hello friends welcome to another little studio vlog so I have had a busy little
morning as you've just seen I've been packing orders and kind of getting into work
my usual morning routine now I feel like I go to the post office every single day
now which is actually so exciting and just makes me so happy
so thank you so much if you supported the shop I wanted to kick off this vlog
with an exciting little announcement I've got a sponsor
I've got sponsor guys so the lovely people over at desenio-- have actually
sponsored this section of the vlog and for those eagle-eyed people out
there who have been commenting if these prints have changed they have indeed
you've got a very good eye and I changed these prints a couple of weeks ago I
loved the ones that were in there already but I thought I'd switch things up and I
spotted these ones on the website and I absolutely love them so much so these
three new prints are all from my babes over at desenio-- I've also added a few
new different prints in the corner of my office and I switched up a couple
prints out in my bedroom I've changed the ones that were above my
bed - more like calming relaxing ones I think they look really really nice and
then I also asked my parents if they wanted a print
and they've found a really cute spot for this one of Santorini and I
ordered the oak frame for them too and it's made that little corner where my
dad's chair is look super cute and sort of finished it off I feel like this is
probably the third time I've worked with desenio-- and every single time I just
find some more beautiful prints and I just can't wait to share them with you
guys and as always they've offered you guys a discount code so they currently
have on their website a 25% sale going on but with my code which I will put on
screen now you'll get an extra 10% off on the existing sale items so if you want
to grab yourself an absolute steal killer bargain we love a bargain now my code
doesn't apply to frames handpicked prints or personalized prints but there
are so so many to choose from so you won't be stuck for choice honestly I'm
gonna insert a little screen recording of
all my favorites that I have on there it's never-ending I already know what
I'd buy next the next time I'm gonna do a big shop over there honestly I can't
wait to have my own place to kind of decorate the whole thing so yeah be sure
to use the code if you want to grab yourself a discount it's valid until
midnight on Thursday the 6th of March so you've got a couple of days to find what
you're after and make an order but yeah I'm really happy that I'm working with
desenio again and it's all thanks to you guys for engaging with my content
and being so kind so yeah very happy with my little office setup I think I'm gonna
get a darker bedding set for this bed to like warm things up little bits it's all
very white so I thought that probably should be a job I do for the rest of
this vlog or if you see any bedding sets that you think will look good let me
know because I'm stuck it's a few days later and I have since had my hair cut
and dyed so that's new but I actually ended up doing boring admin things for
the rest of the day the last time I spoke to you guys so I thought we would
continue the vlog today I actually still haven't found bedding for this bed to be
honest I keep looking and there's nothing that's kind of jumping out at me
so let me know where you buy your bedding from any shops that I probably
haven't thought of in the comments because I need to find some to go to
these prints I'm so obsessed with the prints but I feel like the bedding is not
doing it justice and I can't work it out so help me out with that today I am
going to work on the weekly planners which I've been saying I'm gonna do for
so long I just keep putting it off I don't know why I feel like I'm getting
the fear I feel like because I want it to be perfect straight away
I'm not even attempting it does anyone else do that so what I'm gonna do is
sort of sit down today and make sure I actually come up with a solid sort of
layout and idea I think I do need your guys feedback so you'll have to let me
know but I'm gonna show you what I have so far and then also I want to take some
photos for Instagram for soul and fire because I've sort of ran out of photos to
post on there so I'm gonna attempt to like freshen up soul and fire's
Instagram so we've got a little photo shoot today and we've got planner making
all right so this is my planner this is actually last week's spread but I can't
show you this week's because there's secret
things on there so I thought I would just use this and I always recycle the
spreads because if I show you I use it as scrap paper so I start doodling on it
rather than just chucking it straight in the recycling and so yeah top tip reuse
so this is the current spread of the planner which I have gotten on with so
well in fact let me get my old planner out I just rummaged at the bottom of
my little wardrobe to find my old planner so this is the first
planner I created I did this as just sort of like merch I guess it was
alongside the hoodie that you've just seen me wearing in the last clip that
says be fearless on it because it says be fearless this week and it is part of
my favorite quote that is be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on
fire and that is why soul and fire is called that because of that
quote so it all kind of links together and even if it makes no sense to anyone
else it makes sense to me so what I did with this planner as you can see is that
it's Monday to Friday full-length columns maybe I should show you this
hang on so this one is Monday to Friday full
length and Saturday and Sunday in half and then here are notes and to do I
liked having these two options for notes and to do but I didn't like that they
were wide I prefer writing notes on like a small column because I don't know I
just do so I then adapted it into the planner that I have now which is this so
as you can see I then made the days wider because I found I've got quite
chunky handwriting and it meant that I could just fit one task at a time on a
line and do whatever I wanted to do and then Saturday and Sunday are again in
half but just a bit smaller because I find the majority of people don't really
work on Saturdays and Sundays I know I don't so it kind of forces me to not put
as much in there because they're smaller the thing about this one that I kind of
want to change now after using it for a while is this to-do list I feel like
it's very long like I mean I have filled this up before but I don't think it
needs to be this long so what I would like to do I'm going to
doodle it on this panel is to sort of section this off and do you like a next
week section I am writing this through the viewfinder and then in there you put
any tasks that you haven't done yet and just sort of use them for next week they
are supposed to be arrows and then maybe at the top of here
have like priorities so keep that maybe as a to-do we'll see and then I'm gonna
put stars on the planner itself like that
maybe every other line and have those as like top three priorities for the week
so that you know by the time you get to the end of the week as long as you've
