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Beaded, Lacy Loom Bracelet with Beth Walker - Jewel Loom School with Jewels
Beth Walker, of She Is Unfinished, joins Jewels to make a beautiful, eclectic bracelet on the Small Wisdom Warrior Loom on this Jewel Loom School tutorial. You can also use the Small Sun Weaver to make this bracelet. Beth is a mixed media artist & teacher, who loves to inspire others & bring out their creativity. Enliven your imagination by joining Beth & Jewels as they converse & use the loom.
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Transcript:
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hey we made it awesome I'm so excited I know the
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beautiful Beth for well the business was Beth Quinn
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designs and that's where we met many many moons ago right in the jewelry
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world going to different shows like Tucson the last time I think we
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physically saw each other was when you happen to be here in Ventura yeah at the fairgrounds
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great junk something or other and I'm like is that BQ in the corner like what it
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was so bizarre and I was like that is so funny you know out of all of our travels
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and then here you are in my in right 805 area code and so um
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but yeah we both have had this incredible love for for jewelry making
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really pretty things and um but really what's come full circle is
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that our passion and love for life and for in particular helping
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women definitely yeah you know we both have had our own journey of
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trial and error yeah for sure we have amazing children that
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um yeah and really great businesses that we've been able to just kind of like explore and learn as we're going and and
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so this month when I wanted to have like storytelling uh with the Looms and and
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with other artist designers I was like oh gotta get Beth
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here welcome yeah we have a good the Julian Community is like it seriously is
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the most precious Community um the women are off the charts
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loving and kind and supportive and every day in the group you just see like
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people posting what they're making and we both know the emotion that goes
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into design yeah yeah definitely and sometimes it's hard to let go of that design it is it is
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it'll be my favorite and then I'll be like okay I can put it out there now it'll be like no I don't want I want
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that yeah because because you've transitioned into actually making
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finish things because it's kind of funny people always say to me like oh well where where do you sell your jewelry and
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I'm like um if I had time are you kidding me right now like what when I'm making it's because
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I'm making to teach you how to use a product so I
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don't really ever get the opportunity to like make a friend a finish pretty and sell it yeah
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and so it's kind of interesting because you are now in the finished yes I am
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finished yeah like manufacture or whatever you know by myself
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yeah yeah so it's like throwing yourself out there naked in a way because you're
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like you know you're making these projects and you know that you've poured your heart and soul into them but what
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is that person going to think and are they going to want to buy it and where do I put it for
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sale which by the way what officially is your website it's she is unfinished.com
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and I think if you plug in Beth Quinn designs you might be able to get there I tried to match it oh yeah but um she is
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unfinished yeah because she's unfinished so I'm unfinished yeah how profound yeah
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I have a you know a lot more stories to tell I think and a lot more of a journey to go on and you know that's why I came
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up with the name so yeah yeah it's all about empowering women and
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um especially women in midlife transitions who have just maybe feel lost or that my inspiration comes to
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help them and my words and all that are on my necklaces and my art and
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yeah yes because you that is the one thing about your signature is that you
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do communicate literally in your pieces and you always have yeah and I've made
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up a lot of insanes and um all most of them have he like she is
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this or she is that and I had like a with brave Wings she flies and um yeah so that was like one of my most
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popular when I first had my business yeah I know and and it's so beautiful and
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um you know we we kind of thought that this month was going to be about the small weaving goddess and we have we
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have played with her Trisha did such a phenomenal job um a week before last she did this
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really beautiful red vivacious bracelet that she taught everybody and the whole
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thing with with the sun Weavers is that their intention was always to be about
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storytelling and so um when I found out that you were using
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the small wisdom Warrior and you were telling a story I was like well yeah duh because
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you know the warrior wisdom is about that woman who has gone through all of
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these experiences and you and I have some very similar stories and we are
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sitting in this spot right now with such a great amount of wisdom um we have a lot of work still to do and
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a lot of healing um but I think that's what's so special because I'm loving what you did on the
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wisdom Warrior and it really does just kind of tell that story of like
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there's so many levels I guess is what I'm trying to say right you're like you go through these this storm that is just
