the inconsistencies between one place and another, this is man-made. Right. I don't buy into that theory. But after that, Tom, we were off to Santorini. I think you've been to Santorini. This is called a Scarrow Rock out here. It's a real landmark. This also is another gigantic hike. But the cool thing about this hike is when you get to it and you go all the way to the back, you've got a church that's just hanging off, in essence, the side of the cliff. Yeah. It is the coolest thing, coolest spot to see. So we didn't get to the market. Sorry about that. But what a great trip to go back. I'm so happy you did this for us. It was the best thing, Tom. Here's the best thing. I had lunch with one of our traders, M.U.K. and the Tiger's Den in Florence, Italy. I love it, man. How cool is that? The Tigers and Tigers growling and prowling all over the place. Absolutely. You have a great one. It's a safe one. We look forward to speaking to you tomorrow, Steve. Thanks, Tom. Thank you. Bye-bye. Stay right there, folks. Come right back. The Gold Report. As a precious metal, gold is still king. It continues to hold the most effective safe haven in hedging properties across the global major trading hubs of the London OTC market, the US futures market, and the Shanghai Gold Exchange. The Gold Report. 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So I'm sure most of you know that he had Progression basically marching on Moscow, got within about 160, 170 miles and then decided that, okay, we're gonna turn around and go to Belarus. Bottom line is that, let's see what rush it is. Putin is, let's see what it's saying. He's saying that organized of the attempted mutiny sought to divide Russia and its government took all measures needed to neutralize the danger. He said troops of the Wagner mercenary group could join the Russian army or leave for Belarus. He didn't comment on the fate of Wagner chief earlier Progression Senator audio recording that he didn't seek to overthrow the Russian government. You know it's wild about this, particularly after just listening to Steve back and the, you know, when you're going back centuries, you know, when you watch all those, well, when you watch Gladiator in particular, right? You know, the Roman armies, they'd never let the Roman armies inside Rome for the exact reason that, you know, the bottom line is that you get mercenaries going, you get war going. Yes, what, coming back from that, it's like, okay, those guys aren't gonna take any guff and the bottom line is that we'll see what this whole thing shakes out. But if I remember anything is that how fast Russia fell the last time. So Putin's, I'm sure, has some problems and Progression has some problems too, because I'm sure he's on a thin thread right now, meaning to stay away from getting assassinated.  It's wild, man. I mean, and now, now let's bring this to the market. Bringing it to the market is amazing because it's amazing that we only have the futures down five points, okay? So that's telling me the market wants higher price also. You know, when you have something that's major going on like this, you know, and what happens folks is that in any type of not war, even a fight, something like this, this is not over in like one deal. He's just not gonna bring all his, you know, men into Belarus and then do nothing. Mercenaries just fight. I mean, so they gotta find someone to fight. They're just gonna regroup and decide what they wanna do. And then if you take it to the, the first place I went, I was saying to myself, you know, and I'm sure that many nations are doing the same thing is that if you took any of, any of the nations, you know, first world nations, if in fact the military were marching through states, well, let's just picture some. Picture that any of our troops were marching through states, I mean, they get wiped out in about two seconds, right? So this is a whole different ball game, but of course, you know, they've supplied mercenaries for a long period of time and have used mercenaries for a long period of time to fight their wars. So anyway, it's as wild as you can get. We're gonna take a look at some of the higher volume equities out here, and it looks to me like you are gonna have a low volume market out here today. We take a look at it, you get, let's see, we get Tesla is down 12 bucks, you get NVIDIA's off 13, Pfizer's down one and a half, well, let's go, you get, let's go into the NDX first. Surprising NDX is up that much actually, not down as much, NDX.  There's some divergence there, man. Yeah, big time. Inside the dial, industrials, the strength versus the weakness, point-wise out here. Look at Home Depot, huh, interesting. Home Depot is putting 54 positive points, you get United Health putting 24, you get Caterpillar putting 22, you get Honeywell putting 18. Taken away from it, Microsoft 33, Visa 12. Let's go to Home Depot for a second, because I think what you're gonna see here, let me see this, if it's gonna be a sign of strength or not, Home Depot. This has been a one-way, oh, this is great. Okay, so yeah, you get a sign of strength. You get a sign of strength that just broke out of the whole consolidation. You're gonna need more volume, but this is big, man. What the heck is going on here? Let me see this. Looking at something like this is saying that Home