LAUNCH DAY ️ Behind The Scenes | Small Business Studio Vlog
hello good morning and welcome to a another studio vlog it's thursday as always and mum is currently upstairs doing a little bit of a stock count we're checking all the new stuff because it's a week today until the launch or as you're watching this it's tonight it's at 6 00 p.m on the first of july so i'll make sure i show you all the products in today's video um in fact i'll put a little cutaway of me showing you the products in now these are one of the new products or three technically so this is one it's a to-do list and it's like that paper you used to get at school with the blue lines in the red line so that's that one and then we've got the note to self planner which is it has like a little gap at the top so you can put a date on it or if it's like for a particular task you can like write references in here and then just write little notes yourself these are all a4 sized they're actually a6 sized not a4 continue in the video 100 pages so they'll last a while and then there's the shopping list which has got check boxes down both sides oh my hair's in the camera and then it says feed the soul on the bottom they're all stamped on the back and all 100 pages so you can buy these individually or you can buy them as a three i will leave the link to the website in the description because this vlog goes up at 4 p.m and the launch is at 6 00 p.m so set yourself a reminder i'm gonna go and show you the greeting cards now mum just said i said a4 sized and then a6 thanks mom in here we have the new greeting card so there's seven cards in total they're all foiled there's a few birthday card ones there's a couple general ones and then there's a couple new home ones because we all know i'm moving house soon so i i don't know i had it on the mind so this is one of them then this is also a birthday one this is all foil i love this we have this one which is more of a general one because it doesn't say happy birthday on the tag so this is just like when you're giving someone a gift you can do that these are all 12 centimeters squared by the way so they're really nice and big which is good and then this one which is more general one so you can send this to a partner or your best friend or just someone that you admire you know they're all blank inside too then we've got a new home card home sweet home this one i think is my favorite i want to frame this i might send this to myself when i move house i just think it's so nice finally this one which is the happy birthday version of that other one and those are the greeting cards and actually let me show you the envelopes so the envelopes are custom stamped with the soul and fire logo look at that look at us going up in the world so these are ribbed brown envelopes all custom stamped so you can see there's a soul on fire and i feel like they're just a little bit more posh you know we like to pretend we're posh around here we also have mirror decals coming i will insert pictures on screen because i haven't yet printed those as i'm filming this i'm going to show you the process of me putting them in this video so it'll just be like further on what else is there the pencil case this is the pencil case which i'll talk about a little bit more later on in this video but obsessed all hand drawn by me and we also have these brand new embroidered grocery bags so it says good food good mood and we've got three different colors so there's this mustard yellow we've got this sort of sage green minty green and then a rusty burnt orange bread so these are all available at 6 p.m on the 1st of
july 2. i am going to quickly show you a homeware haul because if you don't already know i am moving house soon i think it's going to be within the next like two and a half months if everything goes to plan it is a new build so things could change but we're slowly collecting a lot of stuff and we need to pack this stuff away and move it because my mum currently can't use our conservatory so before we do that i thought i'd show you because i love a homeware haul so hopefully you do first up this has got zero context i once jokingly bought my dad a penguin and it just kind of stayed around so he has a penguin but we have my new pride and joy which is a bin i never thought i'd say this in my life so this is the joseph joseph totem max bin it's the 60 liter one and it's expensive but it's something i've learned that bins are very expensive and this is actually really good even my dad who is such like a scrimper and saver thinks it's great so it's got like the bottom compartment which the plan is to like put recycling into like cardboard plastic glass and then this top one and then there's like a food wasting in here i also like it came with bin bags they're all in here and it came with like an odor filter thing which i feel like is probably a bit of a fad but i'm probably just gonna put like dryer sheets in there or something so it smells nice but great purchase on amazon prime day it was 120 pounds instead of 180. also not really home but these were all amazon prime so memory card a little small one for the drone and the gopro a big one for the vlog camera because if you watched the last vlog you know i just threw one in the bin then also got this smart light bulb this was five pounds when i bought it with the echo show which is upstairs i will insert a clip of that then i got my favorite