Hello my loves and welcome back. Today we are picking up exactly where we left off in the last
video. So if you haven't seen that, I will leave it linked here. But that was; how I redecorated
this room to be more peaceful, more productive, more aesthetic. Mainly a bit more practical. So
today, that's what we're gonna be exploring a bit more; how I have stored all of my art supplies,
my stationery and my filming supplies, in ways that are both practical and sometimes decorative.
Ways that I can access things very easily and keep my work as streamlined as possible. So
you'll have seen a once round of the room so far already. Now we can get into the nitty-gritty of
where everything is. So starting where you just come in the room, we have my easel here with a
load of my most commonly-used brushes and a few pins that I've collected. A couple of canvases
down there. And then this basket with some of the larger but less commonly-used items. Things
that I still need but don't necessarily need to hand. Stuff like tape, gesso, fixative spray,
my label maker... And then next to all that, I have a small drawer unit, that was originally a
bedside table. And on top of it, I keep my journal and a notebook that I use for taking quick notes.
I also stash my mouse and mousepad under here when I'm not using them. Then in the top drawer,
this is where I keep my most commonly-used items. Things that I want within reach while I'm at my
desk. So I have these little templates that I use when I'm drawing up a print that I want to
be a certain size. I have a very small palette of my most used gouache paints. A small jar that
I sometimes use for water when I'm just doing a quick painting. My watercolour paint palette as
well. And all of that sits on a plastic palette that I use to mix my gouache paints. At the back
here, I have a few more notebooks and sketchbooks that are used more often, a few rulers and things
on the side, and in this little container where I keep my most used stationery; so again I have
a little ruler, pencil, fountain pen, waterbrush, white gel pen, and a highlighter. And that's it
for my everyday supplies that I always like to keep within reach. In the drawer underneath,
I have a really compact scanner, a paper trimmer, a cutting mat, and again a really efficient and
super convenient lightbox. And I'll try to link as many things as possible as you see in this video
in the description if you wanna check any of the stuff out. So moving over to my desk. As I said,
if I'm not using my computer I keep my mouse mat under the table, on top of those drawers.
I keep my daily bullet journal planner here, the sketchbook that I'm currently using underneath it
and my five-year journal underneath that. I use these every day so just having them right here
on my desk is perfect. I also in this little jar have the pen I use the most while I'm journalling,
another pen just in case, another pen just in case and the three paintbrushes that I use most
often as well. And behind that just on the window ledge, I have more paintbrushes, ones that I don't
use as often, and my pencil sharpener there in the bowl where I can collect the shavings. Plus
this clock that comes in really handy for any sort of Pomodoro work that I wanna get done.
Everything up on the shelves is purely decorative including the palette knives and the mannequin.
I've probably used each of those once or twice in the whole entire time that I've had them. But
on the other side of my desk, I do keep a couple of post-it notes so I can make quick notes, some
vaseline and hand cream. This little container has tape, and erasers in it. And tucked away right at
the back is the remote for my treadmill. So my treadmill is actually stashed away here under
my desk. When you first come in the room you can't see it which is how I like it. It's kind of tucked
out of the way with a pair of trainers that I use whenever I'm on it. It rolls out, it's on wheels,
and it also folds out to be at full length. So really compact and convenient. And then
just to the left of that is a folder where I keep any larger pieces of art that I've done,
and a piece of acrylic that I occasionally use as a palette, but I just think it looks quite nice so
I don't mind having it out as a little decoration as well. The next area is this low DIY bench
that I put together to store most of my books and other sketchbooks and notebooks. So on top of it,
I have a few books that use for reference and inspiration, I also have a lovely porcelain
palette that I use for watercolours, and I have a tonne of blank canvases of all different sizes
that I really need to get through and use. I also keep my sewing horse thing here and my printer is
tucked away in the corner. Then underneath is just a selection of books, more blank canvases,
and the sketchbooks and notebooks are loosely organised into the ones that are completely blank,
the ones that are half finished and the ones that are completely full. And finally, we have my DIY
flatfile. This is where I keep the rest of my art supplies and filming supplies. So on the top,
I have a couple of wooden boxes and an old leather picnic-type box all of which are from the
charity shop, all of which are empty but I think eventually can serve as extra storage if I need
them. More blank canvases of course. And a few more sort of knick-knacks and bits and bobs that
I can't bear to get rid so they're just there as decoration. So starting with the very top drawer,
