Joan - I think cutting off the legend is genius - not lazy. Not to mention, it is frugal. One of the reasons I love your videos, you give alternatives to the pricey options.
So, I am sitting here catching up on your videos even though I said I wouldn't have the time to watch them all. I got covid on my trip and I'm laying in bed being entertained by your massive kitting ups. I hope your mom is having lots of fun doing all those glorious paintings. Thank you so much for sharing!
After that horrible heat wave last summer, I bought myself another portable a/c. Not waiting til it gets hot again this year and there’s no a/cs available. It can sit in my basement until I need it. ❤️🇨🇦
I should probably buy a 2nd portable AC too. I've been contemplating getting a whole house AC but I'm reluctant to do the expense especially if it does not get hot this summer and 2021 was a fluke.
I have gotten into the habit of looking at the drills I want to kit up . If there are bags that are really full then I pick the storage that will work best . I don't have alot of storage containers for knitting up so I only have maybe two at any given time.
I have a tad bit too much storage lol so I usually have something that would work, but I don't like using a too big container for a smaller diamond painting.
Glad you like the long videos! Scanning is like photocopying but does not instantly print the copy. It will have the copy be digital so I can edit it and print out only the part I want instead of printing out everything.
Joan, since you are using a different type of log book, is there a chance you would edit your previous tutorial and discuss what size and type of disc book you are using?Barbara
If you are running out of things to talk about, talk about the painting. Do you like it? Why/ why not? The image? What made you choose it. This painting a chose because I love flowers. I am/am not a gardener. My relationship with gardens, flowers. I once visited/ would love to visit/ am not interested in a botanical garden because.. The rendering. Guide sirkles or not. The company. The price- is it worth it? The drills- quality, shapes, colors. Your love for squares, your moms love for rounds. Do you both love specials? Why do you love squares/ round/ specials? Confetti or colorblocking? When it is a color you like, show us, and talk a litle bit about it. I love this color, it is muted and calming, makes me happy because it is so bright. I love all green/ pink/ baby blue... The canvas glue. What type? Pros and cons. How to spot the diference. Tips and info what you are doing and why. Do you sort them by DMC, color, symbol? Why? Why not the other ways? Why not only have number 1- 60 on your botles, if it is DMC on the canvas. Gluedots in the pen? Wax? Custom pen, or pink? Metal or brass tip? Custom tray or white boat? Easel? Table and chair or couch? Is it few or many colors? What do you prefer, and why? Do you diamond paint every evening? What about your days of? Do you get pain in your body from this? Hard or light presser? (Some makes the diamonds barely touch the canvas, others try to press them half way trough.) Lightpad and/ or overhead light? All of this topicks can be long if you explain what and why, and then derail a bit. To me these videos are so calming. I often listen without really listening if it just chatting. That is nice too. :)
Thanks for the suggestions! The longer videos I've been doing have pretty much tapped me out of topics lol. Especially this video since I recorded 3 kitting ups in a weekend.
