here is our halloween house tour it's been 52 days we're very settled it feels amazing
who knew rattleton this exciting hello good morning welcome to a daily vlog day in the life
i think we're back to like normal programming right now because we're fully unpacked and
everything's sorted as much as it can be thought i guess at this point we've been in the house
for like 52 days like the countdown time on my phone is now counting back up so it's been 52 days
we're very settled it feels amazing and yeah i'm just feeling really comfortable it's really nice
today i've got a full day in the office it's just past 10 i think it's like half past 10 i've been
doing some emails the boring admin stuff today i am designing some more designs for my friend
hannah if you didn't know i designed some like patterns like repeatable patterns for
her harness business so i thought i'd show you sort of how they look on my computer and then
obviously i'll show you the finished result on hannah's website um it's called sunnyside and it's
so cute also what else am i doing today i'm doing a custom uh a3 art print for a viewer a lovely
girl called holly contacted me and wanted a quote on a particular background and she's trusting me
with the job the email and the messages she sent me were very cute i'm really happy about
doing that i'm excited to get creative we've got a lot of design work to do today which i'm really
happy about i'm actually feeling really motivated i think the office really helps having everything
organized helps a lot we've got a busy day ahead i'm looking forward to it oh and our gusto box is
arriving today and i've recently got my mum and dad into it so we will be making a gusto later
okay i've done hannah's designs i actually was only gonna do one of them but i got on
a roll so i've done all three they're only first drafts so i will be speaking to her
again on wednesday to get her to like review them and make any changes and stuff there's usually
like maybe like three rounds of changes so we're pretty on the same page which is good now i've got
some boxes arrived not an ad i just love gusting so i thought i'd show you what we got because
this is the highlight of my week every week at this point who knew rattleton was this exciting
so these are the meals we have i love how they're packaged as well so we've got this one
this one this one and this one each thing has a number
so these are all the ingredients that can sort of stay
out like they don't need to go in the fridge and then this thing
is the very clever method of keeping things cold so it's actually just a cardboard box
and these are cardboard well paper ice bags ice packs so you just like chop the corner off them
put them in the sink and then they drain and then this is like the meat and the stuff for the fridge
and all that jazz so i'm gonna empty this now and we've got like
some canned stuff this week and some herbs yeah right i'm gonna put this away
um i've also got the code so you get 60 off your first box and 30 off
your boxes for the rest of the month so that's what my parents have signed up for um so i'll put
my code on screen and then i get credit as well so you get some cheap food and i get cheap food
it's a win-win right i'm gonna make some lunch and i never know what to eat for lunch i always
end up snacking i think i might make some like a wrap or something but i don't have any lettuce
i've got ham cheese and that's about it and yogurts we do buy stuff but i just i'm not a lunch
person so i never ever eat it so we've sort of stopped buying lunches for me because it goes to
waste so like we can't really buy like lettuce and all that stuff because i don't eat it fast enough
so i don't know what am i gonna have let's make a random concoction like we don't even have any
crisps i could have a crisp sandwich that's my salesy i could have soup soup's an option
so in this cupboard this is our like pantry cupboard i might have we've got tomato and cherry
soup from lidl i could have this and some bread i thought that's a wise decision do you warm up your
soup in the microwave or on the hub i wore mine up in the microwave because it's quicker and i'm lazy
top tip we actually paid extra for a plug socket in this cupboard because this was just like a
normal cupboard but we wanted to sort of hide the microwave links i don't really know where the
microwave would go like it might go in that corner or that corner but we didn't want to like clutter
the sides up so before the house was even built we'd sort of decided we wanted the microwave up
here my boyfriend is six foot four so it's perfect for him and i can use it fine the only thing i
don't like lifting out of it is soup so i've got a little step stool to get soup out because
obviously i'm scared a bit tipping on me because it is quite tall but this is great and we just
leave the door open when it's on and i try my best not to headbutt it because look it's literally
prime position for me to get a massive bruise on my head
a true culinary masterpiece there's a spider on the tablecloth
what do i do about this i don't have anything to get it
got it it says i'm not a strong independent woman
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as promised i thought i'd show you the behind the scenes of these patterns or this pattern design
