 Our mic's on. Check. Oh, caught you slipping. No, I turned it off on purpose. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do a builder or make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. Today, we're making Let's Be Friends, a little door hanger. Oh, here's an example. Welcome friends. Here you go. I know you guys, if you follow us. Welcome back. He's checking to make sure it works. If you follow us, you've seen it. But this was the new design that we haven't painted yet here. So we thought we'd bring it. Here, get a little closer. Get closer so they can really see. There you go. That's what we're doing today, this way. Look at that little guy. Isn't he cute? The crazy eyes. Yeah, it's the crazy eyes for me. It's the crazy eyes for me, too. All right. Do we have people out there? We do. We actually have some questions already. What are you doing? Hi, Candice. I'm going to take all the pieces apart. Dale's here. Claudio. Sandra. Patricia. Tyra. It's all the usuals. Usual suspects. Guys, I know. They're so funny. They're so funny. Those googly eyes. And then Sandy can hear us. Thank you. All right. Dale asked how hard was it to get started doing the workshops? It wasn't hard at all. Jump in both feet. Just make sure you have your paints ready. Things to put your paint down with. I'll tell you what I did. So when I wanted to start doing workshops, I was at a farmer's market talking to and then people come by. I'm chatty. You're chatty. And so this woman came by and she was asking me about laser doing stuff with lasers or something. She was getting a glow forge. Was she getting a glow forge? Yep. I was talking to her about having the glow forge and what we're doing with it. She was sharing with me that she does workshops and she'd been doing stencil workshops with her Cricut. I was like, I want to do workshops. I want to do these door hangers at a workshop. Would you be willing to meet with me and give me some pointers? We had lunch one day. Courtney and I actually had lunch with her one day. She brought her little checklist. Kim loves a checklist. Well, she didn't hand that checklist to me. She didn't give it up, but she went through it. We had to earn it. We were taking notes. Courtney was taking us. Her and I talked. She was typing the entire time. She just shared with us some of her lessons learned. She was like your stenographer. Totally. She did a great job. She shared her lessons learned. It was really about make sure you bring a hairdryer. She was like, you don't need a heat gun. They're too hot. People will burn up their projects. It was so true. We brought a hairdryer. Definitely needed that. She said bring a speaker for some music. Paper towels to clean up. We were rocking out some yacht rock. Different things. I felt like we're good tips with these on my own. She just went through her whole checklist and gave me an idea of what she felt like was her minimum for making it worth it to do the workshop. I think she said six people or maybe she was at eight. I can even check my notes. I still have them. I think it was eight because you went six. I was really anxious to do them. I see what you're doing there. I can name that tune in one note. I can name that tune in one note. Susan is here from El Paso. Jamie is here. Dee is here. Denise. Darlene says hello from Cloudy Rainy Denver. Cloudy Rainy Denver. Hello from Sunny Hot Richmond. It's 95 degrees today. Humid Richmond. We are inside with the AC pumping. I can hear it pumping. It's currently 82 in this room. It's such a 72. You keep leaving the door to the warehouse open. It's like 92 in there. Jamie is from Luling, Texas. Watermelon Barbecue Capital of Texas. Watermelon Barbecue. Wait. Watermelon Flavored Barbecue? No. I don't think so. Or Barbecued Watermelon. Scott Hamill is here. Hi, Scott. Clicker A.K. Greetings from Very Hot Alaska. Very Hot Alaska. Very Hot Alaska. Tell me what Very Hot is. Yeah. It's Very Hot in Alaska. Susan would love our tips and checklist. Yeah. I'll see what I can do to make that kind of public. Get that out there. Susan, are you on Patreon? I can post that out on Patreon. That's a good Patreon item. Yeah, that's a good thing. Tika Toucan says, Hey Hey from Navar, Florida. Hey Hey Toucan. From Nova Scotia, Canada. Oh, Canada. And... I love the Canada. Jamie says, no, it is not Watermelon Barbecue. Oh. There's Watermelon and Barbecue? Two separate things. Alright, look at Garrett. He's like on it. He's in all the separating today and everything. I got people to see. I got places to be. We have to leave a little early, so as soon as this live is over, we gotta leave, so look. Any other time he's dancing, he's talking, he's flipping his... He's flipping my view. No, your paintbrush. Yes, your paint roller. Yeah, but today... We got a job to do, let's do it. Are we going cheerful? What color are we using for this top? Cheerful. Oh, it's so cheerful. Is this cheerful? No, it's over there. Maybe I pulled the wrong one. Oh, I see it. I see another yellow. You want to hear something funny? So this week I got a new yellow. I had... Is it that? No, that's it. Yeah, that's definitely it. We got a new yellow paint color. It was the top of the shop. Yeah, the paint color we had was too light. We had two of them in both of them. One was like buttercream, and the other one was like... A light lemony color. Yeah, it's called lemon twist. So it was a light lemony color, but it was still too light for what I wanted to do for some of the things that we were painting yellow. And so I went and found another color and I brought it back. Everybody's like, ooh, a new yellow. Everybody had to try out the yellow. Isn't that exciting? How sad is that? That's one of the boys. That's one of the adult guys. He goes, oh, God, you know you got it bad when you're excited. He goes, and then when you put it down and walked away, and we didn't even get to try it right away, I was like... Just teasing him. Jonathan, he was like, man, that's bad. Excited by a new paint color. What else do I got here? I don't know. It opens up so many possibilities. It's a new paint color. New paint day! Paint color day! So, you guys want to hear a story from last week? Yeah, I want to hear a story from last week. You know the story from last week. Is it about me? Maybe I don't want to hear it if it's about me. Not everything is about you, Garrett. You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you. Yes, I do, Carly Simon. He is so vain. Oh, got a question for you. The inside of these bee stripes is going to take more time. Do you want to paint them yellow, or do you want to... I say leave them out. Give it that poppin' look. That one's out. Yeah, I agreed. That's the way Jonathan did it. That's how I'm going to do it. And if you're watching, Garrett agrees. Yep. He wants to do it your way. Wow, you're just hitting all them 80s classics. Yeah. And I did it my way. All right, I'm going to be... I'm going to embarrass myself. All right. My story, hold on. I'll come back. Oh yeah, what? Where's your story? 