Mature Mischief podcast
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The Graveyard of Dead Hobbies
Have you ever abandoned a hobby after someone told you weren't good enough? Or perhaps you've got a collection of half-started projects gathering dust in your metaphorical creative graveyard? You're definitely not alone.
Jesse opens up about a formative experience when his guitar teacher crushed his spirit by telling him to "never pick up the guitar again," creating a pattern of creative self-doubt that would follow him for years. This vulnerability sets the stage for an honest conversation about creative resilience and the journey back to creative confidence. Meanwhile, DeeDee shares her natural adaptability with limited resources, demonstrating how creativity often flourishes within constraints rather than unlimited options.
The conversation delves deep into Jesse's current passion project – learning to sew and create custom clothing. Starting with simple decorative pillows and gradually advancing toward more complex garments, his methodical approach demonstrates how breaking down creative skills into manageable steps can help overcome intimidation. The hosts explore the practical challenges of dedication to craft – from finding space free of pet hair to understanding fabric properties and mastering techniques through repetition.
What makes this episode particularly resonant is the exploration of how abandoned hobbies can be resurrected and potentially transformed into business opportunities. Jesse shares his vision for a custom clothing business, while DeeDee reveals how skills learned for costume-making projects unexpectedly equipped her with resin-casting abilities that opened new creative doors.
Whether you're a dabbler in multiple creative pursuits or someone still haunted by discouraging voices from your past, this conversation offers both practical advice and emotional reassurance. What forgotten talents are waiting in your creative graveyard? It might be time for a resurrection.
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what's up, gremlins? Welcome back to another podcast. My name is jesse james. I hope everyone is doing it and doing it well. You know the drill. This is the mature mischief podcast. What is up? What? It up what it do mondays, here we go monday, monday, monday.
Speaker 1:Uh, let's talk about something about mondays, because I know that anytime mondays, here we go monday, monday, monday. Uh, let's talk about something about mondays, because I know that anytime mondays tends to roll around, for whatever reason. Um, there are just a lot of things that just come up for mondays, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, you're ending the weekend cycle and you're starting a brand new work week, right?
Speaker 1:like, like, does anybody ever get happy for a monday? And if you are getting happy for a monday, we should just like block them and shun them out of existence period I get happy for monday. Really block me, bitch, do it I know it, you know it, the whole fucking world knows it. I am your host, jesse James.
Speaker 2:And I am your co-host, Dee Dee.
Speaker 1:Yo Dee Dee. Why do I keep fucking that up? I don't know.
Speaker 2:You screwed it up on Saturday. I did. Well, you know what it's fitting today, because today's Monday yes, it's Monday, it's dragging. So it's fitting, today it's Monday.
Speaker 1:It's dragging, so it's fitting today it's fitting. I don't know about Saturday, I don't know what you were on, but okay, shenanigans, bitch Shenanigans. I was on that shenanigans list, but you know, I am definitely somebody who does a lot of projects and they tend to be buried under a lot of shit, cause I'm looking at it now, it's all my crystals that are there that I still need to put away. Yeah, cause I haven't put it together, it's a big cluster fuck of crystals. Yep, so it is what it is at the end of the day.
Speaker 1:You have a whole graveyard. Do I have a girl? Uh, if I can start from the beginning, I uh I think a lot of it was uh, I was trying. I remember my very first project that I was trying to learn it was to draw. So my parents would buy me stuff and I would try to draw and everything. I was getting good at it then, no, uh. Then I took up guitar lessons in high school. Then my teacher told me, uh, I sucked, and for me to never pick up guitar ever again. Wow, he said that he would give me, uh, an, a as long as I showed up to class.
Speaker 1:I'm like damn damn, I still have my guitar. It's still still sitting there, never picked it up. It goes everywhere I go and it collects dust, but because of it I just don't. I occasionally will pick it up here and there, I know that. I say don't pick it up. But I still know one or two songs off of there though. But when my teacher told me not to ever pick up a guitar, that really kind of fucked with me a bit.
Speaker 2:I'm like damn say like bro, who tells a kid that like apparently this fucker did. That isn't so yeah what kind of teacher are you?
Speaker 1:not a very good one no not a very good one, to say the least, but not at all it was it. It was kind of heartbreaking, to say the least, though, because I I never expected something like that to come out of a teacher's mouth. I've I've heard of stories like teachers telling kids that, oh you suck, don't, don't ever do that or don't don't. I've heard, like I've heard, story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like, it's kind of like you you need to find your calling and see where it works the most for you for anybody, and if it ain't a teacher, then, bro, why are you here?
Speaker 1:I think ever since that teacher, ever since he said that I, I've been so self-conscious about anything I pick up as far as a hobby goes, um, but I remember sewing. I remember doing a lot of sewing when I was young because I would sew a lot of my t-shirts back. I would make, create, create things and whatnot. That I do remember, but I hand-stitched a lot of the stuff and I always thought sewing was actually pretty cool. But anytime I did that again, mom kind of destroyed that. Are you a faggot? And I'm like, wow, I can't even enjoy a good thing or a good hobby. I'm already at an age where I'm learning everything. I'm not saying learning things at a late age, I'm just a late bloomer for a lot of the things that I'm doing. So, um, I'm starting to kind of pick up on a lot of the things that how to like make your own t-shirts.