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like kicks your ass I am sorry mistake and say something yeah
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and then you have to go through this process of healing you know what they say it's like it's like you the other
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person goes on and then you're you're I could only speak for myself and then you know you're left to do all the healing
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and you're like oh
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so okay I'm gonna let you take over because I I'm a chatterbox and um and so
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why don't you show us do you want me to show you the bracelet that I made yeah show us the bracelet that you made okay
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so can you see it yeah Joan do you wanna do you wanna downsize me
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all right so it's got just a little Chinese and Beads and hearts and okay can you
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come up a little yep there you go all right you saw that lace vintage laces I love using vintage so a
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little vintage button at the end oh my God yeah and what did you warp with again
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silk so like a silk ribbon um
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yeah that's what my work is because I always bead with um
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silk when I'm knotting or something so I just had that and my stash and I was like well I'll see how that goes so I
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tried the silk and that's what seemed to work well so for me okay yeah I don't I
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don't recall us stringing or warping with any silk and I
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know that um I know beadalon does have some silk and so I'll have to get some samples
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from them yeah it's really fun to use and easy yeah just the way you work and
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you know it seems like it's well it didn't stretch right nope scratch you
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know my silk out before I tend to do that anyway okay
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um so I I do stretch it out a little bit but yeah it's not stretching or it does
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seem like maybe it could be tighter on the loom so it's kind of a looser look but um
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but yeah it works really well and I love the color so I think it adds to the bracelet with the designs and stuff that
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I use well that's nice that's really cool so
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um hopefully you don't hear all the pounding going on
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that's all right noise in the background too yeah I can't hear anything so I'm just praying I
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can't hear the craziness going on next door to my mom's house but um so that's good that you use the Silk because I'm
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always people are always like well what can I use what can I use and really the rule of thumb is like if it's not moving
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yeah you know what can I use I was like okay this is what I have on hand yeah yeah
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and um then I just have some thread you know I just took some um quilting thread that's it won't break
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so I make sure you know it's very tough it's okay pull on it and it's not gonna break so
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yeah I love um using that it seems to work really well too go through all my beads because some beads are bigger than
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others you know with their holes so oh yes yeah that's the point I mean that's
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kind of the part we're using the like the little rhinestones and the buttons and the
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things you know it's a little bit you have to go through a few more times just to make sure you oh okay
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okay so so what I love too what you shared earlier is that you know when
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people are thinking about getting into looming it's one thing to choose the loom where to start but then it's like
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oh my gosh what else do I need right and so I love like how you pulled from your
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own crafting Arsenal yeah you know and you were like okay you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna use what I have right
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and then we'll go from there and so um it seems to have worked just fine a
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lot of you know that is like leftover beads from what I didn't know I was going to use them for so I had like you
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have your feet board and you have all these little leftover beads at the end and you're like oh what am I gonna do with this and then it just goes into a
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container so I just pulled all that and I just um kind of put it together and came up with my color scheme which is
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usually it's your signature yeah it's your signature and Beth not only do you do
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jewelry but you have like home decor items as well and so you know you are
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um really let's see um you know that whole artist that would
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go to like New York you know to Javits when you know when they have the shows
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right like I'm forecasting for you I already have your booth okay
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that's awesome yeah didn't you do did you do the New York stationery one time with Gwen I've
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only had um Vegas okay okay yeah trade show I did miss
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Vegas yeah your work is going down I guess I did Dallas once too so oh wow
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okay okay nice all right well I'm gonna let you take over again and just why don't you go
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ahead and show everybody what you want to show us so I will just show you some of the
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beads I have oh and look at everything on the crown I can't whoo so cool so I
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have oh so I went to this thrift store and there was like a bag of
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um beads that were just tiny and I was like okay I'll get that was a dollar
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hahaha I love it I was like these are perfect for the loom so and then
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some aqua vintage beads that are strong and then I have some little crosses too
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and I just throw everything in here and I kind of figure out what I want to use you know at any given time so
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wow yeah I just kind of do it intuitively I guess you would say