mascara because this was half price so i always pick stuff that stuff for that some of that up i got some powder which i've used since i was at school we got some scales for the kitchen or for the office because i'll need some to weigh parcels i showed you this in the other vlog a while ago it's a pizza oven thing for on top of a barbecue this was from really dull and then this is the microwave i'm gonna have to get it out on a one sec why are they so heavy so this is the microwave oh that's me in the reflection it's from amazon it's a toshiba one 20 liter 800 watt and it's supposed to be easy clean it's got like this enamel coating on the inside i never thought i'd be excited about an easy clean microwave or a microwave in general but this is what adulting is now apparently and then i think that's everything is that everything oh we've also got cleaning products wow this is my life now i put this on my instagram but i got these a couple of weeks ago and i keep getting to show you them so they're like really environmentally friendly cleaning products and it's from a company called small and this is the starter kit so it cost me 25 pounds and you get like a sample of everything that they do so you get the three bottles this is fabric conditioner and then there's dishwasher tablets which we are using so they're under the sink at the minute and then we've got non-bio and bio cleaning like laundry tablets and then little spray refills so the idea is they're not shipping water and they're saving packaging so you put a little like tablet in a bottle like this fill it up with water and then there you go you've got your cleaning product this one is the multi-purpose one and then i think there's a bathroom one and a glass one and then you just once you've had this full set you like just order that box so then next time when the subscription comes through it's just in a little box like this and then all this gets recycled and the product itself is really eco so yeah that's my little homeware haul we are now going to pack these up and put them in storage ready for when we move and then the next clip will be of me and mum sorting out the salon fire stuff so see you then are we ready for something really exciting i've been waiting for these for so long look look we have pencil cases guys and these are those plantable tags that i showed you a couple of vlogs back so you can take these off follow the instructions and then it will grow with wildflowers i mean not blowing my own jumper ball off and that's pretty good idea how cool are these so mum is currently adding these tags we're gonna film a little real so she's we're actually reusing the string that came with them because eco and then we're gonna re-tag them film it and i'll get a little real go in but obsessed i will keep time-lapsing throughout the day and keep you updated i'm currently sat in my usual spot doing emails i'm uploading the photos i'm going to edit the photos that mum's going to take soon um i can't believe it's only a week remember when i set the date for this and it was over a month away it just seems to have flown by so yeah let's do it we're headed upstairs again because oh look at the stickers solemn fire stickers available on the website um we are gonna dust off the cricket because i haven't actually cut anything on here recently really and it's because i haven't really done many mirror decals which i want to do so i've made i think there's four or five new mirror decal designs so i need to cut them and test them on the cricut to make sure that they peel and stick and everything all right and then we can take pictures and all that jazz so here's my cricket we have the old stock of greeting cards in the way i need to make some room i can't wait till i have some bigger office i was gonna say smaller then definitely not smaller let's plug it in and i need to get the vinyl and the tools and all the fun stuff i've actually just discovered that i've run out of the removable vinyl which is obviously what the decals are made with because i want you to be able to peel them back off so that must be why i've not used my cricut for a while because pastel is ran out of vinyl and hasn't told president alice to order some so i've just ordered some on amazon hopefully arrives tomorrow as promised but i think i set up this um document i logged into cricut space design space whatever it's called and it's actually changed which kind of threw me a little bit so i think i mean you saw but i think i've got this set i'm just going to attach it to the canvas hit make it and cross my fingers basically what i do every time i do something on the qriket but yeah i'm just positioning it onto the mat you probably can't see that can you see that i'm positioning it on the mat anyway and i'm gonna give it a go this is the permanent vinyl so i need to make sure i don't actually use this on anything because we won't be able to get it off so so foreign all right so these are the decals i'm so happy with them they're the perfect size and they were relatively simple to cut and you know like weed and stuff they are time consuming but i feel like they're worth it and they're super cute and they're all like hand written i did them on my ipad so yeah i'm very happy with these i'm going to take these downstairs now someone can like measure them and have a look at them ready for putting them on the website i actually have my