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Well yesterday I had so much fun styling my thrifted finds with all sorts of flowers and let’s just say kind of bouquet inspired but today we are going to do something a little bit different we are going to take some of those thrifted items and we’re going to make

Some centerpieces either for Easter just spring in general however you choose the other thing we’re going to do much requested is once again I’m going to show how to make a two ball topiary out of a one gallon boxwood so what do you say Stuart let’s do it let’s do It well in this segment no it is not Wednesday even though we’re going to kind of do a walkabout it is SU day indeed and the reason we’re doing this today is because things are really starting to explode now every single day it changes there’s something new that has germinated there’s something new

That has come up that is beginning to butt out and so I’m going to show you a few of those things but first we had some really special guests just a moment ago so thank you Karen and Karen and Carrie that’s hard for me to say from Rockford Illinois who who just stopped

By they are tourists in Oklahoma City they came by the cottage and they are the uh proud first signatures of my new guest book so thank you guys so much for coming by and and visiting um so let’s steuart let’s show people kind of what’s going on on this Sunday morning is

Absolutely beautiful out right now it is cool in the morning it’s been in oh the mid to upper 30s and then it will get up to like 6 66 today which to me is just perfect garden weather it’s the perfect weather for tulips for pansies for

Violas and for a lot of things that are just starting to butt out it’s cool but not cold it is still and not real windy okay so let’s show what’s going on so you can see over here that a lot of the pink tulips and this by the way you guys

Is the first wave um this this was one of the mixes it was either uh something called stirs and struts or something or it could be smooch it was one of those Blends from color Blends and it’s an early blend and it’s what’s coming up first you can see

Some different gradations of pink some of them almost go orange and I haven’t decided if I like that or not and one thing I have learned this is lesson learned this week is to just Reserve judgment CU what I have found is some times a tulip will Bloom and I’m not

Really sure that I like its color but then over time it suddenly transforms and what is a little bit too garish for me initially later ages a little bit into something that’s absolutely beautiful and that is where you get the complexity and the color gradients that is so great with color

Blends tulips so I think that’s really beautiful and Stuart if in fact let’s come down this way a way we don’t typically come and I’ll point out that the auga is starting to Green up and I’m starting to get a few blooms and this every single day the the change

Is just really really dramatic there are buds on The Encore aelas and they are really really what I am anticipating this year so be careful come down here and I’m I’m going to I’m going to answer a question um as to why I didn’t put railings here well because the rod iron

Railings are very very expensive and I just really couldn’t afford to do them all I might do it at a later date but right now I just decided that um you can kind of hold on to the wall or you can just take another path

To get to the front door um I removed some plants that didn’t make it from these two large pots and I think I’m going to put I’m not really I’m not sure exactly I’m going to wait and see what is available but it will probably be a combination of some kind of Evergreen

And then some kind of seasonal color that spills out but Stuart this is the this is the view I wanted to capture look at how sweet that is it is really really dear I think and this this is what you see there’s an orange one yeah there’s an an orange one

And like right there I don’t like that color combination but then as they begin to age they start doing other things yeah and so if you look in the distance what up close looks like it clashes from a distance it’s even more beautiful and Stuart let’s right here get maybe a

Closeup so that people can kind of see what that looks like walk by them too yeah walk by them and then actually if you can take a break steuart from that walk by I don’t want to don’t want to continue but but I do want people to

Know that it actually starts down here okay okay so I’m just bossing you around I know but it actually starts down here and then next year if I have an evergreen in here and some seasonal color this will be part of the display too and in fact

It may still be once I get these planted I just haven’t gotten around to it we’ve been kind of busy around here so you can see how there is just this wonderful um line kind of a a blooming Alay if you will one-sided Alay that Cascades up and down the brick

Wall now here I want to point out just a couple of changes I’m going to make um and by the way I cannot speak highly enough of the better boxwood my little Villages are growing up in fact in short order they will really be mature and

I’ll have to transplant some of them but look at this Stuart look at all of that new growth and I believe this is Heritage but I mean look at that look at how profuse and dense that new growth is and in fact for all of the boxwood this one boxwood ballock here

This large one this is winter green and you can see that it yeah this is winter green boxwood this is one I brought from the other house and you can see it’s got lots of new growth on it but a comment on all the boxwood typically by now I’ve

Already started to prune it into tighter forms but I’m not wanting to do that this year because I want all of it to put on maturity and get as large as possible as large a profile as possible before I start to doing some printing um

