 I hope you guys tune in. Sorry we've been rogue for the last couple days. We have lost a very small, important detail in our life, electricity. That's true, that's very true. So what we've had to do, because they're doing rolling blackouts, so they're doing it on purpose, saving energy, because it's been down to like 12 and 11 and two and three, apparently one, probably minus. I guess they're doing it so that, what do you mean? They're doing it to, I'm just telling Bill he can get up on the couch. They're doing it to conserve energy because it's more than the city can handle apparently. Apparently Dallas wasn't ready for below freezing. Yeah, below teens. It hasn't gotten this cold in years. Since 2011. I was gonna say, it hasn't gotten and passed the teens in a long time. So we're gonna use a little bit of the phone so you guys can realize we do the test so you don't have to. Dun-dun-dun-dun. No, but I saw this video on Facebook and it was in one of those gadget groups so I can't credit anybody. And I'm sorry that I can't credit anybody. But what it is, it's basically a holster for your heat gun to be out of the way. And he was building it. Like it was something gonna be amazing. Like he was like wood and measuring. And I was like, he was cutting this pipe, this PVC pipe and I was like, what's he making? What's he gonna, I thought he was gonna like mold something. And they started putting it together. And I was like, I wanna make one of those. So I made one today and I thought why not make one for you guys? And I've already started making it so that I can cut out some of that stuff. But basically what you do, you need something that's pretty sturdy. Don't try to use a, what do you call it? From your paper towels or whatever. Paper towel roll. This is from my heat transfer paper. I would like it to be a little thicker though. This tube. Ultimately you could do PVC. Yeah, I would definitely get a piece of PVC pipe. If you can cut it, cut it down, have your hardware store. If you can, if you have a table saw, it will cut it. I just used my X-Acto blade because it was, it was like 24 inch wide tube. So, and cut it down to the size. Basically did this and then I thought, well, I don't want it to go to here because I don't know if that's just gonna make it like sag out or whatever. So I put my heat gun inside and measured from here to over here and then just cut a little notch so that that goes in there and it's nice and snug. And this is not touching anything, your metal. So that should be fine. That's why I would suggest PVC pipe because PVC pipe will catch on fire like this, probably what it is. But it's not touching, it will never touch. It's never touch. Gotta be careful when you put it in it. Yeah, so cut this little piece out and then I just took Gorilla Glue. And since we don't have electricity, I just used my torch, my handy dandy torch. But first what I did is line this up so I know exactly how much this is sitting on here. And then I took my Sharpie, put the point, right at the point, try to keep that in place so you're not moving that around. Line up where that's gonna go. And I don't know, so I thought it would mark on here but it does not. So what I did the first time, let's just use a couple of these small ones. So what I did the first time was just melt some heat. That's what that guy was called, a heat glue. Try not to breathe that stuff in, don't do that. You can wear PPE mask if you like. Just so that you can get a little glue on there and place your tube in place so that it's nice and sturdy, steady. And that's another good thing with using Cardboard 2 is you can kind of flatten it because that is, the heat gun is a little bit smaller than the tube in this tube here. So. Hey y'all, hey guys. Yeah, we are still without power and apparently it's supposed to snow again tonight. Now, what we're gonna do so that we have that in place, take your heat glue, your glue gun and just you're just gonna pour some, I'm just gonna heat this up. Hey guys. What I did earlier for the one that I have underneath the table now, I just heat up a very long part of it. Try to do it equally so it, all heats up. It just doesn't start melting on you all over. So it looks like it's about ready to do. And you're just gonna line it up with the wood and the Cardboard. And hopefully. We're gonna say you can just drag it out. Don't wanna catch your card fire. Yeah, that will melt into your Cardboard. We'll hit it with a heat gun after we have electricity. Yeah, so it kind of melts down into your. Was not expecting this at all. Thank you for being so helpful. Oh, it's our pleasure. That's what we do. So you don't have to. So you don't have to. So then we can do the other side. I would suggest girl glue. I don't know how long this is gonna stay. Oh, then we don't have power. You want another stick? We do not have power, which is why we're using a torch to melt hot glue. I was trying to get you guys a