hello team so today's studio vlog is starting off very very strangely indeed
so I actually have a camera crew coming to film me I'm not sure I'm
allowed to say who and what for but I'm gonna ask them when they get here but
basically I'm dressed and ready as if it's a filming day although I do
actually have normal trousers on on an actual filming day I would be wearing my
pajama bottoms or something but I'm more presentable today I've actually done my
hair and I did that last night yeah I feeling all put together and basically
I'm being filmed living my life and doing my job so I've kind of saved a
bunch of work to do today and hopefully that's enough for them to film but I
think I'm actually gonna pack some orders which will be fun I'm also gonna
offer to take some Instagram photos with like a big sheets of paper that you've
seen before and maybe just vlog like this so yeah they wanted some examples
of what I do and I was like well to be honest I'll just stay in the same room
the whole day sometimes I go to the post office so hopefully they get what they
need it's about I think it's about 9 o'clock right now they're coming at
half-past so I'm gonna go brush my teeth put a little bit a little a bit of a lip
balm or something on and then sit and eagerly await them hopefully I'll be
able to show you some stuff if not we will flick straight into work mode and
I'll give you a little summary of what happened but for now I'll see you in a
second the film people are here they're just ringing the office to check if
we're allowed to talk about it but they're setting up in the living room I think to
do the interview part and then we're coming up into the office to film the
rest of it I'm getting like nervous sweaty why am I like this any time I
have like a big phone call or anything important I get sweaty, like nervous
sweaty not attractive
oh you really in the shadows I've got a camera following me around today it's a
bit of a different one to usual and yeah we've just filmed the interview
part and we are going to film a little bit of like day in the life packing up
boxes kind of working out what I'm gonna do for the day so yeah just doing a
little bit of a clip it's strange it's very strange but this is my
Wednesday seems we are back to normality back in my office by myself and so the
bits I did film when they were here obviously didn't have much context
basically they were from at the BBC and they are filming me for a schools tour
talk and basically the VT that they've just filmed will be kind of like a
summary about me and my career and what I do so they basically interviewed me to
ask me what I was doing and what I do and why I do it and how I got into it
and then filmed me doing my job to kind of overlay over it all so yeah that's
what we've been doing they got here at like half 9:00 and left about half
twelve so it was a fair few hours but I very much enjoyed it it was less
nerve-wracking this time because a few months ago I was filmed by the BBC but
for the iPlayer about migraines so it was actually nice to do it again I feel
less nervous and it actually be about like me in my life rather than like
migraines you know I like packed up an order to use of like footage so I have
one of my stationary bundles all wrapped up and ready to go and I'm gonna
continue doing a few of those cuz alongside the prints I was selling the
remainder of those stationary bits on my website and actually quite a lot of you
guys have just ordered the stationary which has confirmed my design idea I
don't know I had an idea for another little kind of stationary thing and I
wasn't sure whether to do it but I think because these planner bundle things have
been so popular I'm pretty sure I'm going to do it
I'm gonna get designing that but first I'm gonna pack up these orders I'm gonna
just put them in the cellophane and have them ready so that when an order comes
in I can put it straight in the box
all right I have packed up the first bunch of orders with those little
stationery bundles and now I'm gonna order the prints so as you know I
released the prints on pre-orders to kind of gauge to see which ones were the
most popular how many I should order etc etc so I now know I have some good
numbers and I'm gonna kind of over order so I have some in stock all the time I
want it to be like a long-standing product kind of range so I'm gonna go on
to my suppliers website now and order those I do get a lot of questions on how
I chose a supplier and it's just trial and error I ordered from a bunch of
different suppliers and then decided which one I liked the best I looked at
their ethics I looked at their Eco status I want to make sure they were
using like eco-friendly inks and recycled paper so they were like big
considerable factors for me and I put everything I found into like a
spreadsheet and then narrowed it down and found the one I wanted so yeah
that's how I got to using the manufacturer that I did but for now yeah
I'm gonna be on my laptop for a bit longer so I will I will let you know
what when I do something else good morning today is a Thursday I don't
know why but it feels like a Friday to me and it's definitely not
I've just finished editing the Venice vlog which hopefully you guys saw before this
video and now I'm gonna head to the post office and post those parcels I packaged
up yesterday I didn't end up doing anything exciting last night and
literally spent most the time on my laptop but yeah it's a minimum makeup
day I've only just got dressed I'm gonna get straight back into my joggers when I
get back but yeah let's take these parcels to the post office and be
productive actually we should probably look at my to do list this is my
little to-do list so these are actually the planners that I was packing
up yesterday and there's not many of them left so grab them while you can
