I would like to speak to you concerning breaking the cycle of bondage. In Ephesians chapter 4 verse 27 it says, nor give place to the devil. I'm going to use two portions of scripture, Judges chapter 10 verses 15 and 16. Let's read that. Then the children of Israel said to the Lord, we have sinned due to us what seems good to you or what seems best to you. Only delivered us this day, we pray. So they put away the foreign gods from among them and serve the Lord and his soul could no longer endure the misery of Israel. As Christians the Bible tells us a lot about the spiritual world and in describing the spiritual world the Bible tells us that there is the world of light and there's the world of darkness. There's the world of good and then there's the world of evil. These are not just terms but these are realities of an invisible realm that exists simultaneously with our realm. It explains the origin, it explains the evil that is happening in this world because there are spiritual forces that are at play. As Christians we're also told that we have an enemy and this enemy is the devil Lucifer. Different names are given to him. He's heading an army. He has an army under his reign and this army they're made of demons, evil spirits. Hollywood has done a big job exposing or creating different films or possession but also really making things that are not really real in movies and movies are made to make you laugh, cry or be scared. If they don't move you emotionally they don't make money. So everything that is made about spiritual world from Hollywood has its agenda and that's that agenda is to keep your attention and not everything is true that you see in movies but there is a reality of spiritual world and there is such a thing as demons. These demons they're not just a word that we throw out for somebody or somebody's action that we don't like or demonic infiltration, oppression. I don't like to use the word possession because anytime you say word possession people like they'll right away think of the exorcism movie or something else and they're like yeah that's like those bad crazy people in mental institution but it could never be me.  There is two main ways that demons have access. Number one is the legal open door and the number two is the sin of opportunity. If you're taking notes you can draw this down. A legal right is the technicality by which demons get admission to you. It's usually rooted in a cold practice. It must be repented off and renounced and then the demon that came in through that legal loophole is cast out. The second big way and that is the sin of opportunity. The sin of opportunity is an opportunity of sin that is done in careless deliberate act over time and gives the devil an opportunity to get access to you. Not all fleshly sins lead to demonization but there is a risk if it's not dealt with right away. Opportunities, these sin opportunities are broken gradually by correcting behavior and progressively surrendering to Jesus. That's why the Bible tells us don't give place to the devil and what that really means is this don't give the devil an opportunity where he might not have a legal right.  The sins of opportunity are pretty much the legal right, the loophole that the devil gets when we begin to deliberately, carelessly, continuously involve ourselves in the behavior that the scripture condemns, lying, cheating, jealousy, you know, viewing pornography, smoking, drinking, things that they're obvious, they're conscience tells us, hey this is wrong for you and we all stumble, we all fall. The Bible says righteous men fall seven times and gets up. So when you're righteous it doesn't mean you don't stumble, you just don't stay there. And the danger is not that, you know, make sure you don't sin, that's our desire, but we all trip. But when you stay there and you carelessly continue in that state, you expose yourself to a risk of possible demonization. Again, risk possible, meaning it doesn't happen all the time. Some people can do that, repent, you know, clean up their life, continue to serve God, no demon problem whatsoever. Other people can continue in that and then they can expose themselves to a spirit of anger, to a spirit of hate, to a spirit of murder or other things.  I'll give you two stories. These are not demon stories, these are living practical stories, but it'll give you like a picture of what that would look like. One happened to me in the Ukraine. I was struggling with math, math and science is not necessarily my strongest abilities. And I had a teacher who was helping me with math and she was also a doctor. And she was my teacher, she was not a teacher, but she was my teacher and she was a doctor. She had a German shepherd and she had a demon possessed German shepherd. This German shepherd, like hated everybody. And this German shepherd was on the leash.  I was scared of that dog, but you know, after a while I started to recognize and understand that this dog was on the leash, which made him dangerous if I would step on his territory. And he's not dangerous if I am outside of his territory. I figured out very quickly how far his leash goes, because you know, you can see the marks. And so, and then with time I developed confidence to provoke this beast, knowing he can only bark at me, he can't bite me, because he is on the leash. See, that's how demons are. All the demons are on the leash. They can only bark at you, they can tempt you, but they can't torment you as long as you're not on their territory. Their territory is the kingdom of darkness. It's the cult and witchcraft. Now, this is not God saying, hey, he's dissing on all other religions that don't agree with him. This is actually the kingdom of darkness. The devil lies to people by bringing them in and people out of their hunger, because they were created to connect with spiritual realm. There's an ache inside of every human being to desire to know, is there more to life? We desire to connect with another being, with bigger than us.  And he presents things in this wrapping form of like, hey, I can help you know your future.  All you got to do, you want to talk to your mom who passed away, you forgot to tell her that you were sorry. And no big deal, I can help. There's a person who can actually cross over and talk to your grandma or your mom. But in reality, you're not speaking to your grandma or your mom.  She's gone.  She's not talking to you anymore. And so, who you're talking to, you're talking to demons. So how will they know all the information? You have to understand one thing about demons. They were here when your grandma was here. They got all that information.  But next thing that happens is you actually stepping on the enemy's territory. The Bible was very clear from the beginning that God is saying that I am the source of good. And I want you to reach out to me through my means. Meaning through my son Jesus Christ, through the scripture. And this does seem narrow-minded a little bit.  It's not narrow-minded. It's actually very kind. Everett had a wedding yesterday. Okay. There was one way to get to his wedding. One way. It was through Benton City. And there was this one highway. There was only one way to, there was a fork. And I got stuck at the fork because my direction was telling me to go left. But my common sense kind of told me that I think it's this way. So I stood right at the fork in the middle of the road. I screenshot the fork and I sent to Everett. And I said, Everett, left or right? Now I could follow my God or I could follow directions. But I just wanted to know the guy who was actually there, how to get there. Now let's say Everett said left. I said, narrow-minded. There's many ways to get to your place. Now you can believe whatever you want, but you're not going to get to where he's at. And so thankfully, you know, I had enough common sense to take what he said and I got to the place where he was. So when God is telling you that's how you get to me, God is not being narrow-minded. He just wants to save you time from taking wrong directions. All right. So when you take the right and God says to take the left, you know, you're not disproving anything except the fact that God is right. Because you will get lost. You will get somewhere, but it's not going to be where God is. It's going to be where lies and deceptions are at. It's where darkness is at. And so what happened with me is that what happens with people is when we damble into the occult or witchcraft, we step on the enemy's territory. So I've learned this dog really well. And I would come to my medical doctor slash my personal tutor and teacher to do homework. And so one time I came with my math and I did not see the German shepherd. He had a little house, like the one that he lived in, but I didn't see him. And so I always was curious what it would feel like to step on the territory to step on the territory where he runs around. And you know, kid, I'm like, you know, 11 or 12 years of age. My curiosities were big. And so then I always was curious how his inside of his house was. Like, so I always wanted to stick my head inside where he dwelled. So this was my perfect opportunity. So I got my math and I didn't even put my math books down. I just, you know, I see he's not there and pretty big house that he was in. So I step in, you know, checking everything.  