All right. Hi, everyone. It's a full house here My name is Moshe Weitzman. I'm a longtime Drupal developer now a member of Acquia We have a few members of the Drush team here. We have a great group of maintainers Maintaining this project. I think maybe You guys introduce yourselves as you come up. How about let's do it that way So we're gonna talk today about Drush 5 Drush 5 is going to be released today right after this conference Awesome. Thank you there's a lot of exciting new stuff in Drush 5 and We're just gonna show some of that to you today All right, so let's get right into it so one new feature is something called Drush Shell aliases, okay, and These are little Aliases you can make to Drush commands. All right So the first one you you see here has the key of non-core and On the right hand side PM dash list and the option no core. All right, so This is an example of Making your own alias for something that you type all the time. Okay? So, you know, I happen to not want to see the core modules when I run PM dash list for the most part so I made a little shortcut for myself non-core you run Drush non-core and One of the first things that Drush does is translate that into PM dash list dash dash no core. All right The second example here is an example of running a Little bash fragment straight out of Drush. Okay, so here We're running git pull and if that succeeds we're running drush update DB Okay, so this doesn't just work for drush commands It's any bit of bash that you want to put in this right hand side You can make it a you know accessible as if it was a drush command. Okay? In order to use these you just open up your drush RC file and Go ahead and edit. Okay I'm going to show you that now Remember that that drush RC files are available to you personally in your home directory In addition, they can live inside of a site a Drupal site That would be the sites slash all slash drush directory. Okay, that's a new feature of drush 5 as we have a Dedicated place to put your drush command files That go along with the site And of course drush RC files can be in Server-wide locations And so that way everyone on your development team who uses that server has access to these shell is is okay So you're promoting Common practices safe practices by using shell aliases. All right. All right, so This is the example drush RC dot PHP file You'll find that in the examples directory copy that out to your home directory or to a server-wide directory and Drush will read it and honor it So in order to start using the shell aliases that we provide as examples you can go ahead and start on commenting these things Those are the those are two or two out of three that I just talked about and Go ahead and add drone. Okay If these look familiar to some people this is Pretty much exactly what get does with its get aliases in its dot get config file. All right Very handy feature All right one nice thing that we added here. We added a lot to The command line environment so that issuing commands is more comfortable A new thing in drush 5 is that an unrecognized option will give an error immediately It will not let you proceed and basically ignore that option. All right. This is also similar to how get works So just to see that in action Okay, so that foo doesn't exist You know more to the point if I misspell the word the dash dash help option Drush isn't going to try to guess or proceed It's going to say you need to clarify yourself and I think that's you know an example of drush coming with proper You know seat belts And so that's a nice thing Okay, so what I've done here is I've show I'm looking at the help for the sequel dash dump command All right, and One new feature is that this option DB Earl Has an example value here my sequel database URL And in addition it's in Angle brackets. All right result file is In square brackets So this is a hint to you as a help reader that a result file optionally takes a value That's what the the square brackets are about and DB URL has a mandatory value Okay, so you'll see in drush core that we were pretty good about Specifying if you know which ones took values and if they were required or not and giving you nice examples Okay, I encourage all of you who write drush commands of your own Go ahead and use the additional features when you declare your options so that you say What the example value is and if it's required or not, okay? That will be a real help to everyone who uses your commands All right, so we did a lot of work on Windows in this drush 5 release We had Sponsorship for Microsoft which I'm very thankful for To get drush working well on that platform. All right They sponsored a Windows installer And this is just like any other app on Windows. It's an MSI installer for drush Arguably, it's easier to install drush on Windows than any other platform It puts all of the prerequisites for drush right in your path. Okay and You can download that there's a link on our project page to go out to drush.org and download that We worked hard on the unit tests so that we know that the commands work on drush Work on Windows We didn't quite get to a hundred percent passing but we got really close And the you know in general the fails are because the tests aren't compatible not because drush doesn't work So all you Windows users, please go ahead and use the installer And report back bugs as you find them All right drush 5 has optional usage tracking so if you go to that same drush RC dot PHP file and you Uncomment a couple lines drush we'll keep a local text file of all of the commands that you run and It's anonymized so that the values that you put into your options and your arguments are stripped out and Every so often drush can optionally send that up to mongo lab to our mongo lab account where we can run some queries and figure out what commands people are using what options people are using and You know publish some research for people to do there So I really encourage you guys when you install drush 5 to go ahead and uncomment those lines so that we can get data All right For those who are curious. There's two commands that go along with usage tracking So you can just see what? drush is logging and You can see you can control when it gets sent If you're you know working for a large organization and you want to see how your organization uses drush You can actually change the endpoint so that it collects up to one of your Data aggregation points instead of our mongo lab. All right. All right, so It's a super simple text file There's a drush command to go view it. You can see that I use site alias a fair amount archive dump core status Here my p.m. Download. I have my git information all here But you can also see that like my get username has been stripped out of the logging all right So it's completely anonymized quite ready for the end slide. Okay, so we'll take Jonathan or yeah Hi, I'm Jonathan headstrom. I work for a web development shop called open sorcery in Portland, Oregon And I'm going to talk about drush make how many people here have heard of drush make How many people here use drush make Awesome So for those of you that haven't heard of it drush make is essentially a package manager for your Drupal sites You can think of it as a shopping list for you You write down You know what you need specific versions of projects modules themes and libraries and Then you run drush make and it goes out and fetches all these specific versions Builds them into your Drupal site exactly where you need them to be whether it's in sites all or you know a specific sites directory Or in a profile directory It can handle patching. So if there's a you know bug in a particular module that hasn't been committed yet You can specify a specific version of that module and then tell it to You know go out and actually download This is the node stream make file by the way So here you can see specify patches and it will actually dynamically patch those as it processes the make file The good news drush make's been around for a long time drush make is now in drush core proper So when drush 5 is released you He will automatically have drush make at your disposal I can't I'm not really going to go into all the really cool things you can do with drush I encourage people with drush make I encourage people to use it for their projects, it's a really Really good way to sort of see or get a get a quick overview of what's going on in In a particular Drupal project and if you go all the way and stop actually committing Individual can trip modules to your get repo and just use drush make then it's a lot easier to do code reviews Because you're not seeing somebody commit custom code at the same time. They're updating, you know 40 modules You can you can pick out commits a lot easier On custom code and things like that. I'm going to go a little bit into the details of what's improved since we've brought it in to drush core Drush make used to have its own concept of tests. They were a homegrown solution that just processed some internal commands and checked In MD5 some we've ported those old tests over to drush's PHP unit and Added quite a few new tests and quite a few unit tests So drush make is now a lot better tested So we can be confident when we're adding new functionality that we're not breaking things It's been refactored internally to use p.m. Download, which is another internal drush command For the most basic download. So if you're not using SVN or get it's going to use p.m. Download to actually Grab the do the processing of the download One benefit of that is that it it uses Drush's cache. So if you're repeatedly running a make file downloading a hundred modules once you've run that once locally As long as you're not running with the no cache option. You're going to see that make file process almost instantly It also uses caching for get checkouts if you're not using the working copy command Working copy essentially does it get clone and leaves a functional get repository for each project, but if you're not running that then It'll it'll use what's called a get reference and on subsequent builds It will pull that locally and pull any updates instead of a completely new clone. So that speeds things up quite a bit And then it also caches Normal file downloads.  