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I um I don't speak you know like if I I'm using cream and blue so for
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this one I just kind of rotated um the blues and the creams oh so pretty
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and then I just was like oh I wonder what it would look like if you added lace so you know I kind of I beaded that
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through there too so I can like that as well nice yeah just kind of
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like take color of whatever I had and I was just putting it on and and I think I might be
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like my um when I do it because I'm left-handed so
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oh I don't know like sometimes when I was watching yours and I was like I don't
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know that I think I you know like when I was dropping them and
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so I use both my hands but yes yes and I do too I get what you're saying yeah
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sometimes I think I end up on the so I don't know it just you know so you're
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popping those up in between the warps right now and you're working from the bottom up
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you're a bottom up worker yep so is Trisha okay good I'm not the only
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one then no you're not and it's you and it's not a problem like you started in
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the same spot yeah so yeah and I yeah like I said I was
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like oh I do it different but um
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so you're going back through the hole now yep gonna go back through
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I'm Going Under under
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and I'm pushing them up against the pearls that I put on there first these are aquamarine or pink outfit okay they
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add that little bit of Sparkle I don't know if you can see it in the night but yeah exactly nice
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yeah and then let's see kind of just
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so when I did my ribbon I wanted it towards the end of my wrist so I put it
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in at the beginning so you strategically placed it yeah okay
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okay I'm gonna try this one oh just take whatever I have and just
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ripped it or whatever I don't know I heard that is that really like brilliant to it or
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whatever yeah so I just kind of went in and out like you do when you're looming
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like when I've done fabric okay and then I came back and
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around kind of pulled it through gotta kinda
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loosen it up there okay so now I'm down now I gotta go up
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and then when I got to the side I just tied a knot yep okay right there
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thread so then yeah so then I just scooted it down I might need a little more tail
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and then just knotted on the warp
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maybe easier said than done I guess
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all right like that so then it just kind of had this tail on the end [Music]
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[Applause] from there my goodness started so that's how you uh
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how I Incorporated the um ribbon in with the beads so
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and then like now I might want to use blue because the ribbons cream so yeah
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figure out what I have here and I don't think like I use different size beads together like so
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a couple of little ones and then a big one or something in the middle of it or
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so so you're filling up your warps with with beads that
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yeah they're into the warps but not all the same size so you're mixing it up yep so I mix it up all the time too
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I'm back to the board and and prior to the wisdom Warrior had you worked on a
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loom I did one kind of fabric one it was just
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one I don't remember from where but yeah like some
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um working with uh ribbons and threads and
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that kind of thing doing it okay I put yarn in it and um
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yeah so nice
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yeah so I just kind of eyeball it and then see what fits in the the
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um Warp heart
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I think I'm gonna do four here hmm but see it you do have to get around the
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ribbon a little bit when you're done
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you're like yeah yeah that's right I know it's like going near us and
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people watching all right so
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awful lot of or I have a lot of um thread here so it's kind of like
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long because I never know what I'm gonna
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all right so now I'm gonna now you're going back up okay yep I'm gonna pop these up
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our little freaky okay all right well now I have to put my
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glasses on [Laughter] nope
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there you go that's part of the problem I'm having trouble yeah I gave I just wear my glasses from like yeah I can do
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this so yeah old eyes I actually had LASIK oh
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probably a long time ago now but yeah okay but it doesn't work when you get
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into your um you know later years oh okay yeah all
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right it had its lifespan I'm gonna try to do this again
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I know these are like I think I might have
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I just love your color palette it's so so gorgeous that's so gorgeous
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peaceful and spa-like and yeah you know all the yumminess of the beach and the
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ocean and sand and right it just is so
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gorgeous and then it's got all the shabbiness to it you know that whole like Levi's on in the soft Cashmere
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sweater all right there
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there we go all right we're back on track here yeah
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it's it's kind of finicky when you try to go around the ribbon I think uh-huh yep a little bit just because I'm
