Hey guys. Mark here from Melbourne with a quick update from Vestas 11 Hour Racing.
First of all, all of us want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas
and hope you're looking forward to a Happy New Year.
We are really looking forward to this next leg.
Leg 4 up to Hong Kong and on that leg we're gonna be implementing
a couple of crew changes.
First and foremost will have Phil Harmer rejoining the team.
He's been dealing with a little bit of a back injury and wasn't able to
do the first few legs, but he's been working really hard in his rehab and
we're looking forward to having his fresh burst of energy back on board.
We're also gonna have Hannah Diamond join us. She did the first leg and
obviously we were very successful there and it's all part of our crew rotation
So it really should be a seamless integration.
And the unfortunate
bit is that Charlie's at home dealing with an ongoing family medical emergency.
All of our hearts go out to Charlie and his family and he
really wishes he could be here, but ultimately the strength of our team
is that we're surrounded by a number of people and a lot of sailing talent where
anybody can do just about any job on the boat.
So we're in a really good spot
I think we're gonna have another competitive leg and there's no reason
why we shouldn't be able to put up just as good, if not a better result
in the next leg as we did in the last.
So it's really business as usual for us here.
Obviously all of our well wishes going out to Charlie and his
family and to all of you as well.
Just want to thank everybody for their support
It's been a very interesting race with lots of twists and turns and
this next leg should be another interesting one as well.
We'll be shedding off the neoprene gloves and out will come to floppy hats.
And it's gonna be plenty hot but but it should be a really good leg.
Thanks for supporting us and look forward to seeing everybody in the water.
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Coding For Fun! - Duration: 27:28.
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HOW TO: Easy Knotted Ponytail Tutorial - Duration: 6:30.
hey guys I have a very easy tutorial for you today and it's this simple knotted
ponytail with really soft waves now this hairstyle can also be worn
really casual and beachy but with the holidays coming up I thought this
hairstyle would be perfect especially for a work party or family event imagine
showing up with this hairstyle you'd be the only one there with it and you'd be
the only one who knew how easy it actually was to create and a big shout
out to Conair for partnering with me for this video you guys are going to love this new hair tool
so let's go ahead and get started okay so starting off I just roughly blow-dried my hair it's nice and
clean but I do want to create like a soft romantic look so I am going to add
some curls using Conair's new two-in-one stainless-steel styler the ceramic
plates only take 30 seconds to heat up and they go up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
and the outer stainless steel barrel heats up to 265 degrees now the reason
why the outer barrel heats up as well is because this is a multitasking tool you
can curl your hair you can straighten your hair which I thought you guys would
love because it'd be perfect for traveling that way you only have to
bring a one hair tool and you'll have more room for all the clothes that
you're not going to wear now there are five heat settings I'm going to set it
to 355 degrees to make things easier I'm gonna divide my hair into two sections
so all of the hair that's above my temples I'm just going to clip out of
the way for now okay where this hairstyle I want all the hair that's
above my chin to be smooth so I'm going to straighten to my chin and then I'm
going to curl all the rest of my hair away from my face that way the hair at
the bottom of my ponytail has a really nice wave to use this tool it's easy
hold it in your dominant hand and place your hair in between the clamps where
you want your curl to start and then slowly twist the styler one full turn
away from your face and this will wrap the hair around that heated barrel and
then you just want to slowly slide your hair through I like to
place my fingers on those two removable silicon tips at the end I find that this
gives me the most control once I've curled my section I like to just give it
a little bit of twist and I like to let it cool and set on my shoulder I love
that these plates are extra long it just makes it so much easier to curl
especially when you have longer hair and they are one in 1/8 inch wide which is
going to give you a nice defined curl so I'm going to take my top layer down and
keep those straight pieces behind my shoulders and then continue at those
same steps so straighten down to your chin and then curl away from your face
and just let it cool
my biggest tip when it comes to curling your hair like this is always keep your
styler moving and take your time and work in smaller sections oh and for
those of you asking how I curl my bangs it's super easy I start right at the
root and I just curl them away from my face if you don't get it right away keep
practicing I promise you you'll get it and you can always practice with the
styler turned off that way you don't have to worry about excessive heat on
your hair and then once my curls are cooled I'm just going to make my hand
into a claw and I'm just going to brush them out stopping them because I want to
achieve more of a wave than having a uniform curl
I can't get over how quick that was but now that my hair is prepped let's turn
around and begin knotting first step part your hair is normal and just throw
it all behind your shoulders next gather the hair that's above your temples on
both sides of your head so now you should have two equal sized sections that
look similar to this we're going to tie these around one another so bring that
right section over the left and then bring that left up and pull it through
that hole so this is actually the same step as the first step of tying your
shoe pull it tightly but not too tight and you want the knot to sit right at
the base of your head now we're going to French knot it's simple so gather all
the hair that's above your ears on the side of your head
and you just want to make sure it's completely sectioned off to prevent
tangles then join it into that right section and then repeat the same steps
on the left side to gather all of that hair that's above your ear on the left
side of your head and remember to completely section it off and then join
it into that left section now you should only have two separate sections and
again you want to tie these together so bring that right section over the left
and then bring that left section up and pull it through and remember to pull it
tight but not too tight I'm going to repeat this one more time this time
gathering all the remaining hair at the nape of my neck and just dividing it
into two equal sized sections and joining them into our previous two
section and again just tie these two sections around one another so bring
that right section over the left section and then bring that left section up and
pull it through feel free to continue this pattern all the way down your
ponytail it would look so cool but lately I've really been loving half
braids then secure it off with a small clear hair elastic and feel free to pull
on your knots if you want them to appear even larger there we have it you guys
that's how easy it is to recreate this knotted ponytail I really hope you guys
enjoyed this and found it helpful I'd love to know where you would wear this
hairstyle and if you do end up recreating it don't get to share with me
on social media and as always I will list all the product information for the
Conair infinity Pro if you're interested in the description down below but thank
you again so much for watching you guys and I'll talk to you in my next video
bye
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15 Freakiest Ways People Perished - Duration: 6:10.
• Who was killed in his sleep by a farm animal crashing through his roof?
Who managed to die at their OWN funeral?
From freak accidents to nightmare scenarios, here are 15 of the freakiest ways people have
died.
15 – Parisian Parachute Accident • In 1912, Franz Reichelt made a statement.
He was going to jump from the Eiffel Tower, and live to tell about it because of his new
design – a wearable parachute.
• The claim garnered so much attention, that the event was filmed.
• And that's why we have film over a century old of a man jumping from the Eiffel Tower
to his death.
14 – Soup IV • Generally speaking, having soup injected
into your veins would be a bad thing for pretty much anybody.
• But it's especially bad for an 88-year-old Brazilian woman trying to recover from a stroke.
• The hospital that accidentally hooked up the woman's feeding tube to her IV admits
that they made the mistake… but they insist that her ensuing death had nothing to do with
it.
13 – Conductor stabs own foot on stage • Opera conducting was very different in
1687 than it is today.
• Instead of waving a baton in the air, conductors would hold a big staff on stage,
and bang it on the stage in time with the music.
• But one day, conductor Jean-Baptiste de Lully got a bit too excited, and stabbed his
own toe with his staff.
• The wound became infected and he came down with gangrene.
But he refused to have the toe amputates, so two months later he died of blood poisoning.
12 – Airborne black bear • Imagine driving down a highway and suddenly
seeing a black bear flying towards your windshield.
• That was the last thing two people in Quebec, Canada saw in 2011.
The bear was hit by a car on the highway, and was launched into oncoming traffic on
the other side of the road.
• The bear hit an SUV's front windshield, and flew all the way out the back window,
killing both people inside.
11 – Falling cow • When you go to sleep at night, you probably
feel totally safe and secure, right?
• That's what one 45-year-old Brazilian man thought when he went to bed one night…
until he woke up crushed by a cow.
• The cow had apparently walked onto the roof of the man's home – which was built
into a hillside – and fell through his roof, directly onto the man as he slept.
• The cow and the man's wife were completely uninjured.
But the man himself died of internal bleeding.
10 – "Long Scarf Syndrome" • "Long scarf syndrome" is the name
for when a scarf or other piece of clothing gets stuck in a moving object, and the person
wearing it gets hurt.
• One of the earliest recorded occasions of this is from 1927, when dancer Isadora
Duncan got her long silk scarf caught in the back hubcaps of her open car.
• As she was driving, the scarf got caught in the wheel and strangled her to death.
9 – Deadly orgy • Sergey Tuganov was given a challenge.
Two women bet him about 43 hundred dollars that he wouldn't be able to satisfy them
in a 12-hour sex marathon.
• 12 hours and an entire bottle of Viagra later, Tuganov won the bet.
And a few minutes later, the 28-year-old died of a heart attack.
8 – High rise window prank • Garry Hoy was a 38-year-old lawyer who
really liked showing off the structural integrity of the windows in his high-rise office building.
• Just to get a rise out of his co-workers, Hoy would get a running start and throw himself
against the windows in his building, always bouncing off harmlessly.
• But one day, Hoy pulled the same stunt, bouncing off the window the first time, and
then taking another run at it.
• The second time, the window popped out of its frame, and Hoy plummeted 24 stories
to his death.
7 – Suffocated by tampons • Mark Gleeson had a terrible snoring problem
after a car crash gave him chronic sinus issues.
• He decided the best way to solve those problems was to stuff tampons up his nose.
• The good news is, he stopped snoring.
Bad news is, he also stopped breathing.
6 – Death at a funeral • In 2011, a 49-year-old Russian woman woke
up at her own funeral, surrounded by loved ones mourning her passing.
• She was pronounced dead of a heart attack at the hospital, but clearly she wasn't.
She started screaming inside her coffin after realizing she was going to be buried alive.
• They managed to get her out of the coffin and back to the hospital, where she died of
heart failure 12 minutes later – for real this time.
5 – Flying Drones • Flying a "drone" has become a popular
thing for people in the last few years, but they've been around for a while.
• In 1979, for instance, there was a drone shaped like a lawnmower flying around at an
NFL game in Shea Stadium in New York.
• That very same flying lawnmower plowed into a 20-year-old man in the stands.
Witnesses said it looked like he had "been attacked by an ax," and he died of his injuries
four days later.
4 – Monkey attack • Monkeys are jerks.
Ask anybody who has been around them for a while.
• You could ask SS Bajwa, the former deputy mayor of New Delhi.
• Except that you can't, because monkeys literally came to his house and killed him
by knocking him off the terrace of his home.
3 – Press F to Pay Respects • There's nothing wrong with playing some
video games.
But playing video games for 50 hours straight with no breaks?
• Well, that will get you killed.
• At least it did to one South Korean man, whose death was linked to heart failure related
to bodily exhaustion.
2 – Horse Love • Back in the mid-2000s, there was a video
circulating the internet involving a man willingly putting himself on the receiving end of sex
with a horse.
• That video shall remain nameless.
• But that guy died, and the State of Washington determined it needed to put laws about bestiality
on the books VERY quickly after that.
1 - Drowning in poop • This is the literal nightmare scenario.
Think about the worst possible way to die, and you'll come up with something like this.
• In 2012, a father and his two sons fell into a pond filled with liquid animal manure.
• People nearby tried to help, but in the end they were unable to pull the family out,
and all three of them drowned.