Depot is nothing big here. That's taken out the whole consolidation, man. Pull this back a bit. Okay, it's taken out the bottom of the consolidation. This thing's on its way now to what, 347, you're at 308. So the way that looks, I'd be saying that the way that looks is that let's go to the note and bond market. See, between the real estate market, so the 10-year note right now is 3.7, and that is 3.8 is the high for the last three months. For the last six months, it's four. For the last year, 2.5 is the low and 4.2 is the high. But when you take a look at how Home Depot is taken off, that's almost saying that they're speculating, the market's speculating, that the rates are gonna back down, the rates back down, Home Depot's gonna be off to the races again. The sweet spot in the mortgage market, folks, is 5.5%, and right now we're probably running seven. And it wouldn't take much to basically, my take is that these rates are going lower and the prices are going higher. So we'll see where it shakes out, but when you look at Home Depot, that's, there's plenty of folks that are expecting the same thing, because let's go to lows for a second. So lows, pull this back, put this on a couple of year. Okay, this hasn't taken it out yet, but it's actually in pretty good shape. Yeah, and on lows, you're talking about 2.21, you're 2.18. Because this has been a long consolidation. And two weeks ago, you got some big volume in it two weeks ago, but that's, it all has to do right now, well, in that sector for sure, is interest rate structure. Because there's plenty of people on the sidelines, the prices of homes really, they've gone flat, maybe down 5%, 10%, whatever that is. But you pull back a bit on the interest rate structure, you'll see those things take off. And the XAU, the HUI, my take is that gold and silver, yeah, there's a question about silver, bottom, yeah, my take is gold and silver is bottoms. You know, I did the gold report today, if you haven't had the gold report before folks, you can test drive it over, TFNN, my take is that this correction's over. All of them have come in to the strength of March 10th, March 17th, that area, the rejected lower price, they had lighter volume, and this was continual, this wasn't just a few of them, this was just about every single equity, was going into their strength, rejected the price, had lighter volume, all of the above. Now we do need a sign of strength, there's no doubt about that. Dow's up 70, Nasdaq's down 92, S&Ps are up five and a half, stay right there, we'll come right back folks. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities and Options Report is a newsletter you should try. Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them, using a combination of fundamentals and technicals. Sign up for Rocket Equities and Options Report today with a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to risk. For all the details and to start your subscription today, visit the front page of TFNN.com. TFNN, educating investors. 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And what you're gonna see, you came into the strength and it's like we came in with 13 million shares versus 117 million. And what you actually did Friday, you went higher with volume.  The bottom line is that you have some action here in particularly because what has happened is this, these are the two days you can see when we came off the bottom, it's right underneath it too. You have strength at $2.99, at $2.2906 as well as what it already rejected, which was $2.2986. We go to the XAU, you gotta see the same type of setup. Let me put the volume on it first. And the XAU, you gotta see the exact same thing, which is crazy. That was coming into 45 million and you rejected it was 28, then you rejected it with 26 and then Friday we had a little sign of strength. So that's telling me that this baby, you know, doesn't, well, now what we do need is a sign of strength, folks. That's the bottom line. That's how this is set up. As you come over to TFNN, let's check this out here for a second. 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That low bar on the NQs was 878 and right now you're at 892. And the NDX is the leader. There's no doubt about that. So that's what we're doing right now. We'll see how this shakes out, but that's exactly what it's done. So the NDX 101 out here, that's the fast take on it. Let's put it that way. Let's go take a look at the IWM, the small caps out here. We take a look at the small caps and they took out their base. They're coming back, this came back with volume on Friday. 