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Changing Leaves Earrings - Jewel Loom School Live with Tricia
Looming & coloring in the same project? Learn from designer Tricia Giazzon how to make some Changing Leaves Earrings. She teaches a Beautiful Pattern using Gorgeous Fire Polish, Tile Beads & Pearls. She also shows the new Designer Series Baltic Birch Earring Collection and How to decorate them, using an Ombre Effect with Colored Pencils. You will love this easy, but beautiful, project, and find yourself using these techniques in other projects.
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Transcript:
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hi guys hi everyone welcome in welcome in I see we have a lot of folks here
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coming in before we even started that's wonderful we always love to see you guys coming in and getting ready to to have
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class so fun so what has been new with everybody how's everybody doing this
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week um did you happen to see the um excuse me if you did you happen to see the soft
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Flex live last night it was super fun to do with Jules and Sarah
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um I did see some of my girls from on here of our girls on there and I was so
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glad to see you and so glad for the support as always guys you're so wonderful to us
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so um this week has been kind of uneventful for me which is the kind of week that I
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like I've just been doing a lot of resting as usual um designing you know that kind of stuff
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um I hope you all had a great week uh let me know what you were doing this week in the in the comments what are you
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making this week what's you know some fun stuff that you came up with I love to see it
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um don't forget guys uh to like and share our video always if you can share
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it to your page it gives us a huge boost and we really appreciate that
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so today we're going to make some changing leaves
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earrings now these earrings I designed new using the new designer Baltic Birch charm set
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and guys we this has been in the making for a little while
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but Jules has knocked it out of the park on this one guys it is so gorgeous there's so much to work with and it is
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just through the roof it's going to give you so much inspiration to do some fun
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projects and that's what my inspiration was this week a couple of the charms out of that
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um met out of that kit that little mix kit um so let me get here I have a photo
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unfortunately the whole set did not make it to me in time this week it will be here Saturday so I'm hoping next week to
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show you guys at all in person but I do have a poster or a poster
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of it if you would like to take a look at it but this is our gorgeous set
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that Jules has done for us and you can see there that we have the lotus flowers the
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daisies with the three loops on the bottom that are so fun because on that
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Daisy guys you could wrap and even on the Lotus anything that's open like that the heart you could wire wrap beads
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around that just get some like three millimeter fire polish and just wire wrap it on like a frame and it would be
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so gorgeous um so you can see we have our uh feathers there as well
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and then which are really pretty and always a classic then we have our Suns
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there in the middle those are also great to use for
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um anything summertime I just think they're they can be used year-round it just depends on how you color them or
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stain them but you can see there's three drone holes on the bottom of that so lots of options there guys
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we have our crowns which are a new addition to our charms this is so
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fabulous and so beautiful I am just tickled pink uh yes Jules has
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shared um some of the charms here there with you all I uh that's great I'm glad you you were able to get your hands on
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some um but and then we have this is what we're working with tonight our leaves
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down here on the third row left and they are super pretty and a lot of
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potential there with the open design of course butterflies because
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um they just are gorgeous that's just plain simple you need to know about the butterflies I had to have butterflies
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and then we have our beautiful hearts there again as I said you could dangle something in the middle you could wire
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wrap it it would really make for a beautiful piece and then of course we have our sword and our Shield which is
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so beautiful made the same way as the sun is with the three of the holes on the bottom so
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guys you know you gotta get your hands on it because it's just so gorgeous and
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so much potential as I said so here we are back let me get up to the comments
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okay so everyone like that did you enjoy see how pretty those are so get your orders
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said um they're ready to shoot um Jules Robert has them ready for
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Jewels so they can be on their way so make sure you get in there and order them yeah the crowns too Maria I can't
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even I'm so excited about the crowns I can't wait to make something with that so as I showed those to you um let's see
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those Suns could be and focal no yes it could be a focal any of them could be a
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focal you know you don't have to use them as earrings you could use them singly you know you could do a lot with
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them they're really pretty so I'm gonna Hood go ahead if I can speak and turn my
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camera down so we can go ahead and get started remember guys it'll be black for just a
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moment but I haven't gone anywhere
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yeah there we are okay so here's our setup