82 on May 31st is hot for us. It was 40 overnight. It does seem hot for Alaska. Hmm. Um... Thank you, Candice. Shared our Patreon link. How's the permafrost doing? I feel like... can't be good for the permafrost. Peg Egg is joining us from the cruise ship still. Peg! How long are you still on a cruise? How long are you going to be on that cruise? I'm so jealous. I thought mine was a long time. I feel like you were on before we left. I thought I lived on land. I was on a long cruise, man. It was hard to leave. It was so great. Went right back into sailor mode. I told my sister, my sister, we had lunch afterwards since she asked me how... Oh. Did you guys see Courtney come through? You want to do some comments for me? I'm busy chatting it up today. Because we're in a hurry to get home. So now I'm going to shitchat it up. Yeah. So I was telling my sister, I was like, hey, how was your trip? And I was like, we were so bougie. We were so bougie. Once we got that upgrade and all those great things that came along with it. So bougie. So bougie. Um... Darlene knows where Navarro, Texas is. Her dad lives down in Tiger Point. Yep. Let's see. Tickle 2 can. Small world. I'll see. It is a small world. Hey, y'all. Love the new files. We're moving this week. So my projects have all been at a standstill. Terrified of moving the glow forge. Yeah, we went and moved ours. We put it in the back of the SUV. I put my baby seat. Well, we just put it in the back of the SUV and pretty much it was there by itself. No, stop what you're doing. You're making a mess. Because I'm about to ruin the image and the style that I'm used to. All right. So tip when you're painting these things. Once you put your first coat on, you just got to let it dry. I'm letting it dry. And Gary went back over it and made it a money mess. Really? Let me see if I can show them to your side cam. Nobody wants to get a side cam of that. They're busy. They're busy. They're busy people. Clicker AK says, Permafrost is melting, but those of us who love the heat are not worried. We're moving south to get more heat. That's right. She's moving, right? Where's that somebody different? Heading south. Peg says they're on the harmony for two weeks. One Eastern Caribbean and one Western Caribbean. Who? London Times says she just finished her bees for a show this weekend. Never did a two-day festival. Any tips? Yeah, bring a snack. Seriously. Quick snacks that you can eat quickly. I will say yes. It gets busy and you don't like, Garrett was like, I'll go get us some lunch, but you can't really sit there and eat lunch. You have to grab a chicken tender and throw it in your mouth and be like, hi. Small foods is probably a good idea in snacks because sometimes you can't just leave to go get food. But cool ranch Doritos on your fingers when you're interacting. I wouldn't even eat Doritos. Cool ranch though, because it's like invisible dust. I don't know what else. We pay attention to where we put our signs. We try to keep the flashy ones out in eyesight coming down the aisle. You want to catch their eye, make sure there's some stuff outside of your booth kind of on the outside. We push the limits. We've been yelled at to move our stuff back before. And I was like, to where? Show me with your foot. Anybody else got any tips? Feel free to jump in and share your tips for a show. Scott, you probably have some tips. Yeah, Scott. Like a regular veteran. What else? We are trying some new... So you guys, I don't know. If you've seen or followed us at all, you may have seen our display for our... You chat them up. And it's like a louvert. So we have two different bi-fold panels that we've gotten from Amazon, because they're a little lighter than the ones we made. Those are red. Oh, they're red? Yeah. Friends is in white. If you want to start something, yeah, you could do these little guys. They're going to be... I'm going to do the noses and eyeballs. You want me to make you some more paint? Some more tape things down here? I got it. You finish your story. And I'm still going to come back to my story. Did you remember what your story was? No, I've forgotten right now, but I'm going to remember here in a second. What was I going to say? So my display, my display, so they're bi-folds, and one of them is louvert, kind of like a shutter. Oh, they're like room dividers. At the farmer's market, not last weekend, the weekend before, and Grace, the 14-year-old was helping me take everything down, and so I tied the room divider to the tent, the top of the tent and the side, the side of the room divider to the front leg and one to the top. That way the wind can't blow it. It's in like two places and it really holds it really well. Well, Grace decided to go ahead and untie it because she was about ready to put it in the back of the car, but she untied it, walked away, gust of wind came, the whole thing went over and every louvert went and all of them fell off. Like dominus? I wasn't there. Yes, like it was comical, but I was still mad because she ruined it. And then, so I decided we were going to get something different because one other time it fell and the top louvert had come off and I think that was weak point. Yes. Well, what? This was just last Saturday. Did I bring it back? No. Oh, okay. Continue then. Well, I can tell that story. So anyway, I was going to say my tips for the craft show is your displays. For me, I try and keep them light. I've lightened them up every time. So the ones we made They got to be able to fit in the back of like an SUV. Yeah, the first ones we made are great and they're sturdy and they're they aren't going to break ever. They haven't blown over? Yeah, they don't blow over. They're great, but man, are they heavy and cumbersome to take. So that's why we went to the room dividers which are lighter but still a little thicker. So I think we're going to try Scott's deal and go with the wire. What is it? These are wire display things two feet by six feet and they're just, you know, like a wire shelving and what do they call the square? I can't think of what they're called now. That's like square wire. Anyway, it's wire shelving. But