hello guys good morning and welcome to a studio vlog I have a different
foundation on today and it's a lot darker than I think it needs to be sorry
about that but today I am going to do some more things for my print shop so
what have I got on my list actually I want to make some stickers I need to print some
stickers for the packages let me show you so I was testing out one of the
packages and I have these little stickers here that just say soul and fire
on it's just the logo and I want to print out a bunch of those so I've got them
ready I'm just gonna use my little brother label printer actually let's
put you up here so yeah I ordered the test prints for the prints and they
should be arriving tomorrow fingers crossed I hope they do so when they
arrive tomorrow I will be doing some more product photography which I
actually really enjoyed so I'll be doing more flat lays like I did in I think
it was the last studio vlog I'm not sure and then I need to add the photos from
that to my website oh I also want to film an Instagram TV today whilst I make
a little postcard thing so you know when you order something a lot of the time
you get a little card to say thank you like thanks for shopping with us here's
our website etc etc I want to make that little card so I have some kind of light
colored paper and I'm gonna print on it in just black ink I'm gonna make them
myself because the paper is recycled so I'm going to be kind of like
eco-friendly so I'm gonna use the recycled paper and then make little
postcards to include in the orders oh my god as well look what I got yesterday so
I thought I could send out some little like press packets to my friends I
thought right let's do some little press boxes for my pals because obviously a
lot of brands do that and I thought it'd be nice little way to get some exposure
I just think it's gonna be fun to make them up so I have these boxes here which
are like super thin they are made to like fit through your letterbox
and they're like made to the Royal Mail's specifications I ordered I didn't
want this many but this is the least they will ship in a package so
I ended up with a hundred flat pack versions of that box I struggled to make
the box yesterday - my mom's, ow just whacked myself in the face to my mom's amusement
but um I wanted to use these specifically because these are I'll just
read it 100% biodegradable 100% percent sustainable 100% recyclable
plastic free using eco-friendly ink so yeah I want to make sure that everything
I'm doing is eco-friendly and sustainable so that's why I ordered
these and that's why I could only get them in a hundred literally look at this
box sorry about the noise by the way the neighbors are doing some work of some
sort yeah I now have this huge box in my office full of like flat packed boxes
I don't have anywhere to put it it's literally look at the size of it
compared to my Alex drawers so it's wider and longer than my Alex drawers
and I don't have anywhere for it to go so it's just staying there at the minute
but to go in there is I've ordered some tissue paper and I obviously wanted to
do those stickers because I want to stick the tissue paper down with those
and what else did I order oh I ordered some tape I've sourced some
like eco-friendly tape and yeah so now all I'm really waiting for is the prints
to arrive tomorrow and then I can update the website and then I think I can
actually release everything for pre-order so the plan is to kind of
release everything for pre-order so I can get an idea of which print's the most
popular which ones people want how many people need you know rather than
ordering like hundreds of every print - then end it with like extra stock that
I'm not going to sell because obviously I want to stay eco-friendly I only want
to order it in when I need to why are they drilling but for now I'm gonna set
up this Instagram TV I've never filmed one before so I'm not really sure what
to do but I figure I just turned my camera around to like this way so I'm
gonna do that I'll put you on a time-lapse so you can see what I'm up to
and hopefully this drilling stops soon it's very inconvenient
all right I have just filmed the Instagram TV which will already be on my
Instagram if you haven't already seen it but I've just made these and I'm so
happy with them so I hand kind of wrote out this quote and I test printed it on
this old card you can see it's yellow because it's old it's like thinner card
so I test printed it on those and then actually printed it on the recycled card
that I got for Soul & fire and yeah I love this I think it's so cute like
something simple that is a little bit extra like it's the thank you card but
also is an extra print as well so what I'm gonna do I've ordered a stamp for
the back where I can just stamp on it that it says soul and fire and then the
website and then if I do want to write something on it I can but yeah I
actually really really like that bit of context this is actually my favorite
quote so it says be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire
and that is where the name for my shop came from rather than soul on fire it's
soul and fire so yeah this is why I've written this quote on the thank-you card
and that's also why soul on fire is called what it is because it's been my
favorite quote for ages and for those of you that have been here for a while
you'll know that the be fearless bit on the top line is on my original merch and on my
hoodies and stuff so this quote is where all that came from so I thought it was
quite a nice little nod to that but yeah I'm gonna take an Instagram photo now I
think because I have a feeling that Instagram TV is gonna choose a cover
photo for the video and I don't really want it