And then came this shocking reality that something just woke up. Now, this something was not inside of this house. This something this demon possessed German shepherd was on the back lying. Actually, he was sleeping. Somehow he didn't wake up when I walked in because dogs are very sensitive. And so he didn't wake up. I don't know if it was the Lord or something. Maybe the Lord caused this so I could have an illustration for my sermon 20 years later.  My head is inside of the house. I am on my knees. By the time I get out, I am facing the German shepherd right in front of me. And I am backed up to his little house.  And then of course I do what every teenager, you know, does. I scream, you know, I scream, I yell. And so the dog went for my leg. He took a huge bit and he wouldn't let it go. He I still have the scars to prove it. I won't show you the scars. He goes for my leg and he just just holds on to keeps, keeps going in. Thankfully, his owner, the teacher, the doctor heard the cry and she came in. She pulled him out of me and then I started to faint. So she stitched me up and put a bandaid and helped me with my homework. What was my lesson? Lesson is very simple. If you step on the territory of a dog who is violent, who is on the leash, you will get bit. Not just barked at. When you step on the territory of witchcraft and a cold, this is again, please hear me. This is not God saying, Hey, it's just my religion.  This is God warning us and saying, Hey, if you step on the other territory, there will be consequences. And the consequences are you will expose yourself to a demonic oppression. But thankfully with God, even if you step in out of your ignorance, curiosity, stupidity, whatever the reason is, all you got to do is help. And God will be there. And not only he will be there, but he will help to stitch your life back up. That's the amazing part about God. He is good. He is faithful. That's the amazing part about Jesus. You know, the doctor didn't just stand there and say, I told you, you know, that's what probably she should have done. I told you not to go in. You knew it better. No, she rescued me and she helped me. And then she dealt with my damages and she still continued to help.  You started to practice things that in Christianity, we're not allowed to. Not because God is keeping the fun away. It's because God is protecting us from the demonic infiltration of the kingdom of darkness, which is extremely real in this world today. And if you don't believe it, just read the news. Darkness is real everywhere today. It's not just a figment of Hollywood's imagination. This is the reality we live in. And God, he wants to protect us. He wants us to live holy and righteous so that we can live on his kingdom. And he warns us. He says that as we walk through our Christian life, we will have these demonic and enemy's voices barking at us, tempting us. But as long as we don't step on their territory, the most they can do is bark. They can tempt, but they cannot torment because we're walking with God. Now, the other part is this is the part where most of us, if you have any background in Christian faith, you're like, yeah, I get it. Don't do this stuff. Like don't try to reach God through all these alternative means. But the part that hits home for each one of us is the one in Ephesians, where Paul tells us, do not give place to the devil. But right before that, in Ephesians chapter four, verse 27, Paul begins to go through all of these things. And I'm going to go ahead and actually read chapter four and verse 25. He says this, Therefore, putting away, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. Be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your wrath nor give place to the devil. And then he begins to go through different stuff. He's like, let him who stole steal no longer, but let him work, not unemployment actually working if you can work. Let him labor working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has a need.  The Bible teaches everybody got to work. Unless you're disabled or you're elderly, or unless you're in a physical situation that you can't, the Bible says work and don't steal. And then he continues to say, let no corrupt word proceeds from your mouth, but what is good and necessary for the purification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice and be kind to one another, tended hearted for giving one another, even as Christ has forgiven you. Have you noticed that none of the actions that this apostle Paul tells us to stay away from are demonic in nature. Wrath, anger, malice, backbiting, gossiping, you know, fighting maybe, all of these things, they're not witchcraft, but it's something that many of us will tolerate. And he tells us two things about this.   There is no reference here concerning, you know, you talking to a psychic reading Zodiac signs or you know, playing witchy boards or consulting the dead or like going into spiritism or all of this stuff. Then here is everything about the things that we kind of let sometimes in our life and we struggle with. And the danger of staying in these sins or in these behaviors, now we're capable of making them, but the danger of carelessly, deliberately, continuously allowing that to run in our life is this. This Holy Spirit who lives in us is grieved. And secondly, the enemy has an opportunity. We are at risk of having an open door to the enemy. And then this enemy can come in. A few months ago, I had a situation in my house where my house went through deliverance. But before my house went through deliverance, we found a big problem. The problem is we found a little creature called mice. My wife did. She was in my office and she found that mice was just like running up and down on my bookshelves. Now I didn't see the mice. I trusted my wife's report. So she came, screamed, closed the door and we put little towels to cover that, you know, so that it doesn't get out. We're gonna trap this little thing, you know. And let me just pause for a second. For those people who are Christians and maybe your first time at Hungry Gen and you don't believe that Christians can have demons. I didn't believe that owners could have mice.  You can have whatever you want to have. Secondly, if you open the doors or you have cracks, mice can come. Same thing as a Christian. You can be filled with the Holy Ghost. You can be tongue speaking. You even have a fish bumper sticker. And so going to Hungry Gen. But if you continuously to do these things, wrath, malice and anger, you can actually expose yourself to a demon.  So my wife tells me that, you know, we have a mice in the house. And so me being the great man of God I am and full of courage and power and boldness. I said, I'm not going to catch that thing. I don't want to see that thing. I said, we're going to the store. And so we went to the store. I found the mouse trap. I wanted to have that mouse trap where the mice goes in. And then there's a spring that springs forth and it traps that mouse completely. So I didn't even have to see the mouse. I just take that whole procedure and just throw it away. And so we put it into four different places in the house. I'm like, just in case this mouse has multiplied. So we put it in the laundry, in the office, in the garage, downstairs, everywhere, just to be extra sure. And so we went about our merry way. We came back and then I realized how covered I am. I was so afraid to go into the laundry room to just check if the mouse trap caught the mouse. Like I was in my own house, scared of. This is not a lion. This is not a cheetah. This is not a hyena. This is a mouse who's afraid of me. And it dawned on me that that's how many people feel about demons. They're afraid of them when demons actually are afraid of you. Even the ones that are tormenting you are afraid of you. Yeah. I'm not saying to be careless with demons. I'm not saying this is not a game. It's not a joke. We don't play a little cat and mouse situation, but we are simply fearless as Christians to face the enemy. We don't presume upon ourselves and our strength and courage. We rely on the strength Jesus has given to us by the virtue of his name. And by the power of the Holy Spirit, therefore we are fearless. We are not afraid of demons. Like one preacher one time was sleeping and I think it was Smith-Wigsworth and cold. He woke up in just a cold sweat. The room was freezing cold.  