Speaker 1:I'm watching youtube videos. So it's been, um, it's been fascinating to actually see. So I, I can now make my own t-shirts because now I know how it's done properly. I just now I know how to do the pattern. There's, apparently there's a pattern that you can buy or a fabric that you can buy. It's called tracing fabric, so you can kind of trace the pattern that you're wanting and then you can kind of make it that way. So I'm like oh so I can make all my muscle shirts that I like wearing my you know, or whatnot, and whatever. I'm just saying okay, I can do this, I can make certain things and whatnot. So I like how he's like I didn't do it, he's biting my sandal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I'm like.
Speaker 1:So it's just something that I'm actually really excited about. Making my decorative pillows have been actually a lot, because I'm kind of still trying to learn how to hand sew everything. It's muscle memory, so it's trying to get everything pretty much you know together whatnot. Leather was one of them. I tried doing leather that did not work out in my favor. I now had to know how to use it so I may pick it up again, but I won't do it until I move out of this apartment because there's too much dog hair everywhere and I want to keep my leather outside, you know so, in a nice, warm environment.
Speaker 1:So, right, I don't have to worry about dog's fur and everything, whatever, uh same thing creating any type of t-shirt lines or whatnot. I am waiting for me to get a new place, because once I do, I'm gonna literally just change clothes and just go in there, put things on there, lint everything down, right, um, brush everything off, do what I gotta do, because that's gonna be a workspace where no pets allowed, yeah, you know, but on the outside, where the dogs can roam freely, that's where they're pretty much going to be able to be at. So I'm going to be very stick a stickler on that. So I don't know, I I find sewing very soothing. I can do sewing just fine.
Speaker 2:I think that's the point of hobby sometimes is is to get you. It's something that you enjoy doing or something that brings you joy and it gets you out of the mundane law of life. You know what?
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 2:Which is awesome, yeah, awesome. Mundane lull of life. You know what I mean. Which is awesome, yeah, awesome. But then again, I've, I've done it all my life and I've had time to, because I was always at home or whatever. Um, I too started with drawing.
Speaker 2:Um, I want to say I was nine take over and I remember seeing my aunt um, she would just draw video game characters or serial characters on notebook paper and when I would see them in her little binder I thought it was like so cool because it was so accurate. And she did it with freaking pen, oh yeah, or she would do it with pen and matte pens. I'm just like this is insane. So I would always try to. Her binder would be there and then I'd get a notebook paper and I put it right next to it and I tried to do exactly how she did and for the most part it came out.
Speaker 2:I mean, it wasn't her level obviously yeah but for my age it was good, it was decent and so they're just like dude, you should totally, you know, do it. So I would do it. But I wasn't never like oh well, let's buy her a kit of this, or here let's let. It wasn't that they didn't encourage me, but I wasn't given the tools, so I use whatever.
Speaker 2:I had kinds of creative stuff. I, if you asked, if you asked my family or my siblings, they'd be like, uh, no, she can do everything because, like I said, all I had was nothing but time and it would trigger something like you know what. I wonder if I can do this, like not something that I saw, but it was something that I created in my head and I was just like, like let me try, let me see.
Speaker 2:Like I ain't got another time, so I would do it, and I'd be like oh, I can do it Okay. I can do it Like so I would get excited and I would do whatever. And then I'll be like, well, dude, if I can do this, I wonder if I can use the same tools.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So I'm very good at being able to cover a range of hobbies with just one set of materials, tools, ingredients, whatever, Just like the cosmetics Right, the place where I buy my ingredients, all of my ingredients. Yes, I can make handmade cosmetics, but with those same ingredients I can also create a whole line of nail polishes, bath and body products etc paints, uh, watercolors, like I can do so much with just that group of materials yeah of course everybody's like well, how come you have another?
Speaker 2:like I still need money to do yeah, like I have the ingredients, but I'm like, yeah, but I need a whole different base for shampoos, as I would for watercolors. You guys, you know what I mean like I still need the liquids for that kind of stuff. Like all of my cosmetics are dry powder right, so I could, I could do that part, but I'm just like I can't, you know, do all that. I've designed clothes, I've helped create costumes, I paint.
Speaker 1:See, and what I'm learning about sewing. What I like about it is that you can make your own stuff for you, and how it fits you which is great.
Speaker 1:I'm basically what I'm doing is learning the basic stuff like the pillows and everything and whatnot. I don't have the creativity you do at a fucking high standard. I say I don't have it, but I know I do if I put a lot of time into it, which I have, and I'm learning as I go along. And working with T-shirts is a bitch. Working with T-shirts is a bitch because when you cut them they fold at the crease right.
Speaker 2:Or they curl.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, and I'm just like you money's also. I mean, I know I work and I have the money, but it's having financially stableness to do that no, I get, I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 2:It's hilarious Because that's everybody's first thing. Like well, how first thing. Like well, how come you haven't done this and how come you haven't? How come you haven't opened a store and I'm like you got store opening money because that costs that is a ridiculous amount. Do you know what I would need for that?
Speaker 1:you know what? I wouldn't mind going into fashion and learning fashion in school. I think that would be pretty much. I would do it because I'm starting to realize how much I enjoy it and how to create certain things. I want to be able to clean up a lot of it and I was watching a youtuber on that was doing the sewing is how he does a machine.
Speaker 2:I'm just like that is so cool and see, my thing is, I'm not very good with sewing machines. They don't like me, and that's okay. I don't like them either. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:Uh, I respect them, but I don't like them um well, because I, every single one I've touched, I've broken, not intentionally, totally accidental well, if I get, if I get, if I become an expert, I'll let you have this one so you can say don't let me touch it, bitch, I will break it, I promise you.
Speaker 2:I don't know how, but you know what I learned I main thing I was trying to learn.
