What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do build it or me? Sweet. We have new videos each week. This is another test cut Tuesday, but we have a special guest. I guess a special guest designer. Yeah, guest designer. No one else is here. It's just us. Sorry, I misled you. No, a special designer. I lost another piece. Christian? Was it a tumble-horse? No. Yeah. Pretty sure. No, I think it's um... Read your deeds. Yeah. You know who you are. You know who you are. Everybody knows who Christian is. It's a door corner. We're going to do this butterfly branch flower door corner. I wrote some colors on the second day when I was doing, so I'll ignore all my pencil writing. You want to say hello to all of our friends? I'll do that piece. And the magic mirror. There's been some mirror technical difficulties. All right. I see Tyra and Trudy and Heather and Helen, Nicole, Jeff, Jennifer, Chantal, Harold. It's the Biebs. The Biebs. Harold Bieberber, Hannah, Christina V, Anthony Edwards. I'll blow from E.R. I'm glad you're out today. Hope you're not watching during surgery. D. Pablo Ajak, Mandy Copeland, Freedom Farms, Maria Ingrid, Donna, Nicole. I thought that said Jimmy Carter. This is Jimmy Allen, Chuck V. Chuck V posted a really cool door corner today. I think it was today. It was a take on another sign that we did. Took some elements and made it into a door corner. Pretty cool. Super cool. I asked Chuck V. If we can use that in a cut Tuesday. I also see Patricia Allison, Richard, Teresa. Was that Taiona? Taiona. Cool name. I almost reported somebody. Jim Lance, Paul, Off-Road Everything. That's Corey. Bonnie Hill, Tasha, Amy Tiny Hands Baker. There's Christian. How are you? Let's see, Lisa. There's a bunch of people today. Anita, PJ, Tara, Penny Portch. Yeah, Penny Portch. Hey, everybody. Hit that like button. Oh, do you see anybody on Facebook? I do. I have Amber and Jason Kelsey, Adina. Jason? Let me go back. Hold on. I love how you have the mirror in your face. Well, now we'll see you again. Yeah. Alright. Let me get started. Has everybody been out on our group? I think I should post it on the page. It's about this month's Polaroid Challenge. Oh, yeah. Mandy had a great idea. I thought that was a great idea. Mandy posted the... I don't have a picture, but we almost did it. Yeah, this was going to be... If we didn't have another design, a new design, we were going to do the high-daisy round. Let's poke it up. New camera. Still trying to figure it out. I thought I turned it off. Yeah. But if you want to go ahead and make this one, show us what you got. Show us what you're working with with your paint. Everybody loves to see the various colorways, especially with the file, like the great one, because there's just so many options of the different color schemes you can do for the daisies and the polka dots at the bottom. I've seen some ombre, I've seen some cool ones already. I'm kind of waiting to put my head in to see what everybody else is working with first. So you can show them up. You want to one-up them. Of course, I'm going to have to glitter. I mean, that's how you take it to the next level. Yeah, Mandy says I'm already inspired by everyone's personal. Yeah, I've already seen a ton of them, and some of them are pretty cool. Yeah, the video is a little choppy. You might have to go see if you can figure out why it's on focusing. Yeah, I don't know. Let's see if that helps. Was it just too close? Everybody's going to go for a ride. Hold on. That was too bad. Yeah, I think that's going to be better. Was that better? Let's give that a nope. Do you want me to get in or out and see if you can figure it out? Do you want me to get in or out? I just mean while we continue to paint. Just don't move too much. Just stand real still. Okay. Just try to move your mouth. We'll flip to overhead, and it won't be as noticeable. Okay, there you go. If somebody would give me my webcam back, I'd be able to fix that. I think I'm going to swap. See if that works. What am I going with with this color? I think I'm going to do... The door corner piece, this piece that actually sits on... Let me show you guys. This piece here that actually sits on the frame. I was thinking of making it green. You know, like an outside kind of thing. And then I was... You see here, this is actually how I did the color scheme here with some greening on it. Or do you think I should just go chintz, keep it real neutral like you might not see it. Yeah, I keep it super neutral so it almost goes in my life. Yeah, the wall? Okay. Well, not chintz. No, like a heist haze is what I mean. You know what? It's still catching my eye. I need to see if I can turn that off. What's catching your eye? The autofocus down on the corner. Oh, is it still blinking at the bottom? Sorry guys. Give us... We're going to get this figured out.  