hello hello good morning and welcome to another little studio vlog so today I am
focusing on being creative which I guess is generally the theme of
these vlogs and I'm gonna set up some like behind the scenes stuff using
MailChimp I've barely got any makeup on a little concealer and blusher on and
then like my eye makeup so apologies if I look like a ghost but it's just
me gotta embrace it all so this is day 3
hair of the curly girl method and I had to brush it last night I just looked weird and
I know you're not supposed to brush it but that is that I'm also wearing my
fabletics set the loungewear set I've been wearing this for the past two days
and it's been wonderful it is so soft and cozy right the first thing I'm
actually really excited to show you I think this is a great idea it's not an
original idea but I'm very happy with myself so let me just grab my iPad I
have my little charging station down here and I love this extension lead look
it has a USB slot so I can charge my ipod and leave it here because the iPad
takes so long to charge understandably so because it is so big but I was
creating a little thing last night and I thought I'd share it with you because I
thought it was such a cute little idea so what I've done is in procreate I have
drawn it's kind of working progress at the moment I've drawn this little
space drawing thing and I thought I could put it on my website it's like a
free downloadable coloring page and then the plan is to do like a couple more and
then eventually put it all in like a little PDF thing so you can download it
as a coloring book the angle of this camera is not the one is it so
eventually even after all this craziness has gone on I've got this coloring book
that is available to download for free on my website so it's sort of like I
find colouring really therapeutic and I know my mum does I also know my grandma
does and so if you just download the page you can either colour it in on your
iPad or whatever or you can print it out and color it in like in person and I
don't know I just thought it was a nice little way of me sort of contributing
to distracting people and I'm trying to do my bit in my own little way
you know like I'm creative so I'm trying to get through everything by being
creative I'm uploading more videos to keep everyone entertained and I'm
creating things that you can do to also entertain and sort of relax because
colorings really good for like anxiety and sort of grounding yourself I guess
so what I'm gonna do is transfer this over into my laptop because there are a
few little bits that are gonna be way quicker for me to just do on my laptop
so I'm gonna do that now I'll screen record it actually as well I'll insert
me drawing it too because I had a lot of fun doing that
Colouring page is done I'm actually so happy with it let me just quickly show
you what I've set up and so if you want to download this it's on my website I
will leave the link in the description of the video and it's completely free
you just enter your email address and then the link appears and you can
download it I've created this page on my website so I'll leave the link like I
said in the description and when you get to it it's got a little preview of the
coloring page and then down here it's got a bit of a description and all you
do is write your email address click give me that freebie it'll load and then
there's a link here as soon as you pressed it that's the link you need to
click so you just click that and then you'll see that it's loaded in and then
down here a download will pop up and that is your coloring page so you can
print it out it's a full sized putting your email address in that signs you up
to my mailing list but no worries if you don't want to be part of that you just
need to click that on the unsubscribe button in the welcome email that you
get and then it'll just unsubscribe you straight away no hard feelings
and yeah if you do download it and colour anything in please tag me on Twitter or
Instagram I'd love to see the progress I think that'd be really fun I
think I might print it out myself tonight actually and color it in I feel
like I need some mindfulness myself but now I'm actually going to package up a
little parcel I just got a soul and fire order which was a nice little surprise
orders have been really really slow understandably because I feel like the
last thing people are thinking about is buying cute stationery and prints so I'm
taking the time to sort of focus on other things whilst we get back in the
swing of things but I have just got an order so I'm gonna pack that up now and
then I'm gonna head to the post office
weirdest camera angle ever I've realized that I've not actually left the house
since Tuesday and because I've not had any orders and obviously sensible thing
to do right now yeah I've not seen the supermarket's
I've not seen anything anyone else a serial introvert that stays in the
house for long periods of time anyway cuz that's me okay I'm back that wasn't
as painful as I thought actually completely fine so what I'm gonna do now
I have just sent the download links and like the webpage and stuff to my friend
Charlotte she's gonna check whether it works okay in the meantime I thought I
