I watched this done on another channel and they didn’t use Mod Podge Dishwasher Safe…so I decided to try it for myself.

I went to the Dollar Tree where they have clear glass full size dinner plates 10 1/2″ across, and bought two of them to try this out. Here’s a link to them. http://tinyurl.com/ycy8ohys

I found Mod Podge Dishwasher Safe at Target.com for $3.98 and here’s the link to it. http://tinyurl.com/ya79yjdx

To begin this project, you’ll need to wipe your plate with rubbing alcohol to remove any fingerprints/grime. I ran mine through the dishwasher then wiped it with alcohol just to be on the safe side.

You’ll need a foam brush, 1/2 yard of the material of your choice, and a good pair of fabric scissors. (I used my Tim Holtz small snips to cut the material once it was on the plate.) the 5″ micro snips are my favorite…Here’s a link to them. http://tinyurl.com/yb946teq

After the plate is clean, and before you’ve removed the seal from the bottle of Mod Podge, lay the bottle on it’s side and roll it around on your work surface to mix the Mod Podge. Then you will lay the plate face down on a work surface (I used a Dollar Tree cutting mat for under my project)….Coat the back (underside) of the plate with Mod Podge (dishwasher safe) with a foam brush, trying not to leave any gobs or uneven areas of Mod Podge.  Lay the material face down, making sure you’ve covered the plate on all sides with the material. (I didn’t trim my material until after I’d glued it to the plate. )
Once the material is laid in place, coat the material with Mod Podge all the way to the edges of the plate. Make sure you don’t have any bubbles underneath, and now’s the time to pick up the material and re-adjust it if you have an issue with wrinkles or bubbles.
I waited overnight for the Mod Podge to dry, then trimmed it from the edges of the plate.  I used Tim Holtz small 5″ scissors, and trimmed to the edge of the plate.  I  added a second layer of Mod Podge and made sure that I went around and under the edges to ensure they were well adhered… Try to make sure you don’t leave any big globs of Mod Podge, and that you’ve coated the fabric surface so you can see the Mod Podge everywhere.
I cleaned the mat with my homemade stamp cleanser (1 tsp. baby shampoo in spray bottle filled with water), but really, once the Mod Podge has dried, it can basically be pulled off the plastic mat with your fingers.
I added a third coat of Mod Podge the next day to ensure it was going to be well coated.

NOTE: You need to let it cure (don’t put it in the dishwasher) for 28 days. That means you can wash the top of the plate, but keep the underside out of water for 28 days so it has time to completely dry and set up.
I wiped the edges of the plate while the Mod Podge was still wet to clean the spots where I got a little crazy with Mod Podge….
I also made a plate using Christmas material. The Christmas material had some thicker areas that were (fake) embroidered) and those sections were difficult to adhere to the plate evenly. I didn’t have any problems with the first material I used, but I needed to cut the Christmas material around some of the leaves, so I could lay the material on the plate to ensure the material laid flat.

I’ve been so excited to upload a video every day for the past few days, and have more to go live.  Sometimes Rich works in spells, and he’s doing a big push right now.  I want to make a Thanksgiving postcard to send to friends and family, and like to do that this time of year.  I don’t send a lot of Christmas cards, as people get a lot and they don’t seem to have the impact that you would hope….Saying I’m grateful to have people in my life (for me) is an unexpected gift, and maybe it’s more impactful…I’m not sure.. I just think it’s a better fit for me.  I like to send them to our college friends and our extended family, and close local friends.  It’s the perfect time to do it, and so today, that’s my project….I have anew stamp set that I got with the Simon Says Stamp card kit for November (or was it October?) that’s all about fall leaves and being thankful for friends and family.  I like using a different set every year, in case someone actually keeps my postcard…Then they’ll know it’s new and different (at least that’s how I am hoping they see it…

Yesterday I filled all of our bird/suet feeders.  I have a large bird population that depends on us (at least that’s what I tell myself.)  I don’t know of any neighbors that feed birds, and once my feeders are full, the birds are quick to follow.  Every year at garage sales, I buy several new feeders, as our area bear likes to ruin as many as possible in the spring.  He wakes up and I swear, heads to our house for his first meal.  He ruins at least three or four big feeders and two or three suet feeders annually.  This year I found some really terrific feeders and the birds are so happy with them.  When I was a kid, my parents loved watching birds eat, and had a feeder in front of the living room picture window.  At that point in my life I couldn’t understand the interest, but now that I’m retired and Honey and I spend so much time in a room that’s primarily windows, bird watching is fun for both of us.  (I think it’s like television for Honey.)

