this video is sponsored by lilly silk and i just want to take a moment to mention that it's really
only been in the last year that i've realized how so many natural products have natural benefits to
it and that you don't really get the same thing from synthetic materials and silk is one of those
products that falls into that category obviously it's taken time for me to build up my pieces in so
because they are such an investment now one of my favorite companies that i've come across has been
lily silk just because they have such high quality products they have such a range of products from
pillowcases to bedding sets and clothing they have stunning skirts i can't wait to buy a skirt from
them they have such pretty like little silk skirts as well and dresses so many different
things i just love the products that i've gotten from them and these pajamas are also by lily silk
as well one thing that i really noticed about their products is that the actual materials are
just really high quality for example their silk is made out of mulberry silk i believe their cashmere
is mongolian cashmere 100 natural so don't use any synthetic fibers then you get the full benefits
of the actual natural material now because they use natural materials i think one thing that's
really important is that they are environmentally conscious and that they're sustainable i know that
they use like remains from their bigger products that they're making like their pajamas they'll use
remains and the cutoffs and make scrunchies and eye masks out of that i also work with paracycle i
believe to really achieve the zero waste in their production so i wanted to show you some of the
items that i got from lily silk and they actually all come in really stunning boxes which i've kept
so i can show you what that looks like but the first item that i want to show you is actually
these pillowcases these are 100 silk pillowcases and i got two of them they are absolutely so soft
and so amazing but the real reason i wanted to get this actually for the properties of this silk and
the benefits that they give when you're using this as a pillowcase it helps your skin retain moisture
and stay hydrated but it also helps to decrease the amount of sleep wrinkles that you can get
because the silk fabric is actually not very resistant so that's one thing that was really
important to me but the other thing that was extremely important to me was around my hair
actually using a silk pillowcase again because it's not very resistant and because it doesn't
take away moisture from my hair just helps it to be less frizzy and just look nice and look shinier
and that is why i have wanted silk pillowcases for literally a year before i got these now the
next thing that i got from lily silk was this set of pajamas these are the most stunning
color i love them so much they're so soft they're so comfortable and they're so nice
to sleep in they're also nice to lounge in but for me the best thing about this in addition to
it just being like a treat and feeling nice on my skin is actually that when i sleep in these
it is naturally heat regulating that's an amazing property of silk the next thing i want to show you
is actually something that they sent me this is a silk eye mask it's very thick it's very soft
it feels just amazing why this is such a big item for me might be more specific to me but i'll just
share it anyway i actually don't sleep with my eyes fully closed like when my when i think my
eyes are closed even if i'm awake but i close my eyes my eyes aren't fully closed i've been like
that since i was a baby and so wearing this silk eye mask really really helps with my eyes being
dry in the morning because i was suffering from that big time the optometrist was literally like
hey like you need to do something about this either use eye drops or get a really good eye
mask and this has really helped with that and the last piece i actually want to show you is this bra
that i have from them it is the literal softest thing i've ever worn it's seamless like on the
edges it's absolutely seamless but it is still supportive somehow i'm not sure how they do it
the construction of it is amazing the feel is amazing it's pretty cool because lily silk is
a brand that's loved by a lot of celebrities as well like i've seen meghan trainor talk about them
and nina dobrev and having a few of their pieces i totally get why they're just so luxurious and
they're just a nice treat for myself especially since i spend so much time at home now if you
want to treat yourself or treat someone else i do have a discount code it's delia 15 for 15 off
and i will also link that down below but thank you so much to lily silk for sponsoring today's video
okay so last week you saw that i got an order from amazon it was two amber glass bottles these ones
to be exact and super cute love them i wanted these to go in my bathroom except what i really
wanted was just one soap dispenser glass and one that is actually a toothbrush holder however i
couldn't find a set that included the same type of glass toothbrush holder so i figure i am going to
attempt to cut one of these down to size to be the same as a toothbrush holder i guess and then like
sand the glass no idea how this is gonna work okay no idea i'm kind of thinking maybe i should have
ordered three in case one breaks but then i didn't want to waste money so i only got two and i'm just
crossing my fingers it's going to work fine and the other thing i mentioned it's like counters in
my bathroom really aren't that pretty of a color i don't really like them i'm not sure if i'm going
to leave them as is and kind of work with them or if i'm going to cover them up but either way
i got this and the other one that i'm going to cut and i figured i would put them on like a little
dish or something that would add a little bit more contrast and even if i do add contact paper on
there i think it'll still be a nice contrast and so i went to homesense and to my surprise they had
many many different styles of bathroom trays that i could choose from and my initial idea was
actually to get one that was stone and i did get one that was stone this one to be exact has a nice
little speckling there i thought this would be nice but i wasn't 100 sure and then i also picked
up this one and i think i'm going to lean towards this one because i just took a look at them on the