• Afterwards, it took several hours just for rescue workers to recover
the bodies.
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Celebrities With The Most Scientifically Beautiful Faces - Duration: 3:21.
Celebrities tend to be way more attractive than the Average Joe, and it all may come
down to science.
Research shows that having a symmetrical, well-proportioned face puts you in a much
stronger position to land, say, the cover of Vogue or even an Oscar.
The following stars' mugs have become the subject of intense aesthetic study over the
years, and here are the results.
James Franco
In 2008, a group of Israeli scientists developed a "beautification engine" that used a mathematical
formula to theoretically make photographs of people appear more attractive.
At one point during the study, the scientists reportedly ran a photo of James Franco through
their computer program.
His face barely changed at all.
"Meaning?"
As the New York Times aptly put it, the result suggested that Franco's "classically handsome
face is already pretty perfect."
Brad Pitt
In 2013, Dr. Kendra Schmid developed a formula that measured a person's attractiveness based
on 29 different points of the face, with symmetry, proportion and ratio playing a key role in
Schmid's 1 to 10 scale.
Schmid's formula determined that actor Brad Pitt has an almost perfect-looking face.
The actor earned an astounding 9.67 out of a possible 10 points.
Close behind Pitt on Schmid's scale were actors Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, and Ben Affleck,
Lena Dunham
Also featured on Schmid's scale: Girls writer, director, and actress Lena Dunham, whose physical
appearance has somehow been a lightning rod for controversy since the show debuted in
2012.
"You look very pretty."
"F--- you."
Dunham's face earned a 6.82 on the scale, ranking higher than the likes of Jennifer
Lopez and Jessica Biel.
Dunham's score was just below that of Brad Pitt's ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, who earned
a score of 7.13.
Miley Cyrus
Another leading lady Schmid's study favored: actress and singer Miley Cyrus.
The former Hannah Montana star earned a 7.36 out of 10.
That puts her above some of Hollywood's most popular pop stars, including Beyoncé, who
earned 7.28 on Schmid's scale.
One famous face that did manage to edge out Cyrus belongs to Sports Illustrated swimsuit
model Kate Upton, who scored a 7.46.
David Gandy
In 2015, computer scientist Dr. Chris Solomon conducted a two-month study using software
to determine which factors make a man and a woman's face most beautiful, according to
British people.
Solomon determined that British supermodel David Gandy had the most beautiful face among
male celebs.
Close behind Gandy: actors Chris Hemsworth and Bradley Cooper, and soccer star David
Beckham.
Natalie Portman
Solomon also applied his studies to female celebrities, and Oscar-winning actress Natalie
Portman came out on top.
A-listers Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift ranked second and third, respectively.
Amber Heard
In 2016, Dr. Julian De Silva conducted a study using the ancient Greek formula of Phi to
determine that Johnny Depp's ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, had the world's most beautiful
face.
The research ranked reality star Kim Kardashian second on the list of overall beauty, based
on this so-called "Golden Ratio," followed by models Kate Moss, Emily Ratajkowski , and
Kendall Jenner.
Thanks, science!
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5 Gnomes Caught on Tape - Duration: 3:01.
Number 5
This video was said to be taken in Argentina.
The creature recorded in it was probably a gnome as it appeared to have a tall conical
hat.
The way the creature moved was pretty weird as you can see from the video.
The blurry video which was taken using a mobile phone.
The cameraman seemed to have been recording their nightly adventures.
But they suddenly saw a mysterious looking creature at the side of the road.
The creature wasn't moving, at first, so the cameraman kept recording.
Then it moved and for whatever reason they all screamed and the recording stopped.
Number 4
This next footage has no real backstory to it.
Just a video of kids playing with a ball indoors.
Then suddenly something could be seen moving near the wall.
This made the people in the video to freak out.
Lets see that again.
And again.
Number 3
This next footage is said to have been released by the Daffodil County Sheriff's Office.
If this was real, I would say it's a scary thing to happen.
It is a footage of garden gnomes attacking policemen.
Hmm...
Looked a bit too much like stop motion to me.
But.. what do you think?
Number 2
This footage starts off as a normal video where a mother was recording her child playing.
What happened next was weird.
A small figure was seen to be running across the background.
Then the mom and child looked under the cupboard to see what it was.
But there was nothing there.
Maybe it went out the door but who knows.
Apparently, after the incident, the mother claimed to finally notice that the child has
been talking to an imaginary friend and now has been doing it more frequently.
Could the creature still be around?
Was it playing with the child?
Who knows.
Number 1
This footage is pretty similar to video number 5.
You could see that the video was taken in the streets.
As most of these goblin/gnome videos happened it Argentina, I'm going to assume that this
was taken in Argentina as well.
I could be wrong.
Anyway, its the streets.
People were walking and suddenly panic ensued.
A small figure appeared from the shadows.
Was that real?
Was that just special effects?
What do you think?
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Sure, the Democrats Hate Trump Only Problem They're Running Out - Duration: 4:49.
Sure, the Democrats Hate Trump.
Only Problem: They�re Running Out of Cash
The Democratic National Committee continues to be plagued by record-low fundraising numbers
despite rising enthusiasm among Democratic voters � a situation that strongly suggests
supporters of the party have no faith in DNC operations.
In a report to the Federal Election Commission, the DNC revealed that it had only $6.3 million
in the bank on Dec. 1, with several million in outstanding debt.
In contrast, the RNC boasted six times this amount, $40 million, and no outstanding debt,
according to the Wall Street Journal.
The disparity could prove pivotal as the 2018 midterms quickly approach and candidates in
competitive races across the country look to their party for financial backing.
The filings were just the latest in a string of terrible financial news for the DNC as
officials continue to suffer from record-low contributions.
November was the party�s worst fundraising month in a decade.
Before that, the DNC posted its lowest October fundraising numbers in about 15 years � raking
in only $3.9 million.
This trend has ultimately resulted in the worst fundraising for the DNC in a non-election
year since 2007
While performing better than the party overall, Democratic campaign committees are also behind
their GOP counterparts.
For example, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee closed the month of November
with $34.2 million in the bank, a much smaller amount than the National Republican Campaign
Committee�s $42.3 million.
The numbers are baffling, considering the party out of power usually enjoys greater
enthusiasm and donations from party faithfuls.
In fact, a fresh Wall Street Journal/NBC survey found 50 percent of respondents prefer Democrats
to lead Congress while only 39 percent of respondents said they wanted Republicans to
maintain control.
Such vigor is proving not to be of any help to a party that has lost control of both chambers
of Congress, the White House and countless gubernatorial and state legislative seats.
One factor that appears to be a major reason Democratic donors have refused to open up
their checkbooks � reputational damage stemming from the 2016 election.
In early November, former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile revealed that the party she lead during
the 2016 election unethically favored Hillary Clinton over insurgent candidate Bernie Sanders,
something many had already suspected after former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz
resigned in disgrace over the matter.
Brazile went into detail about the fundraising arrangement between the DNC and the Clinton
campaign that left the party in weak financial standing and closer than it should�ve been
to a candidate that had not yet won the nomination.
Clinton herself has piled on to the criticism of her party, stating during a conference
earlier this year, �I mean, it was bankrupt.
It was on the verge of insolvency.
Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong.�
The terrible press this year has left the party with an abhorrent reputation and typical
donors looking elsewhere to spend their money.
After only five months on the job, the DNC fired its finance director, Emily Mellencamp
Smith, in November after no improvements in their financial situation materialized, as
reported by Politico.
Despite the staff shake-up, it doesn�t appear things are changing.
�At this point, there�s not really anyone at the DNC who I would trust with my money,�
said John Morgan, a major Florida Democratic donor, to the WSJ.
�Why would I write big checks to them when I can do my own thing?�
What do you think?
Scroll down to comment below.
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2017 Year in Review by FalleN (PT-BR) - Duration: 2:57.
Hello everyone, how's it going? Fallen here
Stopping by to make a small 2017 review
It was a really long year, a lot of things happened
but let's talk a bit about it
Kicking things off with the addition of felps to the roster with the expectation that we would keep going strong in the tournaments
We started really well, making it to the finals in Las Vegas
felps was destroying everything, everyone in the team was playing really well
but we lost due to a clutch that TAZ managed to win
making it the only final in the year that we lost this year
so congratulations to Virtus.Pro that got the title, the only trophy SK lost after reaching the finals
After that some problems rose to the surface, my own gameplay dropped a lot in the following two tournaments
We were playing a style that it's not really what we're used to
Even though felps was playing super well we weren't getting good results
dropping twice in the groupstage
These losses were an eye opener for the team, we realized we were taking the wrong path
and that we needed to make some changes
to try and get back to our old playstyle in which we had more consistency in terms of good results
We had a really good talk as a team, pointing out and trying to solve the mistakes
starting a new path, winning our first tournament, cs_summit
a very cool tournament inside a house
everyone there could cast, participate in the broadcast as a whole, etc
After that one we played 5 consecutive tournaments, I don't know the exact order, but yeah
the best one for me being the Sydney one in Australia
then came a lot of other tournaments, we won Cologne again, back to back Champions
And in the middle of the year we had the roster change, adding boltz for felps
ended up being a change that we needed, felps sacrificed his playstyle a lot to be what the team required
that was tough which led to him leaving the team
and boltz joining, that invigorated the team
with boltz in the team we played 4 tournaments of which we won 3
a really good feeling obviously
I think that we had a lot of success with both line ups, both with felps and with boltz
but with boltz we feel like we're playing in a more comfortable playstyle
everyone doing the positions they like and so on
So 2017 was a really good year, I'd like to thank everyone that rooted for us
suffered with us, celebrated our trophies, etc
it was a huge pleasure to represent our country, our team and everyone that supports us
and there's more in 2018! So keep supporting us, thank you for everything and see you in the next one!
Enjoy your holidays everyone! TMJ!
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Flosstube #7: So. Many. Finishes. - Duration: 1:16:03.
Hi everyone, it's Jessica, the Schoolhouse Stitcher. Welcome to my Flosstube channel. It's been a little while.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever holiday you celebrate.
Or if you don't celebrate anything, then I just hope you had a great month.
I'll be honest. It's been--I've been struggling
recently.
2017 has been a pretty tough year. I've been--I
deal with anxiety and depression,
so those have really been building up over the past year and
I've just felt really overwhelmed.
And
so one of the things that
has kept me from doing a Flosstube video as regularly as I'd like is
that feeling of just--
not too much to do,
but
it's just one more thing, you know?
Especially Flosstube, because of its nature. You're putting yourself out there in front of the world and
it's not just you
sharing your thoughts with other people. It's other people sharing their thoughts with you.
Which is usually good, and then sometimes it takes the form of,
"You should do this, you should do that, you're doing this wrong, why don't you consider this," and
healthy Jessica says, "Okay, I'm gonna take that in the best--in the spirit in which is probably intended."
Unhealthy Jessica,
not so much. It just becomes one thing like, "Oh, you can't do that right; you're doing another thing wrong," and it's...
Yeah. Anyway.
So that's why my videos have been kind of sporadic.
But fortunately I have
been feeling much better lately. I feel
more like myself. Much more comfortable, much more at ease and
positive.
Feel so comfortable in fact that I
busted out the
Bulleit 10-year for my video.
I don't think I've ever actually drank on camera before. My very first video, I had--my very first video,
I had a cup--or a glass of bourbon beneath my setup, just in case I needed it.
