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- Good morning everybody.
It is the first week we've vlogged
that I've filmed in this new apartment, I think.
You might've seen, a couple of weeks ago
I did an empty apartment tour, and showed
you around before we moved our stuff in
but, yeah, now our stuff is in.
I had not a lot of sleep last night
It was one of those Sunday nights
where, I don't know, you go to bed
and then all of a sudden your brain starts thinking
about all of the things you need to to do next week
and I didn't end up going to sleep
until 3:30 or something, so I need a lot of tea today.
Anyway, this morning I took it kind of easy
and went for a swim, hence the wet hair
which is really nice, and now I am Pomodoro timering
my way through the work day. Is that a word?
I'm making it a word. If you've never heard
of the Pomodoro timer, basically it's a thing
where you work for a 25 minute block
then you have a 5 minute break
then you have another 25 minute work block
and another 5 minute break, et cetera.
And I use this app called Focus, on my watch
so, it buzzes when the timer is up
and it looks like my break is gonna be up at any second now.
So, I'm gonna get back to work.
What've we got in store this week?
Mostly, just a week of work but also some exciting
deliveries are gonna be arriving
because I bought some new technology
so, I'm looking forward to showing you them
when they arrive.
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I can't even tell you how nice it is
to walk into a whole different room to eat my lunch.
It means that I can heat up some food
sit and read a book for a little bit
I'm probably gonna sit outside on the balcony
and have more of an actual break from work
then, basically spending all of my time in the same room.
Which is what happened in our last flat. This is going well.
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Mark and I have decided to try out Hello Fresh
which is one of those meal delivery box services.
Lily Pebbles is a UK vlogger that I watch
She had a sponsorship with them
and I was like "you know what? There's a photo saying
a discount off the first and second boxes
that she's offering. I'm sick of trying to decide
what to cook, let's just give it a try.
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Good morning, everyone. Made it to Thursday
and I launched a project. This project
you've seen glimpses of, if you've been watching my vlogs
in the past. I'm just so proud that it's live.
So, this is our I'm A Blogger Project
there is 9 documentary videos, profiling
some bloggers, talking about how they got started
how they earn money online, the videos
are super high quality and I had to design a website
that was deserving of them, you know?
So, I'm really proud of what I've done
and also this a place where you can buy that book
that I designed, so yay. It's finally live
and that feels really good. It's been a week
of lots of coding for me. Firstly, getting this live
working on some stuff for some Evergreen webinars
that we're doing, and now I am working on coding
some different designs for our homepage
I think I talked about that in a previous video, as well
we're testing some different ideas but, yeah, it's a very
code heavy week, that's for sure.
I know at the start of this video, I was talking
about having some exciting deliveries this week
and it's not the one I was talking about
but I did get another cool package, earlier this week
This here, this is a collab that Fortune, if you watch
Brett Conti on Youtube, he is someone I met up with
in New York a couple years ago and been following online
ever since. He has Fortune, which is skate brand.
They do boards and they do clothing, and they collaborated
with Skate Kitchen, which is an amazing movie
about following the story of this group of female skaters
in New york. I loved it, went to see it. I think it
was Sundance in London or something it was called
but I think it's in cinema places now, so you should
go check it out. So, this is a collab
and it's got bananas and the Fortune bricks on the arm.
Super cool. And, completely unnecessary, very expensive
to have them ported over to England, but I also got
the skateboard that's part of the collab.
So, again it says Skate Kitchen, it's got bananas on it
which is like the Skate kitchen symbol, I suppose.
And the Fortune bricks, too. So cool.
Yellow and pink. I wanna hang that up somewhere
somehow without drilling nails into the wall
because we're renting after all.
So yeah, really excited to have that
and to be supporting the project cause I just think
it was really cool and the movie was really good.
Anyway, I have made myself some coffee
and I'm getting on with work. I need to film a video
today. I'm filming a video, that you would've seen already
by the time this vlog goes out actually
providing everything goes to plan, about converting a figma
design to web flow.
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Good morning. Made it to Friday.
It's been, gosh, a hella busy week, let me just say that.
A lot of my time has been taken up with hiring stuff
cause, I think I said already in this vlog, we're looking
to hire front end developers, so there's been a lot
of going through job applications, yeah, just a lot
in general. But, I've had another exciting package arrive.
Still not the one that I'm really waiting for, but this one
is something that...you know what? I have been waiting
for this for a long time because it's something that I've
been wanting to buy for myself for ages and haven't.
Let me get it out and I'll show you what it is.
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So, this right here is a screen print
by Anthony Burrill that I have wanted for ages, ever since I
first, I don't know. I think I came across a piece of work
of his that says "I like it, what is it?" And then, yeah
I discovered this one, as well and I just love the saying.
