 video where I kind of dispel you in on some things going on in my personal life with the channel and anything else that I feel like just chatting about. So let's do it. First of all I want to give, I don't know if I should be apologizing necessarily, but it turns out there are a lot of you, a significant amount of you who as it turns out hated my intro music before I changed it. And I had no idea if I would have known you guys had such strong feelings about it then I would have changed it a long time ago. I obviously liked it and all I ever heard from people was that they liked it too and that their kids would sing along to it and they would recognize it as my videos like friends and family just kind of walking by in the room would hear the little jingle me like oh she's watching sewing videos but so many of you were like thank god you changed your music I hated it before and I'm sure maybe there's a whole bunch of you out there now who hate the music that the new music that I had to to use basically what happened was that music that I was using was free and then I guess they didn't want it to be free anymore and so they hired some kind of agency and so the agency was flagging my video every single time I was posting something so easy enough to swap it out and I swapped it out for like a YouTube approved song so it will never happen again but it's good enough for now finished is better than perfect I know I'm not gonna be able to please everybody especially when it comes to something so specific as music so but I just thought it was hysterical that like as soon as I changed it so many of you were like well now I can tell her how I really feel about the song so happy to make your life a little bit better you don't have to mute it anymore you can bop along to the song now okay next up so what you may or may not know is this past Thursday was National Zipper Day fun right so all week long I have been posting little 30 second clips and videos with tips and tricks regarding zippers all of this is happening on my Instagram so if you want to go check that stuff out if you want to get like more content from me and more information it's not just like me posting pictures behind the scenes it's like also informational stuff that never makes it to the channel so head over to Instagram give me a follow there and check out all the zipper content that I've got coming for you I'm also going to be posting all of my me made may stuff there and I guess yeah I'm gonna throw this out there to you guys I'm I'm a little bit stuck on what to do for me made may most people post a picture of something that they've made they wear something that they've made every single day in May and then post a picture of that which I can absolutely do that's not a problem I've got more than a month's worth of clothes but I just feel like you guys see everything I make already and you see it on me and everything else so I'm not entirely sure that that would be interesting to you and so I've been trying to think of other ways to participate in me made may it can be anything you want there's like no strict rules so I was kind of thinking well maybe it'll be fun to like go through like each area of my closet and like kind of purge some things and show you I mean because some of those things are years and years old and maybe discuss why I'm not keeping it whether it doesn't fit anymore so my style anymore doesn't fit my lifestyle anymore would that be interesting that kind of also feels boring I don't know if either of those ideas sound like something you would want let me know in the comment section and I'll just go with whatever the majority people tell me that they would rather see I guess in a way I could incorporate both so if you're into both maybe just you can leave both in the comments I don't know I don't know what to do for me made me um today is the first day of me made me I'm filming this on Saturday and I've got my beloved Liberty knit Liberty Jersey cotton knit I think it's like seashells and starfish and stuff I don't know the names of them and what they're all called and this is a blank slate Catalina one of my favorite makes of all time this is several years old too but I still love it and still wear it so maybe that would be interesting to kind of go through my older makes maybe things that I haven't worn in a while and maybe say why maybe things that I really only wore once there are some things that fall into that category for sure um usually regarding fit is the reason why I never wore them again there's not comfortable um okay so yeah just let me know what what you'd like to see over on instagram for me made me all right so that is pretty much it that I have for like channel stuff um you guys are buying up the fast fit workbook I love that so much I would love to hear from you guys as you're using it um and let me know kind of what you think of it how if it's helping how it's helping um I would just like like some feedback from you guys whether you paid for it or got it for free um a mother's day gift guide went out that was a lot of fun if you're looking for a gift for a mom who sows I've got some of my favorite products and kind of like why they're good for moms it's not just like a random everybody likes this you know a lot of them are very specific to time saving to um like uh body positivity type of stuff as it relates to a mom to things that um make your life easier get things done faster better more accurate all that kind of stuff