50 million, well, 50 to 58 million and now today you're up with 24. So that's saying that that can almost test this low again. The strength inside the IWM comes in at 176. We got down to the 180 on Friday. Today low is 180, 37 also. We go into the XL. Let's go to the oil market and take a look at oil. So oil up here is up today with 256,000 countertracks. That's not bad actually. Looks like oil's gonna stay in a consolidation. The other thing that's amazing too is that the oil market didn't even move when Progression was marching on Moscow. Imagine marching on Moscow. That'd be like, I truce marching on DC. I mean, it's amazing. It's really amazing that he got so close. We go take a look at the XLF, the financials see where these babies are setting up. XLF. This XLF looks like it wants to fill this gap. We got, it couldn't hold price today at the $32.93. Got a little gap that's laying out here at the $32.17. And then we might as well go to the XLE. I should have done that the first one I was doing. So the XLE, this has higher price out here today, but you drop it down in volume. What I do expect we're gonna see, you're gonna see the consolidation inside of the oil market continue, meaning because there's a good size consolidation that's happening on a sideways move. We got to take a look at the King out here. There's a couple of Kings, but the bottom line is that between Apple, Apple's hanging at highs. Yeah, I mean, I think this is, well, 185. What is the, yeah, 182. You know, these buys are getting smaller and smaller. I can tell you that, but the bottom line is still up there. And NVIDIA, N-V-D-A, that's because this was, NVIDIA is the one that fired it up and took off like a rocket ship, folks. That's down 14 now. You got expansion in volume. Now at NVIDIA, that kicker is gonna be that high, that gap, the gap is huge, man. So maybe it's gonna be going after that gap. But if it's going after that gap, that would be saying that the NDX is gonna go to lower price because that gap is so much lower, it's pretty intense. The gap is at 306. And right now you are at, my God, you're at 407. Yeah, how's that? Stay right there, folks, come right back. We have the Dow. Dow Industrial is up 20 and Aztec's down 131. S&P's off 14. Stay right there, folks, come right back. Are you looking for a way to consistently add winning trades to your portfolio? Tom O'Brien is here to help. 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Look at this thing, man. So that was the high volume, that's where the Dow versions was in, which was the 14,478 and I mean, 14,878 and the bottom line is that you could, no, no, anyway, it blew it away. The volume, it was 16,000 there, we just did 17,500. So you can see how that baby goes. Volume wise out here today, let's just take a look at this, you're gonna have, that's gonna be shot volume, man. Yeah, we're only 483 right now, so you get anemic volume, actually. Yeah, even in the Nasdaq, 3.9 right now in the Nasdaq. So the Nasdaq's only gonna do about 4.5, NYSE looks like it's only gonna do about 800 million. So that shot volume in the way back, there's no doubt about that. We gotta take a look at the actual silver contract. Yeah, let's look at the silver contract. So I was talking about, my take is that silver and gold have actually bottomed. This contract today, we did 37,000 contracts. You can see silver also came in to assign the strength from the March 17th. 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Good afternoon. Hi, everyone. Welcome. Thanks for being here today. Right, let's get started. My name is Iliana, and I'm a librarian at the San Francisco Public Library. Wherever you're from and wherever you're tuning in from, I'm so happy that you're with us. Go ahead and put in the chat where you're tuning in from. We love to know where our audiences are. So you are here because you are interested in some crafts. We have a three-part series at 4.30 for the next few weeks with our friends from Book Arts Roadshow who'll be demonstrating a different Book Arts project. Today's Book Art Book Project is covered board books, part of our Make and Do series. Our trusty friends will share the supply list in the chat, and you can always watch this later as well. Our Make and Do series is your place for craft and maker programs for school-age kids and families. Be sure to check out our calendar listings for booklets and more. Before we begin, I'd like to offer a land acknowledgement. We are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Aloni, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula, and continue to live, work, and play here today. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Aloni have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush community, and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples. A huge thanks to the friends of the San Francisco Public Library for their generous support of this special series. We cannot do this without them. Without further ado, let me welcome Book Arts Roadshow, which was co-founded by Cheryl Ball and CK Itamura, who provide book arts instruction and hands-on learning experiences for children, teens, and grown-ups. Take it away, Book Arts Roadshow. Thank you, Aliana, for that wonderful welcome. And also thank you to the friends of the San Francisco Public Library for sponsoring our appearance here today. Let's see. First of all, we want to introduce ourselves. So I'm CK Itamura. I'm Cheryl Ball. And together we are the founders, co-founders of the Book Arts Roadshow. And what we've been doing for the past two years, oh god, it's been two years now. For the past two years, during COVID-19, we've been primarily doing Zoom workshops for San Francisco Public Libraries and for schools and school districts, and doing some other workshops for adults as well. And prior to that, we actually would go to all these different places, schools and libraries and museums in person. And so one of these days, hopefully we'll get to meet you all in person. But for now, we're glad you can join us for this