hello good morning welcome to another studio vlog so today I have quite a few
little bits and bobs to get done the main thing I want to do is order my
enamel pins I have crazy hair right now and because I put a poll on Instagram
which you'll have seen if you follow me if you don't you know what to do however
that poll was kind of inconclusive it ended up at like 58 percent to 42
percent wait 52 percent to 48 percent I was like wait that isn't inconclusive
and so basically it was pretty much an even split which I figured isn't enough
to totally discontinue one of the designs so what I've decided to go for
is the coloured design for the pin badges primarily because it stands out a lot
more on such a small little little thing so that's why I'm gonna go for for the
pins however I do have a plan for the other design which I'm gonna keep to
myself for now I feel like I might release that as a bit of a surprise or
tell you a bit later on but yeah I'm gonna release both designs at some point
but I'm definitely ordering the colored enamel badges which I'm very
excited for I'm gonna do it today it's actually Black Friday tomorrow for me so
I'm gonna do it this week whilst there's some discounts on every little helps
gotta save the pennies but today so alongside order in the pins I am going
to decorate my Christmas tree I put some lights on it the other day which I will
insert right now
so yeah Christmas tree decorating is on the agenda I also need to design a
little signature thing for my manager so I managed by sharp Talent and Jamie the
manager commissioned me to create their new logo which is here I had a lot of
fun creating that so yeah he now wants me to create a load of signatures for the
bottom of an e-mail which I've never done before I've seen a lot of but I
figured I could have a look I'm gonna do a bit of research and we can go through
that process together I also need to film a little Q&A video I've been lacking
in video inspiration for the past weeks I was planning on filming like four videos
this week but that just didn't happen so I'm gonna film a little Q&A video sit
down chitchat and I swear there was something else on my to-do list as well
but I'm sure I'll think of that oh I want to do the backing cards for the pins too
and possibly the greetings cards because I started gathering ideas for that last
night so we've got a fun-filled jam packed studio vlog today and yeah I'll shut up
and let's just go
I've just finished filming and I thought I would show you the setup you can see
my lunch there that is an empty bowl of pasta sorry about it so this is what I
just used as my setup I feel like my setup changes every other day but this was
today's so I got my tripod out I had this camera that I am carrying on the top
of here my pajama top is hanging out of my jumper let's pretend I actually got
dressed today and then I opened a drawer and put my microphone in the drawer and
then the wire is fastened to my laptop and then this is the background so I
kind of half tided my bed I put Minnie and Barney next to me because I want
some friends and then my chair so that was my setup
nothing fancy didn't have any lights or anything I just used the natural light
from the window but yeah that is generally what I use when I'm filming
I'm now gonna put my office back together a little bit and I'm gonna
edit that video because it needs to go up in four hours
I've actually got quite good at editing fast I think it was probably to do with
when I was at uni I had so much to do and so much to edit at the same time and
just got better at editing fast for those of you wondering I use Final
Cut Pro to edit my vlogs and I use epidemic sound for the music so I get a
royalty-free music it costs me like ten pound a month but I use the music that
often it's really worth it so I am gonna edit and I will speak to you when we're
about to start designing the email signatures
editing is done and it's just uploading however the internet does not want to
work today and I obviously don't have long to
upload it because lacking inspiration so I'm gonna go and turn the internet off and
hope that that works if not videos gonna be late I've refreshed the internet we'll
see hopefully that works in the meantime I'm going to start designing these
email signatures that I was talking about so I'm gonna go on to the classic
Pinterest I'm not sure if they will have many signature things and we'll pin some
things so I'm gonna create a new board I'm thinking because sharp has a lot of
purple in it like it's main colours are purple let me show you so this is sharp
talents website my management's website I designed this logo here and this icon
here is what it's used like in these little icon bit it's called a favicon
I don't know if I've said that right yeah so they use purple a lot oh hello
there's me on the homepage so I'm thinking I'm going to use the same
purple
I swear I sit on my laptop and then just get lower and lower down
look at my jumper I should work on my desk but I just wasn't feeling it today
just fancy sitting on my bed and I've just ordered the pins very exciting and
I thought I would also show you the what are they called signature things so I've
got three quite simple I decided to do his name in the same style as the logo
itself so like the front of it bold and the back of it not so bold yeah I just
mocked them up and so I did one with his name on the top one with sharp on the
top and then one like this I think he actually likes this one best
so we'll see which one he goes for I'm gonna stop being a slob I'm dissolving
into that bed I swear I'm gonna decorate my Christmas tree
not really your usual studio vlog kind of thing but its Christmas so enjoy a
decorating montage
and here is the Christmas masterpiece I feel like it doesn't do it justice on
camera it looks so pretty it's actually everything I pictured we've got the
butterflies snowflakes little sprigs of sparkly things a little robin
butterflies again there's just so much in here actually obsessed a little fawn
oh my god I want to decorate trees for a living how cute I think that's so pretty
and I've actually got real presents under there because I am keen and I
wrapped them up ready because I knew I was gonna decorate the tree Oh little
rocking horse oh my god I love it mom just came up and
she's very jealous she wants me to decorate the tree downstairs like this
now good morning it is now the next day and I thought I'd show you the banner
that they went for they decided to go for this one with the kind of block
thing on the left with the pointy side and the logo and then obviously their
names on either side so I've sent the variations over to my manager hopefully
