Good day, May 40 here being a little under the weather this week, so I've Got sick Monday night. So Tuesday. I was down for the count I couldn't even watch Netflix for more than an hour that I have to like go back lie down again but by by Wednesday and today I've just been after watch unlimited amounts of Netflix or movies anything else and so I'm like too sick to be productive Uh So I've just been watching secrets of playboy It's this I think it's a ten-part A&E series and it's really good. It's really good the secrets of playboy and and As I'm watching it. Here's what I'm experiencing So I don't like feminism feminism is not a happy fit with my personality I don't find feminists to be happy joyful You know free ebullient larger-than-life funny Flexible tolerant pleasant people to be around all right Feminism and feminists don't connect any of those things to me. I don't have This this world spring of wonderful experiences with with feminists. I just don't have that So pretty much my every experience with feminism And with feminists has been negative But When you when you take feminism on the one hand with which I've never had a positive experience Then natural male sexual nature on the other hand I I realized that feminists Have some important things to say even though I don't buy say the the argument that you know men and women are basically the same Uh, it's just a society that has programmed them them differently So I don't subscribe to almost any of the the tenets of the feminism to the extent that I understand it but When you compare it with just raw male sexual predatory nature when when it gets unleashed Society will collapse. All right, so I don't like the arguments of feminism I don't like the philosophy of feminism. I don't like the effects of feminism on women. It doesn't seem to make them happier More pleasant to be around more joyful more more tolerant more more easy going but you can't have men just trying to hit and screw everything they can and so College campuses for example, they have been you know a hotbed of sexual experimentation Since I presume the 1960s and so now we've got this this feminist led backlash That it is requiring consent for you know every step you make that you know apparently if you try to If you kiss someone against her consent that's sexual assault right and I'm not sure I probably kiss some women with or I mean in in every sexual interaction I've ever had or physical interaction I've had 90 percent I've had to be the The instigator and so I have put my hands on women and there have been times when they did not appreciate it and so realizing that if I touch a woman Against their consent that that's like sexual assault. I mean that's really hard for me to hear But maybe I need to hear it like maybe This is what I've experienced. This is what I've found out at age 55 that there all sorts of really painful Disagreeable distasteful Truths about life that go completely against my nature Completely go against everything that I believe in and everything that I feel and everything that I experience But nevertheless have powerful elements of truth So I don't like feminism. It's not congenial to me. It doesn't seem to make people better But when you you compare it to the world of playboy or just college campuses until the backlash of feminism and the me too movement like The me too movement has certainly got its extremes and it seems to have gone too far But like how did someone like bill cosby just get away with drugging and raping women for five decades And and still be known as america's dad. So with feminists leading the me too movement feminist leading the backlash against Playboy culture leading the backlash against pornography or leading the the backlash against, you know, sexual experimentation on college campuses and hookup culture and they're doing They're doing something that's inevitable because society simply cannot continue where where men They're just allowed to you know, just have a crack at you know, any any woman that they You know, just at least have a go. All right. I mean think how highly distasteful that's going to be for women And so yeah, I'm watching secrets of playboy and recognizing that this is series so far It's making many trenchant criticisms of playboy and playboy has generally had a really polished You know false front put forward by the media and I wrote about this like I wrote about the You know, the weird relationship between Hugh Hefter and his daughter who was running the the playboy empire, right?  What's happening? You're coming back to Oz from Jim Bowden. I don't know. I've been sick all week. So I'm not Not making any big decisions right now This is my I think this is about my first video in a week. I've just been being down for the count but I I watched this series and and And that's always the arguments that you know, I'm doing this for the girls and I'm doing this for the women and so you hear this special pleading on behalf of women and I don't like that that feminist approach whereby if a woman regrets sex afterwards that she Consented to as an adult that somehow that that's that that's rape all right or this this You know really prevalent notion among many women that that Essentially, they're not responsible for their choices But if they've done something wrong that that's that there's a man to blame for it Somewhere. Okay. So that that victim culture of feminism I'm I'm not a fan of whereby, you know adult women go out and have consensual affairs with, you know powerful men and And then they want to play the victim and they don't want to take any responsibilities. So like Holly Madison was was quite interesting in this series and I photographed her many times And so she she makes a really good case, but uh, you know, no one forced her to To be a playboy playmate, right?  She doesn't want you to ask her for permission to give her a kiss She'll expect you to know when it's okay and not okay to kiss her a good point So what about what about much of my non neurotypical audience? That's that's very confusing what really helped me It's something I I learned from the the pickup artists IOIs indicators of interest So once you get like three IOIs Then you can move in for a kiss or you can ask a woman out and you're not going to get knocked back And so I found that particularly sweet just That that that wonderful clarity that I learned from from the pickup artists You know look for those indicators of interest and then once you get like at least three of them Then you can you can make a move and if you don't make a move that you know One was going to be disappointed and she she may feel bad But if you make a move when she doesn't want it then she's going to feel really angry. So anyway So I'm watching secrets of playboy and I'm thinking Compared to predatory male nature like feminism is an essential course corrective And it doesn't really matter that I if I don't like a philosophy And I don't like the adherence of a philosophy And it feels unpleasant to me And it also doesn't matter if I can philosophically pick it apart And I can see all sorts of moral problems with it if it's inherent in life, right? If it's an inherent backlash to predatory male nature without this backlash society will not Perpetuate itself. You won't have civilization. Then then you know feminism may be Woven into reality and so there are all sorts of parts of reality that I may not be thrilled with So for example the pornography industry, you know, I have to admit from interviewing hundreds of people in the pornography industry There were quite a few people who I interviewed who I objectively to the extent of my knowledge I could not see that they'd suffered harm from being in the pornography industry I'm someone who believes in God but I find a tremendous amount of wisdom and and Necessary correctives to a religious perspective from atheists And I'm someone who's right wing like all my tendencies are right wing I believe that different people have different gifts that hierarchy is no more natural and healthy I'm at ease with you know an unequal distribution of wealth and power Of all these right wing tendencies, but I have to admit I often find you know very thought provoking and cogent rebuttals to To to life that are often very uncomfortable and unpleasant to me But coming from the left and I've think wow, this is this is real and this is making a good point even though I don't like it and uh And then you know various times in my life. I've been very rah rah one particular religion, but At at any time there are all sorts of religions have different gifts Right the gifts of christians and christianity are not identical to the gifts of jews and of muslims That I don't really know much about islam and I don't you know I can't speak about how wonderful segments of it are but There are various forms of christianity that it produced, you know beautiful gifts and so Watching this series the secrets of playboy and like this idyllic Playboy existence for for some people All right for for other people or the very people who experienced as idyllic later experienced as an oppressive cult so just Humble as me to understand that you know when people go through Different phases of their life or different people experience the same thing it can be a completely different Uh different experience two people go through exactly identical experience But because they're different people they they experience it completely differently and so Yeah, just opening my mind up to I don't want to say the wisdom of feminism, but I don't know I'd have greater empathy for for their arguments against the say the predatory sexual nature of men to Have greater sympathy for the for the for the skeptics, right? There's a big, you know, atheist skeptic movement michael schomer the what Decoding the gurus podcast How much I'm learning from the skeptics movement and the the atheist movement? I'm rar rar about my orthodox Judaism that I converted to but yet there's so much beauty and profundity and wisdom that I learned from christians I I got to admit I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about arab suffering or muslim suffering, but I've had some wonderful interactions with muslims and And they were funny and they were pretty and they were female and and we got along so well and You know, I didn't really picture islam as this faith this this way of life that creates, you know great cutting-edge humor, but But I I'm getting to experience it. So so many things that are kind of antithetical to to Where I'm at in life now or to my philosophy or to my nature As I'm just sitting here sick and watching all these documentaries. It's like, oh, wow There's a lot of wisdom in that Well, that's just woven into reality. However much I don't like it And I don't have to like something to recognize that it's it's part of reality And so yeah getting sick is humbling. All right, you know, my whole agenda for this for this week is just, you know Has to be set aside haven't been after accomplish anything. This is the first video I've made in in in about 10 days and so You