It's time for the next lightning talk. Ephraim is talking about reproducible containers in the HPC context. Thank you. Okay. So yes, I came into this really more from the sysadmin side. I like making things build. I guess I work with the scientists and so they have their software and they need to put it out there for the papers for other things that they can go and point to and say, here it is, here you can see my results. So I was home working and so we got a new app that we were gonna go and host on the website who is being moved from old one to new one. So the old website was running on CentOS 5 with PHP 5.3, with Python 2.7 and another Python from the user's home directory and Octave also from 2010 and just everything was from 2010. Just looking and thinking. Well tested. Well tested, of course. And it also accepts arbitrary files, upload whatever you want to it. Clearly exactly what we want running. So actually what about it using Geeks? So with Geeks, you tell it exactly what packages go into building each package. So you get the reproducibility in that. It works also when you have a collection of packages, every time you install it you get the exact same packages you don't have craft from installing and removing packages and it also extends into a whole operating system or in this case into a container. You tell the container I want, you tell Geeks I want exactly this inside the container and that's it, that's exactly what you have inside. So for the web app we have all of our old software here and I guess going back to the container, one of the scripts I hadn't actually patched all the way, just missing, remove, arm dirt, just, I didn't tell it where to find it, I didn't put it in the container, it just wasn't there. So yeah, so had old versions of Graphis, of Octave, all of this coming down to our final package. So with Geeks it was easy to go ahead and to create the old versions of the packages. We started with the version of Graphis that was already in Geeks. We changed a couple of things mostly downgrading the inputs to older versions of them. Octave was basically the same thing, we took Octave, Q-Hull had moved around since then, GNU-Lib had moved around since then, so just some changes here and there to make everything actually build with older versions of everything. And then for the actual container, and pretty much this was the entire config file for the container, to find the operating system, bootloader doesn't matter, it's a container, there's no firmware, no packages, just the actual service itself and the DHCP client so it can actually find the network that you give it. So the service gets fed a service type, a service configuration which in our case was, can't see the mouse. So here we just have the actual package that I built at the end. I told it that it was going to be in the serve HTTP directory with that port. Our little activation script here really just says, before you start, go ahead and run these actions so it was, if the directory exists, delete it, then recreate it, copy the stuff over and it wants to write to the directory so go ahead and make that available. And the whole thing was just behind engine X so with the system management, with the config for engine X, it was really just, listen on the port that we had on the previous slide using the root that we had on the previous slide from the configuration, then the service type down here is the one that we actually passed to the operating system config to make the container. We said, when you activation service type, when you start, run the script, you're using engine X with the config that we have and by the way, don't make sure that PHP FPM is running. Building the container was, you just, was the system container command, you feed it the actual container file and same serve HTTP folder directory that we had from before. It was actually mounted in the home directory but we pulled the container, put it in that spot, I wanted the logs and give it the networking and then actually we're running on top of Debian so it was just use system D to launch it. So we have the same command as before, we have full path to Geeks but Geeks system container, full path to the container itself, the same two shares, you need the path and give it the networking and then just go ahead and launch it. The whole thing runs under the BNW user so everything, so went in, all the random files being uploaded were also owned by it and as far as updating this every now and then just ran Geeks pull which pulled in new versions of, not of say Graphis or Octave but new versions of PHP, new versions of engine X, all the other packages that I didn't have to go in downgrade and then restarting the service just goes and rebuilds the container itself and it's there and available. From the Debian, from the Debian host that this all was running on, we just went and said point engine X at port, it was 8880 and we got it from the outside. So then at a certain point in the future when it does go and crash and have to go and rebuild the software, we have another command I haven't listed here, Geeks system list generations, that system, you can list the generations from Geeks pull, so it's Geeks pull list generations, you go back to the previous generation when it did work, restart the container again and you're back up and running while you figure out just what changed this time. So with that we went and we're hosting the old web app using new technology or newer technology, newer versions of everything and everything seems to be working. Thank you, again we have time for one question. Thank you, what's the outlook for you? How will you go about updating now that you have it on the known state so that you can move ahead, what are you planning? Right, okay, I'll have to repeat the question. Okay, I'll do it anyway just in case. So the question was how do we update the state? The actual package that we were given doesn't really get updated, it was more of making sure that there weren't anything left behind from previous times we'd restarted it. As far as the actual packages that we used to build everything, I had to downgrade GCC to GCC5, so that was one of the things that as we moved forward I had to add that in to make sure that it worked again. Yeah, I guess the rest of the dependency graph of everything that was running more or less because it's on top of Geeks, keeps everything else up to date and then I'm just locking these versions in at their old versions. All right, thank you, Ephraim. That concludes our lightning talk, yeah, please applaud.


Welcome to this course on Transition Metal Organometallics in Catalysis and Biology. In this course, we have been exploring the depth and the breadth of organometallic chemistry, particularly with regard to the applications of organometallic compounds in large scale industrial processes. In this context, we have looked into various types of organometallic reactions, which have been practised in large industrial scales, and to start with, we have looked at the repicamistry, which is the conversion of C2 feedstock or acetylene to other functionalised forms. So, after repi, we have been looking into another very interesting reactions, which is olefin metathesis. We have looked at olefin metathesis followed by alkyne metathesis, and now we have been discussing about cross metathesis reaction, which was taken up in the previous lecture. Now cross metathesis reaction, as we have been discussing, has been developed in conjunction with the industrial process, particularly SHOP, which is better known as Shell Higher Olefin Process, and which was mainly used to utilise unwanted feedstock from this SHOP alpha olefin oligomerisation process. Let me just illustrate this, or Shell Higher Olefin Process would convert ethylene to alpha olefin using nickel catalyst. Now, these alpha olefins were primary source, which was from ethylene feedstock, and this was used or had used for making, had requirement making soft detergents, which has long chain fatty alcohols. Prior to these alpha olefins, they were accessed through cracking, as well as hydroformylation of alpha olefins, and they were synthesised from other methods. SHOP provided an easier and convenient access to this alpha olefin, other than the prevalent method of cracking or from alkyl halide sources, that gives alpha olefin, and then the hydroformylation acts to this. This was a better method to get alpha olefin, but the only problem which arose was that it was churning out alpha olefins of various fragments from C4 to C12 to C18 to C22, and so on. So, a large range of oligomers were obtained, and this was best represented by the Schultz flurry distribution C12 to C18, and the distribution was something of the type of this. Now, as for the requirement for detergent was in this region, which is about 40 to 50 percent, and they were for making detergent range. So, cross metathesis was then successfully crossed metathesis, actually cross metathesis followed by isomerisation, another reaction, so cross metathesis as well as isomerisation was used to convert the unwanted lower fragment and the unwanted higher fragment to make something of within the range of C12 to C18 for the use in soft detergent applications. So, this is where the cross metathesis reaction came into being applicable for using the distribution of alpha olefin, which otherwise at that point of time was not usable for any commercial purpose. So, this was an interesting development, which was practiced in a large industrial scale way back from 1977 in the shop plant, and this shows how this cross metathesis reaction was employed in large scale for commercial purpose. So, I am going to illustrate this cross metathesis has been used to shell higher olefin process in industry since 1977, and this is given nicely by this reaction, which is a C4 fragment plus C10H21, this is C22 fragment in presence of molybdenum trioxide, it is molybdenum oxide catalyst and L2O3 giving two of these C13 fragment, and this was actually both E and Z mixtures were obtained, and as mentioned that the process actually involved the industrial process involved indeed a three process combination of oligomerization, isomerization, metathesis reactions. Now, these three processes had been discussed in detail in our previous lecture, and the reference for this is by an article by Wilhelm Keim in Angukem International Edition 2038,<PHONE_NUMBER>496. The catalyst was MOO3L2O3A for cross metathesis reaction, and then as we had observed that metal carbene species are usually involved in metathesis reaction, then the question which comes to mind that how does a metal oxide in terms of molybdenum oxide carry out cross metathesis. So, there is an interesting question in the sense that for the cross metathesis large scale reaction, the pre-catalyst was originally used as molybdenum trioxide, and