hello welcome to another vlog so first of all i'm really enjoying the new office setup the fact that
i've actually got prints on my wall has made a huge difference the desk being this way around
i actually sit on this desk more than i sit on the chair now and mainly because gus steals my chair
um and he's too cute to move so i just stay at the desk plus i have like a foot stall
underneath it which i stick my legs out on so if you have the option of putting your desk
in the middle of a room as opposed to against a wall i highly recommend i also bought this
yesterday from jysk loved that shot they had some really cute christmas bits because i
wanted something to raise my laptop up high enough basically like i bought this let me just move the
camera i bought this from ikea which my initial plan was to put the screen on it like the big
screen that i had however i've since realized that screen's too big but i really like this
is like a storage thing it changes the levels of the desk and it still gives me enough room when it
faces this way it takes up too much room i don't have enough space for like putting a notebook in
front of me or whatever so and i saw this and i'm pretty sure places like ikea sells similar things
it was just really convenient and obviously i've got a lot of room underneath to still work
i can store my keyboard and stuff under there and we're good to go just realized that i still have
some tights wrapped up on here i don't know where to store my tights so i just sort of left them
here for now i need to like re-figure that out but i don't want to face the wardrobe we've done that
typical thing of we left it too long before we did like a load of washing and now we've got a
mountain to fold and put away like it takes to at least four to five working days if not more
to put folded washing actually in the wardrobe but i think a lot of people have that issue
um but yeah so i thought i would show you a commission that i recently completed
it looks really nice i'll sort of show you the process and like the changes that i made i also
have a little bit of a dilemma so i designed some coloring books um maybe like three or
four weeks ago now and obviously ordered them and everything and they've not arrived yet and it is
i don't even know what day it is it's like the end of november basically and
i don't have the coloring books and that leaves me not much time to have the shop open so i just it's
frustrating but i'm trying it's not like it's not a big deal obviously i'm worried that i'm
gonna have spent loads of money on coloring books and just have them like and they'll not sell but
it's something that's sort of on my hands so i think i'm probably going to leave the shop update
until at the very earliest january obviously january is like people don't really buy things in
january because it's just being christmas so that in itself is stressful um if there's any small
shop owners watching this any words of wisdom or anything you have for me very much appreciated
i also like ordered a new weekly color i haven't shown you i'll show you in a second and again i
don't want to just release that because there's not really much to do i've still not finalized the
prints basically i'm sort of dragging my heels on the shop thing so i think i'm going to just
take the pressure off i've had a very busy year of moving house and sorting all that out
life things have been happening so it's not the end of the world if the shop doesn't open
because the shop is always or has always been a little like side hustle it's not the main
thing and when it starts to become mature then you know you've got to change something so
we're going to pause the shop update which i'm sure everyone doesn't really care about
um especially with like black friday and stuff there's so many black friday deals it's so hard
to like not spend your entire life savings on things but that's another story but let
me show how satisfying these planners look so this is sort of like the main storage for
my stock and we're sort of getting organized it's nice to have this desk when it's open
and then obviously all the stocks on here some of these have got their packaging already and then
obviously a lot of them haven't because we ran out so i've ordered them they're ready to go but i
actually really love how these have turned out so this one is the new one so it says sorting my life
out it's bright fun colors and i've changed the layout of the spaces so i don't know about you
i tend to work on a weekend sometime so i wanted to make saturday and sunday the same when you look
at it with this one you'll see that i previously had a bigger to-do section i had a next week
section and then a saturday and sunday whereas i found that i don't really write an overall to-do
list i'll sort of like scribble it on a piece of paper and then split it for the week so i thought
we'd change the layout see what people think about it and you've still got this next week
bit so you can write for next week or you could like write your notes in here it's up to you
but yeah so we've got a cool little
collection coming together and a lot of people ask me for a pg version because obviously this one is
sweary and there's a few people that follow me that are teachers so obviously they can't really
have a sweary planner on their desk so hopefully this solved the issue for you guys and yeah i
really like how i did the font on this too it's got like a 3d almost effect to it so there's that
and then i love that the label says that because what what do you do what else do i
call it that's literally what they are that is literally what they're called
but it looks like i'm like hating on my own stuff so then this is the original home life planner
then these are the new ones i've literally like these just fit on the shelf and then to be fair
i need to keep one of these to myself because i want one so it's obviously the same pattern
and it's just a pg version really because i really like the layout of this i use these a lot
i love that you can have the date in it and circle what day of the week it is
and obviously the tomorrow section we've got work and life so obviously trying the idea is try and
balance things have a work life balance top three priorities today's treat is always a fun one
mine usually involves something to do with chocolate but yeah and i really like these
planners they're all 50 pages so i know it's not ideal and trust me i've had many meltdowns about
it but i think we're gonna have to launch these towards the new year just because that's how
it's worked out i guess yeah i think coming to that realization was was very daunting
and almost i felt like i'd let myself down and i was like i felt defeated but in the grand scheme
of things there's so many things on offer at this time of year it's impossible to decide
who to support as a small business like who who on etsy you're going to support whatever
so i thought rather than trying to compete with that oversaturated market and then beating