He said, oh, that was you. I thought it was something more serious and went back to sleep. Or one time I heard another minister was sleeping and woke up because the devil started moving furniture in this house. And so he got up. He didn't even get out of his bed. He just sit up and he says, put it back where you found it. And then when he put him back, he's like, now get out. I need to get my sleep. You know, and at first it may seem like, oh, that's cockiness. No, that is a courage founded in Jesus. You're not to be afraid. Amen. Again, I was afraid and then we finally caught the thing. And then my wife is like, hey, could you open that? Could you open the mouse trap? And just to see if the mouse was really caught. I was like, no, I trust the system. I'm like, I'll throw all the mouse traps just to be sure. Because this one, you know, like it snapped so it's closed in now. And I just believe that it's there. And according to my belief, it's done for me. I threw that away and thankfully we've never seen the mouse again. After that, we decided to look at any opening that we have in our house. Is there any cracks that we have? Is there anything in the garage? Any kind of seals that are open because it could happen again. And that's how many Christians can have demons. Is that either they have opened their life to legally to a witchcraft or they carelessly, deliberately, continuously without repentance have allowed these sins to operate in their life. And today they're no longer sins that they just repent of. They repent of it and they keep on doing it and keep on doing it. And you might say, how do I know if I have a demon? If there's something else that controls a part of your emotion that you say like this, after you did that thing, I don't know what I was doing. I don't know what was happening. It wasn't me. You're actually true. You're actually accurate. Sometimes people say those things to shift blame, but we have to have spiritual people hear this when the person says, I was out of control. Who was in control then? Now, if it happened once, I get it. We all have those moments, but if this has been happening every other day for the last five years, there's someone else in control. So when we're doing deliverance, when we're praying for deliverance, our goal is to give you back the control you lost. That's why the fruit of the spirit is self-control. Holy Spirit doesn't control you.  And when you continuously, carelessly, deliberately sin, not only we grieve the spirit, but we also can be at risk of giving that control over our emotion or over our mind to the enemy. And it doesn't mean that you're always out of control. You're doing a good thing, working your job, loving your family, but then there's those moments, those weak moments where something just comes on. Something just, and like your eyes change, your family recognizes that's not the same person that we've been living with, what happens. It's a mice or maybe like a little cougar. They need to be bound and they need to be removed. Now the scripture that I've read, and I'm just gonna mention this in passing, and we're going to pray. And the scripture in Judges chapter 10, it said the following, that we have sinned, do what it seems good to you, and they started to put away evil gods. God could no longer see that misery, and he came to deliver them. There's few practical things that we all should do, and I'm gonna go through them very quickly. Number one is that we repent genuinely. And repentance is more than saying I'm sorry. Repentance is more than feeling guilty. Repentance is you changing your mind and you changing your direction. Number two is that we have to surrender wholeheartedly. We have to surrender to God after we repent. You don't just wait for God to fix you before you surrender to him. Number three is we see in here that we have to ask for deliverance. The Bible says that we have sinned deliver us. And I love the fact they said deliver us now, not tomorrow, not a little bit later, not until I prove my point with my spouse, but now. I find the story in book of Exodus very funny, actually, when Pharaoh, because of his rebellion, brought a lot of frogs on his territory. And then, you know, he comes to Moses, says, Moses, could you pray to your God so that God can remove the frogs? And Moses says, I will give you the honor of letting you decide when. Pretty cool, actually. When God lets you decide when. You would think Pharaoh would have some brains and say, it's a sep. You know what Pharaoh asked for tomorrow? I'm like, you have frogs in your bedroom and God is giving you a chance to choose the time of your deliverance. And you're like, yeah, one might not with the frogs wouldn't hurt probably. So don't spend one more night with the frogs. Don't spend one more night with depression. Don't spend one more night with anxiety. Don't spend one more night with hate, with anger. Don't spend one more night with suicidal thoughts. You have to ask God, say, Lord, I want you to deliver me today. I want you to set me free today. Today is the day of salvation. Today is the time to say, I'm sorry. Today is the time to say thank you. Today is the time to clean up our life. Today is the time to get right with God. And today is the time to say, God deliver me today. Come on. Today is the time to throw away those cigarettes. If God wanted you to smoke, he would put a chimney in the top of your head. He didn't, so he doesn't want you. Today is the day to stop those things.  They're just not right for me. Today is the day, not tomorrow, not next week, not when you're going to feel a little, ooh. No, none of that stuff. Today is the day. Not only they prayed for deliverance, but they also took out the garbage, meaning they put away the foreign gods. God wants us to put away things that are not pleasing to him. Sometimes it's physical objects. Sometimes it's things. Actually, they're not like sinful, but for you, they're just distracting. Another thing that God wants us to do is to start to serve him. And when we begin to take these steps, we repent, we surrender, we pray, we take out the garbage, we remove things that are not good, and we commit to serve God. Something happens. The Bible says in here, and God could no longer, God's soul could no longer endure the misery of Israel. Now, at first, it seems like God was just super, super mad. But in the original language, it actually means that God was really impatient to deliver them, to help them. He was broken. He was grieved with their misery.  God will see it. God will not dismiss your case.  He will meet you at the point of your need. And the last thing I want to highlight is that they did all of that. Israel did all of that. They repented. They surrendered to God. They threw away foreign idols. They committed to serve God. But honestly, nothing happened. The relationship with God was restored. They didn't get free until in chapter 11 of Book of Judges, they went and reached out to a guy named Jeffra.  And for them, they was kind of embarrassing. So they pretty much drove this guy out. And when they couldn't get free, they reached out to him and they said, could you come back and lead us into a battle? And of course, he came back and God delivered Israel. I want to encourage every person that all of that preparation of repentance, all of that preparation of surrendering, getting back to church, all of that preparation of, I'm going to take away those things that are bad and they're distracting. I'm going to stop going to those places. They're just bringing me down. All of that is good. I'm going to give my life to Jesus Christ. That is the most important thing. And that's the best decision you can make. But if you notice, you still got issues. I want to encourage you to find your Jeffra. Now, for some of us, it's pretty basic. Find somebody who can pray with you. Find a deliverance minister. Those of you guys are coming here. You're coming to Hungry Jen and Hungry Jen, some of you have seen our church or have actually said this about our church. It's the weird church. And today you came to the weird church because God can use Jeffra to bring you deliverance. In fact, it was Jeffra God used to bring deliverance to those people. Sometimes that person is a medical doctor. When you come, you receive deliverance. You receive prayer. Everything is good, but you're noticing like there's still certain things where you need medical help or a counselor. Now, again, for those of you who think that deliverance is work. Everything is solved. You would look at the medical doctor or a counselor as a Jeffra. Yeah, no, they're not spiritual adults. And then there's those of you who only clean or just, oh, I just need more counseling, more counseling. Yeah, but you've been going to counseling for 15 years. You're still mad.  Maybe you need deliverance. I'm not saying the therapist is not the solution, but maybe deliverance is something that you look at as Jeffra like, ah, yeah, that's just weird, like screaming, yelling, like, and then the manifesting like foam coming out. Like, yeah, like not for me. I'm a good person. That's just for those weirdos. That's just not for me. But you keep hitting the same wall. And until you humble yourself and sometimes embrace the very thing you made fun of, the very thing you drove out in your mind and says, that never for me. And then you humble yourself before God. God can give you that breakthrough that you desperately need. God will not just use us on our knees and say, please deliver me. Like I was talking to a young man during the week. And he said, when he went through financial peace, university classes, he's like, no, I'm completely, he's like, I've never been out of debt, always in debt. Cars always on the payment. Credit cards always mixed out. He says, I went through that class. I'm a spiritual man.  