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- Swifties I come in peace, okay.
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Stream folklore.
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I'm just kind of winging it.
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Here goes nothing.
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- These tiny ones are
murderously difficult.
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Look how beautiful.
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- Oh my God.
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I'm actually speechless right now.
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(upbeat flute music)
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- Hey besties, this is your
reminder to go drink water,
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if you haven't already today.
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Welcome back to yet another episode of
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Amanda doing random things on her channel.
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I'm tired of being confined to
a small sized piece of paper
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and I'm breaking free of those shackles.
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I've been wanting to do bigger
art projects on my channels
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besides like the regular
bullet journal stuff.
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But I didn't really know
exactly what I wanted to do
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until I had a nice, little video call
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with my fellow Toronto
YouTuber @withwendy.
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If you guys don't know who she is,
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she is an awesome YouTuber who sews stuff.
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She DIYs stuff.
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And she is just a lovely,
lovely human being.
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We put it on the back burner for a while
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until the Grammys that happened recently.
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And she immediately
messaged me and was like,
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"how about this?"
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She sends me a picture of Taylor Swift's
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lovely outfit from the Grammys.
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And it's just with all these flowers
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all over her dress that
are, like, hand embroidered
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and she just looks great.
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She looks chef's kiss, very cottage core.
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You know, today I will be
hand-painting a ton of flowers
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so that me and Wendy can
recreate Taylor Swift's look.
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I'm in charge of the flowers
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and then I'm gonna pass it off to her.
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It's gonna be kind of
like an art DIY relay.
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It'll be cool for me to see how the actual
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final project turns out
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because I won't be there to
see how she puts it together.
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I'll only see, you know what I paint
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and then it'll be magically
transformed into this garment.
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This is the fabric that I have over here.
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Wendy and I did a little handoff,
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it felt like we were passing
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off illegal substances or something.
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- [Amanda] I got the goods.
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- Yay!
- [Amanda] Thank you.
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I will see you at the next drop off.
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- Social distance drop off
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Mission accomplished.
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All right, bye.
- Bye.
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- There's a lot of fabric.
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Now looking at it,
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I think I did underestimate
how much I would have to paint.
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I was like to Wendy.
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"Yeah. Yeah. I'll paint all those flowers.
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No worries.
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I can finish that."
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But I'm gonna have to buckle down
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and do it, for the Swifties.
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For the Swifties.
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I feel like I'm unlocking
a whole side of YouTube
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that I don't know if I
wanna be messing with,
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the Swifties are too powerful.
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Swifties I come in peace, okay.
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Stream Folklore.
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All right, so let's just get started.
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I'm gonna lay out this fabric
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so we can have one nice
big space to work on.
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I'll probably just be
working on it on the floor.
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So RIP my back.
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- [Amanda] Oh my God.
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That is a lot of fabric.
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I've never painted on fabric before
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so I didn't know exactly what to get.
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I got two different types of fabric paint.
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This one is Castle Arts.
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Castle Arts 3D Fabric Paint.
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I'm assuming since it says 3D,
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it's gonna be a little bit
like puffy paint almost.
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So maybe that'll give
us some nice texture.
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I thought it would be nice,
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especially since a lot
of the flowers kinda
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have that 3D look on her dress.
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And then I also got these Arteza.
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Arteza 24 Fabric Colors.
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I think this is just regular fabric paint.
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I don't know.
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It had the best ratings on Amazon.
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I'm gonna have to do a lot of color mixing
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'cause these colors are extremely bright.
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I'm tryna think of what
my best plan of action is.
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Okay. I'm wearing pants,
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it may look like I'm not wearing pants.
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I printed out these pictures
so I have some reference
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while I'm painting.
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It also got extremely cloudy
while I was setting up,
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which makes painting
flowers not as exciting.
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I was so happy today
'cause it was so sunny.
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I was like, oh, I'm just
gonna paint some flowers
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and it's a sunny day, have the
windows open and everything.
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We're gonna be painting
flowers in a dimly lit room.
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So I'm gonna just get started.
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Honestly. I've never
painted on fabric before
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so I don't know how this is gonna go.
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I'm gonna try to keep it within this,
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like, the color palette
of the original dress
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and we'll see how it turns out.
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I'm just kind of winging it.
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Okay, well here goes, here goes nothing.
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(soft piano music)
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From what I can tell from
the two types of paint,
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they pretty much work exactly the same.
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I don't really feel any
difference between the 3D one
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and the regular paint.
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It is taking me a lot
longer than I expected
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because actually the fabric
is kind of soaking up a lot
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of paint, which means
that I have to, like,
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really lay it on thick and layer it a lot.
