this vlog is rather chaotic i figured it probably needed a little bit of an intro basically i spent
the past probably week and a half trying to finally make this office actually usable it
took a lot longer than i had planned and it took a lot more brain power than i really realized but
we're finally workable in here i still need to put up like prints and make things cute but you'll see
in the video we've built a amazing packing station we've got all the shelves up i've set up all my
machines and we are crafting a very exciting cricut project i really like how this has turned
out i've very much enjoyed editing it and seeing the progress from a couple weeks ago when we first
moved in when we couldn't even get in this room for boxes this was literally the storage room so
now we've officially unpacked the final box and i officially have done a few days working here it's
great it feels so nice to have so much space i hope you enjoy the vlog i hope you enjoy crafting
shout out to cricket for sponsoring this video you're the best and thanks for the love as always
bye
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as you hopefully can tell things have changed what we've done is actually create a diy sort of desk
within this unit and then i've bought a bunch of these storage boxes from b m i went there pretty
much every day for like a week to make sure i could get enough and yeah we've made some really
good progress and my main mission for today is to set up my production station is what i'm going to
call it so basically this whole unit here at the end is deeper and that is because i want it to
house my printer my cricut basically the bigger stuff and i need to plug it all in and get it
all set up i've not plugged in the printers they're not set up with the wi-fi basically
all the fiddly bits that isn't aesthetic i need to do before we do that i'm going to show you
what we've done so far firstly ignore the beeping i'm really sorry about that we live
on a building site currently oh i just opened the door welcome to my office so as you can see
we have a lot of shelving now things aren't fully organized but i wanted to show you an
update so far this has taken a lot longer than i initially planned we've now been in the house
almost i think it's like five or six weeks and i actually thought i'd get this all done within
like three so it's taken double the time and it's still not done but i'm really happy with
it and i'm actually kind of glad it took that bit longer because it's meant i've had more chance to
think about it these units are ivar units from ikea and initially i actually wanted to get a
desk so there's a drop-down desk i think i've spoken about in a video however i called ikea
after checking their website every day for the past month and it's been discontinued so
that was very annoying because that was one of the main things i wanted to buy for in here however
we've come up with a solution which i think is even better than the desk itself so this is empty
at the moment i need to just sort of organize what to put on here for this i'm thinking remove the
toolbox this could be like a packing station so in here i've got like the compliment slip
things like thank you cards etc and then i guess i could put like tape packing stickers i don't
know i need to work that one out i think that's one that i'll have to suss out with my mum's here
because obviously she works with me in here we have again everything's sort of working progress
but i've put my light stands my tripods etc at the bottom in here on my panel lights this one's empty
but i'm thinking of putting like wires and stuff in here this is my big nikon camera that's the
lens it came with and then that's the charger wire well power wires for the lights so i quite
like that this is tucked away when the armchair comes that i mentioned it will be going here
so hopefully this works and it's not too heavy for me to like shift out the way when i need something
in there because i won't need to go in there all the time then here is the packing station so this
is what we've been working on as you can see i've labeled some things not all of them are full yet
which i'm happy about because it means i've got lots of room to expand my idea is this is all
packing supplies and then we've got some products and then this is a big shelf of products down here
boxes in these two things we've got different size hardback envelopes some backing boards cello bags
garment bags but the main show is this desk so this is a shelf the same sort
of shelves as the rest of them but we have and by the way i mean me and my dad we have diy'd
an amazing contraption so if i pull this it's actually on a hinge so we've used two shelves
and i can't really put you anywhere but behind here we have a chain and under here we have a hook
so if i hook that on there same applies to this side if i hook this on then we have a packing desk
i'm not gonna get over this i don't think i'm ever gonna get over how
cool this is this is actually so much better than the one that comes with this range
so i'm actually kind of glad it got discontinued because this is better
i mean firstly it's taller so it means i can actually like work at here myself when we get
like a proper chair you'll either be able to sit or stand at it um it's completely up to you but
my mum's really happy with this height she said that she'd rather be able to stand and work when
she's packing which is exciting i mean i think that's pretty inventive between me and my dad
i thought of the idea and he did it for me i'm impressed with that once that's out you've got
all your packing supplies underneath the desk itself you would use to actually physically pack
and then obviously all the products are down here eventually the products will probably like spill
over to the other side etc i think this looks sick i'm very happy with it then this is the production
desk which we're tackling today so i sort of moved this printer this is the printer that prints the
packing labels off so i wanted it to be quite close to this ideally i wanted it to go in here
but it's too wide so i've put it on there it is a bit weird it's sort of like hovering on one side
