back to another vlog. Today's Thursday. I went to Corvara this morning, I got coffee with a friend, and now we are here. It's day two of going back to my morning Pilates-style workouts, and I swear to God, I'm a different person. I feel so good. So for my outfit, I'm wearing these denim shorts from Princess Polly. This top set thing, jump-cold thrifted it for me, and maybe custom bundle capsule wardrobes, if you guys want. My hair, it's getting redone next week, so it's just a little bit of a mess, you know? We're gonna be focusing on decorating my house. My bedroom is done, honestly, but I wanna add some color to downstairs. I really like my bedroom being more neutral. Actually, I want a new bedding, but I like my bedroom to feel really neutral and relaxing, but I want my downstairs to be a little more fun. My actual pieces themselves are all neutral. I ordered colorful text books. Confidential books that you guys will see tomorrow. These cool coasters from Etsy and stuff, and I just have some ideas I'm gonna take you along with. I'm also gonna take some books and try to style my shelves a little bit better. We're just gonna see what happens, and then see really what I need to buy. Also, I need a new rug. There's a lot happening. If you guys are new here, be sure to subscribe. Okay. So here's what we have currently. This bothers me so much. It's always cluttered. I need you to just put some books here. Honestly, I don't really have many pieces, like random cute things. I have a cowboy's hat like boot somewhere, but anyways, I'm just gonna stack some books, like take the covers off and make them cute. I don't know. I'm not gonna style it today, but I am gonna put books here long story short. I have some packages. I keep getting sent like margarita things. So this is from Grand Lux to make these like mango mules. Here I have some more. So I need to get rid of this. I always have flowers just to really brighten the place up. Love some flowers. So I'm gonna need your help. I'm gonna go through and show you guys after, but I am gonna replace these barstools. They've always been like an idea for a replacement and I'm gonna replace all these chairs. I'm getting custom art made for this corner and there's gonna be like a pink, like a pop of pink. It's gonna be more color and bring more color into the place. So here, first off, there's supposed to be an ottoman. That's only here until that gets here, which it was supposed to be here two months ago. Who knows when it's coming? I don't know guys. I really like those like checkered rugs. I'll show you guys what I'm talking about on the iPad. But I think if I got a color, it'd be too much color. So I think I want like a white and beige checkered rug here. And then I'm gonna replace this stuff with the new stuff that I ordered. This has always just kind of been random anyways. So that's already on the way. I'll show you guys all the stuff. But I need your help. So I need everyone to comment and tell me what they think I should do. Honestly, I normally like have a very clear vision. My mom's an interior designer. So like I know what I want, but I feel like I just have no idea what I want in this space. So yeah.  I like the blue light over here with can lights. So that'll be gone. The lighting will be better. Keep up with Salt Lake so much TV to get. I have these battery powered like salt and pepper shakers with a light. My mom got them for me for Christmas. This literally just worked. I swear, I did all the other egg. So the battery is done. I've never had to replace them. Okay, so as soon as I show you this, they don't work, but I love them. I'll link them below. They look so sleek on my counter as well. Look, let me show you. It's not how I normally have them set up, but I just, I love them. They make me feel very fancy and put together. This egg right here is a lot more beautiful, but now it's messy. Avocado, I have some balsamic vinegar. It's really good.  Also guys, moment of silence for my counters because remember when they were so ugly and now they're beautiful. Love that. Here are the books that I have. I don't know why they're all blue and yellow. Like I really don't love the color scheme at all. So I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I'm gonna play around with that. I'm gonna end up needing to get like little accessories and stuff. I don't know. I don't know yet guys. I might even go to like Goodwill and get books too that are like the color scheme that I want. So these are just gonna be placeholders for the time being. All right, so this is all I have for the time being. At least there's nothing here. Comment below what accessories I should get. Also the books won't stand straight. So the bookend thing's over. Yeah, comment below what you guys think I should do here, but not having the clutter is honestly like really helpful. I might even put like just these for the time being there, but not keep them. So this corner right here, I think I'm going to add, I'll probably move this base elsewhere. I think I'm gonna add a little like cookbooks stand and have one of my cookbooks open. So it brings in more color and it's cute and then I'll have like different flowers or something. I don't know. That's what I have there for now, but that's not gonna last. I fully regret not replacing those floors because they're just like so ugly. I need, oh my God, I need a kitchen rug. All right, I'm gonna show you guys a few things that I'm thinking of. It's hard because that piece is gonna be totally different and it's gonna bring in more color. Oh, I have chairs too. So it's really all over the place. This doesn't all necessarily like go together. You guys won't, whatever, okay? These are the three carpet table books that I got. So rugs, I'm looking at different ones. I like this poof, but I obviously wouldn't get it if I got the rugs too, but I like this poof as a pink one, like that's cute. And I could even do a more simple rug if I wanted and get the poof, I think that would be fun. Honestly, I kind of want it for my closet room. I just think it's so cute. I like a lighter beige and white checkered rug. I think that would be great here and be more fun and also make it a little