 Hi you guys welcome to this month's chat video where I can kind of just like chill relax chat with you guys and let you know some things that have been going on here I'm sorry I'm making this so shaky things that have been going on here with the channel but also some things just kind of going on in my personal life it's kind of like our chance to catch up so if you're new here you're kind of gonna get to know me a little bit a little bit better during this video but be sure to introduce yourself in the comment section so I can get to know you a little bit better as well and then of course like subscribe and click the bell if you want to get notified for future videos like this one so I always start out the let's chat video with a little bit of like channel news um and really the only thing I have is like a big sigh of relief because um and I knew this would happen but um the uh past few months have been kind of crazy I've had like big projects um and now that so the one in August was the original sewing and quilt expo that I was teaching at that was huge massive the one in September was the sew-along that I did you guys might not realize this I don't know some people make the sew-alongs look so easy but for me it is a lot of work um it's like you know you're sewing and you're like doing your thing but you have to stop you know every single time like there's a step in the instructions and stop and explain it and then explain it in a way that you know you guys will be able to understand it's just completely disruptive to the sewing process and it kind of uses like two different sides of my brain in a way so it's more than anything it's just exhausting it's exhausting putting together a sew-along um but that is done I'm really really proud of it I hope you guys even if you're not going to make the garment even if you're like knit jumpsuits are just not my thing there's a lot of really great information hidden little nuggets hidden in there so um hopefully you'll go watch and get some tips um on how to sew lots of different garments not just the jumpsuit um but now that that is over now that the expo is over I don't have any big things in October I do have um my skill pop classes I'll talk to you about those here in a little bit but other than that like I really don't have much which is really nice because it's opening up my schedule for like a lot of really fun things you know um social things um and that's whatever I'm able to like create things like the guide like the ultimate garment sewing guide of guides that I made for you guys a little freebie that I have that's what this is to the time when I'm able to make stuff like that before things get crazy again because to be real in November I have the um the holiday gift guide and that is huge because I have to coordinate with all the sponsors and you know get all the products so that I'm able to kind of give you a guide that is really genuinely helpful and helps you determine you know what you want to ask for for the holidays so this is like only a small little breath but it's a breath nonetheless and I am appreciative of it um last month I also started a little bit of a new feature in the let's chat video it's a sewing channel shout out and I just wanted to do this because there are so many great sewing channels out there that have you know a few subscribers a thousand or so but they do really really great work and there's really no reason why they shouldn't have more subscribers um so I thought I would just tell you some of my favorite and why they're my favorite and then you can go give them a follow and help them build their channel and then we can have even more youtubers or sew tubers as I'm gonna start calling us um with really great content and you know it's you know great for everybody it's great all around so for this month I am featuring lost my thread which I absolutely just love that channel name it's so so so cute run by woman named Teresa she has such like a sweet energy like you just watch her and you're just like you are so nice you know what I mean she just has that kind of demeanor but she posts about once a week um and she does all the usual stuff like she does makes and plans and hauls and all of that but the thing that I liked watching the most recently was she did this series where she took two different dungarees or overalls patterns sewed them both and then compared which one she liked the best so I thought that was just a really insightful way of helping us decide like if you're looking to make overalls you probably want to watch those videos um to compare the two that that she made you know obviously she can't make them all but um she did pick two popular ones so I thought that that was kind of fun like a little bit of like a runoff type of thing um for overall so a lot of fun ideas coming from her channel go give her a sub let her know that I sent you and give her lots of love okay next up is what I bought you guys maybe because I was so busy I didn't buy much I even went to the joanne sales you know they had the massive 99 cent quick sew simplicity sale the guy in front of me literally had a cart of like a hundred patterns all I could think was that he's reselling them somewhere because even if he turns around and sells them for two dollars he's making a hundred percent profit but that just seems like a lot to do for one dollar so I don't know I don't maybe he's holding on to them and I don't know he had a whole cart full and they were not like acknowledging any sort of limit which I was like wow but I um didn't get anything from the simplicity quick sew sale um and when I went to the McCall sale I tried to buy more than one thing but they were out they were out of everything and I go so the sale starts on