As you all already know and are more than aware of, the Baltimore Ravens have some extremely tough decisions that they have to make. And not just when it comes to choosing who they really want to go after before the NFL traded their line this upcoming October 31st. But the Ravens, they have some players on their team who they have to make some huge decisions about. And it's not only the ones that you may be thinking about. Like Ravens have a lot of decisions to make for the future. Number one, Patrick Queen. Patrick Queen has been playing out of his mind that inside linebacker. We know Patrick Queen. He is a monster. And we just love the duo of Roe Quonsmith and Patrick Queen together. It is amazing. We love it. We enjoy it. Both of them compliment each other perfectly. Both of them compliment the defense perfectly. And both of them have continued every game to make plays. And we love it. But here comes the dilemma. Patrick Queen, here they declined his fifth year option. So he is in the last year of his deal. So the Baltimore Ravens have to make a decision on whether they want to keep Patrick Queen. And not only if they want to keep them, because I'm sure they want to keep them. I'm sure they want to keep everybody, but the money, the money part. And that's where things get real tricky when the business creeps in. Because Patrick Queen, he could get a decent deal from the Baltimore Ravens for sure. But in my opinion, and I've continued to say this, I think for Patrick Queen, if he's, if he just wants the most money that he can possibly get, which you cannot fault him for, don't do that people.  Yeah, it's his job. Of course he's chasing the money. But anyway, he could get a lot more money from somebody else than he could from the Baltimore Ravens. Obviously, Baltimore Ravens could provide him with stability and consistency. And he's familiar with everybody and whatnot. The coach has to have the team, the players. And that's cool. But if he really wanted to get his bills paid, I think it could come from somebody else. Now, I would love if the Ravens could keep Patrick Queen, but will they? That's a tough question. And this is where I really want to hear from y'all. I mean, we always want to hear from y'all, but especially in this special episode. And another person that they got to make a decision on, who has also been balling out of his mind, is Justin Madder BK. And he's somebody that, he's a defensive lineman.  You can't call him a defensive end because he's been playing a lot of both throughout this season. He's racking up his sack numbers. He is producing. And then that's important because in your contract year, especially if you, like you could show potential throughout your career, whatnot. But when you're actually producing, especially when it's contract year, it seems like the light has turned on. It seemed like he hit that corn and it's like, oh boy, it's Justin Madder BK time, baby. And we love to see it. We love to see it. And because that makes the Baltimore Ravens team that much better. And, you know, the Baltimore Ravens would want to keep him as well. But again, the question remains, will they be able to? Because pass rushes, like we talked about Patrick Queen, but pass. And Patrick Queen, can he, he can't rush to pass it. But pass rushes in this passing league, like teams will pay a hefty dollar amount for those players. So this is not going to be one of those, like with Patrick Queen's, his deal, whatever it could possibly be with the Baltimore Ravens, it would have to, it would have to be a good amount of money. But I feel like it would need to be a bit more team friendly with Justin Madder BK. You're not going to be able to get him for no team friendly deal, man. And hey, you may not even be able to get Patrick Queen for a team friendly deal. But Justin Madder BK, that is going to cost you a lot of bread. And then somebody else who has been playing out of their mind and making the most of every single opportunity is the league leader. After seven weeks of this NFL season, he didn't even start every game, but he is the league leader in Interceptions, Gino Stone. And Gino Stone has brought up a very uncomfortable conversation for a lot of Baltimore Ravens fans because we know Marcus Williams, we know what he can do. Marcus Williams can play. Don't get it twisted. That boy can play. But now it's had a lot of people question, oh, should the Ravens really step out there? And no, maybe not. Because I've seen it. I saw it, I think yesterday on Twitter, somebody has suggested that the Baltimore Ravens actually after this year, trade Marcus Williams and keep Gino Stone. Now that would certainly be something. I don't see them making a bold move like that. But hey, you never know in this day and age of the NFL, but I just don't see it happen. But again, you never know about Gino Stone and Marcus Williams absence. He has been making the most of every single opportunity and he has earned himself a nice payday. Now people have said, hey, we should keep Gino Stone too. I just don't see it though. I know I would love for them to keep Gino Stone, but I just don't see them keeping Gino Stone because of two things. One, they already paying Marcus Williams. Two, they drafted Kyle Hamilton in the first round. Even though Kyle Hamilton has not been playing the traditional safety role, he's a little bit everything. Like we always say, Kyle Hamilton is just a baller. That's his position is a baller for the Ravens. But with Marcus Williams specifically, they paid him a lot of money to be their safety of the here, the now and the future. And with Gino Stone, I don't foresee them paying him a lot of money as well.  Like if Marcus Williams is still with the team, if I'm Gino Stone, what am I going to stick around for? Like, hey, I'm glad. Thanks for the opportunity. I'm glad everything worked out like this. Obviously not glad that Marcus Williams got hurt, but glad that Gino Stone was able to make the most of his opportunity. But beyond that, it's like, what am I going to stay here for? What? You want me to come back as a backup? Oh, no. Uh-uh. No. I've shown that I can start. I've shown that I can play. I know that I can play. You know that I can play. I want to play. And that's it. So I don't foresee Gino Stone. I've been saying that this is Gino Stone, his farewell tour to the Baltimore Ravens. Again, because remember, they drafted Gino Stone and they cut him and then he went to the Texans, I think. Then he came back. But he, and he's been doing this thing pretty much ever since. So shout out to Gino Stone, man. But that's some of the toughest decisions that the Baltimore Ravens got to make. But it does not stop there. See, those are the main three. Like, and those are some really big decisions. But Ravens got even more that they have to make. Because we also got Rashad Bateman. And Rashad Bateman. It's been a rough season for him so far. It hasn't been going how I anticipated it would go. Because y'all know, I continue to say it all off season going into this year that I thought Rashad Bateman was going to be the Baltimore Ravens. Number one receiver, even with Odell Beckham Jr., even with Mark Andrews, even with Zay Flowers, I thought that it was going to be Rashad Bateman this year for sure. And there's still time for it to happen. But it hasn't quite happened yet. So we're still waiting on that corner to be turned. But this is a big year for Rashad Bateman. Because after this year, the Baltimore Ravens have to decide whether or not they want to pick up his fifth year option. So is next year going to be the final year of Rashad Bateman's contract? Or will he have two years left? That is for the Baltimore Ravens to determine. And hopefully for Rashad Bateman to put that pressure on him to where it's like, okay, y'all might want to pick this thing up. So we'll see what happens with that. And speaking of wide receivers, the Baltimore Ravens got some more tough decisions to make. Because Odell Beckham, Jr., he's on a one-year deal. And with his one-year deal, he has four void years on the back of it. So Ravens could re-sign him to a contract extension or something like that. Right now, the way things are going, and it's still early. It's still very early. I don't foresee it right now. But things could change, but we'll see what happens. Even though what Odell Beckham, Jr. continued to say, the Ravens didn't just sign him. They didn't sign him to put up all these sexy numbers and whatnot. They signed Odell Beckham, Jr., number one for Lamar Jackson, but also number two, they signed him for the playoffs. They signed him for that experience. They signed him to be a mentor to the other receivers and to help the quarterback out too.  