bit cozier, a little more fun, cool. Love the look of that one, but I don't really want black and white in here. I don't think. I love this poof as well. I think that's like perfect. These are the coasters that I got for the coffee table as well. So let me know what you guys think also. But here's what you guys think I should get here and also to replace these bar stools or counter stools. Again, chairs are so expensive. Like every time I go find some online, it's like the legit $3,000 with like dining chairs and counter stools. So that's annoying. But let me know what you guys think and what you guys think I should do as far as a rug here. I don't know, we've got options. Okay, the more I'm looking at this poof, the more I really, really, really, really want it. I'm thinking I can keep a way more neutral rug. I actually have one off Wafer that I really like. Oh, dang it, I just lost it. I like a rug like this because it's so simple. Even if I were to add that in my closet room or something, I'm thinking about doing stuff in there. I'm not quite sure what I want to do yet. But I do like this rug and then adding the little pink poof. I think that's actually like really, oh, you know what? That's it, I'm positive. Just got a very exciting package. Emily's Nuclein came out. I think like every day, how exciting I am to go to New York next month and hang out with her pretty much every single second that she'll hang out with me. Look at my cute little card. 20s World, it launched today. I actually already ordered one myself. But she also sent me one. Oh my God, look at it. It's a, I already opened it. It's a cleansing balm. It's so beautiful. I want to take my makeup off like right now, gotta have this, but I'll wait, it's okay. I'm so excited. Anyway, she's been working on this for so freaking long and it's finally out with her first product. So beautiful, I'm so excited. I'll link it below for all of you guys. What is this from? Oh, oh my God, speaking of Friends Brands. Guys, I mean, this is very exciting. I literally wear and use my Friends Brands 24-7, but I ordered a Twin Flames Crew. Maybe I'll change it for that tonight. Oh my gosh, speak. Ah, cute. Love this. Yay, okay. Always support your friends, guys. Very, very. All right, it's Saturday now. I just got my nails done. My new Caught the Table books came in. This is the first one. It's pretty big. I'll link them below. It's West, The American Cowboy. And these books, I'm a little bit worried that I'll get tired of them just because I see them on TikTok a lot. And I know a lot of people have them. I really like them. But they're colorful and they're popular, so I feel like I might get tired of them. I don't know. Whatever, they're really cute. So, it's this pink and orange one and then blue and orange. This is like a yellow orange, I guess, to be fair. For some reason to me, it feels like fall. Like, suddenly I have no interest in going out anymore. I went back to my hometown and hung out with my friends last night at a house, which was very like high school feeling. I'm listening to Taylor Swift. Got my nails done. I'm not going out. I don't know. I don't know how to describe it. It just feels like fall in my head, like not the weather, you know? Anyways, I'm going to kind of rearrange the coffee table a little bit. We'll see what we can do here. This stuff is all messed up anyway, so I'm going to move it. This is what I have right now. It's not going to stay the same. I have other things coming in, candles, coasters, whatever. I love this thing and I just have to make it work somehow in my house. Like, I don't know where I'm going to end up putting it. Honestly, it'll probably be like in an entryway over there or something. But for now, we're just keeping it here. This is from H&M Home, by the way. I can see if it's available still. I feel like I'm not quite sure if it will be, but if it is, I'll have a link down below. Anyways, this is what I have. I also like having flowers and things like that. So my rug is supposed to arrive on Wednesday, which I'm really excited about. And then I did get a little poof thing. I think for my sister for my birthday, that's pink and checkered. So I'm really excited. It's Sunday and it's got back from church and this rug has already arrived. It said it was going to come, I think next Friday, but it got here so quick. So this is exciting, I'm gonna set this up. I'm all by myself, so we'll see how this works. I can move this stuff over. I like the direction this is heading. Hi, yes, I see, I see you. I know, I see you. Oh my gosh, I mean guys, she is so cute. Also guys, I'm wearing my what we said merch. They sent me these shorts that are so cute. And look, oh my gosh, very cute. But I just put self-tanner on last night, so I don't wanna. All right, I'm loving the rug. It's actually like really, it's like really, really soft. All right, let's chat everyone. So I have another ottoman coming. This I haven't gotten rid of yet just because I've been waiting for the other ottoman and whatever. So my dream is to make this little wall high, high-payton. My dream is to make this little wall a fireplace. And that's like definitely a house project that I'm planning on doing.  But I really wanna do that here. And then I would move this chair over here. I don't know, I would like make it work and then keep the TV above there. So if you guys have any good fireplace inspo, let me know. I have a Pinterest board. I haven't really looked into it recently, but that's definitely something I really, really wanna do. That's all the list for house projects. But this rug has made it feel a lot cozier. I got rid of my old rug here and then I was not really feeling a rug. And now I'm actually really glad. Feels very cozy, so I'm happy about that. These blankets, by the way, are only over here because I have a white couch and dog, so I always just keep them on there. It's whatever. Sorry, I forgot to film an outro. I hope you guys enjoyed this vlog. Let me know what you guys think specifically I should do for my ventless fireplace. That will be right here. And if you guys like the rug that I picked, we'll love you guys so much. And I will see you guys soon. Bye.