And I’m and I’m okay with that because I love all of the glistening green foliage I’m going to do a little bit of of revision on the Apple Blossom roses which I have talked about before this one is going to be relocated so it’s not in here kind of

Squished in between these two boxwood and the larger box would it won’t have room to really do its thing and be absolutely beautiful to Cascade and so it will it will get moved and relocated I’m thinking right now I may relocate it from here to there and then relocate

That sunshine lustrum I’m not I’m not sure at this point um I’ve got lots of time to do that I’ve got all of spring to do that and I just keep interrupting stent your passage all right up and down up and down this walk the obsession nandas they’re

Putting on all sorts of beautiful new growth and I think that the color Echo between the apple blossoms and these nandas these obsession nandas will really be beautiful here’s an example of some of the later blooming tulips that are just kind of getting started uh some of them

Literally have just erupted from the soil like this one some are even smaller than that so there’ll be another whole wave of tulips to come and in the distance can you see those little shoots there Stuart I can those are will eventually be huge uh Ambassador aliums

And I think they’ll be they’ll be spectacular and then as you kind of Round the Corner what I’m trying to give you guys is a kind of a bird’s eye view or a view of what a pedestrian see when they walk by the cottage at this point in time it

Will continue to morph so you see all of these and then you round the corner and you see all of these on the corner and then Begins the the violas and the pansies and I’m not sure next year I might switch up my color palette a little bit I did not anticipate these

Pinks would erupt so early in the past I’ve done whites that were the early bloomers and I think next year I may replicate that uh but again I don’t know how much of this is the Tulip blend the Tulip variety and how much of it is

Mother Nature so I’m just holding off my judgment on that and steuart if you don’t mind from there you can kind of see that it’s fun because the Tulips Bloom and both directions depend no matter which way you walk you still can appreciate them growing up and down the

Brick wall yep then something else that I have really tried to be patient about and finally we got some rain this week Hallelujah and it is it has created another key component to the whole spring Tableau and that is I wanted Green Grass and finally the the Rye has really kicked in thanks

To the rain some sunshine and that Morganite and in just a few days it will almost be solid green so I think that’ll be really really beautiful and then if you walk this way again if you’re just a pedestrian you can see all the way up to the front

Front you can start seeing the The Shining golden orbs of the lustrum and you can indeed see that the tulips in the window box have gotten a lot taller and before you know it o look back that way look at the how those are back lit by the Eastern

Sun but before you know it this will be completely filled with green and Grays and all in different heights right now it still looks a little bit winter bare but that is going to change very very quickly every single day things mature and pretty soon it will be a full-blown

Garden right now it’s still it’s still got that kind of um kindergarten Garden feel because so much is yet to come but look at all if you can if you I don’t know if steuart can the camera pretty close can the camera capture just how beautiful the boxwood looks as it starts

Shooting out its new green yeah I’d say so it’s very colorful this morning it’s it’s very Easter basky I think um and I think it’s a nice welcome I think it’s a nice welcome to the front of the cottage and we’ll probably about end it

Here I just I’ll go over more things in detail on the Wednesday Walkabout but I did want to give you guys an idea of how much things have changed just since last Wednesday the pots are really filling out I think they look absolutely beautiful and well let’s just say like

The the Young G who came by yesterday and she backed up and she said I just have to tell you that this just makes me smile and makes me so happy I can’t walk by it enough so that’s what I’m trying to accomplish and hopefully we’ve been at least partially successful so now

Let’s go back inside cuz I’ve got some other projects that we need to tend To Well I am going to make something of a mess here but it will be easy clean up because I got one of these oh it’s kind of like a a miniature tarp and what I love about it is it snaps at the corners so it will contain whatever your mess

Is and then you can just transport it outside you can kind of dump out your debris but I am going to unsnap these ones in the foreground so you can see um what it is that I’m doing so if if yesterday I said that some of the best

Bang for your buck you can get in the florist Department was using lies then I would say this time of year in your nurseries and garden centers sometimes I I think I got these at Walmart you can find very very inexpensively forced bulbs so talk about bang for your buck I

Used to do this myself and I never had as much success as I as I have had when I just drive when I just drive to my nursery and and I get them there and I don’t have all the mess and I don’t have