That's new camera. How many weeks again? Yeah, but in the background we need this a lot. We don't touch it again. Hannah, do we prefer satin or semi-gloss? Well, we prefer these foxy hues paints. This is your outdoor paints. You can get these on our website. I would get it semi-gloss. Actually, we go with gloss. It's easier to clean. At first, I thought I wanted flat. And when I first started painting with these paints, I did use a flat. But it would get really dirty and it was too difficult to clean. And it didn't look nice after it's outside for a while. So, I started going with a gloss. But these are all considered satin. So, I think you'd be good with a satin. Looks like it's Miranda's birthday. So, I'm going back. Oh, Mandy's daughter's birthday. I'm going back. I've got to go back. Once Garrett gets back over here, I can chat more. Looking at the screen while he paints. But in the meantime, I can go ahead and get it started. And pull these up. Do you want me to let Tanner do that? No? You're good? I feel like it's one of my favorite colors. I love this neutral tan gray. Let me put the plate here so you guys can watch me do something since we're overhead. The idea, like I said, is to just kind of make it blend with the wall so you don't even notice it. It's something your eye kind of looks over. And then, well, I guess maybe this whole thing. Sorry, I'm not that familiar with the file. Do you have a wood color that we could color this wood? Yeah. If a wood color could color wood? Yeah, well, that was what I was just going to ask you. Do you want to do whack that wood? Oh, yeah, yeah. Or do you want to do pine cone path? I'm going to whack that. It's springtime. It's a new branch. You might need to, yeah, I was going to say, shake that thing up. It's been sitting there for a week. Well, I think we used it last week, so weeks. Because this paint has all of these outdoor additives in it, it will settle over time. I know we are currently shipping out tons of paint orders. If you get yours, it's probably going to be mixed up because it's going to tumble all the way into shipping, but over time it might settle, and you'll see maybe those additives separate. Just give it a good shake, and you're good to go from there. All right, now let me see what's happening in the chat. Now that we got some company, although... Yeah, do you, I see what's happening over there. Do you want to do anything with that? No. Okay. I'll tend to that in a moment. Christian said, light roll on the branches on the door, Marks. I'm trying. New roller. I have hope, Christian. He rolled the plate first. Oh, MMT, first live. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, thanks for joining. Hi, Tom. Happy Tuesday. I told Garrett this morning I have a sign at the gas station that said TGIT for Tuesday, and I was like, ah, maybe it should be TGITCT. TGITCT. Find out what it means to me. I'm so renaised as I'm so jealous of all the cruising hangers. I know Renee, it is getting close and it is all cruise. I think it's on a lot of our minds right now because not only us are prepping for it, but... I feel like you're rubbing it in now. It's exciting. When it gets this close for only a couple weeks away, well, I guess, where do we three weeks this week? The rest of this week and then two more weeks? What, really? That's it. Is that right? Oh, man. Somebody will correct me. I got to get my shoes. Maybe three weeks, yeah. I told Garrett, I was like, okay, do you know what you're wearing? I don't want you going in that hoodie and these jeans because it's a cruise. You got to make sure you have shorts. I'm all over eBay. And I was like, for what? Were you shopping on eBay for your clothes? Trying to, I mean... And I was like, do you mean Vans? And at the same time, he goes, for Vans? And I was like, no, that's just shoes. You need to have shorts and some shirts that go with it. I feel like I need five new pairs of shoes. Well, thank goodness we already have some cruise shirts. Well, the cruise t-shirt, the Kim and Garrett shirts, so you've got a little bit of a uniform. But, you know, but then, you know, there are themed nights. And then I also said, what about your suit? Have you tried your suit on lately? He said, not since the last time we went on a cruise. So I was like, maybe we need to try that suit on. We don't need to get there and not button or whatever. The two loose looks so baggy. Yeah, right. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, that's what you were going. No, you haven't eaten anyway, right? So it's then, I don't know, I gain it on the cruise. Yeah. Suddenly, it fit before you left. By the time you get there, it doesn't fit. Like, during the night, it got tighter. Yeah, that's what happens. Oh, Serenity Project says you guys are a cute couple. Thanks, I appreciate it. Thanks, man. Helen says, who is still on eBay? Here it is. Man, don't, look. Don't sleep on the eBay. I know what you're thinking. Who's on the eBay? I'm on the eBay. I have picked up a CW, the water chiller, $2,200 BTU, $49.35 for shipping, barely used. All the time.  Tell me what you want. I got to picture it. You got to give me a couple of hours of picturing it before you can't just do it in the parking lot and walk in. You got to like picture it at home, think about it. Picture you finding it in the store and then you go and you can find it. Same thing with eBay. And then you manifest it, right? This is what I need. He's always getting new vans from eBay. Re-new inbox. Yeah, always new inbox and always with unique patterns. Like I know he has a tropical pair that has like palm trees and stuff on them and I don't know, we've seen there's just so many different kinds out there and he's at tons. Hey Veronica, if you can hear us, we're working on it, no sound, no sound. Okay, coming. Did you do that? I just changed the device for a second. This should be back. All right, can you guys sound now working? I hear you now. Yes, that's because Garrett removed the device and re-added it or something. So, I think we're as long as we don't lose feed, right? As long as we keep the Yeah, as long as I close that we should come back each time. Okay, he's working on it trying to get these cameras right. All right, well I'm waiting for him. And we may have to move on and suffer through this one. Christine, why would you want to talk about that? What's that? The Voyager incident coming back from