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working on different fibers and stuff yeah so now I'm going down below
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I love those are those the what's this stuff oh those are vintage yeah they're
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vintage turquoise beads oh this is my other fun thing to do it's like take these like old vintage necklaces and
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then just like take the beads or you know so absolutely yeah so this one was
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probably a knotted oh I have a strand of it actually it's like right here oh my gosh and I just took it apart and I was
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like okay what can I do with that so I like the beads so much I have so much vintage
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jewelry from my just traveling throughout the country and
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um like you going to thrift shops and seeing jewelry in the case and
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you know for whatever reason thinking I can't live without it I love to like reuse you know vintage
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stuff like yeah I'm gonna go on this one again
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um but yeah so I like to go and Thrift and go to the Vintage shops and antique shops
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and buy all jewelry and repurpose it yeah I love that
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and so just for those of you tuning in we have the beautiful Beth Walker with
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us from she is unfinished um Beth is a lefty and she works from
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the bottom of the Loom up and so if you're just kind of curious as
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to how her Loom is sitting in front of her um those are just some
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some reasons you can work from the top down you can work with the
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loom side to side um you'll you'll find what is most comfortable for you and then the small
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wisdom Warrior has a three by is it 12 June 12 or 11
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long I can't remember space to beat in and so this particular
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Loom you can only create on the top of it it doesn't go all the way around so
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right yeah so it's great for bracelets and earrings
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and pendants and other items um that are smaller but you can always
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take two pieces and sew them together as well if you needed something that was longer
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that's so pretty it gets to that meditative point where you just want to like like not talk
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soothing it's like knotting for me too like I not a lot of necklaces
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oh there you can you know kind of watch TV or whatever and I mean you gotta
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mention but um yeah yeah so
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I didn't I don't know that I knew you were a nodder and I've I think that's an
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incredibly special skill yeah I love to not yeah that's like people get paid big
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bucks to not okay yeah like I know that there are
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designers in New York like that's their jam and they do knotted pieces and and
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they make yeah they do well nice yeah yeah
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no being accounting is really hard on your eyes too like
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there we go all right so there's that next one so um and Beth is using materials like
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from her own crafting Arsenal like this silk um we were talking that beadalon does
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have a silk cord and um she's using like a quilting sewing
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thread but um you can also use your wildfire and
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all the different colors that are available but always know that when you're starting out if you're just
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getting your loom and you want to you know use some of the products that you have in your in your craft area then you
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know go try them you know see what you have um especially if you're investing in one of
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the the wood Looms in the beginning because that's a higher price point but uh you know so there's versatility
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in what and what and how you can get started yeah there's so many options it
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seems like it was you know like I was like okay what do I have yeah I don't need anything
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so yeah so who watching has a collection of
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um buttons because isn't that that seems to be something that like if we're thrifting or we go to
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a garage sale and there's always the jar of buttons and it's like for whatever reason you think you have to buy it
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right and it's yeah and it's always like really cheap like so you're like justified in your mind like it's
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yeah right like I'm getting 100 buttons for five bucks yeah
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so does anybody have a button collection I'm really curious
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and Becky says she loves the vintage jewelry so she's super in on what you're
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doing yeah I used to have a jar of buttons but somehow my sister ended up with them I think I left them at my
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mom's house one time oh no Joan is this
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I say you go over there and take them back [Laughter]
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my special buttons is too too small for my desire okay well Rhonda I think I
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think you gotta hit the streets time to Thrift I love finding different buttons
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isn't it funny the stuff that people let go of too like for us
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you know we'll go somewhere and we're just like oh my God I can't believe somebody let go of that right yeah we've
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like won the lotto all right I know that's so cool oh hi Melanie Melanie's
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with us from from Canada oh well hello she's a sweetheart she's
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she does she's one of our creative Soul students awesome hi Gloria I have a lot
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of old-fashioned white enamel wait I have an old-fashioned
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white enamel box with lots of buttons from my sewing days and also from my
