Small Business Day + HOMEWARE HAUL Studio Vlog
morning let's just oh open the blinds so i am at the peak of stress today i've taken on probably a bit too much and i'm so excited for the weekend but we're here we're gonna get it done so oh also i have this new top on which i thought was really cute it's from boohoo um so i'm actually finishing up a big brand job for a tutorial it's not going up on my channel or anything but when it's live i'll share it with you and it's taken me so much longer than i thought and i stupidly left it rather last minute i think i've been doubting myself so i had like avoided starting and now that i've started i've realized it's actually quite a lot to do and the deadline is tomorrow so and it's really not like me to do this like ask any of my uni pals i was that person who got her work done like at least a week early so this not ideal but uh yeah i'm just about to finish not finished i'm just about to record the audio for that video mum is downstairs it's thursday and she's packing up products so i'll go and briefly say hi to her in a second i have just been downstairs and then i'm gonna design new products i'm actually looking into doing like influencer marketing for soul and fire so i basically want to send out gifted parcels to some of my friends in the hopes that they would share them on social media but with no obligations so i i want to put like a pdf thing together of like pictures of what the new products are and then ask people if they're willing to like gift them you know not gift them be gifted them so i'm gonna do that and i actually also have i don't know if it's a podcast i don't think it's technically a podcast but i have like a recording to do it's like a panel i'm a member on a panel it's all about how brands can deal better with influencers so obviously i'm representing the influencer side of things and it's very very last minute we had like a pre-recording chat on monday no it was on monday on tuesday morning and then we're filming it today at three so i need to keep my mic out and i need to be set up and looking nice so yeah i've got my makeup on i actually also need to film a clip of my face for this brand video so yeah my head's just all over the place but we're making progress with these products in fact let me go and show you these i've literally only just walked up here my mom's gonna be like why are you back already not done it that quickly but as soon as i've started vlogging let's go down and show you so this is mum's handiwork so far if you remember my previous vlog i ended up in bed with a migraine so she did all of this whilst i was sleeping it off last week and then we ran out of the cellos so i ordered the cellos again and we got them and here's your little setup are you bored of doing this yet no i like tedious jobs you do quite like jobs like this don't you to be fair i do because it doesn't take much brain power you just kind of do it on repeat so yeah jobs like this are actually quite good to do so yeah she's nearly done these are last boxes remember those labels i showed you last week they've arrived so these are those plantable labels she's going to hole punch the top and these are going on those pouches which have yet to arrive i've still been waiting for the printers but yeah they've turned out really really nice and this writing on it isn't too small i was quite worried about it being hard to read but yeah we've got a big old stack of these which i'm very excited about you're very noisy sorry but yeah i am going to lock myself in my office for an hour mom's got subtitles to write for my blog um and i set her a big old list of things to do because i knew that i was going to have a busy day today and i can't like be sat like over overseeing everything but i trust her she's worked with me for long enough now so back to it i need to plug my mic in and just get this audio recorded i'm just stressed about it i don't know why sometimes i think it's because i know it's not going up on my channel so i'm almost giving away some of the control and then that freaks me out because i feel like i'm not good enough for it weird logic because there's a reason these people have chosen me to make this tutorial but doesn't stop the imposter syndrome you know right let's get this set up and hopefully won't take too long okay we can do this i am a strong independent businesswoman i can do this why am i so nervous about this i don't know i literally do this a lot oh okay this the right microphone we've got a good angle let's take a look at the design brief so we are fiori hello bonjour hello my name is alice i think i think that video is done it's really zapped all my energy not gonna lie um i'm glad i'm wearing colorful clothes today because at least that's bright and fun you know i'm now just about to set up my zoom i'm actually gonna attempt to plug my mic into zoom because they want it like obviously really good audio so i'm presuming this works we'll see i'm gonna attempt to use my wireless little earphones i've got so i can hear them but the mic can't hear them you know so the mic can only hear me not sure how this will work but we're giving it a go probably need to put some powder on my face because i'm a bit shiny and i spill orange juice on my sleeve as i was walking upstairs but we're having a good day so wish me luck and actually in a bit me and mum are gonna go and stalk the house because i've not been for a while and my neighbor actually sent or my soon-to-be neighbor sent me a photo of the front of the house because she got really close to it yesterday so i was like i'm jealous i want to get close so i'm going to hope that i get as close because there's obviously like the fences in the way so it's been tricky but yeah i'm gonna go powder my face it feels weird having my vlog camera in my bedroom i very rarely have you guys in here now i'm getting much better at like separating work from like general life also thoughts i'm torn whether to start a vlog channel or not i was swaying towards yes really heavily at first probably a couple of months ago thinking about it and then i had a moment recently of like but i don't want the whole responsibility of another channel and i don't like obviously i've built up this channel a lot and it's like starting fresh which is obviously quite scary so i've had a lot of thoughts going around in my head about whether to start a vlog channel so i'd love to hear your opinion there's like pros and cons to both pros of having it on the same channel obviously there's only one to look after i've already got numbers and audience on this