it turns out that the active catalysis species of molybdenum carbene is generated through the following reaction as shown below. The active molybdenum carbene species is generated at the catalyst surface as depicted, and this is shown by the equation given here, this is molybdenum oxide reaction with olefin giving the molybdenum carbene species as shown here with the bound ketone, and this is the active species, and this is the pre-catalyst. What is seen over here is that the pre-catalyst of molybdenum oxide reacts with an olefin to generate the active species along with the metal carbene, along with the ketone, and this active molybdenum carbene species then it carries out this cross metathesis reaction, and this cross metathesis reaction had been developed with the intent to use the higher and lower alpha olefin oligomers to produce mid range alpha olefin oligomers, which could be converted to detergents like fatty acids or fatty alcohols as required through the process of another important industrial scale organometrics reaction, and which is hydroformylation. What we see is a chain of reactions, all of them are performed in large industrial scales, and they are effortlessly used for converting one feedstack to another to finally what is the valued target that is being achieved, so hydroformylation alpha olefins, which is of the range C12 to C18 would give fatty alcohols detergent applications. So, one thing to note here is that right now it may seem that something as trivial as application in detergent industry was brought about such utility of so many different reactions, so many different nice organometallic reactions for the large scale production of the feedstock for detergent industry. What we see is that the organometallic chemistry can cater to all aspects of societal need be it from detergent to polymers to so on and so forth, and all can be brought about by applying a very intriguing set of organometallic reactions.  So, with these let me just talk a bit more about the advantage and disadvantage of cross metathesis reaction, and what it turns out is that the limitation of cross metathesis reaction arises due to the non selectivity in products in terms of not being able to exclusively form one of the products whether that be E or Z. So, one of the limitations of cross metathesis reaction is that both E and Z products are formed in a mixture and that gives rise to less selectivity in product formation and hence in more challenges in product isolation. So, this I will state by the equation as is given below cross metathesis has limited applications due to the formation of mixture of products like branching, like branching, homodimer is the mixtures. So, this is given by the equation as is shown here catalyst C2H4. Now, the cross metathesis of these two catalysts can result in so many different products as is shown here R2. So, it can be R1, R2 and that can be easy mixture and that is given by this veg bond plus R1, R1 this is a homodimer again easy mixture plus R2, R2 is a mixture. So, the drawback is what we see that the selectivity is less that all of these come at both easy olefinic mixture. This is the real cross metathesis product and so, this is the cross metathesis product and these are homodimers. So, the selectivity is a key issue of cross metathesis reaction and hence one of the important challenges is the ways to increase the selectivity of cross metathesis reaction challenges is to devise ways to increase the selectivity cross metathesis reaction and in this regard important is to mention that Grubbs find a way of increasing the production of heterodimer while starting with the homodimerization first. So, this is nicely illustrated by the equation over here Grubbs reported increased yield of heterodimer one of the starting olefin underwent homodimerization. This is best shown by the equation given here. So, R1 Grubbs catalyst. So, the first step is elimination of ethylene. This is nothing but a homodimer. Now, when this reacted with R2 which also eliminated ethylene then R1 which is a heterodimer. So, the point to note here is that in this sequential two-step process of introducing the olefin sequentially Grubbs reported increased yield of this heterodimer. So, this is one way of improving the selectivity of this cross metathesis reaction. Then the other way of increasing the selectivity of cross metathesis reaction is partially by carrying out the reaction through immobilizing by immobilizing one of the coupling partner. This is best given by this sentence the selectivity of cross metathesis can be improved by immobilizing one of the coupling partners coupling olefin with a polymer so that the cross metathesis product remain there and the soluble homodimer metathesis product is separated out. So, the other way of increasing the selectivity of cross metathesis product is by immobilizing one of the olefin so that the cross metathesis product remain in the polymer and the soluble homodimer product is separated out. So, with this I come to the conclusion of today's lecture. In this lecture we had looked into the application aspects of metathesis reaction with regard to the shop olefin polymerization process and what we had discussed is the fact that all these large scale industrial reactions have been used for making feedstock for soft detergents or fatty acids and how cross metathesis was developed to utilize the non-usable alpha olefin fragments of low and high molecular weights to produce alpha olefins of medium range molecular weight which could be used for applications as detergent. We have also looked at the issues which remain which play cross metathesis reaction and one of the main issue is the selectivity issue of selectivity because the metathesis does not distinguish between the two isomers E and Z and both are formed in the mixture for each of the products like cross metathesis products as well as homodimer, homometathesis products and then we had also looked at various attempts been made to overcome this lack of selectivity issue and two such methods that we have discussed is one by professor Grubbs who had reported increased yields of cross metathesis product by allowing homometathesis of the first olefin followed by the introduction of the second olefin to give the larger amount of the cross metathesis products. We have also looked at another strategy that implies immobilizing one of the coupling partners on a polymer so the cross metathesis products stay on the polymer surface whereas the soluble homodimer metathesis products are separated out. So, with these we come to conclusion of today's lecture we are going to be talking more on the aspects of cross metathesis as well as some other olefin metathesis reaction particularly the admitt reaction when we take up our discussion in the next class. Till then, goodbye and thank you.


My fellow St. Lucians, today, 1st August, is the anniversary of one of the most significant, if not the most significant event in our history. It was on this date in 1868 that slavery was abolished in the British Empire and the persons of African descent who were enslaved on the plantations in the British West Indies were granted their freedom. In St. Lucia, 13,285 persons from 384 plantations on the island were freed from slavery. I believe that in the past, the commemoration of this momentous event has not received the importance that it deserves and for many, Emancipation Day has just been another holiday in St. Lucia and not a day of reflection to the true meaning of the occasion. In our country, there are few organizations like ICAR who over the years have consistently observed this anniversary. Today, I salute them. This message today from me as Prime Minister is a signal that from now, this government will make the 1st of August a major event in a national calendar. Our self-esteem, our dignity, our respect for the lives and struggles of our forefathers demand this of us. For while slavery was abolished in St. Lucia and other British territories, 183 years ago, the mindset and racial attitudes that brought African people to the Caribbean and the Americas as slaves still lingers. In recent times, we have graphically witnessed in the USA the unwarranted killing of the African-American George Floyd in Minnesota last year and that of our own Bo-Fam Jean the year before in Texas and that of so many other African-Americans. These events have shocked the consciousness of the entire world, resulting in a universal cry for racial equality, human rights and justice for all. Even today, as we co-memorate emancipation, the war continues. The war against racial discrimination, poverty, disease, drug abuse, marginalization and inequality continues. We must, as a people, continue that resistance, remembering the struggle of our forefathers. Emancipation day calls for us to pay homage to the resistance of armed rebellions like the 1794-1798 Brigham Wars in St. Lucia and the 1804 Haitian Revolution. The commemoration tells us that the resistance has not ended and we must power the development of our country through education, commitment, discipline, hard work and the determination to succeed. This was the heritage that left us and this is the heritage we must preserve and protect. As we recognize this occasion, we also remind ourselves that we have to fight against attitudes that belittle our patrimony and cultural heritage whenever and wherever they exist. As one people, we have to respect our patrimony and observe our cultural heritage. The Government of St. Lucia will always support the preservation of our heritage and the importance of sustainable use of the environment. In this regard, the Government of St. Lucia will immediately reinstate the government subvention to the St. Lucia National Trust. Our government will also lend full support to the Caribbean Reparation Commission in its efforts to obtain reparation justice from our former European colonial powers. The commemoration of emancipation will not however be confined to giving greater recognition to the first august. It has to be a continuous process of continuous education and so this government will take steps to ensure that the African, Caribbean and St. Lucia history is taught at all levels of our schools. You'll also examine the possibility of making Creole an official language of our country. My dear citizens of St. Lucia, you opened the new dawn in the governance of our country when you elected the St. Lucia Labour Party just one week before this anniversary of Emancipation Day. We pledge to fight against the mental, economic and social attitudes that reminds us of the terrible days of slavery and fight for a truly democratic society and equal opportunity for all. I end with the words of the late Nelson Mandela, true reconciliation does not consist of merely forgetting the past. A happy Emancipation Day to all. I thank you.