Galveston. They ran into a storm and they had some really rocky seas and there's all these videos on TikTok like everybody on the ship must have put a video of furniture moving and I think Christine said they lost a lot of food plates and a couple of slot machines so I'm surprised though that they hit such a storm. I mean they always sail around it and maybe this was taking up the whole gulf or something. I can't imagine they couldn't have gotten around it and maybe they were just so close that they couldn't go around it. I know that we've been on other cruises and they were like okay there's a storm up ahead but we're just going to sail around to folks and so they just do it. You can see it over there and you're like oh look we missed it. We'll find out. Yeah I guess we'll see. You know what, I'm going to get my other webcam back by next Tuesday promise. It's the same as the one that's overhead so... I'm off auto focus. But you can't on this one? No. I keep trying to turn it off. It keeps coming back. Let's get back to painting here. We got things to do. LOL. I extra boat. Garret thinks every time we go on a cruise and there's any kind of rough seas or weather he's like this is nothing. I gotta tell him war sports. Yes this is nothing. Back in old 91 LOL. You would say the boat went wilt or whatever. Yeah we went through I was on an aircraft carrier and we went through Hurricane it was like Hurricane Bob or something at the time. Oh it's still on focusing. New webcam. We'll get it together. Yeah. I requested my webcam back. Somebody borrowed it. I requested it several times. Anyway when the boat would drop you could run up the stairs. You could bounce up the stairs like Tigger. But when the boat was coming back up you just have to stay in place wherever you were. You could not move. There was no moving. Alright you want to talk about these butterflies because we got some ideas. Sure let's talk butterflies. Let's talk butterflies. Do you know the Monarch butterfly migrates hundreds of miles? I didn't say butterfly facts. Did you know that the butterfly tastes through its feet? No. Is that a real thing? I believe so. I love this little overlay where there's a lot of little parts that go out of there isn't there. There we go. Yes I say we do all of those in black and then I think you can do the butterflies.  What do you think? One in this blue or this blue? We never finished talking butterflies. I thought we gave a couple of facts and moved on. You didn't want the butterfly facts? And done. And I'm out. Did you know that flapping its wings on the other side of the world means nothing to me over on this side? Alright so we're going to do one in this orange one in this blue and we'll make this yellow and then I thought maybe you could like this one you see here the outside dots let's do that in orange and then the inside in the blue. Little sponges here wedge sponges Well that's one of the things Christian said is he felt like the little frames around the flowers need to be beefed up a little. I'll beef them up. So we can do that. I'll add a stroke to everything. Stroke them up. Alright let me go back down. Which one do we consider Christmas red? Penny? We consider we consider the cussing crimson Christmas red and with this most recent paint order we did we have a new and improved formula so the other red that we used all during Christmas was a little on the orange side kind of this color here it's got a lot of orange in it so we've updated it to more of a real red which I don't even think I have in here so it's more of a true red We don't have the new pouches in here yet. We're still using old coke We don't have a new coke back here yet. The only thing that changed was the red the navy blue is a little bit like little navy here little darker blue and then the black and the black is true black and the white is more of a true white as well the white was pretty white to begin with but I asked about it and I would ask if we could have a true white and if you guys can see my plate here this is bogus blue this one is wildfire whisker yep wildfire whisker and then this one is the gypsy gold and this we have a limited edition we added three new colors which are are they available on the website yes these are just available for spring and this is like a lilac purple and this one is called pipette purple and then there's a mint green which is going to be closer to this color of this tape here which I don't have in here and then there's a peachy color which I do think are brought yep and this is peaty peach well we don't have to no that's cool alright so what's getting what okay so this is going to get black so do you this isn't the new black though I did bring one of these in here when we were bobbling so all the frames are black I'll make that easy for you these were labeled to cut out of 8 inch I just ran out of time and didn't have time to swap my materials and do you know which of these which one is this left one the far left and which one is the middle and which one is the bottom right ye yes I think I got them in order these two are the same size okay I'll put this little orange around the outside so you can make this one like two toned it's two parts wow and then this one is also going to get the orange both of them will and I might even I might even go with darker orange so that you can really see it through here oops stuck my finger right in there mid dab it's like twirling your fingers in that chewing mouth are those part of the separate they're separate cap because they're only going to be here I only ordered 3 gallons of each or something because I just knew that