The term open political system refers to political organisations that have the characteristics of open systems in general, namely that they have a high degree of exchange with their environments and are normalised to respond to changes through feedback dynamics that enable adaptive capacity. Likewise, they are open in the sense of being able to include the distributed perspectives and interests of a wide section of the population into the decision-making process. Open political systems are dynamic in nature in recognising the need to be responsive to change within the external environment and to adapt to those changes. The open-close political spectrum has become in recent years identified as a replacement to the traditional left-right spectrum as defining the most important features to political systems in an age of globalisation and increased interconnectivity. In a 2016 article in The Economist magazine, the author wrote, From Warsaw to Washington, the political divide that matters is less and less between left and right, and more and more between open and closed. Debates between tax-cutting conservatives and free-spending social democrats have not gone away, but issues that cross traditional party lines have grown more potent. Welcome immigrants or keep them out. Open up to foreign trade or protect domestic industries. Embrace cultural change or resist it. Predictions and classifications based on traditional political distinctions are becoming less relevant in the rapid changing world of globalisation and the growing force of hyperconnectivity. From Spain and France to the USA, incumbent political organisations based on the traditional spectrum are finding themselves less relevant to the issues that matter to people and increasingly are becoming displaced by those political movements who recognise a new set of concerns and interests that have moved to the forefront. Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Open Government Partnership in Brazil, a well-known politician had this to say on the subject. In the 21st century, the most significant divides between nations will be not between east and west, nor over religion, so much as between open and closed societies. We believe the countries with open governments, open economy and open societies will increasingly flourish. She went on to say that those countries that are closed to, change, ideas, cultures and beliefs that are different to theirs will quickly find that in an internet world they will be left behind. The open-closed distinction to political systems is a recent alternative to the standard left-right system, increasingly used to describe the new divides in political systems in Europe and North America in the 21st century. In this system, parties and voters are arranged on an axis from open, social liberal and globalist to closed, culturally conservative and protectionist. A political realignment along these lines, across the western world, has been described by political scientists in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the Great Recession and the European Migration Crisis, with mainstream left-wing and right-wing political parties shifting or falling behind populist parties and independence. Examples of elections described as having been best interpreted along open and closed lines include the Brexit referendum, the elections that took place between 2016 and 2017 in the United States, France, Austria, Poland and the Netherlands. From this perspective, the central political issues of our time, such as immigration, nationalism, international trade etc., are all issues that can be best interpreted in terms of a model of open and closed political systems. To understand the distinction between open and closed political systems, it is of value to first understand the distinction made between open and closed systems in general. The systems theorist Ludwig Betelampfi describes two types of systems, open systems and closed systems. Closed systems are held to be isolated or closed off from their environments, where the feedback mechanisms between the system and its environment are limited. This is typically the case due to a strong boundary separating the system and its environments. Closed systems have a strong boundary condition that separates the internal workings of the system from its external environments and limits the exchange of resources and information between them. The boundaries to closed systems are largely impenetrable. With a strong boundary condition, limited influence from the environments and no perceived need for adaptation, in closed systems the emphasis is on internal structure. In closed social organizations, where interactions and information are transmitted almost exclusively within the organization, management analyses problems by examining the internal structures of the organization with a limited or only fixed consideration of the external environment. Closed systems tend towards equilibrium over time and this equilibrium is used to manage the system, where different forces are counterbalanced in order to maintain stability in structure. In the context of organizational management, this involves using various direct incentive mechanisms to exert an influence on the members in order for them to conform to the existing governance structures. In the absence of interaction with their environments, closed systems lack adaptive capacity and can thus be seen to be more deterministic in their nature. Moreover, closed systems are generally static and do not provide room for multiple alternatives for accomplishing the same results. Closed organizations tend to hold internal efficiencies, structure and control as the highest goals. Unlike open systems, closed systems are dependent upon their separation from their environments, their boundary and the structure that maintains fixed order within the system.  Open systems are systems that allow interactions between their internal elements and their environments. An open system is defined as a system in exchange of matter, energy or information with its environment, continuously maintaining imports and exports, building up and breaking down its structure according to the information it receives from its environment. Open systems are dependent upon their feedback exchange with their environments. For example, all biological creatures are open systems in that they have to continuously maintain in exchange of energy, resources and information with their environments. This gives rise to the capacity to adapt and respond to change within their environment and to grow over time, which is a process of emergence. Open systems are characterized by a feedback exchange with their environments that enables them to adapt and respond through an internal self-organizing process, where the information and resources received from the environment enable the elements within the system to self-organize into new structures that are better adapted to the environments and thus able to intercept more or better quality resources, which in turn enables them to continue to grow. In contrast to closed systems, which are defined by their internal structure, open systems are defined by their exchange with their environments, that is to say the processes through which they transform inputs into outputs. Closed systems and open systems represent a continuum along which organizations are more open or more closed to their environments. The key defining variable governing this degree of openness is the complexity of the environments within which the organization is situated. The effectiveness of all systems is relative to the environment they exist within and this is particularly true for social organizations and how they're managed. Closed linear hierarchical forms of management work best in simpler environments where a finite amount of elements are interacting in a well-defined linear fashion, where there is a low level of interconnectivity and interdependence and change is limited to a relatively low level. The historian Yuval Noah Harari illustrated this when he said the old 20th century political model of left versus right is now largely irrelevant and the real divide today is between global and national or global and local and you see it again all over the world that this is now the main struggle and we probably need completely new political models and completely new ways of thinking about politics. In essence what you can say is that we now have a global ecology, we have a global economy but we have national politics and this doesn't work