they are display things. Anyway, those are going to be super thin and save a ton of room and a ton of weight and I think I'm going to hang those from the top louver them still and attach them to the side and I did the other room dividers. So is that going to be a different yellow? I'm talking, I'm talking. Oh, it's okay. I got this. Yes. Clicker A.K. I know her name. Anyway, yes, she said good memory. We're moving. Crafty D's ask if we paint the edges. I keep answering comments. No, we try and keep our edges black because we want to have that. So signature. That 3D pop look. Kind of like pop arty. I like the dark. I like the edges to stay black and if it goes over during painting. She yells at me. I do yell at Gary. But this is, we use these Sharpie oil based what are they called? Sharpie oil based paint pens and these things work great. Now you don't want to recolor the whole side because you don't want to take the time. So try not to get much over the side. Try to get a lot of experience and doing it a lot because even the boys that work in the back that come up front and help me paint they have learned to not get on the edges. It just takes a little bit of time to do it a few times and you start realizing how much pressure if you put too much pressure it will ooze over the sides but you want just enough to have one or two coats. Checking me? Nothing. So I'm doing over here. So, yeah. Clicker AK is touting our Patreon. Learn about your favorite YouTube crafty couple with a monthly Zoom call. Yes. And you get those free files all of our digital files are free for our top tier patrons. London Times anyone who has the metal grid panels my nephew welded channels in so that now they slide into the legs, no more zip ties. Oh, very nice. Checking on me again. No, I thought you were showing me something. Like you wanted me to see something. Yes, my beautiful honey. Susan says I placed some lower priced items in front to draw buyers in. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, I try in here's my big tip. Speak to people. I don't care if you have to yell at them from behind your register or you're a little shelf over there. Just call out. Oh, I love your shoes. Yes, she's always loving people's shoes. Yeah, whatever. That's my thing. Well, I do. I usually find something on them that I can compliment. Oh, I love your shirt. Oh, your kid is so cute and that people will stop and talk to you and are more likely to stop and look at your product if you chat with them a little bit. So 100% my biggest biggest tip is to make conversation. Do you need, is it good? Yep. I got a little too much pink on my roller. London Times bought her first tent. Nickalina wants to know what we're doing. Oh, that's a good tip. Before you start taking stuff to the farmers market or a craft show, make sure it's easy to put up. You don't want to struggle with it and get frustrated right before the show. If you're going to stay overnight, in two days you're going to need those sides so make sure you have sides in the front to close off and like shut down your tent. You don't want to take all your displays down and pack everything up every night. Yeah, yep, sides. Scott says we always put the reason it is out front on our displays. He uses closet shelving. Yep. I look like the closet shelving. Yes, Lois. I will email you. I will write myself a note right now. So I do not forget. All right, I got my notes. Taking notes. Yeah, London Times says she has three of them. Lightweight, she zip times them together so I can easily carry them. I like that whole farmhouse looking thing because that's what these room dividers look like and I thought it looked cute and it really added some flair to the display. But I'm not sure. I have gotten compliments on them so I do think people like them but no, that's too thick. I have learned thick is not the way to go. You talk to the people. I'm painting over here. Just do a couple of coats of thin. I was going to shut around his nose out because he was a resident. That's how you do it with a resident. Scott says his new displays are super easy, light and transport easy. Yeah, that's what you want for sure. Jerry, thank you. Thank you, Jerry. I was like, come on. I know I know your name. The oil based pen. Our handle is easy because it's Kim and Garrett and I'm either Kim or Garrett. So. London Times says how about ooh, I love your husband. I don't get their attention. Is that what I'm supposed to say? He sure is handsome. No, that's what I got to yell out at people when they walk by. Sean says hello. Candace says be sticky sweet. She said I don't care. I'm as sweet as I can all the time. Yeah, oh yeah, try and be super friendly. Super. And acknowledge them when they go by. My kids, whenever they walk into our booth they literally want to talk to me like this and I'm like, you are blocking me from customers. I can't talk to the people. I think I'm going to do this around them. I'm like, get over here. I'm out from right in front of me. Look, I can't cat call the people walking by if you're standing in front of me. I like shoes. Can we post the zoom from May on Patreon? Have you done that? Yes, we can. It was taken forever to convert. And then I forgot. Why? Was it like our speed? It was 90 minutes. Oh, because we were chatty. Yes, Helen, we will get that up there. I'll put that on my note over here with Lois's thing. If you close off the tent are you afraid of things being stolen? I don't know. If they steal one of my... I don't know what kind of hooligan is going to want a crazy B sign. Or a welcome home. I mean, I have thought about it but every other vendor is there with their tent closed off and just paper clipped or clamped together. I think they have people kind of monitoring. If I were a random person wandering through the park at 2am with all and I run across all these booths what would I steal? I go steal something metal. I don't think I'd take one of my signs. Helen says a strawberry door hanger would be so cute. Oh, yeah. I think it would be easy to convert one of these ones that we have like these B's or the ladybug into something strawberry themed. I think we could do that quickly. Crafty Dee says she has big S hooks and she's able to hang up some of her signs in the back of her tent. I have a 10 by 20 canopy tent. Yes, it's so funny. We just got those S hooks. We have been using... What are those? They're not shower hooks. What are those hooks? Curtain. Are they a curtain hook? They've been really great and has a much broader loop so the tight end goes on to the display rack and then the big loop