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for tonight guys I have our beads and our gorgeous bead board over here ready
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to go for our project we are using tonight we are using all six millimeter
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beads but we're using them in some different shapes and styles first we have the six millimeter pearls that are
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super super gorgeous six millimeter fire polish and six
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millimeter tile beads now I have this this is all like a muted color uh play
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here because I wanted our leaves to really pop out on our piece they're
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gorgeous these beads are absolutely stunning but I wanted this to kind of be the pow you know so but you could also
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do this bright to match the leaves or you can make the leaf neutral that'd be no problem that'd be really nice
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so I'm using one millimeter hemp tonight guys 11 0's
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and we're gonna need some ends slides for our ending of our pieces here of our
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earrings and of course some ear wires we're going to use wildfire
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and tonight I'm using the color beige I am I am almost out and I'm so sad so I
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have to get some more of that but um we're going to use beige on it but of course use the colors you have use the
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colors that you like yes I painted them Zach okay so well I didn't paint them
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these are actually uh colored pencil guys and I'll tell you what I used it is
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these prismacolor pencils they are like a higher end pencil that
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you can get um look at Michael's or craft store or whatever they're not really really expensive but they are more expensive
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than say like a kid set or something they have more Vivid colors than them so I do enjoy these for this kind of thing
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or coloring in my adult coloring books all kinds of stuff so what I did here guys we're going to
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color our leaves first so that's how we're going to start our project let me just move our beautiful earrings up here
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so to start a project as I said we're going to color our leaves
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and what I did is I picked out four colors that were pretty much in the same
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color family so I took a darker a little lighter
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a little lighter and the shades are kind of changing and then I went with like a muted mustard color that was me
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personally but as you can see your options are endless in here for what you can do
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and I'm sure we all have colored pencils at home but again guys there's a there is a great video I wouldn't say great
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but I made it so I won't say that I'll be modest but there is a video up in the
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school on how to paint or how to to treat your wood pieces and
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I described in there three different ways to do it so if you want to look at that check that out so what I did
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is I started with the darkest on top and I'm not going in real real heavy-handed
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I'm just going down to about this first indent or this first leaf
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spine or whatever you call those I know I'm not I I need to know words better but
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and I'm just kind of coloring that in
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a little bit at the top there I'm not going crazy with pushing on it
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okay and if you do want a brighter you can use patina paints you can use alcohol
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inks I know you girls have come up with some really fun ways to treat the
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um the wood pieces beautiful okay so I'm going to go down this spine here and then I'm going to
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get this one with the brown okay how's that just making sure that I have
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it all covered the way I want to I use Crayola colored pencils they work great great Nicole glad to hear it honey
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yeah use what you have absolutely I've never used the Crayola so I didn't know
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you know what the quality was on those I have some really cheap ones here and they don't they don't do well at all so
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I'm gonna go with the Tuscan red in here and I'm just going to kind of Go part way up into that brown as I'm working
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down here I'm just kind of coloring up a little bit light-handed just to kind of blend it
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down I know you all know how to color but I did want to share my technique on
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this with you and I'm going to do the same thing on this side here and I'm going to color up this spine
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and that's all right and I'm just going to work my way down
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here that's all I'm doing take your time enjoy the process
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just like looming take your time and enjoy the process so I'm just kind of lightly Feathering that up into that
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brown and then just do the same thing with the next color
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okay blending it up in there
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and we want to make sure we need we leave enough room for our yellow so I'm
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going to kind of give myself like a little barrier line there so I know where not to kind of go over that
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okay and then up through those again
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everything and you see how it's given like that
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cool ombre effect kind of with it it's just really a fun look I think you
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know so that I'm going to take the um
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Goldenrod that's what that's called and I'm gonna do the same thing I'm gonna blend up into that
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and pull it down thank you
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okay up onto the spines blending in over here
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I hope you can see that good enough guys so it's a basic technique you know just
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using our colored pencils and being a little inventive as to how we use the colors so that's it that's his