he's all right with those we're just checking whether they fit on their email
so that was one thing I didn't know when I designed it I didn't know the
dimensions so I just googled it in guessed but I was only like a couple of pixels
out so I've just made them a little bit smaller which is easy enough I made them
on illustrator so I could just change the artboard and then I've just
duplicated it and made sure that everyone's name and job title fits in it
all right it's actually a Friday now and I'm
taking the afternoon off I'm going to an event this weekend so I will pick this
vlog back up on Monday see you then it's now the following week and I thought I would
show you the sketches that I have for the little backing cards for the pins so
I'm very excited that the pins have been ordered I had the artwork sent back to
me I've approved it so it hopefully it's getting made right now
I guess so hopefully by January they'll be available but obviously I'll let you
guys know if you don't follow me on Instagram but follow me over there and
then that'll be like the first place I shout about it but yeah these are the
backing cards I'm not sure on colors yet so if you have
any ideas or feedback please do leave it in the comments but these are the ideas
I have so far and I'm thinking I'm gonna draft them up today so we can kind of
see what it's going to look like I have four ideas so far I don't like this one
and so I've crossed it out I did like the idea of it however there are a lot
of pins that are like situated in a little circle design like that so I was
like I want to be a bit different so then I did this one I need to think of
a tool or something to go there but um maybe with like a bunch of like
ribbon and a protractor and a rubber and like all that kind of stuff to kind of
imply about the creating part I want it to be representing the create part of
the badge because obviously it's about being creative and artistic and that's
what the badge is all about so I want the backing card to kind of reflect that
then I have this one so I thought like a block of color here and then a different
color here and then like they're all tools coming out at the top that's a
possibility I feel like this one's more in the style of what I usually do and so
I feel like that could be nice and then put the website on the bottom here and
then this one so a similar idea to have in the things on the outside but then
putting like a hexagon in the middle for the badge to go in again I really like
that one maybe I'm swaying towards that one so I think basically I need to
create these so I can figure out which one I prefer so I think that is going to
be what we're going to do today also on Pinterest my favorite place
I have been pinning ideas for greetings cards so I've been trying to
find some little sayings and things that I like the look of so I've got this one
which is not PG and you're doing great distance means so little when someone
means so much besides chocolate you're my favorite personal favorite and you
are a powerful beautiful brilliant and brave you are my favorite notification I
thought that one was really cute and thank you for being my unpaid therapist I
don't know I thought they were quite cute ideas to have on greetings cards so
they're the main two jobs for this week I actually ordered some more packaging
yesterday because I I'm gonna be obviously shipping out the pins and
because they're so small I don't want to use the packaging I already have let me
show you actually so the packaging I use is from a company called lil packaging I
think they supply like Amazon they supply big companies and I bought this
from them it's like the little letterbox size and all I did was like print my
little recyclable label on it so people remember are reminded to recycle
and then in here I printed my soul and fire logo and then I have whatever's in
it this was bought mainly for these so like the desk planner and notebook
which is actually almost out of stock this is the last one and I have here
right now so if you wanting to grab it you can it's on the website
and be quick though because this is literally the last one and then I have
three no four just desk planners which I'm going to do something with I might
put them on the website but I also might like do a little giveaway so we will see
but as you can see the stock drawer is very empty I think I'm gonna keep that
for myself because I love the notepad so much but yeah bit of a tangent that's
the box that I got from lil packaging I bought it from them because they use
like eco-friendly materials and everything is recyclable and obviously
that is a big thing that I want for Soul and Fire and I found them by
googling and then I keep seeing adverts on Instagram now I actually have a
little code link thing which gives you 10% off if you shop through it so I'll
leave that in the description if you are a fellow online seller like me because
they have really good variations of envelopes bags boxes they're all
eco-friendly and they're all really really good prices prices good priced I
was going to say and so I actually ordered some like little cardboard
envelopes I decided to go for the ones that fit a CD in them because I think
that size I hate trying to work out measurements of things
I'm not very good at numbers I checked it about 500 times but I ordered the CD
size because eventually I'm gonna do postcards on sale on my shop and I want
to make sure that the postcards fit in that envelope as well because I want to
minimize the amount of packaging boxes I have because one I don't have the
storage to save them and two I thought it was more efficient to kind of only
use maybe three different styles of boxes the boring chats of an online
seller that I didn't actually know existed until I became one I actually might
end this vlog here because I know that the greetings cards and backing cards
creation will make an entire video so yeah if you want to see me make the
backing cards and the greetings cards make sure you're subscribed and turn the
notifications on because then you will see what I'm up to but yeah thanks for
all the support pals and don't forget to shop small at Christmas whether it be
via me or via someone else you follow on Instagram if there's something that you
like from them and you think it'd make a really good gift for someone or a good
like gift from you to you definitely shop small because it really makes a
difference to smaller businesses you're not only
treating yourself to something great but you're putting a big smile on an actual
physical person's face which i think is really rewarding so shop small this
Christmas and thanks for watching and I'll shut up now see you soon for
another vlog bye