Hi, next we're going to talk about tagging. Zotero can automatically create tags for each of the records you have in your library. And the tags will be found for an entire library or one collection, one of your folders, down here on the left-hand side. And they're clickable. So you can actually sort by which of these articles or reports, these records that I have in my school-based health care folder are about adolescents. In this case, four of them are about adolescents. So how does Zotero create these? I have Zotero gather my PDFs automatically forming and Zotero will use the PDF and basically read that to look for author keywords, subject headings, et cetera, or look at the metadata from the citation information to create those auto tags. You can turn this feature off if you would like to kind of control your own tagging or not worry about that.  So I'm going to jump to a folder that doesn't have any tags associated with it. So no tags to display. Again, you can change this in your preferences in Zotero if you want it to create auto tags or not. So I'm going to click on one, no tags associated, but let's say I'm keeping track of all the articles in my library that are systematic reviews. So that's a specific type of methodology. And as I'm going through, I'm keeping track of which articles are systematic reviews. I tag them with my tag of systematic reviews. And then if I go to my entire library, I can find my systematic reviews tag, which is going to be all the way down here. And I can actually limit to all of the ones that I have tagged myself as being a systematic review. So this is just another layer of how to relate similar articles together or if you are looking for, like I said, a specific methodology or something specific about articles that are not just the topic, et cetera, or how you have them organized in your folders, this is just another way to track what might be meaningful to you.


You're righteous living all of the good deeds that you do for the Lord. You're not doing them to try to earn your salvation. You say, wait a minute, I thought I had to do good. I thought I had to start living differently. I thought I had to start going to church. I thought I had to start changing. Yes, we ought to live holy. Yes, we ought to live righteously. But please hear me now. This is one of the most important things you will hear when it comes to the salvation message because many people, including believers, have this mixed up. Jesus said it is finished, not you take it from here. I do not do good works to be saved. I do good works because he has saved me.


Dr. P, the birth certificate is a stock bond, creating a strawman out of all caps, name, leaving the flesh and blood dead at sea. Yeah, here's what Dr. P is talking about getting here. Look into Jordan Maxwell. Okay, look into strawman. Look into what the difference is when you write your name, because there's a different. Legally, law is another language, right? It's just another language. Symbols represent things. It's just like mathematics. You put a two lines like this, that means multiply. You do it like this, that means plus, right? So it's just a 45-degree angle on a symbol in mathematics that means something else, right? So consider that. Think about that, right? And realize that your name in all capitals means something else, then your name in the first letter of your first name and last name being capital, and means something else, then your name with everything being lowercase. Like when I write chicho, right? I use lowercase c. Everything is in lowercase, right? Nothing shouldn't be anyway. Nothing is in capital letters. Sometimes the first letter is in capitals and that's just oversight for me or the websites automatically make it capital letter, right? So there's a difference between your name being all capitals, right? And I looked into this 20 years ago or so, right? So I'm going by memory. Dr. P might know better, right? But all capitals means that that's the corporate entity that is you, right? First letters being capitalized means one level below that and everything being lowercase is you being a free human being. I'm paraphrasing. Look into this please. It's just know that there's a difference between them. Now if you can get the papers that represent you as a corporation with all capitals, I believe that's worth a million dollars, right? So try to get your hands or your original birth certificate in the country that you were born. Hold on to it tight. Not a copy of it but the original birth certificate and I believe that is put on the market and each person, each person in the country is collateral for that country and again I'm going by memory from like 20 years ago. Okay look into this.


a welcome back. What is up? Welcome back. If you like to do it, build it or make it, so do we. And we have a new video each week. This week it's test cut Tuesday. Actually it's like voting Tuesday. It's voting Tuesday. You get to vote right now live on what we actually get to paint. We have two things that we're going to do. One is like a new file. I'd show some pictures. So we were out of town. We left Saturday morning and got back last night. So we haven't had a chance to really do a brand new file. Well finished. But we have a couple that we've not painted on our lives before. So we thought we would come back and maybe do one of those for today. Well this looks like a new-ish file. Yeah it's pretty new. That's pretty new. Yeah it's kind of new. So we thought we'd let you guys vote which one you wanted to see because you've seen the SVG for this one for a while but we haven't painted it. Well I also changed up the SVG. It made it a little easier. It made it look a little more 3D, a little more layered. Little hopefully a little less layered. Well there's like one less layer but I like the depth that it gives with the different levels of of leaves. All right well hold up what you got. I want to hold up a finished sign because we have I have finished it before. Well this is kind of like the interchangeable piece to the flower hanger. One of the interchangeable pieces. I just kind of blew it up, made the pencil bigger, different spacing. A little back to school or a boots one. Which one do you want to see? Give me some votes here and tell me which one you want me to paint live. That one's going to be quick. This one's going to take a minute. Yeah you might have the tag team this one. Oh yeah we'll tag team it. Well you guys vote. Hopefully you guys are hearing me out there. I would say hello to everybody. We have all of our friends here. Oh man I need my uh I need my backless mirror. First and foremost gotta say hello to Candace. Thanks for joining us today. Glad you're here. We were worried about you last week. Where? Chantal and Lisa and Jerry's here. Helen's here. Jeff from Cypress Texas is here. Lois is here. Scott's here. Um Texas. Let's see. Helen says today is her Friday. Oh sweet. So what are you doing for your weekend? Want to know. And yeah you're going somewhere. The eyes of this short vacation we went to Charleston, South Carolina. One of our kids has moved down there recently and we took our two teens to visit with her for the for a month. So uh look at us. Just the two of us. Yes and fancy free. Getting out there and changing absolutely nothing. It will just work a lot more probably. Oh thanks Scott. He said finally something great to watch to break up the wedding planning. Nice. Oh what wedding planning is happening there? Oh here are all my votes. Boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots boots it is. It was a close one. It was a close one. If we're going to do boots you better get started. All right boots it is. What's the backer get? Oh I can just follow the exam. Yeah if you want me to set this up for you somewhere so you can see it. I can see it. I can peep it from here. Okay so we're here to put it up here so when I do go overhead they can see what's the metamorphosis you know what it's going to turn into. So when I held it up I had brown boots on there. My original design was with pink boots. You can tell me if you have a preference on that one. Oh am I doing pink boots? Well that's what I thought we would ask them boots boots boots yeah Jerry says it's too early for school right that's what I was saying we just barely got out of school. I don't know I thought it was a good one oops it's cute it needs a little I want to do more for a teacher's classroom so we're going to do some more of those. Oh Sheila says she was able to resize her design so thanks for the email good I'm happy to hear that glad it worked. Scott said his wedding it's near Cincinnati Ohio feel free to come to it my daughter would freak out you know he's got to get to Ohio. Don't tempt me Scott don't tempt me. And Jerry says brown boots stick with the brown boots. All right you want to give them a so these flowers layer one on top of the other and when we put it together we'll zoom in so that you guys can kind of see how we put this one together it is a little bit tricky but it really because it's a little it adds that extra dimension. Sometimes I get a little carried away that's only because here's what I don't want to do I would rather layer something tiny piece I'd rather layer something than try to paint inside some kind of score marks so that's why I do it. All right I'm going to start with white is it pure white. Yeah we're just going to use the white backer which I don't see either of the whites so I think in the other way make sure that's gray that's gray. All right we have a bunch of rollers a bunch of rollers in the plastic bags I think just kind of dig through them all I don't see any white what other colors do I need