So things process a lot faster, especially large large make files And those are those are the big changes since it's come into core So I'm gonna leave it at that Hi, so My name is Owen Barton. I'm a that director of engineering at civic actions and I'm gonna be showing three new bits of functionality. We added to Drush 5 The first is auto complete auto completion If you used to the command line, you should be familiar with this if you're you know using Alice, for example, you can hit tab If you hit twice you get a list of options if you start putting your letters you can press tab and it's automatically filtered by the Characters you've entered so far. So here you can see I press tab I'm just seeing the options that begin with R So we've added the same functionality to drush. So Now I can type drush and I can hit tab tab if you don't have anything in there you have to do it twice I've got a lot of options here So these are these are all the completions I could choose from If you look you'll see there's Site aliases in here. There's commands. There's shell aliases So I can go and and if I start typing a site alias So if I do ampersand C Means I want to site alias begins with C. I hit tab I've got multiple. Oh Something with that specific site I think But it completed to that site. I'll just do it self. So I think that works. So So if I'm if I'm within a particular site I can I can complete and I'll this will show me the commands within this site. So it's kind of contextual So if you have commands installed on your site In the code base, it'll show you those commands as well on the completion command line so I can type again, make sure I've got a D for example I press tab I get all the commands that start with D I can type deep. Let me find Or E. I mean, it's probably a more useful example. So I can do is the cursor not used to this So he actually the e-commands so you can you can go through the list of options available to you at any point in time. So Here I'm I'm adding it. This is the enable command if I press a I get a list of the Modules that are available that I could enable So I could do Ten modules This is interesting Okay Okay, so you can see what I did that so I halfway through typing fo. I Hit tab and it completed to forum. So we've got on Probably the majority of commands in Drush core Have completion for arguments So you in your in your in your own commands, you can provide this as a hook Complete and you essentially provide an array of all the options that are available on on the site So you can if you need to you can bootstrap the site and You know, you could look at content types. You could look at fields Whatever it is your command deals with those arguments You can prove you can provide back in that hook and it will complete Also options are available so There's two kinds of options in Drush There's global options which apply everywhere and then there's command specific options So Drush actually doesn't care where the options are In the command line, but to keep things simpler rather than present the global options all the time It's a little bit overwhelming. So what we decided is if you are on the Before the command it will show you global options if you're after the command it will show you command specific options. So Let me just make sure I've got a command that has some options I can use So global options if I just press tap on here I can see all the global options the rapping is a little funky, but So I'm completing here, I'm just pressing tab so you see I didn't have to type interactive I just typed int and tab Then if I type a command It's a DL Now if I do tab tab, that's right hyphen hyphen now I'm looking at the Options just for the download command so I can type something like des And it completes to destination So this You know it's definitely makes it a lot quicker to get around Drush everything's cash So even if you have to bootstrap a site and it typically you know responds really quickly And yeah, so you know you can complete commands site aliases Shell aliases global options command specific options and arguments for commands which are provided by the command itself To set this up There's a couple of different options I'm not sure what the where it most keeps his drush directory, but the which drush which drush Okay, so if I'm in the drush directory This file here drush.complete.sh This is the file that Makes a bash aware of the auto completion So you'll need to copy this If you have root access if you're setting it up on a server, this is the you know the simplest way There's a directory at C That's bash For sure if I'll have access. I don't think I have access, but it's basch underscore completion dot D so you can just copy that file into that directory as root and Drush will be able to you know pull in the completions on your command line the other way of doing it is That's probably something you don't want to do in your You know your personal user. You don't want it necessarily applying to all users on the system is there's a Example bash RC file. So this actually includes the completion and it includes a whole bunch of other kind of shell related tricks If you just look at the file, it's just a text file. The instructions are at the top here You need to include a little That little snippet of code in your in your bash RC Your dot bash RC in your home directory and that's this is a file Let's run every time you start a new terminal. So it means that This file will run and it will set up Set up a number of aliases for Different commands so rather than typing Drush you can type DR rather than typing Drush PHP eval you can just type EV directly on the command line so I can do Something Something like that and As you can see it it ran that That script so it's you know the most common commands you could just type directly you can also do aliases so it creates Bash aliases for your site aliases so you can do So I hear you see I'm not typing drush This is something that's been added to my my shell environment so that my shell environment is populated with my aliases and when I When I call it it will run drush behind the scenes So it's a bunch of little tricks. I'm not going to go through them all now But they're really fun and useful if you use if you use drush a lot The other things okay, I'm gonna have to go back to the director who's up before Okay, so I Was getting quite frustrated I worked with a lot of different sites civic actions kind of helping out all over the place and I was getting frustrated having to manage patchy configuration You know sitting up v-host for each side or altering v-host or you know I tried doing special wild card v-host and that kind of works, but it was also kind of a hassle and broke stuff so So I was like well, maybe drush could have its own built-in web server a little like Django or Rails and I've played with those and it's really handy and And I decided that was crazy and then I waited a while and I got more frustrated and I decided I was gonna try and do it anyway, so The drush 5 has its own built-in web server It's called run server RS for short. I'm just gonna use the alias RS the shortcut I'm inside a site here. You can also use it with an alias If I just type drush RS, I think I must do it. Do we have another terminal somewhere? Okay, okay So if I type drush RS this Okay, I'm gonna choose a different port here. So this is brought up a built-in PHP based web server I Port 889 so I can I can go to this address and I can actually If I just hit control C to close the web for run server if I put a path on the end It will open the site for me in So it's really fun. There's a couple of prerequisites Actually has two built-in to two web servers it can it can work with There's a built-in one that that drush comes with that Uses PHP CGI, so it's the PHP CGI binary if you should be able to type PHP CGI dash V and get something back It needs PHP 5.3 and it needs Sockets built in which is very common We do that some some Installations don't include PHP CGI especially if you've got it built to just build an Apache module most of the kind of more popular Distributions and kind of map type things do come with CGI. I think The other option is PHP 5.4 also comes with a built-in web server written in PHP and Drush knows about that and is able to Start that web server up as well. So you can have two different options depending on depending where you're at As you can see it's listing a little log in the terminal This will also include includes watchdog messages. So if you log in log out you do a DSM call It will output in your terminal So it's passing those back. There's also some tricks Can exit this? There's an option dash dash user So you can specify a user to log in with I think I might already be logged into the site, but No, maybe not. I Don't know if this is that latest Maybe we're working on this yesterday. So but it will it will log on to the The site for you as an admin user. So you don't have to log on you don't have to do, you know Go to the password reset URL or anything like that Let's go show the help very briefly here in the time So You can choose the server it will it will try and decide what serve you to use based on what's available You can specify what IP you want the server to come up on on the but by default it will it will only show up on your On your local machine, and I think there's a point I should have raised earlier This is a development web server. This is not something that should be used for production or even really sharing with people You don't trust it's not designed for you know running any kind of site for any length of time. It's something Specifically to get around the problem of having to maintain a bunch of V-hosts for