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clothes I bought oh the extra button yes do they really think that we're
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gonna lose a button and re-sew it on like I want to know that conversation yeah like how many buttons are in
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plastic still like they're in there like they came on a sweater and a
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plastic bag here no yeah so I'd like to know from a marketing
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perspective like when did that when did that happen what year did the fashion
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industry say you know what we're going to start putting an extra button in a plastic bag
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and we're gonna make it really hard first of all to find because we're going to put it in your armpit right
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and then it's gonna be like somehow uh the endless loop that you
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have to find a darn pair of toenail Cutters for to cut off yeah
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and then they're all lost buttons anyway it's like where do people store them you
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just I know from the drawer and forget about them I know oh my God I can't tell you how
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many times I've like come to the end of something and it's like where did all these packaged buttons come from
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yeah Robin says she throws them all in a box on their own
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they're not oh they're not good enough to be in the jar with my vintage buttons well they're not usually
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right you don't want to get those good stuff right oh my God mess up
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so funny so yeah that's very cool
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and I've gotten that different places so so it looks like you just did a row of
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uh tiny like yeah are those seed beets or were those beads you found at the at the thrift shop I found them in
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um a vintage store but they came on a hank like this okay yeah so they're real likes I think
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they're just normal seed beads okay okay I don't think they're probably vintage
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but maybe they are they look more you know just regular yeah and they're like a pale aqua color they're super Gorge
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yeah so they just like give that little pop of color but they kind of blend in with a cream yeah nice
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so yeah very nice I um so I see how you warp down the middle
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of your loom did you just do that intuitively did you know you wanted to do that were you following the sword I
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mean was there any reason why you went down the middle intuitively yeah yeah I
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just kind of that's where I warped it and yeah kind of went and I put like
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four spaces in between um for my beads because I use all sizes
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different sizes okay then you went with the largest bead which is the rule of thumb okay yep
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okay good news yeah I I find when the Looms in particular the wisdom Warriors
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and the sun Weavers when you weave the entire grid
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I am mesmerized by the power in
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just how symbolic it is to see her behind those
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warps yeah oh yeah yeah it usually brings tears to my eyes because there's
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just something profound about that visual of the woman behind behind the warps and and then the
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storytelling that happens after that yeah and I sometimes have a hard time
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taking my pieces my big pieces like that off
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and then it's just yeah it's like it's a good thing I have like
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several large Sun Weavers yeah I had one warped forever and I
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never have finished her yeah and half made like that's my studio half the time
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it's like okay I've got this made and this made yeah finish this okay better finish this
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oh at what age do buttons become vintage I mean is it the rule of thumb as
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antiques isn't it 50 years one minute oh we're gonna google [Laughter]
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look at this beautiful table you guys look it look at that she has two crowns
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and the loom and all this gorgeousness
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all right okay sorry yeah so I have like you have two looms I have another one
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over here but it's not really started yet Becky is saying that it's 25 years
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so 25 years has been just for buttons I thought an Antiques like Furniture is a
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50 I thought it was 50 years for furniture thank you
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I don't know I don't know let's go back to Becky Becky Becky's got
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the Quick Draw on Google I think or she just knows I shouldn't say that
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she might literally she could be like a auctioneer
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what'd you do I'm gonna put a rhinestone in this one oh fun
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okay so in order to do that because it's
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gonna fall over I threw it a few times to make sure that
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stays oh so it's the way that the rhinestone is
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it's not a bead it's like oh it's a yeah it's got a drop on okay yeah so so
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you're gonna go you're gonna show us how you go through it a couple of times to secure it so it's propped up and not
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falling right okay so I go through the bottom of it
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but you're on top of the warps correct I'm on top of the warps yeah yeah okay because this is your second pass or your
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first pass actually yeah this was my first yeah I did it Opposite see I I like change it up
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I think it's the left-handed thing okay no I think you're doing what what we all
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do okay yeah it looks good it looks all
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right and I mean it's it looks like it's right on the wire okay so see but how it's like still Lucy yes so I'd have to