don't need any orange. There you go. Is it this pink? You can't find it because it's in the other room and yes. And um oh it's just shade the pink is it this pink? Yeah well no I really use the the other pink like this one like the flamingo pink. Other other pink but you can get a third pink what is that? That is an exuberant or maybe that's the dragon fruit one but worry about that when you get there because I think you're not going to use a roller for that you'll just use a sponge. Oh you think so I mean yeah I'm probably fully just sponge that's what I meant all right let's get let's get the paint I need a roller handle all right. Oh black boots with rhinestones yeah that's what I'm that's not oh I think so sometimes you get a little heavy in here over there swimming in it so less is more Garrett less is more I don't know whoever's that I didn't go live did you put it live on Facebook? Oh I sure did not it's all set up and ready to go we just have to press the button I didn't know how it worked I totally forgot what is up Facebook you're late what's happening yeah hopefully you guys can see us over on Facebook uh no one's I'm sure they're yet but we'll remind them in a bit to put comments over in YouTube you know I'm sticking with my YouTube fam oh my gosh there's so many votes for rhinestones on those boots what rhinestones I'm not sure we're prepared for rhinestones I mean I can I mean it's gonna lose it if he has to do rhinestones no black boots with rhinestones wait it's two tones so is it black and gray boots where where are you gonna put those rhinestones I don't know I'll get a C I'm an artist I am an artist Teddy Joe Cumberworth said she would love classroom decorations oh yeah I would love classroom decorations hmm what grade hi Ellen thanks for joining us from the UK um Lois says I'm loving the boots these boots were made for walking do pink boots that's just what they'll do pink boots or black boots uh so Jerry says I thought about cutting a file that had multiple layers out of eight inch versus quarter inch I'm all for it Jerry the problem is we can't get uh eighth inch anywhere yeah we can't find eighth inch anywhere so we've just been using quarter inch but if I could find quarter inch MDF I mean eighth inch MDF I would totally use it or even eighth inch birch I mean I think I can get that from the local um lumber store hardware store Lois Home Depot what color is this is that like sorry I was into start with your black over there welcome y'all um and then that's garden spot oh the old garden spot no garden spot here's your here's your roller for garden spot when you're ready for you're on it they keep them moving you know what you said I was like when I left the live last week I said you know what I am gonna do the painting next time so because I I think I can do a little faster so I was like I will do the painting next time and then as we were setting up today Garrett said you know what I'm liking our format you can do the talking and I'll do the painting I was like okay I enjoy you see me busy oh yes Helen says she does the eighth inch on the welcome wreath design with the black and white stripes oh yeah yes that gets heavy like it's very heavy with what we have in the quarter inch I mean it works I would rather do it an eighth inch too if I could get my hands on it yeah me too and what kind of paint is that did you sand that board so this is MDF and we do not need to sand it it's super smooth to start with we just paint right on it and we are using exterior house paint so that we do not need to seal these when we're done where were you testing Lois wants to know where we were with alligators internals we were in the swamp Lois swamp get out my swamp our kids are so first of all they're super funny and second of all they're quick and so somebody said swamp somebody else scream get out my swamp and Grace yells where's the donkey there's donkey I don't know they pulled a whole shrek thing in an instant and it was hilarious yeah victory uh Marion wants to know if we prefer MDF even for outdoor signs I do yes we do so Marion we have done some testing with these outdoor signs we have left them out in the rain we have left them out in the weather and they hold up much better than you would think they where the plywood would warp these were pretty good in are they puff up a little bit just a little tiny bit you really can't tell um so at my house I have a covered porch but we did put a sign outside yep straight out in the rain and we left it there and it's been great and then like I always use my sister as an example hers is on the other board that I had out in the rain I could grab that real quick where is it now I want you to put it our next test we've been testing it yeah our next test is to put it out front in the heat I've had it out back in the mornings no you need it in this afternoon sun right here it's like a million degrees a million I mean I'm not even kidding it might melt I'm surprised the colors survive okay keep moving all right stop it's the next color see your black over there while I get you set up with the next color is black over here so Marianne we got a little distracted yes I prefer the NDF because that's what I can get my hands on I have the most of and I've already tested it and know it holds up well and it holds up especially well with this exterior paint house paint on it so that's a little FYI that's our perspective I mean that's our findings yeah that's our findings good one Jennifer Helpinger says teal and brown hey do you think black is in the other I do not there you go there you go rich yeah yeah uh teddy teddy joseph from row in the boat English 10th grade oh English 10th grade oh that's a good one what books do they Richard said turquoise bottoms with black tops a little bit of this would be cool oh it sounds southwestern with the turquoise and Sheila you may have heard me just say it we do not seal them because we are using the exterior paint we do not seal them I see what my things yep awesome thank you all right all right so I think I'm caught up on comments I'm going to throw a wrench in your plans this rope yeah over here side cam Garrett went side cam is that pink too though the rope is actually stained so I'm going to get out some I would just leave it like MDF it looks like a rope already no you can't leave it raw yeah no our dog in the rope up on this line are you talking to yourself over there yes all right all right is that all the black that's it ready the bottoms of the boots black Lois wants to know are we going to do Christmas in July why don't you should ask that Lois we have just registered well last week we registered for a Christmas in July craft show on the 23rd and 24th of July so yes we are going to be working on some Christmas designs in July and we'll be publishing those so we will be doing a little Christmas in July Jeff asked where we got the bottles for our paint London Times Ashley told them that we got them we have them in our shop yep we can find them in our store kngmakeit.com and what are you looking for your flowers what to do next yeah do I do the well I was looking for the but then um um you don't need one of them so you just you should use one of them the other one yeah the other one you don't need it's not my first that'll do all right do the bottom of the boots get painted black nope they're gray can you see that's gray that like dark or gray i'm still following that paint scheme yeah put that on your tape what you're doing you're about to make a mess look at that wouldn't blame okay this music is a bit much say next all right what's my next color all right thanks um you've done all of your greens yeah and then are you going to do the little seeds because I have to go get those okay then I think yeah start your start either your dark gray bottoms this you can see is in nearly brown these little the leather top portion of the the leather bottom boots yeah it's in nearly brown say that five times fast came all over the butchering that one that is darker brown lighter brown these two are gray oh I happen to go in black and rhinestones well I was down for it I was down for the challenge do you want to do do you want to do them in teal I don't have any rhinestones so I think I can I'm not sure I could find what if we just replace the rhinestones that we would use with googly eyes no no googly eyes could you put rhinestones like around here would that be too much could be oh it's just a little bit how about glitter glitter is not rhinestones all right what am I painting this you're painting that look at that one so the other pink the darker pink your little dragon fruit little dragon fruit is that this one and then the other is no that's exuberant that this one you could use a sponge we come on it got it right here and then pink flamingo what you doing what wrong color no look dragon fruit right right up here what oh that's a light pink here this is how many pinks are there there are too many pinks that's what four pinks five pinks not even not even done yet not even done yet hold on six different pinks and I'm supposed to know wait and another pink there's a pink there's a pink everywhere's a pink pink this one actually says in the pink in the pink that's the name of its pink right I mean I like the different color pinks don't you aren't they pretty I'm thinking like you need three tops you are going to use those three right there almost like the four tops are you doing this I thought you wanted to paint all right I'm in this is a big sign we can't dilly dally I'm dilly dallying I'm on it do your job I'll do my job the thing will be just fine Lee said howdy folks at my second live thanks for joining us Lee Ashley from