Father's Day Crafting with An & April

hi everyone it's an and April back together again for our monthly live where we use um where we do our free projects in um cricet design space so if you go to our profiles you can see our projects and then uh we piece it together so we're both using 12 X12 card stock shop card stock I've got like a bunch of colors going on because I did all Blues so I used Encore I used basil and one of the things that I really really like about using Encore because I I was in a Facebook group and someone was like I'm worried about how it cuts I can't tell the difference between basil and Encore and AC would you agree April like when you're cutting oh you can I can I think Encore is better oh do you you know what because I cut I just cut on and and I don't look and I just pull things off you okay maybe I I should take that back I don't notice but apparently April does but okay I guess what I'm saying is it cuts at least the same if not better yes I would definitely agree with that I know there's um some colors of Basil that as much as I love some of them some of them just won't cut and I've tried like different settings um and it's just like No And with Encore I haven't had that issue with any of the colors the colors well I will say I love my favorite thing of course and we talk about this every single time the glitter card stock line that sequins glitter it cuts so easily and I get a lot of questions on that because people look at that and they think no way it's going to cut so all right we're gonna get started oh how pretty I mean I just love this Turtle okay so this is my turtle I mean look at how stinking cute so I did the um just the metallic um so you can see like it's got like a rainbow depending on the light so I love that I love my little turtle it is very cute and you can see I have all the different waves going on so it's just a water a water theme all right one of the things that I noticed right away and you guys probably know if you've followed me for a long time um each one of these individual letters I did HTV so that's going to be the first step for me I'm going to turn on my um mini Heat press and hopefully hopefully April's going to finish in time since she cut individual letters I did don't worry I'm gonna Zoom right I'm gonna Zoom I know you're so fast I feel like I talk and then I stop crafting when I'm talking how is everyone hi ladies okay all right so um and I just okay I um just posted a YouTube tutorial today about how so this I cut this a couple weeks ago for once April I was so ahead of schedule I had it designed and cut love way before but so this was before I um did my tutorial but I know Barbara I see Barbara on and I know she saw me on the crafty bricks craft challenge so she like sends everybody a like a a box right and it's a box of supplies with a picture of what the what the final product should look like and then basically um on the day of the challenge you go head to-head and usually you go head-to-head with her so she started this last year and uh when I went head-to-head with court me I had won last year and then um she was celebrating her oneyear anniversary so she invited everybody who did the challenge last year and we all went head-to-head so round one was two days five Crafters um in group a and then five Crafters in group b and basically you had to be super super fast so while I was thinking of ways to win which by the way I did win of course you did I won the grand prize um one of the things that I figured out and I do think that we should do this from now on is that when you go to cut your HTV or your vinyl you should do an offset in design space and then um and the reason why is because you're going to do a couple layers or a couple copies of the offset and then you're going to um you're going to attach it all and what you're going to end up getting is let me show you my tool is broken the reason why you want this is because if you cut if you do the offset and you do a couple copies right and then you attach it all what will happen is when you go and you cut on the htb setting or on the vinyl setting um this will come right off so you don't have to cut your project out from the excess so your scraps your scraps are going to be as efficient like you're going to be so efficient you're going to have the most scraps ever because this is just going to come out and your scraps this will fall off of your scraps and then it's going to be easier to weed as well because you only have a little bit to weed so I like that yeah and so I and you know like sometimes like when you're weed eting whether especially adhesive vinyl it's so sticky like the whole thing is like so annoying right but this way it's like when you go to use your scraps you definitely maximize the amount of scraps you have and you cut down on the stickiness because it's so little what's left it's just a tiny offset um and then also I don't know if this has happened to you before but sometimes when I'm you know before I go to weed I go to cut the excess off and it's so hard to see HTV sometimes right and you cut into your project so you're trying to be efficient you cut into your project oh oh no what happened uh sorry I and then you cut into your project and then you got to cut again it's like the opposite of being efficient so anyway if you haven't I just I just did the YouTube tutorial today on how to do it it's also how you should do your stickers oh that's how you do your kiss cut stickers too okay I like that I'm I don't use too much HTV or I don't use too much vinyl to be honest with you but stickers I do okay so with your stickers that way because you know how sometimes it's hard to peel your stickers but this will give you kind of like that look of professional stickers like if you were to go buy it from a store right like you know how it has the offset and then it's easy for you to