And I'm looking at him, you know, and people can look at the financial classes at the church. I say, no, I just need to tithe more and I just need to pray louder. But the classes, no, that's for the people who just don't know how to manage money. Well, your bank records prove that you probably need help. That could be a jethra. We had a family that came for prayer line not long ago. And they were convinced they drove for a very long time, very long time. Whole family came. It was a big deal. We prepared for this. As our team started to minister to the daughter and they led her through the prayers of renouncing and all of that stuff that we do.  And then our team recommended, based on what they've seen with this girl, she needs to get medical help. You know, and it's not easy to hear for a parent who got the whole family drove half a day or a full day to hear, to receive prayer, no shaking, baking on the floor, no stuff like they see on the videos. And now they're told by this dynamic team, they just need to go back home and go to the doctor. I mean, nobody wants to hear that. But they were humble enough to say, you know what, thank you for taking time to minister to us. We will follow on your advice.  And so thankfully, they start putting her on surgery and other work and so, and now that will eliminate the problem. It would have been easy to treat everything as a nail if deliverance is the hammer. But at Hungry Gen, we understand that deliverance is a component of your freedom. There's other components that God will use. And all of us are usually biased. We have this weird view of the jethros in our lives. For some people, you're just so deliverance hungry, deliverance, deliverance, deliverance, you just don't want to see the doctor.  And sometimes it's both. What I'm just saying is that if you're noticing, you keep hitting the wall, be open to the possibility that your total breakthrough, my lie in the sphere, you're currently labeled as weird. And God might pull the jethra to bring total freedom into your life. Regardless which way, our God is a good God. He's in a good mood and he loves us and he wants to set us free. He can deliver us. A woman came to me today on the first service and I did a teaching on soul ties this Thursday and she's a member of our church, faithful serving in our church. And she said, I just want to tell you, she's like, when I watched that stream of Thursday, she's like, I came to the parking lot in the church on Saturday. She says, as I sat in the car, he says, deliverance started to happen to me in the parking lot. He says, as I renounced those things that you renounced, on YouTube, and she's literally an older lady, and she says, I am totally free right now from those soul ties and the demons that are attached to me. God used the YouTube video. God can use anything to accomplish His purpose.  We're going to be praying for people in just a moment, but understand, whoever's going to be laying hands on you for those of you who are here, please do not discriminate.  But if there is no preparation, education, and determination, your desperation is flaking. That's why it's important to be educated on what's happening. Watch some videos, read some books, read the scriptures, and also be prepared. Remove the stuff that is not right. Prepare your heart. And then honestly, when you come in, be determined. I'm here to be set free. I'm not here for Vlad to hit me with his hand or spit on me. I don't spit, but it sometimes just comes out. And so, but I'm here for God to touch me. And if it's going to be one of the younger ministers or the new minister that I haven't seen, it doesn't matter. It's the God I look for help from. And God's going to set me free. There's a freedom at this altar. Amen. Hey, thanks for watching this video. If you enjoyed this content and this was a blessing to you, would you help us and hit thumbs up so that it could help more people to discover this video. It costs you nothing, but it can go a long way to help with the algorithm. As well as if you're not subscribed to our channel, hit subscribe, click on the bell, so that you can be reminded each time that we upload videos. Thank you so much for being a part of this community. If you're interested in learning more about Hungry Gen, our internship, our conferences, deliverance, and so many other things, go to HungryGen.com for more information. And as always, remember, better is not good enough. The best is yet to come.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today, so I've got a few things to share with you. So I popped into town, I've tried not to go in there too much, and obviously with a pending full lockdown looming, if that's going to happen or not, I thought I'm going to go in, get a few bits that I need to, and I've actually brought a few Christmas presents as well, and I popped into the works. So I picked up these, I saw, I've got these larger silver ones, which you would have seen me feature in shaker cards, and I've also got those in brown, and I've got lots of sequins, but they had these little kind of jars for a pound, and these are smaller silver ones, but they're just the discs, and these just are so, I prefer these in my shaker cards because they're so flat and smooth, they just move really freely. Sequins are lovely, and I've got lots of these, but because they have a bit of dimension to them, they can kind of build up on top of each other and get a bit stuck, and I find, you know, things like this just move a bit better. So I picked up, they didn't have a great deal, and they had more shapes, I was hoping they had some red ones, but they didn't, but I did get these lovely kind of pinky, purpley coloured ones, very similar to these ones here, so I mean they would look quite nice like mixed together, so I can have a play around with them, and then like I said, the silver, and then I've got the gold there as well, really nice, these are going to get used through Christmas in different projects, and stuff, but I thought for a pound you get a lot in there, and they come in these jars as well, so they're easy to store, and I can pop them onto my little pegboard shelf. So I picked up those, then I picked up these here, and I just, I'm going to be making some kind of wreath in 3D projects and things like that, this is £1.50, I just thought they were really good quality, I love the pom-poms anyway, and then you get the holly leaves, which just on their own would look nice with some different little red balls or something, so I've got other bits and pieces I can mix with this, I mean they've got thread with this, so you're meant to stitch it all together to make a pom-pom garland, but I'm going to probably just use them, you know, on their own and kind of break it all apart really, so for £1.50 again I just thought the quality was really nice, and you get quite a lot in there, and then I picked up these two paper pads, they're a pound each, they're very similar to the other Christmas one that I shared maybe about four weeks ago, which I picked up from the works, you would have seen me use it in my Daisy May makes, it seemed to work really well, with that I used it on a gift box and a few other things, but I saw this one and these colours are a bit more vibrant, again they're those greens and reds which I really like at Christmas, so I just was drawn to this one here which was like that candy cane kind of look, you've got a snow scene there, you've got some stripes, sorry zigzags, bit of a kind of plaid look there, love this one, and I don't think they're very Christmassy, you could use these throughout the year as well, I think they'd look quite good on some masculine makes, so although they are the Christmas colours, I mean that stripe background you could use on a nice spring card you know, so you've got a snow scene there with the red background, those are little yeah little Christmas trees, so that one obviously not so much, other zigzag there and then you've got some, yeah I guess there's snowflakes, just thought it was really nice classic Christmas for a pound, they're going to get used on my kind of favours, little boxes and stuff that I like to put into my friends gift bags, so yeah I picked up two because I think I only got one of the other paper pad, and I wish now that there was two, and I went in there to look for that one and they didn't have any more left, so I've gone for this one now, and then I saw these which I've never seen before, and these are clear sentiments, and these I just think, if I grab maybe the back of this, there we go, they're going to look really nice on acetate, so I thought on shaker cards and any kind of apertures that I might be doing with just a window, these are going to look really nice stuck on there, so I'm hoping the adhesion, the stickiness is really good, and yeah you've got Merry Christmas on that one, well why did I think there was happy Christmas on some of them, maybe I saw something else, so yeah Merry Christmas in the gold, and then Merry Christmas in the red, I thought they were really nice, you get loads on there 24, again for a