together. This makes the political system ineffective because it has no control over the forces that shape our lives. Globalization represents a new level of socioeconomic complexity and this is a central challenge facing national institutional systems that were designed for a more simple environment. While the political and economic environment remained relatively stable and simple the distinction was between ideologies. As the world becomes more complex the divide is growing between those organizations that can deal with that complexity and those that can't. Over the past couple of decades with the rise of globalization and information technology national politics have become hollowed out as nations are increasingly required to operate within a global economy and form part of global processes. In the face of this increased complexity and global connectivity at best national political systems have been made increasingly irrelevant. National political systems without the capacity to deal with the complexity of these global processes have been made increasingly irrelevant in the perception of the public. In the face of hyperconnectivity political systems that have remained closed would appear more threatened and less stable. The boundaries and walls of closed political systems may hold out the rest of the world but they also hold up the ceiling. When the political organization is not yet ready for hyperconnectivity and globalization then as the walls start to come down so too does the ceiling and this threatens societal collapse in some instances. Openness also means transparency and as institutions become more transparent all of their failings become more apparent and people start to lose faith in them. Whether this is with political systems and corruption, cultural institutions like the Catholic Church or social institutions like the family. In general open systems are potentially more effective at dealing with complexity due to a number of factors inherent in their design. They can potentially scale larger. They are normalized for non linearity, interdependence, interconnectivity and dynamically changing and unpredictable environments. Formal hierarchical closed sociopolitical systems are limited in their effective range of scale. As the author Clay Scherke notes in his book Here Comes Everybody closed organizations have both an upper and lower limit in their operating space what is called a Cossian ceiling and Cossian floor. The Cossian ceiling is the point above which the transaction costs of managing a standard institutional form prevent it from working well. Institutions which grow too large hit the ceiling and become so unwieldy that the transaction costs of managing a standard institution form prevent it from working well. Typically the largest hierarchical organizations are a few hundred thousand people. A very few are a million or two million. The idea of creating a closed form of hierarchical political system for the entire planet would seem virtually impossible due to too many levels of bureaucracy and the bottlenecks inherent in such centralized systems. Because open networked organizations are distributed they have limited bottlenecks and hierarchical levels which allows them to scale beyond that of the hierarchy. Open platforms like Facebook currently interconnect up to two billion people as long as the network is distributed there is no inherent scaling limit. Inversely the Cossian floor is the point below which the overhead costs are too large for the level of transactions taking place. The author argues that open online platforms drastically reduce transaction costs allowing loosely structured groups with limited managerial oversight to operate under the Cossian floor. Closed systems have problems dealing with high levels of interconnectivity and interdependence. The closed sociopolitical organizations of the nation state that were developed over the modern era all have in common one big idea that of independence. That they were sufficiently independent and could thus manage and control their own internal affairs. National identity was maintained in the face of the other outside of the border. Independence, borders and the centralized regulatory apparatus of the government enable political systems to regulate their internal workings. But as interdependence increases this means increasingly things that are outside of the control of the regulatory system affect it and this comes to reduce its autonomy, credibility and legitimacy to its people. In environments where cross-correlations of interdependence may traverse the whole environment and no single system can manage them this requires open platforms for interoperability to enable cross-system governance. The greater the interdependence the more the requirements to manage phenomena that happen outside the borders of any specific political system and the greater any component in the system has to invest in the whole in order to get the desired results for itself. At a low level of interdependence one system can invest solely in itself to get ahead but the higher the interdependence the more it has to invest in resources in open common platforms to manage those eventualities outside of its immediate control. For example the more the people of Europe's hinterlands in North Africa and West Asia can see what happens in Europe and the easier it is for them to move there the more Europe has to care about what happens in those nations and build collaborative platforms with them so as to enable both to succeed. In complex and dynamically changing environments the true measure of political systems is not what political program it adopts but instead how it responds to change. Fixed plans and ideologies may work within relatively closed systems with limited change but in dynamic complex environments the primary parameter to the success of the system is how effective it is at aggregating the distributed intelligence and information of its citizens and converting that into the required changes. An open political system is one that recognizes the fact that the world changes and there is a requirement to adapt to those changes in order to be sustainable.


Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Dear students, my name is Professor Dr. Muhammad Alisha and we are going to talk about very interesting subjects which is Viralogy. Viralogy is the study of the viruses. So what is virus and how it's affecting our daily life? We will study this in detail. First of all, the viruses definition and its meaning. A lot of the names of the diseases have been evolved from the Latin words. So same is the case with the virus. Virus has been a Latin word and its meaning is poison which is given name by a burgeonic in 1897. Viruses are non-cellular particles made up of genetic materials which is DNA or RNA and proteins. These are very simple particles so they can just evade from the living cells. These are obligatory intracellular parasites. These are submicroscopic and smaller than bacteria and actually these are the smallest particles which are until now has been discovered for the disease point of view. They are present, they are causing the disease in all the animals and plants and human beings, every particles and they are of different sizes. So for the take-home question is this that can you tell us the different sizes of the viruses? It's clear we have just studied in before different different slides that viruses so you can just take this this slide and you can see about the viruses sizes which are given here. These are the viruses which we have given in these slides. These are the historical viruses which were discovered for the first time just like some viruses are 0.003 to 0.05 microns, very smallest ones. Then the tobacco mosaic virus it is the virus of the plants and discovered some years ago. We will study in the next slides. It's 1.1 to 1 microns. Then there are the bacteria, fungus, plant spores and then raindroplets. We can just give this size to compare the different sizes of the viruses. So here you can see that how much smaller are the viruses as compared to the other particles which are present in the atmosphere. So from here you can see about you can know about some introduction of the viruses and virus meaning from where it has been evolved and the virus sizes. In the last slide we have seen that viruses are the smallest particles which have been evolved until now and it's not easy to see it's not it's impossible to see them with the naked eyes. We will continue to study about the viruses.