peel off so the same principle applies so like if you do the same process you will have kiss cut stickers okay I'm going to have to try it it's just the way you're supposed to do it yes oh I see magical crafting M says I use that method for stickers um oh Diane yes I ordered my sign um from party designs gra I always forget her fool but I wrote about her in my newsletter one time I hope you guys saw it I mean she makes beautiful signs this sign is humongous I think it's 40 in and um and it's all wood and she spray paints the colors I mean it's amazing the sign is so gorgeous and I'm so jealous that I can't do it which is why I bought it and then you can see I'm doing HTV for my letters right here so it's a lot easier than gling down each one oh on I'm over here struggling with this pen I usually I usually use my quick stick but um it seems like it's dried out because no matter how much it's all this green is here but I can't push it to come it's not coming out so that's going to have to be trash I didn't even realize it dried out but I mean I've had that for I don't even know how many years so I guess it was time guess it was time thank you [Music] Diane all right my R and my te sometimes with HTV that this happens where it doesn't want to stay down but I like to pull off the carrier sheet and then press it again um you do want to protect it you never want to put your oh see my teal light came off I was goingon to ask you what what heat setting you use for that I normally I mean so this batch is an old batch which I knew from the first time I have it on the second bar on my Cricut Mini oh okay it doesn't curl your paper or anything cuz I tried it one time for a banner I used um glow-in-the-dark HTV and my penants were like all curly and I was like well that was a flop but whatever it was it was for my own kid so it didn't count yeah so a couple things um so I I feel like the fluorescent um HTV takes a little bit longer to press so that might be like I mean it's card stock but like see mine is totally let me see if I can show you it's totally flat oh yeah you can't even tell yeah oh magical crafty B yeah I haven't I haven't hung the sign yet because I'm still okay my house still isn't done it's now 3 months later je and there it's it's done this week I finally today I have a f well no it's almost functioning almost a fully functioning kitchen the hood doesn't work but um I haven't done anything yet I haven't cooked anything they just everything went in like I actually the refrigerators in where the refrigerator is supposed to be and all that stuff but basically part of the process is they come in and do a full deep clean so I'm waiting for them to clean everything before I hang up that sign but that sign's going to go up higher and then you'll be able to see it all the time it's so pretty very nice a totally off topic question for you but do you cook regularly so I ask you as somebody who cooks like maybe once a week okay so no judgment there um I okay I know not to be a total Downer okay but I have not cooked since my brother passed away and it's almost been like 3 years like I like when he first passed away I couldn't I was just barely surviving like you know and my daughter was like just starting first grade so it was just like it took all of me just to get her to all the things that she signed up for for school and whatever so I started ordering food and then my mom and dad would come over and they would always bring a hot meal and so like legit I got into that Groove and I have not cooked in like three years and so the the running joke with my husband is we re we we did a brand new kitchen okay and it has um a double Island because I've been seeing that in Texas whenever we were looking at homes I'm like I want a double Island so everyone's been saying like oh you got your double Island so you you know so you can order all your food it I am going to cook and I am going to prove to my husband that uh yeah that it's not going to be a waste if you never cook again I'm totally a th% behind that I support it my husband tells me all the time too we're sick of eating uh food out and I'm like sorry sorry not sorry yeah no I am really well okay so now I have a legitimate reason as said why I'm not cooking right we have no kitchen and so um and so we have been like it's been horrible like you know we're my daughter's holy into softball so we're like a softball family on the weekends you know we wake up and there's a game at 9:00 so like we're legit postmating Bagels in the morning oh my okay okay wait wa wait wait yeah I don't cook meals but I uh mic the microwave is my friend well no everything was so dusty okay that my defense yeah you're you're off the hook right now because yours is under construction yeah no it's like Dusty like I showed my daughter I'm like if daddy toast a bagel for you I want you to toss it in the trash because look at this toaster right and it was like like all this dust on there and my husband is just like he's totally of that mentality of like if it doesn't kill you like you're better you know and I'm like uh like I don't think it's safe to like you [Laughter] know so oh I love the comments Barbara I'm blessed my hubby Cooks mostly okay oh that is nice yeah that is nice mine does mine does not I don't even think mine knows how to put stuff in the microwave I love him but he's like no no well my husband will oh my gosh well I don't think he's gonna watch this but he is just the one that will like like today I wanted to strangle him he's lucky he wasn't here today so they installed we we have um you know on the the second Island we have a um a drink drawer like a beverage drawer right so like a little refrigerator and so I open it and I'm like this fool like used it before he was supposed to use it and then he spilled stuff and didn't clean it so he used it as a mini fridge and he spilled like it looked