pound, but I just like that they were clear, I've not seen anything like that, so I grabbed those, and I'll share the links because if you don't have a works nearby, they do have an online store, they don't ship internationally unfortunately, but anybody you know in the UK, and you know maybe yours don't have these ones, they may well be online, so I'll link those below, and then I picked up some of these, I like these ones because they're just a little bit bigger, so if you have got any bulk to the cards, which most of mine do, they fit really nicely in these, I've just picked up these, you get 45 for 150, and then I got them again, this one here, so you get A5, but I prefer that for my 5x7 cards, because again if they've got the dimension, and the envelope's always a little bit bigger, and they just fit nicer into these, so again from the works it's the craft place, and yeah, just always handy, and then as I was paying this was at the till, and it's an LED flushing party necklace, now I've seen these, I've seen them over you know a couple of years really, so I just take it out there, so what I thought, this is going to look nice in my shadow boxes, or any again my 3D makes, I'm going to bound to do another Christmas cottage or something, now not all of them light up, which I didn't realise at the time, but I still think it looks nice, so it's all, this is all you've got to kind of conceal is this small little battery pack, but when you, so you get, I think there's four different settings, so you can see it's every two, so you've got one, then you've got two normal ones, then a light, then two, and then a light, and so on, so you've got the flashing, then you've got that one, that's quite nice, and then slightly faster, and then they stay on, so again I just thought it was quite nice, I gave it two pounds, it was bargain, and when it's off it looks really nice as well, because it's obviously all coloured, so yeah just thought, I'm not going to use it as a necklace, I'm going to use it on some of my 3D makes, so that's what I picked up from the works, then I popped into the pound shop, they've got lots of their Christmas stuff now out, and I picked up these, they're the rice lights, I always use these, but they call them micro lights, I use them a lot, they're great for cards as well, these ones do have the bigger battery pack though, so not so much, but you can get the ones with just the disc batteries, so there's a lot flatter, and they're good in your cards, but these ones here you would have seen me use last year in the cottage, in my advent calendar, in my big Christmas village, these are the ones that I like to use, so for a pound you can't go wrong, so I picked up two boxes and no doubt I'll probably need some more, they also look nice in things like wine bottles, and just wrapped around other kind of candles, and things like that that you might have at Christmas time, so they are very handy, and I like that smaller light, and then I've got a couple of bits from Amazon, so these are two separate orders, and then I've got another one to share in a moment, and these are the wax seals, I really like these, I've got lots of them already which I've shared, and I've done the tutorial on them, if you're interested I'll share it up here, I like to do this once I've kind of put the card in the envelope, seal it all up, and then I finish it with a wax seal, but I had no Christmas ones, so this one here is the North Pole official seal, so if you are maybe sending a letter from Santa to your children, this is a perfect one, because it looks like that official seal, but also these are great not to just put on envelopes, you can use them on scrapbook layouts, you can actually use them on the front of cards as well, they look really nice, so that's the the stamp there that you would then put onto your hot wax, and then when it dries you take this off, and it will have this impression on your wax seal, so it looks really nice, and then I picked up this set here, so I've got one, two, three, four, five, six different ones here, so this one is a Christmas tree, it's a really nice one, then I have Father Christmas or Santa Claus, you can just see there, again they look much nicer when they're actually you know printed onto the wax, and then this one here says best wishes, I think I might have that one actually, oh no I think mine's with love, and then this one here is the reindeer flying, just see it there, and then I have this one here says Merry Christmas, and that kind of traditional font, and then I have this one here which is the snowman, I really like that one, so I haven't used them yet, but I ordered the other ones, I ordered these from the same company I had ordered before, and they were all perfect, so I've got no worries that they're not going to print, now what I probably do is once I'm kind of ready to write in all of my Christmas cards is I might do a video of me sealing them and then you'll get to see how these all work, but this one here I believe was $11.99, something around that price possibly, this was a little bit more because it was sold just on its own like that, I think I paid maybe $6.99 for this, but again these are things that are going to last you forever, the axels have been around for absolutely hundreds of years you know, so it's not something that I would ever get rid of, and it's just that final perfect little touch I think on your envelopes it looks really nice, and you get the boxes there, so these make great gifts as well if you've got any crafty friends and you want to send them something, I've got a big box that I keep all mine in, so I will add this to there in a moment, and then I stocked up on some more of my labella refills, so these are the tapes that go into the labella machine, I've got the Brother P Touch, this is the D210, and I have shared a video where I show you me using this and organizing my stamps, something like that, it was a while ago, I'll link it up here if you're interested, there are loads of other great labella machines as well, my mum has a different brother one which is more of a handheld one, it's like a taller rectangle kind of shape, but this one here I bought when I was abroad, ironically I've had to label my labella, so this was all had Chinese writing but I just went onto the brother website and I was able to just you know work out what all these meant, and it's really really easy to use, prints out from the top, you just take the back off here, and this is where your tapes go in, but the reason I'm showing the tapes is you can get the brother official tapes, which are obviously a lot more expensive, but these ones I just got off of Amazon and I brought these, these last a long time to be fair, I haven't actually had to do this order, you get five, I think it's £11.99, and the last time I purchased them was probably last year, but because I've obviously recently moved, I've got a new craft room, I've been organizing and you know kind of relabeling things, so that's why I've got these, but this is now going to last me such a long time, and again it's just much much cheaper this way, it's just like my, I've got the, I've got a Canon printer, I don't buy the Canon inks, I go to Tesco and I buy the Tesco ones, so they, they work just as well, I buy the black on white, so it's just the black white writing on the white, but you can get different colors if you wanted to, all on there as well, so again I'll share the links below, but that's what I use, I get a lot of people sometimes in comments and stuff, they're like, oh where'd you get your labelled from, this is linked on my Amazon storefront, which is on my Facebook page, I'll link it below, because it's also in the description box as well, if you've missed it, if you're interested check it out, it's a great machine, I've had this for about three years now, and yeah it's great, no problems at all, so I thought I would just show you those for those of you that've been asking, and then I got my order from Craftstash, and that's you've been waiting ages for this, and that's not down to Craftstash, Craftstash you know sent it out really quickly, but it got delivered and then I wasn't in, and they didn't leave me the note, so I didn't realize it had been delivered till about a week, and then um yeah I had to chase it anyway, this is what I brought, so in preparation for all my Christmas makes I've got the big tub here of the very fine silver embossing powder, so this is the Cosmic Shimmer, and it's the detail embossing powder, so this is perfect for your sentiments, and it's lovely, so I've had the smaller one before, but I wanted to get the bigger tub, so this is the 100 ml, and it's the silver shine metallic, so again yeah, those of you who like to do your embossing, I've got this one here, it's really nice, and then I've been looking for a really good red, proper really nice Christmas red, and I found this one here, and it's the Nouveau, and this is the Sports Car Red, so as you can see there it's just really bright, it's just like my nails, so and that's the colour I've been after, so I picked up that one as well, and then I've got this here, now I want it, it was