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go through it yeah so you're just really secure like as if though you were sewing something
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on yeah yeah I know I have this strand of like rhinestone flowers and I was
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like how could I sew that in there
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played with it a little bit but can it come apart at all or is it yeah like you
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can cut this apart but um I don't you know I guess I would take this in here yeah
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yeah he'd pop them out but you'd have to kind of wrap around
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because it's chain so I don't yeah oh you could do so I wonder if you just
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could do like take a thin take the silk
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excuse me and then like I don't know like somehow wrap around them and yeah that's what I was
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wondering like secure them in a whole different con like a whole different way not leaving yeah right yeah you'd have
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you'd almost have to do it that way I think yeah like you would just hand secure them on yeah I like that we would
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add a lot oh my God it would add so much I mean yeah that's a cool that would be a
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really cool technique I tried to explain to people sometimes you know I
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um my you know my grandma always sewed in front of me my Portuguese grandma always
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sewed in front of me so I had that embedded in my head she also knitted and crocheted but I also had to learn how to
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hem my own pants because I'm such a little boo-boo and I would buy pants in
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high school and they would be way too long and so um
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so yeah yeah and so I try to sometimes tell people like well think about you know like stitching when you're
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stitching or hemming your pants by hand um it's harder to tell a younger person that because they don't you know they
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kind of look at you like your you did what yeah you just didn't take them to the
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dry cleaner um but yeah I do I do feel like you know
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the the rhythm of sewing and stitching is uh is so close to this idea of
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weaving um Becky says it may be I looked up toys once because I have a Becky Barbie doll
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that has been discontinued and I found it in other toys that are 25
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years or more are vintage but I don't know if that's the rule for anything else yeah I for some reason I I
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think Furniture is 50. yeah
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so Karen Voss says she used to sew sew all her own clothes ooh that must have
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been fun yeah and then we used to sew us matching outfits I think oh God yes
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right you wore the matching outfit that your mom yes matching outfits yes there's a handful of photos with my
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mother yes the pant suits oh forgot the darn
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matching pantsuits yeah oh man
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good record oh my God so much fun um freshwater pearls oh are you kidding
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wow that's a very eclectic piece like you are really showing the diversity of
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like how size wise typewise quality wise
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price point I mean like you've gonna it's all on that bracelet it's such a great
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example of what you could do yeah you can just
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do we have any left-handed um folks watching I'm wondering how this inspires
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you um because as you could tell Beth is a lefty and so I know many times
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um you know left-handed people are always like well what about me and how do I do this and yeah and I'm curious to
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know if you are left-handed and you're watching you know how is this inspiring you to know that um you you can you know
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you can do it as well oh Robin's dad was a tailor
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oh so she's sewed all the time oh what a blessing yes
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yeah Debbie are you're you're a lefty
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does she find it awkward to I don't know um she does a lot of great stuff Debbie how are you doing with the
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looming part I mean it just feels like I do it Opposite yeah you're just that's exactly
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what it is it's not like it's some big major thing it's just opposite I just know in my teaching that I've always had
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my left-handed students who kind of think like I have to show them a different way and so you know then I'm
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trying to you know to learn okay so Zach says I'm a lefty definitely
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um and Debbie says yep yeah so it's like I want to learn with her
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while Karen entered fairs with her sewn clothes that's cool nice
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that's way cool Debbie says she's still scared no Debbie no it's Gary cat watch back
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no let's do it he's your left-handed Queen [Laughter]
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take it on oh my God I can't believe you're double crowns look at them how so cool
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I know they're just full I put my little words on this one you saw that right it says oh you did yeah sorry I don't know
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yeah it's like a sticker and it says and a whole lot of love are we gonna find
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that on your website yeah I have jewelry that has a saying on it okay well I just mean like if some of
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the folks see because a lot of people have the crown and so they're probably gonna they're probably gonna see me like
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a sticker for it or something yeah they might want a sticker for it so make sure you go to best site yeah
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um Robin I love the pictures of what you did on the loom
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the crown trays they are super pretty Becky
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yeah in fact I think we I think the crown is the crown still in the shop
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I don't remember we have some yeah I love those crowns they're so cool
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hmm 93.