um yeah and I think that's it that's it for the channel I am working on the sew along that will premiere the first video in the sew along episode one will appear on the 18th and then early early next week I'll have episode zero which is pattern fabric notions um I'm going to show you how I pick my size using the fast fit workbook and any alterations that I'm going to make to my version um so if you're interested in seeing kind of how I get to episode one um you'll want to check that video out for sure episode zero it's not technically part of the sew alongs we're technically not sewing um but I do like providing that information for you guys so that'll be there all right what I bought so I didn't actually buy a lot um I did make a trip to Joanne but I just got notions I got elastic I got some stay tape I got no I don't think I got any fabric did I get I don't think I got any patterns that trip I got bias tape all the boring stuff um I did make a trip out to hobby lobby so my hobby lobby is like 35 minutes away and the Joanne is like 15 minutes away so I just end up making it to the Joanne a lot more frequently but I did go to the hobby lobby I was unimpressed with their fashion fabric they did have the Robert Kaufman linen blend which I thought was the SSS6 linen or whatever I did think that was interesting you could get that there but it didn't feel like it wasn't cheaper or anything so I was just like well I don't know and then I did pick up some of they had like a rayon ribbonet that I thought would be a nice for like a summer tank um but I'm not like oh my god this is the best stuff since sliced bread I'm just kind of like okay we'll just give this ago and see what it is it's very thin very thin very slinky so it's going to be not necessarily like super fitted but it is going to be clingy which I'm okay with it's going to be something I probably just tuck in anyways and then I picked up every single fabric they had with a bee on it I think between Joanne and the hobby lobby I am I've got I cleared them all out of the bee fabrics I don't need very much to make honey something um so I'm just getting like a half a yard whenever I see it but like I just go to the counter and say um I have all these bee fabrics that I found myself but is there anything I'm missing and they'll be like oh yeah over there in the yellow section or over there that you know and so I'll I'll just add it all in and they're like what what's with all the beef fabrics I tell them the story they think it's really cute it's like a whole thing um so that's really all I bought sewing wise I did get some indie patterns let's see I got the pattern for Sew Together 21 in May is the Love Notions Sunday Romper they had it as their five dollar Friday a couple weeks ago so went ahead and grabbed that if you missed that sale but still want to participate and sew together there may be I mean I don't know for sure but there may be another sale coming up next week not as good as five dollar Friday but a sale nonetheless maybe I don't know and maybe you'll hear more about it in my plans video maybe I don't know anything I don't know anything um what did I get any other indie patterns I don't think so try to remember the ones that I got printed didn't get anything else so yeah that's really it kind of a light shopping month um which is honestly pretty good because Dwayne was cranking out those pattern sales and I was just oh spending like every time I go there for a pattern sale I easily spend $50 maybe a little bit more if I get some patterns and some fabric all right so let's head over to the rapid fire oh before I forget there are a few of you who are highly invested in honey content and I appreciate that so so so much so I wanted to explain how calm honey is not ending up on the channel that much one today she's not even here I take her today care and I tell you you guys it is a relief whenever I'm able to pass her off to someone else who's going to take care of her all day long and I don't have to worry about her she's just a lot she doesn't sleep very much she's very active as you have maybe have seen in like some of my instagram stuff she's always around me always on my feet you know always always around so in order for me to get anything significant done like you know mopping the floors like filming videos like if I'm doing a bunch of videos in one day it's just a lot easier for her to not be here so once a week I'm taking her to doggy day care so I can get a whole bunch of stuff done and not have to like scream at her and yell at her I just it's not a good a good symbiotic kind of balance for either one of us so she goes off and has a great time with all of her buddies and I'm able to get a whole bunch of stuff done but I did want to tell you that two things one she will be appearing on the channel more now because I am making her clothes and I'm somehow magically able to film her in these clothes without like making you guys motion sick so I'm going to be doing like dog pattern reviews dog pattern pattern reviews it's not going to take the place of me made monday but they're going to appear on the channel probably one a month so you'll get to see her um she grew out of I had to so I got the smallest harness that they had at PetSmart when I first got her she was like stepping out of it she couldn't it was like so big so I ended up having to get her a cat harness well she grew out of the cat harness this past week and now she is in that the smallest dog