Chip Builds says hello hello Ashley from Chip Builds went to our farmer's market so Jennifer says went to our farmer's market sold 17 of your signs and a porch leaner the funny thing is all I could think about is people's shoes right right and then did you accost them or cat call them about their shoes I like shoes that's how you got their attention right yeah is that how you did it is that how you got all the people coming up in your booth but congratulations congratulations sounds like it was a big win where are the sponges back here uh yep right there let's see what else I have over here I love hearing about big wins so tell me all your big wins but I don't like to hear about his failure so keep those to yourself well if it's something we can learn from you might want to share with us only if you figured it out all right he's just dabbing he's just dabbing uh flowers right now so I'll turn it back to us um Kara asks do we ever spray paint I was trying to paint but it's taking me forever I'm a newbie to signs well spray painting yeah go ahead go ahead I didn't yeah I was well I was going to say you'll get faster I promise you'll get faster you'll be more efficient with it and you'll get neater with it with practice and I know that because I've taught like all of my kids to paint for me now and I stand over them well you see how I do it not like this like that not like this but we've gone through various iterations of how we cut and paint we tried cutting cutting I don't know why I said it like that we tried cutting them and then spray painting them yep we started with the sponges and dabbing everything and then we started rolling the backers and we got good at rolling the backers so we started rolling everything and then we tried spray painting boards colors and then cutting all the colored pieces out of those different boards but that would get confusing so yeah that was uh that one seems super efficient but ultimately didn't turn out to be so yeah China then go through and gather all the pieces for the sign and then coming up a piece short somewhere or something I don't know it felt felt less easy than just rolling each piece my other idea was to try uh airbrush airbrush painting you know putting a little paint in there thinning it and then airbrushing it but that was so crazy slow I could have been done just like I did with this sponge in five seconds and that was taking that took excuse me that took forever and I didn't I didn't find that that was efficient either so and then gluing them down we tried the 3m tape one time it's okay I just feel like it was a lot of waste of the 3m tape and then I see a lot of the people making frames out of cardboard and stuff to then line up their signs and glue them down I see it on TikTok lately we just find it's easier to score your board and line it up just something's gonna happen scoring takes seconds bump the frame bump the sign bump something or get a little bit of glue on the side of it or glue the frame to it I'm saying this because I've done them all yeah I've done them all so we found it just scoring them and using a quick dry very strong glue is really the way to go I mean and then if you if you have ideas on how to make it even more efficient yeah like I want to make a frame that works kind of like a t-shirt press you the screen print them essentially right basically yeah like screen print them where I put all the pieces in a jig where I can either uh direct to film print on all the little pieces and then bring down my backer with all the glue on the back of the pieces to it hold it for a few minutes and I should be able to lift it up and all my pieces should be heat transferred or a DTF painted and glued so I'm gonna test that yeah if you if anybody on here has another a better way or another way that you do it more efficiently please share with us we're always looking for ways to make this faster did you take over nope I just kept going while you were talking is this yellow yellow yeah yeah you can do another light pink right here oh another color you're done um I did ask and again not scientists this is just what we found through iterative testing and I'm sure it will continue to it we will continue to change it and update it and hopefully make it more efficient if you can't find a way to make it better it's time to move on and do something else we did try the spray paint cara we did spray paint our pieces um and and that's nice too if you know you're gonna do a bunch of watermelons you can spray paint a bunch of watermelons um and that's if that's fast to paint but then you have to wait to dry and most of the time we had to put a second coat on them right and then um the spray paint is expensive there was a lot of overspray I felt like yeah the spray paint was more expensive in the end like because I waste half of it and just in the air um yes you can do a little yellow on this guy uh what color yellow is that do how many yellows do we have we only have five three three yellows again my pinks are falling I mean in our our lake uh farmers market prep or craft show prep we use very little of the sponge we roll most everything Sheila ask if the paint has primer in it it does it does this is what we're using resilience exceptional moisture resistance exterior acrylic latex I do try sometimes I think this one might be an upgrade but I do try and get the very cheapest one that they have for my color in whatever color I'm looking for whatever the cheapest one I tell them this is a craft project I'm not painting a house with it it doesn't need to be doesn't need the last five years yeah just needs one no well not five consecutive years oh Kara says she used her glow for her glow forge arrived today and she used our code so thank you very much thank you exciting what are you making what's the first thing you're doing the sample project yeah chain what's the second thing you're doing did the rounds with the melamine backer make it into the store oh I wasn't sure people would want those yeah I don't know did we say we were going to put them in the store last time I don't know I don't make all the promises yeah I do promise you a hard time to make your promises um I think I do remember Lois telling Lois we could put them in the back and in the store that's why I don't make so I just updated the pricing on all the rounds wood has come down a little bit so I brought our prices down a little bit yep last night we noticed prices came down so we dropped our price a little and I added a five pack of rounds in there so you don't have to buy them individually I just did a a five pack which is a little bit cheaper than buying five into individually I tried to put a little savings in there so while I'm on it I will be adding quarter inch um birch to the store so I'm going to add some quarter inch birch rounds and I'm doing that because our local supplier does carry the birch in quarter inch but not in eighth inch and so I thought we could put those in there in case someone truly wants to stain a different color do something different with that wood veneer on top get wild with the wood but so Lois while I'm adding the birch ones in I'll go ahead and make sure I add the melamine ones in in case somebody wants those too all right what uh oh no Megan come on Megan says she feels like Garrett needs to sing rhinestone cowboy why you tell you what when I was a little boy that was a great movie and I have sung it around the house do we stockpile a bunch of the same size for signs for our craft shows yes we we usually do four of each unless we know it's a big seller like right now those Adirondack chairs um we've kind of changed um seasons beach pleas to just say a welcome on there um because people if it says beach please people every I keep seeing people at the craft shows say oh but we don't have a beach house oh but we don't have a beach house and I was like it's not for a point beach uh oh that was my phone over there oh my facebook I forgot you were there so we we will um we will do maybe eight six or eight of like beach pleases but typically I bring four of each unless I know they're really big sellers all right what colors am I doing the boots boots boots color so you want to stick with the plan and keep them as brown boots are you trying to do a new color scheme brown boot knit you get the shoes you want to be the painter did we go gray and black brown pink and dark pink hmm would they clash oh my goodness Ashley said I was painting beetle juice ornaments last night got up to change the water and the darn sun was up I got lost in painting wow how are you going to wait girl yeah uh dainty jeweler hi all I just got my shipment of 30 wood circles from the dollar tree going to have fun hmm what words would circles do they have they must have some smaller ones are they like 10 inch or something wait you can do dollar tree online I don't know did you order them from dollar tree did you go buy them from the dollar tree dainty jeweler you're gonna have to give me some more information on those Sheila asks does our paint have primer in it yes uh Chris says I do a lot of pre-painting of boards and then cutting but some designs have so many pieces that's hard to manage so I've started painting after for those yes I agree with the pre-painting and cutting if they do not have a lot of a lot of pieces yeah you should have seen us trying to do that well we tempted that that method for the bird houses you know the bird houses round with all the tiny pieces that was yes that's when we abandoned that method yeah that's when we stopped this method that's right yeah because we try to do all of those million little pieces and then put it back together I was losing it I was a little bit