i don't know i'm going to leave it there for now it still needs plugging in this is my big printer
which prints out my art prints these drawers need to sort in i've got the cricut which we're gonna
unbox and sort out today i've been waiting for this moment and then we've got these spare shelves
and we've also got some larger packaging stuff up here things are officially coming together
it feels so nice to have things get in there this next big task is plugging everything in
and sorting it out and then we're going to take a look at this new cricut because i've been waiting
to be able to set up this cricket i couldn't do it until i had everything built and ready to go
so shout out to cricket for being the best we all know how much i love and rave about them a
lot so this sponsorship is insane let's just fold this desk away how easy is that honestly obsessed
now i have some like hoop things let's see which one we want to use oh my god i can make so many
i just got these in a set from amazon and this was the cheapest that i could find that had i just
wiped myself in the face that had the right size so i'm going to open my laptop i'm going to get up
the project and then i want to work out which colored felts to use wherever i put the felt
so in here we have lots of different colors and if we look on the project it shows you sort of which
board which colors it recommends or obviously you can sort of like make it up and do it yourself
like pick your own colors so i think i'm going to do that i think i'm going to switch it round
a little bit because it's actually showing up as like a summer wreath and i want an autumn one
let's just take a minute to talk about crickets so thank you very much to cricut for sponsoring this
vlog honestly dream come true i absolutely love qriket i've used them for a while now
i'm just obsessed with them okay my pinterest board is full of potential cricket projects
i did all my family's christmas cards on the cricket last year i'm just a big old fan girl so
yeah as i'm sure you can imagine i jumped at the chance to work with them as you've seen i have the
cricut maker 3. if you didn't know the cricket maker is the ultimate smart cutting machine
it accurately cuts over 300 different materials so you can cut vinyl it cuts balsa wood it cuts
cardboard it covers felt it cuts an endless amount of materials and that's one of the main things i
really like about it is that it's like infinitely creative cricket are always bringing out new tools
and new things and in terms of being creative it's just a brilliant investment because they do
create new things so often now the cricut maker 3 has actually had some upgrades from the previous
model the main one that i love is the fact that you can cut without a mat so you can get smart
materials from qriket and it allows you to cut without having to stick it down to the mat so
if you've got a big long project to do you can do that you can actually cut projects up to 12 feet
in length it also cuts two times faster compared to the previous maker model and it has 10 times
the cut force so i'm buzzing basically i'm very happy to be able to test and love the make three
i actually further along in this video i'm making a wreath i'll show you a sneak preview of how it
turns out so i went on to qriket design space which is their free app that connects to their
machines it allows you to create projects there's hundreds probably thousands of existing projects
that you can just like hop on and use i don't know how many more times i can tell you i love cricket
but i'm gonna shut up rambling i'm actually going to show you the process of remaking the reef now
and if you are interested in checking out qriket for yourself i'll leave all the links for the
relevant machine and the different materials that i've talked about in in the description
so
it's actually getting dark outside i don't think you can
tell on the camera but we've made some really good progress we're almost done
i'm very impressed with my little project what i'm gonna do is just show you how i did this
basically you use a hot glue gun and what we do is add a little bit of glue to this point
and then you roll it and you literally like roll roll add a bit of glue roll roll all
the way around until you get to the very bottom and then it creates like 3d flowers
like these look so cute this turned out a lot better than i thought like being
able to cut things with the cricket especially felt it's just another level like you wouldn't
think that i've just made this i'm very impressed with myself i'm not gonna lie
so i'm gonna just finish these last two flowers i'm sort of like making it up as i go along now
which i think is definitely the beauty of the cricket you can be creative to your heart's
content like this project was a ready-made project that someone else had created but i've
sort of made it my own i changed the colors and i'm also changing which flowers i'm using let's
see if the hot glue gun is hot again we did have a bit of an injury i burnt myself with the glue gun
but we're not going to hop about that because i've been having fun so that's all that matters
i'm gonna put a small very thin line of hot glue and then you literally roll it
my plan is i'm gonna add this into a few different spots i've got two so we're gonna see how it goes
and this is the finished wreath i actually have hung this on the kitchen
door i think it looks so nice because as soon as you come in the house you can see it
and this is like professional level crafting like i was blown away with how simple it actually was i
think i built it up in my head because i had put a lot of pressure on myself to make it look cute
and then i was worrying that it wasn't gonna look cute but i don't know about you
i think this actually looks really nice i'm very impressed with myself and that
is the chaotic video i hope you enjoyed this vlog don't forget to check out the
cricut maker 3 that i was talking about i'll link everything in the description for you and
yeah thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed it and i'll see you next time for another one bye
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