to be of nothing so I'm gonna move my tripod and try and take an Instagram
photo of me kind of mid doing this I actually really enjoy doing it all
I'm well happy with this I've tried to write this quote out so many times and
it just never seemed to look right but this one I'm happy with I've
decided I'm gonna order a guillotine like a little a full sized guillotine
thing they're like seven pound on Amazon I wonder if they could do same-day
delivery that would be very helpful alright I'm sat right next to my
printer and I'm gonna feed the card into the printer to print more of those
little note cards because I know it won't be able to take many of them
before it spits them back out or breaks so I'm gonna have to sit here and kind
of mind it as it prints all right I don't know how but we managed to get
this many sheets of it so I see I feel like I'd printed
out like maybe 30
sheets and every 10 sheets it seemed to get stuck so I've stopped for now
actually might pin 1 on my wall bit of shameless self promo I put these up
earlier to film the Instagram TV I actually really like how they look here
so maybe I'll add this one I'm actually back on a chair my back is killing from
sitting on the floor doing that I don't know how long I was doing it but it felt
a long time I'm now gonna print the stickers and all I need to do is plug in
my little printer so this is the label printer I have I'll link it in the
description if you would like to check it out and I just have the USB kind of
looped behind wait that's not the USB this is the USB
I've already plugged it in in it at the moment ists loaded with circle
sticker paper and if I go into the little app that comes with which is this
there is my design and all I'm gonna do is how many 100 there's a thousand on
the label thing so let's do 100 you know when you go to the arcade and wind loads
of tickets that's what this feels like
some washi tape to stop it from unraveling there we go
pretty sure I mentioned it earlier but I've ordered like a stamp of this so I
can stamp it on the back of the prints and the photos not the photos and the
thank you slip basically it's gonna be effectively
like one of these like a rubber stamp that is custom made I do have all this
equipment that is able to make stamps as you can see I've made a Bee before and
like different shapes and stuff I did a lot of this kind of thing for uni but I
have never done writing and I know it won't look right so I've ordered them
hopefully they will arrive by I think like Wednesday next week which is what date
is Wednesday Wednesday is the 11th I'm thinking I could release the shop like
open the shop officially on the Friday so this coming Friday for you
guys let me just work out it's Friday the 13th
am I superstitious enough to not do that I don't know but yeah I think by
like Wednesday next week I will have I will have my shop pretty
much set up and going for now because I'm back on my desk thank God cause my
back's still sore I am just looking at my to-do list I use Evernote or all of
my lists and stuff that I do for like either YouTube video brand work planning
my soul and fire stuff so I have a to do
folder for Soul & Fire let's just have a look this is my list I've just done
print circle stickers I did write make and print recycle stickers but I've
ordered a stamp so that so I don't need those anymore make thank-you card yes
yes I need to cut thank-you card but I need to do that with a guillotine so
thank-you card I can do that tomorrow and then order new prints but I've got
to wait until the pre-orders have done so I'm gonna just get rid of that
because I don't need to do that yeah I suppose I could do the welcome email so
if you click on my soul on fire website right now it's just a bit of like a
placement placeholder page but if you put your email address in there it adds
you to my customer base and then once I have setup this email you can get
welcome emails or you will get a welcome email that has a 10% discount code so if
you're interested in shopping with us / me you can head over to the
website now put your email in there and then you'll get a welcome email with a
discount code on it and I'll just keep that set up if you're watching this vlog
at a later date you can put your email address in on the website and you'll
still get the discount code because I'm just going to keep that running and also
if you sign up you will be the first to
know when the website goes live because I'm
gonna send a hooray we're live email too so yeah don't worry I won't spam you
because it takes time and a lot of thought to create emails and they're not
my strongpoint I feel like in the future I would like to get someone in to help
me do that but for now it's just me so yeah there's not many emails that will
be going out at all because I find them really hard to do
alright let's create this welcome email
woa why's it gone so dark I've spent some time creating this little welcome email
thing so if you have subscribed up to the Soul and Fire email list you will
hopefully get that soon if you haven't yet but yeah I think that's todays day of
work done tomorrow I'm going to cut those thank-you cards up and hopefully
I'm going to take those flatlay images well I'm actually going to cut
this into two separate vlogs because I feel like I've bubbled on a lot so watch
this space for the next studio vlog I hope you enjoyed this if you got to the
very end let me know down in the comments below where your favorite place
to shop it is currently mine is actually depop I'm very much enjoying shopping
for second-hand clothes and I feel like I should do a haul soon but yeah thanks
for watching the video and I'll see you soon for another one