spring would come and go quickly and I felt like these were really just spring colors so spring is fleeting maybe I'll do some limited addition summer colors summer colors or something like that certainly for fall can do some fun fall colors alright this is a little bit darker orange if you can see it this one is the foxy fire does the video keep cutting out or are kicking anyone else out wow really Jennifer says yeah they keep getting kicked out really and that wouldn't have anything to do with the camera I don't think that's the camera let's see are we getting any notification sometimes yeah rarely it says excellent so while we're having so much trouble today now it says that the connection is excellent alright I don't know what to believe we're also using some streaming restreaming software Lori Shavez says they've been kicked out 5 times but Helen says only once for her kicked out of the video yeah kicked out of the session are you kicked out yeah he's logging back in too crazy 4 times so far well I don't want to wrap this up early yeah Lois we send our prayers oh speaking of which yeah Kerry D what's happening thanks for watching the replay I hope your surgery went well yeah that was hilarious I told Harry that I would talk to him like he was here for the replay and I would tell him that he was hilarious I'm not crazy I just thought Harry might still be on some painkillers well he said he was here right no that's the Bebes no I thought he said from the hospital in the beginning I thought I saw it yeah Helen said Harry D is actually here oh well I hope everything went well I guess you're here so didn't go too bad yes Lois and Lois thoughts for your friend and I wonder if you're getting any of this drama with the rains in California what in the world these are crazy there have these out of order so yeah put those back in I figure I could get to paint some of these well put them back in their little frames I thought the frame would just sit on top of this one alright the pedals go in yeah oh are you planning to not use the actual pedals yeah that's fun game we played that game a lot that one goes with that one I know you can't see me I'm just painting flowers though let me swap these so that you can see well um what should I paint next what's watercolor well I think you're about there you need to paint these a light pink which I don't have at the moment give me some shake and then I think you're good with this right I think you're getting there yeah that's good I'm getting there I think you're getting there you've uh checked out on test cut Tuesdays you're just the comment girl well what do you mean helping you paint right like last week I couldn't chat when so I leaving you to paint this time I'm helping a little bit oh Hannah I think we're going to lose some people today's live because they keep getting kicked out oh sorry you guys and if we get out and come back in we can't do it right it won't start a new session it'll start a whole new stream though we'll have to hurry up and finish it up it's about there Victoria don't worry you might be late to the party but it looks like we're having some connection issues so you probably haven't missed much what's happening are you trying to get back in yeah and where there's a third here it is yeah Angelina yeah sorry guys Cassandra said water was seeping up through the cracks oh are you I talked to a later friend in Cali and she said she had towels on the floor I'm not no I mean mudslides it's crazy the last of the mudslides this morning those are crazy the one guy woke up being covered in mud Timbara says it's crazy in Nova Scotia right now five feet of snow in the last two days oh my gosh Garrett Garrett always says so it has been relatively warm here for the last couple of weeks right and you're like yeah don't jinx it yeah don't jinx it let's not talk about it people love to say oh early spring early spring I was like no we always get worse snow valentines and I saw Kathy posted that news story saying that the forecast for February and March is the temperatures are going to drop and we're going to have more snow and I know you're like I told you I don't think I don't think there anything because I think these are going to fill the freeze and go on top oh yeah this little guy he is yellow this one you have any white out white out here we go what's left of that little pouch here yeah we keep freezing I don't think it's the webcam I think it's either the re-stream stuff now it says just our internet yeah it could be our internet sometimes it gets is it raining no but if it's raining yeah that definitely happens what about the bodies what about the bodies for the butterfly oh yeah that's where this blue comes into play oh yeah is this the big one yep the orange I'll just use the darker orange because I think it just shows up a little better on camera darker orange for the bodies for one of them and then the other one gets this yellow what else is happening yeah Teresa said this is a network ISP issue yeah I know sometimes we do have issues with our internet but wait was that that's for this one I was good I actually had a question on this one should I put a little blue on the outside edges I might put this blue opposite yeah sometimes we have issues our internet it pops out and it drops all day long but I really haven't had any issues today so I'm kind of surprised yeah of course it wouldn't I don't test kids we only have issues on Tuesdays is that that one it looks the same now yeah so this one is going to get this right and then this one is supposed to have this one is going to get the yellow and then this one oh