myself up about it i'm going to give myself some time to like really develop things and
make sure i'm 100 happy and obviously wait for the coloring books i've got to stop use it as
like constructive rather than be frustrated about it but yeah my manufacturers said it was
going to arrive at the end of last week it's now thursday and they're still not here and i
still haven't got the shipping notification and i emailed them and they said oh we've had some
manufacturer errors and i'm like right okay at this point with deliveries being like they
are it didn't surprise me so whatever i'm just at my desk and it turns out that i've actually
upgraded my well not graded updated my um adobe software i'm that person that when something asks
me to update it i always say remind me tomorrow and then tomorrow never comes um turns out i've
got the 2022 version of illustrator and photoshop and everything now which is quite cool i mean what
do we get 3d effects 3d substance 3d materials learning the app chef commenting link card
oh my god this is the game changer auto activate missing fonts yes this is something that
frustrates me every single day so i'm happy about that cool i'm i'm all right with this oh i can't
show you the bottom of my screen there's more designs for hannah down there so let me just open
these so these are the final designs that uh rhiannon went for and i actually love them so
i did the digital portrait it's been so long since i've done one of these but it was actually so fun
so yeah obviously if you want one email me all that jazz and we'll sort it out but
i mean it's not coming up on camera very well but this dog the features i went to town like
doing all these features i mean you can see when i'm scrolling over it all the different paths but
i just think it worked out so cute so then we were trying to find a cool background to use um in fact
let me show you the one that i originally sent to her pause in the video for a second to talk
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all right back to the video these were the first ones i sent so she wanted a youtube banner and
an icon of herself like a drawing of herself so she said she really liked some colors i used in a
previous video so i sort of grabbed those colors the feedback was it was too busy and i did get
that vibe i needed to sort of gauge how how much i don't know obviously it was just busy basically
and these backgrounds i actually found on envato so you'll see i use two different backgrounds
this is the first one and then i found a more simplistic one i went back to the drawing board
and sent this one so this is very similar to the final design i send like a questionnaire thing to
like prospective clients for them to send me ideas of what they like which i'll show you in a second
and a lot of what she sent me background-wise were like free-flowing and lines and just like fun
she said she wanted bright and colourful so the feedback on this one was can we add more pink
to it so then we went back oh and i i probably should say this is like a guideline so on youtube
depending on what you're viewing it on whether it's your phone your ipad your tv it depends
on how much of the banner is shown so these blue lines are what like oh where it gets cropped so i
can't take any of the most important information out of this like inside rectangle and then the
final colors were this and it actually looks so cute let me just put my head in the way of the
sun and when you look back to the questionnaire which i'll show you in a second you can see that
it sort of brings together all the ideas that she had so the questionnaire it's something that i've
done for a few years now and i do i think over christmas and the beginning of next year i want
to sort of tweak it and like refine it a little bit so it gives me every single bit of information
that i need but basically it's literally on like google what even is it called google forms yeah
google forms and i've set up a template that asks certain questions and it stores all their answers
on my google drive so per client that i've had they have their own like collection of information
and it really helps me visualize what people like i'll ask people to go on pinterest or google and
just google things that have caught their eye so then generally i can sort of like merge all those
like inspiration photos together and come up with what it is they actually want
because a lot of the time the job of a graphic designer is sort of translating what people want
when they're not quite sure yet what they want themselves i don't know if that makes any sense
i have showed this on my videos before but i thought it was quite valuable to show you again so
what's the deadline no set deadline name of your business tell me a little bit about your business
what's the purpose of your logo and where will it be tell me everything you can about the people
who will be using your products and finding the audience age is really interesting it's good to
know that here are your competitors so then i can look at the people who are in the same field as
her what do you like now this is what she sent me things she's seen and likes look of so there's
that which obviously you know i mentioned about the curves and the sort of fun graphics there's
a little bit of a theme so i think she sent me like that one as well so i sort of got the vibe
yeah they all sort of told their own story and yeah so having these files is usually the most
important bit obviously she wants the portrait so i made sure to put the
portrait on the left like she wanted and then i got a dog photo very happy about it so yeah
that's the process thank you random for trusting me with your design if anyone else wants one like
i said just pop me an email now i'm gonna just do some admin because at the minute that feels
like what my life entails i need to sort my car insurance out i need to do some admin
i need to do some christmas shopping and then i actually am going to do some work so wish me luck
oh i let the boys come in say
all hello
it's a very sleepy boy this morning
many hours have passed and
i think i've i think i've worked myself out for the day no that doesn't make sense
i've done all the work i can face today um started my car insurance i got very happy
about it answered all my emails done all the admin replied to comments like all the stuff
that needed to be done is done there's stuff that i would have liked to carry on and do
but my brain's just not in it i'm gonna give myself a break and yeah i guess i'm gonna end
the vlog here because i feel like at this point i'll just be vlogging for the sake of it so
yes thank you very much to envato for sponsoring this video i've mentioned them a lot in loads
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they're incredible um all my design pals need to have it so yeah thanks for watching the vlog i
hope you've enjoyed it i hope the shop update thing is all right with you like i said any
feedback let me know but yeah thanks for watching and i'll see you next time for another one bye
you