Speaker 1:I was getting really annoyed with my sewing machine because why is walgreens calling me okay, I'm back. So a lot of it was what I'm. What I was learning about the sewing machine is that there's a lot of stuff that I can do with it and whatnot, even with stretching material like certain stitchings and whatnot. So as I started to get kind of got to know a little bit and how to, how to work the sewing machine, uh as well, I'm just like this is. This is pretty fun. So I'm learning.
Speaker 1:But I'm also learning the fabrics too as well, because I have I have a shit ton of fabric not a shit ton, but I have some fabric that I have not touched yet. I have, like the mesh fabric. I also have fabric that I can make my own underwear. I have pretty much. I have a solid standing when it comes down to it. I just want to be able to get to know my body and proportions a lot more better. So when I make something, I can make it to my standards, to where it needs to be at for me. So that's what I'm kind of learning about sewing. It's basically portionizing my body where it's pretty much where it's at.
Speaker 2:That makes sense. Like I said, I can do that part because I don't get along with machines. I will gladly do the designing part like I have a whole binder. Still I I can play with the fabrics like on a mannequin, because my sister my little sister was obsessed with that for a while and they got her the whole. Here's a machine, here's a mannequin, here's all this fabric, here's you know whatever, and she'll play, because she used to do it on her dolls.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And they're like okay, she just keeps on Like, let's Her, they did give her, but, granted, this was years apart.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:She's like half my age. So back when I was little, I didn't have that luxury.
Speaker 1:She did.
Speaker 2:She was handed what she needed to encourage that particular interest or that hobby. She can cultivate it if she wanted to. Like anybody else, you try it. If it's good for you, it's good for you. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing. And she ran the course or whatever. I didn't snap like dude. I got a whole binder. Do you want to do some of the designs? You know what I mean? Because that would be ideal If somebody would be like oh, I can make your clothes cool.
Speaker 1:You make them, bro, I'll design them, but you make them because, speaking of which, I was going to hit you up because I wanted to. I want you to teach me how to do the drawing or design set, like, how do you do it? Because I want to learn how to make certain things or whatnot because I mean, I have the patterns I'd have to go into the um.
Speaker 2:I know I have pattern. I mean not pattern um like model pages.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I mean so that's kind of like what I want to do because I have I have uh patterns to make my own vest for, like a dressy vest, like very the suit, like ties, bow ties, all of that stuff, so I can make all of that stuff. That's not the issue or the problem. Uh, the thing is I was trying to figure out how to create the pattern and then one of the youtubers was teaching me like how to do the pattern, like which each one doesn't make. Oh, that makes so much sense. So guess what I'm gonna do now that I have a little bit of money. I'm gonna see if I can run down to a fabric store around here and see what time they close or open so I can hit that store right uh, at a certain time I was gonna do it today, but I think some of them close at five o'clock or whatnot.
Speaker 1:But but it's trying to just pretty much get everything where it just needs to be.
Speaker 1:Like I have the pattern to make the harry potter robe oh yeah, if I wanted to, and I also have a couple of halloween costumes that if I want to make, I can make that and I'm like, oh, this is pretty fucking easy to actually make. So it's been, it's been fun. So I'm not done because I want to create. But the next thing I want to get is I want to get a mannequin to fit, so when I measure myself out right, I can measure out the mannequin and put the clothing and the cloths and all of that stuff on there you can make a mannequin of your own body, right.
Speaker 1:No, I know that, but no, I don't want to do that, I just want to pay for it.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm just saying Because me and James did it. I know you and James did it, I did. I wrapped his body and then I cut it off.
Speaker 1:You used a saran wrap, right. And then we closed it. And then it, and then we filled it, and then we stuck it on a whatchamacallit with casters so he could just roll it around.
Speaker 2:Nope, and it was his legit body, so anything he put on it or made for it fit him like a freaking glove. And I'm like, of course, because it's you yeah which was hilarious, because when we had finished it, he had set it aside so he could eat. His torso is literally just sitting over there in the hallway. It should look, look, creepy. It was so cool.
Speaker 1:See, I could make my own mannequin for myself and do it just for me, but I also got to learn the actual mannequin, because if I'm making somebody for something for also for somebody else, I want to be able to adjust it to as well. I just don't want to make it just for me. I can do that for me, but I don't know if I can ever take that to a competition or whatever. If I ever wanted to do it, right, you know, I just want to be able to make sure that I can understand this and also portionize that. This is who I am as a person and whatnot. Huh, 317?
Speaker 2:311. Oh, did you not have a hangout today at 3?
Speaker 1:No, not until 7.
Speaker 2:I don't know why. I thought it was 3 today, okay. No, you're good okay I was just like sir did you not, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:Nine till seven, no, no, no, nine to seven. What? Yeah, okay cool. That's why I was kind of hungry, but I didn't want to eat so big because I'm hanging out later on okay, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so, uh, but the main thing is is that, uh, back to what I was talking about, was that I want? I want to know both. Right, you know you can teach me how to make my own body and create it.
Speaker 2:You know, that's not an issue, a problem.
Speaker 1:You can do that for yourself when you want to go all out, exactly for me, I get the whole idea of the man. Yeah, because I I actually have somebody says, like remember that thing I showed you with the metal and the chains and everything, and someone's like can you make that?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, well, he just another hobby that you wanted to pick up I, well, I saw it and I was looking at it.