like egg yolk and I'm I'm so pissed right like I got to clean it he will just use it right like he's just I don't know like and when I yell at him about like crumbs and whatever and he's like why like the answer's just gonna come and take it away and oh my god wow yes that and I love my husband but he that's he kills me when it comes to that he's fired for that one yeah so yes he will cook but it's awful but your H what's your husband too no mine won't microwave anything he's like no for the kids yes but for himself no he'll be like um what are you feeding me and I'm like what are we buying um so I have mine this way and I didn't get to see so does yours do you put it this way or this way I have it if you see mine right now so okay so like that and I kind of like when I did the water um it doesn't line up so it's however however much you want to show you know what I mean like you can move it up a little bit more like this last color it's so light right now that you can barely see it you sure yeah because look at mine I just used yours and it all lined up at the bottom oh I mean you can do that but you can move you can adjust them so like I ended up adjusting mine and like bringing the water like it um is the whole envelope gotcha gotcha okay so but don't you love that I do it's very cute very very very cute and then here's that paper that I'm in love with the holographic yeah so pretty yeah I used um holographic glitter the like it's like a silver sequin glitter I don't know if you can see it oh yeah I can see it I love it yeah so then you put yours right here so I will do the same copying it right now I got so caught up in talking about complaining about my husband I stopped crafting I'm so behind you are too funny okay do you have oh go ahead no go ahead no you go ahead I was just going to tell everybody that um Courtney from The Crafty brick um with that whole contest that she's doing she's also giving away a Caesar Julia so if you guys and she's pulling a winner tomorrow so go check out her Instagram page and enter because I think the chances of us winning is really really good and have you tried out one of the those yet or no no but they are sending me one they are how exting they said they will they haven't but um one of the contestants um you know works for Caesar and I was like how did I like cuz everybody else had a had a Juliet they were cutting with a Juliet and except for me I caught on my Cricket Venture and so I'm like um how did you miss me like we can talk about it I'll send you one yeah tell them stat please yeah totally um it's supposed to be good everyone loves it you um Regular so you know how the cricket when they say oh you don't have to use the mat but then you got to use Smart material yes which is not very helpful um on theirs you can actually use regular HTV so like people we we had regular HTV and people were cutting it without the map oh okay um okay so I didn't I didn't do my bubbles I know I'm sorry but I you know what's so funny I was talking about you actually were your ears burning this past weekend it's a little bit you know how Jen casselle came and visited so we were talking about you cuz she was you know we were talking about 12 x 12 card stock shop and she loves them and we're she was going through all my paper supplies and I gave her a ton of P which um I know I I feel bad that we keep repeating ourselves but I'm telling you if you have't used it like you have to like you're gonna fall in love with it um so anyway so I was telling I showed Jen and she's like oh my God what is this material so we're talking about 12 x 12 we're talking about you and um oh my gosh my tea did fall off look it it never stuck I'm going to have to redo this um and she was she was um saying we were talking about like our color choices and stuff and I think right now is like a really good example of our color choices like my turtle is clearly a girl turtle with like a pink shell and you know her like turquoise face and then your turtle is definitely a boy turtle so we were talking about like how you know and I said I you know she has two sons I think she's just been crafting for her kids for a long time and so like her colors tend to and I don't know probably like you've posted so many things about it so you get more boy orders on top of that but like I never um most of the time all my requests are always for girl stuff and um it's also like I very rarely do boy stuff so the majority of my custom orders that come across my desk um all on Etsy to are 90% boys like I I have one that I'm going to be working on tonight um it is local to me so I was supposed to have done it probably like a week ago and I just reached out to her and I told her you know I got a lot going on right now I'm not canceling your order I'm just like your local to me so I know that if I kick it out you know in in about a week and a half like it'll still get to you and time and she was like yeah that's totally fine and it is a bugs and insects order with um no Shaker um and it has it has lights so I'm going to add the lights to it tonight I am going to do um I'm actually going to record The Reel for it um and I am going to give it to a 12 x 12 and because I'm using a lot of their card stock yeah I think the majority of it is theirs um but it was so funny because she was like can you please include um a rly Poley and so I was over there on the hunt for like rolly poly clip art and I finally found one that was really cute um she pointed me in the direction of what it is that she liked and then I was just like okay now I got to find all the clip art that goes with this and um I was like dude like I get so many boy orders and everything is just so like boy like oriented that I'm just like hm somebody going to throw me some pink stuff anytime soon do you even want it well do you know because I find that like when I I have done one or two boy