Hey guys There I am there we go. Hey, how are you? Excuse me for just a minute because I am Stuffy today. I didn't make some tea. So we're gonna use some essential oil here So I'm not coughing. Hopefully through the whole broadcast I'm trying something new rather than eating cough drops like a million times a day That's actually working too. So yay. Thank you, Michelle So it's an essential oil from doTERRA called breathe works like a charm FYI the tea helps too, but like I said, I didn't have time. I thought you guys in the gym were more important It's just allergies Nancy. Nothing Nothing abnormal, you know, just allergies the story of my life these days all right, so We're gonna work back in our swatch book here and this morning we have these peerless watercolors Now if you'll notice one of the things I was doing this morning One of the other reasons I didn't get a chance to make a cup of tea before we got started And I have water instead is that I put a couple of links in the description below And let's see if I can see them. Yeah, so one of them is to the peer the website for the manufacturer These are peerless watercolors and the other one is to a couple different places that you can buy them Hey Victor This particular set of peerless was gifted to me by pita Thompson and She put them together in here with In this book and when I got it I put these clear acetate sheets in it now peerless watercolors Come with the pigments on these little pieces of paper When you buy the peerless the sheets of paper are much bigger. They're like this big She cut off little swatches for me and put them in this book You can buy books of the different papers the different colors in different sets on the couple of websites that I included As you can see what from the swatches next to the little square you can't really tell by looking at the sheet of paper What color you have so it's even more Hard to tell with these than it is with some other watercolors because they some of them all just look dark and black They are light fast.  You can buy the big swatches and then make a little booklet like this Just cut a little hunk off All right, and there's all kinds of information about light fastness and all that stuff on the peerless website And I smell like eucalyptus trees now But it's clearing up my sinuses. All right, so we're going to work with these this morning And we're gonna make some swatches and honestly Peter gave these to me quite a while ago, and I haven't really used them Because I have lots of other watercolors, so You know Yeah, I don't usually either I Have a mini kit that I carry around with me So usually I have something with me all the time at the very least I have paper and a black pen and Then I can do the coloring when I get back All right So we're gonna try something a little different here, and we're gonna try working straight out of the book So we'll see what happens. I really don't want to keep taking the rings apart Okay, we've got a spot right here, so we can do it right here We are gonna need The dryer No, I believe peerless are More of an artist grade. They're not super popular Um, which I'm not sure why I Could be wrong. I haven't used these too much So I don't really know but maybe somebody can go look at the peerless website and find out But I believe they're perfect artist grade. They're very well pigmented. You can see by the colors I mean look at these bright colors I mean look at that You usually student grade paints aren't that brightly colored and I do believe they're light fast All right, so we're going to we need a pen pen pen You're welcome and one of the reasons you know, I one of the reasons I always include the website for these things is That You know, I don't always know lots about them before I buy them either and we can learn together And I am frequently wrong about stuff So, you know, there could be something on there that you guys see that I'm wrong about and I do think they're dye-based and I don't I think once If I'm not mistaken peerless unlike other water soluble paints once they're dry, you can't reactivate them You know, once they're dry on the paper, they don't move around again. Jane Davenport does use these You can get some of them on Amazon, but They can be kind of hard to find One of the best places to find them is Etsy ironically There was a Store called two hands papery and I think they're in Colorado that has them Okay, so now we have to pick colors that we're going to use Let's see So we want a yellow Let's do daffodil yellow and then an orange I prefer pants to actually marry the only reason I own the peerless is because they were gifted to me They're fun to play around with but I prefer pans even when I travel I have a little small metal pans that I bring with me and one of my favorite new That's of course is as you all know if you've been watching my videos is this one, which is are the mission gold. I Actually really like these paints a lot And this is the size pan that I usually bring with me when I'm traveling.  I agree with you You know, there's somebody out in the yard.  He doesn't like that Get away from my sidewalk But nobody can ever sneak up on me Because I always know when they're coming Okay, so now that we got our colors picked because you know That's the hardest part when we do these things is picking the colors. I gotta wash my plate off. Can you tell I forgot? so Michelle Mitchell turned me on to the essential oils by doTERRA FYI and When we were in Las Vegas and they are just fabulous and This breathe stuff the whole family loves the breath. We all have allergies and the breathe works like a charm All right Yeah, you have a lot of choices and they have a lot of sets with a lot of Colors, but I don't know. I don't know if I know they have them in Australia And I know some parts of the world. They're like they're way easier to get than they are here For whatever reason because I think they're made here. So I don't that doesn't make sense I think they're just not very popular. Hey, Anne But you might try just Amazon does have some of the peerless. So you might try Amazon UK and see if you can get some there Here in the US they only had a few colors so Okay, so first I'm gonna just start with the purple since I'm right here on that page and Look, that's just a little bit of the paint off of that swatch They're very well pigmented You're welcome.  