this is where I keep all of my loose paper and any sketchpads, different sizes, colours, thicknesses,
paper quality and also any paper scraps as well. Underneath that is more of a stationery drawer,
so at the front here we have loads of different black fineliners, lots of other black pens in
different sizes so some are brush tips, some are really thick nibs. Then I have some highlighters,
and other felt tip pens, some more brush pens but this time coloured. Over here I have coloured
biros and fineliner pens as well as a couple of white gel pens. At the front, I just keep
my large scissors. These I mainly use for sewing but they don't fit in my sewing box so they're
just in here. Then I have cutters and punches so; single hole punch, regular hole punch, a couple of
blades for my paper trimmer, spare blades for my Stanley knife, and a rotary cutter. I have
a corner punch to round out corners on paper. A load of different coloured leads for mechanical
pencils. And a pencil case back here with all of those mechanical pencils inside. And throughout
the back, I have a couple of watercolour palettes and my portable painter and a couple of portable
painter micros as well. In the next drawer down is more stationery and journalling supplies. Lots of
different glues here, regular tape and a load of different washi tapes, different sizes, bulldog
clips, paper clips, a large stapler with spare staples and some bluetac. Some stamping supplies,
lots of different sizes of post-it note, inks for the stamping, a date stamp and a roller stamp
that I use to cover up my address on things. The watercolour paints that I squeeze into my
palettes, pins and lots of spare erasers. Next up is my gouache paint drawer with all of my gouache
paints organised in groups of colours, so from oranges to yellows to reds to pinks and purples,
different blues, different greens, I've got greys whites, blacks, browns and metallics back
there. A large white because you always need more white. And a small acryla gouache set there. And
underneath that are all my acryla gouache paints. And right at the bottom here is where I keep my
acrylic paints, different inks and calligraphy pieces, and two sets of coloured pencils. And
finally on the right-hand side of these drawers is where I keep all of my tech stuff. So I have
different microphones here, different sizes for different uses, a couple of mini tripods,
few cables and mounts also for the microphones, and all of the dead cat/dead mouse things. I don't
know what they're called for the microphones as well. I have a battery charger and all of
my rechargeable batteries. The ones on top are the ones with a charge and the ones underneath
are the ones that need charging. Everything in these drawers is a bit miscellaneous, so in the
next drawer is a light that I use for lighting my videos every once in a while, a couple instant
photo printers that I can use to print photos from my phone, and the chargers for those. I have my
instant camera and spare film for that as well as spare film for those other two printers. Couple of
bits for cleaning my camera, a lens light diffuser type thing and a lens protector as well. This is a
reflective sheet that's just folded up at the back. And in here is my GoPro and accessories
for that. Down here is where I keep my cameras and lenses including the one that I'm using now.
So the camera I'm using now would usually be here, this is the lens cap for it. And I have
my larger camera here, and the lenses that I have for that. The lenses I have for my smaller camera,
a couple of tripod attachments and a camera strap and a little container for all of my memory cards.
This is where I keep my tripod and also these two desk mounts that I use to mount my camera to my
desk for those overhead shots. I might have a very old video on how I film top-down videos so if I
can find that, I'll link it below. And finally, of course, there has to be a junk drawer. I have
a couple of speakers, a blowdryer that I use to dry paint when I can't be bothered to wait,
a couple of clamps that I use to attach things to my desk when I need to, I have a wireless charger
and a portable charger.This hand exercise thing that I never use, three different mice? Mouses?
A keyboard at the back, an adapter thing... And right at the back, I keep a wrist brace thing that
I occasionally use and ones for my arthritic fingers as well. And I just realised that I
completely forgot my other junk drawer. I have all of these gummy headphone things, a few different
cords, headphones. This is where I keep film for my camera. I have some different memory sticks,
and an Allen key to tighten up my treadmill and my desk as well I think. These batteries
all go in my camera as well, my film camera. I have this nice and portable paper shredder,
some spare phone screen protectors, a really old iPhone back here, external hard drive and back
here is just a box where I have the negatives of any film I've had developed and then the
box that I'm gonna send the current film that I'm using off to be developed. So that about
wraps things up here. Thank you guys so much for watching. Please subscribe if you haven't
already. Coming up I will be probably working on painting some of these canvases that I have lying
around and... thinking about relaunching my shop very soon so stay tuned for that! But otherwise,
thank you guys so much for joining me on this one and I'll see you soon for the next one. Bye!