decent video today instead of a true color video. Does that battery work? For what? Like does it have juice? Oh, we have a heat gun. Yeah, do you want me to get that? I'm already halfway done with this. I forgot we have a cordless heat gun. Best art education channel on YouTube. Oh, thank you. Big congrats to both of you. I will thank you. We appreciate the congratulations on being engaged. It's true. It's true. It's so true. So it doesn't have to be pretty. Nobody's gonna see it, but you... You have a regular hot glue gun and electricity. This would be a lot quicker and easier. Yeah, and we actually do. The one that turns the heat, the glue into lava. But in case you don't have those things. Yeah. That's what you can do. Trying to melt that down in there. When is the wedding? We have not set a date yet. Hello, Tim. Hey, guys. I made it crooked. It doesn't matter. The one we have... That'll be all right. So, if you want, I'm gonna try to do is through this into here and then that up into your table. Put one into the other side. So I'll spray, pre-put this screw in here. And then when I put under there, just zap it up. I'll probably put some more gorilla glue here to hold it. So I know that I'll have to hold this as well, so. So yeah, if you want to paint it, you can spray paint it black or red or blue or purple or whatever, whatever you like. You could have side-by-side dual heat guns. Look at that. You can put it on both sides. See if you can help quick draw McGraw. No matter if you're a lefty or a righty. It's true. Guess I won't complain about 64 degrees. Yeah. Oh my God, that would be amazing right now. It's warmer in our fridge than it is in our place. Put it that way. Bowie doesn't mind it. Do you bo bo bean? Do you ma baby? No. We're keeping warm in onesies and piles of blankets. I can show you guys our Pokemon coasters. Oh yeah. We just did some, what I want to do with these is a lot of people take pictures of their Pokemon cards and then they all they, you know, it's kind of boring. They put them in a white light box, take a picture. I understand you definitely need to, I definitely need to have a lot of light on them. But why not make something like this? Put it in your light box and take a picture of it that way. Cause a lot of light boxes have cameras down. Some of them are up, but I thought it would be nice to just people can use these or you can use them as coasters, whatever you want to do. I actually made one. Where's that? They put a Pokemon card in there and resin'd over it. Make a nice little coaster or something to take a nice picture. Cause a lot of these, a lot of the cards that are worth money are halos and this is exactly what they look like in the background. Holographic, rainbow. So, and it just, I don't know, just puts a little pep in your step, I believe. Good pepping. So, good thing Jeff got his winter clothes on. Oh, I have thermals underneath this that I wore in Brecker Ridge. I haven't put my snowboard pants on yet though. I have. You guys want to see the outside? Don't mind our essentials in the window. It's not bad. Well, it's melting now, but we still have power and it's supposed to start snowing again tonight. I don't know what else it's gonna do. Yeah, no power, does free zone. Look at this. It's what it's like throughout the whole building. Creepy. I would tell you what temperature it is in here right now, but there's no one home. Also, apologies, I can't ship orders. But have you guys seen our shop? I have boxes of pigments coming in this week. I hope I have power enough to put them in the system. So we've been surviving off of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, sorry, Nutella and- Hey, I put, what did I put? Nutella and jelly. And grape jelly is strawberry jelly and it was delicious. Excuse our spray paint area, it is a spray paint area. Yeah, it'll never change. Thank you. Where are you guys watching from? Hey, Bethany. Also, Jeff's gonna tag some of these boxes if you are interested in Pokey things. I'm gonna do a Poke Malone. Poke Malone, it'll be okay. I want four days of that power from an ice storm. I'll do a Poke Malone. What I'm doing here is you can see the mat. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, on this line right here. So I wrote mat underneath it. And then I'm gonna try to draw on it. But I'm gonna put mat spray and then I'm gonna do mat liquid and then I'm gonna do gack and something else that I wanted to try to, so that if I can draw on this without it running or bleeding or, you know. And I'm gonna do some kiss ones. Ooh, that's gonna be a great box set. It'll be so cute, yeah, it'll be awesome. Camloops BC, you're probably colder than we are. Yeah. However, do you have power? Right, you guys are used to it. So you still have power. My boo boo. Yeah, it was like what, 10 below the record when the wind was blowing, but we had power and it's in a fireplace and snow clothes. I would love a