Thursday and I was there Friday morning and by then they were all gone but I did end up getting this little pattern remember this from the um first impression video just love this little romper so so so cute great little robe um and jumpsuit so I was able to grab that I hadn't gotten any fabric I didn't buy any fabric at all so I'm proud of myself for that though because there's no reason to buy for the sake of buying you know what I'm saying um even with the patterns like even though I wasn't able to get all that I wanted do I really need those probably not all right now we're gonna get into my rapid fire this is where I discuss what I'm watching what I'm reading my latest obsession and something new I'm trying I love it when you guys answer these questions in the comment section below too it always just I don't know it feels more like a conversation and I can get to know not only you guys better but get to know like some cool things that are happening that you know maybe this aren't in my circle that aren't popping up on my social media that aren't my friends aren't talking about um you guys have told me about great tv shows and books and products to try and all that kind of stuff so um answer those four questions or any of them in the comment section what you're watching what you're reading something new you're trying and something that you're obsessed with lately all right so for me what I'm watching all of the like fall network shows came back um so I have been watching a lot of those my guiltiest pleasure is reality competition shows I say it's a guilty pleasure but I'm not even that guilty if I don't feel that guilty about it I feel no shame I just love them so much it's good wholesome fun content with a competition which I am very competitive um with myself and with others like it's just very natural to me I can't help it so I get invested in the competitors and I just I just love it um I will pretty much watch any competition show like any of them whether they're baking whether it's like those ones where they have to do those like crazy obstacles fine with me um my absolute all-time favorite one though is the amazing race but um right now we have bachelor in paradise which is a competition thank you it is and uh dancing with the stars so I'm watching those two right now I you know what I know the voice is on I don't get into the singing competitions and I don't really know why like I used to be obsessed with American Idol I watched x-factor a little bit yeah I don't know I don't know why I don't get into the competition to the singing ones um I mean I will watch them but it's not like I'm super super invested in them so yeah just a lot of the network type of stuff um I finished reading Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid um I liked it um I liked how it wasn't necessarily like this big suspenseful thriller but it definitely kept you engaged and it definitely kept you wanting to read and I think that that probably is one of the best things you can say about a book right like the storyline the character development all of that was really really really nice all the way until the very end um you always wonder how those books they're kind of a slow burn like how they're going to be able to wrap it up and are they going to wrap it up in a satisfying way and I feel like she was really able to accomplish that so um yeah I really enjoyed that one I like Taylor Jenkins Reid a lot I liked her um Evelyn Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo I like that better than this one um I know that she wrote Daisy in the sticks or Daisy in the sixth and Reese Witherspoon's Companies making a movie out of it um so maybe I'll get to that one next that one I don't know if I'm really into the idea the storyline of that one but I do like to read the books before the movies come out um right now I am like 30 minutes away from finishing a book called The Last Thing He Told Me and I can't remember how if I'm not about this maybe one of you guys told me about it but it is sort of a suspenseful book it's about a woman whose husband basically like uh this news about his company comes out and he like takes off um so she goes on the hunt to try and figure out where he is why he ran what's been going on and learns like all this stuff about his past that she didn't really know um so it's really good it takes place uh mostly in Austin so if you're familiar with the Austin area they do call out a lot of like streets and locations and the thing where they watch the bats and all of that so um you'll find a lot of joy in hearing those little bits and pieces about that also the University of Texas at Austin if you went there there's a lot of reference to that as well um so that's good but I don't have anything planned next um so if you guys have a suggestion you kind of know what I like to read by now leave it in the comment section otherwise I'm gonna have to depend on Reese Witherspoon and her book club which I sort of hate doing because you know what I mean it kind of feels I don't know like I'm sure it's authentic to a degree but I might try to get a recommendation from one of you guys um okay so what I've been trying lately and then this is like strong try is like all of this new like beauty healthcare stuff I don't know I've been heavily influenced on Instagram but I saw these like mitts that are made from some kind of viscose fabric where you like get your skin damp like really damp like in a bath for like 10 minutes and then you rub your skin and all of the dead skin comes off and it's so gross but also very very very gratifying and satisfying but there is a health reason behind it if you have any kind of dermatitis or anything it really does help heal your skin by removing all of