Speaker 1:I was like, okay, cool, that actually looks a lot of fun. And I was looking at some of the prices to buy on maybe youtube and like in bulk and the chain mail to buy, I can just go to fucking home depot and whatnot. But I'm wondering if I can just already buy it already the length and just buy the seat clamps and just put it on there and whatnot. But it's like I that's because it's part of fashion, right, I want to learn. I want to get back into the leather again because I want to learn a little bit more, because I'm learning the sewing portion and I'm learning how to and I can do the patterns and everything. Now that I know the patterns on that, I just got to go do the patterns and learn the pattern version for leather and that's pretty much it, because now that I have, I can create things. I can create stuff for myself and whatnot, because he was fine, I can do all of that and whatnot for me. So once I'm able to get all that for me, I'm pretty much all set and ready to go for me on that.
Speaker 1:But I did have a lot of dying hobbies because I didn't know where to start, but then again we didn't have youtube back in the day. You know, now we have youtube, yeah, and I've always picked it up. The only hobby that I've kept for such a long time is the podcast. The podcast I've kept right forever.
Speaker 1:I've gone through like I don't know how many different names you know what I love that?
Speaker 2:you mentioned that. You know you didn't have youtube back in the day, but you have youtube now because I hated and it's nothing personal towards anybody who's ever told me this but I would hate when people were like oh well, I'm just not creative like you and I'm just like you don't have to be dude you don't have to like. It's not like I have someone up on you just because I'm capable of of using my head in a particular way. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Now that there's youtube, I'm like there, go, get, get, educate yourself on whatever it is you think you need it and it's there for you, like, utilize it, and then you use your imagination with that and go off, dude, like because I would, I would get, I would. It would make me feel bad. I know they didn't intend to, but I would just feel like I would feel guilty, like people would think that I thought I was better or something, just because I could do something that they couldn't. You know what I mean, because they weren't throwing it in my face. But they're like, well, I can't do it, like you and I'm, and they would like wait for response. I'm like I don't know how to respond to that yeah I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 2:Like I'm a kid myself, dude. Like what do you want me to say sorry you suck? Like that's horrible, that's freaking horrible, because you don't suck. You could do it, it's just, oh, I don't. You just don't have it naturally. I'm sorry. Like so you make me feel bad because I it came to me naturally.
Speaker 1:Like welcome to dd's rant yeah, yeah, no, I would.
Speaker 2:I would feel so bad. I'm just like I don't know what to say you know I would.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't say I don't know if I would do the same thing too as well, because I know that for me. I've always said people are like she's very creative. I wish I had as much talent as she did, because for you as being creative and how you can draw, I wish I could draw, because that would solve half of my fucking issues that I have Almost half my issues right, almost half my issues right, you know, because it's funny, because they're like oh my god, you know how much money you would make and I'm like.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing for me if I wanted to create something that was leather, and I know, if they wanted something to draw on, I know that they would have to pay double the commission, my commission and your commission. Right, well, I don't draw anything, but I do have an artist that I work with, so you would have to pay.
Speaker 2:I would combine what art is, and this is what it's like. This is my fee for making the leather. This is her fee for the artistry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's combined together for her. So that's what I would pretty much do, and it becomes pretty much as to that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I'm learning as I go along, and I didn't realize how much, because I've already tried fucking knitting. Knitting just pissed me the fuck off.
Speaker 2:Which is crazy, because you made that long ass scarf when I thought that was cool shit. I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1:Well, apparently, when I made the scarf, I didn't make it right the way it was supposed, because the edges were kind of like, kind of loose. They're not supposed to be. It's supposed to be a nice straight edge. I mean, I took it apart and I kept and I put it back to where it was, which was great, um, but it was a huge ass scarf, which I still love, by the way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh, I want to do it again and I have. I have the, the looms, I have the looms, I can do the looms, that's not a problem. I can do that all day, every day. Right, just make the looms and just do that and whatnot. Uh, it's just learning the knitting or the size of the knitting to make the scars, because every knit is different in size, right, so I would have to. If I got something thin, I would have to double it, because and it looks really cool when you double it, by the way, because it's just like this is actually pretty fucking cool. Yeah, so I can do that and I've actually learned how to do that portion I can.
Speaker 1:And again it comes down to I want my own place because if I do it here I'm gonna going to have to keep it all outside yeah, you know, in a tub, so it doesn't smell like outside or anything like that and I can kind of work on what I need to work on. I can do a loom all day, every fucking day, because I love those. Get me to do fucking hand stitching just to do Chala. Dude, you got me fucked up Because I can do it.
Speaker 2:I like a good look. You know what I have found? The older that I've gotten, the more that whatever it is that I'm working on needs to do something for me. At this point, can I do everything that I've ever attempted to do? Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. But if you told me he's like, oh well, I need you to do this all day, every day, and I'm like, yeah, if you told me to do this all day, every day, I don't know that I could. Can I do it? Yeah, sure, but it has to do something for my level of entertainment and my level of contentment, because if it doesn't and I'm not feeling it.
Speaker 2:I cannot do it all day every day. So the fact that I can juggle multiple things, I'm cool with it, because if somebody orders this from me like, okay, cool, I get you to do this this one time. And then somebody's like, oh well, I need a set of nails Cool, I get to work on nails now and I'm just like, oh, after that, I need you to customize some shoes Cool, I get draining my joy from it yeah and if it does that, if it starts to feel more like work than it is a hobby or something creative for me, that pulls me out of that?
Speaker 1:I will lose my love for it and it's oh very much so, because I hate it because I'm like oh, they made me hate what I absolutely love. Yeah, it's crazy, and it's not they. I think that's the thing with how I function. I think that's when it comes to like for me, the pillows. That it's. It's becoming very repetitive for me now. It's just like I'm starting to like.