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basic as it gets there guys so what I did do on on mine is I just colored the
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back just like a this burgundy color it's more of a I guess they're calling
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it Tuscan red just to make it solid just to look at make it look finished now you
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could go over this with a little bit of glaze uh Mod Podge resin anything like that
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and it would give it like a really cool glossy appearance
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and sew in your colored pencil for you so that's always an option I'm just going to work my way down here
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coloring in these spines okay
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fabric and once you get that finished you get both of your leaves colored we can go
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ahead and start into our project so we're just going to do one right now I'll save that one for later for when I
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make my second earring I'm going to put these back so I don't forget to do so later
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I'm bad for that all right guys so now we're going to get
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down to the nitty-gritty of things okay I'm gonna set our little earrings up here
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I'm going to use the original Loom because you know she is my passion I just came what kind of pencil pencils
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and brand these are just colored pencils sure um these are just colored pencils from
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prismacolor and I got them at Michael's
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those are the ones I like so yeah I hope that helps so we're going to put our rod in as we
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always do guys and we're going to face the loom that way toward me into my
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belly just a smidge and I've already adjusted my rods when you get your original
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make sure that your rods go in and out smoothly if they don't take your pair of pliers and just barely nudge
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your ends out okay do tiny increments at a time okay so I'm going to put this
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into my tummy and I'm going to kind of give it a little Flex I'm going to put that bottom rod in and as I'm flexing it
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up I want to get that just as little flexed as little as I have to because as
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We Know flexible not bendable I think I tell you guys that every week
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so I'm using the one millimeter hemp here and I'm gonna turn my loom over
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put that out of the way and I'm going to wrap this one
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millimeter hemp around twice and then tie off nice and snug
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Maria did you have an incident I'm sorry I know honey I saw that don't give up on
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it it happens to most of us so don't feel bad not most of us but some of us
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and I get a little too aggressive myself sometimes so I'm just bringing that oh up up over
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the top here and just laying it into one of my grooves doesn't matter where
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as long as it's close to the left side and I want to put it in approximately the same place on the other side
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okay then I'm going to kind of turn it sideways to grab that knob and make sure you don't grab your rod
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with your hand and then we're going to leave four
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uh grooves in between each warp so there's one two three four and then
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we're gonna pull this across and you can see I laid my thumb there as I was counting that's to keep that tension
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guys always keep your tension so as I'm picking that up I'm applying tension here and letting my thumb up
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and I'm spinning the loom and again counting and leaving four grooves
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okay this is a very simple earring we only have three
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um four warps that make three lanes for us okay and I'm gonna do the same thing
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here one two three four just making sure tension tension tension Bring It Around
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and four let's see make sure one two three four I had an extra
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okay and I'm just gonna grab that knob again and one more time so as always guys for
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every um feed across you're going to have so say
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if you want three beads across You're Gonna Want four rows of hemp okay there's always going to be a one more
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row of hemp then you have beads so only have three there so I'm gonna pop this over just smidge
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to give us our four and then bring it across
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keep cracking me up my tongue and jar are always exhausted after warping I know you got to keep your tongue like a
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certain way in your face too and there we go I got my four and then
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I'm just going to come back to this knob on the back again guys and just wrap that around a couple times
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and again I'm holding that tension I'm going to switch it out and take this off
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to the one side and lay my finger on it sorry bouncing around there and then I'm just gonna
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cut that I'm ready to tie it off okay let me put that up here out of the way
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and so like we always do guys I'm gonna get that back around another time here
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we're going to put this underneath let me just make sure we're good here
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I'm gonna put this underneath all of the warps just stick this hemp end
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underneath and then I'm going to bring it around and just tie a knot okay and I'm going to do that twice
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okay and I'm just as I let my thumb up as I'm pulling because I still want to keep that tension
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and I'm going to do it one more time just to make sure we're in good business and of course we have our Rod which will
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tighten everything up for you a bit but I always like to get as much tension as I possibly can
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on this part as well then you have a really nice work