harness that they have not stepping out of it like it fits now so part of me is like oh man she's so big you know she's growing up um obviously she's still small but I don't know she was so little just for like the littlest bit of time I guess I took it for granted and thought she would be that little forever and she wasn't um so yeah moving her into the big girl harness was like a moment okay so the second part of the honey thing is I do post more honey content on my instagram so if you want to see some more of her you can um you just have to go follow me on instagram that's all I have to say about that okay rapid fire what I'm reading this one is called Clara and the Sun by Sir Kazuo Ishiguro Japanese man who now lives in London he won the Nobel Prize for Literature which isn't necessarily just for a specific book but he has what three or four of his books shortlisted for the Booker Prize so this guy's pretty legit um he was writing um writing writing writing constantly and then took a huge break he was like he published a book in 82 86 89 95 2000 2005 rocking and rolling right then he took a break for 10 years didn't publish anything um came out with one book since then and I'm reading the second book since he has started publishing again it's called Clara and the Sun it is about it's like a little bit artificial intelligence a little bit it's artificial intelligence in a modern world with like a teenagery angsty kind of vibe mother daughter tension girl meets girl boy love tension so it kind of reads like young adult but in a with this underlying theme of like artificial intelligence I'm not that far through it so I don't know like how all of these characters fully developed and how the story fully develops but there's been a lot of laying of the groundwork um and I feel like things are going to start picking up here shortly I'm super excited to be introduced to this author I love that he's Japanese kind of speaking to my culture a little bit I've been kind of trying to find ways to bring Japanese culture or at least Japanese people and artists and creatives into my life um I got a new Japanese cookbook um you know little things like that so this was kind of like an effort to kind of not necessarily explore my own culture because the book is not about Japan at all um but you know reading something from a Japanese man you just I don't know you just feel more connected to it in a way so I've enjoyed doing that so that is what I'm reading and my oh what I'm watching I just started watching friends from the beginning friends is on HBO max all 10 seasons every single episode so that's what I've been putting on um I watched it when it first aired never went back and rewatched it never really watched the reruns when they come on as well I don't know I don't know why but the idea of being able to watch it with no commercials um I'm paying a lot of attention to the fashion since 90s fashion is so hot right now um the first season premiered in 1995 so what I'm seeing is a lot of crop tops a lot of t-shirts a lot of like graphic t-shirts um a lot of overalls or penifor or strappy things um a lot of like oversized blazers kind of like loose fitting trousers um a lot of that kind of stuff um so that's been really fun and then it's like oh yeah I remember that happened and oh yeah you know like you know the big overarching storylines but sometimes you forget about like the little ones um so that's what I've done I'm on season two I don't know how long it's going to take me to get through all 10 seasons but that's just what I decided to do because I couldn't find anything new I know everyone's talking about the handmaid's tale but I'm afraid I'm afraid to start watching that I'm afraid I'm not gonna like it or I'm afraid I don't know if I don't know if I'm gonna like it and then I'm gonna be like the person that doesn't like it so which is worse the person who's never seen it or the person who doesn't like who has seen it and doesn't like it like I am that way about a lot of things like uh Game of Thrones didn't like it um the British one on PBS didn't like it so like why even bother trying with Bridgerton like I don't think I'm gonna like it um why even try with Handmaid's Tale I don't think I'm gonna like it um so we'll just go with an easy breezy friends and because the episodes are so short it's literally like you know one a night kind of thing anyway so that's what I'm watching nothing exciting if you know of anything that's really really good a very well-developed series or something like that I have all the things I have all the platforms I have stars HBO max apple tv plus netflix prime regular cable tv I have it all um I just I just need something to get invested in again so um all right my latest obsession my latest obsession has to be like deep cleaning I actually rented a professional carpet cleaner and like busted it out broke a sweat whole nine yards cleaning my carpet and I am gonna tell you guys I keep up after my carpets honey and sunny don't go on the carpets like they're not allowed in those rooms the carpet was disgusting the water was so gross so gross so I'm so happy I did that all the rooms just smell so much fresher um the rooms smelled clean you know they didn't never smell bad but they didn't really I don't know it's kind of stale I guess and now it just it just feels so different so I've been doing that I have been um like reorganizing a few things you know I live a pretty organized life as it is um but