for these more than anything, these are lovely, and they're just little flat back kind of gemstones without the adhesive, but it was these, again it's those flat discs, I want them for shaker cards, and I also want them to have as little embellishments on my cards, and they're tiny little hexagons, they're ever so small, but just to add that little bit of shine and sparkle, and I had them in my car for a while, so I went and got them this time, I think they may have been reduced, I can't remember, I have to check, but they're lovely, really really sparkly, and again there's so many in there, and then I finally got this, so I missed out the first time, I had it in my basket and it got taken, it was sold out, and this is the Paper Discovery, and it's the Lost in Music, and this is the Musical Panels die set, and this is nice, but it wasn't for that, I wanted this here, so I've got an idea on how I want to use it, I'm not going to lie, I did think it was going to be bigger, but it does clearly say on there the largest die set, and it says the size, I just didn't bother reading that because it's not, I just don't, but it's still a good, I'm still pleased with it, and it's great, so this is your piano, so I've got the embossing folder which came in the Papercraft Society box, which you'd see me use in that two-way trifle card, I think it was, but I wanted the die, so here it is, and then that's the other one there, so that's the Musical Notes, which is still lovely as well, but I just think music and Christmas go hand in hand, they work really nice with cards, so I'm going to be using this with all of my other Christmas bits that you're starting to see me share, so yeah, that's that one, so I know quite a few of you have got it, and then I got my Wallace and Gromit dies, so I'd seen these before, I love Wallace and Gromit, it's something I've watched for many, many years, it's always on at Christmas, they do a lot of Christmas specials, and it's just brilliant, so I've got the stamps from last year, which were in a magazine, I believe, and I do love it when they do these official things, like the Father Christmas, the Raymond Briggs, you know, I've got the Snowman, and I've got the Father Christmas, and you've seen me use them, but these are the dies, and these are the buildings, so you've got Gromit, you've got Sean, you've got Wallace, and you've got Feathers and McCraw, it's funny because Sean the sheep, I had the nodding Sean the sheep in the back of my car for many, many years, so it was really nice to get him, he looked just like that, and his head was a wobbler, but I'll just show you here, so basically, look at that, so tiny, but it will, I know they look great, so I've seen the inspiration, but basically you just die cut all these pieces, so there's the main body, that's his knitted kind of sweater there, and all his body parts, there's his legs, you can see, so you cut them like on black or brown, there's his face, oh no, yeah that's his face, do you see there, there's his ears, you've got his nose every bit, so they're on these plates, that's the zigzags for his jumper, those are more details I think for the jumper, that one there, I'll have to look at the picture, can't see what that one is, there's his face, there's his wool, you can just make out his eyes, so there's everything there, I do love these kind of dies, I like building the scenes, so I'm going to build the characters, and I'm going to probably do them together, so I do Wallace and Gromit on a card together, I might do something quite funny with the penguin, sorry not Wallace and Gromit, there's Gromit, Sean, sorry, I might do Sean, Wallace and Gromit all together on a card, I think it's going to look really nice, maybe some kind of pop-up card or something like that, but yeah I love these, and these are for me, these are like collectibles, so these are timeless, lots of years to come, these will still be enjoyed, so yeah I was glad to get my hands on these, so once again I will share the links, I did get these when they were on sale, I don't know if it was a one-off sale and then it goes back up to a normal price again, but again I will link them for anybody that's interested, and then I finally got it, I got the hot pink, which is ridiculous, I'm going to be completely honest, I don't need this at all, I have the purple one, which I'll show you here, which works perfectly fine, but this is the limited edition and it's always been sold out, and it was sold out when I originally wanted it, so when I went to buy this, this was sold out, I wanted this one, so I just thought okay I'll get the purple one, and then everybody keeps saying oh I've got the pink one, I've got the pink one, I was like I want it, so I've got it, always good to have a backup anyway, it's my favourite scoreboard, I like that it's thin, it fits perfectly just down the side of my desk, you have centimetres on the back and you have inches on the front, and it will also make boxes for you, so this is your box lid and then this is the box base, and it explains all that to you anyway, it's the adorable scoreboard by Hunky Dory, so if you do like to make your boxes and lids, I never show that on my videos because not everybody has this scoreboard, but when I'm making boxes off-camera and you know I will use this just for the kind of speed really, it's really quick to do, but yeah and it's got a handle there, so it's great for kind of grabbing I guess, and it's just an all-round good scoreboard, I really like this one and you see me use it all the time, so you'll see me flip between the purple and the pink, so I'm just going to keep them side by side because they take up no room at all, but I was super pleased to get it, you also do get the mini which I'm tempted to get because I do have the UK Tools one, but I'd like the two the same that I'm used to you know, because sometimes when I go to take the UK Tools one it's weird that I'm so used to this and this stylus and then I have to use a metal one and stuff, so I think maybe I'll see it might go into the sale at Christmas time, they might have an offer on it, but I might pick up the smaller version as well, but I like them, so when you like something you know if it's what you want then get it, so that's what I did, and this is the latest issue of Simply Cars and Papercraft, so it's issue 210 and you get this amazing Altenew stamp set, the Altenew ones when they do the free gift they always sell really well, Becky the editor she asked me to do a commission for this to do kind of gift wrap ideas which I'll show you in a moment, but you get this wonderful stamp set and then you have these layering stamps, so you've got your your base then you've got your shadow and then you have your detail, these sprigs here are beautiful and these sentiments are just lovely, look December to remember I love the different fonts mixed you've got Christmas memories, Believe in the Magic, joyful traditions and holiday fun, really nice ones for scrapbook layouts as well, joyful traditions, you could have a nice picture of something that you do every year with your family, December to remember, so great if you like to do your December dailies as well, this is a really nice stamp set for that, so it doesn't you know if you're not a card maker and you like your 3d makes or your memory keeping this is still going to be a good one, and then you have your dies, you've got your die to cut the ball balls, you've got the die for the bow, you've got your little bit kind of berry detail there and then you've got the stars and more shadow detail, really good set you won't be disappointed with this one, and then just to give you an idea there of the inspiration, I'm just going to take that away because there's a bit of glare, you can see that lovely card on the front that's been designed kind of a build up there of all those sprigs, you've got the lovely bell and you can see the layers there, that was one very simple packaging idea that I'd done, so I just wrapped a present or it was a box in white paper and then I stamped directly on top of it and put some twine around, so I'll just show you the packaging ideas, here we go, so craft your own Christmas again trying to get rid of that glare, there we go, so I stamped this paper here, you can see all the different layers to get that real real 3d looking baubles or bell and then I've just built up a little kind of tag there and then I've made this bow which I'll show you how to do here and then these were some of the ones that I've done, so you've got a gift tag, you've got this exploding gift box which you'll see in a moment, I've decorated the front of a notebook, so you know if you are wanting to give just a nice token gift, making notebook covers is really nice and then there's that present that you saw, there's a close up of that gift tag, you can see the berries there that I used, I used glossy accents on them, set it with an eyelet just to give it a bit more of a finished look and then again you can see that lovely stamp there, I've done this which was a paper looking gift bag so I used the craft card and I used some twine for the handle and I heat embossed all of