We had minor snow yesterday, but thirty minutes from us, had over a foot of snow.  That’s too much too soon, and I’m not looking forward to winter.  I do however, love Thanksgiving, and the food related to it.  My birthday falls on Thanksgiving this year (11/22), and I’ve never been fond of that.  It’s not the “getting older thing,” more I’ve had several “bad” birthdays.  My first birthday memory was age four when President Kennedy was assassinated.  It’s weird that I can remember that day, and having cake with two neighbor friends on a foot stool in front of the television, so our mothers could watch the events as they unfolded, crying.  Then mid teens when my sister had a seizure on my birthday and into college, when my mother had an emergency hysterectomy, and Rich’s mother being buried on my birthday years later.  There are so many more, ending with two years ago, when I bent over the clothes drier and my artificial hip popped out of the socket the day before. It’s not every year that’s bad, but I always breathe a sigh of relief when the day has passed.   At least this year, my belly will be full of turkey and stuffing, and that’s always a good thing…Let’s all cross our fingers that this year’s birthday is uneventful.  You’ll be among the first to know regardless.

I wanted to make a double slider card with a gnome, and started by making a frame for the center.  (A double slider means it slides in two directions.)
I used 4 1/4 x 4 /1/4″ white card stock and centered a 3 1/4″ circle die to create a stamped frame around the die, then drew the center circle with a pencil and removed the die.  I used peg stamps from the following sets: Christmastime, Fairy Garden (I’m not sure why I kept saying Party Garden as I have the name written on the sides of the stamps), and the Shady Pines set.  I stamped the images with Memento Dew Drops in Pear Tart, Olive Grove, Northern Pine, Espresso, and Desert sand.  Start with the largest image when stamping a wreath. and making sure you’re stamping both outside primarily of the circle drawn   I used the pine boughs first, then added in some pine cones, smaller pine boughs, and mushrooms to create a circular wreath frame that a gnome would appear out of..  I took a 3 3/4″ and  3 1/4″ circle dies and laid them over the wreath I’d created and cut out the wreath. I stamped and cut out several mushrooms https://pegstamps.com/fairy-garden.html from pegstamps.com and attached three on the bottom edges of the inside of the wreath frame to add to the dimension of the frame and to highlight the gnome when he appears.
I stamped and colored my gnome from a stamp set I bought from Aliexpress. Here’s a link to it. http://tinyurl.com/y97k36nn   I originally saw this stamp set free with a magazine, and didn’t buy it at the time, so was happy when I found them on Aliexpress.
I used a circle die that was 3 1/4″ across and placed my gnome below the die on a piece of white heavyweight Recollections cardstock that was 4 3/4″ wide by 6 3/4″ tall. You want to make sure that there is 1/4″ gap below the circle for the gnome and 1/4″ from the bottom of the card to the bottom of the gnome. If you need to use a smaller circle die or move the die up to accommodate the gnome, now is the time to do this before you die cut the paper.
Once you are sure your gnome has enough room and the circle is in it’s proper placement, make marks where the circle will be by tracing the inside of the die, and removing the die. You’ll need to make two slits in the cardstock.  One about 1/8″ below the circle die and about one that’s 1/8″ from the bottom of the base of the card, both in a straight line. I used a Mulwark craft knife to cut slits in my cardstock that were about 1/2″ wide and 1/8″ high. You’ll need to make both slits the same size.
Next take a thicker plastic bag and cut it so it’s 3/8″ wide (and cutting it on your paper trimmer for ease of trimming)…This strip needs to be long enough to be threaded through the slits you’ve made and then glued together to form a loose circle that is on the back and front of the cardstock. I used redline tape to adhere mine, but it was recommended in videos that you use a stapler. I couldn’t find mine, so went with red line tape. Don’t make your circle of plastic too tight when you attach the ends together, as it needs to move freely.
Before I put my plastic in place, I die cut the circle. I made sure my plastic moved easily and was well adhered to itself before going any further, as this is the most crucial part of the project.
Take another piece of white cardstock that’s exactly the same size as the first piece 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ tall, and using the first piece as a template, draw inside the circle so you can die cut the other piece so the circles are in the exact same spot on both pieces. The new piece is going to be the front of our card and the piece with the baggie mechanism is the next layer of our card (just to clarify.)
Once I die cut the circle on the front layer, I decided to use some Distress Oxide inks to color it. I used a Blending tool from Tim Holtz and used Twisted Citron, Lucky Clover, then Peeled Paint. I went around the bottom of the circle with Fossilized Amber, then Broken China and went over almost everything with Faded Jeans.
I went back to the second layer and attached my gnome by putting red line tape almost to the bottom of the plastic so the gnome could move as high as possible. I flipped over the cardstock and took a strip of white cardstock that is 1/2″ wide and attached it to the very top of the plastic baggie strip with red line tape. This piece of cardstock needs to be long enough so it sticks out the bottom of the cardstock about 1/2″. I put foam tape on either side of this strip as close as possible without touching the strip so it doesn’t adhere to it. I added foam tape to the sides of the cardstock so there is foam tape surrounding the circle on the top and sides but not so it gets in the way of the movement of the paper strip. Flip the cardstock over and put tear tape around the top of the circle and on the sides close to the edges and on either side of the gnome, making sure the gnome doesn’t adhere to the foam tape if it gets too close to him.
I used a stamp set from MayMay called “Action” http://tinyurl.com/yd3en99k for the word “Pull” and stamped that at the bottom of the 1/2″ strip and rounded the corners of the strip.