fireplace. I don't wanna have to wear snow clothes inside. It's no fun. It is no fun. So is that everything we wanted to show? Nope, we can show them. Oh, pokey. We're gonna do half skull, half Pikachu. I've already sanded it down with some Scotch Sprite and I'm gonna spray it all white. I might spray it all black and then draw the skull on and do it white so that it looks a little more, I would give it a little more depth, I think. Putting white on black so you don't have to do so much shading and it'd be probably easier to spray this black than it would white, then black because all this is gonna be black. It's gonna be the skull and then just black where you can't see them. Skeletchoo, I love it. Skeletchoo. We're gonna use that, TG. Thank goodness you have lots of windows. Well, it's good when the sun's out but it's not really out so it's not warming anything but it does do a great job of letting all the cold air in. Yeah, these windows are 125 year old windows so. Yeah, they're old. They replaced the actual glass I think at one point but it's still crappy glass. Like they had to put, if you could see those strips right there, the metal strips, they're like little fuzzy things that go. It's hard to explain but it's supposed to stop the cold air. It's not. But you can still feel the cold air coming in because they're just old windows. We've been walking around with like goose bumpy skin. How gross. It's my general look. Right, Susan. So anyways, you guys, we just wanted to see what y'all are up to. Say hello, Hawaii. We miss you. And we haven't forgotten about you guys. We just haven't been able to do anything because of the rolling power outages. We've had power for like, let's say five of the last 32 hours. Like it comes on just enough to warm your place but our heater for some reason isn't blowing hot air. Yeah. I don't understand why. So our place got up to 58 degrees. That was the high it's been inside the last couple days. We are okay though. We're making it work, aren't we, boo boo? Aren't we? Aren't we? Aren't we? Aren't we? We're staying busy, pre-recording. Jeff's doing a lot for TikTok right now. If you guys are on there. Yes, we need all the followers we can get. I wanna try to get. I just want at least 1,000 followers so that we can go live on it. Right now we're just making videos which is a blast. I'm meeting and getting more artist followers. That's awesome. We just need a lot more. We're up to like 330 I think, 332, which is awesome because like two or three days ago we only had like 114. There's like this thing going around called 10K Artist. So if you're on TikTok, give us a follow. Go check out some of my videos. Our TikTok, what is our TikTok? Artists tell death. It's true. Yeah, most of DFW lost power or is in a rolling power situation. So what's happening with this? Are you gonna mount it while we're live or? No, because I'm gonna put it over there and it's too messy. Sure. All right you guys, we'll come up with another can do on a phone project for tomorrow. We're not gonna be doing them at 6 p.m. because we don't have any like trusticle. Well today is Tuesday, so two o'clock Tuesdays. I don't know what time it is because none of our, none of our vats are working. But the boys say hello. Hi Stephanie. Oh my baby male. I'm gonna go back to keeping my boys warm. Hi, is this something I can do in my new workshop? Absolutely you can. Yeah. I'm just gonna put some hot glue on here or stick it to the bottom like this one is. And then just put the screw in there and give it a little bit more support. It doesn't work now because I... No boo-boos. No, I know. It's okay. It's okay. But yeah, I just wanted to get that screw started so it would be easier to zip it up in there. Okay Moose, that's enough. So yeah, that's it. That's good. All right you guys, we're gonna get back to it but I hope you guys have an awesome and creative day. Stay warm. If you're in a snowy area, just don't be outside. Don't be outside. There was a hundred plus car pile up here in Dallas. No exaggeration. It was ugly. I'm sure a lot of people saw it on Facebook. When's it supposed to warm up in Texas? Thursday. April. Thursday or Friday, it's supposed to be in the 60s. Blows my mind. Actually Friday is supposed to be 63. Don't let your resin freeze. That's a good point. People out there, most resin can only withstand freezing temperatures three times before it's trash. So. Yes. Don't let your resin freeze. Thank you, LRB. I feel like you're just like that. That accident was on national news, right? All right you guys, we'll see y'all tomorrow. We kind of went another. You never know what someone's going through. And remember, we do the tests. So you don't have. They're gonna get like, dizzy. But they'll be fine. They know that when you do that part of it, to be prepared for earthquake warning. Okay, my phone's gonna die. Okay. We love you guys. Bye. I said bye. We said bye. We said bye. We said bye.