We are about to start a renovation and I don't get that, either. Why would I repair things that have been annoying for years and not get to enjoy it myself? I swear on shows that are themed around trying to sell your house you see all these people that fix all the little annoyances they've dealt with for years (room needing paint, a light fixture never working quite right, that kind of thing) just in time to sell the house but lived with them for years and now they don't get to enjoy them. If I'm going to invest in improving the house, it's not to sell it unless it's necessary to make the house safe to sell, I guess. I worked in appraisals for a few years in college and was also an HGTV junkie (not so much these days) and could never compute the dollar for dollar improvements argued in those shows. Sure, if your house is a gem in an area with little to no upgrades, it will improve your value some, but overall your value is determined by the market not so much on the type of countertops you have in your kitchen. My house has tripled in value in a bit over 11 years and it's definitely not because of anything we've done or not done to it. It's all been economics, supply shrinking and demand skyrocketing. When demand drops off, the value will either equalize and go down some or it will level off and not change for many years. Deciding to put in a water softener, granite counters, energy efficient windows, Berber carpet, custom walk in closets...none of that is really going to do anything to the house's value one way or the other. Adding an entirely new bathroom? Yeah, that'll move the needle...that addition done by the original owner of our house is why our home is worth 10's of thousands more than others with the same floorplan, but most people aren't doing improvements like that! I have an acquaintance who had a rough life. Her husband abandoned her and her kids and she struggled a lot to give them a good life. The kids were finally all moved out on their own and she decided to invest a huge sum of money into the upgrades she'd always wanted to do in her home (which was basically renovating the ENTIRE house) after decades of saving for them and within a couple of years, she's moved to be close to her kids. There is a youtuber I follow who moved a few years ago to their dream home and she chronicled her husband's efforts to build her dream craft space because the house had some unfinished areas that were perfect for her needs. I don't know if she ever finished, but she's moved several states away (I think for the same reason, to be closer to her family) at some point during the pandemic and now her and her husband are living in an RV while they either look for or build a new home where they've moved. All that time and effort wasted...finishing unfinished parts of the house probably helped its value, but the purpose wasn't to flip the house, it was to improve it for them to use and they left before they even got to enjoy the hard work they'd put into it. It took longer to fix it up than they got to use it. A local in a Facebook hobby group I'm in was renovating (albeit on a smaller scale to the previous two) last year and the next month announced her family was relocating several states away...her family of 6 is also living in an RV while they build a house. I know that you can't always predict the future and that sometimes you make decisions for the betterment of your family on a quick enough turnaround to the point that relocating wasn't even a thought at the time you took on certain projects, but I don't know if I could do it. I guess it's one of those things that you don't think you would do until an opportunity arises that forces you to make tough choices. I have so many items I'd love to do to our house and ugh, it would be so hard to see a few specific ones get done and then find myself in a situation where we decided to sell and relocate before I had really gotten a chance to settle in. There are other repairs that are just necessary for it to sell faster and/or be appealing to more people that wouldn't bother me so much (like painting to a neutral color or something like that). The stuff we're doing right now will definitely improve the functionality of our house, but they aren't huge dream projects like adding a bonus room in the upper half of our 2 story living room...unlike many houses built this way that have slanted roofs to give you vaulted ceilings but no real ability to build into it, this space is just wasted and would add 300-400 square feet of living area without any major exterior construction. We're getting tile put in the downstairs because the flooring sucks...it would need to be replaced to sell and while I'm looking forward to it (tile flooring is definitely something I've wanted in a home long before we bought this house) it's not going to change much by way of function of the house, so it wouldn't hurt as much to leave behind. The bathroom we're renovating hasn't been fully functional more than half of the time we've lived here, so that would need to be fixed to sell, too, and that wouldn't hurt to walk away from because it's not a space we'd use, it's a space for the kids. A couple smaller additional items we're about to tackle are also practical and necessary repairs. Our house was a foreclosure when we bought it so the bank did the minimum they needed to make it presentable...that means small things like cracked windows, broken subfloor, ugly flooring, etc were ignored and passed on to us. The kids have also done a number on the doors to their rooms and the bathroom we're renovating, so the doors need to be replaced...that isn't something that would hurt me to walk away from because they need replacement to be functional long term. We have a cracked piece of subfloor in our master right at the foot of the bed that I've learned where to step to avoid it because I don't want to make it worse...we're finally getting that fixed, it's probably $100 in our budget but no other contractor we've had in for work has been willing to lay the carpet back down and would only fix it if we replaced the flooring, too...the first time we heard that, the carpet was under 2 years old. I'm almost as excited about that small thing as I am the entirety of the rest of the work being done...that would hurt to not get to enjoy as small as it is because it is something I have to think about multiple times a day, every single day, multiplied across nearly 11 1/2 years. It'll be a huge change for me, but as with most improvements, it depends on what matters to you.
I don't really get the renovating before selling thing unless you are a contractor or experienced in the renovating. I would probably choose the wrong stuff to fix up. Plus what if the buyers don't really like what you did. I remember looking at this house where the counter tops were this ugly pink and thought why? It was in great condition too so it must have been newish. My move to Washington was actually a quick decision due to certain life changes in my family that I did not see happening even just 6 months before. It is funny the stuff we live with in our homes. My master bathroom has carpet and at first I was disgusted and immediately wanted to have it changed, but the carpet is in good condition and it seemed wasteful to change it out. Good luck with your renovation!