After the distress oxides dried, I took the wreath frame and attached it around the circle with foam tape.  I stamped, colored and cut out the gnome’s house and put that below the circle.  (This is now the front of the card.)  I glued this on top of the cardstock with the gnome, and made sure the pull tab is on the back of second layer. I added a card base that was 5 x 7″ in olive green (making sure the card base opening was to the right.) I also cut out a sign that came with the stamp set, colored it and adhered it inside the circle cut out on the 5 x 7″ card base.

I thought the front of the card needed something else, so I stamped with Old Olive Stampin’ Up ink a couple of pine trees and some grass strands to make it look like a hillside behind the gnome house. I added a couple of the mushrooms I’d stamped and cut out from pegstamps.com on either side of the house, to make the house more cohesive with the rest of the card.

Today we went to lunch at a friend’s house then to a movie.  We saw “The Girl in the Spider’s Web” and let me tell you, it’s suspenseful.  I enjoyed it and so did Rich.  Our friends didn’t seem to like it as much as we did, but we aren’t deep thinkers when it comes to movies, we’re there for the entertainment.  I think that allows us to enjoy movies for the experience and not the deeper meaning that a lot of movie goers expect. With that being said, if you are looking for a movie like “Silence of the Lambs,” this isn’t it.  It was entertaining, but probably won’t win any awards.

When we came home, I finished the tape runner video, as Dave, the customer service manager, whose been so nice to me, gave me the information on the tape runner so I could give you links in case you’re interested in buying them.  He said this tape runner has been so well received that it’s now being sold by Glue Dots as their extra strength tape runner….Who would have guessed?  I’m glad I finished the video and uploaded it.

As for the second Dollar Tree idea video, it seems like people aren’t as interested in it as they were the first.  Maybe I should see what I called the first video, and rename this one similarly, so people know what to expect.  The first one went over so well, that I hope this one isn’t a disappointment.

As for tonight, it’s date night, so we’ll be having dinner and a movie with the dogs in Rich’s man room downstairs.  The dogs get so excited when Rich goes downstairs and says it’s date night…they come running—because it’s all about a night of snuggling between us on the couch…those dogs have it made.  If you’ve never seen the video I made on Rich’s room, here’s the link.  I think it’ll make you smile….