development sites so you could just go to a site bring up a server and have a play with it right away So it's built for convenience rather than You know performance or security or anything like that. So if you need to run a production site Use a use a production web server. This is a development So yeah, so that the It's kind of like a URL like Schema for specifying that the address and the port and the path That you want the web browser to open open in so you can change the port you can have different sites come up on different ports If you want so you could actually have multiple terminals running different web servers at the same time if you like You can you can also pass in variables to the running to the site, so let me just show this And that didn't work it I think this is another thing we added a couple of days ago The So that and that this doesn't set the variables It didn't change the variables It just passes them into the running site and injects them into the comp So typically you would include this in your dress RC And it's really useful if you for example use develop module locally You can have all your devalued configuration for example or you know disable CSI like aggregation or whatever else you like to do on your development environment You can have it always apply that those variables to your site without having to even touch the database It's having having done this we I wanted to have a little bit more fun. So I worked on Another another command that essentially just changed together a bunch of what drush does or together and the use case here is If you're a your core developer or you develop lots of modules or you want to you want to work on some module And you're not really working on it in a you know in a client site or a particular project, you know You just Have something interesting in that module you want to do some work on that specific module or you want to do some work on core It's a lot of it's a lot of overhead to like bring up an entirely new Drupal site drush makes a lot easier But you've got you know download Drupal you're going to create your database You're going to you know add your patch configuration if you're using that you've got to do your site install command Which has a bunch of arguments?  It doesn't work You're like I don't have time for this now. I'll just forget it Then it's a whole bunch of work to undo it you left with you know a database in the database you left with a patchy v-host And I wanted something that just brings kind of a throw away site up So I can just bring something up when I'm done with it. I blow it away. It's gone forever I don't have any databases left over so This is command called quick Drupal or essentially core quick Drupal And the nice thing about this is you can actually just run it the aliases QD if I just run drush QD In fact, I'm going to put a Y on the end. So I don't like the questions and it will so what this is doing It's going to download Drupal. It's going to install Drupal using sequel light So it creates a sequel light database. So it's just a file in a directory. The whole thing is contained in one directory and It won't work because I've got the ports ready in use. I'm not sure what happens there and It will it will bring up a web server and start your browser in the in the site Let's just see if we can find this other Run server command that's hiding away somewhere Shall we found it? Well, it looks like it looks like it should go. Let's try again So this this command actually inherits all the options that are available for all the commands that it uses So you have all the options available for there we go So you have all the options available for download site and store So you can see it's pretty fun. It's really nice You just want to show Drupal to someone. It's like two letters That's it. I don't think you can get simple in that It's like and you don't you don't you need a patchy installed You don't even need my SQL installed if you have you know a reasonable PHP install It will do all of this with nothing else. Just you need the sequel light extension Drupal 7 and then PHP CGI for the runs ever if you use that I want to add one thing Owen And so the example so far has been Drupal core In the standard install profile But if you look in the examples you can actually do this for other distributions of Drupal and other install profiles, so The directory we're in was made with a drush quick Drupal commerce kickstart All right So it went and got the whole quick start distribution from Drupal.org and installed it with the commerce kickstart profile So this is quite a flexible command. I could show that running, but Do you have any history? Do you know? Yes Okay, I'll just show that So this I think command this command probably wins the the award for the command drush command with the most options Yeah, yeah, I'm really good So I'm not gonna go through the options. These are the same options you will familiar with if you use to the DL command site install I just wanted to point at the the examples so this example here The first the first argument is the name of the site So this is essentially just the name of the directory. Otherwise, it just creates a timestamp directory So it's useful if you want to come back to it later The additional argument to the names of any other projects you want installed so it could be modules You could just put deval on the end you could put a theme or a whole series of modules If there's a module that has the same name as the project it will be enabled automatically And then this example shows you Downloading a specific core so a specific distribution from Drupal.org and then installing a specific Install profile. So this will get to the site. We were looking at earlier. It's like a fully functional Drupal commerce instance with just Yeah one command You can run it against it. You can you can use an existing course. You'd run drush make first And then you could you could kind of use this to bootstrap it a little bit It's it's really designed as a very lightweight thing. It's not they can't replace drush make with just arguments So but it's really handy if you just wanted to do something quickly I got hand over I'm good thank you and Couple of things I'm going to show you and we're going to show you use the new q commands in Drush who here has used the qapi and triple seven about what I thought So for all you guys who haven't the qapi is actually one of the coolest things that are it that's in Drupal 7 but no one talks about it There's a couple issues with it But one one thing one thing that's wrong is there's actually no like default runner when you declare a queue I'm just gonna assume that everyone knows that a queue is I don't have time for that but When you declare a queue you use hook queue or hook cron queue info And it's basically you set up your queue and give it the call back and it runs in cron But there's no way to actually There's no way to actually run Run that queue without being in cron and one of the great things about queues is you have this big list of work to do and You want to queue you could potentially have multiple queue runners all running simultaneously Doing all this work and running the queue down if it's in cron that's kind of hard to do So there's a couple things we added a default queue runner to drush and also a Small command to list your queues So two or two modules that use queues. I think it's aggregator and feeds So I enabled those Yeah, so here you can see it'll show you what the queues are named that are declared How many items are in them and the class it's using and so you can see here One of them is actually using the Redis queue as a back end So all of these queue commands are compatible with any queue back end So they'll work with the Redis beanstalk whatever Some of this if you've used beanstalk, which I don't know maybe now some of this is kind of stolen from those like everything I took everything that was good about all the queue modules and just put them into one central key runner And so say if I just want to run that one queue I can just do And what that's gonna do that's going to look up the It's gonna look up the the queue callback and then run the queue callback Just like what would happen in cron, but now it's not in cron And if I do queue list again, yeah, it has no more items left so the other thing this does is a It supports a queue hook that was originally defined by the queue UI module, which is just hook queue info Where it lets you define a callback that is not pulled in by cron And so that's the other piece of it and hopefully that that hook is is will look more like what we end up with in Drupal 8 So this commander cool, but still you should be using queues if they're awesome The other thing I want to show you is who here who here works on multi sites regularly How many of you get annoyed when you want to use one site and run a drush command, but it actually runs on default So you don't have to do that anymore And it will again you usually you CD to that site directory and then all the all the commands work But that's really obnoxious. So now we have persistent site setting So for example, one of these actually I'll just go to one of my One of my sites here, let's do drush Site set Hey, and yeah, so it's telling me that's my site now One thing that's broken. Actually we offer I need to fix this for release. We offer a drush ps1 Bash function that comes with the autocomplete stuff And so usually that site would show up in my little ps1 here in my prompts So I could know that I was working on it similar to how get prompts work But yeah, I think we recently changed the path to do something that broke that'll be fixed And so now if I do drush status You can see that I'm using that database in that site and that'll persist for that entire session so and then if you want to get rid of that you should rush site reset and Now I get a crazy message because this is Drupal Gardens and we have a Crazy message if