hello good morning welcome to a vlog so in this video i am going to attempt i'm going to have to
sort out my wires so i rejigged my office on the weekend i was sat and i've basically not been able
to work in my office for a while because it's just mentally not really motivated me to do any work
i've been walking in here and feeling really overwhelmed it felt cluttered it felt like
just too much and i think what it is is that i'm growing out of it like obviously as
my businesses expand as in like soul and fire and alice thorpe i'll need more space
and it just wasn't working how it was so we've rejigged it i'll insert some footage of what my
office looked like before so i actually turned my desk around so it was like in the middle of
the room which meant that i could film my adobe illustrator course and it meant that filming was a
lot easier to do because i had the space in front of my desk to like put a tripod and stuff however
there wasn't much room to get past the bed so it was kind of hard to open the drawers like the
drawers under the bed i've got stock in getting to my cricut was hard getting to the drawers
were hard like it just was driving me insane so we've rejigged things i didn't bother filming it
because it was like a late minute a last-minute decision on sunday night to do this
and it's now wednesday and i've well and truly put off sorting these wires wires sorting these wires
out for long enough so i'm gonna sort these out uh brace yourself there's a lot hopefully i can like
tame them a little bit i don't know but we'll see so um yeah let me give you an overview
just don't judge me for the mess we're gonna sort it out walking in this is what you see
so you can see that the desk is completely flipped back round to the way it was and i mean we have
adjusted things so first things first we've moved out one of my alex drawers and it's currently just
stood in the hallway a little bit irritating and it definitely doesn't look okay there but
considering i'm moving out hopefully soon it's a short-term solution so yeah my parents say
that that's okay so obviously like this setup's kind of still the same and the bed's still in the
same place because we can't move it it's literally wedged in but i now have this floor space which i
didn't have before because in these two drawers is either stock or packaging for my shop so i have to
be able to get to this and it just was a pain when like before the desk came to like here so it was
annoying and then i had to work out where to put this because this has got my printers on so i need
to access the front of it it's got some packing supplies labels this is just a shelf of crap which
i'm going to sort out in this video hopefully hello editing alice is interrupting this video
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let's get back to organizing my office so yeah and then we've got a lot of wires so there's
wires here because the layout before i had this sort of sat at the front of my desk and this was
for the printers but obviously now they're like right next to each other so hopefully
i can condense this at the minute my cricut has been moved out the way so i can sort the wires out
but i'm thinking that my cricut can go like here in front of the radiator and then i don't know it
might cover up this bit a little bit but i don't like i won't need to access them so we'll see
then underneath the desk we've got the drawers so they're actually on the opposite side to what
they used to be um which is fine ideally i would like them on the other side but it just it just
worked okay like this and it means i can look out the window and the only annoying thing is this
on my desk so it's a sit stand desk you can decide where you fasten this on and i fastened it on
according to the old configuration so like the drawers used to be here whereas now this is where
i sit so i keep kicking it so i might have to like move it at some point or just put up with it for
a few months and then as you can see we have a whole other extension lead so before when the
cricut was like on this wall it had an extension lead behind it and i had to use that for like
powering the cricut powering the alexa powering flo all that stuff so yeah i've
got three extension leads in a very small room so i'm hoping i can condense it got some stuff
for the bin i've got some stuff for planning videos i need to sort out i just want to sort
everything out like you can see we've put the lamp just sort of there uh so yeah we're just gonna
figure this out we love it when my camera works you okay mate come on i know we're all tired but
this is silly task number one i'm gonna just unplug everything i think and then reevaluate
i've unplugged everything from the two extension leads this one actually came with like a little
stand and i have a hunch i've put it away somewhere and then this one i bought because
it's got usb slots and you can like isolate each one i'll link these in the description if i can
find them but yeah i found some wires i don't even know what this is for this is like an iphone wire
so that's like we can sort that out at a later date i'm just gonna move them i actually labeled
a bunch of my plugs because when i was isolating them it was kind of hard to work out which
one was which and this is actually for my screen which you've probably noticed if you've been
around a while it isn't here i've packed it away it was kind of getting in my way because my office
was so small so i need to go and put that in the box with the screen it's getting packed up
ready for when i move so that's one wire down um so yeah i highly recommend labeling things
because it makes it a lot easier once they're plugged in to sort of decide which is which
and i also have these things which are like reusable they're effectively like zip ties