in I put the ribbon hanger on. London Times you can buy those panels on Amazon just by themselves just tent panels. Look that up. You can buy those. As a matter of fact we need to buy those because we didn't have any for our last show and I had a friend at that show who was like, oh, I have panels for you and you know what, I have not thought to buy any since then. Oh, get some balloons with your name and fly them from your booth. Great advertising and easy way to find you. Oh, yeah, and kids love balloons. Oh, look at the balloons. What about the half walls or walls with windows? For what? For closing it up. The old farmhouse windows are cute but don't work either. Yeah, somebody said Tickle 2 Can. Overnight shows generally have security to watch things. Yeah, I think so too because there's so many vendor booze there and then Candace said yes, strawberries. Yeah, I'll do some strawberries. Somebody said Walmart to have what, the tent panels I think? The tent panels or make a Walmart sign. That might be a little sticky with the copyright stuff. You can cover anything you have on tables. Yes, all right. We've got a lot of votes for a strawberry sign. Oh, really? Totally coming for a strawberry sign. No, strawberries are such a hot item. Isn't this funny? Garrett never works this hard. He is in today. He's on it, on it. What can I do to help you? Nothing. I could paint the backside of these. Should I do a little something today, you guys? Just put your feet up, baby. Relax. I literally haven't painted anything yet. All right, what was my story I was going to tell? You just said something. You guys want to hear a story from last week and then you went on some other... You don't have to paint these. I do because you're going to put the frame on it so the base has to be painted, right? Well, only two of them. Yes, I guess. I apologize. Well, no, don't paint them. Go around the edge with a black marker. In case they don't line it up, I don't have to go around the edge with a black marker later. No, I mean the insides of the wings. Oh, yes. I forgot. Yep. Yeah. Actually, they need a little white. Let me hit them with white first. Get them with the white. Here, I got a roller. If you've done everything on this, Garrett loves... You can see Garrett doesn't do this every day because he's still using a sponge for everything. No, I roll most stuff. I just use the sponge to highlight my honey. I do my eyes and nose. Highlight his honey? Highlight my honey. Okay, well, I got the white out. I'll do this center banner too. Oh, yeah, yeah. Did you have a plate of white? I sure did. Oh, kind of. You got this yellow one. What am I doing here? No, I mean, because you got the yellow on it, I'm going to end up in it. Oh. Well, don't get crazy with it then. I'm trying not to. Watch the roller. Keep an eye on it. Doop, doop, doop. So, Court was actually here today because we were off yesterday. Well, she was off. We were here. Do you remember what your story was? Because now I'm waiting for your story. Your story from last week. I know. I don't remember. I don't remember what story I was going to tell. Was it what I brought back from Lowe's after our panel broke? No, it definitely wasn't that. I was going to share with you. So, after... So, this past weekend, we went to the farmers market. Our displays were broken and I was like, Garrett, I'm going to need something. And the new wire show, the wire display racks had not come in yet. So, I was like, what can I do for the farmers market? So, Garrett goes and gets a piece of that plastic lattice like you would put underneath around the bottom of your deck or something. But it was super flimsy. Like, it completely... Total taco. Yes, total taco. So, I was like, how are we going to hang this flimsy lattice? So, we ended up turning it horizontally and hung it and zip tied it to the top of the tent and the sides of the tent. But you had to have signs on both sides otherwise it would lean away the weight of the signs would make it lean. So, if somebody wanted to take a sign, they'd be like, whoa, whoa, whoa. So, it was a little bit... It worked. Got the job done. It wasn't my favorite though. Won't be using those again. All right. I've got these painted. I'm still curious about the story from last week. Mm-hmm. Jerry says, Garrett, Mr. I don't like to paint. I don't like to paint. This is clearly Mr. I'm ready to get out of here. I know we got places to be later. Yeah, because... All right, so, I'm just going to be honest with everybody. I'm just going to lay it on the table right here. Why are you going to be honest about... Kim has somewhere to be. And if I don't make sure she gets there, there's his fault. Yeah, somehow it's going to be my fault. And you chatted too long during the live. Yeah. You were ready. So true. Could be anything. So true. So true. Happy wife. Happy life. So true. That's it. Just put it out there. I want to know about a Christmas gnome leaner. Oh, I'm working on Christmas now. Got it. We have got some good stuff we're working on. Fall. Already moving into some fall designs. We'll get that strawberry out, don't you worry. Yeah. And fall and Christmas. Has somebody emailed us? One of my patrons emailed us yesterday. She was so nice and had such positive advice to say. And gave us an idea of a little gnome. A gnome like a shelf gnome version. It's going to sit sideways and be small. It will sit on a shelf. And each of the little gnomes were holding like believes. So one was holding the B, the E, the L, and they were in a little row like that. And they were so cute and they all had different hats. Also speaking of that because this is what I think one of the things we're going to I know we talked to some of our patrons and they were against it but we have a new tool we just ordered to try out. You don't want to say bye to everybody? That's Court. She's head out for the day. Thanks Court. Thanks Court. Oh, the lasers are smoky. I don't know why they're still back there. You want to go take a peek and make sure they're going trouble brewing back there? Trouble brewing. Here it's going to go check on the warehouse. Make sure everything's okay back there. I'll tell you, one of the things that we've been challenged with is managing these lasers in this heat and humidity. The humidity is super high. We've got to keep those chillers going and keep them low but not too cold so they mess up the lens. We had that problem yesterday. So we are battling. In previous years the lasers have been in our garage at our house and we've been able to keep the house door open and it keeps the garage