today i have a full day of designing things i went to primark the other day
and yes we went to london yesterday this is all just like lazy girl prevention
hello good morning hope you're doing good i thought i would do a little mini work weekly vlog
this week so spend the week with me it's wednesday and today i have a full day of designing things
and what else am i gonna do today i need to organize the house tomorrow i'm going to
london to meet my manager just for a catch-up and then friday we're back to like content planning
regular office life and then we'll see what happens over the weekend so first up not work
related at all but i wanted to show you i went to primark the other day ended up with a big bag
i'm sort of trying to avoid the sun because it's very bright which is lovely but it's kind of hard
to film firstly i bought gus a little teepee and he loves his tp it was 14 pounds so highly
recommend if you've got a little fairy friend who might love it he's coming now to say hello he's
gonna get in the primark bag i got this jumper i went in with the hopes of finding like tops that
i could wear whilst filming because i wear the same things all the time and it's annoying me
so this is one of them just a colorful jumper it's sort of cropped vibes i got it in a large so it's
nice and oversized then actually we've got some things from ikea too i got this lamp shade uh it's
just for one of the bathrooms i've already put the other one which is identical downstairs hopefully
we're going to like renovate by run a bit i mean hopefully we're going to paint the downstairs
bathroom soon so i had that on the mind whilst we were shopping i got this hat i can't put it
on right now because i've got a clip in the back of my hair but this is i feel like this is like
a trendy girl hat which i'm not but i actually put this on as a joke and it looked really nice
and even my mum said it looked nice and she'd tell me if it didn't so yeah five pounds little lilac
fairy bucket hat and there's a theme i got another one i got this one which was on offer three pounds
just like this checked pattern another filming top so you'll see these in my upcoming videos i got a
large again just so it fits nice six pounds and it's like a marble top this is so annoying with
the sun then everything else in here is a bit random oh my mom got me some socks from lidl
and i've obviously just chucked these in here photo frame from ikea this to-do list which
we're going to hook up on the see gus hook up on the notice board it's like little ticket things
i got a huge candle for 10 pounds it's like it's heavy and it's a three or four wick one
so i picked up the reed diffuser that's not the same because it smells so nice it's in linen
the sun is moving as i'm filming we love the professional vibes then i got this jacket this was
20 pounds quite spendy for primark if you spent 20 pounds in like hm you'd think that was good value
i mean it's not bad value but you know it's just funny isn't it how you think of it about
it like that so it's just a lilac jacket it's like a really heavy this is not working is it
as much as i want to enjoy the sunshine it's not ideal right now when i'm trying to film
i'll just close the blinds temporarily we have a jacket it's really thick heavy material so you
could definitely wear it as a coat especially as it starts to get warm and what size did i get i
think i got a medium because it's quite oversized i love this it just spoke to me i got some
bralettes ever since lockdown 2020 i've basically not worn a real bra with like wires and like hooks
i wear these because they're so comfortable uh so i got another pack because my cream and like
light skin colored ones are going a bit funny now because i've been wearing them a lot and they've
been through the wash a lot these were 10 pounds for three then finally for clothes actually this
is it this is the last thing i don't have a summer holiday booked but i saw this it's 12 pounds and
it's like a cover-up i'm really hoping gus doesn't start chasing this because of all the lace it's
like a bikini thing right when you're wearing your bikini on the beach it's so pretty i just i was
just staring at it like this is beautiful i got an extra large because the sleeves looked quite thin
and obviously i want it to be comfy i don't have an occasion to wear it yet but that's one of those
things i can keep forever because all my summer clothes are literally just packs away under the
bed so they just come out when i need them that's it oh i also got a package from amazon and this
is a little ring light phone tripod i saw my friend hannah
who has her little sunny side harness business she uses this exact one i asked her for the link
and she loves it it's basically it just makes you want to film reels and like tick tocks and
stuff more well that's the plan because it's all in one so i mean i'll put a photo on the screen
because i'm probably not going to put this up today so we've got a lot of design work to do
the design work is actually for hannah's new collection as well but i will be trying this
at some point this week so i'm very excited about that i feel like that is going to really
help especially like up here where i pack products obviously i'd like to film that but it's very dark
in that corner so if i've got like a ring light with a tripod all fastened if i make the whole
process of like setting up a filming backdrop a lot easier in theory i should actually do it don't
don't hold me to it though okay right i am going to sit and do some design work like i said i'm
designing for hannah she's got some new designs in the works for sunny side so i've got four designs
to make i think i'm gonna film the process and then maybe release it when hannah releases the
design so that'll be like in a couple months time but yeah they're beautiful she's just launching
her new designs now so if you have a little doggo who you want to wear adorable harnesses and bows
and leads um i'll leave hannah's business linked in the description because she works so hard on it
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i have this screen from viewsonic i did a video about them a while ago
basically it's just a portable monitor it's touch screen and it means i can have a dual monitor
on my desktop but i don't have to commit to you know having it up permanently because