you try to do default, but otherwise it would just say default So yeah, that's what I'm showing you Time for questions. I think All right, everyone who has a question. Could you just go up to the microphone? We'd be happy to answer This is a drush make related question Whoever wants to answer I'm a heavy user of drush make files for Distribution-based deployments And one thing I've found when I'm actually creating a distribution is that When I want to test a rebuild of that make file I have to commit it upstream Then build another version and compare across make sure everything has came down correctly Is there any possible way that you could? Build a registry of everything that has been pulled down when you build to that site and then have a drush make rebuild So there's there's currently an issue that has not been fixed that I think addresses a rebuild If you're if I understand your question Where and you could instead of using PM update you would update your make file and then run rebuild on an existing site then there's also two new commands or options rather that have been committed and Those would let you if you edit your make file and don't want to rebuild the whole thing you can you can do dash dash I Forget the exact syntax, but it's in the help It's something like dash dash libraries and then a comma separated list of just the parts you want to update And you can also do that with projects Thank you Yeah, so the question was do you need to run the MSI installer if you run dresch on windows You do not need to you can certainly set up the environment on your own We are pretty careful to use Power shell or command prompt. You don't need sig win for example to run dresch on windows But you do need a bunch of things on your path. That's really it Right, okay First of all awesome work. Everything looks amazing Question about the queue the queue API stuff Is there and maybe I just don't understand the queue API enough to know but like as far as memory handling and stuff like that Do does it does it handle the issue where you know if eventually you get to Reach the PHP memory limit. Does it does it handle any sort of like? Forking the process or anything like that Yeah, so it doesn't I think that's that's more of an issue when you have like long-running queues and if you're using like beanstalker Redis with like the In like the blocking mode where you have like a long-earning dresch process. That's like listening to that You can definitely run into issues like that Waiting queue is still the preferred queue runner for long-running queues and it does do that I have I haven't ever run into that situation not on a long-running queue, but I Would be open to adding that if that was the case awesome. Thank you Is there is there a way to use a make file without specifying a specific version number like just have it grab the most recent release Yeah, the default if the the minimum line you need is you would say projects and then bracket empty bracket equals Views and it would just grab the latest version of views for whatever version of core you're building your make file All right. Well, thanks for coming and you know, we'll see you on the command line Please fill out the survey on the Drupal con site. Thanks


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. EA Sports surprised us with a loading screen yesterday on FIFA 23, telling us that the Winter Wild Cards program starts early with the swaps program starting today. We will be able to attain swaps programs for Winter Wild Cards swaps as early as today on FIFA 23, and that is a big surprise because this promo technically won't start until this upcoming Friday, but we're already starting the swaps program. That's pretty crazy. So I want to take a look through that. What we know, what we might learn today, and what we can expect with the Winter Wild Cards swaps promo. And I also want to take a look at the crazy market right now because prices are going everywhere. Prices are dying on the market, other places, prices are flying because of the DeMaria SBC and the hype around Argentina winning the World Cup final yesterday, absolutely mental game. But specifically that DeMaria SBC is affecting a lot of cards on the market and so is this 88 plus mid or World Cup icon upgrade, which we thought was going to be today, right? And EA said, now we're going to drop it a day early. Could we get other upgrade packs today? There's a leak that we potentially have to watch out for and I want to talk about that and the rest of the market for today on a Monday. It's going to be a crazy video.  So strap in if you're excited for it today. Hit the thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's start from the top with the Winter Wild Cards swaps and this loading screen that we had yesterday. Of course, pretty simple loading screen just showing us the card design for the swap token. We know what this means, right? Swap token, we're going to turn those in for player picks, Winter Wild Card items and packs, right? It just sounds like what we expect with the swaps program. The craziest thing is we already have one going on right now. The World Cup swaps program does not end for at least a couple more days as a part of the whole World Cup content on FIFA 23. Those rewards even for the World Cup swaps are live for another like 15 days, I believe that it is. But here's the thing, with the Winter Wild Cards swaps program, this happened last year too. We had tokens available before the actual rewards were put out. So today might be the day where we can first attain tokens, but I don't believe we will be able to turn in those tokens for any rewards at least for a couple of days, maybe even a couple of weeks. So today really just starts the grind of collecting the tokens. Now last year in FIFA 22, the tokens started dropping via SBCs and objectives. Now notice that via SBCs is a part of this. I would expect again this year that Winter Wild Cards swaps tokens will be available via SBCs. The World Cup swaps, as we all know, we're only available via objectives and a couple packs in the store. This time I do believe SBCs will be involved. Now right now the rewards are not leaked, right? We've seen some pack codes like the 85 times 10 this year, the 83 times 25 and some other packs like that. There will most likely be some rewards leaked. I would imagine that if EA is gonna release a website today that would kind of show us all of the rewards like they most often do, or even if some of that stuff starts to get added to the code, I do believe you will see rewards leaked today on Monday. So watch out for like, foot sheriffs, account and stuff like that. Even though the rewards might not be available today, you might start to see those leaks dropping today on the game as well. So it's very interesting, right? Because at the same time, we're talking about all this Winter Wildcard stuff. Some people still might be finishing up their swaps. I am, I'm not completely done with the World Cup swaps yet. And it makes me think like, okay, shoot, I gotta get that done fast because we have a whole new swaps program to start grinding and to start working towards starting today on this game. So of course, as we know with Winter Wildcards and with all other swaps programs, probably some of the tokens will be available in the store. But again, I have to repeat and say that this last swaps program, the first one of FIFA 23 with World Cup swaps has only been available via objectives, right? That's gonna change with Winter Wildcards. They will be in SBCs and objectives and the store. So the SBC part, of course, whenever we get those SBCs that contain the tokens, it makes player prices move a lot. So watch your silvers, your bronzes, your non-rare golds from specific nations and leagues. Whenever you see a requirement, if you like trading with that stuff, maybe stock your club with some cheap discard golds right now because some of that stuff could be needed in the coming weeks as we have those swap tokens available. That's kind of the biggest news today with the swaps program. Now, something else I wanna talk about and show is that there are a couple potential cards already that have been leaked. Foot Sheriff has leaked a couple of big names for Winter Wildcards players. And the fact that he has leaked these cards with stats expected, now this seems a little bit too good to be true, to be a part of like a swaps reward program. But we've already had a Viera and a Cafu available via swaps rewards for players as icons during World Cup swaps. And we had some pretty good other players like Fabinho, Coman, Ed and Hazard. So we've had a Benzema, Winter Wildcards that has leaked. Again, stats expected. Usually when Sheriff has stats expected, that means that the cards are gonna drop pretty soon usually. So we'll have to see. This feels to me like it should be a card that's in packs, but who knows. We have an Adama Trail Ray that has been leaked very recently as well. And we talked about it in yesterday's video and Alan St. Maxim has been leaked as well. So whether it's Adama or Benzema or St. Max, maybe all or maybe one of these cards are gonna be a part of the Winter Wildcards swap rewards that we will see dropped in the game today. So keep an eye out for Twitter, keep an eye out for some of those leaks because I feel like we might get some more information around those rewards today on Monday. Now, let's talk about Monday a little bit more. What kind of content could we be expecting to see today? And we're gonna tie this in with the market and with what we saw yesterday as well because yesterday we saw the 88 plus mid or FIFA World Cup icon upgrade, which we thought we were gonna see today on a Monday. Now there is a leak kind of going around right now that there might be another pack dropped as a gamble type of upgrade pack SBC today. And this is the tweet, right? This was retweeted by Arcadefoot. One of the leakers that we look at his tweet sometimes seems to be pretty