relatively cool because we had it insulated but here the shop back there does not have any insulation really and there's no air conditioning back there and it's been 95% and yesterday and tomorrow for the next two days. Anyway, it's going to be hot and we're learning to deal with that for the summer. Hey babe! I bought a bunch of glue but one of them exploded on delivery. Oh no! Dee, let me know. I can help you. How many of those did you get? We have more so we can send you one. How's the bicycle? Lois, the bicycle is done. I just approved it last night so we actually have two. We have an everyday welcome bicycle and now we're going to have like a 4th of July version carrying some red, white and blue flowers and a flag in the basket. It's very cute. Do you use those tent fans with the light? Not me. I don't know if anybody else has but I do want one of those Ryobi misting fans. I think we're going to need that. A pegboard. I haven't tried the pegboard. Lois says you got the number one rule to a great marriage. What is that? Happy wife, happy life. I know how things work. Oh look, court's back. London Times has by. She missed us. Now I have to tell you personally. Yes. Don't put it in the chat and yes, she can go to the pool. Will you tell her? See, parenthood never stops. Yes, Scott wants to know can't you set your chillers on constant mode so it doesn't go above a certain temperature? Yeah, they are. They're set. But, you've had it. What was your issue with it today? One of my chillers, every time I turn everything off it resets the factory reset. Which is like five degrees below room temperature or something. So not cold enough. Not cold enough. You keep setting it. I keep setting it and it keeps going back. I just set it again. I set it yesterday. I had to set it again just today. I go in. Backwards. I'll fix it. I go in. I change it all. I reset it in the morning. It's back. But just one of them? Just one of them. I don't understand. Yesterday in my memorial day the AC stopped and the smoke started coming through the AC unit. So did you have the little thing that shut it down? Yeah. They shut it down. He's got a free standing. So how many was it 2,000 square feet out there? I mean it's big. It's a big warehouse back there. And he's got a free standing room air conditioning unit out there. It's going to do anything. I keep telling him you're wasting it's like going like this. Trying to cool it. You didn't seem to be sold on it. So I was waiting. No, because it's not going to work either. It's not going to be enough. And they were just telling me that we should leave the doors open. They noticed Aaron got his doors open. I see that. I noticed it too. And they said it dropped 4 degrees when they opened the doors. They asked for big fans instead of the AC. So maybe I'll just get them big fans. I told them I would clap for them and cheer them on. But they said they wanted something that would make the air a little better. I saw them at Home Depot yesterday. Those big round fans. But I think they were 399. 399. Yeah. They weren't cheap. All right. Should we start assembling it? Is everything done now? Does the backer need another coat? This banner does. Did you put two on there? The stuff looks good. We're going to be broken up with a lot of stuff. There's going to be a B here, a B here and then a bow. I think the backer is looking fine. Okay. All right. Let me put another coat of white on here. And then I think we're good to go. What's happening over there? Making sure we're not missing anything. While we chat amongst ourselves. You can set yourself to constant mode. I have pegboard I did that last year. It's always something. Like this weekend, yesterday I spent my day re-routing AC. Fixing some plumbing. Cleaning all the lasers. Deep scrub. Everything got a deep scrub. Yeah. Because you got to clean the lens. Yeah. The clean all the lenses. The gantry. I'm going to set everything back up. Then I cleaned out all the exhaust. And it was a lot. My arms were jelly. So there was a lot of breaking it off with a wire brush on the end of a drill. Don't put it down. You're about to use it. Over here. We're going to start with the bottoms. This thing. Yeah. You want to put the center in first. Let me do a little touch up on that. You can do this. I think we should start bottom up. That's why I tell them at the workshops. Do you want to do a touch up on that? Are you saying? Well, you're going to have a bee over that. You're going to have honey over that. Everything else is okay. Yeah. Looking good. Over here. That's wet. Oh, I remembered. This reminded me. Do you see the back of this? Do you see this is white? Oh, yeah. Is that your story from last week? That is my story from Friday. This sometimes works. Got it. The star bond is like super glue, so it will clog the end and you just got to, you know, scrape off that little tip when it gets hard. Click it right off of there. Although this one's not coming. So, on Friday, now, last week before last, when we actually, the week we got back from vacation, I had said you know, we got to order wood. And I was like, what if our wood supplier was out of wood? We're going to be in big trouble. What did I say? You said, stop. Don't jinx us. He said, don't jinx us. And I was like, I'm not. I'm just saying, what if, I know we had looked in the past and we couldn't really find another bulk wood supplier. So, let me just look to see if I can find another supplier just in case, you know, worth is ever out of wood. And so, we placed our wood deliveries last week. They would never be out of wood. They're a wood supplier. That's what they do. They supply wood. They supply wood. If they're out of wood, they're out of business. So, I was like, okay. So, I put in like a half-hearted effort and I did some research and I was like, oh, well, there's only suppliers even in the U.S. So, that they supply all these other businesses. So, I was just trying to figure out who they supply to and who locally in Richmond they supply to so that we would have a backup. And then, our wood delivery, we order wood and we're out of wood. We order our wood and Friday we were waiting for the wood to show up and it wasn't here yet and so I called and I was like, hey, just checking on the status of the delivery. What time will it be here? And she was like... She said, oh, your order is back ordered and then she looked and she goes, oh, I don't see an estimated delivery date. And then she's like, hold on, she looks, oh, I don't even see when we might get this product in and you can see she starts small panic so I'm