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all right so there's our second knot nice and snug so that's what both ends look like
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okay and I'm just going to bring that back to my mat I'm going to do the offset push it back into my tummy and
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now I'm going to flex it just a bit with my hand up here this is the hand I'm using to flex it
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and I'm going to pop that Rod up yes I am well that's not coming out
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easily so here's a trick guys if the first time you try it it doesn't come out easily spin
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your loom and then try the other end so I'm going to do that again I'm going to push it into my tummy and there that one
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popped right out so that's just a little tip if you're having any kind of struggles like that
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so I already um threaded my needle I'm just going to
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take that and I'm going to tie it on the left most Warp
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just going to give it a couple ties
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okay we do a lot of tying when we're first starting our projects don't we
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so there we go there's our little double mod and I'm just going to start out doing our pattern so as you can see here
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I'll lay this here so you can kind of keep up with the pattern
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our first row is going to be towel beads okay
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so I'm going to pick up three of those and we're going to put them up in the same hole
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so they're all tipping on the needle the same
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great if I can that one's fighting me so we'll just
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bring the fingers in on that one so
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that's how you want them to be hanging guys so we have it hooked on through the same hole on each bead okay
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so those are there we got those on I'm gonna drop them down on our wildfire
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and quit that from rocking and I'm going to feed my needle and my Wild Heart underneath my warps just like
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so as I do that I'm going to lay my hand down here on my loom to kind of keep it
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from rocking on me and then I'm going to pick this these beads up with with my
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middle finger okay so now I'm getting my loom to stay still and I'm supporting my
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beads okay so that's coming underneath and we're going to go up and over and through the bead holes and you want to
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go across and stay on top of the warps okay and this is a quick and easy
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project and I just love doing quick and easy projects that really have
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a gorgeous look to them when they're done okay so then our tile beads here are
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going to tip down I'm going to tap those so they kind of tip underneath and I'm
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going to switch my needle to my left hand and I'm going to lift those beads up with the middle finger on my right hand
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and I am going to stick my needle in through those bead holes underneath if you cannot see and get them well don't
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hesitate to turn your loom sideways to find the holes because believe me I do that more often than not
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so we have that string going through there now and they're still tipped down so you want to bring them back up push
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them up between those warps like we did the first time through okay
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and we're going to go up and over top of the warps through the bead holes
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okay and that's our first row now I did the same thing as I just did
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last night and we're not going to let it go any further than this
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so we're going to do that now so what you need to do and I do have my steps
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here but you know I get too into it so I'm going to show you say if you get your first row on you could take this
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out and start over but all I'm going to do is I'm going to run my needle
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back through I'm just going to hop back down to that bottom row
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and put my 11 0's on quickly and so that's a good way if you you know get a
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little bit even if you get two or three rows up there you can still come back and recover and put your put your
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um 11 0's on I don't know what my thing is lately with the levinos
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just tends to be my latest issue as we know there's always issues
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right for everyone so and then I'm just gonna go underneath and I'm going to run that needle across
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again to get me to my left side
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and just like that we're back down to the bottom easy enough so you just put your seed beads on so I believe I use
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12. so we're going to put 12 11 0's on
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because darn it we're putting a slide class one tonight
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quit running away guys
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okay nine ten 11 and 12. and we're going to do the
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same thing we're going to drop those down feed our needle underneath
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and then push our beads up
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can I get those into the right lanes so it looks like you need a few more
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beads I thought I counted 12 but I'm on a roll so let's put three more on
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does anyone else ever forget their 11 O's at the beginning of their projects
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more than just myself probably do that there is three
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and four actually I think I am going to stick with three I like how it's laying
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between those warps better so I think we will do that
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it's not going to give you a really really tight
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warp if you use the three so let's put nine
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changing in mid project it happens I leave a tell at the beginning for
