Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Okay. Can everyone see the Bruin Beekeepers at UCLA present slide. Okay, cool. I see some nods. Awesome.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Okay, so. Hey, everyone. My name is Russia pronouns to her. Her is I'm the current president of Brune beekeepers and I really want to thank Charlotte and Karen for organizing this and
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Having this present to you all, it's, it's been really exciting to plan this event. So yeah, really looking forward to teaching all about bees and I hope you learned something new.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): And so along with me. I have two other Brune beekeepers board members who are here to help present. So Felicia Naomi, do you both want to introduce yourself.
Bruin Beekeepers - Felicia (she/her): I am Felicia. I'm a co event director beekeepers and I'm the assistant visiting or things like that.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Hi, my name is Naomi. I'm currently a intern for the broom beekeepers and I'll also be assisting in the slides.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Also thank you both.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Okay, so just to begin with. You can either just unmute yourself and say it out loud or put it in the chat. What are some words that come to mind when y'all think of bees.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): These can be like any words nouns, adjectives sound effects, just like take a second to put down some words in the chat.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): All right, we got we got lots of good words. Okay, let's check them out.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Awesome pollinator honey oh two for pollinator we got a lot of buzzing in the chat. Awesome.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Cool fuzzy yellow, for sure.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): I'll give it a few more seconds. Just so that people can put their thoughts in the chat.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Awesome.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Be movie definitely
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Great. Okay, awesome. This is a really wide variety of words love to see all the thoughts that you will have on this.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): And so yeah, some of the words that you you all thought of are actually on the slide that you know a lot of people do think of when
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): When thinking of bees. So some people mentioned colors so black and yellow for sure some people mentioned buzzing pollen and honey, which are two things kind of associated with bees.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Sometimes, you know, like basic instincts. If people think of that.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): But yeah, so the the thing that we kind of wanted to highlight with this is all of these words do definitely apply to some bees, but oh my slide.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): There we go. But not all these are the same. So not all BS actually make honey. A lot of times people think of that as like something that's really closely associated and all of our lives with with honey and something that we eat.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Being associated with bees, but not all B's make honey not I'll be is actually staying so um
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): You know that's something that when we teach kids, they're all like pretty surprised to learn because a lot of times, kids are afraid of these because of that.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Not all these are black and yellow, which we kind of already saw from Karen's icebreaker not all these are the same size. Not all of them live in hives and not all these come from the same place.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): So a lot of times when people think of honey bees or sorry, when people think of these they think of honey bees, which may have been what some of you had in mind when we were putting words in the chat. Right.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): We can see here, three different species of honey bees, they're
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Black and yellow. They're just like collecting pollen, but something that a lot of people don't know is that there's a whole different category of bees called native bees.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): And so we've put up a few pictures of these that are native to California, including the leaf cutter be the valley Carpenter be mason bees. Bees and movies.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): And so as you can kind of see here the difference native bees comes in, come in all shapes and sizes, different colors, especially colors that you wouldn't really expect with, you know, the bright green of the sweat be or the bright blue of the Mason be
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): And so to kind of like highlight the difference here honey bees are the honey making champions right they are working hard to like make lots of honey, they will sting if they feel threatened.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Because they're mainly trying to protect the hive.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Again, because they do live in hives and they're trying to collect pollen to sustain the entire hive. They actually have these little things called pollen baskets on their legs to help them to collect lots and lots of pollen and bring it back to the hive.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): And kind of the most significant difference is that honeybees do live in a hive with other bees whether worker bees drones, or the queen bee.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): And in contrast native bees are actually solitary. So most of them live by themselves, they'll find like either like a nuke or something in a in a tree or underground sometimes and they'll actually create a nest their
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): native bees don't really make honey. Some of them do. I think some bumblebees do, but for the most part, they don't actually make honey.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Because they live by themselves, and they don't actually have to defend a whole entire hive. They are actually pretty gentle, you really have to be like trying to disrupt their lives for them to have to sting you.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Another thing that really distinguishes native bees is because they are living by themselves, and they don't have to collect pollen for