I've just been like you know perfecting some things I got some new stuff for the fridge you know to make sure that is um I got uh something else for my spice cabinet so that's perfect now so just like yeah fine tuning a lot of those kind of like little drawers and little cabinets and little things um so that they are perfectly organized not just like sort of organized and for me perfectly organized is probably something that regular people would look at and think oh my god that's a little bit over the top but that's how I like it I like to just know I like to be able you know what it is this is how I know when something's organized if I can tell Dan Dan go get a polyester zipper in six inch length and he can go do that that's when I know it's organized and he could do that that's how organized my zipper collection is you can see it on Instagram it's one of the things that that I posted for zipper week um if I can tell Dan hey go grab me the cereal from the pantry he can grab it right away it's not like which one is it this is it that but no hey Dan go grab me everything I need to make a smoothie he's got it because it's all in one little tray um go find me this spice that he can do all of that so that's how that's my beta test for or my litmus test for if something's organized or not if I say go find this and he has a question then I'm like nope I gotta find another way to organize that um okay what I am trying so I gotta say I'm not really trying a whole lot the only thing that I could possibly say is like new that I'm trying is uh with regarding planning so I used to be a kind of weekly planner with like a tinge of daily planning I am now converting to more of a daily planner where every single day six a.m eight a.m whatever I'm doing at all these times exact tasks for that day are getting put down that's something new that I am trying um I am a planner by nature I love to check things off I love to make lists so that aspect of it is not difficult what's hard for me is knowing what I can get done in a day versus okay here's everything we've got to get done for the week you know and then it comes Friday and I'm like well crap I only got half that stuff done oh well I'll just put it on next weeks now it's like every day that it's happening like oh I didn't get all that done now I just move it over to tomorrow well tomorrow's kind of already full so I really need to kind of try and get it done today it's so it's helping me stay more accountable and it's helping me I don't know just like I guess just stay accountable so I mean I guess that's something new I'm trying it's a very personal thing planning how you plan how you get things done if you make lists if you don't like so I don't expect for anybody to hear me say that and do their planning any differently if you're not planning if you're not writing out a list of what you need to get done every day every week every month whatever it is you're really missing out planning is like life life saving for me for sure I would not be able to do this job if I if I didn't have a very detailed planner very much all right so what to expect in may I think we talked about this a little little bit but we've got the so along coming up starting May 18th we've got me day may happening on social media finishing up zipper week here we've got so together 21 pattern the Sunday romper from love notions I've got two skill pop classes that's something that I haven't mentioned we're doing machine basics again also on the 18th at 5 30 p.m and we're doing a zipper pouch class so if anyone you know I don't expect for you guys to need to learn how to use a sewing machine but if anybody you know has been begging you please teach me how to sew now you can just send them to this class Lindsay will teach you once she shows you how to use your machine you make a zipper pouch come on over and then you'll have a new sewing buddy that's kind of how I envision that working we are working toward a serger class so just like sewing machine basics this will be serger basics so those of you that have a serger and it's collecting dust in some closet somewhere because you're afraid to use it afraid to change the thread I know there's some of you out there so this is for you also those of you who are kind of on the fence about whether or not you should buy one or not how difficult it is to use you could take the class it's 20 bucks see how it works see how everybody else does in the class and then use that to determine if you even want to buy one or not then if you do buy one the class is available on a recording so you could go back and watch it anytime you wanted to help you know teach you how to use the machine and stuff so that's really exciting that will be sometime in june I cannot believe we're talking about June um so yeah that's what to expect in March and there you have it that's all I have to chat about for this month I love it when you guys participate in the rapid fire so if you want to let me know what you're watching what you're breeding what you're obsessed with and something new you're trying by all means leave that information one or all of them in the comment section I absolutely love hearing what you guys are into um I know I asked you guys for a lot of other things in the comments so go ahead and leave those too and I'll just spend a lot of time in there taking in everything from you guys but that is going to do it for me today y'all thank you so much for watching I'll see you very soon bye