counter but we'll have to see how this all goes i mean hopefully i'm able to cut it because i'm
a little bit nervous i don't know if it's gonna work properly doing things like cutting glass
kind of scares me a little bit but it looks easy according to the interwebs so let's give it a go
yeah the bottle was literally half an inch from falling off the counter
so in case you were wondering my current confidence is quite low quite low what will happen
will this even break i mean i don't know will this break in a straight line i mean i don't know
i did not do the best line that's for sure will any amount of sanding be able to fix it
you ask me and i ask you
apparently all you need to do is pour
hot water over the edge then cold water over the edge then hot water over the edge then
cold water over the edge and eventually it should break am i confident in this no
you ready i don't think i'm ready but i'm going for it
oh i hear it breaking oh bad things happen
oh a bad thing happened
so sad
it almost worked but it didn't
so sad so sad
so obviously that did not go to plan unfortunately and what i think i did wrong was i think i'm
supposed to do like first of all i think i should have clamped the glass cutter so it couldn't move
at all and then that way i could have applied like more force around the whole thing to have
one consistent deep line which i didn't do because like i physically couldn't and the
thing was moving a little bit and the other thing i think i did wrong was i don't think i actually
poured hot water around the whole thing when i was pouring for the first time and it pretty
much broke right after that so i think it broke at the weak point so it didn't have the hot water
because half of it broke like pretty straight across anyway now i'm not 100 sure what to do
i'm left with just one soap dispenser and i'm not sure if i should what should i do
should i use this as a soap dispenser and just find a different type of thing to put toothbrushes
in or should i go ahead and try and cut this one and then see if that works if it does work then i
can order another one to be the matching soap dispenser or do i risk just like breaking two
in a row which would be bad and make me feel even more sad and more wasteful in a way although you
know what i shouldn't feel like that because like obviously if it's my first time trying to
cut glass i mean how can i do it right the first time i feel like i should have tried on something
even cheaper like a dollar store glass or even actually that's about it a lot of people use
alcohol bottles i don't drink alcohol so i don't have any the other thing that just came to my mind
was maybe i can go and try and find like a candle that is made out of amber glass and then just like
melt out the wax transfer that into a different jar and then use that as the toothbrush holder
those are my options here i'm not loving any of my options currently so let me know what you think
i should do just for reference so like again i had this and this is what this would look like
with like the other one next to it which i could still keep this and put a candle next to it
maybe i could also just put my toothbrushes like in the drawer i've seen people do that
but i don't know i don't know so yeah this is what this one would look like and then the one i'm
leaning to even more was this one which i thought would have been perfect with like this on one side
and then the other one on the other side and then a candle or a little plant or something in between
that's what i wanted okay that was my vision and the gold i thought would be perfect because
once i saw it in place i was like okay i could also spray paint the like little doorknobs to
the vanity like the little handles gold as well so they could have some more matching and i love
gold as we know i love that i just love the coloring i feel like that's gonna look so nice
if i just had the other stuff
if only i didn't break it it's currently snowing so much outside which is so lovely
and it's getting dark and it's getting cozy and i think i'm gonna have some popcorn
and watch a movie the hallmark kind on netflix does that sound fun
so i want to do something on this living room wall it's like the main wall in here that i definitely
know needs something and i want it to be statement t so i have this vision for doing a wood panel
wall and my idea is to do it starting on that end all the way to the midpoint of the wall
now i'm not 100 sure how this is gonna go in terms of executing this whole thing i had a vision and
a plan for what i was gonna do then i went to the hardware store and i realized how expensive
some products were i thought maybe this isn't as doable as i thought then i kept searching and i
came up with an idea and it should be easier than my original idea but i'll tell you my original
idea first in case you're somewhere that you just happen to have some random supplies and don't mind
putting in a little extra effort so initially what i wanted to do was get a big piece of plywood that
would cover the entire section that i wanted to do and then get pieces of wood panel trim pieces and
glue them onto the panel and then i could screw the whole plywood panel to the wall that was my
initial idea and that way there would be like the extended wood panels and then wood kind of
spacings in between them if that makes sense so the whole area would be wood the issue is that
i couldn't figure out exactly how thick the plywood panel would need to be to support that
kind of weight and the plywood panels are really really expensive even the thinnest kind is really
expensive so then i started questioning that road i was like oh my gosh and plus like i have enough
clamps to actually clamp down the pieces of wood like how's that going to work can i nail
it can i staple it somehow like i just started thinking of all sorts of things then i was like
leaning against that i didn't really want to do that then i thought of another idea
that should give a similar look if not even a better look but
i don't know i'm just going to cross my fingers and hope that that's the end result for now
i think i'm just going to go to the hardware store and pick up my supplies and then i can
further think through what exactly i'm gonna do but i think this is gonna be a good idea
literally just did this so i could see what it would look like just to get an idea
and i can tell it's gonna be good