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): A bunch of other BS, they're actually really, really good at pollinating
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Which you can kind of see from this picture here, where the native bees. On the left, because they don't have any kind of mechanism to collect pollen.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): When they fly around from flower to flower. They actually get completely just covered in pollen and as they fly from flower to flower that pollen very easily comes off.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): And, you know, goes to different new flowers. So that's why we really like to talk about native bees as being really important pollinators, because they are more effective at pollinating than honeybees.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): And so, kind of on the right you can see like these clumps of pollen here by the bees legs. That's the pollen basket area where all the pond kind of six there and then they bring it back to their high
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Yeah, they are really cute. Awesome. And so we do have a few not this one yet. Okay, there we go. We do have a few videos just to show you what's inside of a native be nest versus the honey beehive. So I'm just going to be like talking over them.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): But the video that's playing right now is actually one of a leaf cutter be you can kind of see in this particular shot. It looks like a plank of wood that you can like look into with a whole that the bees making their nest in
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): A lot of times in the in the wild. You'll see this in trees or like
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Just like random places sometimes in buildings, but I think this particular one was constructed so you can see what's inside. And so this be, as you can see is kind of packing together all of these leaves to form a literal nest for this BS egg.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): So as you can see she's like really packing all those leaves tightly into her nest. And I think at this point. She'll probably
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Take one out. So yeah, bees can be kind of particular about the leaves that they do use for their nests. So I think she will probably end up taking that one.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Back out from her nest. Yeah, there you go. And so you can kind of see how deep this Ness like goes into this particular plank of wood or other trees and stuff like that so
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Um, yeah, so she's just kind of pulling it out and she'll fly off and probably find another piece of leaf to put in her nest.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Oh and also the reason that I'm saying her and like that. I know that this is a female be is because
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Some of you may know this. This is also the same for honeybees but male bees really truly only exist to like meet with female be so that they can have eggs and so male bees don't live very long. They just kind of
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Like, you know, get it out of their system and then die. So, the ones that actually go out making nests and caring for their eggs are the female bees. So that was the native be now we'll play a short clip from a honey bee hive.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): This. So, um, so this is this be, in particular, the one in the middle here. That's kind of shaking around, we'll go into what this is doing into a little bit
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): But because these bees have so many other members of the hive. They have to work out a system of communication to be able to tell other bees were flowers are where things are. So this is doing something called the waggle dance.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): That tells other bees, where to find a good source of pollen. You can also kind of see the pollen baskets again on some of the legs of these bees those like yellow clumps on the side.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Yeah, so, and the video there. So that's just kind of a quick look into what a what a native Venus looks like versus what honey bee hive looks like.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): And I will pass it over to Naomi now.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Thanks region. So what are some plans of these love. So today I'll be focusing on a few of them. So I'll be going going over the blanket flower. So it's a type of Daisy that's popular within many native species and can mostly be found in the valley.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: I don't know if I mentioned this, but all of these flowers can be found in California.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: So then we move on to cascade Creek. So you can see it's a little bit of small little yellow clusters that are very attracted to small business well as butterflies.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Um, so this flower is also
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Very drought resistant. So, meaning that if there's a lack of water as well as rain, they can still survive in bloom on their own.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: And then we'll be moving on to the rest of the Russian sage. So it's enjoyed both Bye, honey bees, as well as needed, peas, and it's very heat tolerant and can survive in harsh conditions. So it's a pretty ideal follower for the California weather.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Oh, they will move on to the local dance. So how did these communicate. So you can imagine, as in this little gift.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: It shows a figure eight. So imagine the number eight turned on inside. So the middle center will be pointing towards the source of food.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: So the longer the bees do the squabble dance. That means the further the distance to the food. So, as everyone watches this be do this while dance, they'll learn where to go for the food source. And we'll just show you a quick video on how to do the wild dance.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Oh, wait a second. I forgot that there's no audio because I didn't
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Give me one sec to adjust the audio settings so sorry.