got those three things done you're good I don't know I feel like that kind of helps me
out as like when I'm planning things I like to write like a hefty to-do list
and I don't always get everything done so and I feel a bit rubbish so then I
can move the stuff I don't get done over down here and make sure that I put the
priorities up here so at least if I have missed something off I can still feel
good about the bits that I did do you know does that make sense and then
obviously I want to sort of like refresh the branding of it I'm not quite sure
how like I don't know whether to use colour or keep it simple and use like
more whites and neutrals let me know and I made this in like the Memphis style
like with the smudges and the dots and like the little triangles and stuff
which I do still love I feel like it brings a lot of color to my otherwise
very white office so maybe I don't know I'm like gonna tie with the idea of
color I always struggle the most with what color to use so so we're gonna um
have a play around with that I'll screen record my laptop so you can see what I'm
doing I've also made myself a green smoothie Who am I I feel like I'm on
this new health kick all of a sudden I mean I say that has been two days and I
had chocolate cake for dinner yesterday before we do the time-lapse though I
found this whilst I was finding the weekly planner the old one who remembers
these a lot of people own these or did own these they're like little lined
notebooks again part of that first planners
collections it says be fearless on it I had three different notebooks and I
absolutely loved these this paper was or is the best quality ever like people
were writing on it with sharpies and it wasn't going through so I was so happy
with how these turned out I am debating doing some more notebooks in my shop but
upgrading it upgrading them a little bit this time
because as you can see these ones have like this weird clear plastic thing on
which one are which that isn't recyclable I'm guessing it isn't maybe you could
recycle that and then underneath is the pattern and like the design of the front
of the notebook whereas I would like to have a notebook that's sort of if I can
find it like my notebook that I showed you last week that's kind of maybe
hardback maybe soft back I'm not sure but you know where it's like all-in-one
but cardboard I kind of want to do that for a new notebook but I haven't
really looked into it but I've not really also found a supplier when I have
briefly had a look so maybe that's something we can do in the future let me
know if you'd like to see notebooks
okay so just quickly printed out the design I sort of played around with I
really like this phrase I feel like I say it a lot like I'm starting my life
out and getting my shit together you know I say that quite a lot and I
actually had a bit of a brainwave I thought I could use dots for like lines
effectively so if anyone has a bullet journal it's that kind of vibe
I like the spacing of this I like these stars up here I feel like I'd put them
in a color or bit lighter maybe and then obviously this next week bit I think
it's big enough like it's got space for like maybe one two three four five six
maybe seven if you squeeze it in so yeah I think this is this is nice however I
have confirmed to myself I don't want it to just be like plain colors this is
like pure white like my desk looks quite cream next to this and I just don't
think it looks nice so I'll definitely not be doing white I like that this
planner underneath which isn't the right one anymore let's use my test one I like
that this planner is colorful it adds something different and I feel like I
don't know it just looks quite nice but maybe it's a bit too much color I'm not
sure and let me know what you think because it's the color that's gonna get
me stuck I've actually just been listening to the UK top 40 as well and
you know that I've been scrolling on tik-tok too often when most of the
songs in the top 40 have tik tok dances with them and I recognise them
via tik tok like that's the first time I heard that song
honestly I'm too old for tik tok or I feel too old I haven't learned any of the
dances I kind of want to but I'm not although I danced for like 12 years of
my life I'm not a natural born dancer like it didn't come naturally to me so I'm a
bit clunky like I don't really want to embarrass myself like that you know but I
do have a tik tok account if you want to follow it and I've put like two videos
on there one's a time lapse and the other one is me creating gifs so maybe
I'll create some little graphic designer videos over there I don't know the point
of this clip was for me to tell you I'm gonna look on Instagram
some ideas on how to take photos of my products I very quickly run out of
flatlay ideas I'm not the best at doing flatlay's I have like a bunch of saved
images in my Instagram account of like brands that have used flatlays for
their work it always looked really cool so maybe I can sort of replicate one of
theirs use theirs as inspiration and hopefully make mine look good you know
this Internet is so annoying I don't know if you can kind of see I've
got sort of gone down my feed and saved a bunch of different ways of like taking
photos of cards and stuff yeah so I'm gonna look at these and see whether I
can sort of devise a plan
I've just found my little test cards for the greeting cards and these are the
test ones and I have saved them but this is the real one
and this is the test one that was just on like normal card what a glow up
alright we've done the photos I've got like maybe seven or eight I think I can
use which is alright but I've lost concentration I just can't be bothered
anymore so I'm gonna leave my office like this look at that it's so messy and
I'm gonna nip to the post office to post this parcel and then I'll get back and
hopefully I'll find some motivation
alright we're back I've tidyed it up so I could actually make it to my desk and
now we're gonna quickly edit these photos hopefully it will be quick
because do you know what I used to love photo editing I used to be photographer
for a little while and I used to really like photo editing
but I feel like it ruined it for me I did it that much it drove me a little
bit insane so what we're gonna try and do this quickly so what I use is
Lightroom I have it on my phone and on my laptop just cause I have the Adobe
subscription and I'll screen record so you can see
so the photos are edited and they're just finishing up exporting and then I
will show you the final result ok so these are the final photos you'll be
seeing them on soul and fire's Instagram soon so if you do please do give them
some love all right I'm gonna call it a day for this vlog because I don't have
anything more exciting going on I'm just gonna be doing admin and editing and the
boring stuff that's not worth filming so yeah I'm gonna end the vlog here thank
you so much again to Desenio for sponsoring the vlog and for gifting me
even more beautiful prints yeah so I hope you enjoyed the vlog thanks for
watching don't forget to subscribe if you want already and I'll see you soon
for another one bye