I had bought one Plus Corporation tape runner plus ten refills from Amazon. Here’s a link to it on Amazon in case you want to see the differences for yourself. http://tinyurl.com/ybqeevvs (This is the original purchase and not the one I would recommend.)
Once I realized that the tape runner didn’t work well, I contacted the Plus Corporation (as they offered a contact card in the package sent from Amazon.) The man I spoke with (Dave) was really nice, and wanted to make sure I was happy with the transaction.. He found my original order where I’d bought the body, plus ten refills, and offered to replace them with their extra strong,
item number TG-0944. He sent them to me immediately, and I absolutely loved the new tape runner. When I tried to find a link to them for all of you, I couldn’t find them anywhere online. I contacted Dave and he said that this tape runner has been so well received, they are now making them for other companies and they are now sold under those company names. Here is a link to the new tape runners being sold by Glue Dots being sold through Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/yd4rx8ng Currently the body (with tape) is $7.65 and refills are $2.67 each. To purchase the refills, here is the link to them also from Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ya9xa9sp
As always, I don’t make any money from these links, and I encourage you to price shop to get the best prices possible. Glue Dots item numbers are below:
Dispenser #41901 Glue Dots Super Strength
Refills #41901 Glue Dots Super Strength Refill

I worked on putting up two videos today and finally got the Dollar Tree video up.  It’s funny, because I had to go there on three different occasions, and if  you look closely, you’ll notice at least two clothing changes.  I wish the video had gone up before Halloween, but these things happen.

I’m feeling pretty guilty about poor Rich and they way I’ve been pushing him to put up videos.  We have such a back log that I haven’t made any others yet, as I’m waiting for him to upload at least five or six more videos.  It’s crazy when we get that far behind, but his back has been killing him and I didn’t really want to push the issue.  So yesterday, crazy boss Sandy came out to play and now poor Rich probably feels glued to his computer.  I’m happy though, that we have at least two ready to go up and a third that he’s working on.  If he can clean up the backlog, I’ll be so excited.  I have so many ideas, but don’t want to do anything with them yet, as I’d prefer to get the other videos done.

I got an email from Arteza today, offering to let me do another video for them.  I love playing with their products, and this time they’re letting me have a rotary cutter.  My girlfriend has one and says she can’t live without it, and I’m excited, but terrified at the same time, because I’m pretty sure I’ll be rolling it over one of my fingers…Yikes!

I think I talked about the great customer service experience I had from a company called Plus Corporation, and their tape runners.  I bought one tape runner plus ten refills, and they didn’t hold my cardstock together.  I called them and they offered to replace them with stronger adhesive tape runners and I loved them…they are the best tape runners I’ve ever tried…..So I made a video about it, and when I went to find the cost of the replacements so I can tell everyone where to get them, I can’t find them anywhere.  There’s one being sold on Amazon by a third party vendor, and they want over $25 for the one tape runner.  Who in their right mind would pay that for tape?  So I called their customer service number again today and left a message asking them for help on where people can buy these tape runners.  It would be crazy for me to put that video up if you can’t buy them any where….right?

Our new Dollar Tree opened, and as promised, I made another crafty idea video…
1. Wax paper-used with dies so the paper comes out easily.. In your sandwich, lay your cardstock down first, then wax paper to cover it, then your die facing down, then the top plate. It makes the paper come out much easier and helps the dies work better, longer.
fyi, If you add four folded new drier sheets under the paper, it will work even better.      2. Plastic wrap–to adhere napkins to cardstock..remove layers of your napkin until you only have the top layer left. Put a piece of copy paper under your project, then the cardstock, then a piece of plastic wrap just big enough to cover the cardstock, then the napkin with the pattern face up. Put another piece of copy paper on top and iron until the napkin has adhered to the cardstock.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Vbyw50KyY&t=19s
3. Coffee filters—they work great to catch glitter or embossing powder to then return them to their bottles. You can also wipe your work surface with the outside of the filter to get rid of the rest of the glitter.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMVNYO_abr8
4. Used K-cup coffees: Maremi SmallArt made a great video showing how to use coffee and tea in her art journals and mixing them with texture paste. I’ve seen other videos where they’ve used coffee grinds instead of tea to mix with texture paste, but couldn’t find that video…this is Maremi’s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQp3f6XNUY
5. Medical paper tape: great for holding down dies and you can make homemade washi tape with it as well.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHKxllorhtE
6. Pump bottle for homemade stamp cleanser- 1 tsp. baby shampoo to rest water
7. Make Up Brushes for wiping off spare embossing powders or use for wiping excess glitter off.
8. Toothbrushes.…use your old ones for flicking paint and for cleaning your rubber stamps.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzT8KvFfLo8
9..Quick Erasers-use them to take watercolor paint stains off paint palettes. Lindsay the frugal crafter loves these for this technique.
10. 360 duster—use for wiping off excess glitter or embossing powder from your work surface.
11. Dog hair removers–use them to clean up after using glitter or embossing powder
12. Planners—remake them for gifts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Obw7M63Gc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DG471IwBdo
13. Paper clips— I use them with hot glue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtg9Iq3grUE&t=489s
14. Stickers like enamel dots—color them with alcohol markers to change the colors to match your project  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ10b48x0Z4
15. Small tea lights…I just made a lighted card with them.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Lk5b4NcEY
16. Picture frames–put a decorated paper inside and glue a Christmas ornament to the glass.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdhLkp_Kk3o
17. Gift bags for inside photo frames or as a layer on your cards or to decoupage onto wood for art. Here’s a video where they did that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLvfbZefd10
18. Tissue Paper–use in art journals for decoupaging or to make into washi tape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHKxllorhtE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4m-yiECXc
19. Gift Sacks for albums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfr-T16I8A
20. Christmas ornaments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdhLkp_Kk3o
21. Kids wig, a mirror and a skull –best Halloween wreath ever

22. Napkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqcVIU7yuw or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRx4PM_ZdRY
23. Silicone ice cube trays: use them in any shape for making embellishments with hot glue or caulking or, to make homemade candies in (but don’t use the same trays for both type projects)

24. Paper towels…when you use paints or sprays and want a cool impression left behind, or for making your own mulberry paper  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uyox2BhrR0 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-hG38b4gs
25. Socks—diy Gnomes not snowmen

26. Tiny Vaselines for blending colored pencils. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIvt50DiNQ
27. Chopping mats—use with dies to make stencils or a mask

I wanted to share the new releases from Peg Stamps. http://www.pegstamps.com

Here are the links by stamp set:
Acrylic Sets
Fireside Christmas https://pegstamps.com/fireside-christmas-clear-set.html

Let it Snow! https://pegstamps.com/let-it-snow-clear-stamp-set.html

Trinkets and Wishes https://pegstamps.com/trinkets-and-wishes-clear-stamp-set.html
Gingerbread Wonderland

Peg stamp sets
Christmas Traditions https://pegstamps.com/christmas-traditions.html
Christmastime https://pegstamps.com/christmastime.html

Hello Mistletoe https://pegstamps.com/hello-mistletoe.html

Shady Pine https://pegstamps.com/shady-pine.html

I store my peg stamps in a lidded box from the Dollar Tree and I write the names of the stamp on the side in black Sharpie…One last note, you don’t have to buy whole sets of stamps, as you can buy them individually…So if you find a single stamp you love, there’s no issue with ordering it by itself.

I always recommend that before you make an order on pegstamps.com that you check on the last Lindsay the Frugal Crafter video for peg stamps, as she normally offered a discount code there…

I’ve had this idea in my head for a long time. I received a big window stamp from a viewer and wanted to make a card that has a window where you are looking inside the house, and thought it would be great to light it.  Dollar Tree now sells super small lights that were perfect for this job.

I started by using Archival black ink and stamping on acetate with the window stamp.

I used a stamp set called Wall Art from Little Darling Rubber Stamps (currently sold out, here’s a link on ebay though http://tinyurl.com/yaadebbm), and stamped them on a piece of vellum near the center. The vellum is 5 ” tall by 9″ wide. (I cut it down later, so you might not need it to be that wide). I stamped with black archival ink on the vellum as I wanted a light to shine from behind it. I used dark alcohol inks to color on the back of the vellum and that’s the best way to do this so the colors show up.
I colored the frames in gray and made sure to add the darker gray so when you look at the vellum from the other side, you can see that the gray shows up.
The wall art is going to be inside my box card… I colored the wall blue and dabbed a bib with alcohol on it to make the lines from the blue marker disappear and make the walls look textured rather than lined.
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At this point, my camera cut out so you missed me scoring and explaining the house.
I took two pieces of Recollections 110 lb heavyweight gray cardstock and cut them to 5 1/2″ by 11″ long then scored it every 1/2″ on the 11″ side to create a wood look background. I rubbed several ink pads from the top of the 5 1/2″ length down to the bottom. Inks used were: Distress inks in Tea Dye, Gathered Twigs, Black Soot, and Smoky Slate from Stampin’ Up plus Unicorn White ink from Hero Arts to create an old wood look. You need to use the colors from light to dark and heat set after using the Unicorn White, as it’s a pigment ink. You might want to use a white gel pen to create more cracks in your wood. (Or nail holes.) Make small marks with the pen and rub to make them look weathered.
To make the box, you’ll fold in on the fourth score mark which is 2″ from either end. Bend the folds toward the inside so the folded parts fold toward the uninked part of the cardstock.
I took the stamp of the window and stamped on some different colored cardstock then cut them out. I wanted to have curtains and the wood frame of the window cut out, so used red for the curtains and craft for the window frame. I glued the curtains behind the acetate as well as the wood outline. I decided in the end, that the shutters and flower box should be glued to the outside of the acetate.