would share with you a little bit of information about this week's sponsor so
the wonderful people over at Skillshare are sponsoring at this vlog once again
we're working together on a few different vlogs because I love what they
do so so much if you didn't already know a
skillshare is an online learning community where you can take classes
learn new skills develop the skills you have and just be an all-around boss
basically you can teach yourself new skills which I love I've always been a
self-taught and Skillshare is just that in the past I've spoke about this before
but I've learned a lot of things to do with productivity a motivation finding
your niche is a lot of the things I was looking at they have graphic design
stuff they have illustration they have entrepreneurship honestly they have
things on every topic you could find useful and the classes are really easily
digestible so you can fit it into your everyday life and if like me you like to
fill up your spare time with sort of learning new skills or bettering
yourself you can use Skillshare to do just that I've actually recently been
watching a class about procreate so it was all about sort of drawing a sharable
time lapse on procreate which is obviously really really helpful for me
and like I said there's so many different classes on so many different
things so I will be watching many a glasses in these next few weeks let me
tell you that it's actually really affordable too so annual memberships
start from 7 pounds a month and when you compare that to in
person classes or workshops it's super super affordable so basically what I'm
trying to say is I highly highly recommend trying out Skillshare I
actually have a special little link I will leave in the description which gets
you two months free Skillshare premium membership so if you click that link you
can join become a member and you can experience Skillshare premium for
yourself when you join actually let me know which classes you've taken and if
you think I'll find any of them useful please send me the links because I'm
always learning and always looking to find some new ones but yeah thank you so
much Skillshare for sponsoring this vlog once again I know you guys will really
benefit from it so obviously it's a perfect fit for now however I am going
to I think I'm gonna print out the coloring page actually and see what it
looks like whilst I wait for Charlotte's reply
and then we will get the link ready and we'll share it and we'll cross our
fingers and hope you guys like it basically just printing off a test
print it actually looks so cool I love it I am gonna be coloring this in later
my friend Charlotte you'll know her um Charlotte price I'll leave her links in
the description she has just tested it for me and
downloaded it and checked it works from the website and it does so that's really
good but yeah look at this little colouring sheet actually looks so good I'm
gonna create a few of these I think cuz I really liked the idea and it was
really fun for me to do as well it kind of kept my mind busy creating it and
then it can keep my mind busy doing it yes I think what I'm gonna do now I'm
gonna take my iPad downstairs we're gonna my printers making noises
we're gonna watch an episode or two of Breaking Bad I'm also gonna have a play
around with Pippa's ebook design I'll insert on screen the design that I sent
to her and the one that she liked the most if you watch my most recent day in
the life video you'll see the whole process of that and if you haven't
already watched it I'll leave it in the clickable I button um but I kind of
showed the behind the scenes and I sent off two different designs and this one
was the one that she liked the most so I'm gonna sort of develop that one I
think and see what variations we can make of it and then I'll send it to her
again and kind of go from there so I will screen record
my ipad there's gonna be a lot of screen recording in this video and I'm also
gonna quickly shout out the fact that I've done this and I actually love it
hello friends happy Friday I hope you're all keeping well looking
after yourself I just wanted to quickly swing by with something positive and I
am buzzing about this I've just sort of tested everything I didn't do any of the
work I said I was gonna do whilst I was downstairs I actually ended up getting
really sidetracked and making sure my website was okay for the links so
fingers crossed that's gonna work and bare in mind if you do download them it's
only gonna work on a desktop computer because it's a PDF so it's made to be
printed and obviously I mean generally you can't print from the phone so yeah
you need to download it onto a laptop and then you can use it that way so what
I'm gonna do now and I thought I would briefly speak to you about it because
I'm not clued up on it 100% and I'm gonna create a little email campaign on
MailChimp just to let those people who are subscribed to me know that I have
made these coloring pages and so what we're gonna do is sort of go through it
all so I'll show you so I recently had to upgrade my MailChimp service because
I am over the threshold now and so I can't have the free option which one