So of course I'm going to make you a moderator Whether you want to be or not All right cobalt blue Again, look at that's just a little bit of the paint off of the paper. I agree with you. I they're just not I Don't think they're bigly mark. Well marketed. Let's see. Let's go back to green. What green did I say light green? and I don't know they're not talked about like with any of us you know mixed media people we don't talk about peerless. So you can see you can just barely touch your brush to the paper and look at all the pigment that you pick up off of that piece of paper. I liked it the first time Mary Lickily. I thought that was funny. Okay let's see chrome orange. There it is. So you just barely touch it to the paper and look at all that pigment that you get. They need new marketing people they should hire my daughter that's what she does for a living. Lord knows she's always telling me what I'm doing wrong. All right so I'm gonna put a little bit here on the on the palette over here and let me grab some of the green. They're beautifully vibrant so you can see here by looking at the other colors that are on the palette. Put this away somewhere. How compared to there's some good brands on here so I've got Sennelier on here look how bright they are. One of the other things they have that is a marketing and in my opinion a marketing and production issue is that they sell the piece of papers like loose or in a book where you have the papers you know this way like you have to flip. They should really market something like this. They should come up with a palette that's like this that's on one sheet of paper or that's a book with many colors on one page. I think that's kind of a marketing issue also. Okay so let's try this real quick. I know right he wants to be on the video. Okay so now we'll do a sample house. There is one. Okay and the brushes I'm using today are ones I picked up when I was in Las Vegas at Dick Blick and these are the Utrecht generic watercolor brush. This is a 650R number eight round. Yeah multi-color palette that you can just get a bunch of colors on one sheet rather than flipping through a book like this and each sheet only has one color on it. I think that's they did that's a mistake. Okay let's start with yellow. There was some green on my brush so it's a little bit more green than yellow. Oops I still have green on my brush. I hear what's bothering him now the gardeners are next door. He does not like gardeners at all. So swatching with the paint is fine. That's one thing but painting with them and creating a piece of artwork is a whole different ball game. So sometimes they swatch nice but then they don't paint nice. And those of you who have been playing with your watercolors and you've tried a few different brands will know exactly what I mean. So let's do a little painting here. We're using Peerless this morning. We're adding Peerless to our swatch book and trying them out seeing what we can do with them. They do kind of separate funny some of the colors in the palette. Are you guys seeing this here? The purple has had some of the blue pull out of it into the water. That's interesting. I don't know if it's bad or not it's just interesting. No they don't and that's that's they need to make a functioning palette. Because I think that's one of the big problems with Peerless is not that people don't like to paint. The little pieces of paper are pain in the neck. So I'm pulling the leftover paint off the palette but I'm also pulling some out of the book and you can see when you pull it right off the book off the paper how much more vibrant it is. Okay let's do the green. It might be but you would think they would be able to come up with a way for them to create a functioning palette and not have to okay Mary I don't know I don't know what you were trying to say. They must be able to come up with a way to create a functioning palette without having to worry about the dyes contaminating each other or some other issue I don't know. They do blend nicely on the paper so without trying too much I put some green on here I'm getting some nice shades of brown it is blending with the other paints on the on the paper and that's kind of nice. It's doing it by itself I'm getting secondary colors without trying too hard and Mary your posts are funny because I don't have any idea what you're trying to say. Actually I shouldn't say that. I think I might have an idea what you're trying to say. Wrong link. Which link is wrong? It could be have something to do with that YouTube squishing our links thing that's going on. There are some links to the video description. I understand from when I was gone in Vegas there is some issue with YouTube links. So I did notice it's getting almost a little bit too muddy but I do notice it kind of lifts very nicely.  There we go but it's not really moving once it's dry. So I think it does a very nice job. The next will be to see how they blend so we'll find out. I'm going to dry this if you guys want to ask questions. Sorry for the noise in advance. Okay so now we're going to do a color wheel. We'll see what happens. This is one of those tests of a good watercolor. You know if it blends well. Aha! I've got one. I don't have to draw it. Yay! So yeah the website is peerlesscolor.com and I gotta put our colors here. Gotta figure out what colors it was I used. There we go. Yeah I do agree with you. They almost bleach out on the palette and you really need to use them straight from the little pieces of paper. I totally agree with that. So the next trick is going to see how they blend which might be interesting because they might not really blend well and if that's the case for some of us who do something other with our watercolors then just you know fiddle faddling on a tag which I do do occasionally. I like the occasional fiddle faddle you know but if I want to do a painting I don't know if these don't blend well. These would not be my first choice of paints to pick. Okay so let's do our pure colors first. I mean they're nice and bright right off of the paint swatch and yeah I noticed that Mary it was pretty funny. Usually it's me with all the typos so it's nice when it happens to other people. Okay so that's straight off of the palette. So now we're gonna have to try to see if they'll mix well which you know I don't I don't know so far you know thought it did strange things over here so let's see what happens. So that's the blue. We're gonna add some yellow. Well this is cobalt blue and this is the koi cobalt blue and I don't think it's they're supposed to be the same color but I don't think they are and I kind of agree with that it's not as deep. So now we have that now we'll add more yellow to some of it. I have to tell you guys I'm not impressed with the way they blend and it's really hard to pick up a lot of pigment. I think these are good if you're doing like greeting cards or tags. Hey Michael but I don't know about doing a painting with these. I think that would drive the for one thing the little pieces of paper would drive me crazy. Now we're going to add some more blue. I think these are great paints for coloring in rubber stamps and doing greeting cards. They're not super pigmented but they're fairly inexpensive and easily portable.  