Speaker 2:But and I think that's your thing with the hobby because, like I said, it's exciting, you'd be like I could start something new, I get to try this, you know, whatever. But then after a short while, if you're not comfortable with having to do it over and over, it's like okay, this isn't for me, but I liked it but.
Speaker 1:But I had to. I had to put that aside because it's like I've already have all these t-shirts and I've already put a lot of money into it, so it's like I really need to use what I have and it's been sitting there for quite some time already, so I'm actually learning how to adjust, yes, to a lot of it and it's been, it's been phenomenal, right.
Speaker 1:I love the adjustment that has come with it, but it also I'm starting to like the repetitiveness when it comes down to making, uh, the pillows and whatnot, yeah.
Speaker 1:So with that repetitiveness it becomes even better for me because I can kind of go okay, my stitching is still looks a little so, looks a little whack, or my, uh, my pillows are not lining up the way they're supposed to, like I'm, I want to make sure that I'm not cutting off too much, not too less, you know, because that becomes a factor in a lot of the that I'm doing right. So I'm doing a lot of the measurements and everything, like some of the like the dragon ball z pillowcases that I've done, and everything. I'm just like son of a bitch and I'm also paying attention that I'm making the holes like no bigger than like half an inch, so it can. So I'm not leaving like a whole, like a whole lot. So I need to be making enough where my hand can fit in there and then turn it in right and I've done that already on two pillows already, and I'm thinking why in the fuck am I doing that?
Speaker 1:so I'm, I'm just sitting here going I yeah, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. But I'm learning, as I go along and trying to make all these different outcomes, or these different pillows, that I need to pay attention a little bit more. But I'm also learning that I also got to figure out how to keep my fabric together, because they tend to slip off for whatever reason, I'm just like why.
Speaker 2:Are you putting the foot down?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm putting the foot down, yeah, I'm putting the foot down. I was going to say I think I need to adjust it where it keeps it nice and tight, because occasionally I don't think it's keeping it together, because it'll get loose.
Speaker 2:Okay, for whatever reason, because it's supposed to just hold it enough to where it's steady while you're running it right not slip, but not not hold it so tight that you can't still move the fabric along right, you know what I mean. No, like it has to be a just right setting. So yeah, maybe it just needs to be tweaked a little bit so it's um pretty much.
Speaker 1:This is dealing with that, uh portion of it, so yeah, that's they all think they're getting something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's called condensation, johnny, which I'm okay with. It's because they smell this bag, but they think you're the one that has the food. I bet you. That's why they're here.
Speaker 1:I'm like, oh yeah, the bag's over there, the actual food's behind that door you guys, but it's becoming, you know, pretty much just learning it Right, being just more repetitious on it and whatnot and whatever. But that's what I kind of just like about the whole sewing thing, like it's a new skill that I'm learning, that I'm teaching myself. But I'm also trying to be like I don't want to be to the point where it's like it's repetitious, like I'm done already.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. Yep, and see, that's, that's the. It's like there's pros and cons to it all, because I want to get to a place where I find that one thing that I'm like okay, this, this I could do all day, every day, and I don't care how repetitious it is, because I got it and I'm still happy and I'm still entertained. And it still takes me out of my head like I want to still find that. Like they're like oh yeah, you haven't found it in all this list of shit you'd like not really, I guess I don't know, I want to do it all, but the shitty part of that of not doing that, like I said, I like to juggle, but the downside to that is when I do have to come around to something that I haven't touched in a while, I forget like crap because it wasn't repetitive enough and I'm like well, how did I do this one this last time?
Speaker 1:crap, I gotta do it all over again, dude, like but I wanted, I wanted to be able to make be, be able to be something where I can just go damn, I did this and I was. I didn't.
Speaker 1:I didn't stop doing it, I just kept doing it and kept doing it and kept doing it because that was something that I wanted to do every single time, no matter what. So it was. It becomes that. So I just don't want to have one hubby already paid 200 and something dollars for that fucking sewing machine, right? So I'm gonna fucking use it, yeah, uh. Second of all, I bought already. I've already torn up a half the t-shirts that I have, and I've already bought more shirts. Now I gotta cut some of those up because they're not fitting the way they're supposed to, and I'm really getting pissed off because every time I go and buy a shirt or a t-shirt, it doesn't fit me properly the way it's supposed to. It's either too short or it shrinks or whatever. And I'm just like Jesus, fucking Christ, I can't catch a fucking break.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I have all this material to make. What I want to make. It's just getting it done where it needs to be, right. So it's just pretty much getting to know the material to where it needs to be for the most part. But for the other than that it's, I I've have thoroughly have enjoyed my journey with the sewing machine because I'm learning it, but but the pillows, it has been a great start. It has been a really really, really fun start with it because it kind of shows where I need to kind of put things at. Instead of putting a little, I need to go by the right needles because it has to have. I want to get the ones with the little ball on it. The one I have doesn't have no balls on it, so I can't. Oh, the pins, yeah, the pins like.
Speaker 1:Like I don't have the right pins so I'm using the pinchers. So I figured I go. Well, you know what? I will use the paper clip holders, the black ones.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 2:To be able to do certain things with them, and they're a lot more sturdier, for I know, because every time it was just funny Because, like I said, you were like that Mexican mom with the chancla and you weren't looking, so you were just kind of that was hilarious. But no, I get what you mean Because, like I said, I miss being able to learn how to do like the costume making, for example. Oh, that was so much fun, but only because every costume that we made it required something different to learn or something different to learn how to make. That was going to be a part of the costume. So, like for Thanos, for example, I learned how to cast resin. So if I wanted to guess what I could do like, I can add to. Like I learned how to cast resin. So if I wanted to guess what I could do Like, I can add to like. I need more to add to my list, right?