reliable. Now, granted he did leak the Bruno, Team of Tournament card and Bruno Fernandez did not receive a card. So take with that what you will. But he retweeted this guy that said that the 88 plus was gonna be dropping today, which was, he tweeted this yesterday on Sunday and it did drop. He also said the mid season two review kind of a party bag should come tomorrow, which would be today on Monday. Now, the biggest thing that I have a problem with with this is if you look at the pack code, the mid season two review pack contains one World Cup path to glory, FIFA World Cup, Road to the World Cup or FIFA World Cup stories card plus 14 rare gold players. That to me anytime when a pack contains like that many rare gold players in it, like you almost never see those in the store. Or you always see those in the store. You almost never see them in SBCs. So that's my issue with this mid season two review pack is this really, really feels like it should be a pack in the store and not via an SBC. Now, could they still drop some sort of mid season like review player pick or something like that? Absolutely they could. Because if you think about it, we are at the very end of the World Cup season. And if you guys remember earlier on this year, when we came to the end of season number one, they did some packs in the store, but they also did some review like campaign picks and stuff like that in SBC. So as we come to the end of this World Cup season, which you can see right in the top there, three days, four hours, we are very close to the end. That is some sort of content that could potentially drop. And I guess it's something that we have to consider for content today on this game. Now, with it being a Monday, upgrade packs are always part of the equation. On Mondays, if we do get some other sort of upgrade pack, you guys might be wondering Nate, what should I do with my SBC fodder? Because prices have gone up. If you invested over the weekend, the past couple of days, I'm really glad that I talked about it extensively in last night's video. Because the 88 plus mid or FIFA World Cup icon, it's not a terrible price, but it's not a great price. You do get a couple packs back, I think, is it a mega pack that you get back from it? Yeah, you get a mega pack from doing the 87 rated squad. It's only 246,000 coins to complete. And I think since it's just two squads, a lot of people are going out and doing it, and fodder is going up, right? You're 91s last night on the YouTube video. Of course, we were buying these for like 52, 51,000 coins right around here. These guys exploded. I sold a couple at like 60 to 62K. They're back down a little bit. I expect fodder to go up today in two different time frames. I expect it to go up with weakly rewards being gifted out and paid out. People are going to get coins today. They're going to go on to the market. They're either going to do the DeMaria SBC that dropped yesterday that everybody's going crazy about, or they're going to go do the icon upgrade, or they're going to finish working on Ronaldo. There's a lot of SBC demand for cards right now, which is why I held a lot of the fodder that I invested in. A lot of the 85s that I bought yesterday had 7,000 coins, 8,000 coins. I'm probably just going to continue to rise because that DeMaria SBC, the Ronaldo, and the 88 plus all require 85s in them.  And if you take a look at the card, he's got almost over 6,500 thumbs up on the card alone. I mean, guys, this is arguably the most hyped SBC. The market obviously tells the story too. This is the most hyped SBC so far in FIFA 23 in terms of a player SBC. No card has single-handedly dropped cards on the market like this DeMaria has. It was all the perfect storm, perfect timing with Argentino winning the World Cup yesterday, with all these Argentina cards being so hyped that people want to try out. Correa getting the upgrade, Romero and Gomez, EA upgrading those cards. Almost like the fastest upgrade we'd ever seen. And we talked about that in yesterday's video. We were like, EA needs to upgrade these cards fast and they did. They need to give credit where credit is due. GG is the EA sports for doing that. But that's the story of the market right now. Everybody is turning towards Argentina-type teams to link up all these new players and upgraded players or they're turning to teams that link up this DeMaria for such a cheap value and such a great card that he is. Juventus links, Serie A links, if you take a look at the market are going up like crazy. Like this Rabio was 75K. Now he's over 100,000 coins. Los Angeles Martinez was 110K. He's now 140. Dumfries, who I bought some of yesterday was 35,000 coins. He's now 45K. And that's just some of the cards that are on the list. Look at Montiel, 32,000 coins, right? And then you have the other side of the coin where cards like this Neymar, 99K for Neymar. After he started the day yesterday on Sunday at 170,000 coins because people are selling this Neymar to go and do the DeMaria because it's brand new. It's fun. It's a DeMaria with a weak foot and a huge pace boost. Such a great card. Some people are even asking the question, do I get rid of ribbery? Does he start over ribbery? And I think the answer is for a cheap price of 124,000 coins, you can do this SBC pretty easily. And then if you wanna keep ribbery in your team, you can and you have this guy at least as a super sub. Now, only thing we need here is for you to drop a dynamic image of DeMaria with the World Cup trophy and add that to the card. And that would be absolutely fan-freaking-tastic. But like we said, today on the market, the stuff that I would wanna be looking at the most would be your Argentine cards and your Serial cards, both of those, right? Come on, Nate, get the words out, right? But Argentina and Serial is where I would wanna to be looking, even this brand new Ahmedabad card, right? With the links that he has, he has Serial links that just dropped him yesterday as a part of the mini-release. He's not a bad-looking card whatsoever. And if you wanna link any of your Moroccan cards with your Serial links here, this is a great card for that as well. So Amrabat Casamiro and Doan were the mini-release. No Odomendi and no Bruno, unfortunately. But some decent cards, this Casamiro's like 120, 130,000 coins. He did get a decent pace boost, a medium-high actually looks like a solid center back, good composure, good reactions. Might be just a fun card to try out. But like we said, the market right now, everywhere. And if you're trying to trade in this market as well, the cards that I would try to trade with would be these cards that are Serial or Argentinian, or I would maybe try to trade with some cards that have just dropped off so much in price that it seems like they're just way, way, way too cheap. But again, always trade in and around the hype and flip the cards that people are wanting for their teams and for their clubs, like Marquisio's, 400,000 coins. A lot of these heroes have gone up in price as well. Marquisio yesterday was dropping because of the hero pack. He was down to 353 and then exploded up to like 420K because of those Serial links and that demand that was there for those cards. So keep a close eye on your Serial cards because they just keep rising. And honestly, it's for good reason because there's so much demand and so much hype for those players right now on this game. They're probably gonna move up even more today after the Weekend League Awards get paid out.  Be watching for those. Now, back to the fodder side of things and back to the SBC side of things. Like I said, I think fodder is gonna go up today. I would honestly be holding fodder even after content today because like I said, with the leak of that extra SBC being out and with the other SBCs that are still here, another piece of Monday content that we hope to see today would be upgrade packs, regular upgrade packs, right? Maybe an 80 plus double, maybe the player picks return. Some sort of upgrade pack today would be something that we would really, really hope to see and potentially could make people wanna go out and do more SBCs. Right, if you think about it, they would be able to go and do upgrade packs, get some more fodder, maybe work on the 88 plus, maybe work on the Ronaldo and stuff like that.  In the peak of the prices yesterday, you can see I sold a Benzema 63, I sold 11 dots to get 62. I sold this Malito probably a little bit too early and I've got this stuff listed up, right? The Benzema's listed up at 62.63. I got my 88's listed up at like 32 to 35K. I have got other cards here on my transfer list. I made a pretty big move, right? Because I sold this Harry Kane card last night at 199,000 coins, literally 24 hours ago. The fact that this card dropped off almost 50% in price in one day for me, being high rated as he is, I picked up some Harry Kane's at under 110. Most of them are right around 110 and under 106 to 110. I actually picked up like 13 of them because I was like, man, some of the market that has dropped off for some of these cards, whether they are brand new, whether they are out of packs promo cards, I just thought it was a bit too much. Now Harry Kane right now is approaching 120,000 coins and he maybe doesn't go back up to like 150 or anything like that, but if that card goes back to like 130 this morning, if people kind of, you know, just get their weekly rewards, go out and buy some cards, that'll be a card that will, you know, make me a lot of profit just because he was down an astronomical amount in price. And that's where a lot of the market is, like we talked about, right? I mean, we could just go through and show some more graphs.  