I stamped the window on the outside center of the front of the house, then cut it out so I could glue the acetate behind that opening.
I probably should have just glued the wall art page directly to the back of the acetate, but for some reason, I wanted more dimension, so created another wall.
The center piece that I attached the wall art to, was 5 1/4″ tall by 9 1/2″ wide, and scored at 1″ from either end. I used an oval die and cut out the very center of the cardstock, then adhered the vellum to the center of the opening so the wall art shows through the opening. The vellum is glued behind the gray wall. I folded the scores on the wall art portion, toward the back (toward where the vellum is glued on) and then I put strong adhesive on the outside of the 1″ flaps on either end. I took the back of the house that should have a 2″ flap facing toward the front of the house and laid my center piece inside and laid the 1″ flaps against the side flaps of the back portion so they were adhered together. You’ll want to do this on both sides.  Use a strong adhesive and put it on the  inside of the front flaps and take the front of the house and line up the side flaps with the back side flaps and align them so they are glued in place. I can’t stress enough how strong your adhesive needs to be to hold this house together.
I stamped the shutters and the flower box on gray cardstock and cut them out to adhere to the front of the acetate. I used a black marker to edge them so when you look at the sides, all you’ll see is black. I put foam tape under the shutters so they are 3-d.
I took a white piece of scrap cardstock and put the flower box on the paper and made a mark on the farthest left and right side of the box so I would make sure my flowers covered the whole box. I stamped a variety of greenery and flowers in different colors to create a big full box of flowers.
The peg stamps I used were fern, peeled flower, chamomile sprig, blinky flower, one from the Floral Filigree Wreath collection and three ripply flower stamps from http://www.pegstamps.com.
I used water based markers to color my stamps and cut out the whole flower image so I could adhere it to the front with foam tape..
I cut a piece of white cardstock for the back that was 4 1/2″ tall by 6″ wide and stamped a sentiment on it, then adhered it with tear tape..
I put Glue Dots inside behind the vellum to hold the small lights so you can see the wall art when it’s lit.

I finished the card that I’ve been working on for at least two days.  I wanted to play with the new Nuvo Powders, and boy did I!  I had so much fun with them, and found that they were even more fabulous in combination with Ken Oliver’s Liquid Metals.  I thought the floral surround I created on the card was really pretty, and if I had only used one of the two products, I don’t think I would have gotten as vibrant results as I did.

I have so many plans for videos, and Rich has been working on one that’s taken him all day to upload.  I feel terrible when I make incredibly long videos and when my instructions are vague, and in this case, the video is both.  I should write the notes directly before Rich edits, as that would ensure one of us would know what the explanations mean.  I think I make perfect sense, but a week later, I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about.  And then to have to decipher it and explain it to Rich, it’s terrible. Like I said, I should write the notes then hand the book to Rich to do the edits, and that way I’d remember what I was trying to say.  Sometimes, neither one of us can read my hand writing either…..These are the difficulties of being a YouTube sensation (in my head, haha.)

I decided I don’t like any of the pick up tools I have for sequins etc., so bought as many as I could find on Aliexpress to add to my collection.  I’m going to find “the one” so all of us have a tool that works.  At the Stamp and Scrapbook Expo, one vendor was selling a pick up tool for just under $30., and I haven’t been able to get that out of my head.  I know there’s another one that one YouTube uses, that’s also around the same price point, and that’s something that really bothers me.  I truly believe that we should be able to buy or make a tool that picks up sequins, (or thin die cuts), for under $5, and I’m not going to give up until I find that tool and make a video showing it…