that in white, again there's a close up of the notebook there and then there's the exploding gift box, you can see when it opens the sides all fall down, it looks great filled with loads of sweets like a quality street or celebration, something like that and then again just the lid there, then there's that one again there, very very easy to do and it looks nice as well, you could also do that on the packing paper, so if you buy your parcel paper you can get the rolls of it, very inexpensive, one year for Christmas, I wrapped all of my presents in brown paper and then they all had really nice thick red ribbon around them and I made gift tags and they look beautiful, I think I've got a picture, I might have even shared it on my page many years ago, so I do try to do different every year, I've got some vintage paper which sometimes I flip to from year to year so I'm still unsure what I'm going to do this year, I'm sure I'm going to have to incorporate some of my new stamps I think, so we will see, I will share it with you all at some point and then you're you know on to all of your inspiration, there's lovely cards, I'll give you a quick look at some cards as well using that stamp set, here we go, so Ingrid, she's done some beautiful ones here, that lovely vibrant green, you can see you can make a wreath, love this one here with the glittery bow, again you can see here having the baubles hanging down, just wonderful, really is nice so that is the issue 210 and again there's the lovely stamp set that you get with that one then just in case you've missed me shouting about my latest release here it is, so I have the these are the dies, these are the stamps and these will go with your wiper and your slider dies which were my first two releases, so when we launched Jerry and Horace, loads of you were requesting for more animals and that's what we've done and with them you get these props, these photobooth props, it's fantastic so here's the two new stamp sets, so you've got your Christmas critters and your animal antics, you can see here we've got Eve the elephant, we've got Marty the meerkat and we've got Heidi the hippo and then here we have Bobaer, Rudolph and Penelope or P the penguin, super cute, I've shared all of my samples and I will link that up here in case you haven't seen that one, these are all available over on craftstash and there's some deals at the moment you can get some bundle offers and then here you have your photo props and some people a few people said that they've just brought these because they've got other stamps that they want to use them with and they've got other ideas and these are great for like scrapbook layouts as well so if you've got photos maybe you've been to a wedding and they've had a photo booth and you want to do a scrapbook layout these props would be really good to kind of you know document that photo really really fun and I've got a tray here I show you with just how some of them look so you have you've got your naughty and nice which I just think are adorable you don't have to put them on the sticks the sticks I brought from the pound shop they're just toothpicks they're just cut off the ends and you can see them on their own they just look nice little embellishments you can put these on your cards I've got the lovely cute little Santa's hat there and I've used some of the fluffy stuff by Cosmic Shimmer you just apply heat to it and it fluffs up so it looks like snow or wool and then this one's really cute this little unicorn headband you've got the ears there glittery horn you've got cowboy hat pirate's hat love the birthday hat there and I put one of the little polystyrene balls on the end you've got a beard you've got bows so that's the party ones these are the Christmas ones I've used a lot on cards and so on but like I said if you haven't seen those close up check them out they're also all on my Facebook page you've got the tie there there's another hat with a fluffy pom pom so very very fun thoroughly enjoyed putting all them together and yeah again it will be linked below and you have some dies that will cut some of the props and then you have the dies for the critters there so there's dies to cut all of the outline of the animals you've got the balloons there some of the sentiments will cut as well you've got the present die that's his scarf a bow but you can put you can mix and match as well so really good fun and yeah you'll see me using them along with my big Christmas release which is on the 3rd of November on Hachanda so check out that one and I'll share some more stuff about that near the time so okay so that is everything as always I will try to link as much of this in the description box below and I'll be back very soon with really fun tutorials featuring all of this wonderful new product thanks for watching bye


So together pattern, which is the made for Mermaid's Alana tank, dress, maxi, amine. This pattern has a little bit of everything for everyone. So I wanted to give you some of my tips and tricks for how to execute Alana, including fabric options, including options for the somewhat terrifying bias binding. I'll talk to you about that in a second and also getting this pattern printed. As you guys know, I get my patterns printed at Sublime Graphics online because they print on tissue paper, which is really just so nice whenever you're making a pattern that requires either knit fabric or kind of like lightweight fabric. You know how your regular computer paper likes to kind of get stuck.  So being able to work with tissue paper on indie patterns is just such a gift. First, let's talk about the pattern. So this pattern is basically a knit tank top dress, right? Spaghetti straps. You have two front neckline versions, high and low. And you have three, technically five back versions. You have a high back, mid back, low scoop back, and then you can add ties across the middle of your back. There's two different options. There's a bar that's just straight across, or you have one that you can tie into a bow if you would prefer to do that. Then you have options for length. So we have a crop top. We have a regular top. We have a mini dress, a regular length dress, and a maxi dress. So you start mixing and matching all of those together, including all of the different types of fabrics that you could use on this pattern, and you could have a whole wardrobe of these tank top dresses in no time. Speaking of fabric, the pattern really just says any kind of lightweight knit, cotton jersey, ITY, blends, polyester. You could even do a double brush poly. I know a lot of you really love working with that. You could do a double brush poly to have kind of like a warmer version. A polyester doesn't breathe very much. That double brush poly especially doesn't breathe very much, but it would make a really cute layering piece if you wanted to do it in a double brush poly. I chose a cotton modal blend. I'm obsessed with the cotton modal blends right now, so all my t-shirts are being made from. This is the Moody Blooms from Moda. So it's like a quilter's cotton brand that they also print some of their prints onto different substrates and one of them happens to be this cotton modal spandex blend, which is really just so, so, so good. So beautiful, vibrant color, but this has such beautiful drape. You can see that here. And because I'm making the maxi dress, I also wanted to make sure that it wasn't too, too, too heavy and that it would be able to flow and drape. Oh, I forgot to mention about the pattern. There's also slit options. You can do like a knee length. What are they? Calf length, knee length, or thigh length slit as well. So even more option. So I needed it to have that movement and this fabric accomplishes that perfectly. I'm so excited about the kind of weight and the drape of this is just so, so, so good. And then the print is kind of just like an all over. I didn't want a solid, but I did want something that, you know, wasn't big, huge flowers. And I wanted it to read just a little bit more kind of like an all over easy print. That to me in a maxi where it's, you know, really lots of fabric and it's head to toe and there's nothing breaking it up. A lot of these like smaller prints are the way that I like to go for stuff like that. I will say the wrong side is it's like printed on. So the wrong side is white and that makes me this much hesitant because of the slits. So whenever you walk, obviously your slits open up and you can see the underside of the fabric.  