Bruin Beekeepers - Felicia (she/her): Yeah, well, which is adjusting the audio settings. I'm the person who will be introducing us is another board member name is Sam, but she's not here with us. But yeah, that's who will be doing the Michael dance for us.
Or
Say we want to find an item with our local dance. Now I have something exactly like this two seconds in that direction. Okay, so now what I want to do is I want to face this direction and dance in this direction for two seconds, because that's how far away it is ok, ready
One, two.
So I've done the waggle part of my dance and I want to turn to the right to start making my figure eight. Right, so like this. No facing forward again we want to dance again. So, or if you don't want it. You can just a little bit before for two seconds and then turn to your left.
Now, see if your family can find whatever it is that you hit or whatever it is that you're pointing to your vital signs can be used for anything as different all these these use them for plants possibilities are endless. So it'll be a fun thing to try at home.
All right, say we want to find
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Okay, so that was just a little quick video on the waggle dance so native bees and pollination. So native bees pollinate 80% of the flowers and plants and 75%
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Of fruits, nuts, nuts, and vegetables such as tomatoes. A plans. Pumpkin squash blueberries and cranberry fires.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: And honey bees aren't really great at pollinating these things just because just as we learned as we just said they have pulling basket. So they tend to collect pollen instead of actually spreading it out.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: As you can see in the photo. There's a very wider variety of sizes, shapes, colors and lifestyles of native bees. So you can see the US is smallest be in comparison on a large Carpenter be
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: And as we saw in the videos earlier, there's different types of life files. So we have these cut these that card would be that forage and these that tunnel and mine.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: So what can we do to help me that these so we can play
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: The same type of bloom in our gardens, we can avoid using pesticides that can affect the plan that bees come in contact with when they're going from flower to flower.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: And here are just some quick ideas on some flowers that you planted during the seasons. So in spring. You can plant flowers like lilacs lavender stage and hysteria, as well as fall. You can plant fuchsia.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Bush sunflower seeds for Veena and told flax and in the summer. You can plant tomatoes pumpkins some flowers are going to oregano rosemary and poppies amongst other flowers.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: So we understand gardening is hard work. It can be pretty daunting. And it's really time consuming. So we have some alternatives. So maybe encourage your parents.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: You know, they're not bustling college students like we are. So just be like, hey, maybe try planning some flowers. Today, or you can buyer. Make your own seed.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Which are basically little cup clusters of seeds that you just throw into any space with soil and when the rain comes, they'll just start planting on their own.
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: So just a quick PSA for consumers, trying to purchase from organic food and local farmer vendors that, you know, because this
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: discourages monoculture, which it overall hurts bees. Be careful with labels that say, local and organic because sometimes these labels can be questionable and you can get food and
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: From visiting the local CSA farm and sometimes USDA certification isn't everything because farmers often don't opt to get certified due to the lack of amount of lack of crops that they're able to produce as well as just simply the cost of getting certified
Bruin Beekeepers-Naomi Rodriguez: Um, so click. If you want to learn more about the brand beekeepers you can check out our website to learn about more about us our upcoming events as well as how to get involved.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Yeah, so definitely that, that concludes our presentation. So we hope you all enjoyed it. If you do want to stay up to date with other events that bring beekeepers is putting on or if you just want to like check out one of our general meetings.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Feel free to add us on our socials on Facebook, Instagram, the website that Naomi shared with you all. And if you also want to join our group me it's like a pretty low key thing definitely like no
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Like strict commitment needed, you can feel free to do so that's where we'll post. Most of our updates. You can stay up to date with what we're doing.