should have that should be a yellow yellow outer wings and an orange body so I just Christian says it's not YouTube it's definitely re-stream that's what I'm wondering it does say fair again even though I'm going to go with said excellent I don't know how I feel about re-stream yeah it doesn't love it we're using it so that we can stream on Facebook and YouTube I don't know how to make it better we followed all our little tips recommendations took their wizard oops sorry I'm reading Helen I was in Southern California last week and it poured Thursday when we were at Disney California Adventure we got on everything multiple times it was a blast yeah that's when you go and the weather is horrible well that's awesome that you didn't have to wait that made for a fun time even though you might have had to do it wet are we still yet where's the other hand I got kicked out again how am I streaming now alright well I think you can assemble this thing so that we can wrap it up since everyone's probably left us it's a yeah I was going to glue that and stick it on okay that looks good put these guys on here like these little puzzle pieces around the wings and then glue in the frame back on I think that's a great idea that looks good and then the flowers so I guess let's put this guy on first huh let's do it let's do it and Tom says I still have no connection alright I just lost connection again are you kidding me are you kidding me Chloe said first time I've seen more thumbs up than watchers lol right ouch well thanks for coming in and giving us a thumbs up thank you bag out that's what happens if you don't give us a thumbs up you get kicked out go on there and get Nath wants to know if we have a regular time for our lives yep every Tuesday at 4pm Eastern time if you hit that notification bell you'll be notified when I post and then when we go live and Christian said he wanted them easy to paint he doesn't like idly agreed good job Christian I got glue on my finger already so you can paint all the wood at one time the base the wood the edges there you have to bring this down my fingers are sticking to it when I'm trying to let go then it moves it's trying to focus on your hat you guys like my hat let's see my tiny tip Lois said go 49ers for the win I like the Friday's list of sites oh thanks Cassandra we actually had a quite a conversation about whether or not we should do that video we were going to do the laser unboxing and because we spent the time wrapping up the paint production and bottling and labeling and all of that we kind of ran out of time to do that video and Garrett said hey I want to do this other video and I was like I don't know I don't know we always make something I don't know if we should do a video and not make something but this video is actually what is it running now 2 out of the last 10 2 out of the last 10 so it's doing really well so thanks for the feedback because we actually actually have the most amount of shares of any of our videos oh really all time that's pretty cool hopefully it's good information and I hope people comment with their information what are we hoping now what are you doing I'm helping oh my gosh you just watched me I was going to pick it up to see if I could see the orange but why would you pick it up when I just glued it I don't know now it's got carpet pieces in it I'm helping are you that's what I always tell Garrett when I'm helping not that it happens often I gotta reapply some glue Nicole says the suggested videos one was super helpful what videos which one is that in the suggested videos do you have those yeah but it's like oh just part of it yeah okay MMT said I was not aware of 3 axis thanks for that it's a good one it's a sleeper when we first started talking about it and I said okay so tell me about 3 axis and that's when he goes that is a treasure trove of randomness I was like that is hilarious you need to make sure you say that in the video because I felt like that described it perfectly just so many different random things Lois is here to take care of Jason's comment she said go and get go on thank you Hannah wants a Garrett fide in-depth video of Canva designing with Canva like what part there is so much to do I know you saw us kind of ramble on that one for a moment because there are so many different things you can do but I know you need designing I put a couple of clips up on Patreon the discord channel where I would do the bulk labels where I imported a CSV into my design and it created 34 designs that was cool I've done it with video but I haven't used any of the video I took some stock footage and I was able to make a bunch of little videos in like 2 minutes it's hard to see I agree I think these butterfly wings should definitely be 8 inch if you have it go 8 inch just so that you can see it's so hard to see the orange on the outside that's because it's too deep I ran out of time Christians definitely has instructions to add yeah the instructions were in the in the file I deleted those instructions but you didn't delete them you just kind of modify the design to meet your time frame yeah you guys want to hear the funny so today we have to film the unboxing video and every time I am not at my desk Garrett seems to be he's at his desk so we're both at our desk I get up and walk away I'm gone for a few minutes and then all of a sudden I hear the screwdriver and Garrett's out there unboxing the thing by himself I'm like ah this is part of our video friend and he's like I just want to see what it looks like how's this working I was like you only seem to go do that when I walk away don't get killed what are