To keep checking on them now I I in no way am wanting to dissuade any of you from doing it I just don’t H don’t have the capacity to as easily do it as I once did okay so what’s my investment so for a little 2x 2 in pot it was

A148 for this little pack of gray pyin and in this one four or 2x two pot there are four bulbs that have been forced so obviously you just multiply that four by four and I will have 16 blooming bulbs in this Arrangement that I’m getting ready to put together now I did

Something very very similar in technique by using a basket and this is one of the thrifted baskets that I got on our thrifting Adventure do you recognize it steuart I love those wood the other yeah the other day and then I all I did was I put it on

Another thrifted find of mine which is a wood cake plate to elevate it though obviously you don’t have to do that so how did I do it in a basket well I just put in a plastic bag as a liner I nestled all of these pots into that PL

Plastic bag I didn’t take them out of their containers at all that will kind of contain the mess and then I used some shredded paper that had come in some kind of something or other that I got and this was the packing whenever I get really good material like this I save it

So this was in this kind of buff color which I love but recently I got some in this crinkly white and then I also have some in a crinkly black so when you get this just put it in a Ziploc bag or something and save it for I don’t know

For arts and crafts like I just did so I didn’t really have to camouflage much I just tucked in all of this buff colored grass and then I got some of these wooden Easter eggs I like them in their natural state and I like the fact that I

Can keep them from one year to the next and then of course these sweet sweet little blue Bloss I just think looks adorable or look adorable and scream spring now a couple of other things that I did I had some dried waxleaf flowers you know me if I

Can get some additional use out of something I won’t discard it and I let some of the buds on my bouquet of wax flowers that I got at Trader Joe’s I let them dry and then I stuck them in here because it almost looks I think anyway

As if it is is growing in the wild or growing um in someone’s Garden or On the Prairie now steuarts mistakenly but very understandably thought these were blue bonnets because we are kind of near Blue Bonnet country we’re kind of near the Hill Country in Texas and that’s my

Question of the day if you guys hail from the beautiful beautiful Hills um and the Hill Country in Texas please let us know yes deep in the Heart of Texas and if those blue bonnets are blooming now are getting ready to please let us know because it is something to put on your

Bucket list if you have never seen it well let’s just say you simply must but these gray pin I think they kind of replicate that look so it can be nostalgic in that way but I think it looks very very sweet and then I had a

Rafia carrot and later on when it gets closer to Easter maybe I’ll have a Rafia bunny or something like that but this entire Arrangement cost me practically nothing I think I used six of these so six times $150 well you figure that out I have about what’s that

Steart about $8 or so in terms of the flower material the basket I think cost me about $3 the rapia the grass cost me nothing and you can get gosh I don’t know I’ll put a link below I bought a whole bunch of these um last year from a

Thrift store and I think or not a thrift store but from a craft store and they were practically nothing so I think you can make something that is very very nature inspired spring for a centerpiece for your spring table or for your Easter table now you can do that same thing and

You can and take the same principles and the same flowers and style them a little bit differently so I love the way these galvanized containers look I got the large one actually as a gift from a friend of mine and then at a thrift store I found two more bowls this one

Actually is that very expensive nambe that you can uh that you can get it’s very very pricey steuart’s looking at me like he didn’t know that but I found this at a thrift store this one obviously was washed or something because the patina isn’t that real shiny

Silver and then here is another one can you polish that one I could probably polish it but because I want it to match this one which is not n i I kind of like them all in a trio in triplicate to kind of harmonize with one another so I made

One small little galvanized dish I think this is very very dear by just taking one of these pots I didn’t leave it in its container I went ahead and kind of spread it around because the height of the pot was a little bit taller than the

Height of the container and I wanted it to lie flush so all I did was put it in there kind of Squish it around um I did put a piece of plastic on the bottom to protect the container and then I just took some Moss that I had saved from a

Previous Arrangement waste not whatnot and I just mulched covered it in that moss and I think it looks very very dear and then when I’m out walking I’m always looking for things to harvest and to forge and on your table you could do something with some I think these are

Like little pine cones or something they look like pine cone whippets to me but you could you could decorate your little container which is very very sweet I think in that same way so how did I do it same thing but I tell you what let’s

Take a break for first now I’m doing the same thing with this larger container and I’ve got just some clear plastic wrap that I am putting on the bottom because I want to protect it and then these two I’m going to take out of their container because once again I want them