things and I feel like I'm so challenged you know like to find the right colors and to to not steer it into a more you know like girly way you know what I mean you know I thought about that too and one of the things that I was thinking about was like my style of doing them I feel like I like a very um I like a clean layered style and I don't like to go like too crazy with a bunch of little pieces yeah and my thought process behind that is if I'm recreating this I don't want to spend an hour and a half doing these cake toppers like you know when I'm I'm I pump orders out I work during the week I have three kids I have a husband and so when I'm working on orders it's you know usually when I come home from work and I'm like I don't want all the teeny tiny details I want a print and cut I want layers I want offsets and I want it clean and I want it easy low maintenance yeah low maintenance no I definitely um I will say like just following your projects and you know doing a few um you definitely have that down where it you don't feel like you're um being cheated on the details because you still have all the details but in a different way you know no I I think your I think your projects are pretty brilliant for like to have that combination and to keep it low maintenance and to keep it easy for you to replicate over and over that's that's honestly like I don't I haven't been posting much right now and then um but I have been working a lot on my Etsy orders and it's just like repetitive repetitive like my gamer one sells like hot cakes the two fast ones sell like hot cakes and it's just like simple but like my gamer ones they're super super simple and I can crank those out like eight 10 of those in you know like a couple hours maybe yeah maybe like three hours three and a half hours did we have we talked about this I can't remember are you planning on getting the Venture I am not I won't cut projects that big I've had people ask about like no but it's not about cutting that big April no no just about I have this big mat and you're basically cutting four 12 by 12 card stock sheets at one time I don't know where I would fit it in my space though that's it is very big it's definitely big and you would need the I mean I would not buy the Venture without buying the stand but the Venture okay so it's a different it's a different um machine like um the inside like the the body of the machine it's not it's not the same as the maker so it's more industrial so it is faster so it's faster and more efficient because you can cut four mats technically you're cutting four four 12 x 12 sheets right um so for especially for you because I feel like you have your orders down pat like you can um you can do like red in the corner and or blue down here and a black sheet here and a white sheet and you can cut it and it's so fast it lets you does so does a software let you differentiate that there's like different colors so you would have to know like you know what I would do is probably I mean I'm sure your Design's already ready to go but I would then take all my like blue pieces for instance and do it where it's all attached so that like your blue you're just going to grab the blue and put it into your top right corner you know and would probably I'm sure you recognize what color is which which one anyway um but that's how I would do it and you would save so much time that I know it sounds crazy but it's sounds like I need to go to Texas to go try it out okay come to my art room I promise you anyone who does orders and if you have the space um I know it's a lot of money but I feel like you're going to make back that money by either being able to do more orders um if more orders is not what you're looking for it gives you back more time I mean I think that you would save a lot of time in using it so more time for your family or more time to more time to ad you know do the advertising or work on your account like you know what I mean like we run out of time to do things um I was updating listings yesterday and I was like okay like I'm going to update listings I'm going to start batch cutting and then I was once I was done updating listings I was like holy moly where did the time go yeah like I thought I had more time to do more things right no I'm I'm telling you okay so when are you coming I want to go I do want to go I want when your kitchen is ready and you can make me um Pizza Bagel Bites my kitchen's ready to tonight it's it's ready Sherry says but then April would have to cook I will cook with the microwave I will go ahead and do pizza Bagel Bites those I can eat all day like you have no idea Pizza Bagel Bites flaming hot lace and a Wild Cherry Pepsi that is my comfort food like leave me alone let me watch TV and that's it it's it's a done Dee Jen Jen was asking me she's like well what kind of cook are you and I'm like well when I used to cook like I would do the most I go I cook just like I craft super frivolous like I'm making you know sh Gourmet champagne Jello-O shots and [Laughter] marshmallows I love it I bought um I bought a cookies H cookbook and I told my kids okay like it was at their book fair we're going to go ahead and do like one cookie a week it's been sitting there for like a month and a half still haven't made a single cookie so I need to get on that it's a whole cookie cookbook well I've told this to many people but like um one day I was talking to Charlotte and I go hey honey like legit when you know pretty soon we're GNA have to cook and we're gonna you know really make an effort to eat at home and you know and she's like okay Mama and then like a few seconds later she's like but why mama like because we got this brand new kitchen and daddy says so we're g to be back to cooking but we um we were I forgot where we were and there was a cute like children's cookbook on cookies and um she bought it and it was so funny so her