But I didn't do that.
So yeah, I feel like I'm back and ready to make videos and ready to show a little bit more of myself too.
Not so much of
"Jessica the Schoolhouse Stitcher" but
"Jessica the person," and
sometimes that's tough and sometimes it's not always happy and fun and exciting, and
we'll roll with it. We'll do it.
But fortunately my
struggles over the past couple months have not kept me from stitching, as
you will soon see, because I have a pile of stuff to show you. So let's jump right in.
So the last time that we--or that I spoke, and you listened and commented,
I was working on the Summer Schoolhouse series by With Thy Needle & Thread, and I had--
I think I had just finished part three and was waiting to receive part four. Well, I did receive part four, and I finished that.
This is stitched on 28-count mushroom Lugana with the called-for overdyed threads, stitched one over one.
That is part
four, and then part four also came with a couple bonuses. It came with a horn book,
Miss Polly's Horn Book,
which I finished next.
I'll be honest. I did not like doing these letters.
And I did--normally I don't carry my thread on the back
for letters; I end it with each one, because I don't--I never--I never carry
across more than one stitch. But these.
Ending that many threads one over one is a no. So I--I carried on the back. It's fine.
You're not gonna be able to tell. It's gonna be pressed up against a horn book,
because I did buy the finishing pack.
All right, and the last part of that series--I got the whole thing complete--
this is the strawberry that goes with that part. Let me see
if I have something to--I'm sitting beside my Christmas tree. Obviously. No kidding, what else is this.
But yeah, the downside is that there's more stuff behind me that you can kind of see through the--see through the fabric.
So I'm really looking forward to finishing those. I have not yet got--I haven't gotten behind my sewing machine in a while lately,
but I have a big list of projects I need to tackle, and that is
probably the second thing on my list.
Yeah, oh.
I just saw this and that reminded me. My Christmas tree.
Michelle Garrett.
Yes, it is a Darth Vader snowflake. I also have a Stormtrooper on the other side of the tree.
They have these--I had it backward.
they have these templates online that you can
print out, and you see here, it shows you like the fold lines and the cut lines.
But they have them for so many Star Wars characters.
All the
Rebels and the villains and the
the ships, so you can do a
TIE fighter, X-wing, Y-wing.
I think they have a Millennium Falcon.
I could be wrong. They have a lot. They have dozens of them.
I've only done these two because they are pretty finicky when you get into the tiny little details,
and you're trying to cut it with an X-Acto blade.
But I wanted to take a second and show that because I thought that was really cool.
And I know we have a lot of Star Wars fans out there, and I thought you'd enjoy it,
especially with The Last Jedi
being in theaters.
All right, so after I've finished the
Summer Schoolhouse series, I was kind of on a finishing kick.
I finished so many things like right in a row--bam, bam, bam--
and I wanted to finish more. So I went looking for things that were pretty close to being done.
And the first thing I pulled out was this.
This is a freebie.
Advent candles by--
I'm not sure how to pronounce it. Palkó-lap. P-a-l-k-o-l-a-p,
I think is how it's spelled. I'll put the link in the description box below.
But this was a free chart,
just simple little candles. I had stitched
just this one candle here, so I just stitched the other candle and finished up around it. I think this is stitched on
32-count
white Belfast by Zweigart
with--
the color is called Plum Paisley, and I think that is the Gentle Art.
Could be
Classic Colorworks. I'll put that below. I have the thread; it's just sitting in a box.
So I finished that the same day that I finished the little strawberry, and
then I still wanted finishes, so I went digging around and I found this freebie that--from La-D-Da that I had started
back in February for Freebie February, called Bless Your Heart, and
I had stitched the heart, so I just needed to stitch the words and the boxes around it.
And this is stitched on 40-count Vintage Country Mocha by Zweigart
with my own choice of
floss. I used some leftover kit floss that I had from the Dyeing to Stitch Blackbird Designs--
I think it's called Summer Garden.
It's the thread keep that's kind of a beehive shape and has pink flowers and such. And I used leftover threads from that to stitch
this, because the original chart was like
gray and blue, and
living in the South and being born in the South, gray and blue just doesn't say "Bless your heart" to me.
This is "Bless your heart" to me.
I don't know. I always picture people saying "Bless your heart" as being like,
kind of, you know, soft, pink,
fluffy, but with an edge.
Because that's how you do it down here.
All right, and after I did that,
I wanted another finish, and I also had this chart in my stash that--in my finish parade I showed you Lizzie Kate's Joy to the World,
which I had stitched on the 30-count linen that came in the kit--I think it's like the Northern Cross linen--
with DMC, and it came with a little
mini design, like a pinkeep design. I had not yet stitched that one, so I pulled it out and
I stitched it.
The button came with the kit.
Again, I used the DMC colors for this. I actually prefer the DMC
colors on this
to the called-for colors.
The called-for colors,
this red--
this is like a Bluecoat Red, I think, in the chart. Weeks Dye Works Bluecoat Red. Yeah.
Here it's just a nice--
you know, it's a nice
kind of red with a
tiny bit of like a
rust undertone.
On the chart, it's more
pink.
I don't like pink,
so I'm very happy with the way this turned out. If you saw my
Instagram post
I artistically arranged it, just like...
I'm calling that an FFO.
Not really, but for right now, that's what we're getting. Just finished projects in a tree, no finishing required.
After that, I--
or at some point after that.
These are roughly in order. They're not totally in order, because I don't remember the way--the order I stitched them,
and I didn't write it down. It's in my phone,
which is what is right here.
But one of the next things I stitched, I do a Christmas ornament for my niece every year.
She is three,
so this is actually her fourth ornament.
She was born
right before--a little bit before Christmas.
But she is really into giraffes this year,
so I stitched her a giraffe.
Now obviously this is after Christmas, and I haven't yet given this to her. You can see where I pulled out the lines--
the thread for the cutting guide, and I have all the finishing materials.
I just haven't sat down at my sewing machine to actually finish it. That's something I'm gonna do over
New Year's--this coming weekend, New Year's weekend.
She's three, she doesn't--she gets so many presents,
she doesn't notice that--if she doesn't get this yet, so I got a little time. It's fine,.
But yeah, my previous ornaments for her have been Little House Needleworks, so this is a bit of a departure.
This is Prairie Schooler, by the way, from
one of the Two by Two
leaflets. I can't remember if it's one or two.
But this is just stitched on a scrap of 32-count something
with DMC.
And I'll finish that up this weekend and get that to her next time I see her.
All right, few other finishes.
Last time I was working on this Mill Hill Santa ornament.
And I did not get--
I did not get the
bags for these, the cover photos that tell which one they are. And they're all called like Twinkle Claus or something, or
Charmed Santa Faces, so I cannot remember the
actual name, but I'll put that in the description box as well.
So this is the first one I finished. This is the one I was working on last time.
I finished it up, did his little beard loops,
cut him out, put him together.
Made a--I always make hangers out of the leftover beads, so whatever the
one, two, three colors--whatever the colors I
have the most of, I'll make a hanger out of that.
I love him. He's my favorite. I just really love the colorway on him.
His beard is a cream color instead of white, and I really like that. I think it makes him look a little more
vintage.
So then because we were still gonna be traveling--you know, driving in a car for Christmas and such, I had to get another
car project.
Because as I mentioned I found out I can stitch on perforated paper in the car without getting carsick.
Success!
So I pulled out another one of those kits, and I finished him.
I finished this guy on Christmas Eve. I think
I posted a picture to Instagram and then realized I forgot to put his beard--or his moustache on, so I did that for him.
Again, one of the Charmed Santa Faces; again, I made a hanger out of leftover beads.
I love him.
And then fortunately I was pretty close to finishing that one
when we left here
over--for Christmas.
So I packed another one in my bag, just in case I finished him, because I didn't want to have nothing to do
on the drive home, or you know, no cross-stitching at all with me while I was visiting family
So I packed another kit, and I finished him up on
the day after Christmas. I started him Christmas Eve, finished all the stitching on Christmas Day, and finished all the beading the day after Christmas.
Here is his hanger with red, white, and gold beads.
All three of these are from kits that I found for $2 at the thrift store, and I have four more.
My hands aren't big enough.
There we go.
And
you can really see in this one how much creamier he is, and how these are--these are stark white and that's a
Cream-colored thread and bead. And I actually--I prefer the look of that. But I like these guys too.
Those are all my finishes.
How many was that? Three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine. Nine finishes. I was busting them out this last month, y'all.
I think I've had--
I think
this guy put me at 31 finishes for the year. Oh, I forgot this. 10.
I think this guy put me at 31 finishes for the year,
which beats last year's record of
like 24 or something.
So I'm super pleased with that progress.
And this seems like as good a time as any to mention this.
Joy to the World. If you would like to stitch this and the main pattern,
I have the chart here for a
giveaway.
I decided to pass this on. I meant to film this before Christmas, but
whatever, you can stitch it for next year. It's cool.
So you'll receive just the chart in this one.
I already used the fabric and the bead, obviously, and it did not come with threads.
So just the chart. You supply your own fabric, your own threads. You can easily
leave this little thing out or just substitute a different button or a different bead,
whatever you like for that.
So if you are interested in stitching this,
not gonna ask for anything fancy. Just
be a subscriber,
be 18 or older or have your parents permission,
the usual, and just put in the comments "I would like to stitch Joy to the World."
Just like that.
"I would like to stitch Joy to the World."
Just put it in the comments below, and I will draw a winner in--
let's see, I meant to look at a calendar before I did this.
I will draw a winner in two weeks, and I'll put the--that date here on the bottom.
So that you'll know--that will be the date when the giveaway closes; that's the last day I'll accept entries.
I'll do the drawing immediately afterward, so
anyone who has entered by that date,
or who has said "I would like to stitch Joy to the World" by that date,
will be entered in the drawing, and I will send it out to you as a thank-you for making this a very wonderful
first
six months or so of Flosstube.
A wonderful stitching 2017, despite my issues, you know, personal challenges that I--that I spoke about.
But just to thank you for those of you who have come over to watch me and participated even when I've
been not so great about commenting back,
and have come back to watch and subscribe and have been very kind and welcoming.
So if you would like to stitch that, "I would like to stitch Joy to the World," and I'll--
it'll end in two weeks. I'll put that date right here, and then I'll draw after that and announce the winner in my next video.
Let's see what should we turn to next. So because I've had so many finishes, I
haven't actually--I don't have that many WIPs to show. Because most of the things I've been actively stitching on over the past month,
I finished.
But I did get into a groove on
Houses--or, Village of Hawk Run Hollow.
I've been stitching on this block for what seems like forever now, and I finished--since you saw me last
I finished the grass here. I haven't done this part because I'm gonna customize it with a different church name.
But I've done that part. I've done the roof,
this hill, and the tree trunk.
Started on the door and the windows.
Finished up the white and
finished the--
did the top cross on half the border,
so the border is complete now.
I was rolling right along on this one and
was really excited because I thought, "I could totally finish this over New Year's weekend.
I don't have anything else going on; I could get this done. I could get this block done."
My Needlework System 4 floor stand
just
stopped letting me flip my work. I think like one of the screws, as you flip it,
it actually tightens--depending on which way you flip it, it actually tightens a screw that holds the rod steady.