session. We're doing it on Zoom and we're linked to YouTube. So we've got this wonderful staff at the San Francisco Public Library that's making all the magic of technology work behind the scenes. So that's a little bit about us and the Book Arts Roadshow. We're going to start off by making sure that you have the tools and supplies you'll need for the book we're going to do today. So first off, tools. You're going to need a pencil. Any kind of pencil will do. If it's got an eraser on the end or separate eraser, that's even better. You're going to need a glue stick. Any brand of glue stick will do. And we'll use glue sticks today. A ruler. So if you've got any sort of ruler, oh my gosh. And I don't seem to be able to find my ruler, but Cheryl's got one there. So grab a ruler. We want to make sure that your ruler has inches on it because we'll be using inches as opposed to centimeters today. And a wooden spoon. So I've got a couple of wooden spoons here.  But today we're going to be using spoons and they could be wooden spoons or metal spoons. Either one will be fine. Or the back of your scissors. And the back of your scissors are great too. And scissors. Speaking of scissors, yes. You'll need to have some kind of scissors. They don't need to be gigantic. They just need to be able to cut paper. Let's see. Oh, also as far as tools are concerned, if you have a couple of little paper clips, that'll be handy. Paper clips of any size would be handy. And you'll also need, let's see, I've got my little clean cushion here, a sewing needle. And you'll need some thread. So we're going to be using waxed linen thread today. But if you don't happen to have waxed linen thread lying around, feel free to use dental floss. Dental floss is actually a nice thread that has wax on it already. And if you don't have thread that's got wax on it, that's okay. You can use some kind of string or other type of sewing thread as well. And let's see. And you'll need some waste sheets of paper. Now, this is just some blank plastic. The most important thing about waste sheets of paper is basically it's just paper you don't mind throwing away. So Cheryl's got a piece of advertising or junk mail that you can use. Pages out of an old magazine work nicely to really paper bags in the grocery store. Those work great too. So those are the tools that you'll need. And Cheryl's going to show you some samples of the book we're going to make, and she's going to walk you through what types of paper and supplies that you'll need to make the book. So here are the books that we're going to be making. They're hardcover and they're sewn. Let's see if I can see there's the sewing right in there. So these are two books that we've made. And let me show you the supplies. I'm actually using cut out pieces of cereal box for my hardcovers. You'll need two pieces of, oh my camera's totally washed out, but decorative paper. If you don't have any decorative paper, you can paint on paper. You can use wrapping paper. Cheryl's actually painted on paper and done some rubbings to create her nice covers. So that's awesome. I can even use old maps. Yeah. Those work nicely too. And then you also need a small piece for the spine. It's like an inch and a half by six and a half inches long. It kind of contrasts with my decorative papers. You can also, another good piece to use is from the USPS mailers that you get. There's some material called Tyvek. It's pretty strong. You'll also need four sheets of paper, of white paper. Or if you don't have white paper, colored sheets of paper. Any kind of paper will suffice. So these are four sheets of paper. And then there's two accent colors. If you only have one color of paper, six sheets of paper works totally fine. So that's the paper materials that you'll need today. And I'm going to clear off my work surface. Great. So while you're making sure you have all your supplies, I'm just going to show you a handful of other samples of the same book, just different materials. So this is another version of the book that Cheryl showed you earlier. This part is referred to as the spine. And she mentioned these are hard covers. This just happened to have a collage that was used for the front and back. This one just got some decorative paper that was used to marble paper. This one was made using paper bags that were painted with stripes. Then we cut them into the sizes that Cheryl just mentioned to make the covers. And then this one was simply the piece of cardboard that was drawn on. And the spine was also a piece of paper that was drawn on to make the spine. So as you can see, there's a lot of different possibilities, a lot of different variables. You make these books pretty much out of any kind of paper and any kind of board. So let's get started. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to cover the boards with whatever type of paper that you have. And the term we're going to be using is decorative paper just because using paper that's decorated. But it also could be plain paper. So if you're just wanting to cover your books with a plain sheet of paper, whether that be a white sheet of paper, you're going to draw on it later. That's fine too. But the term we're going to use is decorative paper.  