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I like it because it's so forgiving I think like oh yes like you can you know if I'm
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sitting here thinking about how I want to create but like you know I can take
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whatever and just make it into something
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yeah and it's the forgiveness in in looming I think anyway I mean really
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this is what it boils down to the practice should be in your warps no matter what Loom you're working with
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it's all about the orbs it's all about the tension yeah and once you get that down
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then everything else should just be easy peasy pumpkin squeezy you know like just
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don't take it too seriously um but practice on your warping because that really is the key to to working on
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a balloon yeah and that's what I think too like I said that first bracelet that I made was a little loose and I think
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it's just because of learning how to warp it and make sure it's tight and yeah
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you know make sure everything well we always talk about that first
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um first row of beads just being sometimes and then humans are allowed to have
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uh Karen says she made Danielle's earrings on the loom the other day and they turned out super cool Danielle
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Wicks um was with us a couple weeks ago and she did seed bead earrings based off
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of Portuguese tiles because she knows of my Portuguese Heritage and uh she came
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up with some patterns like I don't this I'm just it's like she blinks and they're there and they're awesome and so
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it's always so fun to um to watch what people then make you
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know from the inspiration so I'll be excited to see what everybody does um with their vintage items that I'm
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sure they're going to be inspired by watching you and yeah it's super cool
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yeah can you bring in the finished one really quick and after you do that row
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I want to see what how you ended oh okay
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those are those are some big boys right there because I think everything else is
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smaller but they're just like I love it they look like they're probably like eight millimeter maybe yeah yeah so
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they're gorgeous oh my gosh all right so my original where did it again okay I
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know right the end I did the button and then I just made it like that so oh
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whoops come back oh sorry oh so you did the button technique yeah I did the button technique with I just used my
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button yeah heck yeah all right so you yeah you did
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the loop and you tied the ends yep um Debbie who is saying Debbie would
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like to see it a little bit closer is there a way for you to come a little closer and then just stays
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yeah just stay still for a hot minute while you have an Eclectic mix like big
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and bold and vivacious and shiny and it's like it's like every woman we know
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it's like all all the voluptuousness and all the sexiness and all of the
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curviness and and all the shapes and the figures I love it
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I absolutely love it that one piece can you bring that little piece right up that um the end that's sitting on the on
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the crown right bring that up to the camera yeah I just want to see the shiny piece what is that shiny oh
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that is a vintage rhinestone button oh is that is that what you double sewed so
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that it wouldn't be one so this one is like oh sorry over there can you see oh
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my god I've got a glass oh button so they were glass pinked buttons and then
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it makes it tighter there I think with that sizes okay
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wow all right hey Joan can you bring me back on
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and you can you want to come back up so we see your beautiful Facebook for sure
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okay so so when people come to your website what can they what can they
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expect what can they how can they engage with you um yeah so I do have
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um like a Facebook page as well but um on my website I have a little store and
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so I have like the jewelry with all the sayings and the categories so there's um
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there's some ornaments on there and there's some art and
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um some other things that are you know everything speaks to like a saying or
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empowering women um you know so and I'm starting to do my own courses so I just started doing that
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okay oh teaching how to use resin and some of the things that I've used my jewelry so yeah you can take classes and
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I'm just doing them online as well you know so yeah yeah I'll be in your resin class
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learn to do that and you know expand a little bit that way so is your shop your on your own
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platform versus you're not on Etsy or you have your own yeah
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so she is unfinished.com is your shop yep is my shop and where the courses are
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and everything and your school so okay
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oh God
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yeah make things oh my God yeah yeah okay well we I Joan
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and I have been trying to brainstorm a physical offering of being somewhere where people
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can come and learn how to weave and I I think it's just time you know and I
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think it'd be great if you held a space for that too and thought about it because I think that um we need to
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figure out how to get the women back together you know and awesome yeah I think so for
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sure so I could see your your your whole thing and my thing and
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it'd be really fun it'd be really fun yeah definitely that would be a blast so
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okay so they can shop with you they can learn with you you've got jewelry items
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you've got home decor items so if somebody's decorating or they want an
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inspirational piece that has a saying on it they can they can look at the site for that and
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if they wanted something accustomed to I I'm always up to you know doing Customs okay
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do they email you that or do you have a custom button on your website there's a
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contact button on my website I do the little Custom Spot but I think that you
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can find the con under the contacts you could just send me an email as well okay do you have a YouTubes
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nope okay all right and when you do then you'll let us know
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um you've got the Facebook yep and Instagram and the insta are you on the
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tick tock I am I am so you can look for me there but I
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don't only have a few videos okay yeah I just started to delve into the tick tock
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a little bit it's so I got on to the tick tock
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um back in 20 20 when I was trying to escape from what