And they end up losing the mental gain. Obviously, injuries have been a big part of everything, too. But there can be these mental lapses that the Baltimore Ravens have. And to have somebody that has that experience and that successful experience being a Super Bowl champion, that helps a lot. So Ravens got to make a decision on Odell Beckham, Jr. as well. And another decision, speaking of wide receivers, speaking of Super Bowl champion wide receiver, that the Baltimore Ravens got to make a decision on Nelson Aguilera. Nelson Aguilera is signed to a one-year deal as well. So, and he's been doing pretty good. I would say that the Baltimore Ravens, like I feel like he, but besides they flowers, obviously, but Nelson Aguilera, as far as free agent receiving and whatnot, he has been the best one for the Baltimore Ravens thus far. And I know Odell dealt with injuries and whatnot, but I mean, it is what it is. Nelson Aguilera has been a pleasant surprise for the Ravens. I really liked him a lot this so far this season. So they got a decision to make with him. Hey, do we want to bring him back? Do we want to give him a contract extension? Or do we say, you know what, Nelson Aguilera, thanks for everything, but we're going to move forward in a different direction now. So, hey, these are tough decisions, baby. Now another one is still at the YRC with department, Devin Duvenay, who I feel like a lot of people haven't been talking about this because with Devin Duvenay, they got a tough decision to make with him too, because he is in the last year of his deal. So with Devin Duvenay, what are you going to do there? Do you keep Devin Duvenay? Do you sign him to a contract extension? Or do you say, you know what, Devin Duvenay, it's been an amazing, wonderful four years, but we are going to have to cut the cord. We'll see. With Devin Duvenay, I can see them signing him to a modest contract extension. It obviously wouldn't be anything crazy, anything like that, but just to have their return guy, and I mean, they could go find another return guy for kick return and per return duties, but we'll see. We'll see with Devin Duvenay. I can see them keeping him because it's not going to command them much money, and he's somebody that can come in and play receiver as well. He's not just a return man, but he can be a receiver too, but we'll see what happens with him. Somebody else that the Baltimore Ravens got to make a big decision on is J.K. Dobbins. And J.K. Dobbins, a lot of times this year, he has been a forgotten man, simply because he was here in week one, and I forget about that a lot, but he also scored a touchdown in week one. So J.K. Dobbins, man, it's unfortunate how things ended for him and how things went for him this year. I was really hoping that he was going to be able to do his thing this year because this offense would be great for him. He'd be able to be catching passes out of the backfield like we've seen with a lot of running backs and whatnot. And just his ability that he was going to show that he could continue to go off, but it all ended after the first game of the season. And that was a big, big, big blow. You feel for J.K. Dobbins, but now Ravens, they have to decide like, hey, with J.K. Dobbins, we know the ability is there. We know what he can do, but the injury history is also there, and the injury history has sort of clouded the ability. It's sort of gotten in the way of everything that J.K. Dobbins is capable of. So the Baltimore Ravens have a decision to make, whether they want to give J.K. Dobbins another chance.  The guarantees on it would probably be minimal. I think it would be like a one-year deal at most. Maybe they could structure it for a two-year deal to sort of lower the cap hit or whatnot. And then it would be like minimal guarantees in the first year and no guarantees in the second year. So if they wanted to cut them, it wouldn't be anything crazy. But that's another decision that the Baltimore Ravens have to make. And I'm sure they have more decisions that I couldn't even think of that I'm sure y'all remember, but just wanted to bring those to the forefront because I do not envy Eric DeCosta's job at all because it is an extremely tough job. Extremely tough job. Not a paycheck. I'm sure the pay is nice, but the decisions that he has to make for the Baltimore Ravens, for that football team that franchise, it is extremely, extremely hard. But something that's not hard is the fact that you can get 10% off of one of these varsity jackets. I mean, that's so easy. Like, who doesn't want 10% off of something? Who doesn't want a discount off of something? 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Ahoy-Hoy, and welcome to the Dr. Sumerian 50,000 Subscribers Spectacular, which is basically just going to be me talking about how the channel has developed over the last three years. I just looked it up. My first video was published on July 25th, 2017. I published two at the same time because this actually started off as a podcast that I was releasing on DJ Cactus' website, if memory serves. And then I migrated the first two episodes to this channel, but I didn't post it five times in 2017, so I really don't consider the start of the channel to be until December of that year, because that's when I started posting significantly more, what's the word I'm looking for, regularly, and things have gone up since then. Have they always been meteoric? No, but have they always grown? Yes, and this is the lesson that you have to pick up for YouTube. There's people out there who are going to get their subscribers in one, two months, maybe six months, and then be sitting at 500,000 subscribers or higher, and that's cool too. But when it comes down to it, I think most people on YouTube, and I know this is true, I don't think this is true, most people on YouTube grind it out over time. You've got people like Volga who've been doing this for almost 10 years, you've got everybody, it's just grind it out, reach a milestone. I've been so waiting on 50,000, it's like, I don't know, it's some sort of mental milestone. There's a sense of accomplishment when you can say you have 50,000 subscribers, and don't get me wrong, I'm not willing to stop here. I want to see us hit 75,000 and then 100,000, but I'd love to get that YouTube play button, that'd be actually kind of awesome. But 50,000, honestly, never would have expected that back when I was doing my first few videos and getting like, I don't know, 20 views, and some of these older videos still don't really have that many views, but my very, very first video does have about 12,000, but I think that's because people come to the channel and then they're like, well, what's the first thing this person made? The videos after that really have similar view numbers, to be honest with you, to what I have right now, which is anywhere between 5,000 and 15,000, with some rare exceptions that are higher or lower. Yeah. I mean, I