Serial box cardboard is fine. And we're going to need those two. We're going to need your two sheets of decorative paper. And we're going to need a glue stick for starters. So the first thing that we're going to do, and oops, let's see. I think Cheryl just dropped off and back on. Hi, Cheryl. Welcome back. Okay. So what we're going to do is we're going to get our waste sheet of paper. And in Cheryl's case, that's like the advertising sheet that she had. And we're going to put that down on your work surface. And primarily, that is being put down on the work surface simply to protect your table or your desk or your counter that you're working on from getting glue on it. So put that down and then you're going to take one of the pieces of chipboard cardboard box and put that down on top of your waste sheet and then grab your glue stick. And what we're going to do is we're going to put just enough glue on the board that we need to get the paper to stick. But we're going to do it sparingly so that we don't waste glue needlessly. So the way we're going to do it is we're going to go around all four edges of the board with the glue stick and kind of press hard to put the glue on. And then we're just going to make a big X in the middle of the board. Because that's actually enough glue for our purposes today. That'll be just enough glue to adhere the board to the paper without wasting additional glue. And I'm gluing the back where there's printing on it because I don't I don't want it to show on the inside. It really doesn't matter, but I'm going to glue mine that way. So on mine, I've got glue around the edge and a big X of glue in the middle, which is hard to see because it's invisible. Then we're going to take the board and we're going to place it face down the glue side down onto your decorative paper.  Then we're going to place that so you have approximately, it doesn't need to be perfect, but approximately the same amount of space on the top and the bottom and each of the two sides.  And then once you have that, you can set that piece aside, should look something like that. Put that one aside and we're going to do that again with our other sheet of decorative paper and our other board. So first, put the board down on the waste sheet of paper, go around all four edges, make a big X in the middle. She has that. I'm going to put your decorative paper. Oh, and as you noticed, Cheryl put her, after she adhered the glue, she moved her waste sheet to the side and then put her decorative paper down on the work surface so that the decorative paper won't get any extra glue on it. Yeah, I got lots of glue on that. So then go ahead and center the board so that you have approximately the same amount on the top and the bottom and the sides. And the lucky thing is if you don't get it perfectly situated the first time around, the glue's still wet so you could peel it off and adjust it to bring it more into the center. Then take your spoon and rub all over the board, pressing down hard so that the glue will stick and activate the glue. And then at this point, you should have two covers. Well, they're going to be covers in just a minute after we do the next couple steps. Great. So now I'm going to put the cap back on my glue so it won't dry out. And then now you're going to grab your scissors. So what we're going to do at this point is we're going to cut at a 45-degree angle like that on each corner. But before you do that, just note that in this little space here, we're leaving just enough of the paper between the corner of the board and the edge of this paper or maybe an ant to crawl across. That's an official measurement is enough for an ant to be able to cross in that corner. Hope that makes sense. So in other words, you're not going to cut all the way up to the corner. You're going to leave a little bit of paper in between the corner and this edge. Great. And we're going to do that to all four corners of this piece that will eventually become one of your two covers. So once you cut that, you'll have something that looks like that with a little space on each of the four corners between the cut and the corner of the board.  Okay, beautiful. Then we're going to grab the other one. So this is the one that we've already cut. Put this one aside and grabbing the other one. And on this one, we're going to go ahead and do the same thing. I'm going to go ahead and cut the corners at a 45-degree angle, leaving just enough space for an ant to crawl between the corner and the edge of the paper.  Don't throw them in the trash bin right away because we might need this later to fix something if we need them. Just save them just in case. Okay, so now we're going to get our waste sheet back. And the waste sheet of paper. And if your waste sheet of paper is sticky from when we were gluing just a minute ago, flip it to a different section. Fold it to a different section or grab a new piece because you want to make sure that when we're doing this next section of gluing that you're not doing it on a section that Ode Cowskill or Warwick. So go ahead and put your fresh piece of waste sheet down.  