Bruin Beekeepers - Rucha (she/her): Yeah. And thank you all so much for listening. We hope it was helpful and that you were able to learn something new and thank you once again dig for hosting us
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Awesome. Thank you guys so much thought a lot of fun. And I definitely learned a ton. I didn't know that much about bees turns out
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Or um
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So I can share my screen now or my other screen.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Cool. OK, I will spotlight myself. I'm the be making
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah. So here's my setup. I already put rice in my sock. But, um,
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So yeah, pretty much. The first thing to do is like figure out the size I cut my sock. So it was a little bit smaller.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And then I added rice.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And I know one thing I decided to add more rice than, like, I thought I would need to because it really like squished is down to the bottom. And as you can see, like, then I have like so much leftover so add more rice than you think you need
And
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I don't necessarily know how long this will take you guys but
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: How long do you think I should wait. Should I like wait for like thumbs up or should I just keep going.
Dig - Justin Haggard (he/him): Okay, do you want to maybe get like a couple minutes for people to get their supplies together.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, no, that's a good idea. Okay, cool. Oh.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: How
Karen Yi (she/her): Can people get a heart reaction north and south reaction or whatever, if you plan on making a lead to do with us.
Karen Yi (she/her): Great. Awesome. Cool.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Sweet.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay. And then when these go away. Let me know if you're like ready to start. And if you'd like put rice in yourself.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, I know.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Definitely like
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Send me send us photos. When you're done. I'm super excited to see them.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, we've got some thumbs up
ALEXANDER YAN: Oh, we are, how much rice.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: It really depends on how big your sock is but
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I put in like two cups.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, I can
Start trying
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, so the first main thing is
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: To use like a color similar to that of your socks. So I'm going to put on black thread.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And definitely use a lot of thread, because both mean Karen.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: We made one last week, just to practice and like my mouth off and Karen's I fell off of her be so that's a big thing us more than us more thread than you think you need
Okay.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, mine also have is a weird sentence. Okay. The bees mouse alone, but not
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, cool. Let's get started.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So like the hardest part of this is like closing off the top of the B. What I like to do is first, like they're like rumbles up here and I like to put
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: My needle through them to like first start
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And then just go around in a circle.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, and then just keep going.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And pull your thread through all the way
Cool.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And that's like a round one. So like tighten it. And then we'll put the
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: String
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Then we have to put the like part of the sock that that's still sticking out, we have to put it like inside the be
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, if you know if anyone has no idea how to so I can like kind of explain more, um,
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: It's really like for this, it's like really not like really intense sewing or anything. All you have to do is like, put it in and then take it back out and then
ALEXANDER YAN: Let me hold you pull the thread on Lido.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, so all you have to do is like take it, put it through the whole once and then tie it and then tie it once more. So it's like tight.
ALEXANDER YAN: Hole in
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Your Needle doesn't have a hole in it.
ALEXANDER YAN: I just feel like a random to your toolbox.
Oh, no.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Don't know.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Does anyone
Karen Yi (she/her): Know, trying to Google roof.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay. Thank you, Karen.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So has anyone been able to do this part yet where they like tied in it like this.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, you can probably use hughley to but it would be hard for this part because we have to like put it in, we put this stuff that sticking out on the inside and then
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: We pull it together. So it's like inside and
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I'm I don't know. Yeah, I think you can try it and see how it goes.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I think it would be a lot easier for like the other parts like when you put on the eyes and stuff to do that.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Is a good idea.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Simple
Dig - Justin Haggard (he/him): We use safety pins to if you had some it wouldn't look as nice probably work right. Yeah, I think so.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: This is a effort together. All I really done in sewing is like sewed my dog stuffed animals back together after she like breaks them so
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, so then like the next part.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I like bring it over again to, like, make it more tight so just like at the end of the black like every bump. I just put it through.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And tighten it.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Put it to
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Now,
Let's see.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: How is everyone else doing all
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Thumbs up if you've got that so far. And if you have any questions, write them in the chat, although that looks so cute.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, Karen. Karen knows what's up. She can help you out too. She might be better at explaining everything
Karen Yi (she/her): You're doing great. Thank you.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Oh, thanks. Sophie, I use it all my books as it stands.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yes. That's her name.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, cool. I will keep going, Lauren. How you doing,