To be able to fit in here seamlessly four of them fit almost perfectly but they still would have been a little too tall for the pot so these I am going to take out I’ve watered them really really well and by the way when you when you buy

These from whomever you Source them make sure that some of them are not in full bloom you want to make sure that the buds are relatively new and have a lifespan and they’re not just about to expire just as you get your arrangement in place so here we go this is very very

Quick work look at those beautiful roots and again waste not want not because when these are finished what will I do I will plant these all out in the garden um right along Lemon Lane tucking them in between the lemon lime Mandina and the Miss lemon abilia and

The golden fever for I have said at adnasium because that’s my vision I also want to make sure that when I put them in place that they are arching in the direction that I want them to Arch and in most cases I want them to kind of arch out outwards rather than

Inwards so you can see here four fit perfectly okay now if you don’t have these kind of containers any bowls will do any ceramic bowls thrifted or not get a cereal bowl um and do it get a basket any kind of container will do I like footed things in particular because I

Always like things that are elevated but really you do it your way I’ll do it my way and I’m sure they’ll both be beautiful and now all I’m going to do is just tuck this moss and I’ve I’ve moistened it a little bit I don’t want it to be too

Soggy I feel very much uh like clouse Dolby doing this because these are the kind of things that they do so so well in Scandinavia and I I would say this in our defense one of the reasons that we don’t do a lot of it here is first the

Availability of this read readily available plant material but the other thing is because because of our weather things just don’t last that long um they could put these outside or they could put them in a cool location and I think they would endure for a little a little

Bit longer than they would here or that’s my excuse anyway for not for not doing more of them and because I only have so much surface area and I can only gift so many and have so many about in my home okay I think this is really lovely and

Then what I will do is I will not drench this in water again because there is no drainage in this bowl what I’ll probably do is just give it a little Spritz to moisten that Moss a little bit more and also to get these to settle in and I think that’s very very

Sweet and I like the way it looks and I like the fact that I’ve got two and then here’s another question of the day I’ve got three bowls what would you put in this third Bowl to complete my little Trio let’s take a break and when we come

Back I’ll show you kind of how I style them okay pretend if you will that hubs and I are getting ready to have dinner or breakfast or something and this beautiful arrangement is the centerpiece for said breakfast or dinner um now obviously I know you will say how can

You see each other how can you serve anything on here it would be removed if for no other reason then probably this Easter grass would flame on if it got too close to these candles so I would remove it leave the candles in place and then obviously when we are not eating it

Will be very very pretty very very seasonal I think right here and the other thing that I did was just embellish it a little bit with some of the things that I made earlier you may recall in golly I don’t remember how long ago it was Stuart that I made a

Couple of these wreaths out of out of uh weeping willow whips and I don’t know you can kind of play with them you could put them flat like this and kind of um you could embellish them a little bit more ju them up a little bit more and it

Would kind of look like a bird’s nest something like that at any rate I think it’s kind of deer and this is how I would I would use it to Adorn my table let’s move on to the next one now earlier I put some of these

Grape pin into what is a lot more masculine looking or a lot more contemporary it almost yeah it almost looks like a bowl that would be part of a mono and a matate Native American mono matate but I think that’s I think it’s very very pretty and once again I used a

Different kind of packing material in this case it’s a straw-like seler and I think it looks very very festive here and I also like the way it looks because I’m getting a twofer because it’s reflected in the mirror and it is here to greet my guests when they come

Inside and lastly the table right in front of my window where I often serve tea or whatever kind of Beverage I have when I have guests over this will kind of I think put them in the mood for spring so I’ve got my galvanized bowls right here and I think they they look

Sweet especially with a third Bowl that’s got some of these dark chocolate treats in it my next guest is a dark chocolate lover and I think she will like having it with her cup of tea she’s going to be coming over tomorrow so I think it’s kind of kind of fun and maybe

When she leaves I may have to gift her with one of my little ensembles so there you go what you can do with just one flat of grap pin well as promised let’s transform a 1gallon boxwood into a two Ball toer but first so many of you very kindly

Inquired about my wrist yesterday and no I do not have carpal tunnel and I did not hurt my wrist uh but I did get a shot a cortisone shot in my elbow because I have golfer’s elbow and interestingly enough who knew my doctor told me that actually what I need to

Immobilize is my wrist to take pressure off of that tendonitis area and not the the elbow itself I’d been wearing an elbow brace but that wasn’t cutting it so for a period of time I’m going to have to wear this carpal tunnel wrist brace that will keep it immobilized so