you doing that one hasn't been glued yet it was glued I was just cleaning up the edges for you it's really hard to see at that angle don't worry we're going to hold it up this one is drying Nicole said sorry I did not mean videos I meant the suggested sites oh it's funny I just came across I was out there straightening up the warehouse and came across some day cool today I was like what's this doing here it's a hidden day cool I hope no one needs this right now I hope no one's like secret sick secret sick can't afford can't handle can't afford being sick right now everybody stay well too much to do nope very pretty I love the pink in this Christian had pink in it so I stuck with pink flowers I like those alright I could put these on all assembled like this the inside of that this one's good am I missing a flower yeah no there's only uh oh there's the man I wish I had control C control V yeah we are missing a flower let me look and see if I see it I mean I'm not going far just want to see if maybe it pushed off the table or something yeah I think it's on oh I think you might have missed it in the cut file based on what I'm seeing alright so it happens when you regroup Christian's file it's the energy I've been asking you to regroup it oh I forgot to do that I'm going to hold it up so that you guys can really see the butterflies because at this angle they just look solid no test cut Tuesday lesson learned stick with the eighth inch on the top of these things I think the flowers look fine any quarter inch yeah the flowers look good I think it's just this overlay piece the butterfly overlay yeah the butterfly overlay should have been an eighth let's see there you go you can kind of see that one those are probably in those instructions that I deleted nah it said it and then one more pink flower here yeah I'm pretty sure I saw four flowers in the file I remember me arranging four flowers Christian said yes they're cherry blossoms yeah that's what I thought I wasn't sure and I was going to ask you that because that's why I stuck with the pink I was like if they're not changed these because I think they're cherry blossoms and the branches too I like the different depths like the flower this one's up higher than this one and that one's lower than the layers it's hard to see from this angle but yeah this one sets up higher than this one here don't move a lot don't move a lot and then this one will set up a little higher down here and so does this one and then the butterflies set up even higher than the flowers well ours do because they're quarter inch I like them well I like them sitting up higher there but I again well I think you could add this right we didn't include this piece because the top layer was so thick but yeah I think if you did this and then these two layer eighth inch I think it would give it that depth make it pop and make it a little bit higher than those flowers I like it good job Christian yeah yeah Lois said this is a great year round corner I agree great year on corner I'm liking these door corners and I got a bunch of ideas scribbled down on a pad on my desk after seeing that fish today I can repurpose so many of my things do you get requests for left door corners versus right door corners yes when we take them to the shows like especially the Christmas ones the Christmas shows we did one on the left one on the right like the Grinch hand make sure we had both look at Garrett not drinking his tea drinking his water I ran out of time I couldn't run to Wawa alright we are at five o'clock so that's why I'm working oh it is beakers o'clock I am definitely out of time I gotta go finish on creating a giant laser it took me a while to get the pallet jack out from underneath it it was pretty stuck so I gotta go finish that you gotta get back to work and we will see you on Friday with our new friend of ours


Welcome to the BC Library's core skills tutorial on finding articles with databases. This video will show you how databases can make your academic research more productive and efficient. It will focus on choosing a database, limiting your results in useful ways, and locating articles. At the beginning of a project, when you don't know your subject deeply and unsure where to start, a research guide can point you in the right direction. For example, in the FWS research guide, the finding articles page suggests trying an interdisciplinary database, such as Daystore or Academic One file. Such databases allow you to search multiple academic fields and document types. Suppose that you want to write about the cultural impact of cell phones. This experimental first search generates a manageable number of results, but you can use filters to narrow this list and save time. Most professors will prefer that you use peer-reviewed sources. By checking the peer-reviewed journals box on the left, you can limit your results to sources that have been rigorously reviewed by experts in their field. Expand the subject panel on the right to see how many sources have been categorized according to each subject tag. If you've decided to focus on college students, you can quickly skim the abstracts of these few articles to see if they may be useful. Note that this database highlights each instance of your search terms in the text. Also note that in this case, Academic One file has taken you straight to the full text article. From here, you can save it to your RefWorks account, or download the file to your computer, or print it and take a copy with you. When you have further focused your project, you should look at subject-specific databases. Return to the Research Guides page and