So I have to look in there and figure out how to untighten it, and I
don't like going in my husband's tool chest because it's one of these giant tool chests
and he has a billion different screwdrivers and wrenches, whatever else is in there, and
no, I couldn't--couldn't deal with that. So I
put that aside, because I like to stitch two-handed on that with my stand. It's really bulky for me to stitch with it
in hand. I just don't like that. It's big.
I prefer doing it on my stand so I can just kind of zip along two-handed.
So I was really annoyed at that, and whenever I get annoyed, I have an annoyance tax
of a new start or purchase. In this case, it was a new start.
This is Station--Stacy Nash Primitives' Wooly's Pinkeep, and
I stitched this for an exchange last year.
It's just three colors. It's stitched one over two on 32-count charcoal Belfast by Zweigart,
which gives it a really open look. But I just thought it was time to stitch it for me,
so I can then get it out of my stash.
So this is my little bit of progress on that.
This is a really fast stitch. I think when I stitched it for the exchange it took me
maybe two or three days to stitch it, and that was during the week in the evenings.
So I don't think it'll take me very long at all.
I'm looking forward to getting that done, because I still have all the backing
materials and the trim and stuff that I used for the exchange piece, so I figured I'd make myself one just like it, and
then I can
move that out of my stash. Which, I actually like doing that.
Sometimes I'll go through my stash and pick out the things that are
like this, that I know I can finish in two or three days, and then
I can turn around and sell the chart and get it out of my stash.
So I'll go through and I'll pick like, you know, three or four different projects that are really fast to do or
like the Lizzie Kate one, where I knew that once I finished that I could give away the chart or get rid of the chart and
it would be out of my stash.
I don't know, there's something about that. It just feels like, you know, checking off a to-do list or something.
Like yes, I did that thing and now I can--it can move on!
I know it's it's kind of a weird thing, but
that's me.
Okay, the only other thing I worked on this month.
The day after Christmas, after I finished that Santa, I was really feeling the Christmas stuff.
So I went looking through my Christmas WIPs and I pulled out
O Star of Wonder by Carol Emmer? Yeah.
That's what that will look like finished.
This is from Just CrossStitch November/December 2010. That's what that looks like.
And I finished that guy's shoulder. Whoo! Very Christmassy looking, isn't it?
I'm really glad to be done with this yellow and gold.
Basically I did--I've done this part.
So I'm really looking forward to getting down here into these reds and blues.
The green here.
I think that'll be the
best part of this to stitch. I'm even
kind of looking forward to the border, just because that'll be
larger--larger sections of one color.
This is decently large sections of one color, but you do have to--you have to skip a bit. You have to count very carefully.
But this is fun to work on.
I just--I really like the colors. Even in this,
even though yellow is not my favorite color to stitch with, I still like the way it looks a lot.
Let's see. I'm gonna do an abbreviated haul.
This is not necessarily all the stuff I got, but...
I'm gonna start with my Christmas presents.
I got a few things for Christmas--not a ton, but a few
that are stitching-related. First of all,
my husband
gave me a fat half of 40-count vintage country mocha.
I had asked for this because I thought I was gonna do a couple Halloween designs on this, like I did with the
Primitive Needle's Halloween Revelry. I'm not so sure this is actually gonna work for that. This is lighter--
the mottling is--like just the overall color is much lighter and less gold
than the last piece I got, so I'm not sure.
It might be a little too light for the Halloween designs that I want to stitch on it, but--
But that's okay. I have so much else I can stitch on this,
it's ridiculous. I will find a use for it. I already have like three projects in mind for backups.
He also gave me--which I'm not gonna show--but he gave me some threads and some beads to kit up a
few of the projects I'm looking at starting in 2018.
That was really sweet.
Then from my parents,
I got the Sampler & Antique Needlework Collection. The complete one, 1991 to 2015.
I already had
two of the DVDs. I think I had--
or no, I think I had one of the DVDs, maybe
2001 to
2010 or something like that, and then I had a subscription from
2012 to 15, so I had those in
PDF form as well.
But this gives me all of them for less than the price of what the
1991 to 2000
DVD would have cost and now I can sell the other one that I don't need.
They also gave me The Scarlett House, Penny Pumpkin.
And the threads.
It's worth noting that--
this looks blue, right?
This is Woodsmoke from Lakeside Linen.
That's not a blue fabric.
Mmm-mm.
This is kind of a--it looks blue grey, but Woodsmoke is definitely not that color at all.
It's more of a
browner color, I believe. Which I've seen it stitched on Woodsmoke, and it looks lovely. I have not yet decided
what I'm gonna stitch this on, but I know I have some 40-count fabric in my stash. I also saw someone who
instead of doing
the motifs--the pennies--
Instead of doing those
consistently, like all of these are pomegranate, all these are gold, pomegranate, gold, pomegranate, gold.
They did them all in random colors, like you would--
like a real penny rug would be, and it looked beautiful. I love that idea, and I'm definitely gonna steal that,
because it looked awesome.
And
my final stitching-related Christmas present from my brother and sister-in-law. They bought me the Nativity
Trilogy--Mill Hill.
So I already had the wise men, which I bought for myself, and they bought me the angel.
Make sure you can get the name in there.
And Benjamin.
Sorry, this one's actually called Gloria.
Benjamin. And Luke.
I really love the colors in these and the--
these and the wisemen trilogy.
I just think they look--I think they look very nice. There is a Mary, Joseph, and
baby Jesus
trilogy. I don't have that one yet. For some reason, that one, the colors are not as vibrant. They're very--
they're more subdued, more pastel. I'm still gonna get it because,
nativity trilogy.
That's kind of a very important part!
But yeah, I just I think it's kind of weird how different in style it is from the from the rest of the ornaments.
Maybe somebody different designed it. I have no idea.
But I was really pleased to get those because I rarely--I usually only get stitchy presents from my husband.
It's hard to convince other people to buy stitchy stuff for me, so I was very happy that they did that.
Probably one of the reasons they did is because I was very careful to pick out things that were available on Amazon or Ebay and
send them a link, like "Here's an example of a place where you could find this!"
Yeah.
These next ones are also gifts--not Christmas, but RAKs.
I may have mentioned before that I go to--or this past season, I tailgated--or I went to the Clemson football games.
Home games.
And another stitcher on Instagram--she's karenshandiwork on Instagram--
it turns out she tailgates in the same lot that my family does.
So we happened to walk by her one day, and she's like--I hear, "Jessica!"
"Karen!"
But we also went--I met her at the--or
sat at her table at the Stitching at the Beach retreat, and she showed us her finish of
Summer House Stitche Workes' Fragments in Time series. One of them; they have three. I think this is the first one they did.
But I can't remember the year.
2014. The 2014 Fragments in Time series.
She showed me--she showed us her finish of that and it was beautiful. I loved it, and she's like, "Well, I'll loan you the charts."
So the next football game
that we were both at,
she
loaned me the charts. So this will be a 2018 start. I haven't decided what colors I'm gonna use yet. But that's One.
And
I got them out of order. Oh no!
Maybe they're not actually in order.
Here it is. Okay.
Two.
All right, that was G-H.
And Three.
And Four.
And Five.
Six.
Seven.
And Eight.
And she did this as a row four across and two high, with a border around it that
Summer House Stitche Workes provides. Like this.
And I think she used Victorian Motto
threads.
But her finish was gorgeous. If you don't follow karenshandiwork on Instagram, you really should because Karen does beautiful work.
She has great taste.
And she was also so kind to bring me--
she said she was going through her stash and she found that she had a duplicate of this one. Autumn Blessings by Carriage House Samplings.
And we all know I'm a sucker for pennies.
This is just a little nice--like a wheat motif, and this just says "Autumn Blessings."
But thank you so much, Karen.
That was so kind of you, and I'm definitely gonna stitch the Fragments in Time in 2018 so I can get that back to you.
And
then
one day I came home and checked the mail and pulled out a package that was addressed to me. And I'm thinking,
"I didn't order anything."
Well, it was my friend Caroline
sending me this.
The Beehive Christmas Ornament by Theron Traditions.
She said this was a class kit, and she knew that she was never gonna stitch it,
so
she sent it to me. And I love it. Oh my gosh, y'all.
Love so much. It comes with all of the finishing materials, including the foam core.
Everything that you need. Pearl cotton. There's a bee charm in here somewhere because I pulled it out and looked at it because it was so stinkin' cute.
It has the fabric. It has everything I need. And it looks like it's gonna be a really quick stitch.
So I cannot wait to get to that one. Thank you so much, Caroline; this just--this absolutely made my day
to find that in the mailbox. I was so excited.
So the rest of the stuff I'm going to show you, I'm just gonna stick to out-of-print charts and--
out-of-prints, clubs, and
two stores that I went to.
Try to make it quick
so I can talk about 2018 plans and not have an hour-and-a-half video that I have to do subtitling on.
Incidentally, I
want to say thank you to a
Georgia stitcher named Mandy. I don't--I don't think Mandy and I have met. Mandy,
please correct me if I'm wrong and if we have met
at a stitching outing. I don't think we've met. But
Mandy posts in a couple of the groups that I belong to,
and
she's deaf, so she also made a video on her personal Facebook page
where she spoke in sign language during the entire video.
There no words--there are no spoken words. There's just
sign language.
And she provided a transcript for it, and her--the whole message of the video was encouraging people to be more inclusive in,
or more, you know, considerate of the deaf community in
their videos, whether that's providing a transcript or
subtitles,
so that they can participate as well.
So
that is definitely what kept me going during the 90-minute
video that I had to subtitle, was remembering that video. So thank you so much, Mandy, for--
even if you don't know it--encouraging me to stick with it and seeing that, yes,
there is a purpose to this and there is a reason
to do this.
The only thing I kind of know in sign language is spelling my name.
And I--sorry, that way. And I'm not very good at that.
But yes, I wanted to give a shout-out to Mandy, who does not make Flosstube videos as far as I'm aware,
But thank you for encouraging me to stick with it.
All right. Haul.
These are in no particular order. They're just the things I wanted to show. So one of the things I picked up on Stash Unload
was this Chartmakers design that I've never seen before called Deerfield.
I just thought that was super cute. I love that deer.
And
The same seller was also selling for a greatly reduced price
Carriage House Samplings' Enchanted, which you can stitch on neutral or dark fabric.
So I got two deer. Love that.
I was inspired by Emily at eclecticpossessions to pick up Quaker Seasons of Friendship by Crown & Thistle.
This one's not super easy to find.
If you are looking for it, I have seen a copy--
I saw a copy several months ago at The Needler in Lexington, South Carolina, and I also saw two copies at
Cross-Stitch Peddler in Decatur, Alabama, I think.
This is, as Emily calls it, the lobster Quaker.
Because it's spring, summer, fall, winter, and summer has a lobster.
As you do.
I also happened on someone who was selling Primitive Needle charts for not terrible prices.
$20 or less, which I am willing to pay for a Primitive Needle--or some Primitive Needles, because
those are--those are just--they're never gonna be reprinted.
So I'll buy it.
I picked up Kindred Spirits, which I love.
Yes, I finally got it. I don't know if you remember my first video;
I bought the kit on eBay, the seller accidentally
mailed it to someone else, and the someone else never got in touch with her and never returned the kit.
Mmm. Yeah, if you got that kit, I remember.
I remember.
But I finally got the chart.