channel etc however most people that watch these videos on this channel have come from like some sort of creative designing background whereas the vlogs are going to be like lifestyle me tidying my kitchen organizing redecorating the rooms so i think it could very easily alienate a lot of people i'm just thinking out loud here so i don't know this is the process that's been going on in my brain i do have the vlog channel made um and you can subscribe to it if you would like i'm sure i will come to a decision soon i mean i've got to i'm moving house soon and i want to film the process and i do kind of miss those like chill vlogs if you follow me right from uni you'll know that i had a vlog channel then and i literally just vlogged anything and everything and it was so fun it was just like a visual diary to look back on so today i am swaying to having a vlog channel however it will probably be a different story tomorrow and the day after i keep switching between the two so i love your opinion also cut my plants this one needs a stick in it because it's got too heavy for itself but look at how many new leaves have come out of here so i called this plant polly i got her in july last year and she's thriving so much so that that many new leaves have come out of this stalk it's too heavy so i'm gonna like get like a cane or something and poke it in there and then i got this one which i called perry this is a new leaf that's just unfolded and then there's another one here look very happy plant mum but yeah oh and then i've also got this i've got this little guy it's not even little anymore this started like in one of those little tiny ikea style pots and now it's huge it's got watermarks on it though i need to like clean it or dust it all i don't know but look at me being a successful plant mum see these are the kind of random things i want to vlog on a vlog channel and i think i miss it so let me know it has been a whole week since i last picked up this vlog you know what we're just taking it chill these days vlogs are just what they're gonna be so today is once again thursday and i'm in my comfy's as well like this is different as always cycling shorts and a long old top and we've got a long busy day of work again i actually have a big package of boxes that got delivered i need to check whether they fit the new products in that's one thing that i always kind of forget about when i'm designing new things i need to like consider how we're going to send them to people so in theory these boxes are like the same size as my a4 boxes but deeper so we'll see i'm going to open them in a little bit i'm also doing a little flash sale tomorrow on the website so i want to make sure everything's ready for that so i'll show you how i'm setting up i'm gonna send emails i sent an email last night to people who subscribed to my shop updates and just letting them know that friday is the day and then i'll send an email on friday morning and then friday evening just to remind them that it's going to run out soon so hopefully that kind of drives some sales we're just trying to clear out old stock so we've got more room for the new stock because i mean you can see i don't have much storage and obviously everyone loves a sale so hopefully it goes down well and yeah we're taking photos of the new products today i chased up the like pencil case things because i've not heard anything and apparently they're letting me know so i need to chase them up and oh actually i can share with you another little giveaway with craft labels so let me just grab the bit oh god i wish i wish i had a bigger room not long now hopefully so if you've been watching my vlogs over the past couple months you'll know that i've been working with craft label on some giveaways craft label is a website that offers a whole bunch of different things they're actually selling the new cricut machines um if you didn't know cricut have upgraded their cutters so they've got their new machines on craft label there's a whole host of like it's like arts and crafts it's just like a hub of creative things like card making scrapbooking all that stuff really really well priced and they've actually given me a bunch of things that you guys can enter to win so i want you to comment down below with the hashtag craft label creates and then in a week i will pick a winner i'll get in touch with you and you will receive this parcel so yeah with your comment leave like your instagram handle or twitter handle or something so we can get in touch with you we have this cricut multi set of gold pens so you can draw with your cricut and these are all like different sized nibs also have another cricut thing which is a huge stack of paper there's quite a few different colors in here i don't know if you can see that but this is the cricut cardstock bulk 12 inch by 24 inch sampler in the color sorbet obviously really good if you're doing like a longer project then we have some shaped gems so card making scrap booking all that fun stuff we have a cutting mat and knife set i love this like it comes together this is the kind of thing i need ages ago i was looking for a knife and like how do you even buy one of those things how do you know what's good the fact this comes together is great and then finally we've got a4 double-sided glitter card i love this stuff so if you're making like cake toppers or bunting or something you could use this and again there's lots of colors in there so yes if you would like to be in with a chance of winning these products comment with the hashtag in the comments of this video and i will pick someone out within the next week and yeah thank you very much craft label definitely make sure to check them out they like i said have a lot so um you can spend a good hour or so on there scrolling i know i did so yes right in fact i might open these boxes i keep putting it off because it just seems like a big test doesn't it but basically all i want to know is if these are gonna fit both the pencil case and i've actually placed my order for some tote bags i don't think i've shown you the the design for those so maybe i'll show you that today too let me get some scissors still obsessed with these like retro-esque typo scissors who remembers that huge typo haul i keep getting their newsletter and i'm really resisting doing another one i don't need to do another one but i just love stationery come on there we go okay all right it's looking it's looking hopeful so far i don't have the room for this help you're on the floor with all the craft label stuff oh [ __ ] let's try and figure this out do you know