arguing with Garrett I was like why would anyone do this I can't figure out it's like a puzzle I was like it's efficient it's efficient yes it's it's efficient uh Fred says hello from California hello Fred from California um Helen says I almost always cut two rounds of the same file at the same time because if I'm painting one it's just as easy to paint two of the same file yes Helen same thing we try and line up four across this table and we paint four backers um if we're doing like the the flag wreath we'll do four sets of stars four sets of stripes and then put them all together is it is more efficient to do it in multiples all right what color am I doing the boots um I asked she says she doesn't do the scoring for lining up I seem to always be off just enough to see the score underneath which bugs me oh bro tip do you want me to give you my secret you want the secret to how I make my files I'm about to give you my secret is everyone listening everybody listening you got your ears on out there I'm gonna give you my my secret like this is my secret I'm about to give it up right now you might be hyping it too much I am not nobody get that excited this is the good one this is a good one this is how you don't see our score marks this is how I'm able to do some we gotta keep moving you can't see all right I want to get a paper towels keep to go ahead you give your secret while I get paper towels all right so on some of the objects any object that I can I'll what I I'll copy so I make my design and then right when I have everything layered how I like it I will copy the entire round and I'll paste it to the right and then everything now I haven't like actually made it a file file yet like I left some things like fonts I left the stroke say I wanted five point stroke on it I'll leave it five point stroke when I do my copy and then over on the left hand side where I make my round where I'm going to make my score marks I will back it down to a three point stroke around it before I create my outline outline stroke and then once I do do that I'll hit release and delete all the insides of like the ease the L's and anything that's on the inside so I try to make just a well here where's the backer I try to just make a partial partial score that doesn't score every single thing but enough that you need in it where you can line them up yes and then over on my cut file I will leave the five point stroke around the letters five points and then I'll create outline outline stroke so it's actually just a little bit thicker than the score marks so it should like otherwise you that's kind of accounting for curving you know because the score mark isn't taken anything out it's just scoring on the board so it's actually a little bit thinner if you cut it out so and if you only lightly score it when you paint over it you can't really see it as much once you put well this one only has one coat you guys can't see it I see it there's a really big glare there you go I don't know I'm hype on that tip I don't know if you're hype on that tip but I feel like that's aren't we all happy to see one of my favorite ideas about it though I think it's very because I pride myself in getting her that score mark you know hiding that score mark so I even did it on the rope like when I did this rope so is it already in our files I mean if someone's using our files and still having trouble then maybe your fancy technique isn't working as you I started that fancy take if you bought at a later file an earlier file I'm improving I'm learning from putting these together myself try to hide the score marks that it sucks so that's where that came in and if you bought a later file it might not be in there but our newer files yes it's there I started doing it to everything I did it to the boots I did to the flowers I'm gonna read what some of the comments are what folks are saying here in just a moment they're probably they're probably really hype on that tip they're all so basically they're mouth open I make my score marks slightly thinner than the objects that I use for my cut marks that's it's a quick version all right what color are my boots am I just yeah just stick with the brown all right I'm just sticking with the brown I'll try the other colorways fine it's just brown I did stain you see we stained our rope round and I'm using this early American stain from min wax early American it's a good rope color is that that one yes and is that that one that is nearly brown and um how many browns have you yeah wait that over there that's darker brown no yeah yeah that one yes all right let me answer some questions back here Lee is awesome he said don't forget to hit the thumbs up for these awesome folks thank you Lee he did that because I gave up my he said that way before you gave your tip oh well thanks uh Minnesota makes uh Chris said she loves the designs where everything just fits together like a puzzle yes like the cats welcome uh Helen says exactly what you said I changed the scoring to an offset inwards so it's slightly smaller yeah same thing um yep that lady is one sharp cookie so what is that is that Kathy too Helen said that she does it oh Kathy the brown yes yeah I thought you said Kathy no no no yeah nope the color uh Kara says they had an x tool but wanted something bigger oh yeah right because the x tool just gave you a little taste uh she wanted to go with some of the other machines but ultimately ended up going with the glowforge because of space it does sit on a table top yeah it's pretty encapsulated oh hey Helen says we all had a million questions I've been fan girlings in 2020 um because uh she listened sorry for all the questions nope we like it keeps conversation going I appreciate it question up what were the questions uh crimson crimson creation says hello she called us live again oh hey crimson uh Margaret says hello lois is it out there hyping us up thank you lois she said over 60 watching hit that like button thumbs up button folks oh 60 you guys what's up 60 oh Margaret wants to know what we're doing today I'll show you again and for the facebook folks you might not have seen it either so we're doing a welcome y'all let's see this way welcome y'all boots cowboy boots file that was requested by lois a while ago uh and we put the digital file out there but I don't think we've ever peen at it and really shown anyone a finished version of it now we've been hiding it we were on vacation this past weekend so we haven't had a chance to get a new file new design out there so we thought we would try this one well well we kind of had a new design we let them vote at the beginning and uh the votes were for the boots Stephanie says it's been really windy here in her part of Scotland today everyone has what is locally known as the Highland hairstyle I bet Ashley says she's barely awake she's watching in her bed that is nearly brown nearly on the table let me see let me see if I can find nearly brown bicky says she's late but she made it what's up bicky lois wants to I know lewitt lois I knew you were going to notice we forgot to change the message board I even picked out a saying I knew what I was going to put on it and then we just got busy with the project and I forgot to change it so you got the same message two weeks in the row I think it's happened one other time we're falling down on you know we know I know I need to change it and I have every intention of changing it and then for some reason I get distracted and we're late filming so we're like let's just get started filming and then I forget to do it she really wants to know when we dab the sponge does it have a funny look no I mean you gotta put it on there and just make sure that you go all the way around I mean if I just do one glump of paint you can see a little mark but I just dab the whole thing and make it even let it dry and do the whole thing again yeah that's not what was in my head when you read that comment Helen said yes make sure it barely has paint yes what we do is we will dab it in the paint on the edge of the paint just a little bit of paint and then I dab it off onto the plate so I am really trying to give the old dab yeah only have a little bit of paint on that sponge all right what are they miss shoe bottoms the old shoe bottoms are they gray is that aged gray that is that is your um gray what does that say is that the same brown all right I suppose it is it's gray's harbor here you are a little bit yep dab it on me oh wow whoa whoa what's happening here he's got to do a tiny tiny little piece in dark gray and I gave him a big clump of gray on this plate like it made a noise it moved the plate Kim I almost lost control uh Lisa what are you asking can you do a tutorial on that is for what is it for the bow because she did one today I just have to post it I did do a bow tutorial today finally and we'll get that posted today okay Garrett has just soaked his sponge I did you never you never want to do that and now you never want to do that and now he is dabbing it off dabbing dabbing dabbing trying to get all that um like thick paint off of there yeah let's see Leslie says hi from California hey California I think you did a changeable with the letter o design what did Sheila ask boots not sure I think I missed what Sheila is asking um Crystal says hi from California she's late but made it to say hi thanks for joining us never thanks joining create it to flow designs and decor is also late but made it welcome to the party Kara asked does the paint stay good in the bottles if you don't use them often yeah some of the colors we don't use like the grapes there's a grape color and another very dark purples that we're using mostly for Halloween and fall and they're fine in