know getting sick humbles you not being after accomplish anything humbles you Watching these documentaries with points of view that are not philosophically congenial to me but still I recognize as an important part of reality so Humility is accepting reality and when you refuse to accept reality you get humiliated and so I would much rather Go through a lack without So much humiliation shouldn't have taken the back swap the the vaccines for covid You know, do not promise that you'll never get sick. All right What they they do promise is to cut down the amount of hospitalization and death and There is very strong evidence That if you if you're vaccinated and boosted That you're about 1 40th 1 50th It's likely to go to hospital or to die So living with the virus for Australians is taking some getting used to the article in the new york times today Australia once stamped out every covid outbreak now It's done with all that the policy you turn and the soaring case numbers caught many off guard Well, look, there's an appropriate response to a pandemic at one point And then when the facts change you change afterwards in australia public opinion has usually been ahead of policy And I assume that's how it's been throughout most of the western world So I know that most of my audience are dissidents But the fact is the majority of people in america and in europe and australia are supportive of even tougher measures against covid than what we've had So you may not like that, but those are the facts on the ground generally speaking politicians Have been following Popular opinion a popular opinion has been for stricter Crackdowns stricter Lockdowns Than what you've had So melbourne australian so 95 percent of adults in australia are vaccinated So that doesn't mean you're going to be immune from getting covid Does mean you are substantially less likely to be hospitalized or to die The coronavirus is now milder. This is the new york times It's the heart of summer After a long year and a half of snap lockdowns and closed borders Australia the government says is ready to live with the coronavirus ready for the authorities to get out of people's lives And let them make their own health decisions Hit the pub enjoy life spend some monies Some money, but many australians that seem weren't ready. Yeah, so the the majority of the population has been quite supportive of strict lockdown measures And so now that the government is opening things up a lot of australians are lagging behind And just because the government was for lockdowns at one point doesn't mean that it's going to be for lockdowns forever All right, there seems to be pretty substantial evidence that lockdowns were prudent health policy and prudent economic policy at times with regard to an influenza like like covid So when one state south australia announced that it was ending extensive intensive contact tracing a facebook group popped up so people could do their own well The enthusiasm for that has has diminished So after australia's prime minister scott morrison declared lockdowns the thing of the past So many residents of its two bigger cities stayed inside anyway It's a macron spike that was labeled a shadow lockdown. Yeah, so Whether the government officially pronounced lockdown policies Or not people generally speaking abided by lockdowns whether or not it was stated government policy Okay, look are you going to ottawa canada in support of the trucker? So the truckers are protesting vaccine mandates And I don't have a position on vaccine mandates But i'm not in support of the the truckers So i'm not on board with the truckers like yay freedom So I noticed with my conservative friends I asked them, you know, why they're so skeptical of the conventional wisdom with regard to covid and they say And they say look freedom is more important than than saving lives so I point out that policies in australia probably played a significant role in In reducing the covid death rate in australia to 150th of the per capita death rate of the united states so I That seems to me a pretty strong argument for australian policies And their response is there are things more important than human life like freedom And I think there are sometimes things that are more important than freedom There's no one value that is always preeminently more important than all other values So freedom is one value safety is another value Responsibilities another value the economies of value You know human flourishing is a value There's no one moral value that is always transcendent above all other moral values all moral values are in constant conflict They're always existing in a constellation with other values in different situations Will determine, you know, which value should be preeminent Luke will be reading the new york times in his hospice bed hooked up to a ventilator receiving his sixth booster telling us the vaccine is safe and effective So there are no there are no guarantees in life All right So I could get up here and be very pompous about any particular public policy or any particular health Health policy. So for example, I was raised a vegetarian. I was raised as something at venus and so Two-thirds of something at venus like observance of the advent of vegetarian As a result of being a vegetarian for 55 years, I have had extensive struggles with fatigue and depression and cognitive fuzziness fogginess All right, and according to my understanding of the studies, this is most likely related to the vegetarian diet That those academic studies about the effects of vegetarianism those studies that aren't carried out by people with an agendas and support vegetarianism Now it shows that they're very significant health downsides to being vegetarian so From where I sit from the way I understand my life experience once I started taking the beef organ capsules had a tremendous return to health like my life was crushed by by The vegetarianism that I was raised with and developed as a habit. So You know some study could come out that could completely invalidate my position tomorrow but that's my understanding of my both my life experience and my my understanding of the scientific literature as being synthesized and presented by people like Nathan Coffness Luke, have you considered that you were sick for a week? Well, I got I got vaccinated in March of 2021 and then I got boosted in September or October and I've had many COVID tests, but I've never never tested positive So death is a guarantee to life. We did ask to be We didn't ask to be born, but we're sure to die.  So You have an opportunity to live as fully and freely and as healthily as possible, right? Don't we all want that? Right, so but we're all raised with you know in all likelihood We've all been raised with the equivalent of the affliction of vegetarianism like we all have You know some some burden that we were raised with some some way of understanding the world that we took for granted is right and and then upon reflection we realized that This thing that we took for granted as being right and true and good and wholesome Has constrained and crushed our life in in some way So I think about all the people who were raised religious and just hated it and just couldn't wait to get away And you know, they've often gone on to live, you know, very morally upstanding, you know, great lives And other people who were raised secular and then in midlife.  Oh, I really need to embrace religion So life is constantly humbling You know, some people seem to benefit from some religion other people seem to benefit from less religion So it's not it's not shocking to me that Australia has shifted its policies on omicron or the united states has shifted its policies with with regard to Covid when when the facts on the ground change I would expect the the governments would would change too So Simon Benson is a doctor in melbourne He's been inundated with Calls from patients unsure what to do after testing positive You do realize the chat says that The vax is at the experimental stage. It's not an experimental stage It's been thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly tested We have no evidence for any vaccine that after people take it and there are no negative results that suddenly negative results happen Years down the line. We have no evidence for that ever. There have been any negative results to any vaccination They've happened immediately So hundreds of millions of people have taken covid vaccines without any negative results And we have no evidence to believe that there could be any negative results down the line So the covid vaccines approved for use in australia in the united kingdom in The united states have been extensively extensively vetted It's it's just absolutely insane to be opposed to to covid vaccination so This doctor in australia says that shift from covid is the worst thing imaginable to suddenly it's okay We just opened the floodgates now. I think that's caused a lot of insecurity in people What life causes insecurity in people like the incentives that we operate under constantly shifting and changing Like you may get a job which restricts your freedom of speech on social media You may get a relationship that restricts your freedom of speech You may lose a relationship and gain a whole new level of freedom of speech We're all operating under constantly changing incentives Take a look around at the state of human health in the 21st century Yeah, we have doubled our lifespan in the last 120 years. Thanks to the globalist elites All right, the globalist elites have given us vaccination fluoridation chlorination Increased sanitation. All right, we have dramatically increased lifespan so it used to be the people died young of You know very easily transmitted diseases from things like filth and sewers and people would Were dying young for thousands and thousands of years from contagious diseases. We have largely restricted that so now people primarily die from things Like heart disease and cancer that take decades and decades and decades to to kill you So used to be 120 years ago that the average life expectancy in In the west was was about 35 40 years. Right now. We've doubled that thanks to those globalist elites Is that the injection site you just wrote? I don't think so. I I am itchy a lot I kind of noticed it maybe the last four months I get itchy a lot. I'm not sure it's hives. I'm wondering if it's my my crystal light Ah done. Well, it's good point 40. You must simply let that plastic bottle go if you need to reuse those containers They need to be changed out after a week third world sicknesses right there You're probably making a good point, but plastic bottles are so much more convenient than glass ones because you know, I drop this And you know, I throw this at the wall if I'm upset And that wouldn't work so well with with a glass bottle and you know, I've been using these for for decades and I've never noticed any Any any downside but Yeah, I have been really itchy So it could be the crystal light Citrus strengths that that I'm consuming or it could just be I'm I'm at an increased