- I get to show you around my house today.
Leaving the comfort zone.
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What's up socials.
Welcome back to Amy TV.
I have to say it has been so nice
getting to hang out at home a little bit.
I traveled a lot last month.
I've told you all about this,
like every single day forever and ever
how happy I am to be home right now.
But one of the reasons is that I wanted to focus
on our apartment here in Columbus.
We kinda just like moved in
at the beginning of the year super fast
because we needed to get more space really quickly.
The one room that I knocked out very quickly
was this one.
This office was ready to go,
ready for business, ready for videos very quick,
but there were a lot of other places in our apartment
that kind of fell to the wayside in the last few months.
Our living room just has this big couch
and one thing on the wall.
So I wanted to make some changes.
Add some things around the house.
Add some flair.
Add some organization so that I could
genuinely feel a little bit more happy walking around
because I'm here a lot now.
When I'm not traveling, I'm literally just here.
I love it.
So I'm gonna do a little bit of chatting here,
a little bit of wandering around apartment
to show you some of the really cool things
that we've done to improve the house
so that we can be a little bit happier.
Before we dive in, if you like this sort of thing
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That wasn't a threat.
That was a genuine feeling.
First is something I'm very excited about,
and these are my prints from Desenio.
You may have seen Desenio around the Instagram hallways.
I have been admiring their work from afar
and I just have never ordered from them yet
because, again, I don't make time for home improvements
the way I have been lately.
But I'm so fortunate they reached out to me and said,
hey, we wanna send you some prints
so you can get some things on your wall
'cause you're really, really bare bones over there, lady.
And they did.
They sent them over to me.
I ordered some frames on Amazon.
You really have to be careful
when you're ordering these things
and make sure that you get the right sizes.
It's probably easier, quite frankly,
to go on Desenio.com and see what they have to offer.
But I found some on Amazon.com, got those delivered
and as soon as they came in, I went to town.
And so I'm actually gonna kinda show you
the process here because I ordered,
I got a lot.
Okay, so my prints from Desenio have been laying on
my dining room table for a few days
just so I could flatten them out.
They were rolled up really, really nicely.
They came perfect.
Absolutely no wrinkles whatsoever
and there were quite a few of them in there.
I ordered eight in total for three different arrangements.
So I'm gonna flip them over and show them to you.
Okay, so this is the first trio of prints
that are gonna go together, obviously.
This is what we wanna see in the kitchen
so I'm really excited about that.
These two are gonna go together.
This is just like a beautiful floral print
and this says home kinda funky.
I think it's upside down, but yeah,
we're gonna put that, hopefully, in the foyer.
And then finally, just like an assortment
of these beautiful palm trees
which I think we're excited about
because we're finally going on a honeymoon in July.
So maybe that's the inspiration for those.
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Talk about progress, oh my gosh,
there's so much new art on the wall.
I feel like it is just a little bit less echoey
than it was before.
Big thanks for Desenio for working with me
on this little home improvement project.
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My second upgrade was some organizing tools
I'm really excited about.
I feel like there's certain areas of your house
where you happen to do the most stuff
and those were the places that I wanted to focus
my efforts in terms of organization.
So I'm just gonna show you around
to some of the things that I snagged at the Container Store
and that was also a dangerous day,
but these are the things I got
that have made my life so much better
and I get excited to cook now.
I get excited to put makeup on.
I mean, not like I didn't get excited about those things,
but it's a little bit better because it's more organized.
Check this out.
Here's my little game changing organizational thingy.
I don't know what these things are called,
like, contraptions.
I was digging for my makeup in my Caboodle
and that's stupid when I live here
and I'm putting my makeup on all the time.
The Caboodle's really nice for travel.
I shouldn't say really nice.
You have to make room for it, but I love it.
But yeah, so this has been much better
for organizational purposes of my makeup.
I also got really excited about organizing my pots and pans
because I am in here so much more now.
I figured there was no reason for me
to keep clanging these things around like I'm in college.
So I got a little hanger for the lids,
which is great because I find that
I don't actually use them as often
but they're ready to go.
All of my pans are upright, ready to grab,
totally disgusting and need replaced,
but they look great in that position.
And pots down there and then I just have
a couple of other things.
I'm constantly reaching for those mixing bowls
so they have to stay up top so I can just yank them out.
And then I got that shelf, which is nice,
because I have a serving tray there,
or serving dish, and my strainer.
So, a little hard to get the strainer,
but I don't have a lot of cabinet space.
I'm really, really happy with how this turned out.
Spices!
That does not get old.
I'm so late to this game.
As you probably could have guessed
from one of my recent videos,
my skin care takes up a lot of space
so I wanted to go higher instead of all over my counters
so I got this little contraption.
It's like a three-piece thing.
I've got my Appeal pads in here.
I didn't talk about those in the video
just because I felt like it's kind of a little bit
particular for certain people
and I don't use them all the time.
There is some stuff in here.
My jade roller's in there really protected
and a couple of other things.
And then the main stuff is on top ready to roll.
And I'm really excited about this guy
'cause I have been digging for my flat iron,
my curling iron, my everything just like crazy,
my brushes, everything.
So, sorry for the hairy, crazy mess,
but I'm so excited about this guy.
This is one of those ones you can actually hang up, too.
So if you would rather hang it on like your door here
which mine is acting awry that would be really nice.