know this is a little bit self-congratulatory, and I don't want to be one of those people who, I said this the last time I hit a milestone, which I think it was 25,000, which is the sense that it doesn't really feel like it's my accomplishment because what did I do other than what I was going to do anyway? It's just everybody else showed up, but I don't want to be too sentimental about it. One thing that I find particularly important to mention, though, is that I do thank you very much for having enough trust in me to hit that subscribe button. There's something you learn about YouTube is that it ebbs and flows a lot, like on December or come the end of November, beginning of December, there'll probably be a huge uptick in subscribers, and there's going to be, I would think, a huge uptick in subscribers over the next month or two, though this whole virus thing may change the ebbs and flows, but it's been pretty consistent over the last two years. Right now, or right before now, it's a bit of a huge dip, goes down to almost nothing, as the summer starts, way back up, but we'll see how that works out. I just want to thank every single one of my subscribers for subscribing. 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I don't, I usually, I've just been alternating things in, there'll be news and stuff like that from time to time, but for that video, I would like you to make a suggestion for either a topic to cover, a type of video to do, be it harsh critique or anything, but you're wrong about or a dank memes video, because those I already do, but any of the types of videos I've done, if you want to see me go back and do like one of my original types of videos, which was a long form, like 20 to 30 minute long podcast style thing, I'll do that, put a suggestion in the comments down below and whatever suggestion, unless it's completely unreasonable or trolley, like I'll use my best judgment for it, but any reasonable suggestion in the comments, the thing that gets the most likes, I will do a video on next Tuesday, not the Tuesday coming up the Tuesday after. So let's see what you can come up with that will be my, that'll be what I will do to celebrate. 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Welcome to Serving Locally with Me, your host, Michelle Dynas, the podcast where we spotlight service in the Longmont and surrounding communities. All right, let's connect with my good friend Jill that I met at the campground this summer and we were talking and she was telling me about this wonderful organization she's part of Tenaciously Teal. So I'm really honored and happy that she is here today with us. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. So we'll just start out with who are you and a little bit about you and then just what is Tenaciously Teal and just a quick overview. Okay. I'm Jill Phillips. I had cancer in 2016 and then I had recurrence in 2019 and I was given a care pack from Tenaciously Teal and I had no idea what it was and I opened it up and it had all sorts of goodies. I got it from my dear friend Carla. She's the director at Longmont Meals on Wheels and so I was like, what is this organization about? And so I looked into it more and it's based out of Oklahoma City but they reach every state in the US and they give out care packs to cancer fighters and they have lotions and lip balms and little tissues, some port pillows. If someone has a port, they have port pillows and some of them. And so yeah, I started talking to the founder, Tara Warren, and we connected and I sell Avon so I started giving her Avon and then I would give her discounts if she ordered Avon for the care packs with lip balms and the little mini lotions. And so it's been kind of a whirlwind. We've been involved a lot. We've gone to Oklahoma City three times this year to be a part of some of their events and it's been amazing. That's fantastic. Can you give us a little bit of background about Tenaciously Teal? So Tara had cancer in I believe 2012. Is it a specific type of cancer that they reach or any cancer? They reach out to children, men and women. That was one of the things that we liked. It was different. It didn't just focus on breast cancer or my kind of cancer, which was leukemia. Tara had ovarian cancer. So when she was doing her treatments, she had family visiting her, family giving her things during treatments and she saw people around her that weren't getting support. And so during her treatment, she actually would give things away during her chemo treatments to just let people know that there was someone that cared. So after she finished her treatments and she started Tenaciously Teal and Teal is the color for ovarian cancer. And she wants everyone to be Tenacious during their fight. So yeah, she started Tenaciously Teal and it's expanded. Like I said, it reaches all 50 states. They've given out over 44,000 since it started, 44,000 care packs and then 6,000 just this year. So they're based out of Oklahoma City, but then they deliver them or send them out to 50 states and like I get care packs like a bulk, you know, big box and give them out to Rocky Mountain Cancer Center and anyone I know from work, when I was working at Meals on Wheels, if anyone had cancer there, I was giving out care packs personally. And then I put it on Facebook and Nextdoor. So people just let me know if they know someone or if they have, they're going through cancer. Sure on Nextdoor too. Personally, yeah, not, I mean, yeah, I just put it out there that I have cancer care packs. Out of Oklahoma City, they actually do a bunch of other stuff. They reach out and do, they help support people that if they need gas money to get to treatments, they sometimes drive people to treatments. They've given out a car to someone who needed it. They help with, I think they help with rent sometimes groceries. They help with groceries a lot. And then they have brave shaves. So the brave shaves are for people to take control of losing their hair during treatments. So if they're starting to lose their hair, they set up a brave shave at Nationally Teal and they can go in and they have someone special there. Like they have a free gal that comes in or a couple of different gals that come in and they do the shave. And then there's family members that will join in and do shaves with them. So yeah. So thankfully I didn't lose my hair, but the people there that have done it, I mean, they say it's like empowering to do it yourself instead of just letting it fall out. Yeah. Yeah, I can, yeah, I understand that. My mother-in-law, she just, she was, it was fault starting to fall out and she was a hairdresser herself.  I'm just done with it, just done. Not worried about it anymore. Yeah. So after that, they do empowerment shoots. So they doll them up, they do their makeup and, you know, sometimes a scarf or whatever they want. I mean, a lot of them are, they're just in their bald, beautiful selves and they, they, they do pictures and, and stuff with their family and friends that are there. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Lainey and I both cut off 12 inches of our hair over the summer. I ain't never seeing that because your hair is super long when I met you. It was super long and yeah. So yeah, we, I even shaved it halfway up so we could get more hair to donate. But yeah, we did that and I've done it nine times now and this is Lainey's second time. That's great. It's just something that we do. Yeah. Just to help people feel, you know, like the normal, I guess. Yes. What is your focus at Tenacious Leeteal? Yeah. Just to reach out and give care packs to the fighters and to, I mean, I think Tara's biggest thing is to remind people that there's somebody that cares because there are people out there that don't have family or support. So you can reach out through the, through the website or through Facebook if you want a care pack. I have care packs that I can get about locally. And just to make sure people know that they're not fighting alone, there's always a personalized note in the care packs. I don't know if you want me to show them. Yeah. Go ahead. So they have, they usually have the women's, there's women's and men's and they do, they do offer, offer them for kids. I just don't get those because I don't really have any connections with any children's hospitals or anything. There's usually fuzzy socks. And then there's always, I'm trying to find it, there's always a little love note, a little note that says someone's thinking of them and it's personalized. This one says, be strong and do not give up. You've got this, stay strong. So, you know, everyone gets a little note and then there's a little flyer about Nationally Teal and the organization and how it started with Tara's battle. And this one has a word search. There's a pen. So you're sitting there doing chemo or something. Yeah. There's little things to do and then a little Gatorade packet, just a little boost of energy. There's usually granola bars, a little bag of tissue. Yeah. There's all sorts of goodies. So women's usually have like base cream and a couple of things that guys don't get. I don't think the guys have any things different. There's a mask in this one. There's a mask, but yeah, granola bars. This one has a cross. Sometimes they have crosses. I mean, she is a Christian. So, yeah, a little cross with a little inspirational saying there. That's always good. Awesome. So who are you trying to reach with your organization? Anyone fighting cancer that wants a little love, support? I've tried to, the couple of the people that I've given to here, I've tried to kind of been like, if you need anything else, let me know. There hasn't been anyone yet that's reached out to me, but you know, I'm willing to pray with someone or give them little encouragement through texts. So yeah. Sometimes that makes a huge difference. Yeah. Just a little bit of encouragement, just a little bit of, okay, I'm not alone. Somebody's thinking of me at this moment when I'm struggling. Yeah. So, I mean, getting care packs out to whoever needs them. Men, women, children, yeah, any age, any cancer. That's awesome. What is your boundaries, your service area, or do, I mean, obviously it's, it's national, so it just doesn't matter. No. And you were in the US, I don't think she takes a sense of need to Canada or anything, but yeah, all 50 states have been officially reached this year. That's awesome. Yep. What makes the work of tenaciously teal different than other similar serving organizations? Like I said earlier, it doesn't focus on one kind of cancer. So that's the biggest thing that my husband, I talked about last night, that they reach anyone.  I mean, it just doesn't matter. Any stage, any, exactly. Yeah. Anyone battling, anyone fighting, um, any type of cancer can get a care pack. That's awesome. Yeah. Just a little bit of support. Yep. And care. Yep. It's wonderful. So what are your guys's greatest needs? Anything that comes in the care pack. Lip balms, the fuzzy socks are always a big need. Like I said, we, they do have care packs for kids. So, you know, kids socks, little toys, even little like matchbox cars. Yeah. Um, and then money, always money to help with, you know, gas or help with the, the organization to just expand more. They, um, they do amazing work, not just in Oklahoma city, but around the country. What does it take to be a distributor of the care packs? I don't know. I just asked Tara if I could start doing it. That's what it takes. And we had the connection and I'd been, we'd been supporting one of her, um, their big fundraiser over the year. We'd been supporting that. So I asked her if I could just start doing them here. So I've been doing it for about, um, a little over a year. And I've, I think I've given out over 60. Wow. I think I'm over 60 now. That's awesome. That's fantastic. Um, so are there any events coming up or opportunities? Um, volunteer opportunities are hard because they're out of Oklahoma city. But when I was there, I got to help, um, organize and, uh, count. Um, some of the, some of the things that have been donated, there was like this huge bin. So I got to inventory. Yes. Yes. Um, it makes a difference though. Very important. So it's fun to be there and be a part need to be done. Yes. So it's fun to be there and be a part of the every day. And then I got to, um, they had a golf tournament that was a fundraiser locally in Oklahoma city. So I got to be a part of that. I got to volunteer and go around and take pictures or the golf cart around. So that was, that was fun. Um, but their biggest event of the year is called care packs and cocktails. So they have, um, usually about 30 survivors that are modeling for this event. And Tara talked to me into doing it this year. So I was there, we were, we were there. My husband, I were there in July and, um, it's not something I'll do again. Never say never. No, I like to be behind the scenes. I hear that. But, um, you get pampered. Oh my gosh.  Does it make you feel so pretty? I was feeling pretty.  And yeah, you definitely feel, feel pretty queen for a little bit. Yes. So through that, that's usually in July. It's, um, July 20th of 2024. Um, everything's online, um, to, I mean, it's live. So you can donate through that or bid on the auction items. But that's our biggest fundraiser of the year. That's fantastic. Yeah. So, um, right. Awesome. Uh, how can people contact and find out more about Tenaciously Teal? Um, so they can contact me through the email that you'll give them, or Jim may say it. You can say it because some people don't, um, get, sometimes it's, it's audio that they're listening to. Yep. So it's Beauty by Jill. Um, Beauty, B, Y, J, Y, L at gmail.com is my email. And then Tenaciously Teal's website is tteal, tteal.org. Um, their Facebook is actually all spelled out Tenaciously Teal. Um, and so you can reach out to me for a care pack or if you want to donate, you can go to their website, um, check out. Um, they always have, um, random raffle things, um, that they're offering right now. That's a trip to, um, I think it's Cancun. Nice. For, yeah. I think I saw that. You buy a raffle ticket. I think you posted it. I think I probably shared it. Yeah. There's so many things. Yeah. So I think it's $25 for a ticket and then you can win a seven day trip. Awesome. To, to, um, Mexico. Yeah. All inclusive. It looks like a beautiful place. Nice. Yeah. So let's see. And I'll have all of that in the QR code, um, serving parking partnerships as, as always too. And then in the show notes, I'll put all the stuff as well to connect you guys. Yeah. Yeah. So I think, um, yeah, I think that's that it. Awesome. Is there anything else you'd like to add to the conversation that maybe I missed or you just feel that you just need to talk about for a couple minutes? I'll talk about Tara. Okay. Tara is the founder of Tenaciously Teal and she is probably one of the most giving people I've ever met. Her heart is full of love, wants to reach anyone and everyone who's battling any kind of cancer and, um, yeah, she does it basically 24 seven. She finally hired someone to help her in the office. Hi Cameron. Um, but yeah, Tara's very inspirational. She's, um, can't been cancer free for I think nine years now and she's just a beautiful human inside and out. That's awesome. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for being on the show today, Jill. Thank you Michelle. No, that was great. I, that was fantastic and I'm, I'm excited to see, um, what else you guys do in the future. And I, I love that it's, it doesn't matter, you know, um, I like that there's certain, you know, there's, there's certain organizations that are specific, but I love just the general, just the general, just helping. Yeah. So I love that. Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate you having me. Absolutely. And thank you for, um, continuing the, the service of, of giving out the care packs and caring for people. I know how it feels. So I'm right there with them. Thank you so much. Thank you, Michelle. Yeah. Thank you to my guests, my listeners and my supporters serving together. We can strengthen our community. Please like and subscribe, do all those other things. You know, you got to do them because that's the easiest way that you can serve right now. All right. Now go connect with others and be a blessing.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixup Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how I've made this very cute little fairy door card. So this is how it looks, it all fits, it's got a little bit of bulk to it but it would all fit flat and go into the envelope. I've stamped this wonderful image, it's a few images, lots of different stamps just to create this scene. Love the little toadstools there and then I've added a few little glossy accents onto the dragonfly there and the bee and also onto the flowers and I've put little gemstones there and lots of Nuvo drops. Seem to be using them a lot with this collection. I even love that tiny little doorbell there but behind the door we have an elf. I think he's so cute. So try to make it look like you open the door and it goes into a tunnel and then it'll take you into this you know really cool whimsical little home and it says there make a wish and it's just super cute. I really really like this and obviously you could have lots of different things behind that door and yeah really easy to make. You can use any dyes, you don't have to use the dyes that I'm going to use and you know the stamps I'm sure many of you will have really nice stamps that you could use to you know as an alternative to the ones I'm doing but yeah it's a bit of fun so I hope you enjoy the tutorial. Okay so I've already gone ahead and done lots of bits and pieces. I haven't edited in the coloring this time because I've done that in the last video so and I have coloring playlists so if you'd like to go over to that have a look and but for this one I did use the Arteza twi markers and I use those for a card where I made a colored in a beautiful big flower so if you'd like to see how those look then check out that video up here and you'll be able to just kind of see what those are like but I've used those today because they're really vibrant and yeah just lots of color. So I've gone a little bit different with this one because I just want to show you different ways to stamp as well so with this one here you'll see that I stamped directly onto this piece so I just kind of lay them out and what I done with this one here it only actually came to about here so I just continued that freehand and just colored it in the same with these I kind of like blended it so I'm a bit of a lazy stamper I don't I can't well I can do the masking and I don't mind doing it but if I can get away without doing it then I won't use it so this is lazy stamping in terms of you know a lot of people would mask that off so you get a really kind of perfect look but I think if you just go in there freehand you can easily blend it in and I'm sure if I hadn't told you you wouldn't have noticed so that's that one so that's stamped directly onto the paper this one here I've actually stamped and die cut the images separately so I've gone and distressed the background I've added in green to this one and then kind of blended up to the sky the door's going to be here but I'm also going to bring the door right down low this time whereas on the other one it was a bit higher so this is I guess an easier way for someone to do it as well so I've literally just stamped all three of these images so this one here this one and this one here stamp them all die cut them all separately because you've got the dies there and then I've just layered them up that way so that's another way to do it okay so that is the autumn leaves die set and stamp and then for the lovely shape I've used the stitch nesting arches die set but this would look nice with using rectangles and there is actually the rectangles in this same stitch like distress die set so as always all the links to the product I've used will be below but my favourite is him I'm going to be using him again so you get to see all the image because on this one here you've just got him poking out the side there but I think he looks quite cute and that is your pocket elf stamp set but I have used the maker wish and then it says sometimes we need a little bit of magic and I just thought that's really nice so I've already gone ahead and cut this shape here which is the second one you can see it's got all that distressed edge there and then I just went ahead use some of my distress oxides inks I use the chip sapphire for the very outer and at the bottom there I've used mode lawn and then in the middle I used a mix of broken china and tumbled glass so that's given me that kind of sky look there and then I've distressed the doors using just one of my old stamping up that's early espresso just to stress all the edges there we'll talk about the door in a moment now we need to make the card base so you want the next size up so the larger of the dice so no matter what dice you're using you'll want to use the second largest for this piece which you'll have your main decoration on and then the larger one will be for your card base size you can have them both the same if you want once you see what I'm doing then it will all make sense so I'm going to just remove this school book so don't actually need that anymore so what I've got here is a piece of 300 gsm card and I've just along the long side I've just found the halfway and scored it in half okay and then I'm going to pop this on top but I'm going to make sure that this left hand side cutting line is off the edge so it will mean that it will not cut this part of our card here which is our spine of the card okay or the fold so you want to just butt it right up to the edge there and keep it nice and straight so I'm going to flip it back over because it's easier for me to do it that way and I do find because you're cutting through two pieces of cardstock mine's thick you will want to use a a shim I've got my metal shim but even a few layers of some more thicker cardstock that will work as well so I'm just going to run that through my die machine okay so I've run that through and you'll see it's cut all the way through if you need to help it along a bit just grab your cutting knife and you can go around so the front's cut through perfectly but now we've got our arched card shape and then that one there you'll see will go over the top now I am tempted yeah I think I'm going to keep it so that this one again I'll bring in here can you see I distressed the back there as well so it was all the same color if I bring it out closely so in you know in real life you can see the detail really well but I also done the blue but I think I'm going to keep this one against the white I'm just trying to show different ways of using exactly the same stamp set even doing you know the same card but just making those little changes you know can really change it up I'm just going to have a cup of tea because I feel my voice is going okay I don't usually do that but sorry okay so now what we want to do it's up to you how you do this so this one here I stamped everything in black first and then I cut the door and whereas this time obviously I stuck everything down so I wanted to see where it was all going to lie so what you need is again your stamps and you want to your dies and I die cut the very smallest