level of anxiety to the last four months so I didn't take much with me to Australia aside from my crystal light and my My chewing gum, but I did take my purea mother of all creams So as I start getting itchy often get itchy in the night, I just wake up and I just lather this purea mother of all creams. I found it on amazon to Reduce the itchiness, but uh Yeah, a lot of a lot of itchiness over the last four months. It must be must be psychological If your back's positive, what do I think about natural immunity? I'm all for natural immunity vaccine immunity Any way you can you can increase your immunization in ways that serve you I think is wonderful With every advancement in healthcare the human form will mutate itself to fill the new bizarre niche it allows for says bruce Luke is the poster child for frequent vaccination at least Thank you for not saying that I'm the poster child for frequent urination I mean, I'd much rather be the poster child for frequent vaccination but In in my family, we simply can't walk past a public bathroom like It's it's part of the illers donlos syndrome 30% of the population is obese. Yeah, I think it's more like 40% or 50% but still We've got obese people, you know living into their 80s. All right. We have doubled our lifespan In the last 120 years, you know, thanks to those globalist elites High sugar makes you itch dry skin streaming on youtube makes you itch too Morbidly obese with a heart condition diabetes. No problem. We have some injections for that. Well Obviously, it'd be better if people took better care of themselves so that they're not morbidly obese with a heart condition and diabetes But we don't really know that much about what causes heart disease So the recommendations of like heart surgeons and In various health societies are constantly changing, you know fat bad fat good Saturated fat bad.  It's all constantly changing We don't really know that much about the mechanisms of heart disease and cancer And we're never going to eradicate cancer All right, so people are going to die. We may be after You know lift the the average, you know life expectancy a few years but It's hard to know definitively, you know what diets have what effect on health Because how are you going to test them over a long period of time? Or you can do is take the diets that people report But you can't just keep people in a laboratory so that you can have control of what people actually eat We have a public health industry now that has our best interests in mind The public health industry has our best interests in mind as much as the sports industry or the gambling industry or the religion industry, all right, but Where are people living longer than in first world industrialized countries? All right, so if we've doubled lifespan last 120 years to me, that seems fairly significant If we just do what they suggest, we should be fine. Well, the things they suggest are constantly changing as the evidence changes Eat with the grain of your ancestors and you'll be fine. That's that's an opinion, but there's no evidence for that You might have to live in medical slavery dependent on some kind of medication to string out miserable lives long. Well For example, diabetics, you could take away their insulin and they would die right so I know I know diabetics who've gotten to live decades and decades and decades of productive high quality lives because of medications like insulin So I I don't see, you know, what's what's wrong with insulin? There are certain people who need insulin every day Additives artificial colors prepackage junk. Yeah, but we don't have any strong evidence that that's killing people early You may Emotionally not like it. You may find it aesthetically displeasing and you may have theories that this is killing people early and making them really obese But we don't particularly have much evidence Okay, fine, we can't eradicate cancer, but what about eradicating feminism? No, we can't eradicate feminism either because different groups will have incentives to Seek out their own groups best interests So feminism wants to increase female choices and decrease male choices, particularly with regard to sexuality Maybe those people who are diabetic, maybe they should just eat healthier and exercise Yeah, but there are millions and millions and millions of people who are diabetic who even if they ate healthier and exercise They would still be diabetic and without insulin they would die so Many people their lives will significantly improve if they exercise but exercise is not getting to cure all health challenges Bye. Bye


Masking is hiding autistic traits as well as monitoring and changing your body language to reach a desired outcome, usually to fit in, usually to be perceived in a positive light. It's weird talking about masking because in a sense it does come across as being fake, as being manipulative in some way. But a lot of the times masking is done to compensate for some level of difference that we may have. Maybe in terms of the medical context, we might think, oh, they're compensating for the social deficits that they might have within the context of a normal social situation, which kind of makes sense. It's not necessarily done in a very hurtful kind of manipulative way so that you can like hide from people and make sure that you craft how you look to people in a very false way for personal gain. It can be sort of seen by that, but a lot of the time it is done out of necessity, especially during childhood.


What's good, YouTube? This is your boy Chi World back to you again with another art video on how to cartoon yourself step by step if you're new to the channel. Go ahead and hit that like button, comment, subscribe, make sure you click post notifications so you will be notified anytime your boy drops a hit. And without further ado, let's jump right into this video. Okay, the first thing you want to do, you want to go ahead and set your template. And the template I use is just continue 18 by 18 inches. So that's the perfect size for if you want to load your artwork into Instagram, you know, I'm saying that's the perfect size I use. And I render all my pictures out in the PNG file. They give me like the best quality. So what we're going to do is we're going to select this picture, drop the opacity down. I'm going to lock that layer, create a new layer by clicking this blank sheet of paper. And we're going to set our pressure on the pressure. Change these bottom numbers to three. So if you ever wonder what type of brush I use, all I do is set my pressure sensitivity. And it give me that brush you always see me use in my videos. Take your time with your line work. Another thing I do, I got like the double monitor thing going on. So I put a extra image of the picture I'm drawing on the other monitor so I can kind of get I deal with what my line is supposed to do. I work your way through it. I'm like, you're feeding me new artists, a new digital artist. I would recommend you get you a tablet investing you a digital tablet once with the stream. Because it's like, it make it more easier to draw. And it make you like more faster. And it's more fun at the same time. Because it's always everything flow better.  So you won't have no problem when it's time to use the coloring method. So I make sure like, make sure that when I'm drawing these lips, I'm closing off my lines at the end. I know opening to do the hair what we're going to do. I'll go back to our picture opacity up so we can see a little more detail. Then we're going to go to our pencil tool, right click in this. If you want to see my pencil settings, that's my pencil setting. So you can go ahead and copy that. Get the same settings I got. Okay, come out of that. Move this color black to the top and make sure this bottom color is cut off. So you can you know, I'm saying trace it and it a feeling. So what's this? No trace the hair. Try to make it like messy, that texture. And it saves you a lot of time too, as far as so you don't have to do all the coloring in on the hair.  I always try to make the top line of the eye more darker, brush a little smaller. Some of these hairs hold out.  Okay, as soon as you finish your line work, what you want to do? Highlight everything, put my keyboard out so y'all can see what I'm doing.  The copy of your line work by dragging it to this blank sheet of paper, lock in the top copy, select in a second. Now, you want to select your base color to start out with, my red tangle tool, and drag that color over, my cartoon head, right click the color, go to arrange and send to back, and you will know if you did that step right, you will know if you did that step right, if you look over here and you see your line work on top of your color. Okay, now what you want to do, you want to highlight everything, your path finder and click merge, so your line work can become one with your color, and now what you want to do, you want to right click onto this to the color, go to isolate, select group, and now click on to the areas that's closed off and make changes, I want to delete this outer layer, layer by just hitting delete. Another thing I do too, so I want to make a mistake and select my line work like this, so I want to make a mistake and you know what I'm saying, knock it off and move it, what I do, I click this drop down menu over here, click it again, and I scroll down so I get to my last black line work, and I lock all the black lines, delete these top two unlock, then you close it. So now, you can get this arrow tool, you can select the colors that's in the hair, without it selecting the line work, making a mistake and selecting our line work, you just locked it, follow that shirt by clicking this arrow right here, isolate, select group, use this shirt to switch the colors out later, sometimes you got to keep here and isolate, select a group, highlight everything, we're going to start with our darker colors at the top and the bottom one is locked, we finish shade, and what I do, I really just look at the picture, look where all the dark shadows at, all our shadows, we can tweak the color, we're just looking at the original picture, the dark shadows it, and it takes some practice, you'll get better at it if you ain't that good at your shadows, the tool, this all over here, now that we did our dark shadows, what we're going to do, we're going to create another layer under our dark shadow layer, we're going to go a little lighter with the skin tone, so we're going to start with the skin tone, find a nice in between color, do the highlights on the face, so we're going to create one more layer under that layer, top of the skin, fade, make the two end colors dark, but you want to make it blend into another color, similar, both of the edges kind of similar with the colors, pull them a little closer together, you want to make the color in the center with a nice blend with the others, details to the dress, there you have it you guys, how to turn yourself into a cartoon head, make sure you hit that like button, come in, subscribe, more heat coming soon, and I'm out of this thing.