The third home improvement that I did
just to get a little happier
is I cleaned my office and it may look
very much the same to you
and it does for a very good reason
and that is because I try to keep it that way.
But there's only so much you can see in this frame.
So I did a little bit of cleaning in here,
and oh my gosh, I feel like a weight is lifted.
It's so much better.
One of the biggest things that keeps me happy at home
is a clean office.
I really hadn't done a good job of keeping it super clean,
other than what you could see in videos
since basically I moved in in January or something.
So, obviously, doing a good clean out I feel better.
Like you probably can't tell the things I could tell,
but just the dustiness on these shelves.
Just cleaning all that up makes me feel amazing.
I feel so much better.
That little guy, doesn't hurt to have that up there now.
My speaker's down here.
And yeah, everything is as it should be
including the dog bed.
The dog is missing, unfortunately.
This side of my office is always a little bit awry,
but everything sort of has a rhyme and reason
except for that microphone.
That's sort of just like there.
I don't need that there.
But all these lights are always in place ready to go.
I just have to move this one out a little bit,
but, you know, I try not have it cover up
my brand new photo.
One thing I did get was these shelves.
They were not here before and my monitor
was sitting on the floor.
This is so much easier for me to make sure
that my autofocus is going cray cray
which it always seems to be no matter what I try to do.
But it's been a lot nicer because I can actually see myself
and so there's a little bit of organization.
I haven't done much with that yet,
but I just got it a couple of days ago,
so there's still time.
My fourth home improvement happiness idea
was to pick up some local art.
I got really lucky with this.
We went to a market a couple weekends ago
and the artist that I bought a couple
of canvas paintings from when I first
moved into this building had a booth
and I saw this amazing floral painting
and I was like, I have to have that
because I already believe in this girl.
She's amazing and so I bought that print for my office.
I keep looking at it 'cause I'm like, oh,
I actually have something nice to look at now
when I'm filming.
Not that I should be looking at that
'cause I know we're having a conversation.
I'm getting distracted.
And there was also a little fun piece
that we bought at that market
that just kinda dressed up our bar a little bit.
So anyway, check out both of these two things
that I got to buy local, get happy.
I'm so excited to fill a little bit more space
on this wall in my office
and it is so perfectly colored.
I was at a little artist's market
and ironically I've bought from this artist before
and she was there.
She had a booth and I just knew it was destiny.
I was like, I need another piece from you.
The first two that I bought were right when
I moved into my first apartment in this building
and so those are hanging up elsewhere,
but I was very excited about this one.
Thank you, Brittany.
I'll link to Brittany in the description
'cause she's awesome.
I also picked this up at the market.
It's, well, no, not the wine, not the glasses,
but this little guy, this little contraption.
I thought that was just such a fun way
to make our bar look a little bit taller
and a little bit fancier.
So yeah, that was so cheap and just like a fun way
to dress up wine and glasses.
I think I have the link to him, too.
He makes these out of Columbus
or somewhere outside of Columbus
so maybe you can order one online.
They're so cool.
The fifth thing I did for a little bit of upgrading
to the apartment and a lot of happiness
is something I actually learned from Gretchen Rubin.
I think I read this in a book,
but I likely had it reiterated in my brain on the podcast
and that is to have trashcan in every single room.
We didn't have one in every single room
and so I added a few to our collection.
Trashcan in my closet.
Trashcan in the office.
Another trashcan.
Trashcan.
Vin's closet, trashcan.
The kicker here is the one in the closet
'cause the number of times you take tags off
or there's like that stripy thing on your jeans
or something, it is so handy to have a trashcan
in the closet.
You just have to remember to empty all of them.
There's like that chore that you have to do.
The number six thing that helps me feel
so much happier is yet another closet thing
and that is felt hangers.
I still have some plastic ones.
I have some felt ones.
I'm gonna show you in my closet why.
Welcome to my closet where I have almost completely switched
to felt hangers.
They are life changing.
None of my clothes fall off anymore.
It's so great.
The only time that I don't want felt hangers
is my fitness stuff that I need to be able to yank off
before I change my mind about working out.
So I still have some plastic hangers,
but I always have the white plastic
and the black felt.
I like everything to look very uniform.
Oh yeah, the dress robes, too.
That's a variable.
Oh and also sweatpants.
Sweatpants stay on the white,
but my jeans, I hate when my jeans fall off,
so they're on the felt hangers.
And number seven I am so excited about
because Vin is always telling me
he cannot find the snacks in our house
and I have just crushed that obstacle
from existing ever again.
And I'd like to introduce you to
the lazy snack lazy Susan.
This is my favorite organizational tool of the moment.
The is the lazy snack lazy Susan.
I bought this marble lazy Susan from Crate and Barrel
and then just filled some cookie jars with energy bars.
So, see what I did there?
Really cute.
So it's just this simple to have
a somewhat reasonable snack if I'm too lazy to cook.
I wanna hear from you.
What have you done,
just little things around the house
that have made you feel more organized,
like things are cleaner or just genuinely makes you happier
because when you see it, you're like, oh yeah.
I did that, adulting.
Leave that in the comments below.
I'd love to hear so I can do more things.
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Make sure you check out Desenio and their amazing prints.
Thanks to them for partnering with me on this video
and all of the details about the discount code
and how you find the prints are in the description below.
That's all for today, socials.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
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and remember to continue to go after the life
that you want.
Cheers.
Definitely need to go get a glass of wine now.
Feelin' it.