hello and welcome to a little vlog as such i have decided i'm going to vlog today it's a little bit
spontaneous i don't usually do two videos a week but i figured when i'm feeling inspired i'm gonna
do that so hopefully we get some like bonus videos coming when i'm feeling motivated but it is friday
currently i'm gonna aim to get this video uploaded on sunday because sunday is a launch day for some
new products and i'm doing the final bits of prep to get them sorted i have a very long to-do list
i actually wrote it on one of my very very old planners because i just wanted like a list
pad rather than anything with like some sort of structure because it's something i've been
revisiting over like multiple days so i'm thinking i might need to make a new like list pad you know
like just with lined paper you see it's just lined lined paper i want to make something like that
so hopefully that'll be in the works soon today i've well yesterday last night i worked on some
uh mirror decals i've put one up on this mirror and i feel like it looks very cute here she is
you've got this i've also printed out some new prints one of which is this one in multiple colors
i've done a reel with them in fact i'll insert that here
so yeah things are coming along i am going to document my day i have a zoom meeting at two
which i'm actually kind of nervous for it's a brand job and i'm not quite sure what's going
on with it so until this meeting happens i don't really know and i don't like not
feeling prepared and i'm also very awkward when i'm meeting new people so that'll be
interesting luckily my manager is coming on the meeting with me so at least there's that
let me show you these decals so in the next vlog i do actually show you me putting the
decal onto the mirror but i thought i'd show you how i've been storing them so
this is a little like toolbox thing i found it in the middle of lidl and i've just made a little
temporary storage solution for now maybe in the future if i do a lot more stickers and decals
i'll think of something a little bit easier to like get into rather than like having to open the
drawer and open this but you can see that we've got the black decals we've got the white decals
and then i also decided in honor well not in honor i guess polly slash sci studios um does
like a little tester sticker so rather than just going straight in and having to stick that onto a
surface with no practice she sends across a little like high decal as a little freebie to help you
practice your application so i sort of made that idea my own i thought i'd do these little hearts
which you could put wherever and you get one of these with a decal i thought that was cute
also the prints six new prints which you've just seen on the reel i've got some new
exciting things in the works in these drawers and we've also got some sticker sheets coming
so there is these are all packaged up ready well not packaged up but they're all sort of stored
like this for now this is the new and improved productivity sticker sheet uh it's sort of along
the same lines as my first one but i feel like it's a lot more simplified and more practical
so it's a 2.0 version i've now discontinued that first one and then also have this one
which is the relax and unwind sticker sheet and this is just to remind you to relax and unwind
who'd have thought i've printed off some like to information card things to go with
the vinyl so you can like follow the steps but i want to print a little sticker for the back of
the test one the little parts so that people know that it's a tester and you can use it for whatever
so i'm going to print that out now on my little brother laser printer let's do that first
mum's arrived to package some orders
next on the list i need to schedule an email to go out on sunday to let everyone who's
subscribed to my newsletter and stuff that i've got some new products coming and i also need to
do some like basic website things i need to make sure that the links are okay on spotify i need
to make sure that the images are all correct and the quantities my mum did a stock count for
us yesterday so i'm just going to double check that and then i need to create some banners and
yeah i'll screen record the banner part because that's going to be the interesting bit
all right computer-based work is sort of done for now and i'm also fed up of staring at a screen
so i'm gonna quickly take a photo for the launch i didn't really know what to do with this because i
want to make sure i've got a photo of everything that's getting launched in the same photo
my dad's like building something outside if you can hear that i think i've thought of an idea
so what i have is i've got some sheets of scrapbook paper it is it's just colored
card really in like shades of green these two are three are different but i thought that'd be okay
i'm gonna like layer them on top of each other if you follow me for a while you'll remember when i
used to do like my little diy photo setups this is literally just that without the lights because
it's quite sunny today so i think i'll get away with it then i'm gonna put this mirror on there
which has got the decal on it because the decal just by itself doesn't really look like much so
i figured if i put the mirror on there hopefully that'll look nice down there that looks quite nice
with the sun then i need the sticker sheet and a couple of prints or a single print
okay i don't know how this will look but let's give it a go
all right then we put the photos onto my laptop i use lightroom to edit my photos
you can get a free version for your phone i'm not sure if you can get a free version
for your laptop but i have the full um adobe creative cloud subscription so i have
lightroom and then generally i'll find a way that makes the photo look good my dad's drilling and
then i'll just copy and paste that on to everyone everyone else every other photo as well because
generally the light settings won't change so i can just apply the same edits to the photo
as you've seen i've edited the photo i also have it scheduled and ready i just sort of saved it as
a draft on instagram with a caption so when it gets to 5 p.m on sunday when this video
actually i put this video live at like 3 p.m so you've got two hours if you're watching this right
as this video has gone live 28th of february 5 p.m that now's your chance um but it is now five
to two so i have the meeting and then i'm gonna go grab some lunch of some sort so on the left
