hello hello good morning welcome to a very
exciting vlog so as you can tell today we are doing
the um t-shirt vlog it's actually the day of
the launch when i'm filming this basically it's all happening it is
currently quarter to four maybe yeah it's quarter
four i can't believe how fast the day is going i actually don't have the t-shirt
on because they've both been in the wash um
and they're not dry yet because i've been wearing them for promotion
and just because i'm very proud of myself um but yeah all the feelings are
happening today i'm very nervous i've got a lot of different things running
around in my head and i think you could tell by the state
of my office oh wait there's a t-shirt there
that's the one i got back out of the wash bin the other day
um but yeah i think you can tell by the state of my office that i'm a little bit
chaotic at the moment but we're gonna get there
so yeah this vlog will be me showing you the orders um me like
reacting to the launch i guess and then i'm actually gonna go
to where we get the orders printed and made
and i'm gonna show you that whole process so it's gonna be a good one
nice hands-on vlog but i will check back in with you guys
when it is almost time to launch let's see how it goes hello so it is now
5 34 p.m we're nearly there i am just making sure
that everything is ready i'm on the website now i've just realized i
only put the size guide on one of the t-shirts pages
so i'm just adding that in now for those of you who have questions they
are unisex sizing i wear a size medium that fits fine i wear large when
it's oversized and if i wanted it to fit a little bit like
more like a women's fit t-shirt i'd wear a small so yeah they're quite versatile
in sizes which i really like um but yeah that's that's that
i am just updating things on a shopify i've got a few people like waiting on
the website i'm just it's that moment now where i just like
sit and tap my fingers i've also been filming a video
so that's why it looks like it's daylight when it's probably actually
pretty rubbish outside but yeah i'm scared
okay that's my little update for now see you at six
it is four minutes to six i'm having a good old chat with jade
those of you who've been here for a while remember jade i lived with her
in third year of uni and she was like my bestie all the way through uni
um but anyway distraction i am just about to go onto the page where
i can like disable the password on my website
basically and set everything to go live but i've changed the home page and stuff
let me just show you so i've updated my page
so you kind of saw then that there was a banner at the front
i've updated some of the images on this bit and then the t-shirts
are at the top you can click shop now and yeah i've made
a few little updates with the layout and all that kind of stuff i've added a
little info thing for the daily planners and
everything's ready ready to go i feel like i've forgotten
something not gonna lie but things are there
things are waiting a little it's very weird it's very weird
i'm gonna do that thing again where i turn the volume on on my phone so i can
hear like the cha-ching sound that shopify makes because it's
just satisfying isn't it we've got two minutes so i'm gonna get
up a clock on my screen that is the exact
time okay all right it's 17 59 and 46 seconds 10 seconds
nine eight seven six five four three two one da da da
let's press disable password on my website
disable password press save and my store is live
oh my goodness i'm going to go on to the settings like the behind the scenes
thing where it tells me how many people are on
my website because that's actually like really cool to look at currently
there are 30 visitors on my website which is
sick so i'm going to open the live view we can see like where everyone's from
because it actually tells me whereabouts in the world they're from and then we'll
see what the what the response is because i
literally have zero clue of how this will go i'm
literally just gonna sit here now and wait for it to ding
enjoy looking at my face oh there's people checking out i'm
waiting for the ding hopefully it works i'm not sure i haven't
obviously done this since the planner launch i don't even remember when that
was it feels like a lifetime ago oh there's someone in norway trondheim
norway probably not pronounced that right where
else have we got people we've got someone in we've got a couple
of people in ireland most of you guys are in the uk oh we've
got someone in america ah this is really cool to see
yay that's the first one so that is for danica donnelly
thank you so much danica you have ordered
there's another one this is so exciting i'm so excited to ship these out and get
them all sent you know what i'm gonna do i'm not gonna babble
on for too long in this vlog because i don't want it to get too long
and obviously i'm gonna show you like the shipping process
but yeah i'm gonna sit here and see how it goes and i'll probably report back
either in the morning or in a couple of hours
and let you know so excited hello hello good morning so it is maybe like
four or five days later it is now tuesday
and i am about to head to fresh prints factory um to watch
and help out getting the stickers printed for the
they're not stickers the labels printed for the t-shirts so i have some sample
ones here that they're very kindly printed for me
so we have a black one and a white one
depending on obviously which t-shirt is ordered i have actually adjusted the
design a little bit because i now don't need
the size on this label because the size is already
fastened in the t-shirt itself so just to simplify things i'm getting rid of
the size thing and then in this bit it's going to say 100
organic cotton t-shirts haven't yet arrived to fresh prints so i'll
probably end up going back tomorrow to do that part
but yeah we're gonna head to the factory they've got a lot of cool machinery in
there i have been in there before so shout out to fresh prints in doncaster
for helping me out with this little project
and having me in the factory and all that kind of fun
stuff so yeah i'm gonna head down there now i've never actually driven there
myself before so hopefully i don't get lost but
yeah we're gonna get some cool footage for both mine and their social medias so
if you're in the market for t-shirt printing
embroidery screen printing and they also have a sister company called fresh signs
and they do posters they do shop signage they do
like vinyl for vans if you wanted branding for
your business and if you're local to the doncaster area
or even if you're not um i'll leave fresh signs and fresh prints info in the
description and you can get in touch with them because they're great
i think i'm gonna head there now and then i'll see you in a second
when um when i'm there i'm excited
good morning so today i am going to head to the fresh prints shop and we're gonna
print the t-shirts i'm very excited to watch
the process get involved you guys can know they're
literally handmade yeah so without further ado i guess
we'll continue the vlog and i'm gonna go to the shop
all right so i'm back from the factory we have the t-shirts i'm
so so happy with how they've turned out obviously i've seen samples and i've
been testing them out but seeing them all here in front of me
is so exciting so i'm gonna actually rope my mum in as always to help package
them up i think i need to master the art of folding
um and i've also ordered some um fully recyclable paper envelopes they're
fully like waterproof too we like water tested them we poured
so much water onto one and it didn't let any water through so
yeah i really obviously like to remain sustainable at soul and fire so yeah i'm
very happy about that also before we get back in a quick shout
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business right i'm going to stop babberling on
let's continue and let's get packing
okay so i have spent my day packing and sorting out these orders i'm gonna
head to the post office now i'm not gonna film it because you guys have seen
that process a lot of times but i just wanted to once
again say thank you so so much for supporting
me you can literally see how like tired and bedraggled i am but thank you
so much for the love on the t-shirts they are
still available they're going to be available until the end of september
so be quick they are limited edition and they are made to order and obviously
hand packed by myself and of course my mum helped behind the
scenes so thank you mum um but yeah i will leave the link to
these t-shirts in the description thank you so much for watching the vlog
until the very end and if you did watch it till the end
let me know what other soul and fire products you would like to see whether
that's stationery clothing accessories anything
like that let me know i'd love to hear from you guys and yeah
i'll see you next week for another video bye