Speaker 1:I can do resin casts.
Speaker 2:I can do resin jewelry. I can do resin figurines. I could do resin anything, to be honest, because it's one of the things I learned why? Because Thanos's gauntlet that we made required the stones and the knuckles, so I was in charge of that. James was like, oh, here, I'm going to work on this. You know, just follow the instructions here, Do that, whatever he goes in and make the stones and I'm like, all right, cool. So there I went casting. I'm just like, oh my God, I hope this came out right. And I'm like I did it, I know.
Speaker 2:That's why I'm like, oh my God.
Speaker 1:Which is great, because I mean those who can do the things that you do, that are very multi-talented and all of a sudden they can figure it out. And I don't think talent has anything to do with anything, because it's literally just reading instructions and pretty much doing it.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Right yo, it's easiest because they show you while they tell you like well, that was the thing. I was more of a visual learner so I I took, I took to youtube, so it I'm just saying, oh shit, this is really fucking easy, I can do it yes and now I know how to make my own button-up shirts.
Speaker 1:Now I can actually, because one of the things he did was a button-up shirt and he's like we're gonna do this pattern. He's like okay, you want traceable fabric. I just like there's traceable fabric for this. What the hell? I don't have to worry, I can go. But the next step that I want to do is that, if I'm going to get the fabric, I want to get wood.
Speaker 1:So, when I already have it. I can just trace out the stuff and then I can put it on the wood. So in this way I can put it, I can just do it there and I can lay it down straight and just kind of cut everything. And I don't need a really thick one, I just need like a small one. So I can kind of just do what I need to do and have it there. So it's all smooth out, so I don't have to worry about it, and then I can just put it aside and be like oh, I want you know what I want to wear. I'm going to wear a t-shirt today, so I can do this right and do some long sleeves and short sleeves and whatnot.
Speaker 1:So I want to be able to do and make and create my own clothing line. One clothing is getting a little expensive and I could buy everything by the yard and that's a lot more cheaper. So fabric is really cheap. Well, now it was cheap.
Speaker 2:Some of them are. Some of them are. There's some. That is just ridiculous oh, very much so it sucks, because those are the pretty ones, at least for me, especially when yaya han came out with her fabric line oh, you're like oh yeah, because we'd go shopping for whatever james needed for his costumes or whatever. And I'm just there like I'm gonna go to the yeah, yeah section. I wasn't. I'm not a fan of hers. I will say that I'm not a fan because true colors came out but, those fabrics were the shit.
Speaker 2:I will give her that they were pricey as shit. I never got a single one of them because I'm like, yeah, 30 something dollars for a yard. No, thanks no, thanks, that's I'm like I no but what did it stop me from? Going over there and just touching everything and, oh my god, look how pretty this is.
Speaker 1:Like, no, no, I enjoyed it I enjoyed that window shopping but that was the thing I'm also learning about rhinestones, too, as well like all the different like textures and rhinestones and whatnot and how to do it, and you just told me a couple of things. So, you know, with the uh, the he, he sift in the back of it, so I'm just like, okay, cool, well, I know, I know what I need to go look for.
Speaker 2:So especially because it's what you need, like if you're gonna spend your money. Spend it on what you need right because then it makes your job so much easier for you.
Speaker 1:But I showed you the one that I wanted to get the rhinestone with the rope, because that one guy made the fucking those were so cute they were fucking sickening so cute, that's all like oh okay, that's what I have, old jeans, that I can do that too, and I was like you know what why not?
Speaker 1:I have. I can do that and get what I need and I can turn my fucking fashion into something fashionable, you know. So I might as well have fun doing it. You know what I mean. And I have a few leather stuff that I want to like, fix and alter because I have an uh, a harness well, that's right yeah, it needs to be altered. That needs to be altered, that's right because it was.
Speaker 2:It was oddly big. That was funny. When you're trying it on, You're like I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think it's too big. Well, that big chess piece fits perfectly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but what do we call it? It's too long, it's too big so. I'm like, yeah, it's going to have to get cut and readjusted big time.
Speaker 1:So I know somebody who works on leather who does a fantastic job, so I'm gonna ask him hey, can you make an adjustment on me for me, if you're able to tell me how much? I already have it. It's already fixed. It's just the uh. The length of it is really long. Like when can we set something up here? So hopefully he's up for it. I just need to. His name is chibity. He's the one that does the uh.
Speaker 2:Poach poetry oh, that's right yeah he's.
Speaker 1:He's been doing a lot of other stuff, so I might just hit him up for it and be like, hey, I really need to get this. I want to wear it so bad and I haven't been able to do it because it doesn't have the proper measurements for me. So if you can fix that, that would be great. But I'm also I need to learn how to measure in centimeters. You know, um, but I'm also I need to learn how to measure in centimeters. You know so math? Yeah, I know, because someone just gave me their measurements, but it's in centimeters and I still do everything in inches.
Speaker 2:So I mean, centimeters is not that bad you can just convert with your phone, just saying yeah, all you have to put is centimeters to inches or inches to centimeters, and then do your shit.