there but what you do you may see me do this on occasion like here we haven't used aquarium at all today there's a little convex on cave on cave is in convex concave little divot here and paint will sit in there and dry so I do peel off that little speck of paint I probably can't see it but I have a little little piece of paint that I just dug out of there and then she flicks it at somebody I pull that off so it doesn't make a mess when you squirt it otherwise it'll squirt out unevenly but other than that the paint stays fine in the bottles especially if it's full when it's lower if you leave it down here with this much then the paint dries on the inside of the bottle and will leave specks in your paint so if you're going to let it sit for a long time fill it up it'll be okay and you still even then if you let it sit like for a whole season like those those grapes I'm sure I will end up taking the top off and cleaning the inside of the top out because I don't if it's sitting there that top will get dry and you don't want that dry paint to get mixed in with your wet paint it'll leave specks I think the top needs another coat always always it always seems a second coat you know I'll get this out your way thank you and Minnesota makes Chris says yay for a bow tutorial yay for bow tutorial like I forced her into it like it was a wrestle Stephanie ask if we have the cricket auto press no we do not have a similar one that's all over facebook at the moment by a company called htv ront I have not seen that one I'll go look that up yeah and I do not have the cricket press we have no press we're full on manual over here we just have the easy press for now but I am working to get at no you got to be pro to put a second coat of paint on top of the the backer if you put a second coat on top of the first coat it will leave the paint line that you draw especially if it stays there for more than a couple of seconds um so professional like me when I tell Jonathan no he's like I'm a professional I can do it and yes you are a professional but you don't paint that often so saying I'm losing my technique my skill uh Amanda says Lisa is referring to the offset for the score oh yeah oh thank you Amanda she's asking can you show a tutorial on how you offset that oh yeah you probably do a quick little thing yeah quick let me write it down or I'm gonna forget totally we'll totally forget I'm gonna go dry this off wire all your other pieces done yes I believe so if you want to give me a qa check on these I want you to go all the way around the side it's because you're gonna see it the rope doesn't go okay well I'm doing it did you see him cheat he only just partially painted the center well I gotta glue it I think you're already is gonna look past the rope and be like hmm in between those pieces of rope there was only one coat of paint Megan says she can't wait for the htv raunts to come out now I gotta go check it out ooh it's so raunty when you have a sign that has a changeable letter like the letter in the word home do you use changeable letter to make it stick what do you use on the changeable letter to make it stick magnets um a little magnets if I don't use little magnet I think we've done um command strips but I didn't like that option and the velcro and I didn't yet we tried a velcro option we didn't like that option either magnets the other way to go get you some little magnets and washers and washers you don't need a magnet on either side little washers on the back side and if you have really tiny pieces I don't know what would you use I don't know I don't know we could think about that one let me see Lois yes we will be able to do the could do a snap oh Geared had an idea of plastic snaps we haven't tried it but you might you might try it for something really small Lois asked about the patron call on the 20th if we have a craft show that weekend will we be able to do it we could do the call on Wednesday but craft show is not till Saturday and we can't set up until Saturday morning anyway or Friday night Stephanie heard that somewhere that htv raunt has only one pressure setting Lisa says hello from Lisa and Larry from Arizona hello thanks for joining us um do we have an upgraded air assist or what came with your laser I was thinking of upgrading mine what laser if you're talking about our big laser um yes we upgraded the air assist and funny you should mention it definitely definitely out of the air assist on the x tool go in the wrong way and if you're talking glow forge we were just talking about how to upgrade air assist on glow forge there isn't currently a way to do it but we were brainstorming ways we could do it Lee wants to know what step we're on he loves that part he wants to know what step we're on because he loves that part make all your cuts what you've already done paint a symbol what do you do with the washer we put the washer on the piece that so the magnet goes on the base piece the washer goes on the piece that we're attaching to it so that will go on the back of all of the interchangeable pieces a little washer that's the metal that will stick to the magnet you could put magnets on both sides but you'll have to make sure that you're their opposite pole their polarize the same or the opposite whatever so that they don't push apart you want to make sure that they do come together but that's a little bit overkill Garrett went outside outside to get our interchangeable plan here you guys are so lucky all right so this is through the washer here hope you can see it side cam I don't even know where side cam is here side cam you see that's just a regular old washer and then what you see on the back here main cam is the magnet that's the magnet so we just put a little piece of metal here so that it will stick with stick with stick onto the magnet even for the small pieces we'll just do it with smaller magnets smaller washers oh I can hear go get you a new bottle over there can you throw up the porch leaner files on patreon I only see two of them on there and the strawberry one yes Helen I'll make a note blue it's in that box to the left that brown box with all your stuff in the box did you turn off your turn off your thing oh yeah you guys just missed my joke you guys missed Garrett's joke I told him his he was looking for his stuff in a box to the left because it's all my stuff in a box to the left I was looking for the glue and she got in a box to the left all right fix your mics fix your mic fix your mic yes I apologize I didn't want to blow your ears out with a hair dryer and then Chris that she added an inline fan to her glue forge yes you do see how much he paints he doesn't even know you've got to snip the tip of the glue off got to snip tip how far down do you go I don't know not very you want to find tip find tip how does create the files Leslie says her three kids just arrived so she can paint them for her demos today I booked a class at a local meetery honeywine for the bee hangar typically how does it take the meetery to complete the class you can do a class in about two hours two hours should get them plenty of time to paint and that's for a full class and then adding bows and ribbons and everything they could do it in about two hours Kara says a great idea for the washer bacon says her favorite Garrett jokes or jokes with songs he's got a million of them loaded up there he's like a jukebox up there we play beach shazam and my family uh we're cut through oh yeah do you guys ever watch that show beat shazam Garrett is fast they all well and have you heard of hurdle it's like wordle but it's for songs I can't even play it I'm not I can't do it that fast but he can get them and they pride themselves on getting it in one note one note him and the kids they're all well yeah most of them are very quick with the word hurdles quick with the music we've been playing that game since the way back that's how I would keep them busy in the car oh press press and go what are you doing nothing you're good you're trying to sabotage all right it's five o'clock you gotta keep going I am on it old chatty Kathy over here what I was given valuable tips I'm sure those tips Rhonda what we're making we're making um a welcome y'all door hanger with boots boots boots and flowers and he's just gluing it together and uh I haven't said it a little late now but anybody joining us over on Facebook we could answer comments in YouTube so you may want to go over to YouTube to make a comment we'll come back and answer them on Facebook if you guys have questions over there and uh Sheila asked do we use e6000 to glue the magnet and the washer nope so far we've just been using our star bond glues working fine I do not enjoy e6000 so funny that's a trigger word for him Sheila he does not like e6000 you mean rubber cement I don't know why he does have a thing against it though it's probably the name this goes in here yeah might not be that one maybe it's the other one there are two boots one of them is a little bit different size I think I think that's this piece that boot the other boot yeah that goes in there you think I know my own file oh yeah that goes in there there you go he just didn't have it quite in the right spot oh so go to side cam this is where I was seeing they it's good to show how to put this together yeah I don't know why I walked over to the camp yeah let's scooch everything all right side cam scooch it scooch scooch a little bit closer there we go show them what you started with with the show them what I'm working with so there's a base to the flower give it a second to there's a base can you point to it because I only can't there you go this this and then you put a boot at the bottom I put a boot and then we're