 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel inside to him. So I have got kind of a lot of favorites for you guys today. If I were thinking this through, I probably would save some for December, but I just can't. So I don't even know where to start. I guess we'll just start closest to me. So on Monday, I posted a video a happy planner mismaker flip through video to show you guys what the deal was with these planners. I flipped through every page of both this little portfolio as well as the full size planner so you guys could see kind of how they were both laid out and the different options that you had in terms of planning. I am and have been a planner girl, a paper planner girl, well for my whole life. I had Aaron Condren life planners for the past six years and happy planner finally got me. They finally converted me after all this time because the mismaker kind of concept and like the idea of each page being like, you know, a nod toward a crafter or a maker and then the way that the pages were laid out to also really made me a convert. So if you have been a planner girl in the past, I encourage you to check these out. If you've never used a paper planner before, what are you doing? What is your life? You need to have a paper planner. I just love sitting down every single Sunday and also the first day of the month and planning out either my week or my month. You guys are always asking me, how do you get so much done? How do you have so many jobs? You know, how are you able to travel and you have all this work to get done? This is how I literally couldn't do it if I didn't physically sit down and take it all out of my brain and put it down on paper. I do my days chronologically. I have a to-do list for every single day that I am thinking through the week prior. So all week long, it is not kind of jumbled around in my mind with everything else I've got going on. It's written down and I can just run and reference these throughout the day to make sure I stay on task with everything I need to get done for the week. If I didn't do a paper planner, I would be the least productive person on the planet. I would be on my phone, on Instagram, on YouTube, playing games, watching trashy reality television all the time. If I didn't know how much I needed to get done every day, I would be just such a waste of life. So I encourage you to check out the flip through video so that you can see what is in them and go check them out for yourself. Even if you don't get a happy planner this year, get any planner and that will make me very happy. In December, I am going to be showing you how I like a plan with me basically. How I organize my week, how I use stickers to decorate and make it more of a creative type of process rather than one that's just so rudimentary and like just writing stuff down. It is kind of fun to like put the whole page together and then when you're done you have like a beautiful spread and it's just so much fun. In the meantime, you can search in YouTube, plan with me. You'll be shocked. You will be, your mind will be blown to see what kind of industry is out there regarding planning. There are Etsy shops that just sell sticker kits that are so cute and so beautiful but expensive. I have a cheaper way and you'll your eyes will be open to a whole other side of crafting that is also very fruitful because it helps you be more productive. Okay so that is my like four-minute rant on planners. Happy planner, mismaker edition, top of my list. Okay the next thing I got on a whim kind of I was like do these really work? You know is this really gonna help? And they are these guys. They are basically finger protectors for when you're ironing and pressing because you know you have all that steam coming off of your iron so if you are doing like a baby hen where you're folding something over and you're having to hold it down while you press it this will prevent the steam from burning your fingers and I get a test. I burnt my finger with steam and then I was like oh yeah I bought those little protector things. Let me go put them on and see how they work and it was like no heat whatsoever was getting onto my fingers and I was able to get really really close to the edge with my iron and couldn't feel a thing. So these are staying with the rest of my ironing stuff um because they really do work. I mean there's not much to them they're just silicone little finger covers. For some reason they have little nubs on them. I don't know the functionality of the nubs. I will say the only thing that I don't like about them is that because they're rubber you can't like glide your finger along the fabric like you normally would like it obviously catches and pulls the fabric so you have to physically lift your finger. So that's kind of annoying because I'm like my habit is to just glide my finger along the seam and kind of you can't like turn the hem as you're going you really have to be very kind of methodical about it because your fingers are basically kind of useless they're just not getting burnt. So I guess it's I guess it's like the lesser of two evils for you if you would rather have the control of your fingers and don't mind them getting burnt maybe this isn't for you but if you don't want burnt fingers and that that feeling whenever the steam because it doesn't hit you right away it's like a delayed reaction and then you're like and then you realize how hot it is and that jolt of adrenaline I hate that feeling I hate being scared I hate being surprised all that stuff so for me I will just figure out a way to manipulate the fabric um but I don't want to be burned so I got these link in the description box to find them and then since we're talking about finger covers I also tried this um not to be giving you guys a middle finger but this little thimble normally I use the metal ones but this one is like new and improved technology of 2018 it is shaped differently it's not just a comb like the metal one is and also has like the backside is like soft so it's malleable and it has little vents in it so your finger doesn't get sweaty you know it gets sweaty in that metal one with all all of ours does and then the tip of it is like kind of like a golf ball kind of but the tip of it is hard like hard plastic so that you can push the needle through and grab it like you need um so yeah this guy is fun if you want to spend a little bit of extra money on a thimble for like added comfort you can try this guy out okay that's all the stuff I have for my finger um the last thing is a new product that was sent to me by cricket my friends at cricket and it is their new easy press so I have sorry it's heavy I have featured the easy press on a favorites video before but this one just like the thimble is new and improved and my favorite part about it is that it's larger so the other one I have is nine inches by nine inches it's a square this one is clearly a rectangle it is nine inches by 12 inches and if you know anything about cricket and their iron on vinyl the vinyl comes in widths of 12 inches usually by two feet um and if you're making a large project and you're filling up the entire width of your vinyl when you were doing the nine by nine you'd have to do half of it and then do the other half of it pressing wise and that was really annoying and sometimes created like the not not so perfect pressing at that little seam because it would be like half and half you know what I mean um so this is great because it covers that entire 12 width 12 inch width range of the width of your vinyl so if you're making something really large like I did um then it makes it super easy because you just go the width of the um vinyl and then you go down the length that you need pressing for as long as you need but look what I made can y'all see yeah it says knock real loud if it's from fabric.com and it's uh a doormat isn't that so cute um I made it or I posted it on instagram on I think on monday um and you guys really loved it I love it too I was really surprised I also challenged myself to come up with a project for the easy press that wasn't fabric um this is a queer is how you say it c o i r queer doormat like an outdoor doormat that's like queer is um the outside fibrous part of a coconut so it's like a natural product but it's the really hard and scratchy one so I wasn't entirely sure if the vinyl was gonna adhere to it but as you can see it's on there really good so my lights are reflecting but there you go you can see it I just love it I think it's the cutest thing ever um I actually came up with four different designs um and then ended up actually making that one but I'll have a link in the description box where you can access or where you can see or use print cut um the other three designs that I made as well one of them is like probably at the fabric store another one is oh shoot now I can't even remember them all oh darn there were two more I made them a while ago so anyways so that was a lot of fun and it was super easy to do because I wasn't having to do it in sections of nine by nine I could just go 12 inches and then go down nine and do another 12 inch width and then go down nine I ended up doing it in three parts I think um so yeah that was super cool and super fun but that is it I gave you guys one two four favorites this month I guess you got a bonus one um so let me know um if you've ever used any of these products before and um I think I can't remember two months ago last month sometime I asked you guys to tell me some of your favorite notions and um sewing related items and you guys did leave me some really good comments so if you didn't do that before do that this time so I can continue to add to my list and try the things that you guys are recommending um but that's gonna do it for me today I will see you all in my next video bye