starting to small panic and she's like, let me call you back, Kim. And she calls me back. She doesn't call me back because I think she's scared to call me back. Somebody emails me because I had started with an email and then I got her. Then I talked to her on the phone. The general manager emails me and tells me they're out of wood. It's on back order. It won't be here until the end of June 1st of July. I was like, oh my God, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? So we get our account rep on the phone and he was like, well, I have quarter inch MDF but it has melamine, one side's melamine which is what this is and one side, this is painted and one side is raw MDF. And so I was like, well, give me 25 sheets of that. I need something. So we just got that in today and I'm going to start using the melamine to make our craft show the farmer's market signs and then to fulfill our customer orders we found sewers which is a lumber yard locally that happened to have 34 sheets of MDF and I was like, yeah 4x8 sheets. He was like, give me all 34. So we have enough wood to last us for two weeks and then and then we're going to be back in panic mode. So I'm still working on I did call another supplier and she said, well I was supposed to get some and we called the manufacturer. Yes, we did call the manufacturer. Yes, one of the manufacturers and she gave me a name of a local I guess a local supplier a local distribution center and I spoke to that person and she said, well we were supposed to get some today and we haven't and I've already called them today and they are out of the office for the holiday so I don't know anything I was like, should I call you on Tuesday and she's like, no guarantee I know something on Tuesday and I was like, okay well I will call you on Tuesday I have not called her today but I'm a little stressed out about my wood delivery we'll find something somewhere even if I have to go to North Carolina to get it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying road trip. Lois says if you put a little Vaseline on a straight pin and put it on top of the glue it helps keep it from gunking up that's a good tip. I wonder if I put Vaseline on my fingers it will help me. Hello Eric and Christina you guys have been kind of quietly what you guys up to but they had to leave again they'll watch tonight. Yes it does let me hit it with this right here don't do that really quickly I think this is dry I think I can start assembling the bees Yes, they'll be good to go assemble the bees please what else is happening over here Jason don't be afraid of the pass through feature he says he's got a glow forge and has yet to use the pass through and I was afraid of the pass through I knew you wanted to tell that story he was so afraid to use the pass through do not be afraid of the pass through trust the pass through it works you don't even have to worry about putting it in straight or anything I mean it takes pictures and it lines it up if you push it through or wonky and it's all crooked it will see that it's crooked and it will adjust your design and it will still line it up it is good to go I would not worry no worries Crafty Dee says she's got the misting fan from Home Depot and a paint bucket the battery charge and the tool charger for most drills etc yeah well I think they're on sale that's what I meant to tell you is they're having one of those Ryobi tool sales again like buy one get one or buy two get one or something I want to get one of those misting fans for our tent sure great for hot days yes that's what I'm thinking I was thinking we just get some ice cream hard to find suppliers other than the big box stores I know it is but somebody somebody's going to have some wood for me they keep their contact information hidden yeah we had to do some digging digging but it's so funny I just got this lady she was like um I don't know it just seemed like I called somebody at their desk like a random person and she was very helpful do you cut your rounds without masking tape we cut it without masking tape if it's going to be painted and it's going to be painted with a darker color even I guess if we cut the round on the glow forge on the big laser yeah on the big lasers I have an air compressor hooked up and I'm pushing about 15 to 20 psi through the laser nozzle which uh keeps the charring down to like minimum so uh yeah like there is no mask on this here let's see can you see there's no charring here we'll go side cam yeah let's say side cam will be better no charring or anything and very little on the back you can see it and if I rub my finger over it like nothing comes off there's no charring nothing's coming off it's because I have my pressure set my pressure set fairly high at like 15 but when I do engravings I'll back the pressure down but that's the air assist on the big laser on the glow forge though I mask it we do a lot of masking with the glow forge but sometimes we don't if we know we're going to paint it if we're going to paint it right over that charring if it's not too bad or I'll sand it if it's a little heavier than I want it to be and I didn't mask it I'll give it a quick sand we'll just use that what's that sander orbital sander yeah a little palm sander yeah oh yeah yeah I was waiting for it to dry that's dry I'll take care of that move on to the next bee I'm on it get this bee for right now let me fix this real quick yes see it my so far away I feel like I'm so far away it's kind of fun to be the chatty one this week yeah right now you know why I get distracted Beth says she's so sorry that the wood shortages getting us happening to us I know thank you Beth I'm stressed about it I feel like the tape makes the glow forge all gunky do you really feel like masking tape does anything huh I don't know I have to run it without masking tape I've been masking everything from about day one do you want to know what kind of lasers are we using in the warehouse we're using big cam 5 lasers 100 watt lasers with 36 by 53 inch bed Laura says she hasn't used it yeah Laura I know your glow forge is new to you but definitely try it you will be impressed you will not you won't need to be scared of it it's super cool the feature is super cool yeah oh the pass through do not be afraid of it don't even worry about lining it up we're using those little alignment pins just go in and start making big stuff although if your board is off center to begin with you might run off the board during your cut otherwise it will totally line up all your stuff for you Claudia wants to know if we're purchasing 4 by 8 sheets