Welcome back to my channel. Today's video is an extra extra extra exciting video. There's just a lot happening and I have a rather large announcement that I've been keeping a secret almost this entire year. I mentioned it a few times in other videos that I've been working on this project that's gonna come to fruition soon and it is arrived. I'm so excited to let you all know that my collection with Desenio launches today. I have loved Desenio for years because they honestly offer so many incredible art prints and frames at such an affordable price point so really anybody can have such beautiful artwork in their home and at the beginning of this year they actually reached out and had interest in collaborating on a collection and I kind of was like you know what I feel like I would love to kind of inject a little bit of the Lone Fox aesthetic into Desenio. They are based out of Stockholm Sweden so I feel like their aesthetic kind of matched the Stockholm Sweden vibe which is a little bit more minimal. Of course they branched out into so many directions but I kind of wanted to add that vintage Lone Fox aesthetic to Desenio so we came up with 12 art pieces and I don't want to say prints even I mean they are prints but each of these 12 pieces were hand-done for this collection like I do not want you guys to think that these were just pulled out of somewhere and I just selected 12 and said print them because that was not the case at all like we really put in so much thought into every single piece so that all these pieces can go together they can be done in a gallery wall or they were strong enough to also stand alone as individual pieces. On top of that I really wanted pieces that can go in every room in your house so I have something for the kitchen for the bathroom bedroom living room there is a ton and I just cannot wait to show them to you I really just want to share them with you guys so I actually ended up going to Sweden if you follow me on Instagram you might have saw that I was in Sweden for a couple of days shooting the collection with Desenio. Today's a Desenio shoot and we have set up a couple of different sets you guys where they shoot these gallery walls and just like their product is unreal I gotta give you like a little tour of this studio they said I could because it is so beautiful it's an apartment but like just look at this molding here's a little table setup which is so cute and the artwork is actually gonna be added in after just because the glare of the photo this little area just imagine living here like imagine living here stunning stunning beautiful Christmas they're shooting for Christmas but how beautiful is this room I've never seen anything more stunning this is our little living room set they literally recreated my IKEA ball coffee table for the shoot I got here and I was like wait did you guys make that and they were like yes we did we went to IKEA and recreated it how cute is this just perfect and it is such a stunning collection I mean it is my collection but I am so happy with how it turned out and how we shot the collection like it was so much fun going to Sweden and working with their creative team also gonna meet some of the artists that worked on the pieces like the people that actually painted the pieces by hand which props to them because I am not an artist I'm not a painter I can paint a solid color on a wall but I cannot blend or you know precisely do artwork they did such an incredible job and across this collection you're gonna see so many hand-painted pieces that really have that hand painted like canvas texture in them but you're also gonna see some line art pieces there's some more kind of textural pieces there's a checkerboard there's kind of a gingham print there really is something for everybody alright Drew stop talking and show your collection I'm so excited okay take a glimpse of the colors like look at those colors already and I am just gonna start right off with these first two which are some of my favorites these first two here are the composition and I really wanted to do an abstract piece that can go either vertical or horizontal that included the brown tone from my kitchen that you guys love that I've shared with you on my cabinetry and also just kind of this off-white tone so they didn't read stark and I love these so much so you can pair them together you can do them solo if you wanted as like an abstract piece you could do them vertical or horizontal there really is so much you can do with these it's a nice thick quality paper and the prints are always like top notch so the one with the circle shape is composition one this one right here is composition two when I saw the painting of this and it come through in the email I was just look at this you guys this is called red fox and how incredible of a job did the painter do on this one like I cannot believe this was painted when I saw this come through my email I was like wow that is a work of art right there and it adds these vines here I added those because I kind of wanted them to cup the side of the box's face and just kind of create almost this crest like shape in the end was what I was going for I really love that silhouette right now I wanted to incorporate a still life but I wanted it to have this kind of whimsy very handmade feel to it and this is what we came up with I just love this still life this print is called pair and wine still life and it has the most beautiful shades of like a wine purple color we have that amber tone down here in the pairs and I love the little sliced pear down here and then there's this hand popping in and then if you guys recognize this this exact taper holder is actually in my kitchen these next two kind of go together tonally but the first one look at the detail and texture on this piece this is beagle as you can see it's a little beagle and I really wanted to do a dog I wanted to do a dog though that kind of felt a little bit more like it could be anywhere again like you can use this anywhere and it wasn't particularly like an expression of a dog so this one I love it's like a beagle from behind it has this great canvas texture on it and the colors themselves are so so pretty in this one and then from this I actually did a gingham and I have just been obsessed with plaid obsessed with gingham lately so we took the colors from the dog and kind of incorporated them into this gingham style print which this is another one that could be either framed horizontally or vertically however you'd like to the artist that created this one did so many renditions it was all hand-painted on this like cloth like fabric this is the one that was kind of settled on and I love this piece it's just so fun I actually use kind of a similar one in my friend trevor's place this next print I definitely feel like it's going to be a lone fox fam favorite check out rustic florals this one turned out incredible I got to see the actual painting of this one in person I got to see the actual painting of a bunch of these when I went to Sweden this one in person was just like breathtaking if I was to see this at a flea market as like an antique piece of art or like a vintage art piece I would have scooped it up in a second because the colors in it the texture like the mooliness and the depthiness I also love how there's some petals like just sitting on the countertop and it almost has this like impressionism feel to it as well the next thing that I'm going to show you are kind of more on the neutrally line art side so we did body impression which looks like this it's just like a female nude line art body with like a textural background and it has a white border on it I love the white with kind of the cream the mix of those two and then we did this one which is called bop me and it has these hand-drawn graphite almost like leafs on it and then we added this border on the inside I wanted this one in particular to feel like a vintage etching and I feel like we were able to get that kind of portrayed in this especially with the texture in the background it really is perfect this is the checkered vase and just look how cool that is it has this watercolor checkered vase and then these vines that are kind of symmetrical going down either side I really want to put this in like an oval frame or something and have it really be kind of the focal point in there second to last this is another abstract piece called tranquility and I love this art piece because I feel like you can put it in a frame you can mat it wherever you'd like to you can flip it in any direction you want to to get the look that you'd like and this one also comes in extremely large size so if you love that kind of abstract art oversized art above your sofa this is a great one to put on the wall it's such a beautiful hand-painted piece and I had to save one of my favorites for last this one is called checkerboard if you can guess why I love this one so much I love it because it actually looks like it's fully painted and textured like when you have this in a frame it actually looks as if you can go up and touch the texture it is just incredible how they're able to get that across and I almost feel like they add extra to it that way when it prints it kind of is a little bit more soft and I just feel like this checkerboard is perfect it has this dark brown with this kind of like off-white canvas tone against it that is my collection with Desenio the loan box ex Desenio ambassador collection is live to shop and we are going to be hanging some of this up in the house I'm actually really excited because as many of you know I've been doing a bunch of room makeovers in my new home and as I've been doing them sometimes as a content creator you can't get around every single corner of the room so maybe there's a corner like this one in particular over here or this wall here that didn't get much love or attention because I kind of was focusing on everything else and I was like you know what I'll get to that later so in this video we are going to be going back through a bunch of the rooms and kind of just tweaking them a little bit and making them perfect