@@JoanDiamondPaints You're right on that one. Neighbors sold their house to a church. Seemed for a few years people moved in in the middle of the night...no furniture or anything because the church did that, too. I don't know HOW they chose the occupants, but one day there was one family and the next another and it changed every summer. Until it didn't. The family stayed for like 2 years and the church ended up selling after that because that family trashed the house. The new owners were a flipping company, put all of the furniture outside marked 'free' and gave the house a 'neutral' face lift...it had had mint trim that was actually quite nice and now the whole house is tan (it's a common theme there, everything various shades of tan and brown). New paint inside and out, new carpet, new landscaping, etc. They ripped out the beautiful sunflowers that had been there and put in palm trees. One of the FIRST things the new people did when they moved in was cut them down. If I had known they were going to do that, I would have told them they didn't need to cut them down, they could have probably advertised for someone to dig them up and take them away whole (like 'free trees if you dig them up' or something) because they'd been in such a short amount of time they probably didn't have much time to take root. I get quick moves can happen, I just think it would be hard for me (and probably others) to finally see some dreams come to fruition after years of planning and then have to leave before you get to enjoy it at all...but hard decisions are a part of life. My husband and I met online (not online dating, it was a game site with a community before online dating was a thing), were friends for several years before meeting in person and eventually began dating. The long distance thing was hard even though we were only a 4hr drive away from each other. Without telling me, he used some of his travel time visiting me to interview for a job within his current organization, got the job, told me about it around the time he accepted and not long after, relocated here. Interview was in July, he was moved here by November. I told him the whole time he shouldn't move...because we hadn't even been dating a year by that point and if we didn't work out, he'd have uprooted his whole life for nothing and he'd blame me for it even though it was his idea. Whelp, we've been together 18 years (married 13) and have 3 kids, so I guess it wasn't such a bad decision after all, haha. He left behind everything he'd ever known on a huge gamble, though. He didn't have any massive investment in where he was living and was able to continue with his profession, no kids to worry about, nothing really tying him to anything except his friend group (most of whom relocated to other parts of the country when that office changed from an international office to a local office within 2 years of him moving) and family whom he didn't see much beyond holidays anyway. All in all, I still can't grasp the idea of investing a lot of time and money renovating a home you've lived in for the sole purpose of selling it...there's a big difference between touching up paint and carpet versus new kitchens and bathrooms...especially if they're improvements you'd have enjoyed while living in the house yourself and won't have the opportunity to enjoy.
hola joan me gustan mucho tus videos pero no los entiendo por el idioma ,pero los veo igual, podrias por favaor poner los subtitulos en español por que los tienes en ingles y yo no puedo cambiarlos tienes q ser tu ,te lo agradeceria ,soy española gracias un saludo
Estoy usando el traductor de Google, así que lo siento si esto no tiene sentido. Pude cambiar los subtítulos a español. Encendí los subtítulos en inglés primero. Luego pude cambiar los subtítulos para traducir automáticamente y elegir español. Espero que te funcione.
Joan - I think cutting off the legend is genius - not lazy. Not to mention, it is frugal. One of the reasons I love your videos, you give alternatives to the pricey options.
I'm can be a little frugal which is probably why I don't have a stash of all the diamond painting accessories (excluding storage lol).
So, I am sitting here catching up on your videos even though I said I wouldn't have the time to watch them all. I got covid on my trip and I'm laying in bed being entertained by your massive kitting ups. I hope your mom is having lots of fun doing all those glorious paintings. Thank you so much for sharing!
I am hoping that covid did not hit you too hard. I wish you a good and speedy recovery!
Loved watching again long video thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video have a wonderful weekend 😊
Thank you very much!
Congratulations on 100.000 view hours. It's a big milestone. Happy to see more content 😀
Thank you! 😃
After that horrible heat wave last summer, I bought myself another portable a/c. Not waiting til it gets hot again this year and there’s no a/cs available. It can sit in my basement until I need it. ❤️🇨🇦
I should probably buy a 2nd portable AC too. I've been contemplating getting a whole house AC but I'm reluctant to do the expense especially if it does not get hot this summer and 2021 was a fluke.
