hello good morning welcome to what is hopefully going to be a exciting festive and productive
studio blog so today i'm actually launching some products it's very last minute if you
follow me on my instagram or if you follow my shop on instagram you'll know if you don't make
sure you do because that's where i update things like more frequently and like more up to date but
basically i was waiting for my new coloring books to arrive and they didn't arrive when
i wanted them to so i in the last vlog was gonna delay it and not do them basically until new year
however they arrived so with much persuasion from you guys i've decided to actually launch them so
basically i've had two days to prep them tonight's the launch at 6 00 p.m
and we're gonna just see how it goes i can't imagine i'm gonna vlog too much because i still
do have quite a lot of stuff to do i've not fully prepped everything yet like i've got to put the
listings on their website which check the prices i've got to weigh everything i've got to just
do all the boring admin stuff so we're going to do that the other day we did
our christmas decorations so i will slot those in here hello welcome to the bathroom why am
i starting a vlog in the bathroom um i don't want to get too close to my face it's sunday
and we went to a family party last night and it was merry and then i slept on an airbed so
i feel a bit rough this morning uh look a little bit rough this morning but it is the day we're
putting up our christmas tree i don't know if we're gonna do all the decorations today and but
i definitely want to do the tree because i'm like itching to do it obviously it's our first tree
as a couple in our house and yeah we've got loads of bits for it we've got loads of lights for it so
that's what we're gonna do i think it's about half three and it's taken us this long i've just had a
nap it's been one of those days but obviously i had to vlog it the first christmas in the house
and i'm wearing festive red because all my actual christmas jumpers are still at my parents house so
let's do this and are you going to promise that you're not going to eat the christmas tree oh of
course we're not going in there of course come on right i have a very important thing to say to you
do you gus gus yes you couscous do you guys cause promise not to eat or climb
or scratch or destroy the tree hey look at me when i'm talking to you
excuse me hello do you promise oh i don't think that's a yes
oh let's talk tree placement so this is our living room you've seen it before uh and i'm
gonna put the christmas tree there this is where i envisioned it when we came to view the house
when i was doing all the designs for the house i have like 3d designs of every room because i am
insane and it goes there and i think it looks cute because you can see when you walk past
you can see it out the window all that stuff so i'm going to clear this up my boyfriend's just
getting boxes out the shed and oh yeah and my plant is getting a new leaf so i must be doing
something right this is one of the few plants that doesn't have little teeth marks in it from gus
like this one this one's seen better days there's loads of missing ends from a certain
someone trying to eat it this is why we don't trust him in here by himself now we don't want
to get rid of this light we still need it i might have to put on the windowsill down the other side
yeah i've got like a timer and stuff so i can put the tree lights on a timer
do you know those um like tick tocks and wheels where people like throw in a bauble grenade
and then boom it's christmas i'm trying to do the first clip for that but every time i throw
the ball ball gus chases it so he might just have to get blown up with the christmas bauble
i've just remembered we've got something that can get gus into the christmas spirit
yeah are you excited
are you ready what's this
it's a christmas color what's good what's this can we swap your collar over let me get this one
ready christmas look at that distinguished gentleman
ready for christmas
so
look at how magical this is so this is 37 and a half meters worth of lights on a 7.8 foot
tree i think it is and it's so beautiful it literally looks like it's sparkling
i always say go excessive with the lights so we've just gone to get the plug the smart plug so we can
get it to turn on with everything else and then we'll push it back into place we did have the
tree skirt it turns out it doesn't fit it's too small but i'm gonna see if my dad can like cut it
or something and hopefully we can figure that out but i'm so obsessed with this how cute also we've
got some really cute photos of gus under the tree he has been a little bit of a terror with the tree
but we don't ever leave him in the living room by himself anyway in fact we don't leave him in
any room by himself because he choose things so yeah he keeps knocking the baubles off but we'll
let him off he's cute right now i've just finished creating some mock-ups for the prince and i've got
a list let's read the list it's really cold in my office i can't seem to warm up i might have to go
and get my dressing gown i'm more presentable for the vlog uh but i might have to put my dressing
gown on so we've got edit photos which i did last night i had my mum around yesterday helping
with the photos schedule emails create listings finalize the prints i've done that i can check
that off make print mock-ups done that as well schedule instagram posts weigh the coloring books
check packaging count the stock and close the website so my boyfriend's hoovering if you didn't
know i usually close the store a couple of hours before the launch so that i can change everything
make it public for just me so i can check it before like the whole world can see it because
obviously i don't want things to publish wrong or the prices to be wrong or anything because
it's just gonna create a whole lot of work which i don't i don't think it's gonna be fun so that's
the plan i definitely need to go and get a hoodie or something i hope you're all feeling festive
so it's a festive slash worky vlog and we actually still do have some more christmas decorations to
put up so you'll see more christmas as we move forward which i'm excited about it looks so cute
i'm now gonna do a stock count uh which is always my least favorite task i always put it off
but it actually in reality it doesn't actually take that long i usually get my mom to do this job
uh but she's not here so i'm gonna have to do it myself the struggle is real i've got piece paper
i need a pen and we're gonna count all the new stock and then selective parts of existing stock
just to make sure that all the amounts on the website are right i get really paranoid about
by accidentally selling more than i have so i check it probably more than i should but i'd
rather be safe than sorry these are all the new planners these two shelves the weekly ones so i'm
gonna count these the daily planners and then just double check everything else like i said
these are still one of my favorite things i've made they're screen printed pencil
cases and they're so roomy you can fit so much in these so these will obviously
be on the website ready for the update they've also all got plentiful tags so
these are all seeded which means um once you've taken it off you can put
it in a pot with some water and it will grow some wildflowers which is very cute
so
so i haven't shown you the coloring box they are in here and these are the only ones i ordered so
as you can see very limited stock i'm not really sure what the interest will be
so if you want one obviously get one as soon as you can this one's mine so i need to count these
and just check that they're okay there might be a few seconds but we'll figure that out
this is the coloring book it says maybe swearing will help why are they cleaning the road
right as i decided to vlog go away anyway so it features 12 sweary scribbles so if
you want a lot of steam i personally love coloring and i thought i'd combine it with
the art of swearing and voila we have a sweary coloring book so yeah there's 12 different
um they're not patterns pages in there and they all feature different swear
phrases i actually asked on instagram for the phrases so if you suggested any
yours might be in here and yeah the quality of the paper is really nice there's a little
message at the back which my mum found hilarious so i'll leave that like as a surprise and yeah
there's just loads of different it's really hard to flick by loads of different pages for you to
enjoy coloring in so hopefully that's cathartic for some of you guys if you like it i'm actually
really happy with how these turned out they did give me a little bit of headache especially whilst
waiting for them to be printed but we got there in the end and i think they turned out really cute
it is three minutes to six and i did that typical thing of starting one job which created like four
different jobs so i've just finished at three minutes to six this is why i don't like doing
lunches so last minute um although i say that i'm this like stressed every time so it's probably
no different to be fair i just haven't like lengthened the stress over like a week it's
been two days instead but i'm about to press live on the shop i might just check everything's going
all right for like 10 15 minutes and i think i'm gonna close my laptop and just leave it so i don't
you know overthink it and get disheartened if it doesn't go as well as planned but we will see
and before we end this vlog i just wanted to show you the christmas decorations this is them
in the daylight if you want to see them at night time i'll put some little clips on my instagram
but yeah i'm obsessed with it the house feels so cozy and i'm just in the christmas spirit so
yeah thank you so much for watching this video i hope you enjoyed it and
me and gus we'll see you next time bye
you