but yeah I designed these like couple years ago maybe last
year and it has obviously all the days of the week Saturday Sunday and a to-do
list and it's super roomy I didn't want to clutter it with anything like
unnecessary but I also wanted it to be colorful and fun but practical so yeah
this is the desk pad it comes with 50 pages on it and you just tear them off
when you're done with the week and then the notebook is 50 pages as well and
obviously matches and then in the bundle you also get the little be fearless pen
which is a nod to my old merch and also to this quote which is the inspiration
for soul on fire soul and fire the shop so yeah it all kind of links together
but these are what I'm gonna go and post now and then when I get back I'm gonna
sketch some ideas or in new products I started doing it last night but I
thought I'd show you guys what I've got up to and kind of ask for your opinions
don't you just love it when alongside it being bin day so I have a bunch of bins
to reverse around the neighbor has literally parked their car right behind
where I need to get out I'm gonna turn my engine on and hope he hears me because
he's literally just sat in the car I need to go to the post office now you
can have to notice me otherwise I'm gonna just drive straight towards you
sorted so if you are one of those people that didn't order a print but ordered a
desk planner bundle just the bundle you should have received those by the time
this vlog goes up so yeah what is my hair doing oh why why did I go in looking like this if you
ordered a bundle and a print I'm gonna wait until the prints have arrived
before I send everything off just to save on postage and packaging but the
prints are arriving on Wednesday so this video goes upon Monday in two days the
prints arrives so your prints will be arriving very soon back from the post
office I've just had a little bit of a catch-up
with my manager I was on the phone to him for an hour and we were just talking
about brand stuff and having a good old chat now I am just watching a
YouTube video I'm watching aspen and parker they've just had a little girl
she's so cute and I'm gonna draw some design ideas for this new product I have
so on my iPad is where I generally kind of doodle things and come up with the
initial ideas for my prints if you've watched any of my tutorials you'll
probably know this so I use procreate and I did these last night they're just
using it as like a giant sketch pad basically and I want to create an a5
sized little desk notebook thing so similar to that one I showed you earlier
but with sections in it so that little notebook that I showed you that just had
lines on it it's going to be that size so a5 size and then I want to kind of
like section it up so up here is going to be a title space to put the date and
then I want to display it open to work and life so for people who are at uni or
for people like me who work from home and have like multiple to-do lists going
on I want to keep them all in one place so the idea is to kind of write down
your overall to-do list for the day so everything you need to get done and then
split it up into these columns but yeah I was just trying to kind of visualize
how I want it to work I think so far I like this one best so work life a little
tracker or some sort on the bottom to kind of keep your mental health happy or
something I'll figure that one out top three priorities overall to do's and
then a brain dump so anything that you need for like the next day or stuff that
you just needed to remember and write I like this idea this one I'm not too
sure on I don't like the work and life are next to each other it just felt a
bit weird but yeah let me know which one of these designs you prefer I think
so far I like this one is this something that you would like and pretty sure I
can leave polls on YouTube videos which I've never done so if it works there's
gonna be a poll on this side of the screen click the little I button and let
me know what you prefer out of these I was also watching a really interesting
video this morning from an Etsy seller like artist illustrator person and it
was all about how she packaged her products and how she's trying to be more
eco-friendly I'll link in the description I'll make sure to save it I
don't know if I have but I'll go and find it for you because she like
mentioned a bunch of different suppliers for the boxes like the cellophane the
sellotape all that kind of stuff because I want Soul & Fire to be as eco-friendly
as I can possibly get it as you probably you're probably bored of me
saying that so yeah I'll link her video down below I'm gonna check it out
she was American so I feel like a lot of the brands may only ship to America but
I'm gonna check them out anyway so that's also on today's to-do list and I
also need to do the captions for the Venice vlog if you didn't know I
actually write the captions for every single video so YouTube generates you
know like subtitles on video so this video now will have subtitles on if
you've got it clicked turned on YouTube generates kind of pretty much okay ones
I'd say like 80% of the words are right when YouTube finds them but I go through
them and change them by hand to make sure that all the words are actually
what I said so I'm gonna go through the Venice vlog and just do the captions it's
a half an hour long vlog though so it's probably gonna take me a while to get
that done but I like to make my videos accessible to more people because I know
a lot of people are like hard of hearing or deaf or just prefer to have
subtitles on and I checked the analytics kind of the figures behind the screen
and it said that 7,000 people read my subscriptions so yeah at first I thought
I was doing it for no reasonably but that's 7,000 people who I'm like
offering a helping hand to so I'm gonna make sure I keep doing those