@@JoanDiamondPaints I have a feeling that might not have been a fluke. Central A/C is a very large expense! ❤️🇨🇦
I hope you have a great weekend, I look forward to your long videos just because when you do your unboxings I want to buy things lol xx
Even all the flowers? lol
Er sometimes lol xx
I have gotten into the habit of looking at the drills I want to kit up . If there are bags that are really full then I pick the storage that will work best . I don't have alot of storage containers for knitting up so I only have maybe two at any given time.
I have a tad bit too much storage lol so I usually have something that would work, but I don't like using a too big container for a smaller diamond painting.
Joan, what Filipino soapies do you watch? 🥰 I love the Bridgerton series too. 🥰 congratulations on the ‘watch hours’! 👏🏼👏🏼🥰❤️
The last soap I watched was Viral Scandal.
I like your long videos. For me, they are relaxing. thank you 🙏 Barbara
P.S. Is scanning the same as making a copy?
Yes, it is the same. I love the lone ones myself.
Glad you like the long videos! Scanning is like photocopying but does not instantly print the copy. It will have the copy be digital so I can edit it and print out only the part I want instead of printing out everything.
@@JoanDiamondPaints Thanks Joan. I love learning new things. :)
Joan, since you are using a different type of log book, is there a chance you would edit your previous tutorial and discuss what size and type of disc book you are using?Barbara
I will put updating my journal video in my list of future videos. Thanks!
sai seria fenomenal entenderte gracias
Can you show us your set up for recording 🥰
You're not the first person to ask me this lol. I'll put it on my future videos list. Thanks for the suggestion!
If you are running out of things to talk about, talk about the painting. Do you like it? Why/ why not?
The image? What made you choose it. This painting a chose because I love flowers. I am/am not a gardener. My relationship with gardens, flowers. I once visited/ would love to visit/ am not interested in a botanical garden because..
The rendering. Guide sirkles or not. The company. The price- is it worth it?
The drills- quality, shapes, colors.
Your love for squares, your moms love for rounds. Do you both love specials? Why do you love squares/ round/ specials?
Confetti or colorblocking?
When it is a color you like, show us, and talk a litle bit about it. I love this color, it is muted and calming, makes me happy because it is so bright. I love all green/ pink/ baby blue...
The canvas glue. What type? Pros and cons. How to spot the diference.
Tips and info what you are doing and why.
Do you sort them by DMC, color, symbol? Why? Why not the other ways? Why not only have number 1- 60 on your botles, if it is DMC on the canvas.
Gluedots in the pen? Wax? Custom pen, or pink? Metal or brass tip? Custom tray or white boat? Easel? Table and chair or couch?
Is it few or many colors? What do you prefer, and why?
Do you diamond paint every evening? What about your days of?
Do you get pain in your body from this?
Hard or light presser? (Some makes the diamonds barely touch the canvas, others try to press them half way trough.)
Lightpad and/ or overhead light?
All of this topicks can be long if you explain what and why, and then derail a bit.
To me these videos are so calming. I often listen without really listening if it just chatting. That is nice too. :)
Thanks for the suggestions! The longer videos I've been doing have pretty much tapped me out of topics lol. Especially this video since I recorded 3 kitting ups in a weekend.
We are about to start a renovation and I don't get that, either. Why would I repair things that have been annoying for years and not get to enjoy it myself? I swear on shows that are themed around trying to sell your house you see all these people that fix all the little annoyances they've dealt with for years (room needing paint, a light fixture never working quite right, that kind of thing) just in time to sell the house but lived with them for years and now they don't get to enjoy them. If I'm going to invest in improving the house, it's not to sell it unless it's necessary to make the house safe to sell, I guess. I worked in appraisals for a few years in college and was also an HGTV junkie (not so much these days) and could never compute the dollar for dollar improvements argued in those shows. Sure, if your house is a gem in an area with little to no upgrades, it will improve your value some, but overall your value is determined by the market not so much on the type of countertops you have in your kitchen. My house has tripled in value in a bit over 11 years and it's definitely not because of anything we've done or not done to it. It's all been economics, supply shrinking and demand skyrocketing. When demand drops off, the value will either equalize and go down some or it will level off and not change for many years. Deciding to put in a water softener, granite counters, energy efficient windows, Berber carpet, custom walk in closets...none of that is really going to do anything to the house's value one way or the other. Adding an entirely new bathroom? Yeah, that'll move the needle...that addition done by the original owner of our house is why our home is worth 10's of thousands more than others with the same floorplan, but most people aren't doing improvements like that!