my desk changes its purpose a lot it's never just one thing i use it for packing i use it
for art so i don't want like a fixed dual monitor because it gets in my way so i'm gonna put this up
i need to find the wire for it i think the wire could be in here this was once upon a
time very organized as you can see not so much now i think it's this and then i just plug it in here
and then plug it into my laptop
and then hopefully you can see i've got two screens going on which means i can have the
like reference images on this screen and design on this one i think in an ideal world i would
like like a big screen which i did used to have but the practicalities of having a big screen
it just gets in the way so this is like a great solution i'm gonna sit now see it's already
connected and now i can have like my calendar or something up on here and all the work on here
it is now half past three i've been doing this since just after 10 o'clock i think i've done
three designs i'm nearly done before i've done three designs the first drafts obviously
there's going to be changes i've sent them all to hannah hannah is now
uh writing together some like adjustments that she wants and hopefully we'll get some of them
finalized today if not pretty much pretty much sorted for now uh i've just got one more to do
i need to use my ipad which i've not used for ages i've just realized my pencil isn't charged so
it's not an update you also let it charge for a little bit so this final one i need to draw
for it uh these these patterns are usually a mix of uh me downloading assets so vector assets
will pay for them get the right license and stuff and then use that we've also used uh
some like images and stuff off etsy that we've paid for when i say we've paid for hannah's
obviously provided them to me and then i also do some drawing and this one i'm drawing so yeah
i've had a nice mix of different things today and everything looks so cute so far um so it's been a
productive day really i'm happy about it morning it is friday and yes we went to london yesterday
and didn't film a thing it was me so i started filming like a little real thing we went to peter
express me and my manager had a catch up and then i just completely forgot to film any of it
so that was a little bit of a fail i had a really nice day though it was nice to get back to london
it was nice to not do anything too intense considering i've not been in london for two
years i've worked out how weird is that i last went to london right before the whole isolation
and pandemic thing happened so yeah it was a bit surreal i definitely could sense that
things were different like it just felt strange um anyway today is friday last day of the week
for me i've got friends coming around tonight for drinks which i'm very excited about but it
does mean that i need to finish work a little bit earlier because i need to tie to the house
it's not messy but there's just like i've got the clothes there in here still
that kind of thing i also promised my manager i would film three wheels today i've just filmed
one and i've already posted it i think i've got a bit of like creative i've got the fear
i don't know why i think it's because i'm so used to like long form content and i've always done
long videos on youtube filming little short snappy things i always feel like i'm not cool enough
but i actually have got really addicted to watching them now so i'm being silly not sort
of trying it out myself so that's one of the plans for today i'm also going to review a video that my
editors finished so hopefully that'll be done and uploaded ready for next week's design video
and i think that's it i actually want to open that light that i showed you in my little haul
and yes the sun is out to play it's lovely but slightly impractical for filming so we have this
light thing i'm gonna use it to film this reel i want to do just a little snappy one of like
graphic designer problems you know i want that to be sort of a theme with my reels
this has lots of attachments in it so we have little tripod mount thingies
or camera mounts and then a phone one then presumably this is the feet yeah we have feet
like this righty tighty lefty loosey does this go up oh cool it's all involved in this this is cool
nice i like how lightweight this is you literally just twist it and lock it that's clever and then
we have instructions let's just ignore those and the ring light part it's just a nice easy
solution isn't it get this on the heck maybe i should read the instructions aha
i'm figuring it out it had a little protection thing on it screw this on and then this fastens
to this it all makes sense now who needs instructions right what goes on here like
my only dilemma is that this phone mount just turn it round you know so obviously i want to
put with my phone i'd want to put my phone in this way like vertical this is standard doesn't do that
like not as easy as it could do anyway obviously you can switch it however like i said postman it's
my mum and dad this which turns it's like a t shape and you can turn it with your phone still
attached without like having to unfasten it and it just screws on like like this one so i figured
if i put that in it i'll link this as well it just makes it
that bit easier again so i've got another like i can't make this another excuse as to why
why i'm not filming reels this is all just like lazy girl prevention nice i'm happy with
that you know what i've actually filmed three wheels today which i set myself the goal to do
so i'm proud of myself i've just posted one and everyone seems to like it it's about my my death
really looks like right now a realistic desk tour and yeah i've filmed two more i've used
my little tripod ring light thing i really like it it does make it a lot easier because i filmed
at this angle and right now obviously there's a lot of stuff well it's not sun there's a lot
of light coming from the window so having that makes it a lot easier i'm now just downloading
a video edit from my editor i'm gonna check it there's one thing i needed to add myself
so to do that i need my hard drive where is that i think it's in here my dad's actually in the garden
fixing things so i'm gonna go downstairs in a minute and have lunch with him
get off my sandwiches
does this print look in a3 probably can't really tell the scale but
oh my god i'm obsessed so harriet has ordered this so thanks harriet i am posting that now for you
do you