I got Yule Sampler.
And this one she accidentally sent me, but told me to go ahead and and keep it, which was very kind of her.
Yule Game Board. That's a super cute bird.
I picked up two Prairie Moons from Stitches N Things. I happened to be looking in their
Classic--
Stitches N Things Classics
section, where everything is half off basically, and
I always type in just like "Prairie," "Primitive," things like that. See what comes up. Well,
I typed in "Prairie" and these two came up, and
they were half off. So they were like
$3.50-ish.
Poindexter Pumpkin.
He reminds me of David S. Pumpkins.
And Prudence Pumpkin,
which I love. I had--I think I've seen Poindexter once. I had never seen Prudence.
But I was really pleased to grab those, especially for such a good deal.
All right.
Now.
The find that broke the internet for like a day.
I was getting ready for work, and I checked my phone--you know, I just had the eBay app up,
killing time, waiting on my toast to pop or something, and was scrolling through and
saw, just listed,
Goode Huswife Book of Spells,
$10, $3 shipping.
So I took a screenshot. Now, I've been--I've been burned on eBay stuff before,
so I wanted to be really, really sure that it was the real deal before I sent my money and the listing said,
you know, " Yes, it's me,
it's Anne, it's The Goode Huswife. I decided to reprint my charts because of the insane prices some of them are going for.
I'm gonna start with Book of Spells." So I sent a text to
Emily and Diana of itiskisment_stitches. I said, "Do you think this is for real?" Diana's like,
"Let me message her through her Etsy store."
And got confirmation that it's legit. So I
picked up Book of Spells,
Goode Huswife, for $10. You can find this in
The Goode Huswife's new Etsy store, where she has this and she has Ida Mae Crow and Ira Ray Crow.
This is $10. The crows are $9 each. And I believe that she will be releasing more of her designs
in the future. If you are curious about the quality of this. This is just your standard chart pack.
The--
this is printed on a good,
heavier stock of paper.
And
then the chart itself, which obviously I'm not going to show you,
is printed on a
big sheet of paper--11 by 17, folded in half.
And this is actually--
like--
this is not like Prairie Schooler reprint quality paper, you know. This is more like--
slightly heavier than
that.
You know, still printer paper, but not as--it doesn't feel like tissue, basically.
People were freaking out over these. I can understand--
you don't know if it's legit. I didn't know if it was legit at first until Diana messaged her.
But
within a span of 24 hours, it was like,
"Hey, there's this thing." "I don't think it's legit." "I do think it's legit." "I have confirmation that it's legit."
"Oh, it is legit. Well the quality is probably gonna be terrible."
"Well, they don't ship here." "Well, they don't do this."
Breathe.
Breathe.
It's been out for 24 hours.
Calming breaths.
The quality is like any other chart pack.
It's fine.
It's gonna be okay. Now that she's moved over to Etsy instead of eBay, she does ship internationally.
It's much easier to do that through Etsy.
Everything is legit. Everything is fine. Breathe. And don't mess up my Goode Huswife reprints.
That was my main thing. After that first 24 hours, I was like, oh God,
If she gets so many complaints about this that she's just like, "You know what? Not worth it. I'm not gonna do it."
I'm gonna be taking names. I've waited a long time to get my Goode Huswife charts, people. Don't mess it up. I'll get you.
All right, I also took a little side trip to
Cross-Stitch Peddler in Decatur, Alabama,
because I'd never been there before and I
had a
Saturday free and I just thought, "You know what, I don't have anything else going on. I could really use a pick-me-up.
i'm gonna drive out there. See what she has."
So I picked up a few things.
I picked up
Carriage House Samplings' Matter's Choice, because everyone and their brother and sister is stitching this, and
I have always loved it. Obviously I would stitch the big design. I love that most.
I mean, it has bees. The other one does not have bees.
I think that's a pretty solid argument in favor of stitching the bigger one.
I picked up
the 1999 Christmas Sampler.
This is just a
single sheet.
I had a friend who stitched this and it was beautiful and I loved it.
So when I saw it on the shelf, I said, "That's mine, please, thank you."
I got The Cricket Collection,
Two Familiars,
which is this awesome crow that says "Nevermore" and this cat.
Ah!
I loved it. I want to do it just like this. Make it into a stand-up, put a bow around its neck.
Sit it on the counter.
Awesome.
Love it.
I never see that one online outside of eBay. And another one
I never see online outside of eBay is Cricket Collection's In the Garden.
I'm pretty sure I haven't already bought this. I feel like deja vu, but I don't think I bought this one.
If I did, I'll give it away. Whatever.
I bought it for this. I love this. The beehive with the flowers. It's beautiful.
Finally, her Prairie Moons have been mostly picked over thanks to my first video and
Jen's Stitching Niche and Diana.
All of us have mentioned, all of us have called and got stuff,
have influenced other people to call and buy stuff, so Prairie Moon is pretty much--pretty much picked, but I did pick up
Mr. BonesJangle.
Because I thought he was cute and a quick stitch.
If you are still looking for Prairie Moons, I'm trying to remember what she has.
I can't remember.
Sorry. She doesn't have any of the big ones. Like you're not gonna find Red and the Black, Red and the Black II,
Thine Is the Trick and the Treat, Mine Is the Trick and the Treat--you're not gonna find those.
She--like I said, she just has--I think it was like Pineapple Welcome, and there's like Old Glory Scissor Fob, and
Some of the--some of the smaller--
smaller designs that maybe aren't like the A-list of Prairie Moon.
I've been super happy with what I've found there so far though.
Then after that one--there are four stores in Alabama and
most of them closed at 3 o'clock on Saturdays.
Sad,
since it's like a three-hour drive for me.
But I found one that didn't close until 5, so I went over there after I hit up Cross-Stitch Peddler. This was
Patches and Stitches.
Patches and Stitches.
So while I was there I picked up a few things from their clearance bin.
I got Cinnamon Heart Needleworks' Autumnal Pumpkins, which I bought solely for this one.
Because it has pumpkins and a beehive for
$2.50. Win.
I got Ewe and Eye and Friends' Christmas Basket.
This was the only one they had of this one. I think they had more of the Autumnal Pumpkins.
And Ewe and Eye and Friends' Brown Bunny.
I think--
Natasha, Stitcharella, did you do this one?
Someone did this one, and it was really freaking cute, and everyone freaked out about it.
They did have one more of these for
$4.
I picked up Grand Old Flag, which is a Blackbird Designs by Maggie
Bonanomi.
This was the only one they had of this.
I got The Prairie Schooler, Weather Wise. Only one they had of this.
Which I've wanted to do ever since I saw someone who did this one for the eclipse, because Sun and Moon.
Cute.
And I think Evergreen Needle did this one, but she made it really spooky,
which is awesome.
And the last thing I picked up there was Mirabilia, Damask Roses. Again, the only one they had of this one.
It was a nice little store. it was--
they have a different system there where they have binders, and you flip through the binder
and you find the one that you like and you
write down the shop number--it has a shop number on it, you write down that number,
and then you go and give your list of numbers to
the employee, and she goes into the back, where they have file cabinets,
and she goes through and pulls out your charts. If it's the only one in the--that
they have in the store, then they'll say on the binder, you know, "Only one. Please take this one." Well these were the only ones
of those.
They do not have--like if you're looking for Lady of the Flag, any of that, they don't have that.
This was really the only out-of-print Mira I saw.
They do have
one that--I don't think it's been reprinted yet. They had Country Season by Prairie Schooler.
If you are looking for Blackbird Designs' A Stitcher's Journey or
Hedgerow Birds Project Bag, they did have that. This is again Patches and Stitches in Alabama.
What else did they have. Like I said, they had the Brown Bunny by Ewe and Eye and Friends.
They had one of those in their clearance bin.
One Goode Huswife. It was like that Full Moon,
I think, the one that's white on black fabric and has the house and the moon. They had that one.
They had a few Merrily Beams
charts--M.A. Beams.
Not like the
Liberty sampler,
but just a few of--a few of her other charts.
So it was--it was a nice little store. It was a--
if there's something a little older that you're looking for, you might want to give them a shot.
They might have it in stock. Like I said, not a Goode Huswife, Primitive Needle,
Prairie Moon--you're not gonna find those.
And those two Blackbird Designs charts I mentioned are really the only ones I saw that were--oh! I lied. I think they had a
couple of the--
from the series that had the
mystery sampler
in it. So like the Two Hands, like the green glove with a frilly cuff thing.
They might have had a couple from that series.
Not the more popular ones from that series, but a couple.
But if you're looking for more obscure designers, or, you know, older designers, then that might be worth a shot.
Last thing I got from the store is--
I kept debating over this. I didn't buy it and didn't buy it and didn't buy it and
finally I caved, because Sassy Jack's Stitchery had more in stock.
I got the Uffindell Sisters. I mainly bought it for this one. For Ann. I love this.
I love the patchwork basket. I love the striped baskets up here. I love these flowers.
This. I love the colors. Everything about this. I love it. I have fabric on order.
I'm probably gonna stitch it in DMC because let's be real, that's just how I roll.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to doing that one. And then here's Isabelle. Which, I have not rolled out doing Isabelle's sampler.
We'll think about it. I like Ann's the best though.
Okay, couple of club things, and then quickly 2018 plans. So I joined the Colour and Cotton fabric club.
I was inspired.
And the very first one came. I can't remember the name of this. Is it Hot Cocoa? It's a 40-count one, and it's
this beautiful
kind of red brown.
That is super accurate to color. And I love it. Love it.
I think I'm gonna email her and ask her to change my subscription from the 32 to 40 to
just 40 only, because that's what I prefer stitching on.
And you can fit a bit of a bigger chart on a smaller piece of fabric.
And then--oh,
but I was really, really pleased. Her fabric club, for this size--
this is a--this is 13 by 17? 13 x 18? Something like that?
For this size, is $14 a month and that includes shipping.
I thought that was very reasonable.
I do want to note, if you are particularly sensitive to scents, when I got this, it did smell like
fabric softener or something. I'm guessing however she sets the dye has some kind of scent involved. But
all I did--
unfold it and
draped it over my--
a chair in my living room for a day, and
I smell nothing.
It's fine.
So don't be alarmed if you are sensitive to scents and you get your--that may be something to consider.
If you get your fabric and you're like, "I can't use this; it smells like fabric softener."
Just, like I said, I draped it over my chair, and it went away in a day, and now it's fine.
And I don't smell anything and I have a super sensitive nose when it comes to
to
perfumey scents like that. Okay, the last club kit I got--or the second club thing I got was
from the Ladies Prim Society, Dyeing to Stitch. Rosehips and Ivy by Blackbird Designs.
I love this so much, and I haven't started yet because I was so focused on finishing--
finishing my other projects, but I've got to do this one. It's amazing.
It's beautiful. And as usual, it comes with everything you need.
Threads, fabric.
No finishing fabric because you just use the--
I think you just use linen.
But
that is that.
Okay, quickly, quickly because I'm at an hour and I'm not doing another 90-minute video. I can't do it, y'all. Can't do it.
Plans for
2018.
These are
tentative plans.
I don't want to get stuck into feeling like I have to do something. The only thing I feel like I
have to do and that I really want to do is
finish six blocks on this, so this one and five more.