so as you can see hans had them made into dog harnesses bows colors poo bags and a lead and they
look so cute so this is the christmas collection she's got so many different ones on her page
like this is her instagram if you want to check her out and she's got so many cute doggy models
but yeah this was another one another firm favorite the autumn one little hedgehogs
so yeah i've worked with han right from the start very honored to be doing it
um the cable knit connection is also adorable so we did the cable knit in a bunch of colors
but i thought it was quite interesting to show you the christmas one because that's quite relevant so
let me just open the file so this is the christmas pattern so this is on the right
the pattern that you see on the harnesses now as always design credit to han she was the one who
came up with the ideas i just put them together and sort of make them real like she tells me what
she wants and i make it so i just love the colors of this i think it's so festive not garish in the
slightest just really cute basically i mean i have made a video showing you how to make repeatable
patterns in illustrator so i will link that um if i forget to link it it is on my second like
design channel but this is what it all comes from so if i hover over these you can't really see but
it's coming up with like a pink outline when i'm going over things so everything in here is its own
element and basically all i did was move them all around to fit so i've got a square it can be any
size as long as it's perfectly square and then you put your elements in and just arrange them in this
case i actually didn't overlap any over the edges i didn't need to it worked quite well but in some
cases when you design repeating patterns perfect example is the new design that i did earlier in
this vlog if you overlap it on this side you also need to make sure you also need to make sure you
overlap it on the other side so you have to like match it up this is really hard to do with one
hand this tile then gets turned into a pattern so if i highlight it all so then we go up into object
pattern and make and then you can see it's showing us an example so this is in a three by three grid
so there's one two three up and one two three down and it shows you sort of how it works
um as a pattern that's sort of the basics of it again we have the same for the cable net
so the cable knit pink this is the pattern once it's been repeated and then this is
the individual element by itself and it's all vector so it can be as big or as small as you
want and it won't get pixelated so there we go it is a few days later i was working on the coloring
book which you'll have seen i'll show you sort of how it's looking towards the end of this video
but it is almost halloween so we're gonna decorate the house
we have a bunch of halloween stuff up already but i was sort of holding off on like the big
stuff we've got like balloon little banner things we're basically having a halloween house warming
i'm very excited about it and i love halloween it's one of my favorite
like celebrations that on bonfire night and of course christmas but that goes without saying so
we're decking out the house i've just been to home bargains and got some more bits so we're gonna
deck out the house basically let me show you what i've got we've got a whole bunch of stuff i got
these from asda the other week with the cups two and my mum actually went to hamburg and didn't
realize i had cups and bought those cups and paper plates but obviously these will be helpful
for any occasion because they're not branded or anything i also have like a cobweb tablecloth
and then i bought this mat to get underneath it just in case anyone spills anything on the table
got this ages ago this week like moved house with us i've had this a while and we've got some of
that like weird gauze stuff that i'd like to put on the stairs so we're gonna try and do that later
we've got this banner which i've again had for ages so we actually have three balloon
signs um i might not use all of them but they're great anyway and in home bargains just now
i got us beer pong some eyeballs because i thought we could make like a punch and put those in it
and then some sweets for the trick-or-treaters of course i got my favorite wheat picks
got this from home bargains just now it's like suction cups to your window and then also these
paper straws these are like hp and i just thought they were cute so we're all decked out i'm very
excited about it oh and i've also got a giant spider thing somewhere oh wait there's more
around here so this is our corner of things that we can't do anything with yet so in here we have
two towels which i bought from tk maxx way before we moved house cobweb giant spiderweb from asda
um these are halloween decorations that i've made over the years my mum passed them back to me and
there's some more in there the same ghosts and also some pumpkins and then this giant spider it's
basically got like tinsel legs and then a big like fold out body because my parents have one of these
in their house and i was very jealous of it turns out they've actually given me theirs so now we
have two giant spiders so i hope you're ready for some halloween fun because i am pausing decorating
just to show you a couple of things that have just come through the post so i actually have been