I have an acquaintance who had a rough life. Her husband abandoned her and her kids and she struggled a lot to give them a good life. The kids were finally all moved out on their own and she decided to invest a huge sum of money into the upgrades she'd always wanted to do in her home (which was basically renovating the ENTIRE house) after decades of saving for them and within a couple of years, she's moved to be close to her kids. There is a youtuber I follow who moved a few years ago to their dream home and she chronicled her husband's efforts to build her dream craft space because the house had some unfinished areas that were perfect for her needs. I don't know if she ever finished, but she's moved several states away (I think for the same reason, to be closer to her family) at some point during the pandemic and now her and her husband are living in an RV while they either look for or build a new home where they've moved. All that time and effort wasted...finishing unfinished parts of the house probably helped its value, but the purpose wasn't to flip the house, it was to improve it for them to use and they left before they even got to enjoy the hard work they'd put into it. It took longer to fix it up than they got to use it. A local in a Facebook hobby group I'm in was renovating (albeit on a smaller scale to the previous two) last year and the next month announced her family was relocating several states away...her family of 6 is also living in an RV while they build a house. I know that you can't always predict the future and that sometimes you make decisions for the betterment of your family on a quick enough turnaround to the point that relocating wasn't even a thought at the time you took on certain projects, but I don't know if I could do it. I guess it's one of those things that you don't think you would do until an opportunity arises that forces you to make tough choices.
I have so many items I'd love to do to our house and ugh, it would be so hard to see a few specific ones get done and then find myself in a situation where we decided to sell and relocate before I had really gotten a chance to settle in. There are other repairs that are just necessary for it to sell faster and/or be appealing to more people that wouldn't bother me so much (like painting to a neutral color or something like that). The stuff we're doing right now will definitely improve the functionality of our house, but they aren't huge dream projects like adding a bonus room in the upper half of our 2 story living room...unlike many houses built this way that have slanted roofs to give you vaulted ceilings but no real ability to build into it, this space is just wasted and would add 300-400 square feet of living area without any major exterior construction. We're getting tile put in the downstairs because the flooring sucks...it would need to be replaced to sell and while I'm looking forward to it (tile flooring is definitely something I've wanted in a home long before we bought this house) it's not going to change much by way of function of the house, so it wouldn't hurt as much to leave behind. The bathroom we're renovating hasn't been fully functional more than half of the time we've lived here, so that would need to be fixed to sell, too, and that wouldn't hurt to walk away from because it's not a space we'd use, it's a space for the kids. A couple smaller additional items we're about to tackle are also practical and necessary repairs. Our house was a foreclosure when we bought it so the bank did the minimum they needed to make it presentable...that means small things like cracked windows, broken subfloor, ugly flooring, etc were ignored and passed on to us. The kids have also done a number on the doors to their rooms and the bathroom we're renovating, so the doors need to be replaced...that isn't something that would hurt me to walk away from because they need replacement to be functional long term. We have a cracked piece of subfloor in our master right at the foot of the bed that I've learned where to step to avoid it because I don't want to make it worse...we're finally getting that fixed, it's probably $100 in our budget but no other contractor we've had in for work has been willing to lay the carpet back down and would only fix it if we replaced the flooring, too...the first time we heard that, the carpet was under 2 years old. I'm almost as excited about that small thing as I am the entirety of the rest of the work being done...that would hurt to not get to enjoy as small as it is because it is something I have to think about multiple times a day, every single day, multiplied across nearly 11 1/2 years. It'll be a huge change for me, but as with most improvements, it depends on what matters to you.