going to stack flowers and boots so let's go ahead and keep going you can see it pretty good pretty good now can you see now what if you do not have star bond what do you use I like to use the clear clear gorilla glue we use that we tried to use the gorilla glue in in what would be the super glue bottles but they were too hard to squeeze so I don't feel be able to use them and squeeze them we love super glue I mean gorilla glue but we could not get that glue out of those bottles our forearms were beastie we look like baseball players need some help with this no I'm on it I feel like Helen says she has two of these files cut and last week I looked at it and said nope so thank you for making this one good Helen you know what you were one of the ones I was thinking about I was like Helen's going to be like I already have this file and I've already cut it so if you haven't tried to put it together yet maybe this will help so he's put the bottom boot and bottom sole on that boot so all pieces all the boot has sole yep I'm going to glue this boot over top of this boot now he's blue gluing the flower piece with the second boot on top of the first piece again this is mainly because I don't like things of that score mark I love how neat and particular you're being but you have to hurry up I am the oh yeah I forget well do we already have a bow for this thing I don't usually add a bow no no bow doesn't need a bow the other one has a bow but I don't typically add them during the lives we always run out of time I should make them in in advance what what are you saying all right so you can see the boot is the upper leather piece the lower actual foot piece and some fire and then two layers one is the top rim of the boot and the other is the actual bottom sole of the boot so it really does give it that nice three-dimensional look yeah some more pieces but it really does look more dimensional that way go big pieces down right yeah I don't think you need that piece yeah that's what I was saying is I think you could see I'm skipping it save a layer but that that's leaves leaves that oh no yeah the leaves that go over the boot I want them I think they look good keeping them can I keep them all all right they're all there are multiple layers for these flowers again give it that dimensional look here put some right in the middle there I'm afraid it's hot there you go let's see Jerry says just buy the star bond from Kim and Garrett it's awesome um oh yeah beefy baseball players what did I miss with the baseball players with the forearms um baseball players um Chris from Minnesota makes says she loves star bond a little goes a long way it does yes um Helen says I knew you had me had the same appreciation for you too thanks Helen Helen says she bought the sponge roller from Garrett's Amazon shop Kim and Garrett's Amazon shop and let me tell you they're good and cheap and they also sell them in their store I love to support small business thank you Helen yes those rollers are great they're nice and firm they're they just do a great job they hold the paint they'll sit there in those baggies for quite a while as long as you don't get any air in your baggie the big tip there is to make sure when you she's always yelling about getting the air in the bag getting the air out of the baggies because the the kids like to just throw them in the bag and who just wasted my money and lift it up yeah you really want to squeeze that air out of there and then and then seal your bag so that the air doesn't get to your roller uh what size is the round it's 18 inches and Rhonda says she's bought some of the glue but hasn't used it yet don't get it on your fingers Rhonda well get the uh debonder if you do or click the champ all right you're getting there you're getting there how fast I am I'm like uh let me help you with the other letters what happens when you go over over what over five o'clock we're running out of town we try and do this in an hour so you guys see what Garrett's doing he likes to he's really big on adding the glue to the backer um and then adding the letters on top uh he feels like it doesn't when you add it to the letter first and you turn it over it will drip sometimes it'll drip and I have ruined countless signs because I don't learn I refuse to learn it's too gluey um how do I make it so that we're like a picture in picture oh this is an overhead picture in picture so this I need a side cam side cam let me put it back to side cam all right I'll do that for now there you go okay let's concentrate you concentrate on my hands while I concentrate here ask do we use the same wood for the whole file or like mdf for the backer and other for the add-ons that's what we were talking about earlier all mdf all mdf um I would like to use eighth inch mdf on top of a quarter inch mdf backer but I don't have eighth inch mdf so we just use all the same all quarter inch having a great mdf and Lois said thank you for doing the boots you're welcome Lois Sandra wants to know how's it going with the Weight Watchers it's not going great but I'm getting there because we keep traveling yes it's the traveling that's killing me because we go out we go places and I know I could order the good stuff but I guess I've been kind of slack about it but I'm back on it and or are back focused I'm a little more focused we couldn't get my app right now I can I couldn't like record all my food so I could add all of my points and make sure I was staying well if you couldn't record it yeah why why start until you can record it it was it's we've been on this big war so I just fixed it it just finally got everything in there last night um you even tried for me I had it on one day driving home from work here is the email they sent me can you register it on the app and we couldn't figure it out it was stuck in a loop uh and then Renee says her second life whoo thanks for joining us Renee all right you're getting there you're almost done almost done it's coming together it looks scary but it's not too bad not nearly as scary as that Grinch file I mean honestly I haven't even attempted the Grinch file I will show you a little uh little tidbit little something to watch out for there are the inside pieces of this rope these little inside pieces that you just throw away but don't throw away one piece of it two pieces it goes over here in the y'all I only have one and then there was an a I oh that little piece set it aside oh okay I have it right here but I didn't stain it but I can stain it for you real quick yes let me do it let me do it yeah because I noticed it on the finish version all right bow or no bow the rope bow or no rope bow rope bow I think it needs it yeah you can show them you can show them and get their opinion all right you want to put that little bit off I agree I think it needs it like I think it kind of balances it here let me do main cam and you guys can give me your opinion on something all right hold on sure you're sticking it making sure it's glue it's sticking breathe so here it is no bow and this is how we originally did it but I think it's missing a little something over here over here and it needs a little this little rope piece this little rope bow piece which he's not showing very accurately let me add it so you can see it and and then we'll do it it goes like this I don't know where I oh yeah I think it does go well I didn't score mark it because somebody said they didn't like the rope though getting squirreling little glue goes a long way all my lecturing yeah as I say now as I do what was that Kim wow that thing is swimming it is swimming throw it a life vest she now now that I say that now here's what you do use the accelerator and it sticks immediately right I already told you about the debonder this will get that glue off that's also in our store but we talked much about this a little accelerant this you put on either side and and it will attach it and and you know there's no wait time I mean you only have to wait seconds anyway yeah you only have to wait seconds anyway but this little accelerants will make it go if you need to do something quick quick quick I don't know man making it that quick scares me I'm not that perfect I think it's stuck I think you can hold it up yeah I think we're good welcome y'all look at that cute little piece of rope lift it lift it there you go twist it turn it pop it whip it pop it and a real bow yes we did we will add a real bow to it so it will look like this we turn it this way there's a little bit in the way it's on the bow there we go on the rope bow there we go oh here's mine who's better they look exactly the same except that the other yours takes away from the sign because you have a bow it doesn't take away it adds to it it's so cute look at that I did a real like neutral bow for it because there's so much else going on Megan says that is ridiculously adorable thank you isn't it cute thanks so cute Lisa is very nice all right catch somebody sniffing these flowers really well it's not real it's just layered wood it's just glue it's just glue you're just oh that's why you're doing it okay have at it that'll be 45 dollars all right Garrett's 515 all right well we're at a time so we will see you on Friday ooh I think we have a good one I think we're gonna do some paint pour there might be something with a 20 inch box fan and some paint pouring I have a bunch of ideas looking to make a mess on Friday come join us mate and watch us make a mess bring your smock I'm gonna need more than this I'm gonna need I'm gonna need something with a hood yeah we might need those white suit those white hazmat suits just snip away all right you say bye yep bye


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