But
2018. So I've been getting a lot of out-of-print charts.
I don't want them to just sit in my stash. I want to stitch them. I want to loan them out
to some of my
Georgia stitcher friends and my fellow Flosstubers
who I've become friendly with.
I don't want them to just sit here and take up space and never be used, because they're beautiful and they should be stitched.
So 2018 is gonna be the Year of OOPs. I cannot remember who called them--
who thought it was "oops."
O-O-P, for "out-of-print." She's like, "Why does everything say oops? Are these mistake charts? I don't get it."
And then she saw "out-of-print," she's like, "Ohhhhh.
Got it."
But 2018 is going to be my Year of OOPs. So I went through and picked out one chart from
all of the out-of-print designers--or most of the out-of-print designers that I have--that I have charts for.
And
some of these are going to be bigger projects and some are things that will stitch up fairly quickly.
I try to do a mix. I also try to prioritize any projects that I promised to loan to someone else,
so you won't be waiting forever.
First up, I have a couple of Blackbird Designs charts.
This one I was super lucky to find online. Oh, this is another haul!
Easter Parade, Blackbird Designs. I was super lucky and randomly found this online at a store I had never shopped at before.
Half Moon Stitchery.
They don't have anymore, I'm sorry, but they might have other stuff you're looking for, so go check them out.
The shipping was kind of pricey,
so I just ordered this one thing, because that's one thing I've learned:
I do not want to order an out-of-print chart and then some in-print charts
and then be slammed with a really high shipping price
when this ends up out of stock. Like, I'm not gonna pay that high shipping for
charts that are in print that I can get anywhere. So I just buy the out-of-print chart, period, that's all I get,
done. And it has to be the one I really want, because then I'm okay with paying like $7 for shipping.
But I got Easter Parade and
the one I want to focus on for Year of OOPs is the bunny.
I want to stitch that too, but the bunny.
And Half Moon Stitchery had really good customer service. They sent me a
skein of Berry Cobbler, which is one of the called-for colors in this chart, and
wrote a nice personal note that said, "We hope you really enjoy stitching this. Here's a skein to get you started."
So shipping was a bit steep, but the customer service--
excellent.
All right, so that's--that's possible chart number one.
Turn number two is Blackbird Designs' Blackbird's Winter Delivery.
Have I showed this here? I don't know if I've showed this one either.
But this is a recent eBay purchase for a very reasonable price, and I want to do this one. It also comes with this design.
And I was thinking
of that. My Colour in Cotton subscription. I'll think about it. It might work.
Possible chart number three. Theron Traditions' The Industrious Bee Sampler.
The colors, the composition, the sentiment. Everything about this, I love, love, love, love.
I'm even looking forward to trying the Queen stitches, which I've never done before.
Next out-of-print designer, Sheepish Designs.
Bee Keeper.
Fifty-First Exemplary.
I thought this looked like it would be a really quick stitch, because it's just--it's just the same stitch
over and over, the buttonhole stitch, for the front and the back. And then on one side you do a little--
a little opening and some embroidery and a
bee charm. =So I thought I could stitch that one up fairly quickly.
In the Primitive Needle category, we have Halloween Garden.
Which Michelle at Cozy Egg, I believe, just finished this, and it's beautiful.
The Prairie Moon category has two contenders. First of all, this is one I'll definitely be working on. This is Faces of Eve.
I told McKenna she could borrow this after I'm done, so that'll motivate me to finish it in 2018.
And second contender is
Garden of Skulls. This is one of the designs I had bought that
Vintage Country Mocha for--or asked for Vintage Country Mocha for, but I think it's too--
the fabric is too light. I think I want something that's a little more gold
so that it'll complement the dark color here. Yeah.
And this is going to Sim Swank after I stitch it.
I also have Mirabilia's Sleeping Beauty. I have fabric for this. I think it's 32-count Picture This Plus
Arctic. I have the beads. I have threads. I have the chart.
All I gotta do is start it. And that was a fat half of fabric and was not cheap, so I'm starting it.
I'm not wasting that much money.
For Midsummer Night's Designs, I have Heaven Above.
With all the tiny little motifs.
I think I am gonna stitch the whole thing.
I still have to
make a final decision, but I'm kind of leaning toward stitching the whole thing instead of just
the top.
From Dimples Designs, or Terrance Nolan, Jeweled Scarab.
I thought about starting one of the bees, because I--you would think I would start one of the bees.
But for some reason this one was really calling to me.
So I'll stitch it first.
Also, if you're looking for some of the DImples Designs--not the Wee Beasties, unfortunately, so not this, but
some of the flowers.
If you're looking for Shall We Dance, the one with the fairy and the butterfly--or a bird, whatever it is.
Hummingbird. Fairy and hummingbird.
There was one that is a--
some kind of very colorful duck with a funny name.
Snickerdoodle, I think.
Something like that.
They have a Santa
holding toys.
When I was at Cross-Stitch Peddler in Decatur, Alabama,
I saw all these and more, so if you're looking for a Dimples Design floral--
a flower design, the Shall We Dance--they had two copies of that--
one of the Christmas Santas, the one that has just Asian characters.
Kanji? I'm not sure
what language.
Probably Japanese. But if you're looking for one of those,
then she had--she had several of those available. So,
looking for Dimples Designs, Cross-Stitch Peddler, Decatur, Alabama.
Give her a call. She might have what you're looking for.
Okay, next in line. Chartmakers' Bee True.
I thought that looked like a really fast stitch and
that gets in--maybe that's why I decided on the scarab, because I think I've already shown you like two or three with bees.
From Brightneedle, Elizabethan Garden Sampler.
Which
Lorrie of Mischievous Stitches, in one of her early videos she showed this one framed,
and I immediately fell in love with it and
went on a massive internet hunt until I found it in an online
store and bought the last copy they had. Which is why it's a little
shop-worn.
And finally, from Birds of a Feather, I have Red Reindeer.
Another--should be a reasonably quick stitch.
So those are my tentative plans. I want to try to get--my, you know, goal is to start
one a month
at least and
try to finish as many of the little ones as I can so that I can then
loan those out to some of my friends, because
share the wealth.
But yeah, like I said these are tentative. It is subject to change.
But my hope is that
2018 will be Year of OOPs and I can start tackling
some of these out-of-print charts that have been building up in my stash and
so that other people
can enjoy them too, and so that I can enjoy them as they were meant to be enjoyed, which is in this format,
not this format.
All right, that is everything I have for you today. I kept it under an hour and a half. I'm so happy.
I hope all of you have a wonderful New Year's. I think New Year's Day is one of my favorites, just because there's so much possibility.
You know,
all of your plans and all of your goals seem completely within reach. Oh!
That's not all I have for you today. Speaking of goals within reach reminded me.
Flosstube Fit Club.
If you're not in it,
go join.
Diana--itiskisment_stitches--started Flosstube Fit Club so that we can work on being a--
just a healthier us, whether that means, you
know, physically, mentally, emotionally healthier.
Whatever being healthy means to you.
We can work toward that in 2018. For instance, my goal--one--I committed to
making a small change before 2018 of
getting up at
6 o'clock in the morning, which I know sounds like an ungodly hour for many of you.
But I just found that if I get up at that time, I'm more likely to go to bed at a reasonable hour.
I'm more tired, so I sleep better.
I don't wake up as much during the night.
I'm more likely to exercise in the morning because I have enough time to drink my coffee and eat my breakfast and
exercise and shower before I go to work.
And then just generally, you know, I get so much more done.
Even if it's raining or I can't exercise, I do laundry or I do dishes.
I pick up around the house.
I feel much better about myself when I get up early in the morning and
can get the things--fit in the parts of my routine that I enjoy.
So I started to do that. That's gonna be one thing that I really focus on in 2018 is
just that one simple step of getting up early, because it can change
so much else about my life. Just getting up early means
I am more likely to exercise, so I don't have to commit to "I'm gonna exercise X days a week."
It's just, if I get up early everyday, I
gradually
just kind naturally start building that into my routine.
Making an appointment for a haircut,
because I have not had a haircut since I started making Flosstube videos because my stylist left the salon and
it's really--making another appointment is something that brings me a lot of anxiety, so I haven't done that.
Well, I'm gonna do that in January. I'm gonna make a hair--make an appointment to get my hair cut, because I don't like it
being down to my shoulders. I like it up here.
It looks less messy.
But just, you know if you're a part of the stitching community, and you want 2018 to be a focus on a
healthier,
more positive
year, so not
"Oh, I'm so fat," or "I can't believe I did that," but just saying, "Yes,
okay, this is a thing that happened."
I ate an entire box of Raisinets yesterday.
That is a thing that happened.
And it is what it is, and we're gonna move on from it, and I'm just gonna
make better choices about
my
after-dinner snacks today.
I'm not gonna beat myself up about that,
because you can't do everything perfectly, and you're gonna slip up here and there, and
just, yeah, you gotta roll with it sometimes.
And don't be too hard on yourself.
So if you're interested in that,
join us. You can look at0--it's on Facebook under Flosstube Fit Club. You can go see Diana's latest video for more information.
And I hope I'll see you around there. So like I said, I hope everyone has a great new year.
I hope your first couple weeks in January,
your new starts and everything that you have planned for the year,
I hope it comes to fruition for you, because y'all are really awesome people and
you're worth it. So have a great one. Bye.
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BREAKING: Mar-A-Lago Forced To SHUT DOWN. - Duration: 3:13.
BREAKING: Mar-A-Lago Forced To SHUT DOWN.
President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Golf Club was forced to shut down on Friday, and
the reason why has people ecstatic.
The President has been spending his Christmas vacation at the Florida club to take some
time away from the chaos in Washington, but it hasn't come without some chaos of its
own.
In fact, earlier this week, a crew for CNN was caught in the bushes trying to spy on
President Trump as he played a round of golf at the exclusive resort, so the President
did what anyone wanting privacy would do – he had a giant white box truck parked right in
their line of view so the CNN camera's couldn't see in.
Although despite the fake news media's attempts to catch the President in a precarious predicament,
he came out on top once again, and he did so in a major way.
On Friday, 45 decided he was going to honor the brave men and women of the Coast Guard
in a manner that no other president in the past has done – shut down the entire private
resort to allow them to play a tournament and enjoy themselves for the day.
From the White House pool report:
Per White House:
The President invited service members of the United States Coast Guard – from Station
Lake Worth Inlet and other Coast Guard members from across the United States – to play
golf today at Trump International Golf Course.
"These brave men and women patrol the waterways near Palm Beach and Mar-a-Lago every day.
The president wanted to thank these service members personally for their service to this
nation," deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said.
Check out some pictures:
"@POTUS shut down Mar-a-Lago on Friday to show appreciation for the brave men & women
in the @USCG, letting them play a tournament on the prestigious course, all on his dime.
He fed them meals all day too.
Thank you, Mr. President!
#MAGA"
According to reports, the President also made sure the golfing soldiers were well fed throughout
the day, serving them lunch and snacks as they made their way around the course.
As if you anyone really needed to be reminded, Barack Obama played golf 333 times while he
was in office, according to CBS News reporter Mark Knoller.
Of those, do you know how many times he shut down a golf course to let our brave soldiers
have a tournament?
None.
However, he did once interrupt a golf game to address the beheading of James Foley, but
it was only a brief pause before he went back onto the course to finish the hole he was
on.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, than what's it worth to shut down your entire
elite golf course so people, who probably couldn't afford to play there otherwise,
can have an afternoon of fun?
