Trying Gouache Painting & Small Business Haul Studio Vlog
morning welcome to a little studio blog so i've actually got quite a productive day today so i thought why not vlog it's currently half past 10 i've been doing some admin i've sent some emails scheduled for a parcel to be collected which was a whole itself and i think i've sussed that out i've got a note of things i need to do oh i can check off the parcel thing and first up i'm going to film a little giveaway mention thing for a video i think it'll have already gone up by the time this vlog goes up but i'm doing a few giveaways with craft label i did one recently and actually the winner filmed a little video of her opening the supplies and i thought it was so so nice so yeah that was really really cute to see so i'm doing another giveaway this month and then i'm doing a giveaway again next month so we're doing three in total which is amazing thank you craft label this isn't sponsored obviously but i'm just filming this content today so what i'm gonna do i have a box of things this time i asked for like cricuit related things these are all like mats or cutters or things so i'm gonna film this and slot it into a vlog the vlog is actually already filmed and ready to go this kind of came through last minute so i just need to take it off my channel add in this bit upload it again and then i think we're good to go um and then i've actually designed some new products i've got a little haul to show you i'm also getting my hair cut today i don't think i'm going to get like major differences i think i'm just going to get her to cut off the dead bits i think the very bottom of my hair still has like remnants of when i got it bleached so i think she'll probably just chop them off because i'm wanting to grow it so i can donate it whilst it's this long i might as well commit like fully commit rather than chopping it off again so we'll see what she says but first things first i need to film this little clip um so i need to get my other camera battery ready and get this done hopefully this won't take too long all right part one is filmed i think it's okay i always like to edit it pretty soon after i filmed it just in case i do anything wrong because usually you've got quite a lot of information to fit in not a very long amount of time so uh i now need to film a instagram story for them i think it's two stories or one story it's two stories uh so what i'm gonna do is film that quickly now and again it's me just showing the products and encouraging people to like go over to the video and watch it and because i've done it already before i'm kind of i kind of know what they like that's what's good about working with brands multiple times because you sort of get a feel for what they prove and what they don't like and for example craft label like pink and they want to be like short and snappy and like hit all the target points without rambling which i mean i have to i have to practice that you know but right i'm gonna film this little story clip i'm actually just going to film it fully on my phone because i find it easier to edit and then we'll take these over to my laptop edit them together see if they look alright and i'm going to send them to my manager asap what time is it now it's currently 10 to 11. i'm going to aim to have this sent to my manager by half 12. am i pushing my look possibly but we're going to give it a go i've just got a parcel this might be boring but i thought it was quite funny that says fragile it's a big old didn't in it no idea what this is but let's hope it's not broken why does it smell like paint what are you this could be something i've ordered and forgot about or it could be pr the mystery is forever unknown it's for me mom oh i can't show you it's a birthday present for my mum i can't show you that good little house moving box there all right back to work i feel like you know when i actually move i feel like it won't take long for like the delivery people to realize that i'm generally always home so i feel like i'm gonna be like the streets parcel person you know right let's do this also realize my phone's dying so i've had to charge that up so i'm gonna edit the youtube mention and then film the story it's now 10 to 12. took a lot longer than i thought actually i realized i needed to do some like cutaway bits so i made a mess down here film some cutaways then i needed to put it in instagram to put the captions and the hashtags and everything on and i think it's okay i've sent it to my manager now i'm gonna do a little haul so if you don't know this girl you need to but i've been following polly who runs sci for years now i think it was actually lucy wood who recommended me to her um her to me sorry the wrong way around and yeah i love all of her stuff i think she's so innovative and her products are so simple yet so like chic and just amazing so i'll leave her linked in the description but i have bought one of her bags her tote bags now this is what i sort of knew her as of from right at the beginning and i saw that she was bringing them out again and i wanted to support small business you know so i got the pocketed tote bag i'm so excited about this i use tote bags a lot more now especially when i'm like going to the post office i'm sure as i start having to do my own weekly shop and stuff i will get some really good use out of this but basically it's a tote bag with pockets you can't really see because it's black but there's like a pouch inside there's a little slot for your phone a little bit of elastic for your water bottle like she's just thought of everything and i love her branding and she's got her own little like office in manchester now with a little team i mean just look and look at what it says on it so cute and then just because i've always thought this would look really cute in a little frame i bought this which is a greeting card that says honey your home and it's gold foil and i thought i could frame this and put it in the new house i don't know i need to try and not lose this in the process but i think it's just super cute and i love her style so i got that too very excited about it i love supporting small businesses especially when they work so hard also did an asos order that arrived as i was editing i've had three parcels in the space of an hour i think i've got a problem but i've been designing things i actually have been working on some new like list pad things so