one to give me that detail there so that's the one with all again that distress detail and the next size up which has got that straight edge so again whatever dies you're using if you want to create a door then you need to look at kind of your sizes and see which ones you're going to use but you want to cut two because one's going to go inside and then you've got one on the front now to create that kind of faux door look with this one here I'm just using a brown fine liner and with a ruler first of all I drew some some straight lines and then I just went back over them again and kind of done a bit of a wiggle really technical there just to create you know a bit more of a worn look I guess so I'm just going along there and just maybe leaving about I don't know just over one eighth of an inch what we need to do that one again hold my pen down better you want to make sure you do get them as straight as possible there we go so whenever I'm doing my stamping it's all these little things that I love to do but now if I just zoom in a little bit just for this bit here so they're all dead straight but if you just go back over them and just do you know kind of like little wiggles all the way down you just I don't know just like the effect so it's up to you you might just want to do thicker completely straight lines but I quite like just to add a little bit of you know something to the the door there just create that and then the little handle that I've used is just using a brad so just cut the actual split pin piece off the back like I do most of the time really I very rarely use brad split pins for what they're intended to so just finish that last one and there we've got my little door okay so then that one I stuck down using some foam pads onto the front so I'll just do that first I'm going to stick it on the darker one because I want that to be on the front so I think it'll really stand out against the white and just make sure it's in the center okay so that's the front of the door and that's going to go inside so now we need to cut the door out so like I said I do I want this to be right down the bottom this time all right like so so up to you can see there I've come up a bit higher but I wish now I kind of maybe put some grass or something along there so I'm going to come down now I've got to cut through an extra bit of cardstock there but it'd be fine so the cut line for this one I'm going to come in a bit there the cut line for this is going to be right at the bottom it's going to come off okay but literally line up along the bottom there because I want the door to run perfectly straight along there so okay I've just stuck that side down now in order to get it so that you just have this side open okay what I've found is I've got these plates these are from my old mini baby blue die cutting machine now the bead plate is a little bit thinner than the top plate so you would have to just have a little look around if you've got any smaller plates if you don't have smaller plates you're going to have to turn it that way and just pop it through your die machine but I'll show you what you need to do because you need to make sure that your plates don't cover the whole thing I want to make sure that all of this cuts apart from this line here we want this whole side to stay attached so the door can open okay so I'm going to lay this plate let me grab my base plate this is going to sit over this die but not over this part of the die here so when I go when it goes through machine my machine it will die cut all of this but not that piece there which will mean then that this door will open okay so like I said if you don't have that you'll have to use your normal plates and I'll show you what you do there and you would pop this I'd have to use my bigger die machine but you'd have this up the top and you just put your plate up to there like so and run it through so however you do it you just make sure that your plates do not cover this left hand side but keep these old plates or if you've got smaller ones if you play around with your sandwich you might have to add a few shims you might have to play around you might find that by adding a metal shim magnetic shim and just a base plate will be enough you know have a little play around but you'd be surprised and you can actually do some fun you know little um you know details on your card so I'm going to now run that through my machine okay so now don't worry because all that's going to be stuck to our card base in a moment but if I remove this and this is all going to be covered as well it's actually printed so I'm not worried about any of that because that's all going to get covered but now if you grab a ruler and stylus you just want to create a score line nice and straight so I'm going to keep this straight on my mat and line it up there now if you hadn't gone right down to the bottom yours would just have a cut line along here and then you'd fold it over that way but just score down you know as best as you can like I said I am going over that cardstock there but it will all come together in a moment so now I can just fold that I will probably end up taking some of that image off because you're not going to see it because the door is going to go over it but now we've got our door I can the door over the top of that one I've just removed the image there underneath the door so you just want to make sure it will line up perfectly because you've used the same die like so and then I'm going to flip it over and stick this one down okay so there's my door next I'm going to add I think I'm going to use my other I'm going to use my other foam strips because I can do a thicker one down that side piece I'm just going to put foam adhesive on the back of this you don't have to but I did quite like it slightly raised and because I'm now sticking mine against the white I just think it will add to it a little bit so I'm going to put a bit there and I'm also going to have a tiny bit right at the bottom just to keep that piece in place and then I'm just going to cover the rest of all of this with foam and I'm going to stick this lift that door up down on here and just focus on that outer edge like so so now we've got our card okay so just make sure that that lifts up because I put the two on together you might find it gets a bit of a you know tighter hinged area there so just make sure you can lift that up which I can so now he is going to stick inside and I've just cut the same arch on there the same one that you cut the door the door shape you may want to stick it on a larger piece of paper and line it up underneath and you know what whatever works for you so now this one here it's just going to sit in there make sure it's lined up with the bottom and then I've got the maker wish well I've got the door there so I'm just going to again I've popped it on foam just because I think it if you were posting this the door will kind of obviously go back into that shape if you've got a bit of foam in there it will keep the door just slightly open and that will encourage whoever receives it to open it because you'd be surprised some people might get this and just actually think it's just really pretty on the front and then not actually even open this bit so I'm going to then pop I might have this one a bit lower down this time again trying to do them all different just so you can see so that says make a wish to see it's popped open a little bit which I would rather and then I've got that wonderful so cute little doorbell well yeah it is a little bell isn't it and it's the old school bells and then that is going to stick just on the top there okay and then I'm going to add some foam onto my sentiment and this one is going to go well it's going to have to go there it just fell down a bit out of my hand but that's actually fine and then I'm