Dig- Lauren Olson- she/her: I'm doing good. I just finished up my be
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Sweet. Okay, I'll keep going then.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So now that we have this it looks kind of silly because there's just like this whole right here so mean can decided that we'd add a little stinger
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Wait, sorry. Where's my screen there. Thank you, whoever did that. Okay, so I just like took a piece of the white thread that I had
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And I just like rolled it up to make it like a little pointy triangle. And that's what we got.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I was a lesson. Okay.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, we can for that and
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Then all we have to do is add it on
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So I'm a perfectionist coming out. It's not looking good. Okay, you pretty much just like stick it on and then you
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Still with this string that we still have attached, you just start putting it into the black and then into the White
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And then back through, it's kind of a funky motion.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: But it, it worked last time. So I'm going to stick with it.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And then just do it like all the way around and do it a lot because I'm since it's like kind of sticking out. I feel like it would be really easy for it to fall off. So whatever you can do
Oh no, it's falling apart.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: You guys get to just remake it later.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And oh, if people aren't doing these if they're doing like bats or something.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: If you have just like excess black. Maybe you could put the black over it.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And just have like like a flat section just so then it isn't like a whole going into it because I think that's kind of silly looking
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So you can do that. Just like something there and
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Now he has a singer.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, I think you can a tune up sheet is probably a little bit easier than my like funky design like spin
Karen Yi (she/her): I don't know where she is. I was
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I really
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Don't know either. It's like a spiraling
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I'm turning my stuffed animal into hyper
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: That's so funny.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Next part is not as difficult. It's kind of just like more fun because you get to decide what you want to do.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: With the face or like the wings, whatever you're doing.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Last time I put eyes, and then a smile, but I'm thinking this time I want to do eyes and then like red or pink cheeks, just for fun. So really, whatever you guys are thinking you can do
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Now we have to tie it off.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So I think so. Now you just have the string on both sides, and then you just have to like do a double not like
Anything else
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And then you just cut it close to where the model is but not like there.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Were
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: No strings attached.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, um,
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Is everyone's doing good. So
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Cool. I see nods. Sounds great.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: It is
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: We got a fat be this time, although it's fun because you can squish them. And then they're like, so flat.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Oh, also whenever anyone makes a stuffed animal. If you have a name for it, let us know. Because, Karen. What was your name. They're so cute.
Karen Yi (she/her): It was wrong PC PC. I think we'll do a contest.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, whoever has the best feeling
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Lazy
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Cool. So now we can start with the face. I have some like random felt still over here. So I'm just going to cut out. I think what I'm going to do is like a white circle and then black circle for the eyes, just so it looks a little bit more realistic like Karen's
Oh wow, my scissors suck.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Cool. Okay. And then for this. I'm going to use
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I have pink thread instead of black just so then it
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Looks a little better on the white
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: But of course we are putting black over it says it so it doesn't matter too much. If you don't have another color and
This is
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, so for this all you pretty much have to do is
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Put okay I didn't change with it. Just pull it, put it in and then take it back out, kind of like what we're doing with the stinger if anyone has done that.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And this is the part where you're going to do a lot more
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Put it on a lot better than or with a lot more than you think you need just to make sure it stays on. Okay.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So let's do this.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: This is for over
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay. Well, I think the easiest thing to do here is to put it in on one side and then take it out.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: On the other, just because it's like the needles really long and I don't know how
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: I feel like I need a thimble. I keep poking myself.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And what's nice about doing that is most of the
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: String is underneath it's not
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Can I see your guys's
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Wait, can I say, sir, I was looking down
ALEXANDER YAN: Hold it together with like that like like saying
ALEXANDER YAN: Please.
Dig- Lauren Olson- she/her: Make it funny and just cut that part in half.
Dig- Lauren Olson- she/her: And then, oh years
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Now, realizing this is
ALEXANDER YAN: Actually like a really tough, though it is really hard goes wrong.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, you're like,
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: super thick sock.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: No. That makes sense. You should have really
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Trying to make my art with the same size. And I think it is.
