hello YouTube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name is Pedro from our upcycled
life and I do lots of thrifting up cycling repurposing and DIY content and today's video
is a special video um I received something in the mail that is so exciting from YouTube
and I'm excited to upcycle it it's my silver play button a hundred thousand followers on
YouTube when I started this channel two years ago I never imagined I would be standing here
today with this package in my hand from YouTube with a hundred thousand followers okay I said I
wasn't gonna get all emotional but two years ago I started this not knowing that the journey would
take me here and all I wanted to do was just share my love for upcycling and DIYs I have this Vision
or I have I kind of call it my superpower I can see a pile of junk and see potential in it and
see how to upcycle something and make it new again and make it beautiful again and save it from the
landfill so I decided to maybe I could teach some other people how they can do this little little
tips and tricks and techniques and little did I know that it would take off and I have such an
amazing community of crafting friends here I can't thank you enough for your support for your views
for your pushing the like button for following me over on some other social media platforms I
appreciate it from the bottom of my heart because you guys are allowing me to do exactly what I love
to do and that's upcycle I think it would be very fitting for me to upcycle my silver play button
and bring you guys along while I create a chippy finished frame for my hundred thousand follower
silver play button okay let's get started I think my silver play button is gonna look fantastic in
this thrift store frame that I found it just needs a little bit of a chippy finish and if you've been
following along here for a while you know I love my chippy paint and I'm going to achieve that
finish with my candle wax layering up a bunch of different colors letting each coat of paint dry
and then adding some more wax and then putting some more paint on and then adding some more wax
and for my very last color of course it's going to to be silver I always find it very hard to believe
that I've been able to achieve a hundred thousand followers in such a short time I'm 54 years old
I definitely don't fit that genre of the Young YouTube content creator so I thought it would be a
bit of a struggle to find that right audience and I couldn't be even more wrong I found my people
right here on YouTube people that love crafting love upcycling and love thrifting the comments
that I get every day on my videos is overwhelming I get people that are thanking me for sharing a
technique that they were struggling with or just somebody that shares their daily struggle and my
videos have kind of brightened up their day or somebody that's looking to make a little bit of
extra spending money and my technique has helped them along the way to be able to achieve that and
the technology that I have learned in these past two years has been wild I have had to learn how
to film how to edit how to do voiceovers and if you go back and you look at my old videos
if you dare you will see how far hey I have come along in all of these challenges and it has been
so much fun and a lot of it I have done with the guidance of my daughter too who I have been so
fortunate to work side by side with Along on my channel here Kirsten has been a godsend to all
the technology part of my channel and I wouldn't be here without her help too I want to thank
everyone who has subscribed and watched my videos there are so many of you that I now recognize and
chat with in the comments and I'm still Blown Away by all the support I receive it's unbelievable I
put so much time and effort into this content to help guide you along on your crafting adventures
and I'm always trying to improve and make them better so you can get the best guidance and
value from me because I love it I've done a lot of upcycling in my life and I've done a lot of
DIYs and I've done a lot of thrifting and this right here is probably my most special upcycle
DIY that I've ever done thanks again for following along and taking this DIY upcycling Journey with
me and I appreciate every one of you and I am the most lucky person in the world to have over 100
000 crafting friends here on my channel take care and we'll see you in the next video
all right