select a relevant field. For example, if you're researching the effects of cell phone use on attention span, you could try Communication. The first database under Key Resources is a good place to start, so try Communication Abstracts. Begin with an experimental search and limit your results to peer-reviewed sources by clicking the box on the left. Notice that all the results include cell phone as a single word, but if you click on the first title, you'll see that this database uses the subject term cell phones as a two-word phrase. Using the same phrase, the database uses will generate the best results. Click on the link to see all the entries that have been tagged with this subject. Now you can limit your results by adding search terms. Since you're curious about how cell phones affect attention span, you might want to add the word attention. Sometimes you'll have to select a peer-reviewed box again too. You can use the publication date slider to focus on only the most recent articles. If the title sounds relevant to your project, click on it to see more details. If the database does not take you straight to a full text article, click the Find It at BC button. Follow the link to the resource that does offer the full text version. In this case, it's the Sage Communication Studies Collection. Now you can view the article as a web text or download it as a PDF. Sometimes BC has access to the text through another university. Click the Request Article link and sign in. A BC librarian will request a scan of the text and email it to you within a few days. Other texts may be physically located in one of the BC libraries. Under the Find in Library heading, click the Request Item link and sign in. A BC librarian will find the text, scan it, and email it to you, usually within a few days. When you know that a particular database is working for you, you can quickly return to it any time by going to the database search page and typing its name into the search box. Each database works a little differently, so it's important to experiment and keep a record of all the search terms that have worked well for you. If you need help, just ask a librarian. With a little patience and a spirit of exploration, you'll soon be navigating the databases with confidence.


Hello and welcome to CNM's Naturopathic Nutrition Year 2. My name is Linda Witzoli, I'm a nutritional therapist and health coach and today I'm going to be taking you through the lecture on fertility and pregnancy. So in today's lecture we're going to look at the factors that affect both male and female fertility. Things like hormonal health, maybe some structural abnormalities. We're going to be looking at environment and lifestyle factors. Things that we can look at to further investigate what the root cause of the fertility issues in both a female or male client could be. We're going to familiarize ourselves with the fertility investigations that are done in the orthodox treatment. So looking at the different tests that your client may have already undergone with their GPs for example. And then we're going to look at some of the functional testing that we can do to really get to the bottom of what may be causing our client's fertility problems or say like pregnancy issues for example. We're going to look at different tests and functional testing and looking at lab tests that we can use with our clients. And we will have learned some of that already in your assessments and diagnostics lecture. But we're going to look at the ones that are specifically for fertility. We're going to familiarize ourselves with assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF in semen in vitro fertilization or IUI. Just so that you understand the actual process of assisted reproductive technologies and how we can actually support our clients who are undergoing assisted treatment for fertility. And then we're going to look at how to boost fertility naturally. So naturopathic treatment, naturopathic things that we can use like nutrition, lifestyle to really boost fertility and looking at how we can support our clients through all the phases from preconception all the way through to pregnancy and then really importantly as well in the postpartum period. Because a lot of the times our clients will come to us, they might have had fertility issues, they'd be wanting to get pregnant, they'll will help them, we can assist them to get pregnant and they're like right I'm off I'm done and actually it's really important to work with our clients throughout the whole pregnancy stage as well and really important to work with them in the postpartum period because this is a time that where clients can really become depleted, where sleep is not you know where sleep is restricted, where they may be you know not having as they might not have as much support so they may not be nourishing themselves properly. And this is something that doesn't really get taught in any of the prenatal courses and everything's always geared around labor and birth, labor and birth in a bit of breastfeeding for example but the postpartum period is really crucial time for the mother to look after herself to recover from pregnancy and birth and to set her health up for you know future pregnancies as well but also you know for her future health like you know even during her menopausal years. So we're going to look at how to support our clients through all these phases through like their reproductive years and we're going to look at some things that we can help our clients with with regards to preparing for birth but also again focusing on the importance of postpartum care as well.