going to pop a little bit of foam onto these two and then we'll have this one coming further down there because I've got the sentiment slightly higher up on this card and then the B I'm going to have actually just coming slightly onto my sentiment there like so isn't that adorable so we just need to find a little brad for my handle and then I'm going to finish off with my new go drops okay so we're going to go for a blue one blue little handle on this one so I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue one way too heavy with that oh dear hang on let's see now I think we're just okay okay quite like the blue handle right so while that glue is drying I am going to use these two colors which is what I used before although I am thinking I might go different I love the yellow but I'm thinking of maybe bringing in let me play around we're going to do the yellow first so again I just do all different sizes bring in a bit of scrap hard here so we've got the dye in that one but just make sure the air is out and I'm just going to start popping down a few little dots all different sizes and I just think the colors they work really well and it just adds that kind of whimsical feel to the card I use these on like I said the stand and um yeah the stand and pop and I just I really liked it I love doing just really tiny ones just almost just kissing the card stock just so you get a very tiny little blob there I would use white but then I don't want it to start looking like snow so I'm going to use that one let's see what else we've got here so I've got a pink glitter I think I might go for a glittery one ah yeah that's a bit softer and I just went back in just near what I'd already done adding in a few more there we go and then I still haven't finished I'm then going to add my glossy accents to the dragonfly's body and the wings so the whole of the dragonfly onto the wings of the bee and then I also covered like well pretty much all of this it's just again it's one of those things that when you've got the card when you catch it in the light it looks really nice and then I put a little rhinestone in the very center of these the but I guess it's the dandelion it looks a bit cloudy when it goes on but when it dries clear it's just a you know just a nice little detail I put white in the centers of those ones but I think this one I'm going to pop some red so I'm just going to grab my little pickup tool just drop that one in the center there and again that one there okay so there's the two cards I'll just bring this one up a bit closer now so you can see all those Nuvo drops they will keep the dimension they won't flatten so that's why I love using them you can see again that Nuvo and the glossy accents when it catches the light it just looks really nice and then when you open up you've got the little elf inside I think he's super cute and I love it love how they come together but you can see they're the two different styles so one where I've obviously done the color all the way around this one I've brought the door up a bit higher and I've done the stamping directly onto this one whereas that one I've done it separate but I think they both look really nice so it just shows that you can you know just depending on your kind of level your confidence with card making you can use the dies in their separate form and it will still create a really nice card or you can like I said to do the the lazy layering I guess because I just like to join it all up and yeah and also with the blending there you'll see I didn't go all the way down behind this I just kind of worked in the blue kind of sky just around them so it's just different ways to do things and again you can see them inside there and I think I've got the coloring yeah I changed them slightly oh actually I didn't do any dark dark hair on him he's got slightly lighter hair but I think they look very cute and he's got a green top on in that one and more yellowy green checked um trousers as well so yeah it's just fun I enjoy just sitting down coloring and just creating up fun little cards and these ones have been yeah I'm like I said I'm loving this collection so all the links as always will be shared in the description box below I hope you've enjoyed this fun little fairy door card if you have please give me a thumbs up and consider subscribing so you get to see more thanks for watching bye


It's the down and welcome back to my channel. So I wanted to give you guys like just a little bit of light, breezy news because I know we've all been dealing with like the drama of political stuff for the past week. So I wanted to come on here and talk to you all about how I've been doing. Just give you a quick update about me being a PA over these last, I would say eight months. Now I've been working as a PA for eight months and I've actually been like, I was hired at nine months. So if you have any questions or comments for me, please leave them in the comment section below. I do look at your comments, you guys. So please do that because I get info for other videos from those comments and also like this video. I know you're going to like it and subscribe. All right. So with that being said, I've been a PA for about eight months now. Well, no, I've been a PA for almost a year, but I've been working as a PA for about eight months now. So, um, it's actually, it's, it's cool. You guys, you know, it's interesting. Um, I'm getting a lot more comfortable, uh, seeing, you know, the consults and stuff because I don't know if you, you know, how my job works, but I am a trauma PA. And so being a trauma PA, what happens is that there are typically three of us on at a time. And then there'll be two people on the floor, one person in the trauma bay and some of it, like the people on the floor will take consults. The people in the trauma bay also takes consults, but it's typically like trauma related consults. So let's say somebody came in with like a wound to their leg and it's like a really, really bad gas or something like that. You know, that may need to go to the OR to be washed out. They would do a trauma consult and then the one who's in the trauma bay will go and see the patient to see if it should be upgraded to a level two trauma or if it's something that the general like main side ED can handle. So when it comes to consults, you, it's your, your, it's what you learn in PA school, right? You have to go and you do your HPI and you get all this information from the patient. Like, Hey, when the, this thing happened, you know, what were you doing? How long has the pain been? If it's something pain related or how long has this bulge been there? If it's like a hernia or something like that. And you just kind of go through the motions. And so I've been getting really like used to that. I wouldn't necessarily say like, Oh my gosh, I'm so good at it or anything like that. But, you know, we've been seeing patients throughout our clinical year of PA school. And then now into actually being a PA, you're just kind of seeing patients more. And it all depends on the type of job that you have, like how you're going to actually work that whole HPI thing out and get all the information, the pertinent information for your patient. But that is one thing that I've been getting a little bit more used to my hospital is not like super COVID overrun like it used to be, which is cool. So it's not that we're a lax or anything like that in terms of the, the restrictions that we have in the hospital with respect to COVID. However, it's a lot nicer not having to go to a COVID floor, which is cool because that's what I was doing like early on in my, in my PA career. There were several COVID floors and we had patients on all of them. So a little bit nerve wracking, but as cases are spiking up, I would probably assume that we're going to start getting a