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So, that was something
I was not expecting.
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I was kind of, since I'm
used to drawing on paper.
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I was just kind of expecting
it to be like that.
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Yeah. It's gonna take quite a lot longer
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than what I initially thought.
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Probably gonna go ahead
and time-lapse it now
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and see how much I can get done.
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And then I'll try checking in
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once I have a little bit more
ready for you guys to see.
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(soft piano music)
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Okay guys.
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I have finally finished
the full flower piece.
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I don't know how many I've done
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but it looks like there's
like maybe over 500 here.
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It took me a lot longer than I expected.
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I did kind of, like, three
or four full work days.
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Some of them were four hours,
five hours, three hours.
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So I wanna say in total
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this was maybe, like, 20 hours of work.
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So, it took a while,
but we finally finished.
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Let me see if I can
hold it up for you guys.
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I'll put also insert shots,
but look at all of this.
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I'm so excited.
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Hopefully Wendy can work with this
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and make this look like something good.
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I'm really excited to see
how she transformed this.
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I'm actually gonna be
handing it off to her today.
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So, we're gonna do a little pass off
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and then the next time I'll
see it, it'll be a shirt.
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So that's gonna be very exciting.
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(soft jazz music)
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- Guys, Amanda did such a beautiful job.
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I don't even really want to cut it apart.
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Look how beautiful.
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These tiny ones are murderously difficult.
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- Okay guys, I'm so excited
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because today is finally
the day that I get to see
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the finished piece that Wendy
made with my flower paintings,
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the hundreds of flowers that
I painstakingly painted.
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I have no idea what
this is gonna look like.
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She didn't keep me updated
while she was making it at all.
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She did say that she wasn't
able to make a full dress.
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She made a top instead, which
is totally fine with me.
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I have it right here.
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I kept it in the bag
that she gave it to me in
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this whole time so that I
wouldn't have a sneak peek
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of what it would look like.
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I'm kinda nervous.
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Okay. Should we just open it I guess?
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Ready?
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(packet ruffling)
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Oh my God.
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Wait.
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Oh my God.
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I'm actually speechless right now.
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Look.
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Wait, this is so cool.
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How did she do this?
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Oh my God.
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This is so beautiful.
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Wow. I actually don't know what to say.
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Like, I'm genuinely shocked.
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This looks so cool.
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Like, I don't know if
you can see the details
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but let me see.
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They're all, like, individually sewed on,
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all of the flowers, like,
cut and stitched out.
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Whoa!
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This looks so cool.
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I'm gonna try it on in
a sec, but I feel like
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it definitely looks like
the Taylor Swift dress
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but maybe in, like, a more everyday look
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'cause it's in a top of course.
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Oh my gosh, Wait.
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Wendy!
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You did such a good job.
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I was so concerned.
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I was like, "I don't
know if she'll be able to
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salvage these flowers 'cause some of them
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definitely looked a little bit botch."
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and at certain points I was like,
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"I don't know if I'm doing
them the right size."
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And I know, like, what she had
imagined for this, but like,
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this is actually incredible.
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Okay. Wait, BRB.
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I'm gonna change into the top
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and show you guys how it looks like on.
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Can we just...
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Can I hear a little
commotion for the dress?
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(audience applauding)
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Wendy.
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(Amanda clapping)
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(upbeat music)
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This was a team effort.
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So props Wendy, through the screen.
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I actually think I prefer it as a top
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because it's like more wearable that way.
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I'm just wearing it with
some black jeans right now
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but this looks so good.
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I mean, I guess I can
wrap this video up now.
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I keep looking at the shirt
because it's so pretty.
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Definitely a success.
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This was such a fun collaboration to do
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between the painting and then, like,
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dropping off everything.
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It really felt like a big group project
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and shout out, of course, to Wendy
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for making this incredible
piece out of my painting.
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I really did not know
how it would turn out
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or if she would be able to
use the flowers that I made
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but she definitely pulled it off.
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If you do wanna check
out the whole process
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of her making this top,
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I think she also made one for herself,
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but like a maternity style
'cause she's currently pregnant.
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So, if you wanna check out
the whole process of her
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turning that huge flower
painting into this top,
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definitely be sure to check out her video,
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give her some love.
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She is so, so sweet and
so talented clearly.
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And I love her and her content so much.
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So, I'll leave the link
to her channel down below.
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Thank you again, Wendy.
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And I think that's pretty much it.
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So I will talk to you
guys in the next video.
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Keep doodling.
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Bye.
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where do I go now?
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Like this is just so cute.
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(soft jazz music)