i really want to do some a i was gonna say five it's not it's a six list pads so basically similar principle to these i just pointed my camera over there and then realized my dad's birthday present was there so basically i've now moved the present like this but a6 so it'd be a quarter of the size of this and also double the pages i'm thinking getting more pages i just think they're going to be so helpful especially like i have notes around all the time and i think it'll just be handy so i'm working on some new designs i don't know if i'm gonna stick with these ideas but these were what i came up with yesterday i did a lot of like test printing yesterday you can see like the thought process going on but i've got three designs so far so the first one i came up with was this it's the to-do list and it sort of resembles that paper you used to use at school you know like blue and red lines and it just says to-do list and make it happen and then obviously on the back of the cardboard i would stamp the soul and fire logo and then i've got note to self and originally i did write date up here but i thought like you could you could use it for whatever so like if you write a date or like a time limit or something and then just write notes to yourself and you could like stick them on your wall with some washi tape maybe washi tape is the next thing i do and then this one which is shopping list and i wanted to fit on quite a lot i wanted it to be a list that you would fit in your pocket you could pin it on your fridge with the magnets that we offer and you can take off your shopping list and obviously as i'm moving i'm gonna need to have things like this and i feel like this is something that i would use with a little feed the sole on the bottom i like the little phrases i cut this one wrong i cut them very one kit my guillotine let me know what you think of these i think i might order them i like the i like i like the colors a nice summary so this is like a yellow very soft yellow this is orange and this is like a very very pale blue it looks kind of white to be honest but it is blue so yeah i just think this would be cute maybe you could get it as a single or a little trio let me know i just printed them out on my big printer that printer by the way is the canon ip8750 i think i'll leave it linked in the description but i love that printer and it prints so clear that's what i used to print like my prints wow how many times in one sentence can i say the word print but yeah let me know so i'm thinking yeah like 100 pages you can like fasten it to your notice board with some magnets because we sell magnets as well and i feel like that could be a good little thing also i've ordered something else um i hope you like them because i've already ordered them but i've done some greeting cards again and it's been over a year since i did greeting cards because i i just couldn't find my mojo with designing them and i couldn't work out what i want to do and i was so indecisive and i didn't want to like alienate people but i think i've sussed it out this is the plan gold foil and they're actually square so i've got this one birthday card kind of unisex i guess then this one so the happy birthday and the top of the candles would be gold foil then this one so the ribbon the tag and these details on those three balloons would be gold foil then this one which i guess is just like a just because card so you send this to someone just because you're thinking of them or it could be like a valentine's day card or anniversary card and i actually got this idea because my boyfriend sent me a card that said you brightened my day um so i thought this was kind of cute and i liked the sunshine graphic it's just opened in photoshop and this one which is a new home card so the home sweet home would be in gold foil and everything else is in color then this one which i think is my favorite just with all these little graphics in the corner like loosely drawn flowers in different beautiful like springy colors and then the text would be in gold foil and then finally this one i actually i don't think i've ordered this one yet but i thought i could do like a mini set of cards with this kind of theme so bright and bold and just text driven rather than like illustration driven um i created this for a sponsored video that i'm doing soon but i think i'm going to order this because i do like it but so far so far i've ordered six foiled greeting cards greeting cards are expensive to buy if you're not buying like thousands they're expensive and they don't have the greatest like profit margin so greeting cards are definitely more of like a passion project rather than like the ultimate oh my god my business is going to thrive kind of thing because they the profits are very minimal but i just love them i think they're really cute i want to do like bundles um and i'm just going to keep developing new products as and when i'm feeling inspired at the beginning of this year i set myself a little goal of like releasing products every month i did that for three months and then very quickly realized that that wasn't the way to go it didn't allow me enough time to really dedicate to each month worth of products i think i was overloading people with products people would buy them and then within a couple of weeks there'd be more to buy and it's sort of i don't know i guess it just put people off i know a lot of small businesses at the minute are kind of struggling obviously the world's opening up so they've got other things to spend their money on um as in like our customers so buying yourself like a cute notebook isn't the top of the priority when you could go out for a beer with your pals you know so i want to try and focus on things that firstly make you happy so great in cars it's something that we're always gonna send i feel like greeting cards just have like a different vibe over like a whatsapp message or a text and then things that you would actually use day to day not that i mean like all my products are things that i think you're gonna use but i'm focusing even more on like the productive organization side of things so having these like notepads i think it's gonna be really really valuable so yeah let me know what you think i'm very excited i'm now i don't even know i've actually been trying to do um i was gonna say color blocking then i've been doing calendar blocking and it's actually going okay so far let me see