lot more cases. A good thing or like, I guess maybe not so good. And I don't know. So it's like good that people are asymptomatic, but not so good at the same time because then they can spread the virus to others. But I do see a lot of patients that come into the, the trauma bay as traumas, like motor vehicle accidents and various things like that. And to be on the floor, you have to have a COVID test. So we cannot chance you to the floor unless you have a COVID test, because that determines where in a hospital you are going. So a lot of people come in, there are traumas and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, you have COVID, but they're like stone cold, normal, like asymptomatic. So that's been something that's been happening, but I haven't really been seeing like really sick COVID patients, which is great. Other than that, you know, I have been going to the OR. So I've had to go to the OR a couple of times with some of my attendings, because at night, you know, I work a 24 hour shift and typically we may have residents throughout the day that would go to the OR because they need to get like their surgeries in and get practice because this is going to be their job. But at night, we don't always have a resident that is on call with us. And so with that being said, what that means is that we, me, whoever is on has to go to the OR with the attending. And so there is where like I like I'm good with, you know, suturing and things like that. Like I think I do pretty well with that, but like being in the OR, you guys is like a whole nother beast, right? So I feel like I'm not as useful as I could be. And I mean, obviously that's just because I don't have enough experience in the OR. But I definitely want to get more experience so that I'm helpful.  And so for me, that's one thing that I'm definitely going to work on. They are actually going to give us a little bit of training.  So I'm really excited about kind of like delving into that and just learning a little bit more because the more knowledge I know, the more valuable I am as a PA, especially in the OR. So, but yeah, you know, there's a lot of like retracting, suction this, definitely a suturing. I have this one attending who is amazing. He's amazing, you guys. And he is like the best teacher ever. And he always asks if I want to go to the OR with him. And this is not even always for like his recent most trauma cases that came in, but trauma cases that may have came in like this shift before mine or something, but the case was bumped to the shift that I'm on. And so he'll ask me if I want to go. And I mean, of course I want to go. And sometimes I don't always, I'm not always able to go just because we have a lot of traumas that are coming in or I have a lot of floorwork to do. But I get to go and he's like amazing guys. He lets you do a lot, a lot. Okay. In the OR and I learn a lot. So I'm excited about that. Um, apart from that, what else has been happening?   So there are times when I literally have like eight days off or 10 days off. It's crazy. And that, and those shifts are typically when I'm like back to back to back. Um, but honestly, like I love it because I get to spend so much time with my family. I get to see my kids grow up. Um, I am homeschooling them right now, which is like a whole nother like beast in and of itself being like teacher mom. Um, but I'm not trying to have them go into like in person school right now. So that's fine. Um, but you know, I'm homeschooling them and I have the opportunity to do that. Um, I really am a little sad because I was like, I was excited about being able to travel and just kind of do more stuff. Like outdoorsy and things like that with my schedule and you know, being able to like afford it now as a PA. Um, but I haven't really been able to do that because of COVID. So, um, that has kind of put a damper on things. Like the only time I really get to get out of sweats or scrubs is when I'm making these videos for you guys.  So I'm really, I'm really looking forward to what is going to happen. Like in the future, hopefully like things are a little bit lax. I don't know with cases, um, increasing if that's going to be a possibility, but whatever, uh, there are times you guys where it's just like, you're so inundated with stuff where you're like up all night, like fielding calls or taking vascular consults or, you know, seeing patients or maybe a patient is bleeding from like an ostomy site and, you know, it's like what the freak is going on. And so you feel like a little bit overwhelmed, but it's really cool that you're, you're able to like call on your colleagues and be like, Hey, like I don't know what to do. Like you're like, I haven't seen this before. Like what should I do?  Like our attendings are pretty responsive. And I guess it's just because it's the nature of the beast. It's what the type of job that they have being, um, you know, acute care surgeons, um, and like having that critical care of mine, but, uh, it's cool. It's interesting. It's scary at times, but, um, nerve wracking at times, but actually a pretty good learning experience. So I've been dealing with a lot of that kind of stuff, but ultimately like I'm getting the hang of it. I'm still much a baby PA you guys. So I still have a whole lot to learn and by no means do I think like, I know everything that there is to know in acute care surgery. I'm literally like eight months into this people spend years. Okay. Years doing this, um, learning this, uh, this specialty. So obviously I have a lot more learning to do, but I am like, I'm actually like feeling a little bit more comfortable in my skin. I don't know if a year from now, uh, I'll be like, oh yeah, like I got this or, or what, but you know, we'll see. And I'm still like, you know, looking to see, um, what, what other areas I can like just get some knowledge in and get some wealth. And I've been doing a lot of chest tubes. So putting a lot of chest tubes in, um, you know, put a couple of lines in. I haven't really put a lot of central lines in. So that is something that I'm going to do. I'm going to like talk to some of the ICU PAs and be like, Hey, if you have any, uh, lines that you need to put in, can you call me? And that's really the beauty of being in like a hospital system. And then also like having, um, APPs in that system that you can just be like, yo, you know, like I need to get these lines so I can get my advanced practice skills up. Do you mind calling me because they do lines all day every day. So, you know, to give me a one or two lines is nothing. So I'm excited. You guys obviously like this, this update is just to tell you guys, like I've been doing, um, what I'm excited about, uh, obviously, you know, just kind of still working through this whole 2020 here and seeing how things will go. But I am hopeful for the future. So, um, if you get nothing from this, please get like be hopeful for the future. You know, your journey may not be easy, but it will be worth it. You guys, like I always say this, like at the end of this, all like all those tears that you may have cried over exams or all the stressful, like no sleep nights that you may be having, you know, just know that you will be okay, that things get better, um, that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. All those good feel good cliches. It pertains to you and your studying and this year, right? So thank you guys so much for watching. If you have any questions or comments from me, please leave them in the comment section below.  So if you're serious by getting into PA school or getting through PA school, if you're a PA student, go on over to GetThatToTheUniversity.com right now and sign up to be a part of the platform. Follow me on Instagram and I'm PA and thank you guys so much for watching. I will talk to you guys next time.