I don't really get the renovating before selling thing unless you are a contractor or experienced in the renovating. I would probably choose the wrong stuff to fix up. Plus what if the buyers don't really like what you did. I remember looking at this house where the counter tops were this ugly pink and thought why? It was in great condition too so it must have been newish. My move to Washington was actually a quick decision due to certain life changes in my family that I did not see happening even just 6 months before. It is funny the stuff we live with in our homes. My master bathroom has carpet and at first I was disgusted and immediately wanted to have it changed, but the carpet is in good condition and it seemed wasteful to change it out. Good luck with your renovation!
@@JoanDiamondPaints You're right on that one. Neighbors sold their house to a church. Seemed for a few years people moved in in the middle of the night...no furniture or anything because the church did that, too. I don't know HOW they chose the occupants, but one day there was one family and the next another and it changed every summer. Until it didn't. The family stayed for like 2 years and the church ended up selling after that because that family trashed the house. The new owners were a flipping company, put all of the furniture outside marked 'free' and gave the house a 'neutral' face lift...it had had mint trim that was actually quite nice and now the whole house is tan (it's a common theme there, everything various shades of tan and brown). New paint inside and out, new carpet, new landscaping, etc. They ripped out the beautiful sunflowers that had been there and put in palm trees. One of the FIRST things the new people did when they moved in was cut them down. If I had known they were going to do that, I would have told them they didn't need to cut them down, they could have probably advertised for someone to dig them up and take them away whole (like 'free trees if you dig them up' or something) because they'd been in such a short amount of time they probably didn't have much time to take root.
I get quick moves can happen, I just think it would be hard for me (and probably others) to finally see some dreams come to fruition after years of planning and then have to leave before you get to enjoy it at all...but hard decisions are a part of life. My husband and I met online (not online dating, it was a game site with a community before online dating was a thing), were friends for several years before meeting in person and eventually began dating. The long distance thing was hard even though we were only a 4hr drive away from each other. Without telling me, he used some of his travel time visiting me to interview for a job within his current organization, got the job, told me about it around the time he accepted and not long after, relocated here. Interview was in July, he was moved here by November. I told him the whole time he shouldn't move...because we hadn't even been dating a year by that point and if we didn't work out, he'd have uprooted his whole life for nothing and he'd blame me for it even though it was his idea. Whelp, we've been together 18 years (married 13) and have 3 kids, so I guess it wasn't such a bad decision after all, haha. He left behind everything he'd ever known on a huge gamble, though. He didn't have any massive investment in where he was living and was able to continue with his profession, no kids to worry about, nothing really tying him to anything except his friend group (most of whom relocated to other parts of the country when that office changed from an international office to a local office within 2 years of him moving) and family whom he didn't see much beyond holidays anyway. All in all, I still can't grasp the idea of investing a lot of time and money renovating a home you've lived in for the sole purpose of selling it...there's a big difference between touching up paint and carpet versus new kitchens and bathrooms...especially if they're improvements you'd have enjoyed while living in the house yourself and won't have the opportunity to enjoy.
@@d3k2p0 Glad everything worked out with your husband! He knew you were worth the move.
hola joan me gustan mucho tus videos pero no los entiendo por el idioma ,pero los veo igual, podrias por favaor poner los subtitulos en español por que los tienes en ingles y yo no puedo cambiarlos tienes q ser tu ,te lo agradeceria ,soy española gracias un saludo
Estoy usando el traductor de Google, así que lo siento si esto no tiene sentido. Pude cambiar los subtítulos a español. Encendí los subtítulos en inglés primero. Luego pude cambiar los subtítulos para traducir automáticamente y elegir español. Espero que te funcione.
@@JoanDiamondPaints no funciona de todas maneras muchas gracias seguire viendote aunque no te entieda
I attempted to watch Bridgerton. I fell alseep 30 minutes in. It was to historically inaccurate for me.
I don't think it is meant to be historically accurate lol
@@JoanDiamondPaints I know it wasn't supposed to be historically accurate. It was so boring. I literally fell asleep trying to watch it.