That I can’t do whatever movement I was doing that caused the tendinitis in the first place so thank you for your for your concern thank you for asking and now on to topiary and thankfully it is in my left hand and not my right hand

Which is what I used to clip my topiary okay so recently I went to Lowe’s and I got three 1gallon Green Mountain boxwood they were 9.98 and more importantly they had great potential so look at these okay see how you can kind of see a ball form and then

There’s these projectiles these vertical branches that just come up and and break the profile of the circle same thing here now why is that important because it is these uh long branches that are going to make the top ball of this double ball topiary now what I’m going

To do this time is a little bit different than what I have done in the past now traditionally my topiaries have been see if you can follow me here ball stem ball okay there was a space in between the top ball and the bottom ball or in the case of a triplicate there’s

Space between the top ball the middle ball and the bottom ball okay this time I want to do a profile of something that I have seen in a number of different Gardens that I really really like and that is the top ball sits directly on

Top of the bottom ball there is no space in between it’s just like a tennis ball that is resting on a bowling ball and that’s what I’m trying to achieve now why these are really good for that is because typically when I am making a two

Ball topiary I would look for one single stem that then could grow vertically for the top ball so that it would create that Gap that kind of negative space in between the top ball and the bottom ball in this case I don’t need to worry about

That one single tall stem because I just want a ball to fill out as quickly as possible and that’s why these are good candidates because there are multiple stems that I can just kind of secure together and that will make that top ball fill out that much faster because

All of these will be snipped and all of them will then put out additional growth which will speed up the development of that top one okay so here is one that I have already done and I am going to do one I promise and you can see we’ll get some

Close-ups for you but you can see how I went ahead and snipped the bottom section to really Define the bottom ball the top ball consists of three different vertical stems that I have secured Loosely with twine over time I won’t even have to have that twine in place

Over time I won’t have to have the twine in place I made a rhyme um but I will continue snipping this and snipping all of these so that it fills out very very quickly and where I’m going to get the the the speed is because some of these

Will start being snipped and then they will grow out remember for every one I snip I get two branches and three branches will do that that much more quickly than one branch and before you know it I will have a top ball that sits on the bottom ball does that make any

Sense at all okay okay so let’s do another one so I’m going to move this out of the way I know sometimes when I do topiary it’s kind of hard um to see the profile so some of these like we may need to put a white board or something

Behind it Stuart and by the way this is that kind of March is seasonal schizophrenia month and that’s because it just can’t decide whether or not it’s spring or it’s winter so in the morning it is cold enough to have a fire in the fireplace but by this afternoon um it’s

Going to be light jacket weather and this is just my kind of weather and it’s my kind of weather because it’s the G the best Garden kind of weather weather the greatest gardening weather um okay so I digress let’s move on so which one do I want to work on okay this

One notice here I’ve got one 2 3 four five six projectile branches projectile stems now which ones do I want to keep and which ones do I want to sacrifice well here is a guide in this case I am wanting to keep the one ones that are

Pretty much growing up in the middle now these are the tallest ones can you see that these are the tallest ones but notice how they’re kind of growing to the side these are growing just about smack dab in the middle if I tried to keep all of them and move these over

This way I could do it but it might look a little smooshed and it might be a little bit more difficult so in this case I think I am going going to lose these two now you’ll say but this is kind of leaning and yes

It is but you know what I can correct that when I pot it just by torquing the plant in the pot itself a little bit in that direction so I’m going to go ahead and snip these off and this part Stuart we can feel free to speed this up if we need to

Because this will take some time and some assessment so after I do it I’m just constantly assessing what it is I’m doing okay so this one is tall so firstly I am going to establish the ball on the bottom and I am just making the cuts to do

So and in this case I’m kind of cutting in between the leaves but I wouldn’t necessarily have to and as these get bigger I won’t have to do that at all and by the way these are just table tops you guys I’m going to lift it up so I

Can see and when you do toer don’t expect the form to be perfect right away does it break my heart to cut off some of this fresh new growth yes yes it does but one must suffer for one’s topiary okay you got to reveal the sculpture you

Got to I have to reveal the topiary within okay and notice that when I do this it’s not allow it’s not letting me bend my wrist which is what caused my problem before okay so and what I like about Green Mountain boxwood I can’t wait to do this with