if you know what they are so this is one of them in use it's just like a big velcro-esque
thing and it like loops the wires together so i did my printer wires all to be exactly
the right level so it was super neat so i guess first task probably is to plug the printers in
i have a little tub of goodies and i'm gonna try i think and command strip the extension cable to
the wall i have done this before so i'm thinking maybe two or three of these should hold it we've
got like this wire and it like goes from that plug socket underneath the radiator and then to here
don't worry this radiator is permanently turned off this room is ridiculously warm and
i've literally never ever had it turned on so i'm thinking if i place some command strips top middle
bottom stick it to this wall it means i can still reach the plugs and isolate things if i want to
done that stuck on the wall i have this plug at the top because it's a smart plug sometimes
it's very temperamental so i have to like fiddle with that one more than usual then there's this
wire that is actually the desk wire so i think i'm gonna like stick it to the top of the desk right
the underside i have to leave that quite slack because obviously as the desk sits and stands you
have to have some like leave out the wire now i'm going to plug in the actual wires for the printers
so i have three wires i have one from this printer one from this printer and one from my label
printer i use this little contraption so it's just a usb hub thingy like an extender i'll link it in
the description got it from amazon as everything is um and you can see there's four slots in it
and i command strip it to my desk and then when i plug my laptop in and when i need my printers
i don't have to guess which wire it is and both me and my mum know that this wire fits in both of
our laptops plug the cricut one in and this is where cable management needs to happen because
it doesn't have far to go so i need to like wrap up the cables so it doesn't look too messy
we're making progress but i thought i would just show you how these work so i got like a hundred
which right now i won't use but i feel like when i move out and there's like all the wires behind the
tv and stuff probably will use them so they're all currently stuck together so you just need to peel
one off and it's not like really scratchy velcro like it feels fine you're like sometimes velcro is
kind of rough and horrible so i've got the cricut wire and i'm going to shorten this wire i know
that the slot for the cricut usb is literally on this side so it means that i don't need
barely any of this wire so what i like to do i like to just fold it like this rather than like
looping it and then all i'm doing is taking this i'm gonna wrap it round with
the scratchy side on the outside and then thread the thin bit back through this hole
pull it tight so it's literally like a tie wrap if you've ever used like tie wraps with
gardening or anything pull it tight and then wrap it around on itself and there you go sorted
i've tackled this side i'm now going to take my tools and i'm going to tackle this little
corner thinking i'm going to put this extension lead sort of down there it's just like a surplus
lead because a lot of the time i'll work from my bed so i'll need a wire to plug my laptop
in that way and then i can plug like my echo flow and i've got like an oil diffuser thing
which i've never actually found a good spot for but i think this is it so let's do this
we've sorted that we've got that down there i have my laptop wire that isn't like very organized but
like i said i'll have to keep moving that so just sort of left it there now i'm going to attempt
to clear my desk just tidy up every little bit we'll sort this out um and then we'll reconvene
and here we have a tidy office ish i need to find us home for these because they used to be stuck on
the side of some alex draws obviously can't really get to them now so i'm going to rethink where they
go but as you've seen all the cable management is sorted everything's working i've got the printers
down here i've actually moved my bin to the back of here because it's kind of awkward to get to
and it stops me from tidying up i do need to sort out under this but i'm going to do that another
day and i do actually want to sort out in the drawers but again i'm going to do that another
day and then on my desk i've just got my laptop my keyboard and mouse extra screen phone and then i'm
going to stick one of those little clippy things onto here so i can keep my phone charger up but
i'm very happy with this i feel like already just all this space is just gonna be so much
more productive now the reason i changed the desk before alongside the fact that i needed to film
my adobe illustrator course it was because i like to sit with my feet stuck out rather than like
being cramped against a wall so it isn't like a permanent solution but yeah we're just using this
as a solution for now i think i've plugged everything in i'm not sure i have a hundred
i've not plugged my desk in but i mean we'll also set out and i'm i'm really happy with it i
feel like i can get back to being productive again i've got a little like production corner going on
so when i'm printing products or prepping or anything i can like sit on that store and like
do it over here i can get to my drawers again with all the stock in yeah i just feel like
i wish i'd done this sooner to be honest so yeah if you've enjoyed this little
renovation room move around video thanks for watching and i actually am thinking of doing a
second channel more homey style vlogs so as i do start moving house i'll be vlogging that so
yeah i will keep you posted on that as we move forward but yeah i've quite enjoyed a
chill vlog for the day so yeah thanks for watching and i'll see you next time bye