are you trimming them in the warehouse to fit the glow forge yes we are we do trim them down we're able to offer some glow forge boards in our store for sale I'm trying to keep those prices compatible or just below the cost of the big box stores but already cut to fit your glow forge so in theory since we had a great wood supplier and our MDF is cabinet grade it cuts beautifully every single time it's not like the big box stores where sometimes the darker colors don't cut through we've had a lot of problems with that yeah it's not as smoky as the stuff you get from Home Depot so right now we still have some of those cuts so if we get some carrots it was like well if we need to we can use those glow forge boards out there that we're ready to sell we might have to use them do I have something fun no Amanda it's not really that fun do you want to know what I'm doing for the week watchers meeting I'm going to try and trim this body down oh you giving up the goods I did I mean I'm pretty much an open book so that's what I'm trying to do is hit this week watchers meeting let's see if this works for me still I know what to do I'm just hoping for some better accountability because Garrett's no accountability I am great accountability I am your biggest cheerleader you are you are so if I'm like well do you want this for dinner tonight or I don't know if I want it he wants me to have it if that's what you want yeah just have yourself a little snack especially if it's after dinner late night snacking he's a huge late night snacker I try not to do that I'm a nighttime nibbler clearly I'm not good at it do we reuse the makeup sponges or throw them out they seem to harden up after I'm doing a sign with different colors and doing them more than one layer of paint cut the tips off yeah here's your little tip for those the great thing about these you can just cut them and they're ready to go again so we snip them down a few layers and then when they get too small we throw them away but you can definitely reuse them cut that end the hard end off and they're good to go again I'm stuck to this Jerry I have a boss and don't mask either but I do mask when I use my glow forge yeah same cause the glow forge doesn't have a if I missed your comment a good enough air assist to blast away the smoke and agree before it settles I think the glow forge could do could get away with no masking if we could figure out how to add more air it needs more air I need more air I need more I'm giving her all she's got do you need any do you need any help do you want me to fix this oh sure yeah I'm kind of excited about using that deglue her have I told you guys about that I don't know if I shared did I share it last week so we got our first big store bond order in now we have this in our stores and available but when I made that purchase I went ahead and purchased this debonder here go to sidecam so I can kind of show them what it looks like what are you going to use it for to get it off my fingers my fingers are gluey let's see can't even feel myself when I'm touching my face see hopefully it's focusing it says debonder glue remover this is several times since we got it and I've been super impressed with it it is pretty thick it has like a nail polish oh I think I did mention this last time has like a nail polish brush on the end of it and if you use your star bond and you get a clump of glue on there and you have to scrape it off or you do need to did I tell you about our big 36 inch round we've missed a note that said she wanted it to say welcome welcome y'all and we had a bird right there so we had to get the bird off and I used the debonder to help me get that bird off and it worked like a champ I was able to scrape it off so you let it you put it on there you let it set and then you can you know kind of I had to take it off in a couple of layers but it did get it off and it also helps get the glue off your fingers so put it on your fingers let it set a little and then wash your hands I wouldn't leave it on there forever but it did help me get the glue off my fingers and it's helped me get it off the sign so if you're interested you might want a little bottle of this to have it's just a small two ounce bottle and I think it'll go a long way because you're not gluing a bunch of signs with it you're just using it on your oopsies yeah on your oopsies that's a good way to put it oops what is the length of the piece of MDF used to make your rounds so the rounds are 18 inches we we cut them down to 36 by well it's 36.5 by 49 that's what I cut them down to that's what goes in the big laser but for the glow forge so when I'm done cutting them down I get two of those and then I have a sheet left over that I cut down to glow forge boards I should have 20 inches left when I'm done with my cuts and then I cut that down to glow forge board size and I keep making this motion because I have a panel saw that thing is a life saver yeah that thing came from northern tools so if you end up buying big sheets of wood I highly recommend investing in that panel saw yeah northern tool right yeah northern tool and it wasn't that much no it was affordable it was a little more than a table saw five to eight hundred bucks was it less than a thousand maybe yeah yeah it was definitely less than a thousand but Garrett would get down his hands and knees and cut it on the ground well we get like 20 25 sheets at a time and my circular saw would only go through five sheets at a time it come in a stack this tall he would circular saw down as far as the blade would take in we would pull those up it would kick every now and then he'd almost lose a limb because an MDF is slippery too it slides on itself so I climb on to start my cuts and I start riding a sled you slowly start sliding so we very much are super thankful for that panel saw that thing is great but what I was going to say about the glow forge we do offer us is why we offer 20 by 20 is that what it is 19 and a half by 19 and a half size boards so that they could be used for door round boards yeah 20 by 20 and 20 by 48 what are you doing I was putting that little thing on this isn't this one well it's the only one left I noticed that there was only one honeycomb left so I was putting it on there don't yell at me all the other ones are in their spots there's a rogue one I'm helping that's what I always tell them whenever he gets mad at me I'm like what I'm helping babe well it's mainly when like you undo the stuff that I just did not in that case I was helping we got a little sloppy with this white paint over here on these bees