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contingencies just like so yes and that is another option I have my towel here I could have went back in and did that uh
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that way as well but I'd like to con complicate a Q-tip as my husband says so
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welcome to the complicated complicated Q-tip show
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hey we have fun right okay I think we're good now guys so
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we're just going to lock those in and usually on my 11's I like to go through
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them multiple times you know just to make sure that since that's going to be what our project is hanging from I like
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to do that because it keeps it from um
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coming loose and that is what our our class we're going to go into our slide clasps so I'm going to go back through
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that a few times and then we're going to continue working our way up so let's go back one one more time
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but there's options guys you know there's always options with looming you there's pretty much
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um you can fix everything pretty much that happens
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just by using a different technique okay there we have our 11 0's on
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through back over see if I can get one more pass through I think I can
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I don't know and it's just kind of stuck in there so
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I'm just going to take my pliers and just give it a little pull just like that okay
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so now I'm going to work my way back up through these beads and continue our
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pattern so you know there's ways to you know go
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back and fix things it's easily dealt with you know so I'm right back where we were and so
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next I'm gonna pick up a pearl
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a fire polish a pearl
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and we're going to do the same thing we're going to drop it down and put that underneath
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and lock it in and from here your pattern is going to go pretty darn quick
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so let's get our next row which is another row of tile beads
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pull those over here
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and it's nice to be able to do quick projects and I I always try to make you know more
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in-depth projects but just lately I've just been feeling like doing some simple ones just to kind of
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take a break from it you know
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do the same thing guys I'm gonna hold that down with my hand and push the
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beads up with my middle finger and push that needle through those bead holes and sometimes you have to rock
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your needle a little bit to get it where you want it but we will get there
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and again and through
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okay and then back across
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thank you all right and our next row
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is the same we're going to do fire polish Purl fire polish
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because you can't have enough fire polish or pearls that's for sure
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okay
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mix that in Couture tile beads
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three more towel beads so on total guys you're going to need 12 tile beads
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five pearls and four fire polish per piece okay
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so we are almost there we've got a few more rows here
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and then we'll put our lebanos on the other end
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okay I'm pushing that underneath there pushing up I'm going a little faster now
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because we've um I think you guys probably have got it by now
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so there you go and then we have let's see I did one two
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three four five six seven rows so this is our fifth so we have two more rows
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after this and if you want to adjust the lengths on them you could stop right here if you
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like a little bit shorter of an earring because with the length plus then you have your leaf on it it's going to give
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you a good bit of length let me measure that for you without the earring hook we're looking
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at about three and a half inches with the leaf on it so again if you want that
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shorter I would just stop at the fifth row and then
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add your 11 hours at that point okay
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and then my my thread is getting short so I think what I'm going to do here
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guys is I'm just going to take my needle out get another piece of thread and I'm going to show you how to weave your
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thread through to start another thread just in case you have to okay it's another thing that we
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can learn tonight so I'm just gonna get my thread squeeze
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the end of it with my pliers this is something I do every time I thread my needle it helps so much
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and then just thread my needle
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so what I usually do is This Thread I'm going to weave back
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through and tie it off in the middle so I'm going to start in this the bottom hole of this towel
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bead and I'm going to go through it again I'm just going to rock my needle back and
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forth because it's getting tight in there from those threads that are already in there and sometimes you have
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to push up on your child beads to get those holes above the hemp so you can put it
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through there again that's what's so great about the jewel loom needle because you can rock it back
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and forth and with that length it'll go the whole way across and it's flexible enough that you can kind of get it put
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it where you want it without it snapping on you okay so I'm going to just pull that through