trying alive this is not sponsored or anything um it's basically like tailored uh supplements during
like rather than taking like loads of different i don't know like vitamin b's and all this stuff
um i had a quick google and found this company called alive and i tried out the first month
i think it's like 12 pound a month maybe and when you work out what's in it compared to how much
that would cost you to buy like each individual tube plus well not tube like packing of capsules
plus i would never remember to take medicine if it was like a lot of effort so basically
with these they do smell a bit funky and they are huge tablets they're not huge but
basically in these it's been tailored to what i wanted you can like click on the website
you take two every morning with breakfast and that's it and i've actually stuck to it which is a
pretty good miracle for me because i'm rubbish at remembering to take things like that
i've also signed up for the skin and me trial i keep seeing influences and people talking about
it so i thought i'd give it a go so i put in there it's basically like a prescription
thing for your skin to clear your skin because as i'm sure you can tell my skin isn't the best
so it's something i've always wanted to deal with and these
little things give you just the right amount of medicine of cream so i'm excited to try
this they gave me like a nice cinnamide one and then a tailored one so i've got two of these and
i love it i think it's great friendly recyclable very happy about that so obviously i've not tried
these yeah i'm literally opening them right now so i'll let you know how i get on i think
just adding something like this into your skincare routine should be really easy no idea what this is
oh not as exciting it's a pop socket because i've just got my new phone it's the iphone 13.
really liking it so far um so obviously i need a new case and a new pop socket so
that is my little haul let's continue decorating we have a spider half done we've got this like
sheet thing which is molted everywhere for on the stairs so we're going to attempt to put
this up i've got these out these are cable tidies velcro ones i thought this could work we'll see
so
so here is our halloween house tour so we've got one of those tea towels up on the oven
and we've also got pumpkins like pop pumpkins these were from wilco a couple years ago but
i think they still sell them and then obviously the main attraction is this huge spider i think
this was from tesco like 10 years ago my parents have had it for ages and i love
it i think it's great it's just literally blue tacked up every so often the legs do fall down
but it's no problem to stick them back up and then obviously i've looped it around this light
don't worry that light is led it shouldn't get too hot if it does we'll just turn it off make
it mood light in we've also got these lights here i think i got these from the range i can't really
remember i got them a while ago um and they're all halloween colors they look really cool at night
so we'll probably rearrange those we got those out to film a little halloween reel let me just show
you the hallway let's just pretend my coat isn't hanging there but this is how that sort of weird
netting stuff looks it molted so much and every time we walk past it basically it knocks stuff off
but it's only up for a few days so it should be okay this is the spider we got the other day
i think this was from like home bargains annoyingly only came with four legs
which makes no sense so i had to chop those in half and then stick them back on
so i sort of diy'd it it's not quite as elaborate as the other ones i'm actually really glad my
parents ended up giving me the other one then this little sign i can't even remember i got this and
then of course you saw us put these up um we've had some things up for a while like i said so
we've got this table runner uh this candle tk max it smells so nice and then these skeleton
lights we've had up for a couple weeks these were from the range and i just love them and they fit
perfectly under there so that's been my little halloween touch for a while uh yeah i think this
is it we also have like i've not fully stuck up these oh hang on there's some of these in the
downstairs toilet i'll show you those in a sec and i also don't know where to put these so i might
ask my mum for an opinion because we couldn't figure that out and then in the downstairs toilet
we've got another one of those tea towels we've got this one it's not a tea towel it's like a bath
towel and then i've put this spider everything up just sort of hooked it on with command hooks and
used the nail from behind that and then wedged it behind there and then these are the other
ghosts which i need to pin up they're a tiny bit too long for this but i think i might like
just pin them up anyway because i think they look cute and i don't want them to go to waste so that
is us so far i almost forgot as well on our windowsill we've got this spider this is like a
steel heavy like cast iron whatever it is i don't know it's heavy we got it from a shop in whitby
maybe i can't remember where um and then we also got this from the same shop or these um skeletons
which we love i think these are my favorite part actually so yeah that's our halloween decorations
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