there's a lot of cleanup going on over here well I had to learn that's why I think you got to use so tip this is the first time actually it's the second time I'm painting this actually John painted the first one so it's the first time I'm painting it my tip is use the inside of the wings and paint those and put them in there Garrett wanted to paint just the backer and leave the frame showing which is doable but I don't think it looks as nice looks nicer nicer with a big ER that'll do for today nope you don't have to do all that you're ruining my pen you're getting glue all over it you're ruining my pen you don't have to do all that yeah he's the standout piece he's like the star of the show tickled two cans as she's reposting how cute would a strawberry be a gnome yes I totally make a gnome to it like the strawberry could be the gnome's beard and then a green hat would be the stem yes that would be cute Candace wouldn't found the link to the debonder thank you Candace Lara did that work for you I just saw a commercial for that last night so funny I just saw a commercial for that last night I was like do you think that really works she went to Sonobello to cut my fat off game changer seriously I almost said something to Garrett about it I was like look at that think I could do that I just need to really need to get this right here could they just take that right out of there how like shave it off I don't know they didn't really say but you just be like okay now look it's a sign Lara's done it I might check it out is it a robot that does it I don't know man I wouldn't trust a robot you wouldn't trust a robot of course you would that's like that's precision right there right I guess so yeah maybe I wouldn't trust the human doing it I definitely wouldn't trust like an antelope to do it alright it's 504 my friend so I think you need to glue your little be on I'm doing it quickly now look look doesn't it look so much better look at that it was all your playing around yeah I did a lot of talking today I didn't realize I was going to be so chatty you're pretending you're at the craft show you want to tell anybody you like their shoes real quick Helen says she wants to do Sonobello and some Botox yeah I was thinking about that too do I need a little Botox it's about that time I don't know we had some somebody come in the other day and told me I need to start working out oh this yeah one of our customers came in and was like oh look at you yeah she was so fun and she told Garrett she saw he was on vacation she needed to see more skin I was like oh get it girl I told me to start working out I think she thought maybe that's why you didn't show skin because she felt like whatever you gotta do you gotta work out whatever but you start showing us more skin stop it 72 degrees over there yeah it wasn't that hot but when you're out in the direct sun it was hot yeah well I'm like a mirror my skin's like a mirror I'm blind to anybody that comes near me yeah Garrett has black hair and super pale skin I'm an Eskimo you would think he'd be more like olivey skin no we should glue the two eyes together before we try to stick them down in there and your little heart you just do your hearts and whites oh I have tweezers where's my tweezers I got them out just for this oh they're over there by the just for this exact thing yep it's over by the hair dryer over there what's happening out there oh they're just stopping the male guy I saw the boys like directing somebody and I could hear a truck and I was nervous what would it be what would they be having delivered Laura says they said anything you can grab can be cut off free consultation so she like dancing try Zumba I did Lois and I loved Zumba she did love Zumba I would get up in the morning Garrett would be in bed and I would just be Zumba away he would just sleep and ignore me right I used to say get up in Zumba with me I am Zumba I am I'm going to get up and do it with you tomorrow I'm going to do it with you tomorrow six weeks six weeks I was like this is week six and you have not done this with me I'm not big on like exercising as soon as I wake up I'm more of a like right now I'm ready to go let's go do something yeah at six o'clock he goes I want to work out six p.m. yeah six p.m. that's like a good workout time Kim likes to do it like six a.m my body is still lubing up my body is still trying to get loose there's a lot of wear and tear on this body Dee says Garrett most of us need to work out we do I should loose skin from two pregnancies yeah get that too get that too alright I think everything is dry yeah I think you got it on there practically did it myself no help from the old chatmeister over here chatty catty look at that tilt it a little bit slow slow so they can get a good look oh should we side Kim ah you gotta hold it there's stuff all over my hands I'm all just manhandling it can you see it let me go to overhead tilt it that way there you go look at that isn't that adorable adorbs look at those crazy bee eyes they're so funny we love this one we love this one yeah I like the bee eyes because they went with the gnome and the gnome didn't have any eyes and I just felt like it needed some eyes eyes something needed to be looking at me I made this guy looking at the honey oh so a couple of people three or four people raised their hands to do weight watchers with me for extra support oh extra support yeah that's what I need a support group I am support I support every decision Stephanie just caught us you'll have to watch again later yeah Stephanie caught us right at the end thanks for joining us adorable thank you don't forget to subscribe hit that like button give us a thumbs up tick that bell to be notified of our new videos every week we do Tuesdays and Fridays and then are we doing Sundays sometimes yeah well what do you guys think Courtney wants to do the the paint with me workshops that we were doing kind of the Sunday ones we were doing once a month your kid in advance and we'll all paint it together we haven't done that in a while because we've been doing these Tuesday lives and she thinks we should do that again everybody want to paint with us so you know give me your two sins down below if you're interested in something like that because I don't mind bringing that back I don't mind doing it Sunday night bring it back bring it back alright we are about at a time so we will see you guys on Friday where we still don't even know what the project is and then I'm going to be back in touch about that support group so you guys I'm going to reach back out on that one email her