what i'm supposed to be doing right now on my calendar so actually right now i'm supposed to be filming the mention which i've already done so that's great i'm ahead of schedule my hair appointment is at quarter to two i'm going to leave it about past one so i've got about an hour and 15 minutes so first up i'm going to tidy my office because i mean it just happens so quickly there's just stuff kind of littered everywhere so we're gonna tidy up then i guess we can design some new products i'm ahead of schedule i don't really know what to do with myself this never happens i guess this calendar blocking things actually working who'd have thought okay i've tied it up and i thought i'd show you what i was getting up to over the weekend so i decided i needed to do some like traditional artwork this camera is so white i know i'm pale but is that better still pale still match the wall but i actually got this book in tk maxx it was three pounds which is great i don't know what it retails for but turns out i actually follow this person on instagram jessica smith and i didn't even realize i didn't link the two together i just saw this book and it just caught my eye i mean it's very cute my boyfriend forced me to get it i was trying to resist because i was like no i don't need another book i'm not gonna do it but i've actually really enjoyed doing it i got these gouache paints as well from tk maxx and they were like very handily placed next to each other in the shop and i'm really enjoying myself i've tried obviously acrylic i've tried watercolor and i feel like gouache is like the perfect middle ground it explains it all in this book but yeah definitely check out emma on here not emma jessica sorry i followed a lot of her tutorials so i've done five i think and you basically just do projects and as you go the idea is you'll improve obviously with practice so the first time i ever used gouache i made this little um fruit and veg not my best work then i did this which was like a string bag i liked it before i put the blue over the top of everything and then i hated it i think i need some thinner paint brushes i think that's my issue then i did these little bottles i actually really like this at this point i was improving still looks a little bit like a five-year-old's done it but i will then i did this so we were doing like shading and stuff for someone who's so used to doing digital art it was fun and it was great not to have like my screens on and my laptop on all the time and then finally i think this is the last one yeah finally i did this and i think that is the best of all of them i mean i'm pretty impressed with myself because i'm not a traditional like artist i'm like i won't even class myself as a digital artist i'm more of a graphic designer out of anything but i like this i'm i'm happy with myself so yeah i'm gonna keep moving forward and this typo book came in useful i'm glad i bought this book like i always think it's a waste buying things but if it's going to give me the boost to actually try something new and create something then why not um as long as you're not obviously bankrupting yourself i think it's fine but yeah i've pretty much tied it up i still have some like house things at the bottom of the bed but i need a box for them so i'm just gonna leave them there i don't know what else to do now what time is it 20 past 12. i do have some tick tocks i should really edit i really want to get into tik tok but also i find it so unhealthy for my brain it's such a wormhole and i think i'm actively trying to avoid it for that reason so i don't know i don't know whether i should i definitely am missing out on a lot of like marketing opportunities and stuff by not using tick tock but then also i don't want to like add anything more to my plate because things are crazy as it is so i don't know oh i do have a logo design to do so i actually am accepting logo commissions as and when at the minute so if you email me i might be available i might not but it's worth emailing um and i can get back to you my auto response still does say that i'm unavailable but if i answer you you're in so yeah i'm gonna make some changes to that logo maybe i'll show you that before we uh head to the hairdressers i'm back do i look any different i mean the style of my hair looks way different actually styled it feels so much nicer so now we've officially got rid of all the blonde that i had if you watch me for a while in fact i'll insert a picture i had like gray and blonde hair maybe like two years ago and it's all grown out so now it's literally just brown and it feels so healthy i feel like i can't even remember what i'm up to with this video so whilst i've been at the hairdressers i've been having multiple conversations with my solicitors uh about the house purchase and it's been such a pain i have been filming like the whole house process from start to finish because i watched someone else do that and like right from the day they signed the reservation thing she filmed updates so i have done one of those videos for those of you asking me um my office is tidy i have a couple of things to review that my managers sent me oh that thing that i filmed earlier for the giveaway for craft label it's been approved we love it when a brand approves things quickly it's been approved they sent me the link and the hashtags that i need to add in so now i can just add it into that video i'll probably do that tonight actually and then we're all scheduled and ready to go so actually being a really productive day i'm in much better moods right before i left for the hairdressers it's such a good job i didn't vlog for this uh studio vlog because i was so angry at my solicitors like it's just it's a story for another day but oh i understand and this has not even been like the most stressful experience i'm sure how house buying gets worse or could be worse but i just get it i get why people just don't do it very often but i think we're nearly there i'm very excited all right i'm going to end the vlog here because i don't have anything else exciting to tell you i'm just going to be on my laptop for maybe the next hour and then i'm going to clock off and then i might play some animal crossing sounds good to me all right thanks for watching this vlog i hope you've enjoyed it and i'll see you next time for another one don't forget to tell me what you thought about those products too bye
2021-06-05 09:30