Better boxwood by the way uh but what I like about Green Mountain boxwood is it tends to kind of grow in this form anyway in addition to just just being tough so okay audience can you see kind of what I’m doing here indeed yes we shook our heads I

Guess they can’t see it shake our head that was that was a pretty tiid response could I get a little bit more enthusiasm okay you guys out there could I hear a resounding yes yes I can see it geez what does it take to get a little enthusiasm around here okay

Now shall it stay or shall it go now okay this is what I’m deciding okay so can you now is that looking a little bit more to find you guys yes thank you thank you Stuart now so I talked a little bit about so see how this is kind of it’s

Kind of leaning the Leaning topiary okay I can correct that when I put it in the pot I’m going to show you what I mean so I’m going to take this out of this planter out of this plastic pot and put it in this pot now this is going to be a

Little bit above soil level but by the time that I loosen that root ball which I’m not going to do right now because it would get my brace dirty uh by the time I loosen that root ball then it will sit at the same level as the top of the pot

And when I plant it see if I plant it this way it’s still leaning so don’t let your plants BOS you what I can do when I actually plant it after I loosen the root zone is I can plant it a little bit on its side and voila now it is straighter is

It not mhm now and in this case gosh I take such abuse you guys shake my okay now I’m and and the previous one let me show you it’s been a day already you guys uh in this one I used some twine to secure it because I really

Wanted them to kind of be a little bit tighter they were in other words one was growing this way one was growing that way and one was growing that way and I wanted them to be bunched together in this instance these guys already are growing in close proximity so I don’t

Have to worry about that so much so I may not secure these at all and I might just go ahead and start the ball so by starting the ball what that means is I am just going to prune this top section and already you can see how this

One is going to sit kind of directly on top of can you see that it’s going to sit almost directly on top of the bottom ball then by continually clipping this I am forcing new growth and I will say that probably by the end of this growing season I’m going

To have a pretty formidable second ball on top and it’s just a matter of time and if you do not believe me steart right here let’s show an image of some that I have created long ago not in the same form but I have created long ago that were indeed multiple ball

Topiaries so there you go the trick to it is identifying the plant at the nursery from the get-go the second is determining which you want to keep and which you want to lose in the formation of the bottom ball and the top ball and then after that it is just maintaining those two

Forms by consistent and judicious trimming so there you go that is how you transform a one gallon topiary or a one gallon box wood into a two ball topiary in short order and if I had purchased this at a nursery or at a florist it would have cost me

Substantially more than it cost me um by paying just $9.98 at Lowe’s so there you go I hope that made sense to you if it did not please make sure to shoot me some questions below or better yet at the end of this video we will put up a

Link to a playlist of all things topiary of the to opary tutorials that I have done in the past but wait I know you guys are going to ask me about the the links and where I got certain things okay number one I think I told you that that protective

Mat that has snaps that secures the corners of it in place uh we will put the link to that below we will also put the link because I know you will ask to this absolutely wonderful table I love this you guys um I love these kinds of mobile campaign like furniture that have

That look that I like so much and that I can easily transport from inside to outside and I can use them in so many different ways styled in so many different ways this one I believe came from Indonesia um it reminds me very much of

The ones that I saw in Bali and in fact when I got it and unpacked the box it was all dusty and everything and just if you order one just know that that might be the case and open it outside that didn’t bother me a bit because then I

Knew from once it came and I love the way it looks I love the slatted surface on the top um I love the fact that it’s got like bamboo uh uh binding or weaving around the edge and I really really really like that and again it just Def conflates

Deflates and you can easily transport it from one place to another um my outfit of the day we’ll just go right into this segment my earrings I also bought on line and I think for for what I paid for them they’re just classic I’ve been wearing them a lot lately my top is

Thrifted it I actually got this in the men’s section because I like the oversized um the oversized look uh my britches were thrifted uh I think they were Calvin Klein’s my boots or red Hunter boots could not live without them and I believe oh and Leah’s poed to my

Wristband yes my wrist brace um I love this about my doctor when I went to see her she gave me the shot and she said and un need to wear a wrist brace she said now I can sell you one which will be very expensive or you you can get one

Overnighted to you on Amazon for a fraction of the price and I appreciated her telling me that so we will if you suffer from carpal tunnel or some of the same tendonitis type issues that I do we will put that link too so there you go I

Wanted to make sure that you guys had the sources for all of these um indispensable Tools in my life right Now