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and I'm going to leave a little towel on that as well and then come back up here to the top and I usually will weave back in at the
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end you can certainly do whatever if you want to just do it right now as you're putting your new thread in you
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can certainly do that so our next row as we're working up is going to be Purl
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fire polish Pearl
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okay come on
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I'm sitting around and we're just going to continue where did I get my mat this was JTV
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actually and it comes with a little I mean I'm doing a little plug for JTV I guess but they're they're they're okay
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by me it comes with this tray and then the matte goes inside the tray if you want that you can see it has like a lip
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on the end of it which is nice because I'm famous for knocking everything off my
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um table as I'm working so makes it nice I actually bought two of them
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because I wanted to have one downstairs because I have tons of my crafting and looming stuff downstairs too as well as
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my studio let's get getting a little bit out of control actually so
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but I'm gonna I've been after my husband to get let me get a little top desk to
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put that stuff in but it's like nope nope there's enough furniture
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so I'll get a solution eventually I guess but yeah that mat is I I love it I love
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it okay and then we're just going to put in our last row here
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I know Miss Jones going to be visiting GTV pretty soon that'll be super fun
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I'm Jelly I wish I could go
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the JTV experience okay and we're just gonna put
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our needle through the last holes here
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all right and then lock that in
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you crack me up they do not frown when you watch you and Ginger walk in you're
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like the best I would love to have classes with you and Ginger so I'm gonna
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pick up my nine 11 hours here you could fit the four in each row guys
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but it's going to be snug as I said so you do you but I'm just gonna stick with the nine
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tonight three per row
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three so let's make sure three I think we'll get this time
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no not no oh okay gotcha Amber
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Poor Joe and Ginger they're the Life of the Party Don't let her fool you
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okay so I'm just gonna do the same thing we did at the beginning and just lock these in and I'm gonna go through them a
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couple times
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okay foreign
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excuse me yes they are fun that's for sure Maria
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very fun life of the party as I said so and then I'm just gonna go
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back across here and as I'm going across guys I'm going to tie this thread off so
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I'm just going to come up through these three beads and angle my needle up like so
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and pull it through you know let me see if I can crack seed beads and sometimes they don't want
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to come through and as I did earlier um one of the seed beads cracked off so
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be careful with forcing through the 11 beads so I think
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what we're gonna do is just keep it simple
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and figure out what's going on here
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I think it might be caught there we go
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all right let's try one more time see if we were caught over here
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there went through we got it so sometimes you just back out and try again and you can use your pliers to
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assist you with the chance that yes you could crack crack an 11 I'll keep that
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in mind I mean with the ends it's not the end of the world because they're going to be covered up anyway but you want to make sure you have a good amount
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on there to um hold your class for you so I'm just in the middle here and I'm just going to
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make two knots that's all there is to it just as I did
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at the beginning
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oh no needle surgery hey you know how it goes Vicky gotta do
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surgery sometimes and then there's my second knot guys and a little trick I do and you'll see me do it on the other
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ones as well then I just push my needle down through and I pull my thread
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and I give it a little tug and that rolls that knot around to the back so
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you can't see it okay I'm just going to flip this over and trim that one off and we're going to
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do it with the rest of these now I'm fine with this little knot over here that doesn't bother me if it
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bothers you weave it back through so we're just going to leave that one like so
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and then I'm gonna weave these back in and I'm just going to put my needle on those
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threads and I'm gonna crimp my end again makes it easier
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put my needle on like so and then I'm just going to go underneath
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because my thread's coming out on top here so I'm going to go underneath and I'm going to go through this top
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hole of the bead because that's where my thread is coming out of and then again I'm just going to angle my needle up and
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out of that I hope you can see what I'm doing there guys and we're just going to tie two knots
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again and keeping them to the middle disguises them a little better most
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people think you know and I I think that as well I just for my starting knot
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sometimes I leave it back in sometimes I don't um but I would say more times than not I