I saw him speak at Blogtacular, which was a conference
that I also spoke at, earlier on this year
and he talked about how this poster came about
and I just loved the story. He said that he was
in Clapham, coming out of the Sainsbury's
and I used to live in Clapham, so I know what Sainsbury's
he was talking about, so that was pretty cool
and he said he just overheard someone saying to their friend
"Why don't you just cross the road?"
and said "You just gotta work hard and be nice to people."
and he said he was passing, so he didn't
hear the rest of the conversation, but just that
little piece that he picked up
was like " yeah, I can go and write a poster out of that."
So, this is letter pressed, it's on this beautiful
yellow paper, that is not, I think, showing up exactly
how bright it is on camera, cause it is like fluro yellow
but I love it so much. It's got a note about how
to frame it. Yeah, I need to get it framed, and I'm probably
gonna hang it on that wall up there.
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They've arrived!
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Alrighty pals, this is what I've bought
I bought a new Apple Watch, the whatever series it is
4 I think they're up to? This one that I have
is the series 1, and it's great, but we have a pool now
in this apartment complex, and I wanna be able to track
when I go swimming, basically, so I decided
to upgrade my watch. This one is also a little bit slow
because it's, yeah, the first version.
Anyway, excited about that, that's definitely a treat
and then this is the iPhone 10s, Xs, whatever you
wanna call it. I'm pretty sure the correct term is 10s
so I know that, don't yell at me in the comments
Apple people. I got the gold one and it's pretty beautiful.
I'm excited. If you've been watching my channel for a while
you might remember when I bought the iPhone 10 when it first
came out last year, and I did a livestream unboxing it
and then I sent it back because I felt like the phone
was just too big. See, right now, if I can get it out of my
pocket, the phone that I use is a little SE. I mean, there
is quite a size difference between these 2 phones.
So, this one is gonna feel a bit too big in my hand
but I've been doing a lot of travel this year
and every single time I'm on a trip, I hate that the
camera in my phone is so bad. I know I own several
actual cameras, like this one I'm vlogging on, my DSLR
but the truth is, when I'm out and about on a trip
I don't know, I just don't take them out and take photos
I like taking photos on my phone because then I can just
edit them on my phone and post them. It's more fun for me.
So, essentially I didn't really buy a phone
I bought a camera but it just so happens to also be a phone.
Oh, nice color. Earlier on this week, the case I got for it
arrived. It's this dusky pink color
cause I did really like that I had this rose gold phone.
So, yes, my phone will still be pink, but it will
be pink via a case. And the edges are gold I was worried
that the gold would be super garish and shiny, but it's
almost like a bronzy gold, a dirty gold, not as bright
as I thought it was gonna be. I like it, I like it a lot.
Anyway, as much as I really wanna get in and start setting
this thing up, I've got too much work to do, so I need
to get on with that, and I think Mark might help me out
setting that up when he gets home cause he actually likes
setting up new devices and I find it boring. (laughs)
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Well, Friday was super busy, and I did not make the time
to come back to you and report back on the new watch
and the phone et cetera. So, I thought I might as well vlog
this Monday as well. I feel like Autumn arrived
over the weekend in London. It's a lot colder today
for sure. Mark spent Friday evening setting up my phone
and my watch for me, which is really nice, cause it meant
that he just handed them to me and they were already working
and all set up with my stuff. I'm lovin' them, I especially
liked being able to go for a swim with my watch this weekend
with not wearing the leather strap, I don't think that's
a good idea in the chlorine, but yeah, that was really fun
to be able to track that. Cause I'm trying to fill
my activity rings everyday. When you work from home, super
easy to just never leave the house, and barely move at all
and that's obviously not good for you. So, yeah, trying
really hard to actually fill my rings everyday. As for
the phone, it is huge, way bigger than my old phone
which is taken some getting used to. It fits in my hand
I can hold it, but I can't really reach buttons up here very
easily with one hand, and even typing on the keyboard
is difficult. So, yeah, gonna take some getting used to
but the camera is worth it so that is why I'm keeping it.
I've got a lot of travel coming up next month
more than originally planned, was always planning to be away
in the first week of October, I'm going to Confront
which is a design conference held in Malmo in Sweden
but also, I'm going to be going along to Adobe MAX
which is really exciting, in L.A. That was unplanned
but they reached out and they wanted to have me there
so that's really cool. Just attending, I'm not speaking
or anything. Then, I've also bought a ticket
to go an Epicurrence Design Leadership event
Epicurrence is a conference, like an anti-conference
I guess, that I spoke at earlier on this year
did a workshop about self promotion. This time they
are hosting super intimate event, focused
on design leadership. So, yeah, I'm going to go
along to that, should be good. Bunch of really great people
going and I'm really excited that Ran is going, a lot of you
might watch his Youtube channel Flux, I'm really excited
to hang out with him some more there.