Speaker 1:That's what I do, because I have to do well, centimeters to inches or inches to centimeters, and then do your shit. That's what I do, because I have to do. Well, the measuring tape has this wonderful thing, has already centimeters already on it, so just, got to follow that Touche.
Speaker 2:So Because when I do the formulas for the makeup, I can't, when they're like, oh, two milliliters, I'm just like what's two milliliters in teaspoons? Dude Like, how about ounces? Can we do ounces Like come on that's what I'm saying, like I hate having to, like I need math to do that whole product line. The whole production line requires math Cause it's formulas, literally formulas of all kinds of ingredients and liquids and oils and bases and waxes, and I'm like no, I got to weigh and waxes and I'm like, no, I gotta weigh this.
Speaker 1:I'd rather do the inches on fabric any day, because there is no weights on there and whatnot. The only thing I gotta pretty much be careful when it comes to weight is the rhinestones, because the rhinestones can be very, very heavy, yes, so whatever you're putting your rhinestones on, that dress or that shirt has to hold it.
Speaker 2:So that's the only thing like if you're making something especially when they are uh crystals like swarovski, or if they are glass rhinestones they are incredibly heavy. There's plastic. There's um oh, what is it? There's resin. They're making resin ones now. Um. There's glass, of course. There's crystals, and I know there's something else, but anyways, they all have different weights. So the more you have on a T-shirt, the more droopy it's going to hang off of the body which really is something that's like. That's too much for me, man.
Speaker 2:I designed it. You do what you got to do with it.
Speaker 1:So that's when I got to figure out certain dresses and how they're fitted. Well to do with it. So that's when I gotta figure out, like, like certain dresses and how they, how they're fitted well, I'm not trying to put myself in a dress.
Speaker 2:I mean I wouldn't mind because I want to.
Speaker 1:I want to do drag right. I was gonna say you're gonna have to. I know I'm gonna have to, but I want to make sure that the dress I'm putting in, or fitted in it, fits me personally. You know what I mean? Uh, one, I'm a hairy motherfucker and the only thing I want to shave off is just probably much where my hands and my wrists are. So that looks good, because I'm not trying to shave my entire body. So I'm going to have a lot of cover-ups. So because, one, if you're trying to shave your entire body, you might as well do the whole thing right, and let's face it, I'm not trying to do all that.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:So that's a lot the face, the beard I would do, even though there are bearded drag queens out there, but I want to be authentic and do the whole thing. Only reason is I love my beard but it's high maintenance. It really is high maintenance. You got to keep it a certain way. Certain beard oils, you got to wash it, just like your hair, otherwise it gets very dirty and nasty and whatnot. Yeah, and having to keep up with it is so fucking annoying.
Speaker 1:It whatnot yeah, and having to keep up cute with it. It's so fucking annoying it really is.
Speaker 2:I love that you said that. Why? Because it is annoying. No, I, I absolutely I can't imagine, because I'm not a guy. But I know exactly what you mean. But that's just because I'm a girl. And our maintenance alone for the, our entire stupid body, is just like well it.
Speaker 1:It gets in the way too as well, because when you want to do face care, you're only doing face care, like where the skin is yeah so, and to me I'm just like why am I going to do face care for just this when also you know, and you got the other rest too as well. Yeah, but the thing is is that I have a husband who likes my facial beard. He doesn't want me to shave it off, and I'm just like, well, fuck you, because I'm doing this now.
Speaker 2:I know what character was it for. There was a character that James wanted to do and he was like man. But I'm going to have to shave off.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, do you have to?
Speaker 2:Because I love his chops, because his chops were full and I'm just like you go bad boy, oh my god anyway. Um, and he had his, his soul patch or whatever. Sometimes he would connect it, sometimes he would and sometimes he, you know, put in a little bit of uh, goatee, sometimes not but I don't remember what it was gonna be, but he would have to have shaven all of it.
Speaker 2:And I'm just like you know what? I love your facial hair. I love your facial hair, but you do whatever it is you want to do. It's your body, dude. I still love you, no matter what.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it just don't look so weird. Like I know, you know you'll get used to it or whatever, but it was. That's why I said like I know what you mean, because it was a lot of maintenance or whatever like I would help him, you know, trim his or whatever or like even it out and stuff like that but I'm just like, this is a lot, you know but, like I said, I get it because for women we have to do everything head to toe head to toe and I'm just like a everything bath and everything, and yeah, that's what we call it.
Speaker 2:It's called it's called an everything bath or everything shower, whatever it's. When you literally take care of everything in one shot, it is ridiculous. It is ridiculous.
Speaker 1:It's even ridiculous for me too as well, because when it gets my body, when I'm used wearing this, I don't feel the material right I don't feel the material. I don't feel it's sticky when I'm used to wearing this I don't feel the material. I don't feel the material. I don't feel it's sticky when I'm hot. I've shaved my body before and. I know what that's like. So when I get hot, everything just sticks, so I'm just like oh, this feels weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like I'm not used to it. So when you don't have hair, it's a different feel, so you're just not used to it at all, period. So it's you know you, it's taking care of yourself. On, on that particular um form, though, but doing, doing drag, or wanting to do it, because I this is why I'm kind of getting into it I need one year.
Speaker 1:I've said to myself I just need one year to learn everything. Lose theose, the weight that I need to lose, get back to where I need to be fitted for myself, take care of my face, take care of everything. Learn how to do makeup. I can't say I don't know how to do makeup, because when I did that photo when James had passed away and I did half of his beast, I was really fucking impressed, like how well I did that. Just the lining.
Speaker 2:I'm just like bro, you can do it like that's what I'm saying when people are like well, I can't, you can.