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don't because I don't mind that little I just make them very very tiny so we did the
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same thing two knots now you can put some GS hypo on your knots I highly recommend it
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that's going to keep them from coming loose on you and then we have one more here to do
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okay
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hey I'm getting good at um threaten that needle Under Pressure
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Arena guys so I'm going to do the same thing it's coming out of that bead hole so I'm
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going to go underneath and put my needle up and through that
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and up and out
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okay and just take a couple knots guys easy peasy pumpkin squeezy there's
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Joel's likes to say
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[Music]
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and if your thread's getting short guys sometimes I'll just take the the back end of the thread and just push it
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through the middle of that Loop instead of trying to get my whole needle through there and then I can just take my needle
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off as I get through and pull that knot tight seat it down
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through and pull it to the back and true
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[Music] okay so we're going to go ahead and cut
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this off of the Loom foreign
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and how I'm going to do that is I'm just going to hold what I do is I put take my two my pointer finger and my middle
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finger and I put it around my work just like so I wrap my thumb around the back
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of my loom and hold that tight and I flex
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my loom like I did at the beginning and then I just trim
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the threads and you can see I'm holding that back with my thumb guys so it doesn't spring up
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and it doesn't you don't want it to go too crazy and you don't want to ruin your work so
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so I this tank I can't get enough of from Danielle and I actually did it last night with
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soft flex and I'll tell you what it's my new favorite now with earrings you'd only be able to do it on one because you
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have the loop end only on one of your earrings but you want to make sure and secure your work
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and pull your hemp slowly through
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so your lips are
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at the top okay you can move them down so they're nice and snug to those 11-0 beads remember you can make two earrings
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on the original one but Trisha is only making one to save time yes that's true
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that is true you could make two and if
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um you know you could probably fit maybe even three on there but I usually do two
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only because it gives me enough material to work with hemp or string or whatever
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um to be able to uh tie it off well and it might give you a little bit of
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fuss but it's gonna just slowly work it make sure you hold your work because you
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don't want to warp that I'm just pressing down with those three fingers on top of it nice and snug
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but it is the best thing since sliced bread I'll tell you
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I really love it so go and on a bracelet this would just be
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one of the ends if you did your seed beads and you're pulling your Loops in just like that
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then you know make sure my work is still intact well there it is
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pretty good so I'm going to go and do the trick that has also been something else that I have started doing
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personally is um tying single knots at the bottom
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I did that last night with this off flex and I you can do it with hemp you can do it with wildfire
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just make sure you get your knots down as Tiny as you can get it if you're going to use a slide clasp and glue your
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knots I can't stress that enough make sure you glue your knots because you want them to stay it's very important if
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you're only tying single knots that you glue them okay so I'm going to just grab a piece of
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paper here because I didn't grab a paper towel because I don't want to get glue all over my table when I'm ready to do that
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but I just take these down and get them nice and
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tight to the bottom just like that okay so it's gonna feed
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through your slide flash then so that makes you able to use the thicker head
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or a thicker material with a slide clasps so I'm just going to do that on all four
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of these just work it down there
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same thing just taking my fingernail and just kind of tightening that up making sure I'm not tightening it too much
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because we don't want to warp our work so third one
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Robin you like the single knot good good let me know what kind of luck you guys
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have with it right anxious to know when I start doing these different things how
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everyone else is doing with it all right one more knot
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okay fix that down same way
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okay
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so I'm gonna glue them before I cut them I'm just like I said I'm just gonna put them on a piece of paper here because we
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all know GS hypo likes to Leach a little bit when it's coming out so I'd like to
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make sure that way then if I get a drop on my mat it you know it's just going to go on the
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paper or the paper towel so I'm just going to warm this up with my hand and get it to come up and that was very quick that I got a
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nice size dot of glue and I'm going to put it on that knot I'm going to try to push it down inside that knot just a