What I'm saying is, that long rant, the phone is gonna come
in handy for taking great travel photos. That's what
was really frustrating me about the SE, was just not
capturing the moment properly. Some of you probably don't
actually know that photography used to be my thing.
Maybe not that you'd believe it, looking at my Instagram
but when I was in high school I focused probably more
on photography than I did design, and I got better grades
in photography et cetera. I just decided to focus on design
because it felt like more of a career that I wanted to be in
cause photography would involve more of working with clients
and running your own business sort of thing.
We went on a lot of tangents in this clip, didn't we?
Anyway, I'm about to make some breakfast.
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I've been having some great success with JavaScript
this morning and I just wanted to show you
what I've been working on. So, for our new homepage
that I'm coding, in one of the versions there's this bit
up the top of the page, once the camera adjusts, where the
user is asked to pick what level of experience they have
this is not final copy by the way, just FYI. Once they
click it, that is when features are revealed
that are applicable mainly to this level of experience
so it's gonna be the ones that they're most interested in.
Obviously again this is just placeholder, but also, if I
just...oh I'll click another one and show you.
Also, these bits here will swap out the stats that we show
will change depending on what level you click. So, see here
boom, different stats. Basically I can make whatever content
I want, change depending on the level. So, it means that our
customer quote will be someone who is super relatable
to people with this level of experience.
Our call to action
will change. So, for example, if I click to beginner
the call to action for a beginner is our course platform
Creator Pass, so this is what will appear
at the bottom there. I'm just so happy that I've
worked this out, it's pretty cool.
I think I've said this before in a vlog, but I really like
working at a company where I can show you this stuff
during my work day and as I'm working on it.
This isn't launched yet, probably won't be by the time
this video goes live, it's a work in progress, yet I can
share it, which I think is pretty darn cool.
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We've got our second HelloFresh order here.
Update on this: we have decided not to continue with it
past all these first two weeks of fifty percent off boxes
that we had. Basically, It's super handy
having all of this come
and not have to think about what to cook, that's really nice
but we didn't feel like the meals were super great quality
they were very carb heavy. Also, there is so much packaging
that I just feels like a bit of a waste. I think we're gonna
try out the Mindful Shift one next. On there you can select
to have low carb meals and things, or whatever your dietary
requirement is. Also, I really like that...
You know, this giant cooler bag I think I talked
about last Monday
they ask that you send
them back to them, which is good because I didn't like that
even though the material of this packaging is recycled
You're still putting it back in the recycling after you use
it with HelloFresh, and I feel like surely they should want
these back, right? To reuse them for other people.
I don't mean to be negative about it because I think it is
a great service, but we're just gonna try out some different
ones and find the one that is best for us.
Although, the meals we got in this
bag do look pretty good, so, I am excited about this.
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Just had yet another Amazon delivery. I should probably
title this video "Charli shops online too much".
This time, got some picture hanging strips
because I'm planning to have this wall here in my office
as a gallery wall, I suppose. I think I already talked
about this when I opened the print. This is the problem
with weekly vlogs when I let them go on too long
is that I can't remember what I've already talked
to the camera about. I end up having to do a lot of editing
to cut everything out. I've got these prints down here
that I've decided I'm gonna join my Anthony Burrill print
on the wall. This one is by my friend Terrence, this goes
under the brand Tinland this one is by Dan Edwards
you've seen it probably before, it used to hang next
to my desk. This is one of my prints, and then this one
is not gonna go in this gallery wall, because I don't think
the color fits in, but I'm gonna hang it somewhere else
in our house. See I bought frames for a bunch of these.
I'm not sure if I should put my play button as part
of the gallery wall, or if it should hang just by itself
because, I was thinking that, it could look kinda nice
hanging up here, which is kind of the entrance to my office
It's a tad pretentious, I know, but, hey, it's
an achievement and I'm proud of it. Oh, that's right
I've also got this Optimist print from brand Efdot to hang
in the gallery wall, and these two here, Moonrise Kingdom
art prints, gonna hang them in our hallway. Don't know where
this one is going, but it's the Tommy Haverford food quote
from Parks and Recreation, so I feel like it belongs
in the kitchen. With that, I think I'm gonna end this vlog
here before I start repeating myself too much, but hope you
enjoyed seeing my week and all of the many deliveries
that came through. Anyway, thank you for watching
to the very end of this long vlog, you're awesome, I really
appreciate you. Hope you had a good week.
What is gonna be my question this week? I know, I want you
to tell me something that you're proud of that happened
or that you did or accomplished or whatever, this week
It can be big, can be small, whatever you want.
Mine is that I figured out that code for the actions that I
wanted to happen on the homepage. I was really worried
when I designed that, that I wasn't gonna actually be able
to bring it to life as I imagined, and I have so I am really
proud of that, that's really cool. What's something
that you're proud of from your week? Let me know
in the comments. Alright, hope you have a good week ahead
and I will see you in the next vlog. Bye.
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