the kids in the neighborhood came over for a playd date and then they just like walked to each other's houses you know so then she took the book and went to their house afterwards and um they did two cookies from the from the book no way which ones did they do they did um a checkered a checkered cookie so it looked like a checker board like a mini checker board but you know two different colors and um and then they did like a a cookie dough that was safe to like that you were able to eat I don't know I love I love cookie dough like I love love love it do you I do I love I love chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream that sounds so good right now actually um so magical crafting mom is like do you cook Vietnamese food I don't because my mom cooks all the Vietnamese food and she always just kind of like pushes me out of the kitchen so I can cook I mean I think I'm a pretty good cook but I I don't know how to cook venese food just a few just a few dishes what I know I know how um I all the the main things that I am good at cooking is like soups like I can make chicken tortilla soup um I don't know I guess like I don't know how to say it in English but like I make a soup um it's called caloes it's soup uh it's like some type of meat basically like beef stew um type of soup and it has like the red meat um zucchini carrots uh I think we put like cabbage in it potato onion what else and like I'd make like a really hot salsa to go with it salsa Is My Jam though I do like to make that I might just eat that with my chips um I'm debating on whether I should emboss this or not because it already has writing on it and I'm kind of like what do you think a yeah boss it okay so I made the little gift card holder this is super simple super basic uhhuh and you're literally just going to plop it on the back I mean look at those colors they're so good this reminds me of your um the soft balls they're this color no um no it was more yellow more yellow okay okay well my son's soccer team is um is like this green it's a it is a a little bit more yellow too but their name is called the highlighters so I was like oh this is perfect cute cute cute cute um so I wanted to show you guys the turtle normally I would do this in HTV and because I didn't like this this one because I wanted to use this specific like baby pink color um I didn't and so I left it on the mat so I knew exactly where these pieces go because this would be a nightmare like in a container oh how did you do your how did you do your little pieces I print and cut your turtles PR and cut oh my gosh you little cheater I told you that oh my goodness that's so good though I love the I you know from here I can't tell yeah I print and cut it I'm notorious for my my actual images to be print and cut because it I'm telling you it saves me time a lot of detail yes hi baby you gonna say hi [Music] hi oh my gosh can't believe you little cheater no wonder you're on your second project look at where I [Laughter] am go go with da okay I love you have fun make sure he takes a jacket love oh okay they're going to soccer practice Yeah I cheated sorry it rains so much here Charlotte's supposed to go to softball practice and like even with the it rains all the time like and it's not out of the like to like it's been raining all month like it'll be super hot super sunny and then later in the evening El rain oh I'm not I'm not made to live in rainy weather I it's just so weird to me like after being in California it's like you know it rains like a day or two like when it's really cold and then we're done and then you put all your rain stuff away yep I I can't do with the the rain okay you're going to have to help me pick because I don't know which emboss folder to use okay I've got polka dots um maybe little arrows that might be cute stars or these Stars oh I like I have that one where did you get that one from I don't remember I think I got mine from Nancy oh maybe that's okay yeah or this I think I honestly a big majority of the the embossing folders that I have are either from Nancy or from Amazon but I want to say um this one I really really love and I wish I would have embossed part of um your project with this the waves look at this one oh that would have been so cute right missed your opportunity I did it I might just use you know what I kind of like these waves just just to wave it h so the first time I did the waves I put um I put qes but I'm a little lazy right now and I'm so behind so they're going to go on [Laughter] flat okay I think I'm going to do okay do you think I should do waves or Stars what do you guys think stars stars which one this one this one girl I already didn't there's no followup [Laughter] questions wait the one IP okay okay okay too many going on and yes monque there was a there was a tornado warning but that wasn't here that was Houston Houston it was crazy what happened in Houston what happened in Houston um a a crazy tornado something like oh no yeah the city like and I guess they're normally you wouldn't have any issues like in that part of Houston but I don't know global warming it's crazy it is and I definitely agree that 65 is cold here I agree I'm cold once it hits like 70 I'm like oh no I need a sweater so so I signed my daughter up because you know we we live super close to a lake and like um there's two camps that she's going to and they you know they go on a lake and they do all the lake activities so I really want her to she's she's a good swimmer but you know Lake swimming is a little bit different than just pool swimming you know so um uh we signed her up for a swim team so we're going you know to try on like you know the uniform and whatever and um I go so i' you know like seen my my cousin's kids like they're on the swim team and they've got like those crazy big jackets that you put on like you know like to keep yourself warm like it's