adding a little bit of my art as well because in a lot of the spaces I actually mentioned that I have yet to find art for them art is a very personal thing and I feel like in a lot of the rooms I do I leave spaces and walls blank and mentioned to you guys like I might have not found the right piece of art and I'm still looking so I'll keep you updated but today we have found the right art for these spaces and we're going to be going back through some of the rooms and just tweaking them ever so slightly I'm actually really excited to share with you some of the tweaks I want to do I think the biggest change is going to be actually in the breakfast and upstairs so I would absolutely love for you guys to check out my collection with the senio I'm going to link it at the top of the description box below so definitely tap over check it out I hope you can find a print or maybe even 12 that you'd like to add to your collection but I feel like there's something for everybody so definitely browse um you can see the different sizes offered they have frames there's a bunch of stuff over on the senio if you should start down here in the lobby so let's get going we are in the lobby and when I did this space this wall actually used to house the tapestry and the tapestry actually got sent off for a project that I'm working on um a couple of weeks back and I told myself that when it comes back here that I'm actually going to hang it up in the stairwell because I really do feel like it had its moment here but I think it should live in the stairwell because it's a little bit too large for this wall that's a bunch of you guys saw I had it folded over on the underside so I was thinking I have this large white wall and I kind of wanted to put those two abstract prints from my collection on this wall with some black mats around them and I think it's going to fill it up really nicely then we can add our table lamp back and I have a table that I made for this area because there used to be no table here are the prints themselves so it's composition one which is this one and composition two the senio also sells mats that you can put over the top of your prints so they sell them in black and white and the frames that I'm going to be using are the dark oak frames so all around I just feel like it's going to look so perfect the dark oak with the black mat look how good the dark mat looks with the art in the dark oak frame just so high end looking a little tip is to always keep your inserts that come in your frames because you can use these as hanging templates you're just going to add a nail on the top of each corner of your template and you can hang your frame right over the top without having to think about where to put the nail or anything so another protein oh my gosh that looks so good you guys look I thought Justin what do you think that looks so good it looks really really good it looks expensive and last but not least I just made this little table and I love the way that it turned out it's going to be the side table for this sofa it actually fits perfectly on the side there I'm going to do this book come look what I put on the wall I know with the black mat it looks so good these are two of my favorite prints too I know you wouldn't I feel like you wouldn't really think much of them but they're like yeah I love it here is the print called Tranquility and I just love this it's like an abstract piece so you can mat it if you want to you can even flip it we can flip it fully horizontal we wanted to hang it like that still looks like a really pretty piece of art I actually even maybe like it looks like that I think brainstorm on that for a bit but that's what I love about the three that I did down in this lobby area is that all three of them you can kind of like swap them you could flip them around hang them horizontal hang in vertical I have this bronze bus here and I thought it'd be fun to add this little framed nude print next to it kind of till I juxtapose the masculine and the feminine I thought that'd be pretty but the little frames actually have like a little um back or two so you can put these ones on the tabletop or something so we are now going to work on the breakfast note this is the room that is going to have the most kind of work done on it I actually want to add some paint and if you guys recall I painted a ceiling in here red to start which was not the right move to do that's why it's not red anymore but I do want to give this room a contrasting trim just a subtle contrasting trim because I just feel like it is just a little bland I don't know there's something about it it just feels a little stark I love all the elements in here I love the table I love the chairs but I feel like just a slight contrast trim on the windows and on the baseboards and maybe even this top crown molding here and just like a shade darker than what's already in here could be so pretty currently this room is painted dimity which is this color here by faro and ball now I just went two colors down on the swatch card to this one right here and we are painting it oxford stone actually took a little longer than expected we have been painting this for like three hours or so but look how good the contrast trim looks perfect I even did a little border up at the top all of the windows of course and then the baseboards look how pretty that color is it just looks so good and I did a satin finish so that the trim had a little more of a sheen to it tape on so sunny look oh but it looks so good all the top dries down for the second coat I am going to start swapping the art in these frames here which are so cute because these frames are kind of like handmade little oval wood frames they have this organic quality to them so the three prints I'm wanting to do in these frames are the wine and pear still life and then the beagle print and then the gingham print as well I really love these colors together and I think they're going to pair nicely with the frame as well so good I adore this room it's dark it's moody it's perfect for movies however I actually transferred one of the large art pieces that I had over here into the top living room and this shelf above me actually holds the projector over here that then projects at the screen but I have a couple of framed pieces here this first one is the gingham which I thought these colors just looked so nice in here with like the sofa but I thought doing the gingham kind of sideways would look really pretty that looks so good something else to keep in mind is putting your prints in a vintage frame so this right here is the rustic florals print used a vintage frame to make it look like an actual painting that's a little tip take out the glass so there's no glare on the front and then find a vintage frame and you can make any of these look like paintings they look so pretty those will look really cute just kind of styled together out of the art up here but I also have this piece which is the checkerboard art and I'm going to add this right above the bench right here in the entryway it's just a little bench that I have for when people come in I just want to hang that right here perfect piece for the entryway and I know you can kind of see a peek of it through so I wanted to kind of let you guys see those textures and patterns this one oh I like that more and this is one of the spaces I've been wanting to restyle since I styled this room this is kind of like the grand living room if you happen to watch my tour video and right over here is this really long beautiful credenza that I got from olive atelier and it just fits right here perfectly and then right over here is that funky mirror that you guys might have seen the actual posts and legs are chrome so it introduces a little bit of silver into the room and you all know I love mixing metals so for this wall I wanted to add some of my art from the collection in some metal frames and also some wood frames kind of mismatch them and create a cool gallery wall like this is a very long hutch it's like a hundred inches it's just overall a very tall wall and I want to draw the eye up a bit placed some items that I'm kind of thinking about adding mainly around the frames so I did all the templates on the insides of the frames and I really want to lean this base one I thought that'd be so fun to maybe style a base around the base print and this fox print is going to be the star of the show and check that out so we're adding our fox here and I put the fox in a chrome frame because I just thought that it would add a slight bit of shine and like modern element to all of this vintage because I really have a lot of vintage and kind of aged feeling pieces so I wanted to add some of this chrome feeling in here we have our leaf print which kind of looks like an etching I absolutely love this one and it is going to go over on the left side perfect every time I really love a white mat on a piece of art so I wanted to share with you what like one of the abstract pieces would look like with a white mat this is what the matted print looks like and you could mat any of these so keep that in mind if you want to add a white mat or black mat I'm using the gingham print again this is my most used one so far I just really love this I'm always so drawn to plaids and just like patterns and I feel like you never see that in art so I really love this one I want to have some more lightness over here so I have this paper mache pot all the art is up it looks great and I put some branches in this these are just some faux branches that are perfect for the fall time which is basically what time season we're in I have these little mini calla lilies and I'm just going to put them I put them actually just in a drinking glass and just go over on the side I recently got these like banana peel esk almost brass taper holders they're just really simple and I have these painted tapers in them I'm going to add them here add a little of the silver from the frames I'm actually going to add this award that I want it's a webby award but it has like the perfect kind of structure looks like a little statue so I'm just going to