And then you're going to take your glue again. So get your glue stick out. And what we're going to do is we're going to put glue on once, one of the long sides. There's two short sides and there's two long sides. So pick one of the long sides, put glue along that, and put your glue stick down. And then what we're going to do is we're going to lift the board up just to the point where the edge of the board is. So you could see Cheryl's lifting up the board to the edge and then she's rubbing the board onto the waste sheet and kind of pushing down a little bit. And what we're trying to do is get the very skinny edge of the board to adhere to the paper. And then once you've got that you can go ahead and then fold over that one side and push that down so that it sticks to the board. You cast it, take your spoon, and then go ahead and smooth that paper, that edge of the paper down. So we've got one long edge. Now we're going to do it again, but we're going to go over to the other long edge on the opposite side. So go ahead and put glue along the other edge. And we're purposely doing it along the long edges and not the short edges at this point. So make sure to do it on the other long edge. And once you have your glue on that, go ahead and lift the paper, I mean, sorry, lift the board up and rub the edge against your work surface so that the glue, the skinny side, the thin part of the board gets stuck to the paper. And then go ahead and fold over the edges.  Great. And now we're going to go ahead and put glue on the top edge. But this time, before you fold it over, there's a slight difference. So what's going to happen? And Cheryl, I'm going to let you walk through this one simultaneously while you're doing this part of the demonstration. So I've just put my glue on, on the long edge. And what you're going to do is you're going to take your nail and push in. So you can see on Cheryl's screen and you can see mine, but I'm pushing in on the corners against the board. So you're going to have this little funny, let's see if I can, funny looking ear right there. And basically what you're doing is you're taking that little extra piece of paper and you're wrapping it around the corners of the board to give it a little bit of paper to those. I think you can see it right here in this picture. Yeah, it's covering. And then once you have the little corners covered with paper, ever so slight amount of paper, then you can go ahead and wrap. You can do the same thing like rub it against the thing. And then rub it down with your spoon. So now we're going to do the same exact thing to the other short edge of the paper and then wrap the corner, put glue on it and wrap the corner first with that tiny piece of paper and then go ahead and rub that edge, fold it over and smooth it down with the spoon. You want to tell them what to do with the corners just in case? Oh yeah. Just in case you have a gap in your corners where you could see the cardboard through the paper, you can use your little leftover corners that we saved to actually cut little pieces out and wrap that around the corners and add a little bit of more glue so that it covers the cardboard. If you need to, that's what they're for. It's just to do a little bit of patching up if that's necessary. Otherwise, we're going to go ahead and go to the other cover. Do the same thing we just did. So you're going to do the two long sides first, one at a time, rub that edge down, over the edge, rub it down with the spoon, go to the other long edge, do the same thing, the glue down, rub the edge so the little skinny edge gets glued to the paper before folding the other long edge over and then we'll go to the top, tuck these little corners in on the top, fold that top edge over and then to the bottom, tuck the corners in before folding the edge over and smoothing all the edges out with the trusty spoon. Or as I mentioned earlier, if you happen to be a crafter and you have a bone folder, you can use your bone folder in place of the spoon in all these situations. So at this point, you should have two covers, two boards that are now covered with decorative paper that look like that on one side and look like that on the other side. Then you can set these to the side. Now we're going to work on the pages to put inside the box. So we mentioned earlier that you should have six pieces of paper all cut to the same size. Yours might be all the same color, but if you happen to have four sheets that are one color and two sheets that are another color, put them in this order. Put two colored sheets on the table first and then put your four sheets that are the same color or white on top of them. And then once they're stacked up in that order, then we're going to go ahead and fold them in half trying to match up the corners as best you can. It's safe as best as you can because it's nearly impossible to take a stack of paper and fold it in half where all the edges match up perfectly. So just knowing that, go ahead and fold it in half as best you can, the whole stack all at once. And then take your spoon and then rub down the folded edge and press down hard so you get a nice crease. And then at this point, you should have what's called a, it's going to be a signature which has got all six pieces of paper folded in half. And our next thing is we're going to punch holes and we're going to sew. So the first thing to do at this point is to grab your ruler and let's see. What we're going to do is that this paper should be six, I think it's six inches wide. Wait, no, what is it? One, two, three, four, five. Five inches wide. So what we want to do is we want to mark a halfway point which is two and a half inches right down the crease. So put your ruler right in on the crease, then measure two and a half inches which is the center point. And then you're going to take your ruler and measure a half inch from the top and put a dot there and measure a half inch from the bottom and put a dot there. So again, the middle one is two and a half inches from either the top or the bottom and then the other ones are a half inch from either side. Now that's going to be where we're going to punch our holes. So the first thing that you can do, we're going to punch the holes with the needles but we're also going to talk briefly about different ways you can punch holes.  