what would be great if they came with like instructions on how to build them in that i'm gonna take one of these downstairs to my mum and just see if she can fold them because she doesn't have the best time i'm trying to fold the boxes we have i have a hunch i've folded it backwards yeah i'm talking about you i can't do it well i've never done it and the test is is this fit yes i measured it right she fits i've just come down to our second office and mom's collecting props what else have you got magnets magnet i think i've done you think you've done she's definitely going to collect more as we go she'll probably make a cup of coffee or something oh you've already made a cold cup of coffee yeah nobody knows it's cold they do now and then we've got the photo box up as always this was from amazon and it's actually really simple to set up so yeah this is so what we can take product photos i will leave it linked and then this is my spot where i work oh and also this is my new barbecue pizza oven thing where's this from lidl no yes lidl 35 pound yes amazing so um i've got a barbecue pizza box before i have the barbecue but let's just ignore that because you can't say no for 35 quid you know we've got teamwork going on because mum's trying to fit this very curled paper into the cube you've done it it's got creases in it oh that see that looks nice that paper's literally bang on by its eyes yeah look at that we've been doing a lot and as you've seen it mum's been taking lots of photos so i'm going to edit them later we've got some cards out and we're gonna bundle them up and sell them in little packs of six um and then once the sale is done that's it you can't get them anymore so um yeah i don't know i'm saying this on here because it's already happened by the time you're watching this vlog but this is the behind the scenes so um yeah i want to show you the tote bags that i'm going to order or i kind of i've ordered the samples i just want to show you them because i'm really happy with them and i've seen the bag themselves i just haven't seen the embroidery on them yet so i don't know i think they're cool home haul mum's still working in the background so just ignore her um oh my god i'm getting weird flashbacks of when who remembers if you've watched me for a while when i sat down here and did a haul for my uni house oh that's a long time ago that's six years ago mum's just called me an old thing that's not very nice right so these are so random i've got a lot of stuff packed up already um which obviously i'll show you when we're in but first things first very exciting i have this which is a roll of sticky plastic stuff to protect my carpets so that when we move in and we're going in and out they're not going to get dirty so yeah super exciting i think it was like 16 pound for 50 meters of the stuff from ebay there's no no theme actually no i have a bit of a theme got these christmas tree bunting because it's one of the first occasions that we'll be able to celebrate in the new house and i also got this both from the same etsy shop i thought this was so cute i'm trying to collect classy christmas decorations then totally boring again washing line so it's a double washing line that retracts so dad you can put that up for me yeah if i put it all we all know it will fall down then i have this bag which is full of pegs for said washing line i got wooden pegs because i thought i'll try and be a bit eco um and they were really cheap so i got them also found this in tk maxx the other day it's a sink tidy so it like suction cups to the side of your sink and you can put like your brush your sponge and like a cloth there and i thought this was just gonna look alright and our sink is actually black so i liked it i have this huge box of um it's like glass tupperware so it's tupperwear you can put in the microwave or in the oven or whatever there's two sizes so there's like a smaller size and then a big size and we've got 10 all together so five of each size because there's going to be two of us and we want to like cook for four every time we cook so we figured obviously we want to freeze them and then we can just put them straight in the oven in that dish whilst we're in the kitchen we went into asda for something completely unrelated and found these so these are plastic like food storage jars and they've got like wooden lids i like that they're plastic because then we can't accidentally break them i mean we could probably break them but it wouldn't hurt anyone and then a tall one so i've got two tall ones how many little ones two little ones of these these were like i don't know 2.50 3 pound 50 or something and then two of these which are like killnar jars sort of with a wooden lid and a little like chalkboard thing with the chalk um we don't know what they're gonna go we don't know what they're gonna go we don't know what we're gonna use these for the only one i actually wanted was this for spaghetti but then my boyfriend was like i want all of them so we got all of them a couple more things these last three bits were all from jysk or jusk i'm not sure how you pronounce it um but i've not been in there for ages and it was so good so this is really weird but we both liked it so it's a concrete head i think someone on instagram named him rick and i quite liked that rick the rock i'm glad you were as amused as i was rick the rock don't you think it's a great name tickle the now rick the rock so then also from juice also from jisc or jysk is this vase and again well and again we didn't know which one to get so we got one in each color there was also like a gray colored one what we got the green and like the like amber glass one so that's our home haul um one day i'll show you the pile of boxes that already exist in my dad's garage which he's not happy about but they're not going to know what to do with themselves when i move out because i have so much more room oh mums just pass me these i got these from tk maxx the other day too just a little like for dips or whatever cute now i need to go and get a box out of the garage i also have a lot of like flat pack boxes in the garage ready i'm gonna put these in that box but yeah that's i guess that's the end of the vlog i'm gonna put on instagram that my new video is up mum is almost finished with these um and then we just need to add them to the website and then we're sorted so probably another hour's work and then i need to chill because my brain hurts but yes i hope you're excited for the new products thank you for watching as always and i'll see you next time for another one
2021-06-27 00:59