I'd be careful with Griezmann and Akunku because yesterday, of course, they had some price fluctuations. Post game Griezmann was all the way down to like 700K flat. He rebounded back to 800 and he's kind of been chilling in this range. Watch out for another round of panic selling on Griezmann this morning. I think his price may come back down again for a couple hours and then that might be like the end of his panic selling and then he might just slowly start to rise back up. If you take a look at like the Bernardo Silva before he had a crazy spike this weekend because of the Ronaldo card, which is probably, yeah, we can't go back far enough to see it, but Bernardo Silva was down at like 400, he was like 400K flat when they lost and you can see after that weekend, he kind of rebounded back up to around 500K and it was up even more when Ronaldo dropped to like 560, but when these rare path to glory cards got lose, right? Same thing within Kunku and Kunku is like 2.2 million coins right now. This is, you know, nearest kind of the cheapest he has been since he was like 1.7. This card's five star, five star with incredible stats. Keep an eye on this for a little bit more panic selling but then also the potential for a rebound later on today. And of course, watch the Argentinians. Papu Gomez like literally just a two or three hours ago went from 900K to 1.1 million as he just got rare, right? People were selling this card off after the game but there was also a mix of genuine demand for people to go and try this card out and play with all the Argentine links that are so hyped. So this card dropped back down pretty low and right now he's about 975 again. So watch the fluctuations with these path to glory cards because they will continue to move as people are trying these cards out. I do think that even though you've seen a lot of the market drop in price, you've seen a ton of prices go down. Like I've lost some coins today on Parisich, right? I bought Parisich at 51, 52K because I was like, all right, I'm gonna trade with this guy and be able to flip this card because he was really, really low yesterday and there was a lot of panic selling with the icon pack that dropped. Well, then they dropped DeMaria, all left wings dropped and Parisich went down to like 35K and he's back up. I took the opportunity to sell and we lost the coins there but where people are gonna be hyped buying their teams today, like I said, is with the Serie A links, with the Argentina links, so I'd be very, very careful and also if you're trying to make some coins, watch that side of the market because that is where the hype is and you wanna trade and you want to be trying to flip cards in the demand of the market. So honestly guys, today again, like I said, for a Monday on FIFA today, I'm watching for the upgrade packs, I'm watching for maybe a potential player, SBC. Hopefully EA can continue the hype with the World Cup. Again, I didn't even mention it but one of the biggest things with this DeMaria SBC getting it done, I need to put a hunter on mine, don't worry, I don't have one in the club, that's why I haven't put a hunter on it yet but one of the biggest things with that card and what you get from it is you get a loan messy, 94 messy, this is a 2.7 million coin card on the market. That's one of the biggest draws to doing the DeMaria SBC as well is that you get that loan messy, right? And that's something that you can use in friendlies for the rest of the year. That's a huge card for EA to give out for the price of an 84 rated squad in the middle of that DeMaria SBC. So definitely keep an eye on the SBC fodder side of the market today because I do believe it will continue to go up and watch for the leaks. Like I said, today's gonna be a big day for leaks and also watch for store packs. I mean, you never know what kind of store packs they've been running lightning rounds on all days of the week. Again, they're even running them right now. They dropped 24 hour lightning rounds for ultimate packs and they have not sold out yet. We said on stream yesterday that if these were still available at 6 p.m. tomorrow or today on Monday, we were gonna laugh because EA's 24 hour lightning rounds did not sell out which would be very funny. But they're dropping these packs still in the store trying to bring supply to the market. We'll see if EA dropped more lightning rounds there today on this game. Speaking of packs, watch out for the Twitch Prime pack. That should be today. I know if you guys have Amazon Prime that means you have Twitch Prime if you link your Twitch and your Amazon accounts you get a free pack, always a cheeky shout. You get a free sub to a Twitch stream as well. Twitch stream linked down below if you wanna catch us live there. We'll be live today opening some of those Twitch Prime packs opening whatever upgrade packs we get and seeing what content and what market moves we have today on a Monday in FIFA 23.  One for the ages and that hype just boiled over and kind of spilled over into FIFA with everything that was going on and it's just making these card prices move like crazy on the team, the tournament cards and just the whole market in general with all the hype being on the Argentina cards and with the DeMaria SBC and that Icon SBC that had dropped yesterday. So hopefully today on Monday lives up to the hype as well. We'll be watching for those swap tokens with Winter Wild Cards, seeing what that brings us and hopefully looking at some of the rewards that'll be leaked to be grinding towards today as well. So if you enjoyed today's video, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been an eight foot account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.


I'm, I'm just testing the new webcam and the settings FYI for whoever is watching and I think I might have figured out how to hook the HD camera up for live streaming also. So I'll be testing that in a little while. It's not bad. The camera does focus on the room behind me instead of on my face. I guess that's not a bad thing. I think I'm okay with that. Let's see if we click follow my face and auto focus. I don't know the picture is way better in Google hang in the Google hang out screen than it is on the YouTube screen. There it's focusing on my face in and out, in and out, in and out. Yeah, I don't know. I guess I'm going to be able to do. Thank you, Tiffany. I'm glad I'm just trying to get used to the new camera and figure out the settings. The, I'm just, it's going in and out because I'm playing with the buttons. I'm going to stop doing that now because that annoys me. I don't know about you guys. This is not bad. It's not a bad for a webcam. It's not bad now. And it's HD. So I'll be able to film and or potentially record with it. But I also might be able to do both of those with my standard HD video camera. And I like the idea of having a backup and something I can and both pieces of equipment being able to do both things. So I'm going to be testing that later today with the cables and cords I have before I order anything.  It's a little bit harsh, less harsh. So that's good, I guess. I don't know. I have a black technology thumb. I can paint your pretty pictures and talk about art stuff, but I'm bad with technology. I know how to blow things up really well. I'm sorry for the problems with yesterday's YouTube live broadcast for Watercolor Wednesday. Whoever was watching, I know the video got a couple of thumbs down and I expected that. Yeah, see, tech frustrates me too. Like, you know, most of us creative types, we can paint pretty pictures, but technology is just beyond me. And at 5 a.m., wow, what are you doing up?  So I can catch some of you who are in other time zones. Maybe the Mondays with DecoArt should be a little later in the day. So we're going to work on that a little bit because I don't have a problem with that. And I think adjusting the time might be better for me and you guys. We'll catch more viewers and you guys won't miss live and you'll be able to ask me questions. And I may occasionally pop up with these testing or Q&A things just with absolutely no notice. So you're going to have to just catch me. I'm not always going to schedule these like today where I'm just playing with the equipment. But the picture looks okay to you, Tiffany, and whoever else is watching. We've got somebody else watching. Oh, good. I'm glad. Yeah, yesterday was completely impromptu because I got the new camera and again, I was testing it. And we ended up having a little chat about art and motivation and all that stuff.  From some of these companies. I know Liquitex and Sennelier both have pre-prepared sample packs they can send to you. No talent. Okay, well, you know, I have a teacher of mine who teaches me who will tell you that she was not born with talent that she learned. And she's a world famous artist and a good selling artist. She makes a pretty good living at it. So it doesn't have to be something a talent that you're born with. If you really have a love for it, you can learn. And there's a certain aspect to art I think that is learned anyways. That's not you can't be born with in my opinion. That's my opinion. You know, I'm wrong about stuff all the time, but that's my opinion. And I'm glad you like watching me. I like being on YouTube. So I have stopped friending a lot of people on my personal Facebook page. I will still friend the occasional person, but not I'm getting a lot of strange people trying to friend me on Facebook. I do have the Facebook group though. For all of you guys, you can join the Facebook group. And the nice thing about doing these chats on my desktop is I can pop the link in the comments. Let's see. There we go. Yeah, you know, one of the reasons we're doing the watercolor Wednesday. Product review swatch book is not to decide if Schminke or Daniel Smith is really the best brand of watercolor on the planet. It's to give you guys some kind of an idea of how all the different brands compare one to the other so that you can go to your store. That's local to you with your budget in mind and make a better educated decision about what kind of watercolor paint, for instance, that you want to buy that's going to work for you. I like all brands of watercolor. I have a lot of different brands. I own them. I bought them. They weren't gifted to me. I have some that were, but I have a lot that I bought and I use them for different things. And I love them. My favorite, of course, is Daniel Smith. They're made in the USA. And, you know, I am pretty proud of that fact. They also have over 200 colors in their color line. So huge, gigantic color line. And although I know how to mix paint, it's not my favorite thing. And I would rather have a big palette with a lot of colors that I don't have to mix. So I love Daniel Smith for that. That doesn't mean I don't love the other. I don't like the other brands. I do. But, yeah.  