I'm holding a mind up in the air but basically what we're going to do is just imagine that I've got a table under here. So place yours on the table at about 45 degrees. And what we're going to do is take the needle and poke it through the hole that's in the middle and your sharper needle and poke it through the dot that's in the middle so that you've got your needle going in at a 45 degree angle to come out here and then kind of wiggle it around to make the hole slightly larger. And it might help to paperclip all the pages at this point because they're going to start moving around. Yeah, that's a great idea. So we've got our paperclip, kind of paper clipping it to hold it together. I did mention that we'll mention a couple different ways that you could punch holes. So if you happen to have one of these little push pin type things, you can use these also to punch the holes inside the book instead of using a regular needle. If you happen to have one of those and then if you are a crafter who happens to have something called an AWL, you could use those to punch as well if you happen to be craftless. But say we're using the needle to punch the hole. So you already punched the hole in the middle and then we're going to take the needle out after you wiggle it around and we're going to do the same thing to the other two dots. So you're going to go ahead and punch a hole where the other dot is on one end and then another dot on the other end and wiggle it around just to make the hole slightly larger. So at this point you should have all six pieces of paper, paper clipped together and now you have three holes punched in your signature. At this point we're going to thread the needle.  So I think we've got this is about eight inches and so it's going to be 24 inches long, your thread, but if you you can either measure 24 inches out approximately or you can do three times the height of the book. The height of the book. Oops, I'm sorry I was holding it this direction but it's really this direction. So three times as long as the crease there. So it's more like 16 inches approximately. So we're going to have you do is go ahead and thread your needle with your thread. You have waxed linen thread great but if you're using any other type of thread that's fine. Now one thing that I want to note though is that different from sewing you do not need to tie a knot at the end of your thread. So just go ahead and thread your needle and then leave no knot on the other end it's not necessary tie a knot. There's like a short little knot.  I'll squish them down. Alrighty so now sewing the book together. We're going to start from the inside so we've got the outside of the book looks like that the inside of the book looks like that Cheryl's got CBNA you're going to take your needle and go through the middle hole and you don't Cheryl's written CBNA so that while we're walking you through it it'll make sense but you do not need to write CBNA on your book. Just for visual purposes yeah okay go ahead and put your needle through hole B which is the middle one from the inside of the book going out and then you're going to leave a little piece of thread and clip it to the paper clip on the inside so just about a two to two inch piece of thread we're just going to clip it we're going to call that part the tail we're going to use that later to tie a knot not right now but in a little bit so go ahead and leave that paper clipped to your clip and then flip your book over so now you're on the outside of the book and now you're going to take your needle and you're going to go over to C to hole C and push that through from the outside of the book to the inside of the book pushing it through the outside and then you flip it over to the inside and you pull your thread out from the inside of the book the next stitch is we are going to skip over the middle hole we're going to skip B and we're going to go clear all the way across to A and you're going to put your needle through hole A and push that through and then flip your book over and pull it from the outside now we're back on the outside of the book and then from here we're going to go ahead and go back through the middle hole so you're going to go back into old B and you're going to pull your thread up on from the inside and ideally what you'll have is you'll have your tail that we saved that's clipped to the paper clip and then you'll have the long piece of thread with your needle on it and in between the two you'll have this other piece of thread this thread that's going up and down like that will be in between the two and then what you're going to do is you're