pop it on some books over here in the corner and this is finished styled credenza which I love I think this looks so good and it has a little bit of fall in it and I love how it kind of ties back to the box print which I wanted front and center in this living room it's like right under the peak which is really cool you look good oh wow thanks in filming I wanted to show you my decennial prints because you know I've been doing my collection with decennial and I thought I'd share it with you I want to see do you want to see oh my gosh I love the box it's like painted yeah I was just noticing that one uh the plaid print on the top left you have this one I believe painted contrast trim in here doesn't look pretty like pairs of wine so good and the gingham again I used to gingham so many times okay so these two are I think they're the largest two that I put on the wall but I love how they look doesn't that look so good yes and you know what I bet you could take those and you could turn them to that looks really really good it is okay so then the last little area that I added are in it's a movie room a gingham again doesn't that one look good that's my favorite I could see that over a big fireplace chair or something yeah do you need that over your fireplace I do I would love that yeah can you get it for me yeah I can and here's my last one checkerboard you can literally use this as a checkerboard if you wanted to which one would you like all of them the red fox the red fox is that what it is red fox yeah I would like a big huge for the whole size of the living room wall a box okay love you and that is my collection with decennio I just love every single piece and I hope that you guys also find something that you love as well I am going to link the collection below it is available to shop today you can get frames for it you can get prints different sizes just take a browse but I just want to thank you all so much because you guys are the ones that have made this collection possible and it is just such a dream come true like I am so excited to see you start incorporating something's in your home and let me know in the comments section if you're picking up any like which ones you're going to get or like which one's your favorite leave a comment below I'd love to know but I'll catch you all in my next one and I love you guys so much good bye


Hey stampers, welcome to another week of Watch Weekly Wednesday. I'm Aubrey, part of the Stampin' Jill creative team, and today I'm excited to share with you a new stamp set from the Holiday Mini Catalog. I love this stamp set, and the stamp set is actually pretty simple, but it's beautiful. So it's this Love of Leaves stamp set, it is so pretty. I love that it's pretty simple, but the leaves kind of have that watercoloury look about them, so you can do a lot with them, and it's really been fun to play with. So I wanted to show you a sample that I came up with using this set, so I'm going to stamp for you. It is a photopolymer stamp set, so I'm going to use, this is one of our piercing mats that we sell in the catalogue. We just cut it in half, and we also use them to stamp with our photopolymer, so it gives that extra cushion. So I'm just going to put my piece of paper right on top of there. This is a very vanilla piece of paper. So I'm going to start with my saying here in Early Espresso, and this saying says, your friendship is something I know I can count on. Isn't that cute? So I'm just going to stamp it right down here, and then I'm going to next go to my Cajun craze, and this leaf here. So I'm using all of the different leaves and colours on this card. So pretty. Okay, next I want to do my mint macaroon with this leaf. This is kind of that long skinny leaf. We're going to do it just there. Okay. And I have to close my stamp pads, or I know I'm going to make a huge mess. And next I'm going to do my crumb cake and stamp this down here at the bottom. I go back to Early Espresso here, look at all those fun fall colours. Love it. And then one of our new in colours here. This is Cinnamon Cider. I love this colour, especially with these fall colours. It really brings out the orange in it, and I think it's so pretty. I'm going to do one down here, and one up here, and that little leaf. Okay. So just simple and easy, but look how pretty that is. I'm going to take a very vanilla, 8 ½ by 5 ½, and then I'm just going to put that right on top, and it gives a little bit of dimension, but simple, easy, and so cute. So I have loved this stamp set, it's so pretty. But I always think when I stamp a really simple card that it's fun to show a little bit more too. So I want to show you two stepped up versions of this card using some of the other accessories in the Holiday Mini. So here's a stepped up version. I've used a Mint Macaron backing instead of vanilla, and then I used some of the Gilded Autumn Designer Series paper from the Holiday Mini catalogue, and ribbon, and a little acorn from that same Gilded Autumn Suite. And just adding a little bit of detail you can see that cute stepped up version. The stamping is exactly the same, I didn't change that at all, but it's so much fun. Now my next one, I stepped it up just a little bit more, and I used the die sets that go with this Love of Leaves stamp set. It's called Stitched Leaves, and this die set is so cute, I've loved it.  So I cut some leaves out, did my saying on the leaves instead of on the very vanilla piece, and then I stitched the leaves too in the background, and I thought, and again I used the colors and the paper from that Gilded Autumn Suite because I just loved that so much. So that is so fun, those three different versions of that same card. I love, loved, loved playing with this and creating those. A few other cards that I made using this set, I'll just show you real quick. This card is actually one with the plaid tidings paper, I thought was so cute, and again I used those stitched leaves dies, and then this set in there. This is actually a card that's in the catalog, I changed it a little bit, but it's basically the same, I took it right from the catalog because I thought it was so cute. And then one more, I did using that same Gilded Autumn Paper and the stitch. You can see the stitched really good here. I also used that Brush Metallic Paper that's in the Gilded Autumn Suite, and so pretty. I just loved. You can see the stitching here, that die is also in the stitched leaves dies. So I have loved playing with this Love of Leaves stamp set and the stitched leaves dies that go with it. I hope that it's something that you want to play with too. I'd love to see your designs, so make sure you share those with us. If you like this video, make sure you give us a thumbs up, and we'll see you next week for another Watch It Weekly Wednesday.


Well, first of all, I'm having an amazing morning on an amazing golf course. This is Gossick, and hopefully you've watched my full video of me playing around here. But there is also another video that I'm filming. It's my what's in the bag. It's very much requested by you and it's how things are looking at the end of 2023. There's a couple of additions that I think you're going to be really interested in. Right, so next up is the driver. And if you've been watching the channel of late, then you already know what this is. Very simple and straightforward again. Tailor made Mini Burner driver, the latest model this year, which first of all looks superb, retro feel to the whole thing. But more importantly than looks, obviously is the performance. Short of shaft, 300cc head, I've got 13.5 degree head, notched down to degrees to 11.5. I find fairways or more fairways with it than I do a driver with a 45 inch shaft, and it just seems to really, really work. So it's about the only thing I've got in common with Tommy Fleetwood. But we both play that Tailor Made Mini Driver, the Burner version. I've got the weight shifters at the back. I think it's 13 or 15 gram at the back, 1.5 gram at the front. I love this thing and I've already said it's going to take something special to get it out my bag in 2024. So next up, the irons in my bag. Well, I was fitted for these with in terms of shaft a few years back and I've stuck with exactly the same shaft. It is steel fibre. It's now I-95 stiff, so it's a little bit lighter than I used to use. But steel fibre shaft is something that I really, really suit my swing again. A bit like the Pro Force shaft in a Mini Driver. I think that's key to how you perform with these things. They're the PXG 0317T irons. T stands for Tor, am I a Tor player? Absolutely not. Why did they call them Tor irons? I have no idea because these are very, very playable irons, very, very, very, very forgiving. They're foam filled, but they're almost blade-like in terms of their overall profile. And that's the key for me, first time I've been able to get a set of irons that I really wanted to play, which is more like a blade style. That's what I like the look of, but with help and forgiveness that foam injected irons, modern irons provide. And they've just been superb, really thin sole, fairly thin top line, overall small profile. Like I said, so, so forgiving for a very small looking set of irons. Thing to note, I still like carrying my clothes wherever possible. I only play realistically a bit more than a half set, probably. I've got wedge through to six iron, that's the irons that I carry. I'll even probably move one or two of those out as well if I'm on for a bit of a Sunday stroll. So not a lot of irons, but I love it in these things. They perform well, they feel superb and they've got a bit of forgiveness on what you want to say. Tidawr's video was sponsored by our friends at Hotgolf, the online golf retailer for all major brands. And if you want new golf gear, then please support us by supporting them. The next up in the bag is a bit of a contentious one in that it's been swapped around a little bit. My lab putter right now is back in the van and at the moment I've got a battle ready two. And this is the Blackjack putter from PXG. And if I'm honestly that, I'm switching between the two. I've