Speaker 1:No, I know I can't, I can, but what I have issues is I'm having issues blending properly. You know everybody has that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's everybody's main complaint it's always like you're like can you show me? I'm like I can't show you how to blend. I can tell you.
Speaker 1:It's literally, it's also blending and getting to know the color will like what stuff. So I I went online to look at a couple of color wheels that I wanted to look at and they have like little posters and everything that you can do with makeup dresses, clothes, shirts, all of that good stuff. So I'm just like, oh okay, so I've never gotten to know the yeah, the color well so it's.
Speaker 1:It's getting to know the color wheel just a little bit better, or whatnot. Photography was another one that I've. I still have my photography camera, but do I use it? Yeah?
Speaker 2:I never got like I would take photos for everybody or for people, but I never gotten to it like where I was doing it for people, bitch, you know what I mean Speaking of which I found this fucking amazing thing to be able to do with.
Speaker 1:my camera hooks up to my cell phone or to my tablet and I can actually see how it looks when I take a photo. So if it needs more lighting, if it needs adjustments, it can just be like okay, cool, Take a picture.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:And I can do it on my phone. Okay, hold still Three, two, one stop.
Speaker 2:Badass. Yeah, that is so badass.
Speaker 1:That is so fucking wicked like just to be able to kind of because this is like you got to set up the colors, the platforms, you know, that's where you get to know your color will just a little bit better, yeah, but you see, that's why I want a house, so I can kind of like, okay, this is what I'm going to do, this is what I need, and this is also where I want my own business, because if I can get my own business just to make and like make, people are like hey, I need a t-shirt.
Speaker 1:I heard y'all do customized t-shirts. Yeah, pick your pattern, that's there. And what we do is I take a look, I do your measurements here really quickly. Once I get your shirts, I do it in bulk and you can pick as many colors you want and this is how much it is and this is how many shirts and designs that you get for you and it'll fit. And you just tell me how long, where do you want to fit it, how much you want to do it. I think I would charge a person no more than like $20 a t-shirt just for the fabric alone, because if I have extra fabric material missing or it's just there laying there.
Speaker 1:I would definitely like make ties or bow ties or make scraps something out of it, I don't know, or bow ties, or make scraps Right Something out of it, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But that's kind of like I want to. Like I said, it's learning so much stuff and doing hobbies, but I want to turn this hobby into an actual business. I wouldn't mind doing this, I just need to sit down with it as much as possible.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But anytime I get home I'm just like ugh. And then my days off I'm just like I just don't want to do anything. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't yeah, no, I have to, but I do need to go buy more of the um stabilizer here in a little bit. Yeah, I may go to somewhere because I'm seeing the stabilizer. I normally would get the black, but the black's like four dollars a yard. I'm just like, how much are the whites?
Speaker 2:because Because it's not going to matter, it's on the inside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's on the inside, so I really don't care, but I was on Amazon earlier. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2:As soon as you put your fingers up.
Speaker 1:You already know Amazon.
Speaker 2:You don't even have to say anything, you don't have to do anything. If your fingers go up, I'm like what, or what did you do, or what happened?
Speaker 1:what I'm, what I'm learning about amazon is that it's great when you're trying to do small projects, because there are some things that are smaller, but when I'm on these other places, like for bulk, I that's what I need and that's what I want. I want something in bulk, like I want to get my fabric and everything in bulk. I want to get stuff in bulk, but I also know I need the money to do it. So, uh. So I'm getting there, I'm slowly getting there, right, um, but we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. It's it's been just. It's been kind of just a nice little journey or whatnot or whatever, and I'm kind of learning that it's like I have a lot of crystals lying everywhere.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh, you know what, I'll just put him in like some pillows, like for, like obsidian or amethyst or whatnot. Just, you're like, okay, I'll put some crystals or some something in there for y'all, if y'all want it, just to kind of like, give you some type of like a protection pillow, if you. Yeah, you know, you tell me what you want and I'll throw the crystals in there for you. So you have it there. So that's, uh, something that I'm kind of doing it. Well, that's the end of podcast. I do appreciate y'all tuning into the mature mischief podcast and our hobbies Hashtag. What dead hobbies do you have that you need to resurrect again?
Speaker 2:What hobbies are in your graveyard?
Speaker 1:No shit, don't tell me, Show me what you got. Tell me what you got, what you really really got. Tell me what hobbies that you loved and you turned into a business and now you're thriving on it.
Speaker 2:I've got a whole mausoleum.
Speaker 1:You do have a whole fucking mausoleum.
Speaker 2:You know what? I've never actually sat down and made the list I should.
Speaker 1:I think this, this desk here, which your desk? Yeah, what I'm going to do is I'm going to move all the crystals. I think I'm going to go ahead and may just put her in the case here. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to pack up everything already here and put it away, and then I'm going to bring the sewing machine over here so I have more room. But I just need to make keep the. I need to put the gate barrier there so the dogs don't get to it.
Speaker 1:So other than that I think that's what'm, because I, when I had, when I cleared out that desk, when I had my meltdown, when I cleared it out uh, it was cleared I was like, oh, and I was like, oh, yeah, I could put the sewing machine there. That's duh and I could use a little joy there and put whatever I need. So, yeah, I need to. It's already packing time, it's already May. We have June, july, august. Yeah, it's time to pack. So here we go again.
Speaker 2:This is the fun part, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun. But, anyway, appreciate y'all. Thank y'all. My name is Jesse James. I am your host.
Speaker 2:And I am.