pained me I was very much enjoying having the freebies but secondly that's
amazing and I can't believe I've gone over the threshold and also it's making
me use it more now because I know that I'm paying for it so yeah I want it to
sort of be worthwhile so I'm gonna keep using it like I said I'm still most
definitely a rookie with MailChimp but I'm getting ther this was so confusing
at the beginning and it still hurts my brain a lot trying to do these but I'm
getting there so message to you if you've been trying to use MailChimp it's
confusing just stick with it it'll get better I promise
so what I'm going to do is just create a new campaign it so if I click here I can
create a new one and there's a bunch of different options but all I want to do
is create an email I'm gonna name it space
cadet because that is what I called the coloring page and that's not what the
email will be titled to everyone that sees it and then once I click begin this
is where I can adjust the settings so as you can see I've just got over 2,000
subscribers to my email list which I was so happy with I know it's not the
biggest but it's amazing and I'm very happy with that that's a lot of people
but in here I don't actually want to send it to all 2,000 because some of
those subscribers are just customers from soul and fire so they're not
necessarily Alice Thorpe fans so what I'm going to do is edit
recipient and in here I can create a custom setting and I want to avoid the
soul and fire customers okay so I've avoided the customers and which is
knocked off a bunch of people off that list
and I'm sending this to a lot of people still and I'm gonna create a subject
this is the bit I find difficult so I need to title it in a way that it's not
going to put people off and hopefully will encourage people to click on it the
last email I sent was about design week which was on Monday and I'm pretty sure
that one started with bored like bored question mark I have a solution
for that or something like that I need something different I don't know what
this is the bit stuck with I always end up Googling it but it's kind of it's a
very niche topic maybe if I mentioned something to do with the fact it's free
I have a freebie for you need some stress relief this will help you clear
your mind and feel brighter pinky promise
although I think I'm gonna change this emoji because it's got the extra weird
thing on it okay so I've got the subject lines ready now I'm just gonna click
design email in here are a few templates I want it to be really simple okay so
now we've got a template so I can just go in and change the bits that I need if
you want to change anything you click it and then up here is where you change the
information you can't type directly in this box you have to use this box on the
side which is weird that's how they do it and you can add
spaces and things so if you want a little bit of a gap between things you
can add lines if you save and close you progress and look in here this is the
stuff that you can include so if you have a shop you can put some links to
your shop in there button social things and then you can change the style of
everything and that I've never clicked that button in my life so we'll ignore
that one alright I'm going to quickly write this up and then I will show you
how it looks it's taken some time and a lot of fiddling but I think we got there
I've got this stock image of some pencils added this little header with a
link on it and then I've written a description and then if you scroll down
it's got photo and then another link as well this bit doesn't include when I
send it I've previewed it and it looks good so
you can sort of enter preview mode see it what it would look like on desktop
and mobile and then there's a bunch of other ways to preview it you can check
the links actually I probably should add socials let's do that
okay I've added the socials and everything is set up I'm ready to go
I've sent myself a test email so we're all good all I need to do now is press
send if I had the next package up I could
schedule all the time for it to send but I don't have the option at the moment so
we're just gonna send it now it's actually a pretty decent time to send it
it's about half past four so yeah I'm just gonna press it now this is a scary
button to be pressing sending an email to this many people one thousand six
hundred and seventy five people that's a lot of eyeballs farewell
whoa it always really scares me
alright now I'm gonna continue doing the stuff I said I was gonna do so I'm gonna
get my iPad and refine the stuff that I did for pippa haha okay so bit of
a contrasting outfit I completed an hour-long workout in the living room
with my mum because I've missed kickboxing obviously for the past few
days so I figured I need to kind of stay fit so I've just done my workout for the
day I've got my rings on my watch very happy about it but yeah it is now half
past 7:00 in the evening so I'm gonna end the vlog here thanks for watching
guys don't forget to check out Skillshare the link will be in my
description it's a two month free trial and we all love a freebie so yeah be
sure to go and click that thanks for watching as always and I'll see you soon
for the next video bye