i've got my ipad with notes on and then i'll put zoom on in front of me because i feel like the
person might ask me about these notes which are things that they've like sent me beforehand and
then i have my notebook down here with so i can take notes as we go so i think we're all set up
i'm all right thanks how are you i'm very well thank you nice to meet you and much time has
passed since that meeting it is the same day i just changed my top because i'm going to go on a
little daily walk i haven't done this for a while just because of the weather but it's actually a
really lovely sunny day today the zoom call was actually really successful i've got to do a little
bit of like pre actually quite a lot of prep before we can even start talking about when the
video will come out and how all work together in terms of like time scales and stuff there's a lot
of like behind the scenes to it rather than just like the 10 minute video that it'll end up being
so yeah i've got that bit to do i've done most of the shop stuff so feeling good i'm back that walk
felt good although it was a little bit cold i get headache when my ears get too cold so
yeah i got i've got a bit of a headache now but it was good i had like a half an hour-ish
walk although a little bit of a rant coming i left my house and within like two minutes i got like
uneasy vibes from a car with its engine on i just walked past it it was parked i walked past
it for like a minute and then had a weird hunch and then it was curb crawling me which is fun
i mean i'm not wearing anything revealing it's like fitted but not revealing can we not do that
like can we just not anyway i need to download some software that is to do with the call that i
had and actually let's look at my list i think i can check some things off oh also i've got
some soul and fire pens on order and they are coming soon so for those of you that have messaged me and
asked for this pen to be sold separately because at the minute it only comes with the list pad
let me show you that actually i've not shown this for a while yeah at the minute it only comes with
this list pad which is just a little mini notebook pad style thing which you could put in your pocket
when you're doing your shopping list and it comes with the pen and i've had a few people who've
ordered these tell me how great the pens are yeah they're getting sold separately soon when they
all arrive they are coming with blue ink but then have the black ink refills so you effectively get
two pens for one because it comes with a refill so let's see what we've done we've done the banners
um i wanted to do some reels but i really didn't know what to do i feel like i need to scroll i
might do some reels actually before it gets dark i'll do that next launch photo i've done i need
a launch photo of me with the products though maybe i'll just get like a selfie in that mirror
that's an option i think that's it i've got some like website things to do oh add a5 options onto
the website i don't know if i've mentioned this in the vlog but you can now order a5 prints from
the shop basically i've ordered a new guillotine and it's really really good and really accurate so
it means i can offer a5 prints okay let's get filming a tik tok i'm gonna film it here because
this is the lightest part of my office without me having to get all my like filming equipment
out and i do prefer filming a natural light and currently i'm just like sending the videos
back to my laptop editing them in final cut and then sending them back to my phone i feel like
there's probably an easier way to do it but i just prefer editing on a laptop so far so
i'm just gonna film like a constant video i like how my play button's casually in the background
let's pretend i meant to do that
and now i need to take a selfie with the mirror i can't wait for a bigger office keep juggling
everything i'm gonna put it on this shelf i'm not sure how this will work with my head in it more
help you know it doesn't help i've got a black top on maybe if i tilt it
this is difficult this is not gonna work maybe can you remember remember like first lockdown
and everyone was taking those photos outside with a mirror maybe you can channel those vibes
probably not outside though maybe if i put it here this is really difficult okay i'm going
outside
as you can see i took a lot and it was very difficult i couldn't work out how to get my head
in it without covering anything up i was fully sat on the grass as you saw it was very difficult
but i'm gonna go into illustrator and i'm gonna edit them on my phone not illustrator lightroom
i'm just gonna put them all in and then we can sort them out later okay so i don't think i want
to use this one because look at my head this one's kind of good for a brand photo do you like just a
regular product photo all that one these are all kind of similar i think i need to do it when the
sun's out i guess that one's okay let's see what this looks like with a filter on down here we've
got presets and i have the consistency presets okay i like oat latte i tend to focus on this
one you know i use this one quite a lot okay what does this look like then compared to the
original so if i press and hold it will show me the original okay i don't hate it let's copy those
settings we can like select to export if i go back and go up here press select and i'll just export
the ones i've edited okay that one's definitely my favorite you can actually see that it's me
so then i guess that'll look good on my main instagram because otherwise it's just a bit
of a mirror all right i'm now going to just airdrop the quick little reel video thing that
i did and try and find a song i always find that the hardest even when i find songs for a
youtube video which i've done for years i find it the hardest to just pick a song that i like
which is kind of difficult considering that is what reels and tic toks generally are
it is now officially almost the end of my work day i'm gonna sit down now and edit
this vlog to make sure it's up for you guys so i can actually have tomorrow off
um i've posted the tic tok and the reel so if you haven't seen them head over there you
can follow me if you are already and actually i'm drawing the winners for my 100k giveaway
today as you're watching this on the 28th so soon i'll be letting you guys know who won so
yeah i'm excited for that thanks for watching as always and i'll see you
can you hear my mum cooking downstairs and i'll see you next time for a new video bye