Thank you, President Trump, for showing so much appreciation to the one branch of our
Armed forces that gets the least amount of recognition.
I'm positive you not only made their day, but gave them a major boost in morale as well
as an awesome story to tell for the rest of their lives.
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Day 16 Getaway Canning Stock Route 4x4 Australia 2017 - Duration: 8:28.
Hi folks, and thanks for joining us on
day 16 of the Getaway Canning Stock Route
1800 kms of corrugations
(they're washboard roads folks),
900 sand dunes and 4 deserts.
We're 8 Club members 5 vehicles and we're in
search of adventure! So let's go
Here's a visual for you showing Billiluna where we started the track
and Wiluna where we will finish.
Good rains resulted in the vegetation being in full bloom
After all, we're travelling through the Western Desert.
Today, we're traveling through Wiluna country
from well 3 to North Pool.
Meanwhile, the psycho signage continues...
Now they tell us it's a dry weather track only!
Are we at well 4A?
I thought we'd bypassed that.
No, that's says TO well 4A. Yeah,
We passed that guy yesterday that had a trailer
and it says no trailers. Yeah.
Or wide tracks, no camping fires...
Where are we at Denise do you reckon? Which well?
Three..?
Thank goodness for our fantastic trip leader
and outstanding navigator, Mr. Murray.
And the sign on the well helped too.
Well 3 and it's been done up by
the Foothills 4WD Club it says on that.
Yeah, well done. Little plug for 4WD clubs. Yes.
They do a lot of good work. Yeah, absolutely.
Big shout out to the Foothills 4WD Club
Thank you for all your hard work.
There'll be a link below.
If you want to join a good club, click on that.
Let's see it
My camera is not as good as Graham's so his is better.
Pretty nicely maintained
but it stinks so we're not filling up.
Erica says there's nothing. Nothing to report. No what?
No murders, no strangulations, no...no camels in wells
Nothing. No. Smells a bit like there might have been.
Say that again.
The well smells a bit like there might have been.
Good point.
This could be our last day... Depends.
Erika is getting excited about staying still, a last stop
37 kms before the, Wiluna. One more night.
I've run out of soy milk so I'm kinda toey to run.
Bobby's got a gleam in his eye too.
He's going to make a run for it the little brat
Not quite sure why...
We were highly perplexed by the stone arrangements
on the side of the track in this area.
Graves perhaps..?
They're not actually graves and things. They're just markers.
We think people might have broken down and
the others just put some sort of cairn or
little memento. That says SA.
I'm not sure what I think about these things.
Graffiti takes many forms.
Here we are at The Granite's.
Ok what have we got here Graham?
Well they look like they've been worked.
See the chips off the edge.
Ohhh, like arrowheads and such? Yeah
So it looks like maybe seen a bit of Aboriginal..
This is an artifact site. Yeah.
Wow! That's in a bit of a state isn't it?
So is this called tank 2? 2A. Oh well 2A it says.
Bit of a wreck. 2A yeah. Bit of water.
Well some it's in good nick.
This well was blasted out
and then a stone wall was built around the edge
to keep the animals out.
Of course, the "A" and "B" wells, remember
they were constructed by Snell.
If you want to learn more about this guy just follow
just follow the link (click here).
Chatter
There's the tank here
No water in that though
So this is well 2. thought this had been done up?
Yeah well that's it, I suppose, a couple of logs here.
I can't see anything down there folks.
Oh yeah there is a bit of water right in the bottom
but might not pick up on this camera.
Some of the guys, when they were camped along here
They were actually bogged in for a couple of weeks
I can see why. Yeah absolutely.
and while they were here they had a herd of about
25 goats. They got mauled by dingos and
had to put about 6 of them down.
So after that every time they got to a campsite
they actually build a fence around to protect the goats.
Not good when its a good source of food.
So they were pushing goats at that point?
They were pushing goats at that point.
What year was that?
Think that was the 2nd expedition when Canning came out
They weren't actually pushing goats
They were taking a small group of goats with them
as food for the surveying team
and the construction workers.
The guy who looked after them was a young Aboriginal
boy called nipper (by the white fellas).
We were surprised. We've all commented on
how beautiful it has been, the drive between well 3
and well 2.
Well, we made it to the end of the track.
We were pretty jubilant I must say.
There you go Jeremy's getting a few snaps
Graham..well we might have lost him in the bushes
for a quick tinkle
Loaded up with wood for the night.
For the last camp
We're on the gravel folks.
It's about 40 ks to Wiluna.
We are camping before Wiluna as I said.
Wow it's just been incredible
What a trip.
I'm doing 70 kph. Unbelieveable that we've been
averaging like 20 kph.
So um yeah...it's weird to be doing this speed.
Here we are at North Pool
Just before Wiluna.
Chatter
They've had a bit fair bit of rain
so the water looks a bit muddy.
But it's a nice spot.
Our last camp on the trip was another oasis
My goodness, it was a bird paradise
so our photographers were in hog heaven.
That night we had a lovely fire
Lesley cooked us pancakes. Thank you Lesley!
You are a campfire cooking goddess!
And we had a talent show
and I was amazed at the range of talent
displayed by the group.
That's what made this trip so memorable
Wonderful people doing wonderful things!
So if you liked the video please give me a thumbs up
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I hope you'll join us for
the last day on the stock route. Day 17.
Till then, I'll see you later. Bye bye.
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December Wrap Up 2017 [CC] - Duration: 15:08.
Hi everyone! My name is Frede and today, I'm going to be talking about the books that I read in December.
This is gonna be a bit of a messy kind of wrap-up because it's the 21st now
and I'm gonna be talking about the three books that I've sort of read so far,
and then I'm going to my mum's for Christmas and then I'm staying there until the new year.
So everything that I read until then I'm gonna be doing another part of this and then I'm just gonna be editing
it together because I can't be bothered to do two videos for this because it's not that many books.
But I just thought that would be the easiest.
Because I have some time now and if I talk about those three books now
I don't have to talk about them at the end of the month and use that time that I could use for other things
then. So that's just how I'm gonna do it today.
It's a bit like messy but I don't really care.
So the first book that I finished was a comic I guess which is something I usually don't read.
And it's called Purgatory by Holly Brown.
So this is the kind of special limited Kickstarter edition,
I'm gonna put this down.
She's a youtuber, I'm gonna be leaving her channel down below, she makes videos about art.
I'm not an artist but I really enjoy watching her videos,
I think she's hilarious. And she has been doing this webcomic for, I don't know, two years
maybe I think. Quite a long time. And some time in summer I think she had a Kickstarter
for it and I thought okay I really enjoy your videos I would like to kind of support you.
So I donated her some money to get this limited edition from her comic.
So it's got this very pretty picture.
The normal edition kind of that you can buy has another cover which I will be like inserting a photo of here.
But yeah so I've got the special edition I guess.
This is about sort of a religious community, almost kind of like a cult.
They live in some sort of society that's almost like the 50s,
it's very conservative, you have like very strict roles for things people can do,
and you have two I think 15 year old boys, Simon and Damian, and Simon is the son of a priest I guess,
and Damian is a boy who just recently moved to that town,
and kind of through their relationship and through Simon showing Damian around,
you kind of get to see this world. It's a really cruel religion,
they sacrifice people every season or something,
to kind of wash away the sins of the entire community or something like that.
And it's a really interesting kind of concept and basically, you have their relationship
in this very religious, probably very homophobic society.
I really, really liked the art style of this,
I love Holly Brown as an artist and I really did enjoy it for that.
Also when I was reading this I had a lot of uni stress and I couldn't really do a novel,
like my brain was just not having it. So that was very nice to just still be reading something,
to be experiencing a story but kind of a bit easier on my brain I guess.
I think the story could've used some editing, though. Sometimes the dialogue felt a bit clumsy,
there were a couple of like spelling mistakes in there, so yeah, someone should've looked over this.
Like this is self-published so this is kind of why it is like that.
Yeah so I mean it's- I guess it was an average story but I kind of still enjoyed it for what it was,
There is rape in here, so definitely trigger warning for that.
Yeah, this wasn't outstanding but it was enjoyable while I was reading it.
The second book that I wanna talk about today is a DNF but I kind of really almost finished it.
And that is Siclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here which I had to read for a class on satires.
And this is a book that imagines fascism to rise in the US, it was written in the 1930s.
It's a really bad book.
So I mean this is how far I got. So I've really almost finished it but at some point I just gave up.
Because I was like I can't do it, I can't do it, it's so bad.
Because basically, what the book makes fun of is this sentiment that a lot of Americans have
like 'oh we're so special, like something like fascism can't happen here'
so this is kind of what it makes fun of, at least in the beginning.
But then this guy who is kind of this fascist figure becomes the president of the US,
And after that it just- like, it's not even a downward spiral,
it just from one second to the next just [fwoop noise] and it's bad.
And it's just, it's not a good book. The dialogue is really awkward sometimes,
the story is just like something happens, something happens, something happens, something happens,
but there's no connection between anything.
And Sinclair Lewis I think researched this topic for years, five years maybe even more,
but he wrote this in like half a year or three months or something.
And you can really see that. It's a really bad novel and there's really- yeah I couldn't do it.
All the characters are also extremely flat, they're just there- like it feels like they're just there
so that Sinclair can kind of talk about fascism but they're not- they don't feel like real characters,
and they speak so weirdly. So yeah, there was really nothing good about this.
And I really hope that for my exam I won't need this book. So I'm gonna have to write two essays
and I really hope that there will be no essay question on this book because I just hated it so much
and I really don't wanna finish this.
And the last book that I have for today is a book that I did finish but it was also for uni,
and that is Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss.
This is a book about a man who is found in the desert somewhere in Nevada
and he has lost all his memory and so he comes to a hospital and they find a tumor on his brain.
And they- he has an operation and they kind of manage to cut the tumor out
but he loses most of his memory, the only thing he remembers is his life before he was 12.
So he doesn't remember his wife, he doesn't remember his friends, he doesn't remember anything in his job,
and so his wife comes and picks him up, they go back to New York where he's actually from
so I mean that's quite a way to go from like New York to Nevada,
but so that's where he goes and then that's kind of where the story develops.
And this was Nicole Krauss's first novel I believe and you can really tell.
Because the beginning was really strong, like the first 70 pages I flew through
I really, really loved those. And then it just kind of went downhill very slowly and then very fast.
It's just- you get these- you get a lot of like plot strings kind of and they all-
you have so many loose ends. And at the end of the novel I had so many questions but not in a good way
like you know there are some books that leave you with a lot of questions
and it's like this was brilliant. But this wasn't. She- I think she was trying to do something that was
very smart, but I don't think she really succeeded in that. You can really tell this is her first novel.
I would like to read something else by her, because as I said, the beginning was really strong
and maybe she developed her writing more into that direction.
I don't know, I might have to look into that. But yeah, so it was mediocre.
It wasn't bad but it was, yeah it was a bit underwhelming, I guess.
So these were the three books that I've read so far, as I said it's the 21st.
We'll just have a little cut until the end of the month. So see you then.
So it's now the 30th of December and as you can maybe hear, I'm a bit ill,
so we're sitting on my bed today [laughs]
And yeah basically, after we last spoke I read three more books.