Okay so that's the yellow and green and blue and this is here's the koi next to it. Koi are really well pigmented. Okay so now let's do the blue and red and I'm really kind of having to work at it to pick up a lot of the blue. What's some announcement? I missed something or was it something I said and I wasn't paying attention to what I was saying. You know these things happen. So that red is really really dominant so let's put some more blue in it. There we go. Yeah these are good for quick sketches. You know you could travel with them if you're going to do a quick if you're going to do any kind of serious painting even when you're traveling. I don't know that these would be the paints I would bring. Yeah these are these are easily portable and if you don't want to mix I wouldn't focus on mixing with these because they're so portable and they're so flat because they're little pieces of paper I would just get a whole bunch of colors and make them into a travel palette and I think they would be fine for that. I wouldn't I wouldn't try to do too much mixing with them. I don't they're kind of a pain to mix with to be honest with you. Hey Josie I agree with you Mary.  All right so now we're going to do red and yellow so here's the red and some colors as you can see are way more vibrant. You don't have to try too hard to pull pigment off of the little piece of paper that red is really vibrant. No it doesn't. I agree with it. Oh happy birthday Josie. Welcome. Glad you could join us. They just don't you know like I said I'm struggling getting blending them. They do. I agree with you Anne. So if you're going to do these I would think they would make a great travel palette but I think you would want to just get a whole bunch of colors and don't blend them because I don't think you're going to be happy. We had another paint that sort of lost pigment when you blended it. Let's see if I can find it in here really quick. Praying but Praying is a student grade. The primas did a little bit. These I think I just had too much water. I don't think that was the paint. No they're not and so they're not going to last long but I think if you're going to just do like a small travel palette you know with some colors in it these would work fine but I don't know. I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't count on these being your only one kind of watercolor paint. My dog's barking because of the gardener. I don't know about yours Anne.  I have silk glazes. They come dried. Praying don't get me wrong. I just when I did the blending and I do think they were easier to blend than these peerless. Yeah if if Dan all the companies need to take a cue from the peerless in that they're very portable. Oh they went dry. Oh don't get over just do some practicing with them. It's going to be fine. So see this is what I'm talking about. Look at these. The all the other color paints I've ever used including Crayola. Don't do this how they start separating on the palette. Praying was much better. So that I don't like that and all that paint that was on there but you don't get that much on the baby white. I don't know. Oh you can totally. Yeah I started with Praying so and Art District paints. Let's see. I forgot what colors I was using people again separating a binder issue. I don't understand Mary. The Crayola paints were gooey and sticky. I I've never come across a Crayola set that's gooey and sticky. Now the Praying ones that I have are semi-moist. So they're a little bit like that. I don't know that I've ever come across a Crayola set that's gooey and sticky. Anybody have any thoughts on that? So we have if you guys forgot the pure pigment here and here oops here well except I just got a red dot on there and then where that those two lines meet pure pigment. It could be Mary. That could very well be because they don't have the it could be that the way these are made that it's almost pure pigment with a very little binder because of the way they're made. That's a very good point and that could be why when you put them on the palette they separate that way and keep in mind these were these were developed like ants I think said earlier for stamping and for coloring black and white photographs. These were not developed with the intention that anybody was going to ever make a painting with them. The thing that's nice about them is they're very sheer. All the colors seem to be very sheer. I don't think any of them are very opaque.  I'm probably going to do film them today because I have lots of everybody's out of the house for a long time today so it's a good filming day. I'm going to work on the brush shows and making them into a palette. I'm going to film that and I have a couple of experiments I want to try. I think I think you're going to like the pencils Michael. Okay here's that scarlet. The scarlet is really bright look at this as somebody said earlier about the Daniel Smith dot card that's the closest thing any other manufacturers have I think to as easily portable travel palette as the peerless is the Daniel Smith or Quar sample booklets. It would be nice if Quar had all of their colors available like Daniel Smith does and if you're going to turn those sample booklets into something you want to travel with you might want to do it in a way that's flatter than mine. This japonica scarlet is a really nice color and this is the blue.  