told the story before on why I love the lab putter, but why I always feel like it's sort of starting again every time I get out on a golf course. So unless I've got a lot of time to practice before I go out and play, then I'm just going for a straightforward, face-balanced mallet. And I'll be honest with you, I can pretty much play any of those style of putters and I don't find them too dissimilar to things I like about this particular putter and why it was fit for me. It's a pistol to grip. It's a thicker grip, which I like. It's also face-balanced, which I've just mentioned. I love the weighting system in these putters. But the other thing for me that's been really interesting in this PXG battle ready two is the introduced its hollow body with foam filled, much like we've seen in a lot of the irons nowadays. And it just gives a much better feel in my hands. It's a balance between sound and feel that I really like. Strong alignment aid, face-balanced though, it suits me. It's very simple and straightforward. That's the putter that is in my bag with a little bit of switch round with the lab every now and again. For it there, I thought it was going to go in. So wedges, Callaway Jaws wedges had these. Jaws Raw, I'm just reading as well, had these for quite some time. They're starting to wear a little bit now. I've actually got a 56 and a 52. But I only generally carry a 56 in my sort of half set. And the reason for it's the most versatile number for me. I can play it from munkers. I can play it up in the air and so there's a flop shot and I can close the face and just knock it down a little bit like I did there. It's just an all around very versatile wedging. I said in the original review, they do some incredible sort of chamfering on the leading edge and then all around the soul. But the leading edge in particular sits really tight and I like that off links turf. It's something I'm really sort of comfortable with. And like I said, it just allows me to manipulate the face quite a lot. So 56 degree wedge bought plays with a lot of versatility and like the feel out of it. Love the way they look and I just got really familiar with them over the last, I think, 18 months or so and a definite thumbs up. So two wedges, 56, 52, but only really carry the 56. Right next up, fairway woods. And I say fairway woods, fairway woods, because there's only one that I carry and it's something that I spout on a lot about on the channel is having plenty of loft in your fairway woods. And I either like a five or a seven to be quite honest with you. I carry in the main a five wood. It's a PhD 03 11 gen six and it's 18 degree set as standard. The other key to mention for me is it's a fitted club for me. It's 10 side blue, 65 gram stiff. Just again, the key for me is like all the clubs that have ended up staying in my bag, because I mentioned I try a lot of them, they've all been custom fit. And for me, that's all about the shaft. So getting that shaft head combination is key, but the shaft being paramount. So yet again, I love five woods in general. I don't want this what's in the bag to be too much dominated about what brand you use. For me, it's about a set of clubs that is an average golfer. I find really sort of user friendly. So five wood played off the tea, which I'm about to do now. I can play it from the rough, I can play it from the fairway. You know, it's just a really versatile club. And you only know my opinion on the three woods where I just haven't got enough club head speed to generate what I really need to see the difference between these two types of clubs. And then like I said, I've also got a seven wood, which depend on where I'm playing will now and again pop into the bag. But that's again, all about just being super easy to play.  Right, so I said I just went up to six sign and then I've got five wood. And then somewhere in between all that, I stick in a hybrid. It's a four hybrid, sometimes a five hybrid. Again, both exactly the same model O311XF in the gen six line up. And again, more importantly, that shaft again is 10 side blue. So in my hybrids and my fairway woods, always 10 side blue shaft stiff, different weights, obviously between that hybrid and a fairway wood. But again, super stable, does things that I can't do with a five iron or four iron. And again, that goes down to maybe able to generate club head speed and just a bit more versatile than a five and a four iron in the bag as well, to be honest with you, because although I'm going to play again from the tee as my next shot, I can play it out the roof, I can play it from the fairway. You can even I like playing each one in and around the green as an option for a bump and run shot as well. So loads more versatility and far better performance in terms of ball flight as well, than I can achieve with longer irons in the bag nowadays. So, yeah, up to six iron, then I go into a four, maybe a five hybrid of times, then into a five wood, perhaps a seven one. So that's the kind of versatility of how I swap it around. But essentially, that is my bag made up and then obviously into that driver. Now, I said there was a new addition in the bag and well, that's not quite true because it's actually on my wrist and it's this little thing here. And it's not a GPS system and it's not a watch either. It's from a company called the Wiz. I did a review on this in recent weeks and I can not tell you just how impressive it is. It basically analyzes your swing. There's a number of different aspects of your swing, but for me, I'd like you to go back and watch that full review if you're interested in it. But what I'm using it for whilst I'm playing golf and I'm on playing golf today, it's all about measuring my transition. I've got a bad habit, as many of you will know, is sort of a casting motion from the top of the backswing into the downswing. And this watch, I say watch, this analyzer helps me massively in trying to eradicate that and it's something that I can't see right now, but post round I can go and have a look and see exactly how my swing has been performing. So the new thing in the bag is not actually in the bag. It's on my wrist. Now, some people ask me what ball I play and I'll be honest with you, I'm not too fussy over golf balls as long as it's of a sort of sitting in the middle somewhere in terms of a price bracket.  The thing I'm using at the moment quite often is this ball from C, this is the XDX1, I think that's correct anyway, but it's the jack and it's got this strange sort of alignment aid and also assist in sort of really recognising whether you're rolling the ball very well off the put of face. So that's been a really good ball, but I'll be perfectly honest with you.  All I like, I like sound and feel, particularly in and around the greens. I prefer the soft side as well. So that ball amongst a load of others does well, but that's the one that I generally play with at the minute. Right, that's my round and gothic finished. And oh, my God, what an afternoon I've had here. Make sure you check out that video. But this, of course, is a watch in a bag and no major changes. I don't think I think the biggest thing for me was maybe the irons, them O317 T's were maybe a bit of a surprise for you and for me. And a bit of encouragement as well that there's a blade out there that I think can appeal to many more golfers than it might suggest. The other big difference for me was just to his wrist device, whatever you want to call it, a swing analyser, which I've been, it's been useful. It's not going to eradicate overnight, but the things I've been working on in my game, it's certainly played a major part. And I'll see how that progresses over the year. I'm not really a gadget man, and I think there's a very simplistic way of doing things and me understanding and learning and hopefully improving just a little bit. Anyway, that's the plan. Look, simple and straightforward, that's me done. That's my watch in a bag. If I have not covered anything, then please ask a question in the comments section down below and I'll do my best to reply. But for now, I'm going to warm up a little bit and I'll see you all soon.


Everybody forced here ripping 2023 Bowman baseball sapphire five box number one Find the results at late in sports cards comm anytime. I've got you a Lincoln chat as well. Let's go ahead and get started This is our version of 2023 sapphire release. Thank you. All right. Yeah, it was online exclusive. So We shouldn't end up getting any of your first. So I'm Shane. Thanks, man Let's see the heat. So I believe it's uh, yeah on auto per box on average Plus four pair of three parallels we should find so Four cards to really be chasing obviously all the base and sapphires Chasable as well Best of luck everybody, but our guy Elijah green on the box central Florida legends Okay Yep sapphire looks good on everything But Bowman bases here looks good to lasandra Rodriguez. Amari on void first parallels aqua Cubs first bowman Jefferson Rojas to 55 Nice card to start for you Cubs and Axel Sanchez. What does recap all color? Yeah, guaranteed auto definitely helps a lot good good list to even if it's not like a first bowman It's like Jackson holly and Tamar Johnson have autos a few other non first, but it's a good auto checklist And I think there's a lot of firsts as well Mikey Romero Henry Davis who got his call up Perot's up for the Mets first and Rojas again for the Cubs Davis double in his first game Got glitter figure a row a royal Wilbur Sanchez and the Alejandro Osuna Reds on a 10-game win streak man. Oh, man 2023 is a crazy year y'all Yellow cruise three for four as well Ronnie Simone Osorio said on Raffaella and Christian Vaquero Yes, it's definitely good stuff Shane. Why do we got some Miguel Blase? Now William Sedanio first, there's our first bowman auto. It is a Michael Arroyo Mariners clean auto too That's a good-looking card right there congrats to the Mariners Chase the lotter who's been on fire to Kind of backs in first place reds 10 game win streak. Seriously. Seriously. What year is it? What is that the Giants are in second place still? Man It really feels