Karen Yi (she/her): We take the blame for any improvisation that has the courage that we didn't go through before
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yes, very good.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: We thought we are going to get this funding and be able to send it to everyone, but unfortunately it didn't come in time. So we got some of them.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Which I think worked out fine because now we're going to have a bunch of different kinds of these
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And other pollinators.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Which is much more cool okay that is close enough. So now what I'm going to do is put it in through the eye and then take it out in the other eye. So then I don't have to start over with my thread you see it's going in one eye.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Cool looks a little creepy, but that's okay.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And then just do the same thing on the side.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, I definitely want a simple
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Justin I thought this is gonna be
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, cool. Now I'm going to start on my the black part of the eyes right now. He looks really crazy. It's like
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Oh, also with this. I'm going to put it back through the other eye and then it gets. Get it close to the pink.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So then I can tie it off, how I did at the other place. See, they're like, right next to each other now and I can cut off this string and then I can tie them real quick.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And I did that, like a little bit underneath where I'm going to put the black. So then you won't be able to see the not when we get there.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Cool.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, there we go.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Oh yeah, that's smart. Maybe I should just do that. Okay, I'll just do that.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay guys, instead
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: We had a great idea in the chat. I'm just going to draw my eyes. Should I make him cross eyed
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay. He's really cute. I think I put on the eyes, kind of sideways, but that's okay. Now I'm going to add the pink. And I think I'm good. Um, does anyone, anyone want to show their BS. I'll move my spotlight and we can go to gallery.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Oh my gosh, I forgot about the wings surprise. These have wings.
Karen Yi (she/her): Beekeepers maybe some of us don't
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Wait, you know, there is a kind of be that doesn't have wings. I'm pretty sure isn't it the female version does not be us and they like in the ground can somewhat beekeeper safe. That's true.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Or watched it in my
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: You'd be 100 class.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, cool. I have some fabric here. I actually already cut out my wings last time. So I'll just go get those
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Okay, lost it. I'm going to come out again. So either you can do Karen's way which is cutting a wing and then a second wing and then adding them on separately.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Or what I did last time, which is just like creating two things together and then like adding them right in the center. So whichever you guys would like can see the same way, just
Karen Yi (she/her): I'm just saying, Charlotte expert. I don't know, honestly.
Karen Yi (she/her): What and the chat. I said to my wife who's harder than your way.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: This now. Either way, it looks really cute. Wait, can show your be
Karen Yi (she/her): All
Karen Yi (she/her): The other eye on so
Yeah.
Karen Yi (she/her): I'll turn off my
Karen Yi (she/her): Separate little wings.
And it's
Karen Yi (she/her): Like they were
Karen Yi (she/her): Really
Karen Yi (she/her): Like a fish. It's pretty great.
Karen Yi (she/her): Yeah.
Karen Yi (she/her): Who's offering so Charlotte, she did.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: What she did it all yourself.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Oh my gosh, I think I decided to use like the worst.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: So,
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Hopefully you guys are able to cut out some very cute things. I think I'm just gonna lose these funny things that kind of
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And I'm going to use pink again just so then it's like kind of close to the real design and I'm also going to
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Use some pink on the sides of the wings. So then like to pull them up a little bit.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Which I just thought of.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Yeah, we'll go like that. So I'll put in there and then
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Wait, it does look like Ponyo.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Cool. Okay, I'm pretty much going to do the same thing as we did before, but we just, like, put it in to both make sure you have the lower layer to oh and make sure you never pull your thread, all the way through. I feel like I do that all the time and and then just
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Do it several times back and forth, just to make sure you know
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Sick.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Cool. And then if you want to, like,
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Maybe make them come up of it, you can
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: Go up along the side and like pole.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And then just keep doing that and then like want to be kind of a cute design around the wing and to build like stick up of it to make it look more like a wing
So,
What
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And then we just have to do the thing on the other side. But it's kind of like Buffalo and it sticks up a bit.
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And maybe
DIG-Charlotte-she/her: And then you just have to do the same thing with tying it off like you did in the other ones.