Holy moly. Yeah the best thing my husband and I did when our daughter got older was create his and hers offices. You can sure why can't you? All right so now here we're going to mix red and yellow and here it's going to be more red here it's going to be more yellow hopefully. Oh I'm sorry Mary you're dedicated mixed media artist to be here with us instead of sleeping and Mary might be right about the binder because they just don't hold up well when you start trying to mix them. That's because I typed that way without trying Mary. All right so here we're going to do blue with yellow more blue and then blue with yellow more yellow but I think I'm using up all of my paint on my little swatches so I think that's another part of the problem. Yeah I agree they could be they could be pure pigments with no binder and some of these little swatches don't you know these little papers they don't have as much pigment on them as others so that's something else to know like the red seems to have lots of pigment on it and no matter what I do I pick up tons of color but I'm already running out of color on the yellow and the blue like I would like to get that one more blue. I'm gonna see if I can blend it here right on the paper sort of but the red there's plenty of red but yeah I'm definitely running out of blue. I do have spare little pieces of paper I already need to replace the cobalt blue and the yellow. Yeah test them out and you know you should do some swatches playing with your materials is the best way to learn what they will and won't do and what you like about and don't like about them. So there's our peerless swatches. All right so this is this is the Koi. Yeah that's that's pretty that's it that's it exactly so I would definitely say my conclusions for this particular brand of paint are that they're nice for single color use in cards or calligraphy coloring stamped images. I think these would be great don't try to blend them this is not what they're meant for and some colors you're going to run out of sooner than others. You're definitely going to want to take little pieces of the colors and create some kind of a book with it. They don't come this way so that's kind of a bummer. You keep cleaning off my acetate. Make sure you put acetate in between so the colors don't contaminate but they do you know lay very flat and like if you were doing quick sketches outside like on vacation these these might be nice to quickly add a little bit of color to a pen or pencil sketch these might be nice but I don't I wouldn't blend them I wouldn't try to do a big large you know watercolor painting with them I don't think you'd be happy. Yeah more than I I like the Prang better if you're going to buy an inexpensive watercolor the Prang I think are better the Primes are nice. Yeah sketches quick sketches I think these would be nice for quick sketches but I was just going to do the peerless but I do have other sets I need to test if you guys want me to I do have others but we could do a little painting too I mean it's up to you guys what do you guys want to do I was just going to do one maybe chat I have lots of video editing to do today I don't want to I hate video editing so I'm coming up in future Watercolor Wednesdays we are going to be working on Dayla Rowney and Langnickel yeah you are yay and Brusho which I haven't done anything with yet so they're still in powder form so I want to actually see about turning them into a sort of a mini palette one more test than painting so if you want to do it either let's do the Dayla Rowney so this is a little set from Hobby Lobby I bought this one they did not send it to me for free it's regularly $16.99 but you can get use a coupon on it and it comes in this small metal palette which is nice for traveling it's hinged so you're not going to lose the lid and you can use the lid for mixing they are cake water colors and they have it has this like plastic copy of the color swatch in here and I haven't opened this yet this is the first time I'm opening it I just I looked in it the sample in the store but the first thing I would do see wait I need a I need a pokey thing it's a cute box but the first thing I would do is pull this plastic thing out this flippy plastic thing if you're like this gonna drive me crazy okay so this flippy plastic thing that's just you could put it up here in the lid I mean I don't know that they already made sort of a color key for you so you don't really have to do one but you could I would take it off of here because that would just be that would just that would just make me crazy so I would put it here Mary I'm sorry I'm just pausing to laugh it does come with a small brush which is cute I haven't used the edits we'll have to see how it works but it's a cute small travel brush it's got more some wells here to mix with but you also could use the lid and it's a cake obviously it's a cake watercolor set now daily rounding should be a fairly decent brand this is their aquafine 10 half pans a mini brush compact case it does have a thumb ring on the back it doesn't say but this these are their aquafine maybe one of you guys see I wasn't planning I was only planning on doing the one maybe one of you can go look at daily rounding and see I think these might be student grade but I'm not sure they probably are but they're probably fairly light fast even though they're student grade because they're daily rounding so I'm gonna use my sprayer here that has some oxgull in it if you mixed missed one of my other broadcasts I bought some oxgull right before I left for Las Vegas this is supposed to improve wetting and flow in your watercolor paints and we have some paints here that I've tried that once their tubes are dry in a pan they don't like to re-wet well the whole line is one of them I like them fresh out of the tube but they don't re-wet well so I got some of this to add to my water from now on and it does seem to be helping I haven't tried it with the whole vine but the paints I've tried it with it has made a difference okay does it say if they're student grade or um or what so I'm off camera I'm just spritzing these with some water the water so like that see oh yay I have a spot yay I was hoping I wasn't gonna have to stop and draw stuff so I don't know about this brush I guess we'll try it and we have it we might as well try it oh no it's called oxgull liquid x g a l l liquid right the breathe essential oil works great the little bit of coughing I want to do when I'm normally like having allergy issues I hardly cough with it it's fabulous stuff you just kind of smell like a walking pharmacy but I don't much care so it's all right now you're supposed to add three to four drops per cup of water of this so you don't need much this little bottle will last me a really long time and again you can get it at any arts and craft store I got it at hobby lobby it was 1299 I used a coupon we'll try their little brush and see oh I should put the colors on here shouldn't I lemon yellow oh and hang on in second Mary there's no purple in this set so we can't do a purple um sorry say talk about coughing then I just it makes me want to cough so oxgull aids in the rewetting three or four drops to a cup of water rewetting and flowing better when you're painting with them some of these paints that I know and I know I kind of knew this before but I didn't really dawn on me till we started doing all of these uh you guys can't hear me it's the sound okay or not oh yeah yeah no I didn't disconnect anything holy cow