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was happening in my life and um I actually had no intention
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you know and and then I discovered that it was actually a way for me to express
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myself you know so whether I did a little dance or you know so it's kind of
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my I feel like it's my platform where I really get to be Jules with the truth of
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how I've how my life is that's awesome yeah so
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I love it for that um just made a few videos of my jewelry
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or how I've made things I think on there yeah yep you'll you'll figure out what
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it means for you I think it's important to to know what every platform means or you can end up getting stuck
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so
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yeah we're forever grateful that you took the time to be with the jewel loom community and I know I know women are
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going to be inspired by your story I know that there's still a lot to communicate down the road and
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um yeah and it's um my biggest thing is to let
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mostly women I got I got a lot of love for the men too but uh you know my
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calling and my serving seems to be towards the ladies um me too but yeah to just let let them
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know that um you know you're okay and so whatever you've been through just
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keep pushing forward get the help you need make sure you're somewhere safe
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um and just don't give up right keep going keep going unfinished and each day
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new chapter so you can make it what you want and that's kind of a happiness yeah
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yeah you gotta grow through the unfinished and unknown so let's kind of grow yeah it's like
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it's like being a fixer-upper house
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I was so funny that you said that because I was like it's like the fixer-upper
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and there's lots of rooms I'm sure that need to be yeah a little yeah cared for
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so I'd rather I'd rather have that than the idea of stuffing all my crap in
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suitcases you know what I mean definitely so you gotta open up the suitcases which is a lot of hard work
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yeah a lot of hard work but just imagine putting them into these beautiful rooms
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you know with the color you want right and yeah
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exactly I can't wait 20 pillows yeah every bed needs 20 pillows right I don't
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care what anybody says it looks so much fluffier and it's so much comfortable it's so much comfortable and they have
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purpose they do yes I love throw pillows I know pillows on purpose
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so you know yeah build your house one step at a time in
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room by room yes room by room just yeah yeah yeah yeah and just make sure you
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take care of yourself I mean I think that's the first thing too it's just about self-love and I mean we try to say
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it and say it and I think it gets overused maybe sometimes or over you know people say love yourself first
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but it really is true it's 100 True like if you're gonna give everything you've
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got to other people you need to start with yourself so yeah
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and I think you know as women as Mamas and and just that female energy period
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um we do tend to take care of everyone whether it's our partners our kids our
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businesses everything tends to keep going out right going out and then I
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have found in my life what ends up happening is that I deplete myself right so empty yep and the Well's dry
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and then where where do you get your your your energy from or your you know yeah
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yeah you do you do have to take that time I feel um what is uh is it Melanie
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the she's an inspirational speaker y'all she's the blonde she wears the glasses
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um Melody is it Robbins oh shoot Robinson she just did a I just
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watched one of her reels and she was talking about um self-care and the three things that
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she does before bedtime and um and you know her writing and drinking
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water taking a hot bath and she says that she has decided to stop taking her
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cell phone into her bedroom she lives in the bathroom and she said it has profoundly changed everything
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and because it's true like if I wake up at four o'clock in the morning what do I do right I roll over and look at that
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stupid phone right yeah that's a great idea yeah like if you don't have it there then yeah I have
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notebooks all over like notebooks all over yeah well if I wake up with that
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idea you know it you know four o'clock in the morning or I'm not like journaling or writing or making up
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saying to me like all of a sudden at two o'clock in the morning I'm like oh that's a good scene you know
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Jody it's not Melody Ross but I love Melody Melody we go way back in the
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industry she has Brave girl I'm talking about oh God what is her name anyway
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Melody Robinson I think is her name she's not like in our world she's like one of those
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people who has like profound things to say but
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anyway and and you are one of those people because I know that you are just gonna do and that already have but
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you're gonna it's even gonna be deeper and bigger and so much more helpful to the women out there that need your story
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need my story need to know that things will be okay right 100 100 thank you so
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very very very thank you so much too yeah so much fun the loom is like a
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savior I feel like you can you know like it just takes your mind away from everything so yeah it's the feeling yep
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it's the healing and the you know just doing something where you're not you're using your hands and I think some of
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that time when you use your hands you don't have your brain overthinking everything so true so true that's why I'm guilty of
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sometimes at 10 o'clock at night I'll be on I'll be like Oh I'm gonna go do a live just so that I can weave and then
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John will be like I saw you did something last night do you want it to be a Blog
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she's laughing because she knows it's true anyway please anytime you want to
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come back and play you are always welcome yes in the house of jewels you are always welcome in the Julian
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community so I love you and we're cheering you on yeah all right all right
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well thank you again for having me here absolutely and thanks everyone for being here thanks for hanging out and getting
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inspired and as always please let us know if you need anything you have the text please please please go visit
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Beth's website check that out get filled with her inspiration and her love and
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um um point out those stickers for us
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yeah we need some stickers on our crowns bro definitely yeah awesome okay okay