Like nobody's going to say that, but it will bother me. Like when I'm walking or sitting, so that is the only reason I might go for a lower slit is just so less of that happens. It might be one of those things where I just say, the sort of two evils, I think I really want to die. I slit and just go for it. In addition to the kind of main part of the fabric that you need, you are also going to be required to make bias tape because that is what finishes off the neck edges and also creates your strapping. Now I'm not normally a fan of that because I find that making your own bias tape in knit fabric is very, very difficult. Obviously the fabric stretches. It's really hard to get it to do what you need it to do anyways, much less finagling it with a bias strip with all the folds and everything else. But fear not, because Dom Maker fabrics, where I actually, where I got the main fabric as well, sells jersey bias tape. Check this out. Super cool. It is jersey fabric, cotton jersey, and made into pre-made bias tape. So it's like one less thing that you have to worry about. You know what I'm saying? Like you can just get to sewing it and you don't have to worry about anything else. I'm interested to see the instructions in the pattern. I haven't actually sewn this up yet, obviously. I'm interested to see the instructions in the pattern though because I'm wondering how they have you kind of finish this without stretching everything out. You can see that's going to still be like a pretty little spaghetti strap.  So I thought that was really, really great too. Okay. So that is fabric. That's the pattern. The only notion that you need is that bias tape. So let's talk about the pattern itself. So obviously in order to get sublime graphics to print the pattern on the tissue paper for me, I had to send them an AO file. So an AO file is like a large format print and usually the pattern companies have their pattern pieces arranged in such a way that they fit on these sheets of AO. But the size, the length of an AO sheet is still limited and still predetermined. And because this is a maxi dress, obviously you cannot fit an entire maxi dress on an AO sheet of paper. So you do have to do a little bit of taping. You can see where I overlapped it here. But the neat thing and because, you know, I told you guys, I am not very good at matching all the stuff. I don't know why. I'm just not good at it.  But this one, because the paper is see-through, you can totally see like where you're supposed to line things up. So I found it to be super, super simple to do that and you only have to do it twice. You have to do it for the front piece as well as the back piece. But if you are making the mini length dress or shorter, you won't have to do that at all. So that's something to note as well. Also you can see that Mayfair Mermaids designs their PDFs in color. The sizing is actually not done by numbers. It's done by color. So you're not associating your size with a number. I think this is great for two reasons. One, you're not tempted to just make whatever size you would normally wear and ready to wear, which we all know does not convert to sewing patterns. But two, you just lose the association of like, I am this size. I am a number. You know what I mean? When you do it by color, there's just no correlation between color and waist circumference or whatever it is. You know what I'm saying? So in a way, it makes it more of an enjoyable experience. You're not getting so hung up on, well, this other pattern company, I sew this number and this one, I sew that number. You know, here it's just like there's no relation to numbers at all. So you just go by the measurement chart and you just make it because you just have to pick a color and that's that color is what your size is going to be. So I relate that as well. And sublime graphics also prints like in color for free. There's no additional charge. So you just upload the file that already comes in color and then that's what they print. I'm not even sure if you could get a color file printed in black and white. I absolutely adore the tissue paper. The quality is really great. And like I said, all the colors print really nicely. So it's just so easy to use and you know, it's not like the super thin tissue paper that you get with big four patterns, but it's definitely not copy shop paper either. They also have a paper weight that is in between those two. I like the middle road paper too. It's certainly a big difference. It's just smoother and I don't know. It's just different. I don't know. The weight is not that much difference than copy shop paper. I find the quality to be a lot, a lot better. But of course, the tissue paper is number one, especially on lightweight or knit fabrics. I cannot draw that home enough. Working with tissue paper on those fabrics is pretty much like a must do in my opinion. So that is Sew Together 21 for August. I am going to be posting a video here in a couple days showing you guys how to add a shelf bra. You know, I want there to be a little bit of coverage there. I'm not expecting for it to be, you know, like super supportive, but I am not in doubt enough to need a ton of support. I technically could wear this out without a bra, but comfort level wise, I would rather just have like another layer there if I could. So I'm going to show you guys how to kind of alter the pattern to add a little shelf bra in there. But that is going to do it for me today. Check the description box. I have a link for Sublime Graphics. I have a coupon code for Sublime Graphics, you guys. So you can save a little bit of money on your order from Sublime Graphics, not even the first order. It's literally any order. So yeah, show them some love, give them a try.  But that's going to do for me today, y'all. Thank you so much for watching. I will see you very soon. Bye.


Hey, this is Michelle Getzinger here and I'm with Jen and Phil from Rent a Chicken and we're going to learn a little bit about the process. Hey, so we offer Rent the Chicken so people can try out having backyard hens for fresh eggs without the long-term commitment.  It's portable. They move it around the yard. It allows people to let their chickens feel like they're free-ranging but not but still have the protection of the chicken coop. Two chickens lay about a dozen eggs a week. Four chickens lay about two dozen eggs a week. Adoption at the end is an option or at any time they can chicken out. So Jen, tell us a little bit about this program right here. So these baby chicks are products of our Hatch the Chicken program. Hatch the Chicken is a five-week rental for schools, preschools, daycares, senior care homes and libraries as well as families to experience baby chicks hatching. They get to keep the baby chicks for two weeks. We provide the cage, the incubator, everything that's needed at the end of that time. Just when they get a little stinky and not so cute, we pick them up and take them back to the farm. So there's no commitment, no long-term commitment with the baby chicks to raise them. So after you do Hatch the Chicken, there's another program called Hatch the Duck. So Jen, tell us a little bit about Hatch the Duck. Hatch the Duck is so fun, but we do ask that our renters experience Hatch the Chicken first. Hatch the Duck is only offered twice a year and it's still a five-week program, but it takes four weeks for the baby ducks to hatch. And then you enjoy baby ducks for one week.  But they're so cute. Oh my goodness. So it's pretty amazing that these programs are teaching kids basically life skills. You're learning how to take care of an animal. You're learning about the life process. There's a lot that has to offer. It really goes with the STEM program, right? The science, technology, education, math. And we focus on different aspects of that because there is the science of the egg hatch and the science of the growth. I mean, just take a baby chick after just the third day inside the egg, their heart starts to beat. And 21 days later, they hatch. I mean, we're going from just an egg to 21 days in a hatch. So it really is an experience for the organization or the family to be a part of. So we're here and this is the get-up that you get when you get your rented chicken. Jen's going to tell us a little bit about what all comes in that package. Yeah, so whether you live in the greater Pittsburgh area or you live in Toronto, we have locations all over and it sounds like we're like super big place, a super big company, but it really is homestead fill and I holding down the headquarters and each location is family owned and operated. And so you'll receive a chicken coop that's portable similar to this or otherwise. But if you don't live in one of those areas, we have an out of area package where we can ship a coop that's similar to this that's flat. And this is made by our homage friend Levi. This is very well handcrafted. We can ship the coop flat and then after a week we ship chickens that are ready to lay the feed and everything that's in a rental package as well as a book and chicken friends. We don't ship ourselves, but you know, we're available on the phone all the way. Yeah. And so that's a purchase. It's not a rental, but it's definitely a turnkey package to get started with backyard chickens. So when the chickens come, are they come in the mail? Yes. They do. USPS. Whoa. I would love to see that. If it fits, it ships. So thank you guys so much for watching. If you're interested in rented chicken, we're going to put all of Jen and Phil's information down below and she'll check to see if your municipality requires any type of permits or if you're allowed to have rented chicken. But this is a great way to get started and thank you guys so much for your time. Sure thing. Good to be here. Bye.


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