hair i promise i try and like contain the frizz but it's too humid and it's not working so i had some temporary decal like info cards and they were just printed on these pretty basic just colored paper that i had and it tells you how to use your decal so then you get it like in a little bag with this with the tester one and then go go for it like that however i feel like we need to level up these because they don't look that good so i'm either gonna print them on my big printer in color or i'm gonna order them as postcards so just as like the regular postcard i can like put a photo of a decal on the front and then on the back have the info i thought we need to get a bit more profesh you know like these were good for the first lap lot because i didn't know how well they'd go down but it's time for us to level up all right let's take these down let's see what mom thinks have a look at him then just hold him that's what i need today you've got this sticking to my head i don't think it'd come off i've had to do it on non-removable vinyl just to test it so don't risk that one thanks you're welcome thank you oh i try my best for god's sake do you like them i do love they're nice aren't they so good morning it's the next day i feel like i probably the last clip of this vlog was probably me sat on my floor in the office but here we are so today i'm doing more solemn firework i actually need to nip to the post office someone private messaged me on instagram saying that they run like um care package sort of things for people with terminal illnesses or just disabilities i couldn't i can't remember the full details but basically it was a lovely charity they package up boxes to make people smile and they asked if i had anything that i'd like to donate and i thought it was perfect because i've got all the extra stock from the first collection of cards that i want to go to a good home and i don't just want to put the recycle bin so what i've done is i've put the rest of the bundles in a box and i've put a selection of the old prints in there too and we're going to go to the post office and send these but i'm going to put the labels onto these cards i always stick the labels on my arm first so they're not too sticky so they don't ruin the card themselves but i always say take the sticker off as soon as you get them really because i mean we all know those cards that you get when the the sticker doesn't come off and it like rips the paper we don't want that so i am going to sit and put these stickers on a whole bunch of cards and then nip to the post office and i'm actually going to fresh prints who are printing or embroidering the new bags and i'm going to go and pick them up and i'm deciding whether they're releasing with everything else i showed you earlier in the vlog or if i'm gonna save them till like september because we have been a little bit pushed for time with these so i'm not sure how quickly we can get them done but ideally i would like them to launch now so i'm gonna go to fresh prince i'm gonna go to the post office and then we're gonna come back and get work done let's do this big old box ready to go these are those new boxes that i unboxed um a couple of vlogs ago they're perfect and hopefully the bags and everything if someone does a big order fits in here they are a lot to post because they go as like small parcels and if you know royal mail you know it's quite expensive so i feel like this especially because it's heavy we'll be surprised if this cost me like 15 quid to send we'll see but it's worth it so i'm glad they're going to a good home i also have some more parcels to collect that i think are waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs that my mom packed up so let's get that let's go with that let's go do that there they are if you were wondering which i'm sure you weren't that large parcel was like 2.4 kilograms i think and it was eight pounds so that wasn't actually as painful as i thought and i'm just glad they're going to a good home to be honest right we're now gonna go and collect the banks i'm very excited about it yeah it's it's like the same way okay we're back it's very rainy and gross outside it's not not the most pleasant of days but these are the bags so we've got three colors we've got this like mustard yellow color and this is the design on them i did film a little clip in the shop too how cute and then we've got this like sort of burnt orange burgundy ready color i think this is called like rust and then we also have this one which is like a sage green i love these so these are my sample ones so we can take photos with them we'll have to do that this weekend or early next week but i love them so much very very happy with these so i need to make the listings on the website for these it is a little bit last minute but i think i'm actually going to launch them with everything that's launching tonight um the first of july if you didn't already know i'm sure i've said it a lot in this vlog by now but i'm going to add them to the website and then we'll just do like a quick turnaround and hopefully hopefully they go down well i'm very excited so yeah i need to tidy my office say this a lot but i've made a mess i swear i come in here for like 10 minutes and i make a mess so i need to sort that out and then i've got a client job to do for my friend hannah so if you follow hannah she's fab han on everything she's doing