They're not very pigmented. Yeah. Daniel Smith can be really expensive everywhere. Here it depends on the color that you buy because then it depends on the pigment that they made that color with. Some pigments are more expensive, but they're generally speaking between like nine and 11 on the low end and 15 to like 25 on the high end per tube. And I just started my collection with one or two tubes at a time. But there's lots of other brands out there that are really yummy. And you can get the Daniel Smith, you know, dot color chart that has all like 238 or whatever colors on it for like 20 some dollars. And then you have all, you know, a little dot of all the colors and you can just pick the ones that you love and start collecting them that way. But you may have a brand near you that's totally out of a normal person's price range over here and hard to get. That's easy for you to get there in Australia. I know there's a few brands like that. Schminke is a worldwide brand and it's, you know, a great paint and it's very popular. I can only get certain things of their paint here. And like, if I want to refill pan of paint, I have to order it. There are some Italian brands of paint that I've heard are really great. I can't get them here easily. I'm going to address that in a minute, Bonnie. I can't get them here easily. I can't and they're really expensive and you have to pay import and all that. I'm trying to get samples from them. But if you're in Europe, they're easier to get. So you just have to go by what's low. You know, I just want to give you guys enough information that you can make a well educated decision about what you're buying. And you know what? I, okay, I bought my share of stuff at Walmart. I'm not a big Walmart fan. That's probably because they used to be in merchandising and Walmart's icky. That's just everyone by me. They're all icky. There's like one that's a few hours away from me that's in an area of California that we go to spend a weekend once a year. And their Walmart's gorgeous and beautiful and clean. And yeah, I love shopping at that one. The rest of them I can leave. But that being said, there's nothing wrong with some of the brands they have at Walmart. And if that's what you can afford, then do that. I started with an $8 cake watercolor set that I think I either got it at Walmart or I got it at Michaels. I don't remember where. I think the brand was Art District, not great watercolors, not super well pigmented, but they worked in using those. I discovered that I like watercolor. So everybody's got to start somewhere and watercolor. Walmart has some great deals on stuff. And so then you have to go with what's near you. If you don't have art stores and you don't have Michaels or Hobby Lobby or Joann's. So your choice is Walmart or mail order and you don't have the money to pay shipping and all that. Then you have to go with Walmart.  Now they carry Royal and Langnickel at Walmart. And I just got gifted a kit of their paints. I didn't swatch all the colors. We're going to be doing that coming up soon. But I have their brushes and I love their brushes. There's nothing wrong with their brushes. And we have, this is just a test. We have six people watching. Hey. Yeah. Well, I live near the San Francisco Bay. I'm in the San Francisco Bay area. And I wanted to share. Let's see. That's February. It's March, isn't it? So there's a Royal and Langnickel unboxing where I show what they sent me to try and review. It airs on Monday. So look for that. They sent me a whole kit with a bunch of paints and some brushes. And I've already actually owned one of their brushes and I love their brushes. And Royal and Langnickel is a brand carried at Walmart. So I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I'm all for a good cheap paintbrush. And yeah, I'm, because I'm in the San Francisco Bay area, you know, it's a big city area. So we have a lot of different kinds of options for art supply shopping, I should say. Now, Dick Blick isn't super close to me. It's over an hour away. And it is in, I'm in San Jose, which is, yes, a big city. San Francisco is bigger and a lot more crowded and a lot more icky to drive in. And so I don't go up there often unless either somebody else is driving or I have a friend that wants to go because it's not my favorite thing to do. Drive around in the city by myself. But we also have the salvage place and we have a few Daiso shops. And yeah, you know, I like Royal brushes a lot. Their paper is not bad. I've tried their gouache in the past and their gouache is not bad. You know, it's not Schmincke, but it's not, you know, it's a good affordable sort of student quality paint.  Do you want to become a serious watercolors? Or do you just want to make cards and tags and do some mixed media? If you just don't want to do cards and tags and mixed media, Royal is good. The Windsor Newton Cotman, one of their pocket sets, it's probably good. Yeah, see, they make really, Royal and Langnickel make really nice brushes. And their Zen, they just sent me their Zen brushes and their Zen brushes are fabulous. I love them. I already owned one. I picked it up on clearance and fell in love with it. And then when they sent me this box, big box of stuff, it included a whole bunch of Zen brushes. So like I said, that video airs Monday. So if you're doing mixed media things with watercolor and water soluble media, I wouldn't go investing in a bunch of, you know, Daniel Smith paints or Schmincke paints, especially if there's budget issues and they're really hard to get. I would go with like Windsor Newton Cotman or Royal and Langnickel or Prima or Koi or something like that, because the watercolor is going to be used with other mediums. And I don't think being super worried about pigmentation and all of that stuff is an issue. You don't, you do want them to be light fast. So you don't want someday your journal pages to fade any more than they're going to naturally probably do already. So I wouldn't go with something that you can't find light fast information on. Now that being said, Koi and Prima will both tell you, yes, their paints are light fast, but they won't tell you how much, what the range is. I don't think they know. So you keep that in mind. If you're going to do serious watercolor and just watercolor paintings, then you probably want to upgrade.  But when I'm doing watercolor paintings or working in my watercolor journal, then I use the nicer paints. I will be doing some more four part paintings with some of the other brands we've been swatching. Yeah, for mixed media, it gets really messy. And so, you know, you want a little palette that didn't cost too much money has decent quality paint. You don't care if it gets icky and messy.  Can you tell I just got out of the shower? My hair is all wet. I told you guys I was going to just do testing. I wasn't going to stay on a chat. Oops. There is like a minute or two delay. Peerless are nice because they're very well pigmented. They're light fast and they're easily portable because peerless watercolors are more of a, you know, dry pigment. They're on little pieces of paper.  And you got to love them about that, especially if you like to take some of your art and drawing stuff with you on vacation or when you're water driving around. No problem, Tiffany. Five o'clock in the morning, you should go either go back to bed or have a cup of coffee. And I have some Prang semi moist student grade watercolors, not the washable that we're going to be swatching with some of our other lower end ones. Wango, Van Gogh, Emily, Emily, do you mean Van Gogh? And yeah, the peerless are great for that.   And I have peerless. There will be swatching them. I was gifted some peerless. Van Gogh, Van Gogh, I, you know, I have a lot of Van Gogh paints. I like Van Gogh paints. They're, some people can't stand them.  I'm not a big fan of the artist's loft brand, the Michael, which is the Michael store brand. My hair in my mouth. I don't think they're very well pigmented and it takes a lot of water to get the cakes like reactivated. So they're not my favorite. And I'm not a big fan of their acrylics either. They're for the same reason. They're not very pigmented. Yeah, an acrylic, you really want like a soft or heavy body acrylic. You want it to be fairly opaque and their acrylic paints are really not. So I'm not a big fan of the artist's loft brand. Somebody asked if I would try their paper, their level two watercolor paper, which I can do. It takes a lot for me to go into a Michael store, though, because I'm allergic to all the popery and stuff. So I'm just trying to work up some courage and get my mask that I have to wear and I'll get into the store and get some paper. And I didn't miss stuff that you said you were in Israel, Emilia. That's fabulous.  