going to take the short tail and the longer piece of thread that has the needle attached and tie a knot I'm going to tie a square knot which is basically right over left left over right kind of like tying your shoelace and then once you have that you're not tied you can clip your thread to I don't know maybe about a half inch or so clip your threads so that your needle is no longer attached and you've sewn your signature signature is just a book finding term for what we just created which is basically a bunch of pages sewn together we're almost done last step is that we're going to glue our signature sewn signature into our covers um so the first thing we're going to do is get our waste sheet of paper again and um make sure again that you're using a part of your waste sheet that doesn't have sticky glue already on it so go ahead and put that down on your work surface and then we're going to get that skinny piece of paper that's a little longer than six inches or so um we're going to take that sheet of paper we're going to put that down on the work on our waste sheet and we're going to take our glue stick and put glue on the strip of paper on one edge first right Cheryl yeah so we'll do one do one edge first and you don't want to go all the way to the middle and you'll see why so now you're going to take your board take one of your boards your um deck um boards with a decorative paper on it and you're going to take the decorated side of your board and you're going to place it down on the skinny strip of paper about halfway but not all the way halfway so not quite halfway to the center and you're going to want to leave approximately the same amount above the board as you have below the board so there's a little bit of extra paper up here there's a little bit extra paper down here and I stuck the board on this piece of paper almost halfway but not quite a little bit short of halfway and then you're going to take your glue stick and put glue on the other half of the paper on the other half of the strip and you're going to take your board the decorative side of your board and you're going to place that down on your decorative I'm sorry on the strip of paper almost halfway but not quite halfway and specifically if you see how I have one board here and one board here and I left a little space between the two that's about as wide as you would need if two ants were walking side by side next to each other and they wanted to march down the middle of this that's about how much space I left between the two yeah yeah I need a little washed out so you can't see it technical technical measurements here yeah ants walking side by side okay and then once you have that then you can go ahead and take your top part which already has glue on it and fold that over mind dried out some little bit more or you can add more glue and then you can take the bottom you're going to fold that up into there right and then once you have that it's a good idea to always grab your spoon and smooth out this side and also these pieces on the top and the bottom and it's also a good idea to do that not on your waste sheet of paper which probably has some glue on it right now then we're going to take our covers now they really actually do look like covers and we're going to take our signature which is our pages that we've sewn together and we're going to combine the two together so the first thing you're going to do is you're going to take the sewn edge of your signature that has the thread showing on it and you're going to insert that into your cover like so and then fold it together like that so you can kind of get an idea of what that's going to look like when it's glued together and then I'm going to let Cheryl walk through how she uses the waste sheet in gluing this last step okay so there are two sheets of colored paper um so just take the one sheet like that you're going to take your waste sheet and you're going to actually put it inside the first cover page and then you're going to do your glue on the edge along the bottom edge along the top edge and then you're going to do it on the close to the spine like that and then do an X and my paper is moving all over the place but see I put the paper underneath so that the glue I can glue out and the glues on this now so you pull this out and then make sure your um book is all centered your inside sheets and what you're going to do is you can close the paper the cover on it using your hands first and voila it's glued inside repeat on the other side so we're going to I I'm going to flip mine around there's two colored pages again take your waste sheet put it inside the first colored sheet and then we're going to make our glue strokes top side bottom and then along the spine do an X and then pull your waste sheet out close your back cover or front cover whichever you did press down with your hands take your spoon and voila you have your hard cover book with nice decorative end sheets these are called end sheets there you go and so congratulations yeah take it away a covered board book yes thanks for joining us and we hope to see you next week same time same place yay fantastic oh it's magic what do you do it's magic but it's real because everybody can do it too wow fantastic thank you so much um oh and be 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