like a dog harness business and she's actually asked me to do the repeatable patterns for the designs so i've already done four and now she wants me to do some variations of one of them so i just need to go back into the files edit them slightly and then send them back to us i'm gonna do that today too prep the website stuff um i actually need to use these i'm gonna make some mock-ups of these on illustrator or photoshop whichever because it's really hard to take photos of these and i don't have enough spots to take photos of them so i'm gonna use my photoshop skills and do that instead so let's get doing that um okay i am midway through doing hannah's pattern design i've just sent them off to her i'm now printing and cutting the prints that i'm gonna send off with these pr parcels i'm gonna actually get these parcels um packed up today hannah sending messages now um so i've printed off these so far so i actually want to do a new collection so this is like a minimal collection so muted colors monochrome vibes you know like something a little less vibrant than these ones so i've just printed this one off which is create your sunshine i'm doing them all as a five size because i feel like it's a lot easier to find a home for an a5 print so that's what we're doing now so i'm gonna do i'm just gonna chop these up then i think i'm gonna like lay out everything that i want and i'm hoping that my amazon delivery arrives soon because that vinyl that i needed yesterday should arrive and i need to cut a bunch of decals so that i can put those in the parcel too so i put the first parcel together i got really confused i couldn't work out how to pack everything up you'll see in that last clip i kind of stopped and i was like eh help but this is what we've got so far i'm just waiting on some flyers to show you like how to use the mirror decals they should arrive on monday but i've written a little card for everyone and then everyone's going to be like slightly different but they're all going to get a pencil case with this like seated card then this person has got all three notepads the pack of three notebooks a greeting card an a5 print and then some a4 prints in the back and this is because these guys told me they liked stationery this is fab and l they have a youtube channel it's all about like i i found them because they were moving house into a new build and now they just vlog their life and they're like a really fun couple i'm very much a fan girl so i'm very excited to send them these and ellen is actually a primary school teacher and fab works from home and they both said they like to list so that's why i've put a lot of like notebooky stuff in there so yeah i think this will work and i've just like test folded it up to make sure it'll fit through the post box which i think it does so what i'm gonna do now is like lay out everyone's card and then pair up products to suit that person rather than just like sending everyone the same thing you know i just need to not seal them yet because obviously i need the mirror decal things but i'm too impatient i want to do it now so let's do it but first barney minnie you're getting evicted you're in me way i just trap my finger in the drawer and i'm very sad about it oh god can you see that it's red ow that's not what i needed but i've put all the parcels out i might add a few bits in as i'm packaging them just see how much room is in the box it's basically but i've done one in fact i've done two i've got 11 to go it's actually kind of scary sending things out when they haven't ordered them i don't know obviously there's the thing of like i'm sending things to people for free which is scary as a business owner a very a very small business owner so that's daunting and obviously i'm sending it in the hopes that we'll get sales from it so let's see whether the cost of me sending these out and like the cost of the products is worth it you know like this is all the options i've got to weigh up and i appreciate even more so now brands that do gifted things it it is a lot like it's a lot to do and it's kind of nerve-wracking putting your trust in someone like that but yeah you just kind of got to do it and see what happens i guess i'm not going to know unless i give it a go so yeah i'm going to cue a time lapse again this video is a lot of time lapses and it's probably going to be the last one of the day so let's make it a good one i think i'm done we have a big old pile of boxes this actually doesn't look like that many but it took a lot of thought my brain power is dead it's now 7 p.m oh no wonder my brain's dead it's 7 p.m
um i need to hide in my office once again and i've actually still got a few things on my to-do list but to be honest i'm gonna take my laptop downstairs i'm gonna watch some trashy tv i'm sure and i'm gonna try and wind down a little bit but yeah thank you very much for watching this vlog i'm sure it's very rambly if you haven't already checked out the new products they are releasing at 6 p.m on the 1st of july so they might be up by the time you're watching this go over there and check it out i have limited stocks of everything but i never know how it's gonna go there might be loads left there might be none left we never know but yeah thank you very much for watching this video i hope you enjoyed it and i'll see you next time for another one bye you
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