like a towel jacket but like you don't know what I'm talking about it's like it's a hoodie and then it like goes down all the way like to midcalf or something so you stay really warm right so I've never seen that oh okay look it up after so anyway so you know of course like and my daughter is super skinny she is just like all limbs so like when the water is cold she gets cold really fast you know so I asked the guy I'm like oh do I need one of these jackets and he's like is she swimming you know like year round I'm like Oh no just this summer he's like it's G to be so hot she's going to get out and she's going to be dry oh are you sure jeez it's going to take you a minute to get acclimated to the weather over there now it's so ah it's like I'm not used to it being so muggy I don't blame you I know so spoiled I sound ridiculous but it's like it's an everyday struggle I feel that so this little piece is separate um there we go oh I can see it so cute yay this is from the um the astrobites collection um 12 x 12 has like the variety pack and everything and I don't remember exactly which I think it might be Martian or but it's it's one of those colors um I love it good that oh cute I love it I'm G to pop it onto the back and then you're not going to want to resize this piece because it is already perfect for a gift card taking my Dave Buster's card it's literally cute that's perfect okay I'm GNA have to save your project yes um a little bit bigger cuz I wanted I'm a big person on Note writing like letter writing so I wanted to have like a little you know enough for you to write something and or Draw something and then the gift card I want to see I want to see how you close that right now I need to close oh you can't close it no this just opens up I know I thought about a couple different things I'm like should I do like a little tie thing but I ended up just leaving it open and so that it it kind of stays propped up on the desk okay um yes Barbara mine is um available in design space already so Tada I me I don't have a tornado shelter um and yes Texas I mean no wonder like there are so many beautiful green trees like it just rains so much oh my you're so good okay so let's just pretend that I did [Laughter] mine and here it is so the bubbles I did extra bubbles because I wanted you to um pick and choose like whether you want to put bubbles front and back and I love to layer the bubbles so let me move it on the side so you can kind of see and I I just do white and blue for the bubbles which I love oh my gosh I love that number one Dad it's cute huh so cute cute yay that's adorable I love it and I love so the options for the different balls are on your projects like in your file yeah both of these so good with this back piece are both on um it'll be on one project together okay you're so good I love it and I love that okay so you know obviously my girl turtle and then you have the option of seeing um April's boy turtle um and I I can't believe that's a print then cut for the turtle so I'm definitely going to have to incorporate that I feel like you've changed you've been like sneaking little tidbits into my style of crafting and you're changing me I'm I'm loving it this is so cute I honestly I feel like you can put even um so I glued mine right here so that way you can put a little note in but I feel like there has to be like if we had like a little piece of velcro or a little magnet to stick and open no totally I and I think it'd be simple to do um I just didn't want to add anything um and then I ran out of time no I love it though it's so cute what was I going to say to you though oh and I so you can easily change this I mean obviously it's for dad but I love this like little I you know to turttly love and you can change that for like the teacher a mom a dad or whatever and so you can easily just change that and do your offset it's super cute yeah all right what's next month what did we decide or do you do you have the I know you were so good and you gave me that whole list let me see hold on I'm gonna let me see if does it if I switch my screen is it going to like take off my my thing or will it leave it kind of streaming I think it'll leave it streaming we'll probably still see you and we you know it'll just be weird for you because you won't see yourself okay let me go up and see I want to say it's I almost want to say it's maybe 4th of July oh yeah that would make sense cuz we've been doing a month ahead so we'll be in June doing a Fourth of July something I think so like a Topper or like you know what we really haven't done what a Topper in a while we've been doing smaller projects you want to do a Topper not necessarily I mean maybe I'll do I don't know like just when I said that like oh but I can see like little fireworks like I almost want something small like a bunch of small straw Toppers and people can take that and make them into other things but I don't know my my my brain is just on getting through Memorial Day weekend I could do a Topper with with lights maybe that would be cool maybe I can do maybe I can do the chibitronics uh lights so you can use oh so a Shaker wand for kids the M says but you're right I mean Fourth of July it'd be so cute with lights yeah let's do that we'll do something with lights all right we'll be back next month um doing something Fourth of July thanks for joining us I love this is one of my favorite things like I love like even though I feel like I haven't posted or done any projects for a long time like I'm just getting back in into things but I look forward to hanging out with you April and then also just the comments like I love you guys that show up every month we love you all right have a great Memorial Day Weekend safe weekend as well um fun for a safe weekend yeah and we'll see you guys next month don't forget to um to enter that raffle for the Juliet right bye guys okay bye