Oh, creatively Amy, hey. Arches is one of the best watercolor papers. I also like Fabriano. When I'm just doing testing and fooling around swatches and that kind of thing, then I use just Strathmore, usually 140 pound, either yellow or green cover. The difference is paper that's made out of cotton versus paper that's made out of paper pulp and Strathmore, I believe is made out of paper pulp. And better brands like Fabriano and arches are made out of cotton. And they absorb the paint and water differently. If I'm going to do a piece for a customer, then I usually use the Fabriano or the arches if it's a custom order. Otherwise, if I'm just fooling around and doing mixed media stuff, I just use Strathmore. I was just going to come on to this morning to do a test of some of the settings for the new webcam, Amy, and I ended up starting to chat with people again. So I'm going to have to change the title of this when we go off the air and I load it to my video feed. How are you today? I'm going to go run and get my water, which I left in the other room because I said I didn't plan this. So I'll be right back. Hang on. I think I need a cough drop. California, everything's blooming. Hey, Connie, how are you? I was just saying I just I just got on here to do some testing and I ended up chatting with y'all. So I'm going to have to change the name of this at some point. That's okay. I like chatting. My husband calls me chatty Kathy, which is funny because when I was younger, I was very shy. Couldn't talk to anybody. Of course, it's easy to talk to y'all because it's just me talking to myself. Where are you, Amy, that your day is coming to an end? Thank you. This is one of our it was our spare bedroom. Nice. Nice. I just do this from home. So I can't say that. But my new stamp inventory, the new stamp designs come in today. So this afternoon, I will be a packaging fiend trying to get the existing orders out. Anyway, we have a four bedroom house and this is one of our bedrooms. It used to be the spare room. England. Wow. Fabulous. This is one of the places I need to go visit. It's on my bucket list. If I can manage it, I'm going to try to get over to Ireland next year for a retreat. And I want to stay a couple days later or more and visit England and Scotland. It's so funny because I'm watching myself on the screen and there's a little bit of a delay. Sabrina, welcome. Of course, I will be bringing my watercolors go with me everywhere. I take them flying. I have a couple of different art bags depending on where I'm going and how much I'm bringing. But hey, Tibby, how are you? I was just telling everybody I only got on here to test some settings on the new webcam.  I'm going to have to change the title. Cool. One of my favorite art supply stores on the planet, Jackson's Art in the UK. I love that place. Heard that. I actually have a niece who went to Israel. I forget why. It was a religious thing for her. But she loved it. Actually loved it very much. Thank you. Yay. Me and my black technology thumb. I can paint your pretty pictures, but I'm not sure yet. We just started thinking about it. And I have to get some legal business and funding things straightened out first. But I want to take a retreat class with Pauline Agnew next year. That's something that's on my bucket list. And if I can manage to do that, then while I'm there, I want to spend an extra few days. And I want to visit England and Scotland. It's silly to travel all the way to the outside of the world and not go to those places. And my mom's family is from Glasgow and London. So my mother's maiden name is McFarlane. Italian and Scottish. It's kind of an odd combination. Thank you very much, Amelia. Sometimes I may do these sort of things and they may not be about YouTube. And I may just go straight on to Google+. I've done that a couple of times. The problem is more, if you guys see it, if I do it this way on YouTube, then you do the other way. But if I do the other way, you can actually talk to me instead of type at me. So I don't know. I'm going to try to get my HDMI cable out this morning. And I have to learn about camera equipment. So I'm just learning about HDMI cables. So I have to... I have to see if this HDMI cable thing works. And I have to... If it does work to hook the HD camera up, then that'll be another option for me. Yeah, we spell it here. They're all related, no matter how they spell it. But my branch of the family is spelled M-A-C, capital F-A-R-L-A-N-E. Mac from the Farlane. I'm not sure. We're going to have to do that. And I'm going to be messaging a few people before the event. So we'll see what we can work out. Thank you. This room was already this... I get asked about the color a lot. It was already this color because this was the guest room. And when we decided to move my art studio out of the garage because of my asthma, which is the long story we won't get into. But we decided to move it in here. It was silly to have a room dedicated to people who only came once a year. And my husband said, do you want to repaint it first? And I said, no, I like that color. So I just loved it. But yes, I've been trying since I moved in here to get all of my art stuff into this one room. I've mostly done that, but not completely. All the McFarlane's are related, no matter how they spell their name. If they do their genealogy back far enough, I think they're all related to this.  Yeah. And that's not the... How should I say this?  So yeah. And that's true in all families, but it seems to especially be true in the McFarlane side of my family. Yeah, I know, right? My husband likes that meme that says, I keep telling my husband I can get all of my art stuff into one box. And he says, stop calling our house a box. My husband thinks that's hilarious. Yeah, I could introduce you to a few that are a real trip. That's a good one. That's a really good one. I like that. I think the stubborn is all get out. I think the McFarlane's give the German side of my husband's family a run for their money. My favorite tool that I always go to. If I'm just creating art on the fly and I'm reaching for a tool without thinking about it. An actual tool tool? Wow. Probably a paintbrush. You know, I love a good pen. I love my cutter bee scissors. My little tiny... Lights good. These. These are fabulous scissors. I love these. I got them on Hobby Lobby, but I think you can get them a lot in different places. They're called Cutter Bee. They're a cute little sharp scissor. I like for cutting out embellishments. I'm working on things for collage. I'm really bad about keeping my scissors clean, but these scissors don't seem to mind it. Every now and then I get all my scissors out and I get the alcohol out and I clean them. I'm really bad about that. Like you can see the blades are all icky and sticky. Well, I love a good stamp. You know, I have my own line of stamps and I'm coming out with 40 designs. The new inventory comes today. Yes, it was delivered earlier. Woohoo. So we have birds. You want my craft room? I hear that.  It's only 10 by 10. I have this with the doodle girls. We have this doodle pieces and parts set, which you can use to make borders or create flowers. And then we have this sort of planner inspired set. Okay, I just am seeing my feet. You can't see that. Holy cow. How about this way? You can't see any of those. The glare. So here's the girls and then here's the pieces and parts. And then this one is like planner inspired or journal inspired, like for our journaling little embellishments. So those are all the inventory for these came. It was delivered earlier. I haven't picked it up yet, but yay. Oh, thanks, Evie. I love Germany. Such a beautiful country. And y'all are so friendly for people who barely can say, but I can see English and do a lot of pointing. I think it was cracking up the natives, but you know, it was fun. Those designs, some of them are available as Digi Stamps, Amy. And I do have my own line of actually red rubber stamps. They come unmounted like this and you can buy them in my Etsy shop. And then you just mount them to cling foam to turn them into a cling stamp. Sam, I'm not the only one with the problem with scissors. That's good to know. All my scissors, it's probably because we're mixed media artists, right? All the scissors end up with like icky sticky bits of glue and, you know, I don't necessarily clean them until they won't cut anymore. You know, and I'm not fastidious about my stencils either.  But for the most part, I don't clean them too well. No worries.  I didn't intend actually on staying on here long. I'm going to, thanks to me. Yeah, it's good to be on and talk to you guys, even if it was unplanned and I'm going to go off right now and I'm going to actually turn down the computer, boot it down, turn it off so I can rearrange some wires and plugs without blowing anything up. Since I happened to have a black technology thumb lately, let's turn the computer off before we start on plugging things. And then I may be on later. Yes. So you have to put them onto a piece of easy mount foam to turn it into a cling stamp that will stick to an acrylic block. Or you need to put it on some foam and glue it to a wood block. They don't come mounted. Now I can special order them mounted on wood or mounted as a cling stamp. And they come packaged this way. These are a special order. And I have a few of the old designs in stock. I'm not getting any of the new ones. So they, I could get them, but they would be a special order. No worries. You guys too. Have a great day. Don't forget the most important thing. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Yeah. All right. That's it right now. I didn't come on to push my Etsy shop or anything else. It's just a test, but I will put testing slash Q&A on the title when it loads to YouTube. And I will be probably on a little bit later. Once I get everything unplugged and rearranged, figure out what I'm doing with that. Hopefully I don't blow anything up. All right. I will talk to you guys later. Have a great day. And if I don't talk to you before, have a great weekend. Do some art.  I can Sabrina include a sheet of easy mount foam for an extra dollar. It'll do two sets of stamps. You have to put a note in the comments section of your order. I ship worldwide, Evie. I'll ship them anywhere. And if you guys aren't a member yet of my Facebook group, you can scroll up in the chat and find the link to the Facebook group and all of these questions about the stamps and stuff you can ask me over there. Just tag me in your post. You're welcome. All right. I will talk to you guys later. Bye.