those layers um so I was like well that sounds like fun so let's try that I've also been trying derma planing and today derma planing is where you take the razors and you like basically shave your face um today I did it just on one side so can you guys tell which side of my face is derma planed and which side of my face is not derma planed I can't really tell with makeup on but I can tell when makeup is not on and I could tell when applying makeup it's the difference between let me try and explain this it felt so weird to put makeup on the derma planed side the way that the brushes felt on my skin how smooth it was felt strange I'm sure that that's good and just not used to it because I'm used to like the peach fuzz on my face plus like the layer of gunk that came that comes off like it's a whole other level of um exfoliating that I've never experienced before but this is the derma planed side and I don't know it just feels really weird it feels really soft obviously but more than soft it's just really smooth which is strange but I like it um I also got that it's like no poo it's like shampoo that doesn't have any of the like harsh stripping chemicals um why it's so expensive I have no idea but I feel like I got like an eight or 12 ounce bottle for $40 now they swear that you will wash your hair less and you'll spend less money on all these other products you don't have to buy a separate shampoo and conditioner blah blah blah blah blah but we'll see like I am highly skeptical I have scalpel dermatitis um it actually causes um like thinning um I can't tell I think it's gotten a little bit better but sometimes like when I put my hair up you guys can see my scalp and sometimes you can't I take all of the vitamins everything orally I can possibly take um and so I just thought okay well maybe the shampoo is contributing to the dermatitis like continuing on or inflaming at some time so let's just try this so I'm gonna try it and see how it works I'll report back next month um and then something that I am obsessed with oh wait that was it says something I'm um something new I'm trying is actually really exciting so I'm going to be volunteering um I'm just looking for something more you know what I mean like everything since I moved to Charlotte has been great I've met some friends they're great plenty of social things to do here you know all of that kind of stuff but I'm still feeling like I don't know how I don't know what word it is I'm just feeling not lost but just feeling like there's more to this more to be done so I'm going to try out volunteering I have applications out at three places like they legitimately like ask for a resume they interview you like this isn't just like just show up and I kind of thought that's how it was going to be like I just show up and I'm like look at me and they're like you're great and I'm like thanks and then that's it but no they take it very seriously so um I'm not going to be sharing what I'm doing but I will continue to update you guys on like how it's going um just know that if I am able it will have something to do with kids something to do with sewing something to do with small businesses something to do with uh social media you know any that kind of stuff you know the things that I'm like pretty good at already um but if you know of any like national programs that have like local chapters um in Charlotte that you volunteer with like you know I don't know make a wish or anything that you guys are involved with that I should look into let me know I'm I even if it's just one of those things where you just show up on a Saturday and help distribute food or whatever it is so if you guys are heavily involved in anything um that I should check out let me know that as well you can leave in the comment section obviously if you want to be a little bit more discreet you can email me inside the him at gmail.com um so what do we what to expect this month so I mentioned this a little bit earlier I have two skill pop classes coming up this month I have my serger basics class so this will teach you everything you need to know about a serger it'll teach you obviously how to thread your serger but not only showing you how also showing you the why it will explain all the things that are on the side of your serger your differential feed stitch width stitch length all of that it will show you will actually practice serging and balancing tension so you will learn how to adjust the dials to get a good tension what to look for when it's not right what to look for when it is right all of that kind of stuff it's a really great class very fun very interactive um so check that out and then I also have a sewing basics class where we make like a very very easy project and that is this month it's going to be the um be an infinity scarf so if you want to learn how to make an infinity scarf you can come to that class it'll be super super fun or maybe like you don't want to make an infinity scarf but you know someone who's been dying to learn how to sew you can send them to my class and I'll teach them how to sew an infinity scarf they'll learn the basics about sewing and then you guys can be like sewing buddies how great is that well this has been a chatty video as it usually is with the let's chat video but that is going to do it for me today thank you so much for watching I cannot wait to hear your quickfire answers and I posted in this insulate last month's let's chat video in case you want to get caught up on what was going on last month so give that a click or check the description box lots of links in the description box so you should probably check that out regardless but that's going to do it for me today y'all thank you so much for watching and I will see you very soon bye