like it was Barry Bonds playing is Randy Johnson on the Diamondbacks Louise Gonzalez got Kumar Rocker Colton Couser Elijah Green and William Lugo first So weird Red Sox Yankees are in fourth and fifth place. What the heck? Kyle Harrison Definitely wouldn't be a one if that was the case. Those two teams were very good in the early 2000s Ladies Jordan purple Kenny Gomez Astros first bowman at 25 Love to see that purple purple to 25 is is throwing me off a bit though got Solano Jay and I were talking before and just Every sapphire changes the numbering on length of color Throw you off. Here's another one. I'm gonna throw you off Montecino Wagner and a green Osorio for the Tigers to 60 First bowman green is 60 Osorio Tigers And a Leandro Arias. Yeah, the three parallels in one auto is big. That's big stuff Let me get you a link you don't have to worry about links during the sapphire stuff I would just focus on getting as much done as you can Okay, down to just one on five bucks number three. So get your link for number four. You got 20 to go on number four Happy Wednesday everybody Nice and rainy outside here. I Dig that weather though. That's that's my jam. I love that Makes me so much more relaxed Everyone in Florida calms down of it because they're not burning hot Luis Garcia you do Garcia and orange Luis Rodriguez the 50 cardinals first bowman That's probably the weirdest one is orange to 50. That's probably the weirdest one Against our instincts your Donna de los Santos. All right. We got Khalil Watson Davidson de los Santos and another orange auto zack neto to 25 Awesome hit angels Three of 25 did he get sent back? I don't know what he got sent back down because he was doing well Did he get called back up? Okay, so they're just kind of like playing the they're trying to see kind of play around That's awesome very nice hit angels this is for sure going into a mag that's gorgeous on The oh on the aisle. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, cuz he was he was doing well He's doing well hitting what a 259 That's pretty good. It's not terrible. I was gonna say for first for first call up hitting over 250 I would say that's good. And you just got drafted him Collier. Yep Youth movement this year and major league baseball is pretty apparent a lot of big call-ups Sub Ryan D. Luis Lara Cole Young Luciano and Roman Anthony. I was surprised Luis Matos got called up Yeah, I Think it was because what Mitch Handegar is on the aisle and Matos is very good out at defensive outfielder as well Clifford Logan Wagner Ylver Herrera and Blake First Blake sapphire at LSE right there stuff will be one Aqua coming up there's been Cosme Charles and the Aqua is Pedro Ramirez Cubs doing well 31 to 55 two numbered parallels first bowman both of them for the Cubs Hey appreciate you Ryan. We got Tony Blanco Jr. First black fire She did not he was ready for that one Got brome which is Blake chrome blaper, which is Blake paper and black fire, which is Blake sapphire This is yeah, we're really Limiting the syllables around here. Yeah, Fernandez Ricardo Perez and a green the 60 Gavin Cross Royals nice parallel good player and Matt Mervis Matt Mervis who by the way Apparently looks kind of like you can't see the picture here, but it looks like Donnie The Vincent Peruzo Hayes who's by has a couple of Mets there was a lot of Ramon Tez and the Dylan O'Rei Dang shame nice. You haven't slacked it on the sapphire blakes. I got I'm still working on the like the hobby parallels Spencer Jones Yankees Ellie and any LD card is a good LD card right now Christian Hernandez and Juan Chacon Bass I wonder if he'll be like an update rookie this year It's tough to say I Feel like he's gonna be a 2024 series one rookie and he's gonna be like V chase there Just get that weird feeling Jase of Vena same thing happen to alleys ending up in a wander They take like a big big dude that gets called up and like we can Yeah, coming arrow. That's another guy. That's a beast right now susek and Sweeney Yeah, some full casers to Brady house Bayesteros de la Cruz ab ab de la Cruz and at the Gutierrez sub-stack Jet the Met James Wood Aqua first bowman auto Mets to 99 Jesus Baez Someone said the damn Mets. Well, you got a hit. You got an auto There we go Mets very nice Bayez Aqua auto to 99 frame a delay on the marlins 42 and 32 Quaca Grego Gabriel Gonzalez martin Gonzalez and Daniel Guilarte Well, hey Is got good pitching your your presence killing it Brock Jones literally you can go to just about any major league baseball team right now and point to like a really young player or like A rookie or a guy that just got called up or someone that's like your second year that's playing really well And it's helping them Board of Ghosts. There's a purple Kyle Harrison at 25 Giants Great card Giants probably the I would say probably easily the best picture of the product Ace potential on the Harrison very nice Sanfrant at 25. What's up? Are you in for boy? Geez The Giants still have pigeon wolves here soon. That's what he's calling Edward julien In a green they're really in St. Daniel the 61st bowman Padres Jacob Barry, I guess all the berries in here are blueberries Hmm, you guys thought you were safe. You all thought you were safe Bargoyah nelson rada. We don't even have to wait for the blue parallels in this one and an aqua myrochendric martin is dodgers the 55 Very nice card Dodgers as well Jordan Lawler. Ryan's sick. He's sick Yeah, guys dylan and matt are live on latent channel two right now with baseball group breaks Roger garyas drew Jones the first drew of the day Nice card diamondbacks Mercedes and Gavin cross All right last couple here So matt has some sapphire later, but what they're working on now They got some bowman teams on sale. He got sonic chrome a bowman chrome through the years mixer Which I believe has some 2020 choice So the 19 a lot of interesting products in that one don russe as well And there's a 2022 update jumbo case for later on 2022 update jumbo Chase a lot of those big rookies in that one With peña j rod hunter green now who's who's on his way to becoming an ace All right, rocker couser our guy Elijah green and william lugo He's used by as blaze jordan and an aqua Juan Brito. Rocky's the 55 first bowman Solano, all right max Wagner Kyle Harrison and orange matt mervis 10 of 50 Cubs doing a well also Uh, there's not really like a better steven between sapphire and like bowman hobby There's not a better As far as like the cards and parallels leondra arias For sir, I would say that like hobby and jumbo have the higher ceiling like a true gold will be better than like a gold sapphire or something like that if that makes sense but Sapphire can bring some serious heat. I would say base sapphire over like Any non numbered hobby though for sure Got you in your garcia At least in my mind month, you know, I could be totally wrong on that cam collier In your dana de los santos Khalil Watson davis and de los santos louise garcia and roman anthony Oh red so red is the 10 red is the 10 Yeah, louise lara col young and it is a first bowman diamond bag davis and de los santos Sick color match one of 10 d backs That's going in the mag. That's just too pretty That is that is some serious heat right there luciano Yeah, we'll see in the recap if there's any or i'll check after this box is ending up that mervis Clifford Wagner Herrera and Blake or what is it black fire black fire? You get mad at me for saying jacob blueberry, but Not for black fire been cosme austin charles and you and your coming narrow first bowman auto And that's a color match raise that's a monster hit Probably as far as first moments in the product probably performing the best right now As far as first bowman's in this product monster hit there for the raise and a 20 blanco jr Yup, this stuff is heat everybody this stuff is heat Let me check that uh I don't see anything on the on the mervis Where what is it shane? I don't see anything on it there through the top loader Maybe I've just been camera angle or something like that Last one There could be something it's really hard to see with the sapphire as well the sapphire stuff. Yeah, it could have been screen Could have been I didn't I got to get the right angle that time All right, we got zavala Jackson and an orange day on free us guardians the 50 left of the player All right, we'll take one more look at it when we go through the recap railing bishop just to make sure Colby thomas Please try to re guys and aqua christian vaquero to 55 out for the nationals Simon one how you Lee Peyton Graham day on free us and incarnation Jose uh, perosa lasandra rodriguez and marion boyd and axel sanchez Mikey romero, henry davis first pomenado jace avina brewers brew crew jefferson rojas Wilbur sanchez vaquero and osuna Ronnie's simon Javier osorio glitter figurel and sit on raffaella Miguel blaze sedanio green Miguel blaze 10 of 60 red socks Chase the louder all right. Give me a sec. I'll grab a box of wrapper and then we'll probably send it If we can see something here if it's super small sometimes it's not replaceable anyway So we'll stop on the nervous. All right, so greens are the 60 Miguel blaze. They're really in sedanio Gavin cross Osorio aqua to 55 Pedro Amir as vaquero Rojas Frito and martinis orange to 50 louis rodriguez Sit to the left of his helmet Yeah, there's a Where is it trying to catch the right light? I just saw it a second ago. It's very hard to see So for the e and chrome Just to the just the hair to the right of that and down. I don't I can't catch the light I'll send a box and wrapper. You'll probably be able to see a better in person cubs But again, I'm not sure if that's enough to warrant them replacing. I honestly don't know But we will send a box wrapper to the cub spot just in case They on frías purple to 25 Gomez Harrison Autos of avina or rollo aqua Jesus bias in 99 Red to 10 davis and de los santos debacks orange out of the 25 zack netto angels And first bowman auto unit coming arrow for tampa bay That will do it. Thank you very much everybody moving on to number two


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