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little bit just to make sure I'm good and glued I'm going to do that with the rest of these
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and just push it down in through the middle that's this is a very important step
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guys so don't forget to glue okay
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and the GS hypo it dries pretty pretty quick so it's like I think and plus it has
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that little needle head that you can kind of push down in the middle smidge just to make sure
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that's glued and I'm going to put my cap back on
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that one smoothly if anyone uses GS hypo they know
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how well that went with that little needle because it doesn't always do that so now what we're going to do guys I
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would just let this dry for about five minutes or so but we're gonna move along and I'm just going to take my cord
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cutters and I'm going to cut right up to each knot
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okay I will reuse this hemp believe me guys I know that looks like a lot of waste but
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it will not be wasted foreign so we have our little knots there and
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then I have my slide clasps and what I like to do guys is I like to take my
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tweezer pliers if you have a chain nose you can do the same thing and I kind of open the top a
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little bit more on the clasp and then I put the nose of my
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tweezer pliers in and just kind of spread open the end of this a little bit it is much
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more it's much goes over the knots much more comfortably that way so I'm just
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going to start on this end I'm going to start pushing this through and remember you can squeeze it
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shut at the end you know if you open it up for this type of thing
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and you can use your pliers as you're doing it and just take and just give
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that the knots A little nudge down in there and I'm working that across
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gonna crossed we're going to give the last one A little nudge
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make sure our 11s are up in there back that up just a smidge
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it's a little dance to get everything to go inside it nicely so just be patient with it
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there we go
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okay and you you know guys you could also put glue down inside your slide
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clasp as well if you wanted to so I'm just going to give this end that I opened up a little
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bit once I know it's in the place I want it to be I'm just going to give it a little squeeze just to close what I opened up
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just gently squeeze a shut so it's nice and firm on there
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and then you just close your end up just like so so there's one on and that was our
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knotted end which was the hardest end but as you can see with the single knotting it goes on quite easily so
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we'll put this one on and then we can hook on our beautiful
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leaf okay
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this one goes across much easier easier because we don't have our knots on it
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let's make sure I have everything and where I want it
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whoops foreign just add a little bit
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now I can hear Kaylee out in the hall she's getting anxious for Mama to come out so we'll be finishing up here quick
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so I'm just going to do the same thing I'm going to give that a little squeeze
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to close that up close the end
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and again you can glue inside there I'm going to put on my ear wire
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say simply but these these ones on
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there we go and close that up
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and then I'm just going to use a jump ring on the bottom
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just uh nice size jump ring because it's going to go through the hole in the leaf
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easier and um into the bottom of the clasp easier
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all right so I just have a nice size jump ring there make sure I open it up enough
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because you're gonna need to kind of wiggle it back and forth to get it through that hole but it will certainly
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go and if you open it up enough it goes like butter and then hook it onto
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our piece foreign guys we have made
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changing Leaf hearing so here we are in real time
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so let me know what you think guys um as always I'd love to hear your input on all of our projects and I want to see
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pictures if you do make them super fun to see those
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so I'm going to switch us back here now thank you oh you're welcome you're welcome guys
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just back here we are
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so I hope you guys enjoyed that it was a fun project for me to come up with next
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week I believe we're doing a bracelet um so it'll be a really pretty fall vibe
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bracelet um the next two weeks are going to be in the fall Vibe and then I'm hoping for
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November to make it like gift months so I'm trying to think outside the box for
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you guys and come up with some stuff that we can make as gifts that maybe isn't jewelry you know just some basic
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things maybe a bookmark things like that so my brain is going on that but I will
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post as I always try to do the first week of November I try to get the schedule up for the month but that's
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what's coming in the next few weeks for us so should be super fun so thank you
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thank you thank you who said something
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the Vicky she's a silly goose so thank you guys so much sorry
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um for joining us tonight we love having you and we'll see you next week guys hi