And the first of them was The Good Immigrant. I started this at the beginning of the month
and finished it around Christmas. This I think made its rounds on booktube last year,
it's an essay collection kind of by different I guess ethnic minority writers from the UK
who speak about their experience as being some sort of immigrant to the UK
and how they are treated by people there, their experiences. Very differnt people, you have actors,
you have writers, you have comedians, you have I don't know people from all walks of life
which made it really, really fascinating to have like these many different perspectives
from people who come from so different places in society
and then also have a different I guess ethnic background
and are therefore also treated differently. Obviously, and I think that this is something that everyone has said
who talked about this, some of those essays were more appealing to me than others
because that's what you get when you have 21 people who are so different from each other
writing in one book, there will always be chapters that you like more than others.
But it was amazing for me to have so many different perspectives in just one place
and I definitely learned a lot from this.
And overall basically I think this is a super important book that I think everyone should read.
The next book that I finished is a tiny poetry collection by Warsan Shire
called Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth. It's really just I think 30 pages or something,
it's really short, 34 pages. And in this very short poetry collection she really manages to put so much in here.
There are some poems which are really short, just one or two lines. Which is not my type of poetry.
I always want a bit more than that. But most of them have like this length.
They're like much longer. And her poetry really worked for me, kind of her style of writing.
So basically, this is a collection where she talks about mostly like war,
and the experience of like fleeing war, war is a very I guess recurring topic in this collection
but she also talk about I guess sexual assault, she talks about eating disorders,
a lot of very heavy topics. And these poems really, they- so many of them just
pack a punch and you read it and then the last couple of words just make you go like
wow ok, I was not expecting this kind of turn.
I always find it very difficult to speak about poetry but this was a collection that really, really worked for me.
And I'm gonna have a look at what else she's written because this was really, really good.
And then the last book that I finished was a short story collection,
so I really read a lot of different types of books in the second half of the month,
and that is The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell.
I've seen a lot of people rave about this book and I love Jen's youtube channel
she's really one of my favourite booktubers, and I'm kind of really frustrated about this.
Because Jen can write. She's an amazing writer in the sense that she really knows how to use language
to make you feel things. And she can really spin these beautiful sentences,
but with some of these stories, they just didn't work for me at all.
Especially, like for example the first story which is called Animals.
Which I've seen a lot of people say that this was one of their favourites,
and for me, the general premise of the story was fascinating,
it's basically if you haven't read it about people buying hearts, mostly from animals
to kind of carry those hearts around with them and then after a while they implant them
into different humans. Which is a fascinating concept.
But what just really irked me and that was something she did in a couple of other stories
but it was the worst in that first story for me, she did a lot of research on different topics,
and I've seen her talk about this in youtube videos where she says some of these stories
came into existence because she did research on a certain topic and then these things she found out
inspired her to write a story. But sometimes it felt like she was just info-dumping,
like showing 'oh look at all these things I know', putting them in the story
and they had something to do with the story, but it was just- you know you have the plot, you have the action
going on and then there is this random sentence, I don't know, 'There used to be a queen who ate hearts,'
and then the story kind of goes into this direction but it just- it really always dragged me out of
the experience of reading those stories and experiencing the world in those stories,
which was really frustrating because as I said, her writing is beautiful.
And so some stories really just left me with this feeling 'God, I wish you had edited this differently.'
Yeah, there were also some stories that I don't really think I got,
where I just read them and at the end I was left feeling very confused
and just feeling like I read a couple of pages with a lot of beautifully written sentences
but no substance to them. Which was really, really sad because as I said, she can write.
But sometimes I felt like I just don't- I didn't get it. I don't know.
There were some stories in here that were amazing, though.
There was one which is called Margaret and Mary at the end of the world.
That was one of my favourite stories, I also really liked the title story of this collection,
those were really, really good. They were really strong and also in the Margaret and Mary one,
there was also a lot of research in the background of that story,
she kind of manages to weave this research into the stories but it doesn't drag me out of the story as much
as with for example the first story. So there were some stories in here that were so strong and like amazing
and if I would give the stories themselves star ratings I would give those stories five stars out of five,
but then there were some that just- just really didn't work for me
and just kind of left me a bit disappointed and underwhelmed.
So, yeah. As a whole, I'm not sure how I liked this.
So these were the last three books that I read in December,
this was a bit of I guess an experimental way to do a wrap up, but this way I had my books to hold them up,
which was nice because I like being able to hold my books up.
If you've read any of the books I talked about today also in the first kind of half of this
do tell me what you thought of them, I would be very interested to hear about that.
And thank you for watching this video, I will see you in my next one. Bye!
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Hello again and welcome back.
So, today I have with me, my beautiful wife, Vania, and we are going to be looking at present
perfect, simple past and future.
Have you cleaned the barbecue area?
No!
I haven't.
But, I will clean it next week.
Have you cooked chili?
No!
I haven't cooked chili lately.
But, I will cook chili next year.
But I love spices.
Did you get your hair cut last week?
No, I didn't get my hair cut last week.
But I will want to get my hair cut next week because it's too long.
Did you call home last weekend?
No!
I didn't call home last weekend.
But I plan on calling home, Monday, I think.
Or, I will call home Monday.
Have you written to our blog in 2017?
No, I haven't written in the blog in 2017.
But, I will write in the blog in 2018.
Have you exercised this month?
Yes, I've exercised this month.
And I will exercise in 2018; to lose weight.
Have you traveled abroad?
I have traveled abroad many times.
No!
Yes!
And hopefully, Vania and I will travel abroad next year.
Yep!
Okay. Did you fix a computer last week?
Yes, I fixed Vania's computer last week, and hopefully, I won't have to fix it next week.
Happy
New Year!
Tchau....
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Talk to me about the type of experts that you work with in the property market, because
this is a big thing and there's a lot of moving pieces.
Maybe give an example of the, someone we've worked with, with you and how many different
people are actually involved.
Oh look, you have 7 or 8.
So, I started off getting life coaches, I dunno, 15 years ago when the term had literally
just started and suddenly there's quite a few people out there.
But now there's a lot more coaches that are very, very specific on, I guess, anything
from sales to financial planning to accounting to whatever else.
But look, I have people for everything, so, I use people like Deloitte Private for doing
all my accounting stuff because they're dealing with billionaires and, and the billionaires
have put all the money into the research to understand trusts and the rest of it, so then
little old me can then kind of get the benefit of doing those kind of things.
I then have specific experts in specific areas as to what I think's going on with the market
like the ??? research or the ??? datas.
But literally throughout my life I've then got valuers, building inspectors, strata inspectors,
builders, ??? people like town planners, and literally you, you almost need 5 or 10.
Yep.
And with the early days you could get away with one or two, but as you get more sophisticated,
you do bigger things, the risks go up but the rewards do as well, you get more and more
sophisticated.
And so, again it's, we're now looking at kind of, kind of family stuff, between husband
and wife, wife, and for our kids, wills, how do we sort all that stuff out?
So I'm tryna build plan Bs, Cs and Ds to really make sure I'm gonna be wealthy for life.
But in the early days when you're in your 20s and 30s, you just need that one or two
people just to get you in the market and get started.
Definitely.
I think with the investment strategy it's very important to have your rules and stick
to them, so we've referred some members to Chris, maybe like 18 months ago, and I think
you only just pur, purchased properties for them so there, the metrics just weren't there
and they were getting a little bit impatient, they were wanting to buy but you were just
like, No, it'll come, and you've eventually got it then.
And that's the funny thing, because, so as far as agents, we, we effectively buy properties,
so people come to us, they tell us what they want and, and we say well that's good or bad,
maybe you should do something else, but suddenly when they've made that decision, they want
the property the next day.
Yep.
And we're saying, If the right thing doesn't come up, it's taken you two years to get here,
don't panic and just jump when, jump into the next thing that might be overpriced or
not the right thing.
Whether it takes a month or three or four months, some people it might even take eight
or nine because they're after something that specific, but if you're gonna hold it for
30 years...
It's irrelevant, isn't it?
So my first property, I bought at 80 thousand pounds, and now it's worth four or five hundred,
in hindsight whether I paid 60, 80 or 100 doesn't really matter but it's finding the
right property because I might have bought something else for cheaper that's then only
gone up to two or three hundred.
And it's the capital growth, that's where the money is.
And hindsight's a great thing.
You've gotta know that it's the right time for you so there's always an investment opportunity
out there, and just because your friend or someone else is doing a particular investment
opportunity, doesn't mean it's right for you in that situation.
That's one of the big challenges, it's blocking out the noise and realising what's right for
you, right now.
And most of the time the friends aren't doing the right thing.
And so, one of the first rules of ??? wealth creation is, don't listen to your friends
and family, parents, taxi drivers, your mate, your colleagues, because most of them aren't
qualified to do it.
If they, they've got 10 or 20 properties and they're making millions from it, sure listen
to them.
Yep.
But if it's your best mate and he's got good ideas for you, then yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe just keep it as a friendship.
And that's a big thing, follow the wealth.
Like that's some, one of the things that we like talk about a lot.
We surround ourselves with wealthier, more successful people cause they've done it, we
want to learn from them.
Yeah.
And a lot of those people are willing to give the advice.
So a lot of people say to me, Why would you share all of your secrets and kind of put
it out there, and it's well, most people aren't going to do it anyway and there's nothing
wrong if I've got enough money I don't need to kind of keep it and pool it all myself,
you share the knowledge and get it out there.
Because then those clients may then come back and say hey Chris I've got an even bigger
opportunity with a block of units, but I haven't got the funds for it, maybe we could do something
together, so yeah, reciprocity, it's always hard trying to get that word out.
You did well.
I just wanna really thank you for today, you're an amazing, intelligent person in the property
market but what I love about you is that you just keep it really simple, you stick to a
strategy.
You mentioned about your book, can people get access to a copy of your book or anything
like that?
Yeah sure, and again we don't even charge for it so if you just go to yourempire dot
com dot au, there's actually two books you can download now.
So there's The Effortless Empire which is the strategy of kind of making five or ten
million bucks that's a big picture book and then my original book Go For Your Life that
was how I kind of started from the first property to number six, joint ventures, how to do things
with your parents, how to do things with brothers and sisters, and effectively how I retired
at 31 and so that's a great starting book.
So yeah, both together and it's all free.
And we're offering a free financial kickstart session if you go to our website, it's on
the front page, you can book in and we can actually start working out if property is
the right thing for you and the right time and we're finding Chris is now, when someone
comes, buys your property you generally will send them to us first because you want someone
who's a successful investor over long term, that's how your business works, isn't it?
Yeah.
And if they're, if they're not set up in the right way or they haven't got the right strategy,
it's not a long term win for you.
No, cause we wanna get clients that are all ready to go.
And so, if they don't really understand it, we don't want them buying a half a million,
million dollar property because if you think you can afford it and you haven't got the
funds and you can't get settled, you're gonna lose everything.
So it's a very dangerous thing.
So we love people who go to planners, accountants, mortgage brokers, get all the right advice
because they're the ones that are qualified to give advice, and then we just do the property
piece.
Brilliant.
Final tip for 2017, what would it be?
Just do it.
That's great.
Even if the worst thing comes to an end, it's generally never that bad.
So as long as you, you've ticked eight of the 10 boxes, just go and do it.
Brilliant.
Thanks Chris.
Good to see you, pleasure.
Thanks all!
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